Tax assessment mixup reshapes Grundy district maps
The Morris Daily Herald reports an $2.5 million assessment error shifted Cardox and Burdett Oxygen plants from Minooka to Saratoga district, raising Saratoga tax funds while Minooka gains from eligible district changes. Carlson and district officials face review as boundary lines are clarified amid complaints and a pending legal notice.
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Saratoga
Armour Industrial Chemicals
Armak Co
Aux Sable
Armak
Robert Chord
Cardox
Milton Carlson
Burdett
Lease Plan, Inc
Carlson
Morris Daily Herald
Northern Petrochemical Co
NPC
Minooka
Noel Holman
David Root
Burdette
Grundy
McEvilly
Northern Petrochemical Company
Joe Laughary
Brown and Lambrecht
Josephine M. Kruger
E. Benton St
Richard Sparta
Illinois Ave
Kindelspire Auto Supply
Illinois State Bar Association
Illinois
Hazardous devices found in New York and Chicago banks
Police found and deactivated hazardous devices in safe deposit boxes at three Manhattan branches of Marine Midland Trust, Manufacturers Hanover, and First National City Bank. A device was also found in a Chicago First National Bank. no device was found at Continental Illinois in Chicago.
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Herald
Morris
George Hendrickson
Hendrickson
Alan Love
Illinois
Vandalia
Florence Smith
Associated Press
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Lower Manhattan
Marine Midland Trust Co
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
First National City
First National Bank
Kenneth O’neill
Marine Midland
Broadway
Robert Daly
Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago
Charles Christopher Mohr
Howard Pierson
Hijacked PSA Jet Demands Africa Flight From Tampa
A Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 en route from Los Angeles to Tampa was hijacked by a shotgun armed man and a woman with a baby. The jet refueled twice and sat over two hours as FBI sought a larger aircraft to fly to Africa. Ten PSA employees remained aboard while 134 passengers were removed at Los Angeles.
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Tampa
Fla
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Los Angeles
FBI
Africa
PSA
Tampa International
Minooka High School Adopts Married Student Policy Change
Minooka High School board approves a policy allowing hearings for married students to request extracurricular participation if their performance is above average. The change follows a student’s appeal with her parents and attorney. Also approved were home bound instruction, duct heater upgrades, and several field trips and broadcasts.
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Minooka
Board of Education
Minooka High School
Handbook
Unemployment Rises to 6.1 Percent in December
The U S Labor Department reports unemployment at 6.1 percent for December, up from 6.0 percent in November and 5.8 percent in October. The 1971 average annual rate reaches 5.9 percent, the highest in a decade, with nonwhite unemployment rising to 10.3 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gardner Board Adopts Small Pay Rise for Part Time Custodian
Gardner Grade School Board approved a 5.5 percent raise raising the part time assistant custodian wage to 2.11 dollars an hour effective January 1. The meeting included a building progress report by Joliet architects Watson Healy and Paul Sandburg and discussion of safety, retroactive teacher pay, and a Blue and Gold Cub Scouts event.
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Gardner
Watson Healy
Paul Sandburg
Joliet
Rogers Cumming
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Cumming
Superintendent of Public
Lloyd Cato
Illinois Weather: Warm Start With Sunny Skies
Warm air moved into Illinois bringing mostly sunny skies and mid-30s temperatures. Overnight a cold front lowered readings to the teens. Thursday's high reached 35 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam with a low of 8. This morning at 7 am the thermometer sat at 28 degrees.
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Illinois
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Christian unity services to mark January observance across area
Cooperating area churches schedule a three center January unity prayer observance. January Sunday 7 30 p m Coal City Assumption Catholic Church Rev Paul Simpkins will speak. January 16 Bethlehem Lutheran Morris 8 p m Rev Roy Hamburger will deliver sermon. January 18 Minooka St Mary s Catholic Church 8 p m Rev Arthur Bachand leads with Msgr Peter Seidl homily. January 23 Morris United Presbyterian 8 p m service in contemporary style led by local clergy and laity.
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Coal City
Assumption Catholic
Paul Simpkins
United Methodist Church
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Morris
Roy Hamburger
United Presbyterian Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Minooka
Arthur Bachand
United
Methodist Church
At Peste
Peter Seidl
St. Mary's
Morris Community High Board to Review Audit Reports
The Morris Community High School Board will hold a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the school office to discuss audit reports. The agenda also includes policies on pupil suspension and social desegregation.
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The
Miracle Worker
William Fox Children’s Center
Dwight
Stan Kenton
Brookfield High School
Riverside
Board of Education of
Morris Community High School
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Hillsborough County Aviation Authority
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MacAllister
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Seaboard
Stratton State Park
David Carr
Dresden Machine
Calvary Baptist Church
Pine Bluff
Goose Lake
Wilmington
Robert West
Christian Unity Services Schedule
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