City Council OKs Bids for Waverly Street Sewer Line
City Council unanimously approves advertising for bids on a five foot sewer line along Waverly Street to Nettle Creek in a Morris Hospital project. Hospital plans add a building program and bids on the addition will be sought. bids previously exceeded estimates, and a six inch main option was discussed but not pursued.
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Waverly St
Nettle Creek
Morris Hospital
Walter Hundt
Hospital
Liberty St
Hundt
Sticker Deadline Set for Morris Vehicle Tags
The City Council announced on Monday night that the deadline to display 1967 Morris vehicle stickers is March 1.
Weather forecast and readings from Morris area
The U S Weather Bureau predicts today will be mostly sunny with highs 55 to 63 degrees. Tonight and Wednesday bring increasing clouds and mid 30s lows, with Wednesday's high near 39 and rain or snow. Thursday turns windy and colder with accumulating snow flurries. Collins Weather Station logged 41/27, 9 a.m. 38, and downtown Morris 11:15 a.m. 44.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Speck to face all eight murder indictments together
Chicago AP reports Richard Speck 25 will be tried on eight murder indictments simultaneously. The Circuit Court announced the trial is set to open Monday in Peoria after Gerald Getty proposed consolidation, a move the state did not oppose.
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Chicago
Richard Speck
Peoria
Gerald Getty
Speck
Truck Driver in Very Critical Condition After I-80 Pileup
One of ten truck drivers in a pileup on Interstate 80 near Marseilles remains in very critical condition at Morris Hospital. Burdette Royalty, 37, of Council Bluffs Iowa, suffered a badly fractured leg and possible internal injuries. Two drivers died in the crash amid dense fog and a warm air front, with traffic rerouted and the highway closed for hours.
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Interstate 80
Morris Hospital
Burdette Royalty
S. Tenth St
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Marseilles
Grundy County
Ottawa
Morris
LaSalle-Peru
Polling Places Set For Junior College Election Saturday
Grundy County Newark Morris Mazon Gardner South Wilmington regions host 28 polling locations for the Class 1 junior college election. Polls will open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Precincts cover Newark High and Lisbon areas, Morris schools, Mazon districts, and Gardner South Wilmington zones with designated school sites and town halls for voters.
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Grundy County
Newark
Channahon
Newark High School
Lisbon
Big Grove Town Hall
LaSalle
Grundy
Kendall
Morris
Nettle Creek
MCHS
Erienna
Saratoga
Aux Sable
Lisbon Township
Kendall County
McKinley
North St
Division St
Morris Community High School
North Entrance
Union St
Votters
Wauponsee
Illinois River
Norman Township
Goose Lake
Mazon
Kinsman
Mazon Township
Verona
Township
Mazon Community High School
Mazon High School
Mazon High
Goodfarm Township
Wauponsee Township
Highland
Vienna
Gardner - South Wilmington
William Treasure
W. Main St
Gardner
Gardner-South Wilmington
Goodfarm
Garfield
Greenfield
Maine
Braceville
Illinois
Essex Township
Kankakee County
South Wilmington
Coal City approves new teacher salary scale for 1967 68
Coal City Community Unit District adopts a new salary schedule with starting pay of 5700 for bachelor degree teachers and 6042 for those with master degrees. Top scales reach 7809 for bachelor and 8778 for master degree staff after 12 or 14 years.
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Coal City
Coal City Community Unit
Board of Education
Pete di Palol
Goose Lake Township
di Paolo
M. M. Hershman
Joliet
Joliet Junior College
Illinois
Public Junior College Act and questions details
The article explains the Public Junior College Act approved July 15 1965 by the 74th General Assembly, aims to boost higher education via Class I junior colleges, outlines funding and tax implications, cites Gov Kerner and John Gardner quotes, and presents Q A on district formation operations locations and elections with a Morris community meeting announced.
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74Th General Assembly
Otto Kerner
Sherman House
Chicago
John W. Gardner
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Illinois
Board of Education
Supervisors Debate Sewage Dump Into Grundy Mines
Grundy County Board weighs a $20,000,000 Chicago Sanitary District plan to lay a 20 inch pipeline from Chicago to strip mines in Grundy Will and Kankakee counties to dispose open sewage. State Rep James R Washburn presses the board to state views amid telegrams from affected areas.
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Dick Schweickert
Moose
Donald Davidson
Lester Johnson
Hunt
Atty
Robert Adcock
Chicago Sanitary District
Stickney
Grundy County
Will County
Kankakee County
Cook County
Chicago
Momence
Burl Gonnam
James R. Washburn
Gonnam
Washburn
Gotham
Chicago Sanitary Commission
Supplies Will Support Men For 250 Days
The Defense Department said North Vietnam mobilized 3 770 trucks and vessels to move at least 25 000 tons of ammunition toward South Vietnam during the Lunar pause, enough to sustain a 10 000 man division for 250 days. Peace prospects plunged as bombing resumed and Johnson blamed North Vietnam for using the lull for major re supply. Ho Chi Minh urged end to aggression and withdrawal of American troops in reply to Pope Paul.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Defense Department
Vietnam
U.S
U. S
Johnson
London
Alexei Kosygin
Harold Wilson
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Pope Paul
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
National Front For Liberation
Viet Cong
White House
Grundy County Planning Maps Available for Public
County Clerk Neil Nelson reports small scale copies of the Grundy County Comprehensive Planning map are ready. Commission Chairman David Root said 100 copies arrived late Monday. about 20 for the commission and the rest for public sale at a dollar each to cover production costs.
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Grundy County
Neil P. Nelson
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Morris Junior Woman's Club
Donald Caisley
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Hangchou
China
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Communist Party
Tokyo
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State Office of Public Instruction
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Dwight
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Jr. College
Kerner
Citizens’ Committee
Florence Smith
LBJ
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