Missing Bolingbrook Scout Found After Daylong Search
Stanley R. Rea 11 to 12 year old Scout from Bolingbrook was located at 11 55 a m in Rainbow Council Scout Reservation Goose Lake Township near White Tie Road and Jugtown Road. Rescue squads from several communities aided the search with bloodhounds helicopters and dragging operations ongoing earlier.
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Bolingbrook
Stanley Rea
Grundy County
Sheriff's Department
Blue Spring Lake
White Tie Rd
Morris
Stanley Rea, II
Rainbow Council
Herald
Dig
Reb
Gary Ott
Kiburn
Batavia Savings and Loan
Pickup driver killed in Channahon-Minooka crash
Ralph Byrum 47 of Minooka died in a one car crash on the Channahon-Minooka Blacktop Rd at 6 15 p m Tuesday. The Will County sheriff said he lost control, the pickup rolled over several times and Byrum was thrown from the vehicle. He died of a skull fracture at the scene. Byrum operated the Shell station at Interstate 55 and US 52.
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Ralph Byrum
Rte. 2
Minooka
Channahon
Minooka Blacktop
Will County
Minooka Blacktop Rd
Byrum
Williard Blood
Ziegler Funeral Home
Athens
Tenn
Blood
Shell
US. 52
Boy killed watching fireworks in Des Plaines
A 10 year old boy Craig Schaefer was shot and killed while watching a fireworks display in Des Plaines Illinois. Two men Ferat Abdin 48 and Ahnet Reshat 33 were arrested with charges including reckless conduct and involuntary manslaughter. Police traced bullet trajectory from windows of nearby apartments to a unit about a block away.
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Ferat Abdin
Ahnet Reshat
Des Plaines
Menschin
Watergate probe easing indictments talk sparks staff feud
Special prosecutor Archibald Cox said it is premature to predict grand jury indictments in the Watergate case and warned of firing any staffer who leaks. Reports claimed four Nixon aides face conspiracy to obstruct justice indictments, with Mitchell Haldeman Ehrlichman and Dean named.
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Washington
Archibald Cox
Cox
Nixon
CBS News
U.S
Seymour Glanzer
Earl J. Silbert
Donald E. Campbell
Atty
John N. Mitchell
White House
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
John W. Dean III
Mitchell
New York
Senate Watergate Committee
Democratic National Committee
Martha
Dean
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Washington Star-News
Elliot L. Richardson
CBS
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Honolulu
Daniel KK. Inouye
D-Hawaii
Senate Committee
Fred D. Thompson
Knoxville
Tenn
Republican Party
Army Seizes Power in Rwanda After Unrest
In Rwanda the army announced it has taken control of the government after months of ethnic strife between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority. The National Guard declared it had formed a new governing authority to restore order.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Rwanda
or _ National Guard
Weather and Rwanda coup update in regional briefing
The report notes sunny mild weather with highs in the 80s and a pending chance of thunderstorms. It also covers a bloodless coup in Rwanda, placing President Kayibanda under National Guard protection as the army seized control, suspending Parmehutu activity and promising civilian ministers to continue.
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Dresden Island
Morris
Tional Committee For Peace and Unity
Gregoire Kayibanda
National Guard
National Committee
Parmehutu
Rwanda
Kayibanda
United Nations
Belgium
Nairobi
Kigali
Vermont
Tanzania
Zaire
Africa
Coal City Girl in Critical Condition After Bicycle Crash
Diane Hodgen twelve of Coal City listed in critical condition at St Joseph Hospital Joliet after a van truck struck her bicycle on Coal City Area Club Road two miles north of Coal City. Dale Hurst of Gardner swerved to avoid Hodgen and struck her with the right front fender throwing her 25 feet. Hodgen rushed to hospital by emergency squad.
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Coal City
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Coal City Area Club
Grundy County
Hodgen
Dale Hurst
Gardner
Hurst
Miss Hodgen
Hijacked Argentine plane lands in Havana
A Boeing 737 carrying 26 aboard landed safely in Havana after refueling in Panama and stops in Mendoza and Santiago. The hijackers led by a man named Pedro Bone or Pone demanded life gear for a Caribbean crossing, with conflicting reports on the hijacker count.
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Miami
Fla
Havana
Argentina
Chile
Peru
Panama
Federal Aviation Administration
Caribbean
Pedro Bone
Pone
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Lima
People’s Revolutionary Army
Edgardo Dursi
Mendoza
Andes
Grundy County Board to nominate chairman at special meeting
County Board Chairman Peter Cacello calls a special meeting for Friday at 4 p.m. in Room 16 of the courthouse to nominate a chairman for the Grundy County Board of Appeals.
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Grundy
Illinois Study Sets Policy On Black Adoptions
Springfield AP reports Illinois will place black children in guardianship for adoption only with black families under a new policy. DCFS Director Jerome G. Miller cites about 250 black children free for adoption and says race awareness and outreach are needed to increase black home adoptions.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Jerome G. Miller
Department of Children and Family Services
Miller
Thomas Teague
Department
Teague
Ziggy the elephant gains Independence Day freedom at Brookfield Zoo
Ziggy the 6'2 ton elephant walked freely for the first time in two years at Brookfield Zoo as keepers freed him from a chain. The celebration drew about 100 visitors while Ziggy, chained indoors since 1941 after a keeper attack, enjoyed a new outdoor compound with Minnie the female elephant, amid cautious moves to allow the pair to bond.
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Chicago
Ziggy the Elephant
Brookfield Zoo
Ziggy
Minnie
Keppers
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Morris Hospital
Evert Poyner
Rea
Chicago Council
BSA
Stanley and
Marilyn Rea
Schaefer
Vienna Pownship
Lawrence Manning
Lloyd Sulzberger
Elmer Baker
Joe Manning
Dennis Manning
Knight
Morris Daily Herald
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