Crackdown on Vehicle Tax Delinquents in Morris
Morris city council reports over 400 motorists delinquent on vehicle taxes and warns arrests for those with unpaid taxes or missing stickers. Deadline to pick up stickers is Feb 21, with police to issue arrest warrants. A March 5 City Planning meeting is set in city hall with a University of Illinois speaker.
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Morris
John Nelson
Nelson
Donald Caisley
University of Illinois
Caisley
James Davis
Ge- Street
Davis
Hebron Women Killed In Auto Crash
Woodstock Illinois reports two Hebron women died in a Route 47 collision north of the city. Luella Behnke 47 the driver and Genevieve Knull 24 the passenger, both of Hebron, were killed when their car swerved into the path of a truck driven by William Przykopanski 39 of Rock Island who was uninjured.
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Woodstock
Hebron
Route 47
McHenry County
Luella Behnke
Genevieve Knull
William Przykopanski
Rock Island
Illinois Weather Clears Into Mild Skies Through Thursday
Sunny skies and springlike temperatures dominate Illinois as forecasts call for continued mild conditions into Thursday. Today’s high near 40 with a tonight drop to around 20. Wednesday near 50s and Thursday partly cloudy and mild. Monday’s high 41 at Pyatt station, easing to 23 overnight. at 9 a.m. the temperature was 30 and rising.
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Illinois
Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Cuban Bloodbath Recount Of Havana Police Chief Ventura
Israel documents a brutal episode in Havana where Maj Es tenhan Ventura, Batista's police chief, delivered a prisoner and claimed habeas corpus while a lawyer watched. The piece describes a network of SIM agents and a basement prison at the 5th precinct used to extract confessions from political detainees.
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Havana
Maj
Estenhan Ventura
Ventura
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Dominican Republic
Batista
SIM
Military Investigation Service
Bureau of Investigation
Chamber of Operations
Castro
Israel
Juke Box Probe: Dealer Takes Fifth Amendment
Carl J. Burkhardt head of Rite Record Production in Cincinnati invoked the Fifth Amendment before the Senate Rackets Committee amid allegations of a gangster plot to flood the Midwest with counterfeit obscene records. He said his firm produced up to 6,000 records daily in 1957 under various labels. The committee tied Burkhardt to prior convictions and to an employee charged with possession of thousands of obscene records.
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Washington
Midwest
Carl J. Burkhardt
Rite Record Production, Inc
Cincinnati
Ohio
Senate
Alfred D. Meltus
Burkhardt
Robert F. Kennedy
Fire damages Manor Motel near Channahon
A fire at the Manor Motel near U. S. routes 6 and 66 Channahon started around 3 15 a m. firemen battled attic and roof flames with Minooka aid. The office and attic suffered water and smoke damage but the 47 unit motel remained largely intact. No injuries reported.
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Manor
U. S
Channahon
Channahan Fire Department
Burton Anderson
JayCees to Meet Tonight in Morris Food Centre
The Morris JayCees will hold a 7 p.m. meeting at the Morris Food Centre for a business session. Members will note the new time and discuss an Easter Egg hunt as well as progress on the Grundy County Tree Planting program.
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Morris JayCees
Morris Food Centre
Grundy County
Illinois River Near Flood Crest as Warm Rain Boosts Stage
Runoff from thaw and warm rain sent the Illinois River toward crest, expected near 12.5 feet today before receding. Observers noted possible flood stage around 13 feet overnight, with rising water continuing downstream to midweek. Little Nettle Creek flooded Gould Park areas briefly, then subsided. Ice jam on the Kankakee at Grundy Will County line held back downstream flow, freezing near the mouth.
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Illinois
Ray Webb
Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Nettle
Gould Park
Morris
Kankakee
Grundy - Will County Line
Career Day Program Is Announced At Morris High School
Students from seven high schools including Grundy county Seneca and Marseilles will gather at Morris Community High School at 12 05 p m on Wednesday for the sixth annual Career Day. Miss Millie Weitz will open with the pledge Dale S Steffen will welcome Mrs Fred J Nelson will speak on Let s Major in Maturity Palmer Reed will announce education and vocational conferences run 1 to 3 30 p m with counselors and college reps on site for individual meetings.
