Pollution safeguards for Aux Sable Creek at I 80 rest areas
Illinois highway engineers plan three sealed ponds at the Minooka rest areas to treat sewage from an industrial complex along Aux Sable Creek. Clark & Dietz designed the system with odor control and monthly EPA checks, aiming for a June 1 completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Illinois Division of Highways
Minooka
Aux Sable Creek
Aux Sable
Foltz
Environmental Protection Agency
James Metz
Springfield
Metz
Suspect Captured in Dallas Deputies Slayings
More than 60 officers surrounded an East Dallas apartment to seize Rene Guzman 33 after three county deputies were gunned down in Trinity River bottoms. Guzman and Leonard Lopez 24 later surrendered after a mistaken entry and shootout that wounded a man and a woman. Deputy Wendell Dover seriously hurt but expected to recover. Accomplice Angie Hernandez 38 and Mary Alice Rosales 25 were arraigned with bonds set at 100000 and 50000 respectively.
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Dallas, Tex
Guzman
Leonard Ramos Lopez
Dallas
Ellis
Trinity River
West
Donnie Reese
Rockwall
Sam Infante
Irving
A.J. Robertson
Waxenhachie
Wendell Dover
Moises
A.D. McCurley
Dover
McCurley
Clarence Jones
Lopez
Justice of the Peace
Tom Naylor
Angie Rojo Hernandez
Mary Alice Rosales
Bond
Miss Hernandez
Miss Rosales
Fire Kills Seven at Taft Rest Home
A deadly fire at Desert Air Rest Home in Taft California killed seven residents and sent a 16 year old to hospital with burns. With 12 guests and two attendants present, flames consumed 75 percent of the wood frame building in a long response that lasted hours. Authorities later said all are accounted for and caused remains undetermined.
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Taft
Calif
Oliver Watson
Desert Air Rest Home
Los Angeles
Cliff Allman
Kern County
Summer Program Proposal For Handicapped Children Okayed
Executive board of the county special education met at Shabbona School to plan a six week summer school maintenance and recreational program for primary handicapped children. William Lynch of Mazon was named budget committee chair with Dr Harold Richards and Mrs Delores Heine as members. Lynch also named Terry Sorenson and Harvey Lewis to the budget panel. Randall Highsmith of Coal City was named policy chair with Mrs Ronald Bell and Ralph Haldorson as members. A later meeting of high school principals was announced for Franklin School with the State Divisional Rehabilitation Board.
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County Special Education
Shabbona School
William Lynch
Mazon
Harold Richards
Delores Heine
Lynch
Terry Sorenson
Gardner-South Wilmington
Harvey Lewis
Randall Highsmith
Coal City
Ronald Bell
Ralph Haldorson
Franklin School
Harry Boyd
Cooperative
Soviet Diplomat Car Set on Fire in Maryland
An arson attack targeted a Soviet diplomat’s car in Silver Spring Maryland early today and an attempt to ignite two more diplomatic vehicles in Hyattsville was reported. No injuries were reported and police linked the incident to a retaliatory statement by an anonymous caller referencing the Jewish Defense League.
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Washington
Silver Spring
Hyattsville
Associated Press
Ross Road
Jewish Defense League
Montgomery County
Louis Farnella
Russia
Early Spring Weather and Local Temp Report
Spring-like weather brings an early robin sighting on Cemetery Road near George Krapf. High today reached 60 with a forecast of cloudy windy and colder tonight and a chance of showers or snow flurries. lows in the 30s. Dresden Island Locks observed 48/45 with .41 inch precipitation. At 7 am Morris reported 36 and downtown Morris 53 at 11:30 am.
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Cemetery Road
George Krapf
Dresden Island
Morris
Morris Street Sweep Tonight But Cars Will Be Towed
Motorists are warned that Morris streets south of the railroad tracks and two blocks out from Liberty Street will be swept tonight. Alderman Donald Davidson, chairman of the street and alley committee, announced that cars parked there after 1 a.m. Saturday will be towed.
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Morris
Liberty St
Donald Davidson
Mayor Hendrickson Elected Secretary of Council
Thursday night Mayor John Hendrickson was elected secretary of the Will Grundy Council of Municipalities at a D Amico's dinner in a two county area gathering. About 150 attendees included Morris officials and their wives, with aldermen Arthur Hornsby Jr. Robert Gilbertson Donald Davidson and Walter Hundt present. A nominating committee led the slate, while Roger Barcus spoke on county and municipal airports.
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John Hendrickson
Will Grundy Council of Municipalities
D’amico
Morris
Hendrickson
Arthur Hornsby Jr
Robert Gilbertson
Donald Davidson
Walter Hundt
Roger Barcus
Illinois Department of Aeronautics
Cost of living up marginally in January report says
Government figures show the cost of living edged up one tenth of a percent in January the smallest monthly rise in four years. The CPI indicates food prices held steady over 12 months and wage increases will affect about 67,000 workers.
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Washington
White House
Ronald AL. Ziegler
Whitehouse
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Chicago
Los Angeles-Long Beach
Philadelphia
New York
Detroit
Kent State President Robert White to resign in 1971
Kent State University president Robert I. White announced plans to quit at the end of the 1970-71 term after delaying due to the deaths of four students in May confrontation with National Guardsmen. White, 62, seeks six months sabbatical starting Sept 15 before becoming a professor in educational administration.
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Kent, Ohio
Robert I. White
Kent State University
National Guardsmen
White
Homemade Bombs Found in Teen Room in Joliet
Army explosives experts assisted a distraught mother who found three homemade bombs in her teenage son's room. The boy admitted making them from soft drink cans and dynamite from an old storage locker. The 5th Army explosives team disposed of the dynamite at the scene.
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5Th Army
Diplomat Adolf Berle Jr. Dies at 76
Adolf A. Berle Jr., 76, diplomat and professor, longtime adviser in Roosevelt era brain trust, died Wednesday after a stroke. Berle served as an adviser to Presidents Truman and Kennedy and was a prominent corporate law practitioner.
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New York
Adolf A. Berle Jr
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brain Trust
Berle
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Snicker a Day Laughs at Political Secrets
A witty quip notes the irony of each half of the world overlooking what the other half escapes, highlighting humorous distrust in public affairs.
Two Trailers Must Be Removed In Benson License Case
Kenneth and Mrs. Benson of Mazon Township face a court order to obtain a license for a six-unit trailer park east of Mazon by April 30 and to receive a construction permit. The order restricts the site to the original six units, with two more trailers to be removed, and notes the six-unit use is a permitted non conforming use prior to zoning.
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Kenneth Benson
Mazon Township
County Building and Zoning
Mazon
Robert Malmquist
Bensons
Eugene Sorensen
Grundy County
Sorensen
Richard Wilder
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Morris Daily Herald
Dean Foltz
Ottawa
State Highway Division
Clark & Dietz
Urbana
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
the Prairie
Galesburg
Goose Lake Prairie
Paula Hunsley
Knox College
Prairie
Miller
Jugtown Road
Parks and Memorials Division
Illinois Department of Conservation
Hunsley
Goose Lake
Nebraska
Miss Hunsley
Joseph Nyhoff
Mississippi Palisades State Park
Savanna
Nyhoff
Illinois Beach State Park
Zion
Herald
Stage Road
Richard McTauge
Gebhard Woods State Park
McTague
Mt. Carmel
EMH
Hume School
TMH
John Ullrich
Heine
EW. Conley
Masachetes
Liberty
Kent
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