Air War Continues North Viet Nam Attacks Skip Hopeful Heavier Losses
US Navy fighter bombers attacked two torpedo boats off Haiphong with one Skyhawk shot down. pilot rescued by helicopter. Navy and Air Force planes flew 91 missions, targeting oil storage near Hai Phong and Thanh Hoa as air war escalates. In Da Nang area fighting killed about 154 Viet Cong as Marines, plus air and artillery support, pressed operations.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Haiphong
Gulf of Tonkin
US S
Navy
North Viet Nam
North
Thanh Hoa
U.S
South
Viet Nam
da Nang
7Th Fleet
Coontz
Constellation
Air Force
Kearsarge
Tonkin Gulf
U.S. Command
HMD
Vin Long City
Low Bid For U S 6 Resurfacing Project Named
Charles O'Brien and Son Construction Co of Morris submitted the lowest bid of 43 638 for resurfacing 2.05 miles of U S 6 from Morris to east of the Grundy Will county line The letting was July 1 in Springfield and is the fifth of eight bids this year Engineers will review bids before contract awards.
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U.S. 6
Morris
Grundy-Will County
Charles O'Brien and Son Construction Co
Illinois Division of Highways
Springfield
Drowns While Aiding Fire In Mazon River
James E. Roberts a 24 year old Mokena man drowned in the Mazon River at 845 p m while wading to aid his brothers whose 30 foot Criss Craft boat caught fire in a mud slough near Stratton Park. The boat burned to the water line. Roberts who could not swim stepped into a hole in the river bottom and drowned. his body was recovered by the Morris Emergency Squad and taken to Kiersch Funeral Home. An inquest will be held.
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Mokena
James E. Roberts
Mazon
James Carkhuff
Roberts
Roberts Brothers
William
Jack
James Roberts
Gary Pearson
New Lenox
Clark Davis
Morris
Kiersch
Tinley Park
Davis
Olson
Carkhuff
Sheriff’s Office
William Edmondson
Chicago
Mazon River
Stratton Park
James
Lake Geneva Independence Day Youths Arrests
Police say about 100 youths were arrested during Independence Day weekend at Lake Geneva amid traffic violations drinking on the streets and fireworks. Chief Sidney Grahler cited milling crowds and street disorder as the cause of clashes as hundreds of visitors swarmed the resort.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
Sidney Grahler
Grahler
Weather forecast and past temperatures at Collins Morris
The U S Weather Bureau predicts tonight warm and humid with a low in the 70s and a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms. Wednesday will see thundershowers end and cooler air with a mid 80s high. Thursday outlook is fair and warm. Collins station reports 97 on Saturday and Sunday, 88 on Monday. 0.04 inches rain Monday afternoon. Morris downtown noon reading 89 degrees.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Record Death Toll Reaches On Highways
The Associated Press reports 567 traffic deaths across the nation during the three day Independence Day period, with 215 drownings and 52 boating deaths, totaling 834 accidental holiday fatalities. The worst crash occurred west of Tucson killing 10. Arkansas had two fatal crasheseight killed.
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National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Council
Pyle
Congress
Tucson
Ariz
Arizona
Blytheville
Benton
Safety Council
Car Stripped After Ditch Incident Near Coal City
William F. Gilchrist reports his car left in a ditch one mile south of Illinois 113 and 1.5 miles west of Coal City. He says he drove it in at 12:30 a.m. Sunday and returned to find three wheels tires a jack a shovel a battery a chain floor mats and hubcaps stolen.
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William F. Gilchrist
Rte. 1
Mazon
Illinois 113
Coal City
Gilchrist
Sheriff’s Office
Eight Injured in Grundy County Weekend Accidents
Four auto crashes in Grundy County over the weekend injured eight people. Six motorcycle mishaps left six hurt, one seriously. Ronald Hempel, 24, is in fair condition with head injuries after a late Sunday skid on I 80 I 47 exit ramp. Eugene L. Stokes, 27, escaped injury after a two car crash on I 80. he was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions. Ronald Svibergel and others received treatment and release. Multiple other riders and drivers were treated for abrasions and lacerations at Morris Hospital.
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Grundy
Morris Hospital
Ronald Hempel
Berwyn
Interstate 80
Illinois 47
Hempel
Chicago
Eugene L
Ronald S. Svibergel
Long Beach
Calif
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Minooka
Svibergal
E. Kenneth Byron
Goose Lake
Coal City
Pierce
Byron
Buzz
Standard
Seneca
Willatee Dean
Charles Sprenger
Sprenger
Dean
Eloise Chisholm
Illinois
William L. Bourne
Loveland
Ohio
Chester M. Guard
Robinson Drive
Sheriff's Office
Chester Guard
Robert Drake
Goose Lake Village
Roy Smith III
Lisle
Eugene Dummitt
Rte. 2
Steven Guard
Park Blvd
One Way Traffic on Illinois River Bridge Set
Illinois Highway Department says traffic over the Illinois River bridge will flow in one direction all day Wednesday and part of Thursday shaping local travel plans.
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Illinois River Bridge
Ilinois Highway Department
Braceville Man Dies After Two-Car Crash
Charles E. Limbach 30 of Braceville died at Morris Hospital after a two car collision on Illinois 113 near Illinois 47. Also injured were James J. Coley Sheila Coley and Faye Coley. Limbach had been drinking and drove off the road, with an autopsy planned and an inquest to be scheduled.
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Ilinois
Charles E. Limbach
Braceville
James J. Coley
Streator
Limbach
Illinois 113
Grundy County
Morris Hospital
Illinois 47
Grant St
Sheila Coley
Faye Coley
James
John E. G. Olson
Coley
Olson
Dick Pierce
Repairs Scheduled For Dresden Lock and Bran don Road Lock
The Chicago district of the Army Corps of Engineers awarded A. M. Turner Construction Co. of Maywood two contracts. A $130000 job covers Dresden Island Lock repairs including mooring piers and recesses for floating mooring buts. A $147780 contract funds resurfacing and a protection pier at Bran don Road Lock Joliet.
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Dresden Island Lock
A. M. Turner Construction Co
Maywood
Brandon Road
Joliet
Chicago
Army Corps of Engineers
Cyclist Larry Zehr Dies After Murphysboro Crash
In Murphysboro Illinois AP report Larry Zehr 17 of Peoria a summer student at Southern Illinois University died from injuries from a Monday motorcycle collision with a car Edward Bright 76 of near Murphysboro was the car’s driver says the AP Zehr died today from the injuries at a hospital the accident occurred in Murphysboro Illinois on Monday.
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Murphysboro, Ill
Larry Zehr
Peoria
Southern Illinois University
Murphysboro
Edward Bright
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Darkhuff
Geneva
THE
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Franklin Chisolm
Teresa Lavie
Margaret
Joel
Christine
Jonathan
Arthur Allaben
Harold Whiteside
Social Security Administration
Allaben
Henry
Tiny
Ruth Munson Limbach
Mildred Chaloupka
U.S. Marines
Morris Paper Mill
Olin-Matheson Co
Kankakee
Royal Order of the Moose
Henry Limbach
E. Main St
Vincent
Ruth) Terzo
Arlington Heights
Clyde Munson
East Peoria
Naomi Reinhold
E. Main
Frank Limbach
Davis Funeral Home
Mt. Carmel
W. Clark Davis
Dresden
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