Kerner seeks drought disaster aid for 51 Southern Illinois counties
Gov. Otto Kerner asked U S Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to declare 51 Southern Illinois counties drought disaster areas as weeks of extreme heat have damaged crops. Counties listed include Bond, Madison, Sangamon, and Williamson. approval could allow farmers to reallocate corn and soybean acreage to pasture.
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Springfield
Ill
Otto Kerner
U.S. Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Illinois
Kerner
Bond
Brown
Calhoun
Cass
Christian
Clay
Clinton
Coles
Crawford
Cumberland
Douglas
Edwads
Effingham
Fayette
Franklin
Gallatin
Greene
Hamilton
Hardin
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jersey
Johnson
Lawrence
Macon
Macoupin
Madison
Marion
Massac
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Moultrie
Perry
Pike
Pope
Pulaski
Randolph
Richland
St. Clair
Saline
Sangamon
Scott
Shelby
Union
Wabash
Washington
Wayne
White
Williamson
Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization Committee
Federal Farm and Home Administration
Robert Schneider
Grundy County ASC to Elect Board July 29
A county convention to fill vacancies on the Grundy County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee will be held July 29 at 9 a.m. in the ASCS office. The public election uses secret ballots and a plurality system.
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Grundy County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASC
ASCS
Kenneth Benson
Edwin H. Burnham
Former Reporter Crafts Whiteside Vocational Tech Feature
Ron Schafer, ex Morris Daily Herald editor, contributes a special feature on the Whiteside County high schools cooperative project for vocational technical education presented on the Herald editorial page.
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Ron Schafer
Morris Daily Herald
The
Herald Today
Whiteside County
Three Escape Serious Injury In Joliet Plant Blast
Harland Waddell 26 of 126 Blackstone Joliet and two coworkers escaped serious injuries after a blast at Joliet Army Ammunition Plant at 3 15 pm Thursday. They used an escape chute and received first aid then were released. An investigation is underway to determine cause as plant officials said the explosion was confined to one building. This followed a fatal June incident at the plant involving Orville Sorensen 48 of Bradley.
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Harland Waddell
Blackstone
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Waddell
Donald Krall
Waverly
Joliet
Larry Chapman
E. Court St
Kankakee
Orville G. Sorensen
Bradley
Grundy County
Cost of Living Rises Again in June
Washington reports a 0.3 percent June rise in consumer prices, driven by a 0.4 percent jump in food costs. The six month increase marks the largest since 1958, with the index at 112.9 percent of the 1957 9 average. Commissioner Arthur Ross declined to forecast future moves.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Arthur Ross
Weekend Forecast Says Partly Cloudy and Warmer
The weatherman predicts tonight will be partly cloudy and warmer with a mid 0s low. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies and warm weather with possible afternoon and evening thunder showers and highs in the upper 80s. At Collins Weather Station Friday the high was 84 and the low 52. Morristown observatory reports 70 at 9 a.m. in the downtown business district.
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Collins
Morris
United Fund Formed From Grundy County Chest and Red Cross
The Grundy County Community Chest and Red Cross chapters merge to form the United Fund of Grundy County. Arthur Rostron is chairman and William Norton secretary treasurer. The drive targets $35,000 for 1967, with seven organizations supported in a single campaign starting in October.
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United Fund
Fred Hefler
Grundy County
The
American Red Cross
Earl Kay
Herald
Jane Campbell
Lillias K. Walker
John Harder
Red Cross
Bozo Henna
Rostron
Skip Wagoner
Community Chest
Thomas Sheppard
Sheppard
Joliet Brother-in-Law Admits Slaying 14-Year-Old Susan Marino
The brother-in-law John Agrue, 18, admitted killing Susan Marino, 14, whose stabbed body was found in Hammel Woods forest preserve on Joliet's western edge after the two met in downtown Joliet. He said he killed her after she resisted advances. a priest reported the admission. Agrue was held for questioning.
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Joliet, Ill
Susan Marino
Will County Sheriff's
John Agrue
Joliet
Miss Marino
Agrue
Susan
Hammel Woods
Boy Killed in Elevator Fall Near Pana Illinois
Bobby Blemler a 17 year old construction worker fell to his death early today from a grain elevator under construction four miles west of Pana The men had been working 160 feet above ground and returned to find his body at the foot of a ladder well inside the elevator The Rosamond Elevator Co was building the structure Blemler lived in Pana.
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Pana, Ill
Bobby Blemler
Pana
Blemler
Rosamond Elevator Co
Speck Not Found To Have Had Heart Attack Says Doctors
Circuit Judge Daniel Ryan said two heart specialists advised that Richard Speck did not suffer a heart attack as feared amid his murder case involving eight student nurses. Public defender Gerald Getty vowed an innocent plea and sanity defense while Speck recovers from wounds in Cook County Hospital.
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Chicago
Daniel Ryan
Richard Speck
Gerald Getty
Getty
Speck
William N. Norcross
City Jail Hospital
Norcross
O.W. Wilson
South Chicago Community Hospital
Gloria Jean Davy
Dyer
Ind
Corazon Amarao
Circuit Court
William Boikan
University of Illinois Medical School
St. Joseph's Hospital
Edmund Foley
Columbus Hospital
David Peterson
Irving Park Lutheran Church
Gerald W. Getty
Cook County House of Correction Hospital
Fourth Night of Cleveland Riots
Rioting in Cleveland's East Side lasts four nights with arson and firebombs causing heavy damage. Police and nearly 2,000 National Guardsmen patrol as two Black residents are killed and over 30 injured. Authorities debate a congressional inquiry while noting organized patterns in violence.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland
East Side
West Side
Hough
Congression
Morris Boy 8 Hurt After Running Into Car
An eight year old Morris boy named Jeffrey Bloomfield was struck by a southbound car at Illinois 47 and U S 6 at 6 30 p m and listed in fair condition. He was taken to the hospital with a deep head wound and was with his siblings and father earlier at a laundromat.
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Morris
Jeffrey Bloomfield
Hobart L. Bloomfield
E. Second Ave
Illinois 47
John E. Harder
E. Main St
U.S. 6
James Gretencord
Jeffrey
Lloyd Boss
Rte. 1
Joe Mattson
E. Jackson St
Bloomfield
Diane
Nancy
Gemini 10 astronauts return from historic space flight
Cape Kennedy Florida AP later said the Gemini 10 crew Navy Cmdr John W Young and Air Force Maj Michael Collins landed at 10 33 AM after a 91 minute helicopter flight from Guadalcanal Their 70 hours 47 minutes in space included a record altitude of 476 miles and two spacewalks Collins retrieved recording gear from a dead Agena and the crew earned seven space firsts in the mission
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Navy
John W. Young
Michael Collins
Air Force
Guadalcanal
Young
Columbus
Collins
Mike and I
Space Agency
Kurt Debus
Kennedy Space Center
Vincent Huston
Air Force Eastern Test Range
House
Agena
Atlantic Ocean
Seven Injured In Early Morning Verona Collision
A two car crash south of Kinsman injured seven people including five Verona boys on their way to work. Jess Wilhelm and his brother Bob were hospitalized in fair condition. The five boys received treatment in Mazon and Morris, with one sent for x rays. Olson Wrecker of Mazon removed the vehicles.
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Verona
Kinsman
Dick Pierce
Jess Wilhelm
Ransom
Lawrence Persinger
Rte. 1
Wilhelm
Bob
St. Mary's Hospital
Streator
Warren Breisch
Mazon
Bill Edwards
Morris Hospital
James Cohen
Tom Grace
Mike Grace
Raymond Grace
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Neb
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