Johnson seeks five year foreign aid authority and funds
President Johnson urged Congress for a five year foreign aid authority and proposed split into separate economic and arms bills. He sought 3.39 billion in new aid for next year, plus a 1 billion program for food education and health abroad, arguing aid is needed to fight poverty and disease and to support democracy.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
United States
Viet Nam
U.S
House Foreign Affairs
Thomas Morgan
D-Pa
Four Day 1966 Grundy County Corn Festival Plan
The Morris County Corn Festival committee led by Donald Barkley outlined a four day festival to be held September 22 to 25. The program includes a football game between Morris Community High School and Hall High School of Spring Valley and additional events to be announced at later meetings.
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Grundy County
Donald Barkley
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Morris Community High School
Hall High School
Spring Valley
Barkley
Burglar Least Of His Worries
Melvin Sweeney fired four rifle shots at a suspected burglar in his Pittsburgh apartment. One bullet hit the dog and two damaged the kitchen wall while a fourth ruptured a gas pipe. Mrs. Sweeney entered with a cigarette, igniting leaking gas and causing the kitchen ceiling to collapse. No burglar was found.
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Pittsburgh
Melvin Sweeney
President to Keep Rein on Viet Conflict
President Johnson intends to limit expansion of the Vietnam war and avoid bombing Hanoi or Hai Phong in the immediate future. Officials say he will maintain a middle course, resume North bombing with close White House control, and pursue peace mainly through the United Nations.
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Washington
Johnson
Hanoi
Haiphong
Viet Nam
United Nations
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.N. Security Council
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
Rusk
U.S. Pushes U.N. Invite for Vietnam Parties
The United States asked the United Nations Security Council to invite both North and South Vietnam to participate in discussions on a peace conference. Ambassador Goldberg argued a negotiated settlement is best, while uncertainties remained on Soviet positions and the role of the Viet Cong. The proposal calls for preparatory talks to arrange a Geneva accords based peace in Southeast Asia.
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United Nations, N.Y
United States
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
U.N
Viet Nam
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Security Council
Saigon
Hanoi
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Goldberg
United Nations
Johnson
North
Ho Chi Minh
South
Red China
Peking
New China
Council
Soviet Union
Congress
Paul VI
Southeast Asia
Driver Cited for Excessive Speed in Braceville Crash
Dickie Hileman 22 of Jonesboro Ill remains in Morris Hospital after a Sunday night crash on Alternate U S 66 two miles south of Braceville. He was cited for excessive speed for conditions by Trooper Donald Hoskins. A second driver Bruce Olson 20 of Pontiac was also cited after rear impact and guard rail damage. Olson must appear in magistrate court Feb 16 and Hileman on Feb 17.
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Dickie Hileman
Jonesboro
Ill
Morris Hospital
U. S. 66
Braceville
Donald Hoskins
Hileman
Bruce Olson
Pontiac
Olson
Squatters Invade Deactivated Air Base in Greenville
Air Force troops moved a general and 150 air police to the deactivated Greenville base to remove occupying squatters demanding food land and jobs. The protestors grew to about 100 by morning as guards watched over a Tshaped building that once housed base air police.
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Greenville
Miss
Air Force
John C. Shumate
Ran
Dolph Afb
Tex
R. W. Puryear
Technical Training Center
Keesler Afb
Air Police
Washington
White House
Office of Economic Opportunity
Mississippi
Proposal for Tri County Junior College Discussed
A Monday Lockport meeting on a Will Kendall Grundy Counties junior college district urged attendees to sign cards showing willingness to help with a study. Atty Kenneth Timm led a citizens committee and said area enrollment would exceed 1000 for Class I status and keep taxes low.
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Lockport
Ethel Watts
Atty
Kenneth Timm
Joliet
Will
Kendall
Grundy
Atty. Timm
Tri-County
Miss Watts
Morris
Wesley Jorstad
Buster Keaton Dies at 70 of Lung Cancer in Hollywood
Hollywood reports Buster Keaton, famed for the stone face of silent film comedy, died at 70 at his Woodland Hills home. He left behind wife Eleanor and two sons from a prior marriage, with a career spanning vaudeville through talkies and memorable films like The General and Sherlock Holmes Jr.
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Hollywood
Buster Keaton
Woodland Hills
Eleanor
Keaton
Natalie Talmadge
James
Santa Monica
Robert
Marina del Rey
Joseph
Piqua
Kan
Fatty Arbuckle
Sherlock Holmes Jr
Buster
Heavy Snow Grips Southern Illinois Disrupting Travel
The first major snowstorm of the season crippled transport and closed schools across Southern Illinois. Buses halted, trains delayed, and air traffic reduced as 1 to 7 inches buried towns from Mount Vernon to St. Louis, with roads snowpacked and temperatures mainly in the 20s.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Illinois Central Railroad
Mount Vernon
Mount Carmel
Centralia
DuQuoin and
Anna
Metropolis
Cairo
St. Louis
Chicago
St. Louis-Lambert
Iinois Highway Department
Macomb
Rantoul
Springfield
East Dubuque
Vandalia
Belleville
Morris City Council Passes Water Rate Amendment
Morris City Council approved a measure raising apartment and multi living units to a minimum $5.30 per quarter per unit, effectively making a 10 unit building pay $53. The unanimous vote followed heated debate with Alderman Hundt opposing. The meeting also touched on fluoride, iron removal, and hospital area drainage changes.
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Morris City
Aage Hansen
Morris Hospital
Walter Hundt
Water Committee
Water and
Floyd Siron
John Nelson
Walter E. Deuchler
Deuchler
Morris
Hundt
Glen Ellyn
Hansen
Lester Johnson
Diamond blades and drills weighed by ultra sensitive scale
In Portland Oregon AP reports Omark Industries uses a pencil dot scale to precisely weigh industrial diamonds embedded in blades and drills for cutting concrete masonry and stone.
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Portland
Ore
Omark Industries Inc
Snowy stretch ends tonight with continued cold
Weather forecast notes snow flurries easing tonight and gradual clearing. Wednesday warms to around 20 with partial sunshine while Thursday stays fair with little temperature change. Collins Weather Station records a Monday high of 18 and a low near 5, with 9 a.m. reading at 14 degrees.
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Collins
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