Peking predicts gloom for U S and allies in 1967
Tokyo based AP report summarizes New China News Agency yearend review predicting a tough year for the United States and its allies due to the Vietnam war. The piece cites Johnson’s likely renewed difficulties, inflation, diplomatic setbacks, and faltering alliances including NATO and SEATO as the imperialist camp faces decline.
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Tokyo
China
United States
U.S
Peking
New China
Johnson
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Vietnam
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Central Treaty Organization
India
Japan
Massachusetts Auto Insurance Premiums Increase in 1967
Massachusetts motorists face a 6 percent average rise in compulsory personal injury insurance next year. Property damage coverage, not mandated by law, will rise by smaller amounts under a schedule approved by Insurance Commissioner C Eugene Farnam.
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Boston
Massachusetts
C. Eugene Farnam
Light Up and Live safety drive urged in Illinois
Governor Otto Kerner asked motorists to use headlights during daylight hours over the New Year holiday period. The Highway Division posted 89 signs urging drivers to light up and live, noting daylight headlights improve visibility and safety. The program debuted over Labor Day and cut traffic deaths by 18 percent that holiday.
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Springfield
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Kerner
State Highway Division
Notice on Atomic Attack Prayer Suspension Reaches Wall
At North Side High School in Fort Wayne Indiana a student wrote a sign declaring that in an atomic attack the federal ruling against prayer in this school would be temporarily suspended. Officials noted a janitor left the notice partially intact.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
North Side High School
Traffic Mishaps in Morris Total 366
Morris recorded 366 traffic accidents in 1966 per the Morris City Police Department. Chief Don Ward urged drivers to ease up in the final hours of the year and to allow extra time for trips. He noted Illinois directs motorists to keep lights on day and night.
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Morris
Morris City
Donald Ward
Ward
1966 in Grundy County Major Local News
Richard E. Pierce sheriff Nels P. Nelson clerk Arthur V. Meadors schools Sophie Thorson treasurer Robert W. Malmquist judge elected. Aircraft hijacked Morris to Nassau Bahamas. 14 traffic deaths. Five Red Cross nurses killed in Dwight crash. Trains struck two residents. One drowning in canal. Four work accidents killed. Eight year old buried in cave-in. Robin sighted. Russell Benson Farm fire 50 000 dollars damage. Morris High sports strong. Dresden nuclear plant announced. multiple crimes including jewelry store hits and burglaries. Budget needs and new sheriff cars. Flooding and annexation. nursing homes approved. Godley police raids and county health dept created. Year ended with reflection.
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Grundy County
Richard E. Pierce
Nels P. Nelson
Arthur V. Meadors
Sophie Thorson
Robert W. Malmquist
Morris
Nassau
Bahamas
Margaret Mary Hantigan
Lee J. Thompson
Thomas J. Bohna
Charles E. Limbach
Roy L. Lyon
Lina A. Lyon
Bonnie J. Lyon
Steven H. Bottcher
Jane Taylor
Robert Harding
Irene Fitzgerald
Diana L. Steffes
Albert W. Watson
William Lee McCluckie
Peoria Red Cross Blood Mobile
Dwight
Elvira Enrietta
Coal City
Herman Wohring
Jeffery Alan Carver
Illinois Ave
Illinois-Michigan Canal
John Francisco
Orvile G. Sorenson
Joliet Arsenal
Russell Hexdall
William Colle
Brett Egland
Lloyd Loop
Spruce St
Russell Benson
Wauponsee Township
Morris Community High School
Kankakee
Morris High School
Commonwealth-Edison Co
Dresden
Tabler
Chicago
Herbert Terry
Marseilles
Stateville
Jerry Jones
William Nelson
John B. Roth
B. D. McMahon
K. L. Gemp
Grundy County Board of Supervisors
Cook County
Gerald Dibble
E. Chapin St
Lincoln Nursing Home
Godley
Illinois
Hatcher Woods
Julie A. Franklin
Board of Supervisors
Lawrence Marvin Todd
Traffic safety and public service notes from Morris area
The Saturday review urges careful driving during New Year, warns of a Poland made fire hazard dolls, and commends Grundy County officials led by Magistrate Winsor. It praises local justice, public service, and efficient sheriff and state attorney actions in notable cases.
