Aborigine Trackers Find Lost Missionary and Children
Aborigine trackers located American missionary Miss June Laing and three Indian ambulance driver’s children after three days lost in Cameron Highlands Malaysia. They were found near a tea plantation, fed, clothed, and taken to a police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Cameron Highlands
U. Santokh Singh
June Laing
Altoona
Singh
Miss Laing
Mabel Laing
American Dalat School
Mt. Beremban
Highlands
Dalat
Southeast Asia
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Chicago Teachers Vote To Strike Over Pay Deal
Chicago public schools face a possible first ever strike after the Chicago Teachers Union rejected a $15 million package from the Board of Education. The CTU demands include immediate $100 monthly raises, $50 monthly raises from September, higher starting salaries, smaller classes, more aides, and tougher student removal rules. The union set Tuesday as the strike date for about 22 000 teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Teachers Union
Board of Education
House of Representatives
CTU
Fire Kills Seven in Coatesville Fire Ordeal
A fire swept a row of houses in Coatesville Pennsylvania today killing seven children. Firemen say a faulty space heater used to ward off subfreezing cold caused the blaze. Ralph Hoover and wife Dorothy plus one child escaped. seven Hoover children were missing and presumed dead.
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Coatesville
Parkesburg
Ralph Hoover
Hoover
Dorothy
Mary
Winter cold snap grips region with subzero lows
The U S Weather Bureau forecast subzero conditions tonight with a chance of snow flurries and wind. Overnight readings fell to 9 in Collins Station with a 16 degree rise by 11 a m in Morris downtown. Saturday high near 10 above. Blizzard warnings issued for Montana east of the Divide. Chicago Associated Press report widespread arctic chill from Montana to Maine with readings near 21 below at International Falls and 5 below at Minneapolis St Paul.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Associated Press
Montana
Maine
Kentucky
Tennessee
Canada
Continental Divide
Weather Bureau
Wyoming
Plains
Mercury
International Falls
Minn
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Milwaukee
Nashville
Collins Weather Station Sees Cold, Snow Likely This Weekend
Cloudy windy conditions with chances of snow flurries and very cold temperatures. Highs near 10 above and lows around 9 below zero with a likely snowfall Monday or Tuesday, as temperatures run about 13 degrees below normal for five days.
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Collins
Morris
Morris Elementary Board sets tentative election date for school expansion
The Morris Elementary Board of Education met at Franklin School and set January 27 as the tentative election date to vote on a $1,499,800 bond referendum for a four to 10 room addition to Garfield School and a new 20 room middle school. Polls would run 7 AM to 7 PM.
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Morris Elementary Board of Education
Franklin School
Morris
Garfield School
Minooka
David Schmid
Naperville
Garfield
Grundy County
City of Morris
City of
Citizens Committee
Virgil Gray Ends Stand Over California Power Line
In ROUND MOUNTAIN California Virgil Gray who for months blocked a $700 million 900 mile Bonneville Dam to Southern California power line with shotguns and rifles agreed to talks after his son Ronald 20 said the family would accept compensation. Federal officials offered a new bid with education and land swap options as the stand neared a forceful invasion.
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Round Mountain
Calif
Gray
U.S
Bonneville Dam
Columbia River
California
San Francisco
Jane
Ronald
Rodney Hamblin
Hamblin
Virgil Gray
Shasta College
Redding
New Lockmaster Named at Dresden Island Dam
Clifford O. Larsen of 534 West Avenue has been appointed lock master by the U S Army Corps of Engineers at Dresden Island Lock and Dam following the retirement of N J Fagan on November 29. Larsen brings 29 years of service with the engineer corps.
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Clifford O. Larsen
W. Ave
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Dresden Island Lock and Dam
N. J. Fagan
Larsen
Engineer Corps
Open Hearing On Jr. College Disconnection
A hearing on a petition to detach Warren Henderson and Mercer counties from Carl Sandburg Junior College District opened in Monmouth. Five pro-disconnection witnesses argued taxes would rise. opponents were due to testify. The district includes Knox Fulton Stark counties. a Dec 16 bond referendum was halted pending Illinois Junior College Board action.
