Accident kills Streator youth in Grand Ridge field
A 17 year old from Streator, Mark Cherveney, died from a fractured skull after a single vehicle crash on Grand Ridge Road near Ward Road. A 16 year old Joliet youth, Darrell Robertson, was hospitalized in serious condition. Deputy Thomas Walker traced the crash to a 1971 Cadillac registered to Paul Robertson of Joliet. The car left the road, rolled through ditches, and the flashlight the deputy saw came from the vehicle. Cherveney’s funeral was held at Immaculate Conception Church. Coroner to hold an inquest later.
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Grand Ridge
Ward Rds
Grundy County
Thomas Walker
Mazon
Mark Cherveney
Bluff St
Streator
Morris Hospital
Grundy
James Reeves
Darrell Robertson
Joliet
Silver Cross Hospital
Walker
Paul Robertson
Grand Ridge Rd
Ward Rd
Reeves
Cherveney
Immaculate Conception Church
Fire damages offices of L S Heath Candy Co
In Robinson Illinois a fire damaged the administrative offices of the L S Heath Candy Co causing an estimated loss over 300000. The blaze started near an electric heater in the order processing room and gutted that area. No injuries were reported.
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Sherry Foote
Heath
QSP
Reader's Digest
Foote
Seize $17 million worth of marijuana
Federal authorities seized six tons of Thai sticks marijuana worth $17 million on a southern Oregon coast ranch near Bandon. Sixteen suspected smugglers from states including Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Colorado, Arizona and Washington were to be arraigned. The operation involved land sea and air raids by federal state and local officials and included three old Army amphibious vehicles.
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Bandon, Ore
UPI
Oregon Coast
U.S
Singapore
Mexico
Bandon
Ore
Michael Wright
Massachusetts
California
New Jersey
Colorado
Arizona
Washington State
Oregon
Cambodia demands troop withdrawal in border war with Vietnam
Cambodia ruled out any talks with Vietnam until all Vietnamese troops pull back, amid a four day public exchange that has kept the border war active since 1975. Phnom Penh radio accused Vietnam of atrocities and warned that negotiations could occur only after immediate withdrawal.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Cambodia
Vietnam
Radio
Phnom Penh
Khieu Samphan
Democratic
Weather snapshot and temperature records at Dresden Island
Increasing cloudiness north tonight with lows from 8 to 18 degrees. Highs in the 30s and a record of 33 degrees at Dresden Island Locks and Dam on Sunday, with -8 degrees low. Monday's high 15 and low -3. Current temps show -1 at 7 am and 15 at Morris at 11:30 am. Last month peaked at 55 on Dec 18 and bottomed at 10 on Dec 10 with total precipitation 2.11 inches.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Fumes kill three at Exxon refinery in Benicia
In Benicia California three Exxon workers died and 11 were hospitalized after carbon monoxide filled a silo tank under repair at the refinery 35 miles northeast of San Francisco. Two subcontractors from Timec Corp were hospitalized in stable condition alongside nine rescuers.
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Benicia
Calif
UPI
Exxon
San Francisco
Gerald Johnson
Vacaville
William Scott
Vallejo
David Soffer
Edward Stephens
James Lyons
Timec, Corp
Michael Schneider
California
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Carter in Saudi Arabia Eyes Palestinian Steps and Oil Talks
President Carter met King Khaled and Crown Prince Fahd in Riyadh to discuss oil prices energy policy and dollar value amid signs Saudi leaders move toward U S positions on the Palestinian issue. He toured from New Delhi where he signed a nuclear declaration with India and pressed for progress toward Middle East peace.
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Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
UPI
Carter
Middle East
U.S
New Delhi
Marharji Desai
Khaled
Fahd
Horn of Africa
Carter Party
Sadat
Mili
Tary
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Menahem Begin
United States
Begin
Tel Aviv
Israel
Oil
Islam
Salaam Aleikum
Snowfall Totals and Temperature Records for Morris 1977
A weather data summary for Morris in 1977 reports total snowfall of 34.23 inches with monthly breakdowns from January to December. The year’s low reached −20 and high 98, total precipitation 45.63 inches, peak wind 49 mph in December, and 13 days below zero. Dan Callahan of Dresden Island Locks and Dam notes January 16 low of 20 and July 17 high of 97. Dresden Island remains the referenced site for temperature data.
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Morris
Jim Lutz
Grundy County
Dan Callahan
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Massachusetts teen charged in Morris car theft case
A 17 year old from Massachusetts was charged with theft of more than 150 dollars after Morris police found his running 1969 Oldsmobile at the Saratoga Inn Restaurant. The vehicle contained 700 dollars cash and multiple credit cards, with the keys left in the car outside the tavern. Police said the theft occurred after Colin Brooks reported his car missing from near Washington Street. The suspect claimed he planned to return the car after realizing it was stolen. An attempted break in at Colonial Bouquet Shop was also noted during the same period. Hospital visitors at Morris Hospital were restricted to immediate family due to flu.
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Morris
Massachusetts
Robert F. Gray
Tucton
Mass
Grundy County
Saratoga Inn
Gray
Colin Brooks
Park Lake Dr
Washington St
Colonial Bouquet Shop
Liberty St
Harold Carlson
Roger Miller
Carl Bremnkamp
Five injured in LaSalle County three car crash
A Pryor woman remained hospitalized at Morris today after a 11:30 a.m. Friday crash at U S 6 and LaSalle County Highway 25 north of Seneca that injured five people. The incident involved two D W Witter Corp trucks and a parked truck, with damages totaling several thousand dollars.
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Pryor, Okia
Morris
LaSalle County
Seneca
Lon F
Lucinda) Vermnon
N. E
Third St
Pryor
District 5A
D. W. Witter Corp
Kent Grove
Robert A. Hewitt
Neponset
Daniel P. Markey
Bradford
Vermon
Indian navy searches waters for Air India crash victims
The Indian navy orders the oceanographic survey ship to search shallow waters off Bombay for the Air India jumbo jet wreckage after a crash that killed 213 aboard. Thirteen bodies recovered. 190 passengers and 23 crew feared dead. Most victims Indian. 11 foreigners, including two Saudi-born Americans.
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Bombay
India
UPI
Indian Navy
Air India
Middle East
Dharan
Window broken on Rock Island caboose in Minooka
Minooka police reported two youths in red jackets threw rocks at a Rock Island caboose Friday night, breaking a window around 9 15 p m. The youths could not be located and damage estimates were not available.
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Rock Island Railroad
Minooka
Michael Hrechko
Railroad
Hearing set for Newark ex-policeman Harold Martin III
Preliminary hearing in Kendall County Circuit Court is set for January 10 for Harold Martin III, 22, a former Newark policeman charged with two felony counts of official misconduct and illegal gun sales. He pleaded not guilty to two counts each, with alleged sales to individuals without firearm IDs and waiting period violations.
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Kendall County
Harold Martin III
Newark
Martin
Ingemunson
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John and
Patricia
McKay) Cherveney
St. Mary’s
Streator High School
SHS
Streator Coca Cola Bottling Co
Fellowship of Christian Athletes of
John M. Cherveney Jr
Dean Cherveney
John
Bernice McKay
Minoak
Ellen) Cherveney
Luke
Mary) Cherveney
L.S. Heath Candy Company
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois
Florida
Price Zimmerman's Pharmacy
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Afl-Cio
Altimax
Alumax
Herald
Saudi
Bouquet
The
Markey
Hewitt
Lawrence Stalter
Douglas Swiger
E. High St
Princeton
Michael Shawhan
N. Rebecca St
Peoria
Chicago
UPS
Roger
Dubai
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