Referendum Planned for Grundy Kendall Will County Junior College
A Morris meeting outlines a new concept of a commuter two year junior college to serve Grundy Kendall and Will counties. The referendum on Feb 18 will create a separate district with its own tax rate and board, funded by a low educational tax and building fund levy amid high regional valuation.
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Atty
Kenneth Timm
Joliet
Grundy-Kendall-Will
Timm
Board of Education
Illinois
DuPage
Bloom
Kankakee
Kane
LaSalle
Thornton
Lockport High School
Claude Rose
Morris Community High School
MCHS
Rose
Meadors
Grundy County
Joliet Junior College
Man Strangled in Boston Suburb Investigated
Medford Massachusetts police probe the slaying of Andrew von Etter 27 found in the trunk of his car. Autopsy shows beaten to death and strangled with a rope while alive. Von Etter was under indictment with two others for a conspiracy to obtain 15000 from a Boston bank.
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Medford
Mass
Andrew von Etter
von Etter
Boston
Thawing Forecast Ahead for Illinois Saturday
Sunshine and milder weather spread across Illinois as the Associated Press reports more thawing predicted for Saturday. Northeastern and northern counties eyed rising temperatures while highways remained mostly good with scattered patches of packed snow north of Rock Island and Kankakee.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Mercury
Illinois Division of Highways
Rock Island
Kankakee
Weather Outlook: Warmer, Clouds, Possible Light Snow
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts mostly cloudy and warmer conditions today through Saturday with highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s and lows in the 20s. Intermittent light snow is possible. Collins Weather Station reports a Thursday high of 32 and low of 14, with 0.04 inches of precipitation. Downtown Morris was 23 degrees at 11 am today.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Space Officials Briefed on Apollo Tragedy
Space agency officials and top engineers from NASA and Apollo contractors meet in Houston to discuss the Apollo program after the Apollo 1 fire. The 92 hour Lunar Orbiter 3 launch from Cape Kennedy is postponed to Saturday night due to a power system fault.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Fila
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Apollo
Manned Spacecraft Center
Robert Gilruth
Joseph Shea
Board of Inquiry
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White II
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Samuel Phillips
Inves
Conrad Cancels Pole to Pole Plane Flight
Washington AP Max Conrad called off this year’s attempt to circle the globe pole to pole in a small Piper Aztec. He postponed the flight to next year due to Navy refueling limits at an Antarctic station and the risk of trouble with inadequate support along the route.
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Washington
Max Conrad
Globe
Pole
Navy
Conrad
Lock Haven
New Zealand
Antarctic
FCC Proposal Threatens Toy Walkie-Talkies
The FCC weighs moving toy walkie talkies from the citizens band to the 49 megahertz government block. Radio toys priced 5 to 100 dollars would lose current frequencies as crowded citizens airwaves clash with licensed stations.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Japan
FCC
Johnson open to almost any step for Vietnam talks
President Johnson said the United States would halt bombing of North Vietnam if Hanoi took "just almost any step" toward peace. He stressed no observed move by Hanoi signals serious moves to end the war, but welcomed broad talks to explore a basis for negotiations. Reuters/AP report.
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Johnson
North Vietnam
Hanoi
White House
Vietnam
Senate
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Democratic National Committee
East Europe
United States
Train Derailed Near Hudson Illinois No Injuries Reported
Thirty five cars of an Illinois Central freight train derailed Thursday night near Hudson seven miles north of Bloomington. The train was northbound between Clinton and LaSalle. There were no injuries.
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Hudson, Ill
Illinois Central
Hudson
Bloomington
Clinton
LaSalle
Moscow Peking Break Looms As China Power Struggle Deepens
A break in Moscow Peking relations seemed possible as Mao Zedong and Lin Piao vie for power in China. Soviet patience wears thin with both sides faulting each other while Yugoslav, Belgrade, and Tass reports hint at a looming rift behind anti Moscow demonstrations in Peking and Beijing’s accusations of a Moscow US Japanese plot in Manchuria. The crisis threatens a new phase of Asia's strategic tension with troop concentrations and deep suspicion along the frontier.
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William L. Ryan
Moscow-Peking
Mao Tse-tung
Lin Piao
China
Hkped
Moscow
Kremlin
Peking
Belgrade
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Tass
Manchuria
Asia
County supervisors weigh bids for new Grundy nursing home
After favorable bidding on county nursing home bonds, Grundy County supervisors discuss possible overbidding risks. They stress keeping total costs under 750000 and note tight money conditions may lower costs while voters generally react favorably to the bid results.
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Grundy County
The
Herald Today
Wallace M. Burroughs
Burroughs
Arthur Bozue
U. S
Ray Hansen
Hansen
Bozue
Joseph Chiapetto
Hearing on Joliet Teachers Contempt Motion Delayed
Circuit Judge Michael Orenic postponed to February 16 a contempt hearing against leaders of Joliet’s recent teachers strike that defied a court order to end the walkout. The seven day walkout involved 300 of 400 teachers and ended with a contract including a $1000 raise over two years.
Surviving Quintuplets Reported In Satisfactory Condition
Four surviving infants of quintuplets born to Mrs. Lionel Harris were reported in satisfactory condition. A Brooklyn hospital spokesman said there was no change in their status and the children, a boy and three girls, have a good chance to survive. Mrs. Harris, 31, had been taking a fertility drug.
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New York
Lionel Harris
Brooklyn Jewish Hospital
Harris
U S B52 Raids Intensify Ahead of Possible New Drive
B52 bombers hit war zones C and D near Saigon in the latest strikes as U.S. forces begin Operation Big Spring with at least 8000 troops. Ground fighting reported in northern provinces. South Korean troops and Marines also claim several Viet Cong kills.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Big Spring
173Rd Airborne
9Th Infantry Division
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ben Hai
Quang Ngai
Quang Ngai City
Tay Ninh
COSVN
City crews clear streets after snow push and tow cars
City crews returned to Washington Jefferson and Main Streets with a grader to remove packed snow and ice from the surface and push snow back onto the curb. Several cars were towed to clear paths for the machines and curb access.
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Washington, Jefferson and
Main Sts
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