Local election date set. petitions start for Morris boards
Four weeks from Monday January 29 marks the first local election filing day for Morris area races. The Morris elementary and high school boards face vacancies and several county offices are up for election. The county primary filing deadline is March 4 with no city races on even years unless a special election is called.
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Education
William Stangland
Gordon Lear
Morris
Morris High
Ronald Sampson
Louis Berger
Hugo Avalos
Robert Williamson
Richard Wilder
W. Clark Davis
Education To Funds Needed For MPATI Program
Morris Elementary District 54 plans to seek additional funding for the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction MPATI. Superintendent Kenneth S. Hammer proposes a 50 cent per pupil increase to support 510 students in foreign languages and science and to drop Center School from MPATI membership. MPATI faces ending the six year airborne instructional TV experiment due to funding cuts after 1967-68. Purdue based and serving about 1,900 schools, it must raise roughly 150000 more dollars and extend operations through May.
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Morris Elementary Dist
Board of Education
Midwest
Hammer
Chicago
MPATS
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
John E. Ivey Jr
MPATI
Dist. 54
Edison Grade School Declared Unsafe in Hillsboro
More than 300 students were barred from Edison Grade School after the school board ruled the three story building structurally unsafe. Inspectors cited falling mortar and deterioration. Students were sent to other grade schools. a $1 million bond for a new school and renovations was rejected in December.
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Hillsboro, Ill
Edison
Hillsboro
Ill
Indict Spock and Coffin on draft dodger conspiracy charges
Federal grand jury in Boston indicts physician Benjamin Spock Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr and three others for conspiring to counsel young men to avoid the draft The case hinges on a October 16 meeting at the Arlington Street Church and a Washington demonstration where draft resistance and document collection were noted The defendants face potential fines up to 10000 and up to five years in prison if convicted.
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Boston
Benjamin Spock
Yale University
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Justice Department
Spock
U.S
New York City
Coffin
New Haven
Conn
Michael Ferber
Harvard University
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
Marcus Raskin
Washington, D.C
Institute For Policy Studies
Arlington Street
FBI
a _ Boston
Washinton
Department of Justice
Justice Dpartment
Cold windy spell with possible snow forecast
The U S Weather Bureau predicts windy cold conditions for today and Sunday with temperatures about 13 degrees below normal highs 27 to 34 degrees and lows from -2 to -8. Snow expected Monday or Tuesday totaling a quarter to a half inch. Collins Weather Station recorded a Friday high of 29 and low of -9. Morris downtown read 24 at 7 30 p m Friday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Frigid Weather Tests Hemlines in Twin Cities Fashion
Minneapolis Saint Paul fashion coverage finds women brave the -68 wind chill. Nurses and other women wear skirts above the knee while focusing on style and warmth, with expert comment on knee protection and adaptability.
Post Office Cash Letter Vanishes At Nor Mandy Branch
Miami postmaster's office reports $1,500 in bills mailed to the Nor mandy branch post office disappeared. A former clerk at the Nor mandy branch is bound over for grand jury action on bond for allegedly taking the letter from the mail.
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Miami, Fla
Normandy
Miami
Normany
Constable Election Certified. Age Rule Blocks Office
William Gibney was certified winner of the Canaan Township constable race in Lackawanna County but cannot take office due to age. With no ballot candidates, Gibney won by write in and absentee votes, yet the post carries no salary and the age requirement prevents him from serving.
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Carbondale, Pa
William Gibney
Canaan Township
Pennsylvania
Gibney
December motor fuel tax allotments by county and township
Grundy County received 11245 dollars from the motor fuel tax with Kendall County at 9830 dollars. For the same period Grundy townships and road districts were allotted 13179 dollars while Kendall County totals reached 9539 dollars. Morris reported 5123 dollars for December.
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Grundy County
State Treasury
Illinois
Dwight Educator Reports Tour of Five Iron Curtain Nations
William H. Reed principal of Dwight schools toured Greece Yugoslavia Poland Russia and East Germany sponsored by the Comparative Education Society to study Communist education. He described conditions as eye opening noting state control and youth indoctrination and urged stronger geography and national history teaching in the United States.
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William H. Reed
Dwight
Comparative Education Society
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Poland
Russia
East Germany
Reed
U.S. State Department
East Ger
State Department
Athens
Democracy
America
Emphsis
Tito
Communist Party
Moscow
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Bersin Wall
West Berlin
Iron Curtain
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