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Grundy County
Poland
United States
Herald
Morris
Kankakee
Chester P. Winsor
Winsor
Terry
Jones
Nelson
County Board of Supervisors
Chuck Wilfong
Chance for Drivers to Give Encore
The Associated Press reports that U S motorists may again reduce traffic deaths during the New Year observance, with the National Safety Council estimating 460 to 540 deaths possible from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The AP tally for a comparable three day weekend was 391, while this year’s Christmas deaths reached 584 and Thanksgiving set a record of 748.
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U.S
National Safety Council
Associated Press
Chicago
Illinois
Seven nations form first industrial free trade area
The European Free Trade Association becomes a single market for nearly 100 million. Austria Britain Denmark Norway Sweden and Switzerland join with Portugal as an associate member Finland delays tariff abolition for a year. Britain aims for early European Community entry while others seek association.
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London
European Free Trade Association
European Economic Community
Portugal
Austria
Britain
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Finland
Harold Wilson
Belgium
France
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
West Germany
Soviet Union
Free Trade Association Seven
Weekend temps dip to 14 to 35 degrees with possible rain
Weather outlook shows a low of 14 and high of 35 for the holiday weekend. Snow or rain possible early next week. Today remains mostly cloudy with a chance of precipitation this afternoon or evening and a high in the low 30s. Collins Weather Station logged 29/3 Friday and 20 degrees at 6 p.m.
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Collins
Consumption of Cigarettes Up This Year
Washington AP reports Americans smoked a record 542 billion cigarettes this year, up about 2.5 percent from 529 billion last year. The rise follows a decade of growing smoking among adults and higher overseas military shipments, despite health warnings and warnings on packs.
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Washington
U.S
U.S. Public Health Service
Congress
Department
Middlebury College Buys Robert Frost Farm in Ripton
Middlebury College purchases the 150 acre Frost farm in Ripton Vermont where poet Robert Frost lived for 22 years and plans a memorial. Dr James Armstrong college president says an anonymous gift funded the acquisition and plans are to establish the memorial there.
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Middlebury
Ripton
Robert Frost
Middlebury College
James I. Armstrong
Will Trade Keys DETROIT AP Retiring judge hands bench to son
In Detroit Recorder's Court next Tuesday Judge Joe Gillis 70 retires after 35 years. His son Judge Joe Gillis Jr. 45 won election to succeed him. The switch means the father will give up the bench and take the son's law office keys, while the son takes over the courtroom keys.
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Detroit
Recorder’s Court
Joe Gillis
Joe Gillis Jr
Gillis
Prescott paper launches N.S.O.W. Club
The Prescott Evening Courier and its readers form an N.S.O.W. Club to curb smoking and air pollution. Charter members will be printed. a blank was filled in Wednesday's edition. N.S.O.W. means no smoking on Wednesday.
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Prescott, Ariz
Prescott Evening Courier
N.S.O.W
Allied Military Units Pull Into Defensive Post
In Saigon the New Year truce began with scattered fighting ending as allied troops moved to defensive positions. U S spokesmen said calm prevailed at midnight. The 48 hour halt runs 7 am to 7 pm EST and may set a pattern for a Tet truce.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Constituent Assembly
Nguyen Cao Ky
United States
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Grundy County officials share New Year resolutions for 1967
County officers state their aims for the year. Circuit clerk Robert T. Williamson vows to renew a focus on accurate court records and cooperation. Sheriff Richard E. Pierce notes big changes and possible further ones with the board of supervisors. Others pledge continued service, fair treatment, and efforts to boost education and county problems.
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Grundy County
Herald
Robert T. Williamson
Pat Vanden
Richard McTague
Richard R. Wilder
Arthur V. Meadors
Burl Gotham
Nels P. Nelson
Richard E. Pierce
Board of Supervisors
Sophie M. Thorsen
August B. Black
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