Morris Community High names Kane head football coach
The Morris Community High School Board appointed Lawrence Kane of Nokomis Illinois as head football coach and head of the track team with basketball assistance at MCHS. Kane will join the physical education department and teach driving training, alongside hiring Lawrence Dergo as a PE instructor and assistant coach to be named later.
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Morris Community High School Board of Education
Claude Rose
Lawrence Kane
MCHS
Kane
Nokomis
Ill
Lawrence Dergo
Wyoming
Rose
Ronald Sampson
Ray Christensen
Board of Education
William Knapp
Theodore Estensen
Estensen
Chicago dormitory slayings labelled crime of the century
Eight student nurses were strangled and stabbed to death in a South Chicago Hospital dormitory. One survivor hid under a bed as police captured a suspect in downtown Chicago. Victims included Gloria Davy and seven Filipinos and Americans, with many bodies found upstairs. Coroner described the case as the crime of the century.
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Chicago
Carazo Amarao
Philippines
Miss Amarao
Gloria Davy
Dyer
Ind
Davy
Merlita Gargullo
Valentina Pasion
Pamela Wilkening
Lansing
Ill
Susan Farris
Patricia Matusek
Roseland
Marianne Jordan
Nina Schmale
Wheaton
Amarao
Matusek
Wilkening
Jordan
Miss Matusek
Miss Pasion
Miss Schmale
Miss Gargullo
Toman
Tornado Passes Through Grundy Morris Counties With Damage
Severe tornadic clouds moved through Grundy and Morris counties causing minor damage reports. A lightning strike cut power to WRMI-FM briefly. transformers overheated in Morris, later cooled, five fans readied. Civil Defense tracked a Rockford tornado heading southeast. Heat wave deaths across several states rose to 106 with record highs in St. Louis and New York City. Weather officials warned of continued heat with scattered showers in parts of the nation.
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Grundy County
Morris
Wrmi-Fm
Don Misener
Mazon
Commonwealth Edison
Civil Defense
L. Mac Reagan
U. S. Weather Bureau
Rockford
Commonwealth Edison Company
422
Morris Fire Department
St. Louis
Illinois
Mississippi River
New York City
Health Department
Helen L. Taylor
Philadelphia
Gulf and
Southeast States
Rockies
High Plains
Mississippi Valley
Batesville
Ark
Little Rock
Fort Smith
Pine Bluff
Blytheville
Walnut Ridge
Nashville
Tenn
Memphis
Weather Bureau
Baltimore
Weather outlook with showers and warm temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau notes a cloudy cool night with occasional showers and thundershowers and a low in the mid 60s. Friday will be mostly cloudy with a high near 80. Saturday looks partly sunny and warmer. Collins Station logged 93 at Wednesday with 67 low. Morris reported 71 at 9 am and 80 at noon with .18 inch rain Wednesday evening.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Lack of Bids Delays Coal City Sewer Project
Coal City faces another delay in building a new sanitary sewer system as no sealed bids were received to install sewer lines. Only bids for the lift station and stabilization pond were filed but not opened, with openings postponed 60 to 90 days. The project, started after a December 1964 notice from the Illinois Sanitary Water Board, faces possible further extension beyond August 1, 1965, despite residents approving $800,000 in bonds in March 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal City
Gerald Bitner
Illinois Sanitary Water Board
Changeable Cat Observed After Bite Incident
A large orange tomcat is under observation at Dr Frank Connors veterinary office after biting three year old Jamie Sandvik daughter of Reverend and Mrs James Sandvik. The cat arrived at 220 West Jefferson Street Tuesday and again Wednesday before biting Jamie at 830 PM. Police removed the cat and it escaped to Hi Way Inn area. Jamie received a booster shot from Dr Hugo Avalos. The cat will be observed for 10 days for rabies signs before owner can claim it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Connor
Jamie Sandvick
James Sandvik
Connor
Seven-Figure Local Dialing Starts Sunday in Morris Area
Wrong date corrected for Morris and nearby communities. Seven figure dialing becomes effective Sunday. Morris residents are unaffected as WH equals 94, but neighboring towns must dial seven digits within their area.
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Morris
Morris Daily Herald
Inquiry Called Over Antitrust Dismissal and Contributions
Washington AP Republican leaders urge a House inquiry into the government's dismissal of an antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch after $10,000 in Democratic fund contributions. Atty Gen Katzenbach said dismissals were voluntary and not warranted prosecutions, while A. A. Busch Jr. called the charge preposterous.
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Washington
Anheuser-Busch Co
Charles E. Goodell
R-N.y
House
Gerald R. Ford
Johnson Administration
Ford
A. Busch
President’s Club
Justice Department
Wisconsin
Rahr Malting Co
Nicholas Katzenbach
Anheuser-Busch
Katzenbach
Atty
Donald F. Turner
Antitrust
A.A. Busch Jr
A.A. Busch III
Richard A. Meyer
Alfred Fleishman
Fleishman
A. A. Busch Jr
St. Louis Cardinals
A. A. Busch III
St. Louis
Stevenson Freeway Markers Go Up Along U S 66
New markers designating the highway from Gardner to Bloomington as Stevenson Freeway are being erected at 10 mile intervals along U S 66 and Interstate 55. Gov. Otto Kerner designated the route in honor of Adlai E. Stevenson who died in London a year ago. Stevenson, Illinois governor in 1948 and Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, was U S Ambassador to the United Nations at his death.
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Gardner
Bloomington
Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
London
Chicago
East St. Louis
Otto Kerner
Illinois
U. S
United Nations
Special School Tax Approved by Morris Elementary Board
The Morris Elementary Board of Education approved a special tax levy up to five cents per $100 assessed to fund a working cash account for 1966-67. The fund aims to bridge building and educational needs, with a projected deficit this year of 16,506.52 from property purchases for expansion.
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Straightway Dairy
Illinois Valley Ice Cream
Beatrice Foods Company
Valley Maid Ice Cream Corporation
Stephen Lumber and Fuel Company
Murphy- Miles
Rose
C&c
Louis Berger
C—C
Wesley Jorstad
Illinois Selective Service Board
Morris Elementary Board of Education
Franklin School
Kenneth Hammer
Morris Community High School
Hammer
High St
Richard Oakland
John George
Leslie Tibbitts
William Stangland
John Hendrickson
Harold Guehler
Barry Seng
Grundy County National Bank
First National Bank
A _ trust
Manley Gilliam
Donald B. Maddox
Chicago
Allan Deutsch
DeKalb
Sharon Samson
McKinley
Dr. Seng
Massacre of Eight Student Nurses Reported in Chicago
Investigators reconstruct a night of terror in Chicago as a man invades a nurses house at 12 30 am binding gagging and abducting nine young women. Filipina nurse Carazo Amarao 23 is among those involved in the sequence of events. The crime details describe repeated removals and the victims hiding to survive.
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Chicago
Carazo Amarao
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South Chicago Hospital
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C&o
B&o Railroads
Pat Kardish
C&o-B&o Railroad
Lincoln
Garfield
Middle
South
Stine
Opdyke
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