Morris district board studies unit district feasibility
The Board of Education voted 4-0 with one abstention to hire Illinois School Consulting Service for a feasibility study on forming a unit district from Nettle Creek 24-C Morris 54 Saratoga 60-C and Morris High 101. Dieringer and Barr reported state aid gains, a petition gathered 343 signatures, and land and staffing moves were discussed.
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Morris
Board of Education
Norval
Jacqueline) Galloway
Illinois School Consulting Service
Nettle Creek
Saratoga
Morris High
Gerald McTague
Donald Zweirs
Charles Dieringer
Dieringer
Arthur Hornsby Jr
Barr
Grundy County
Illinois River
Chicago Teachers Strike Shuts Over 500000 Pupils Out
Chicago public education for more than 500 000 pupils halted as 21 000 teachers walked off amid a dispute with the Chicago Board of Education. Gov Daniel Walker failed to broker a relief agreement after a Springfield meeting. Schools Supt James F Raymond ordered 660 Chicago public schools closed. CTU president Robert Healey declared the strike on and said they are ready to proceed.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Daniel Walker
Springfield
James F. Redmond
Chicago Teachers Union
Robert Healey
CTU
Healey
Sniper Essex Identified as Kansas Man on New Orleans Roof
Police named Mark J. Essex, 23, of Emporia Kansas as the sniper killed on a hotel rooftop after six people died and 17 were wounded in a New Orleans shooting spree. Ballistics linked a .44 magnum carbine to Essex and to earlier New Year's Eve incidents. Authorities consider a possible conspiracy with other snipers, while Essex’s minister described a militant hatred of whites.
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New Orleans
Kansas
Clarence Giarrusso
Mark J. Essex
Emporia
Giarrusso
Essex
Howard Johnson’s
Alfred Harrell
Edwin C. Hosh Sr
Harrell
Hosl
Charity Hospital
W. A. Chambers
Navy
Washington
Robins Binge on Fermenting Berries in Florida’s Hillsborough
In St. Petersburg Florida robins flock to holly bushes as January sun ripens and ferments the berries. The birds gorge then stumble and wobble on branches before flying off in a sake of autumn-like confusion.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Capistrano
Hinckley
Ohio
Florida
Weather report notes chilly trend with modest warming ahead
Sunny and cold today with a high of 15 to 20 degrees. Increasing cloudiness tonight with a low near 5. Thursday expected mostly cloudy and warmer with a high in the mid 20s. Tuesday's high reached 15 and low 4 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam. At 7 am today the temperature was 1 degree.
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Luther Nelson
Fremont Ave
Dresden Lock and Dam
Herald
Dresden Island Locks
Watergate plot linked to Liddy seven defendants
Government prosecutor said the seven Watergate defendants were assigned to spot plans for demonstrations against Republican speakers and uncover embarrassments about Democrats. Evidence pointed to G Gordon Liddy as directing the espionage with ties to Jeb Magruder and Herbert Porter within Nixon's reelection apparatus.
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Washington
Asst
U.S. Atty
Earl J. Silbert
Silbert
Liddy
Jeb Stuart Magruder
White House
Nixon
Herbert Porter
Porter
Seneca Face Lifting Meeting Slated Thursday
SENECA The first of two January meetings by Seneca Business personnel and downtown property owners will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Seneca American Legion clubrooms. Springfield officials Stuart L. Schrodt and Thomas L. Nurse will address the group about face lifting the business district.
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Seneca American Legion
Stuart L. Schrodt
Thomas L. Nurse
Springfield
Department of Local Government Affairs
Office of Research and Planning
Seneca
John Ellis
Supreme Court reverses Hughes Tool anti trust ruling
In a 6 to 2 decision the Supreme Court voided a 145 million judgment against Hughes Tool Co owned by Howard Hughes. The case concerned antitrust liability tied to TWA profits from 63 jet aircraft and CAB approved transactions in the 1940s to 1960s.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Hughes Tool Co
Hughes Tool
Howard R. Hughes
Trans World Airlines
William O. Douglas
Herbert Brownell
TWA
Civil Aeronautics Board
Warren E. Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
Brownell
U.S. Dist
Charles M. Metzner
New York
Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Blackmun
Burger
Thurgood Marshall
Metzner
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Hughes
CAB
Toolco
Northeast Airlines
Northeast
Pan American Airways
Weather drought slams cattle in plains states
The Associated Press reports about 50,000 cattle dead in Oklahoma Kansas and Texas as severe cold and winds threaten more losses. Deaths in feedlots reach three percent and up to 15 percent on wheat pasture. Cattle die from snow covering forage, starvation, pneumonia, and related diseases. Cattlemen fear a hard wind could wipe out thousands more.
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Associated Press
High Plains
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Jim Smith
Smith
Grundy County Board OKs rights of way and grand jury draw
The Grundy County Board approved right of way for General Bell Telephone lines in Garfield and Greenfield Townships and voted to cover $40,236.74 in claims. 23 grand jurors and 20 supplemental jurors were drawn by lot. lists will be issued soon. Remodeling for Grundy County Home expansion is complete. Health Department finances show $66,698.18 expenditures and $49,113.16 receipts, costing $17,585.02 to the general fund. Adjournment set for Feb 13. The tax committee rebid 20 industrial and 400 commercial properties. United Appraisal Co., of Kansas City, won at $18,000 with work due by Sept 1. Committee members are Wollgast, Waters, Boss, Hauschild, and Mosimann.
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Grundy County
General Bell Telephone Lines
Garfield Township
Greenfield Township
Thomas H. Parks
Parks
Grundy County Health Department
United Appraisal Co
Kansas City
Jacobs Co
United Appraisal
Harry Wollgast
William Waters Leonard Boss
John Hauschild
Clarence Mosimann
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Rose Marie) Bell
Morris City
Lakewood Estates
James Peterson
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Center School
Ronald Sykes
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois
Illinois Division of Highways
Illinois 47
Illinois River Bridge
Pine Bluff Road
Liberty
G. Gordon Lindy
Treasury Department
Finance Committee
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Complex
Jim Peffer
Planning Commission
Ellis
Texas County
Okla
Harry Henderson
Mazon
James R. Laird Co
J.L. Jacobs Co
Cole-Layer-Trumble Co
United Appaisal Co
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