Predict 2 Week Phone Strike Threatens Bell System
The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America strike against the Bell System enters its second day affecting about 400000 workers. Management staff take over striker duties as calls face delays. repairs and installations slow. Union seeks wage hikes health benefits agency shop pensions and ending geographic wage differentials.
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Associated Press
Afl-Cio Communications Workers of America
Bell System
Southern Bell
Washington
Denver
Miami
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
New York
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
J. Curtis Counts
Bierne
Bell
MCHS hires two teachers and AVC adds staff contracts
Morris Community High School approved contracts for two new faculty members Miss Kay Grimes and Thomas Talarico plus 12 AVC personnel. Resignations of Barbara Spurgeon and Norman Neuges were accepted and AVC salaries set under last year schedule.
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Morris Community High School
Grundy Area
Board of Education
MCHS
Kay Grimes
Belvidere
Miss Grimes
Northern Illinois University
Claude Rose
Thomas Talarico
Kankakee
Talarico
University of Illinois
Norman Neuges
Serena
Rose
AVC
Joseph Brockman
Larry Poynter
Eastern Illinois University
Poynter
Gary Nixon
Gary Brucker
Brucker
Nancy Ross
Southern Illinois University
Coal City Names Allen J. Conant Police Chief
Coal City village board named Allen J. Conant police chief on Wednesday night. Conant, 45, a former Hammond Indiana officer, was appointed after serving as policeman in Coal City since June.
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Allen J. Conant
Coal City
Conant
Hammond
Ind
Weather and civic notes from South Wilmington village meeting
Weather parts sunny with highs in the low 80s and cool nights. Dresden Island Locks saw a high of 80 and a 56 low. Mayor Joe Phillips appointed Conant at 700 per month. sergeant McCreary promoted at 675. other raises of 25 per month. Narvick Brothers won library contract at 59 945 and bids for site clearance listed. Lot sale planned at Maple and Illinois. E Buzz Livsey joined zoning board. Fioritto kept as city phone engineer. city employe insurance awarded to Vigliocco Allen and Pierard.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Joe Phillips
Conant
South Wilmington
Hammond Force
Joe McCreary
Coal City
Charles Ingram
Crest Hill
Harold D. Peterson
Morris
Narvick Brothers Construction
Maple and
Illinois Sts
Narvick
Ben Cathay Construction
Joliet
Sam Molaschi and Sons
van Ashlen
Minooka
Grundy-Kendall Farm Service
Murphy-Miles
Suburban Oil
Forrest Park
Standard Oil
Milk Truck Flips After Tire Blowout South of City
Charles C. Spencer 21 of Rte. 5 lost control when a left rear tire blew on Pine Bluff Rd one mile east of Jug Town Rd. His Weber Dairy truck overturned and slid about 30 feet spilling milk and gasoline. Morris firemen cleaned the roadway. victim under examination at St. Joseph Hospital Joliet.
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St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Weber
Pine Bluff
Jug Town Rd
Donald Davite
Charles C. Spencer
Rte. 5
Desloge tornado kills woman and two children
A Desloge Missouri tornado destroyed Dunn's Trailer Court killing a woman Betty Bequette and two children Jackie Voisey and Tina Hasty. Nineteen others were injured as nine mobile homes were demolished and a field found the bodies about 100 feet away. Frequ ent fires followed at Cape Girardeau Airport and in nearby trailer courts with several injuries reported.
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Desloge
Missouri
Missouri Highway Patrol
Dunn
Missouri Bootheel
Anniston
East Prairie
Sikeston Hospital
Trailer Court
First Assembly of God
Jackson
Quake Shakes Northern Italy Delaying Damage Estimates
A strong early morning earthquake rocked a vast Italy triangle from Genoa to Venice. Two heart attack deaths were reported as thousands flooded streets in panic. The 4 to 5 magnitude tremor caused canal ripples in Venice and shook museums in Florence, with art damage not yet clear.
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Parma
Italy
Genoa
Florence
Venice
Minooka Board Approves Four New Teachers and Budget Moves
Minooka Grade School Board hired four new teachers including Linda McCormick a music and vocal instructor with one year experience and David E Walker a guidance counselor with over four years. Marcia Gradley and Joseph Cassetto join as first year junior high language arts and social studies teachers. Student accident insurance with Boren's of Morris approved for next year.
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Minooka
Joseph Cassetto
Gradley
Cassetto
Boren’s Insurance of
Morris
Nonpublic schools may expel truants without civil rights violation
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling that a private school may expel students for truancy even if tuition is paid. Two Central Catholic High School students in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sued claiming deprivation of property without due process. The court ruled Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not apply to attendance in nonpublic schools and 14th Amendment applies to state actions only, not private schools.
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Chicago
U.S. Court of Apals
Central Catholic High School
Fort Wayne
Ind
Erty
U.S. District Court of
Northern Indiana
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Northern Petrochemical
NPC
U.S. 6
Geree
Knight Oto
Gary Rockis
Illinois State University
Rockis
Bill Copple
Mazon
Dennis Grace
H. Dale
Ann) Barr
Bachlor
Chicago State University
Donald Kaufman
Larry Sum
Knight's
Ralph Knight
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois
Ars McLs
Waverly St
Lisbon Road
Herald
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