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Grundy County
Seneca and
Marseilles
Morris Community High School
Mazon
Gardner
Coal City
Minooka
Seneca
Millie Weitz
MCHS
Dale S. Steffen
Fred J. Nelson
Board of Education
Two Year Old Smokes Cigarettes in Peoria
A Peoria two year old, Lawrence Smith, started smoking about a month ago and now lights five cigarettes daily. His mother, a divorced waitress, says she cannot break the habit and will seek a doctor's help to understand why he smokes.
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Peoria
Ill
Lawrence Smith
Farmers Learn of Morris Fire Card System
Fifty five farmers in the Morris Community High School evening agriculture class toured the Morris Fire Department on Monday to learn about the farm identifier card system. Firemen stressed updating residence changes and shared routes for rapid response, urging residents to ensure their property is properly identified and corrections reported.
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Morris Community High School
Morris Fire Department
Morris
Fire Department
Morris Fire Area
City Primary Votes Show Light Interest as Polls Close
Voters turnout was light at the city primary to nominate four aldermen with all wards unopposed except Ward 1 where Republican Walter Hundt faced Donald Johnson. By 12 30 p m 102 ballots were cast in that race and polls were to close at 6 p m with results hosted by The Morris Herald via telephone until 7 30 p m.
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Walter Hundt
Preses
Donald Johnson
Irees
George Franks
Donald Davidson
Lowell Gant
Graham's Crusade Draws 22000 in Melbourne Revival
About 22,000 persons packed Billy Graham's Melbourne meeting televised tonight. More than 1,500, mostly teenagers, responded to the call for decisions for Christ as he conducts a five month crusade in Australia and New Zealand.
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Melbourne
Australia
Billy Graham
Graham
New Zealand
Basilica of St Mark Declared Out of Danger
Venice authorities announced the Basilica of St Mark was out of danger after months of cracks. Engineers will continue cement injections to fill cracks and reinforce walls and foundations.
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Venice
Italy
Services Wednesday for First County Farm Adviser in U S
William George Eckhardt, 80, pioneer in the conservation movement and first county farm adviser in the United States, died Sunday night after six years of ill health. He helped guide seed corn distribution during WWI and held multiple farm leadership posts in Illinois. Funeral services will be held Wednesday in DeKalb.
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Dekalb
William George Eckhardt
Eckhardt
United States
University of Illinois
Anvant
DeKalb Agricultural Assn
Illinois Agri
Eva Luella
Willard L
Columbia
Robert C
State College
Miss
Richard D
Iowa City
Iowa
Albert
Muscatine
John
Illinois City
Emma Thomas
Reynold, al
Clara MacDonald
Fresno
Calif
Eva Lloyd
Germans Must Decide Reunification Says Khrushchev
Moscow Khrushchev says reunification is up to the two German states and warns four power talks may heighten tensions. He backs a heads of government conference to draft a postwar treaty with Germany and vows military border integrity in West Berlin. Macmillan tours Moscow with informal talks and a planned embassy villa visit.
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Russia-Britain
Nikita Khrushchev
Harold MacMillan
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Anatas L. Mikoyan
Andrei Gromyko
Jacob Malik
Britain
Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Patrick Reilly
Moscow
Harold K. Miles
Germany
Soviet Union
United States
France
West
East Germany
Hitles
Cal
Imihett
West Berlin
Cows Die as Barn Burns on Haacke Farm
A large barn housing cattle and hay burned five miles southwest of Dwight after 8 p m. The Haacke farm building was saved from total loss by Dwight volunteers while at least two cows died and 30 to 40 were driven to safety. Scully estate owned the farm, Haackes owned the structures.
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Dwight
Herman Haacke
Dwight Fire Department
Haackes
Haacke
Scully
Morris High Board Meeting Before Basketball Tonight
The Morris Community High Board of Education will convene at 10 p.m. in the high school office for a brief session. The unusual late hour avoids conflicting with the Morris Woodland basketball game, the final regular season contest at the high school tonight.
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Morris Community High Beoard of Education
Morris-Woodland
Requiaar
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