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Monmouth, Til
Warren
Henderson
Mercer
Carl Sandburg Junior College
Galesburg
Knox County
Fulton
Stark
Sandburg
College
Keith Scott
Macomb
Illinois Junior College Board
Blaiberg Free Of Infection After Heart Transplant
CAPE TOWN South Africa AP Philip Blaiberg the heart transplant patient ate corn flakes and a soft boiled egg today the first semisolid food since his operation three days ago The hospital bulletin said his body was free of infection and showed no sign of rejecting the new heart The bulletin noted his condition was satisfactory and his circulation good He remains in the oxygen tent Doctor Christiaan Barnard said the symptoms seen earlier did not indicate rejection and may reflect over treatment The patient a 58 year old retired dentist received a heart from a 24 year old man who died of a stroke Barnard said Blaiberg is progressing well and his organs are returning to normal He sent a message to his wife and tubes were removed Earlier officials said the possibility of rejection was very remote The operation details showed no difference from Washkansky grafts except the donor heart from a woman was smaller than the second from a man
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur
Blaiberg
Christiaan Barnard
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Barnard
Farlier
Groote Schuur Hospital
Pentagon projects $15 billion in arms sales to foreign nations
The Pentagon expects to sell about 15 billion dollars in military arms and supplies to foreign countries over the next decade. Six year totals ending last year reach 10.14 billion dollars with 1.598 billion in commitments for fiscal 1968. Europe and Canada receive about 75 percent, the Far East 12 percent, others about 13 percent.
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Washington
Pentagon
Congress
Defense Department
Europe
Canada
Far East
Australia
Japan
New Zealand
Latin America
Aux Sable to vote on township zoning authorization
Aux Sable Township prepares a four step zoning plan beginning with a special meeting Tuesday at the Minooka fire house to authorize the Board of Auditors to use zoning powers granted by the Illinois Legislature. A five member commission will study boundaries and regulations before a public hearing and final ordinance adoption.
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Minooka
Aux Sable
Aux Sable Board of Auditors
Morris Atty
Richard Wilder
Wilder
Aux Sable Township
Board of Auditors
Ice Breaks Up on Lower Illinois River Traffic Restored
The Army Corps of Engineers reports an ice gorge on the lower Illinois River has broken up and traffic is moving again. Ice remains above and below Dams 24 and 25 on the Mississippi but the river remains navigable.
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ST. Louis
Army Corps of Engineers
Illinois River
Mississippi River
National Voyager
Alton
Ill
Winfield
Glendal
Clarksville
Chain of Rocks Canal
Treasure Elevator Sold in Gardner Purchase
The Mazon Farmer's Elevator buys the Treasure Elevator Co. in Gardner and takes possession. Wayne Burkhardt is named manager. Charles Treasure and bookkeeper Karl B. Lutz retire. Lutz will still farm in Main Township.
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Gardner
Mazon Farmer'’s Elevator
Treasure Elevator Co
Wayne Burkhardt
Charles Treasure
Karl B. Lutz
Lutz
Main Township
Train collision injures 27 near Smethwick Rolfe Street
Two trains collided near Smethwick Rolfe Street Station in the English Midlands. Twenty seven people were taken to hospitals as ambulances responded. no deaths reported. One express reportedly rear ended another, blocking the Birmingham Manchester line.
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Smethwick
England
English Midlands
British Railways
Rolfe Street
Birmingham- Manchester
Two youths fined in Coal City soda machine theft
Robert L. Swisher Jr. 19 of Braidwood and Larry D. Hodges 18 of Wilmington were each fined 100 dollars and 42.40 in costs in Grundy County Circuit Court for an attempted theft of a soda pop vending machine outside the Lester IGA Store in Coal City. Trooper J. K. Perona filed complaints after allegedly catching them in the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert L. Swisher Jr
Braidwood
Grundy County
Robert W. Malmquist
Larry D. Hodges
Wilmington
Todges
Swisher
IGA
Coal City
J. K. Perona
Soviet claim of Haiphong ship damage
The Soviet government warned of damage to the freighter Pereslav Zalessky during a U S air raid on Haiphong. Moscow Radio reported no casualties among the 41 crew as US planes attacked Haiphong, with delayed-action bombs near the ship and hull damage cited by Tass. The United States offered no immediate comment.
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Washington
United States
Haiphong
Vietnam
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Moscow
Moscow Radio
U.S
Pereslav- Zalessky
North Vietnamese
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
U.S. State Department
North Vietnam
Tass
Pereslav-Zalessky
Argus
Saigon
Death Sentence For Gaines In Illinois Killing
Ara Gaines sixty of Chicago was sentenced to die in the electric chair on March fifteenth by Circuit Court Judge Raymond O Horn after a jury found him guilty of the May twenty seven killing of state trooper Frank Doris of Clay City on U S 45 north of Flora. Gaines also known as William H Carter is a railroad cart maintenance electrician and will be taken to Menard Penitentiary.
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Hillsboro, Ill
Ara Gaines
Chicago
Raymond O. Horn
Salem
Gaines
Frank Doris
Clay City
U.S. 45
Flora
William H. Carter
Menard Penitentiary
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U. S. 1St Infantry Division
Song Be
Jr. College
Cambodia
Chester Bowles
U. S
India
Johnson
Sihanouk
Treasure Elevator
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