County to use punch card voting machines this fall
Grundy County will receive 150 punch card voting machines for the November general election. The county also bought five precinct ballot counters and 40 demonstrators to train voters at polling places and public buildings before election day. The number of machines per site will hinge on local registration, with about one machine per 125 registered voters. The May 9 board approved the $41,000 system.
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Grundy County
Lana Phillips
Phillips
Grundy
Herald
Car Train Collision Injures Three In Grundy County
A Reed Rd crossing collision between a truck and an Illinois Central Gulf freight train derailed the engine and eight cars, injuring three people. Conductor Herbert Cox, 48, Bloomington, was in good condition at St Joseph Hospital Joliet. engineer William Hull, 57, Normal, hospitalized then moved. truck driver Lendell Mansfield, 43, Prairie Drive, hospitalized then released. Wreckage cleared. crossing lights reportedly functioning. Minor injuries also reported in a second crash at Illinois 53 and Washington St Gardner involving Thomas Zebell and Beverly Sereno with tickets issued and damage noted.
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Reed Rd
Herbert Cox
Bloomington
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
William Hull
Normal
Morris Hospital
Brochon Hospital
Lendell Mansfield
Rte. 1. S. Prairie Dr
Coal City
Hull
Mansfield
Cox
St. Joseph
Braidwood
Grundy County
Gene Dummitt
Brown and Lambrecht Earthmovers
Dummitt
James Hume
Jeff Black
Michael Sather
Michael Perino
Terry Marketti
Peter Odo
Terry Bitner
Illinois
Washington St
Gardner
Thomas Zebell
Franklin St
Dwight
Beverly Sereno
Old Mazon Rd
Zebell
Sather
Sereno
Robert Mack Jr
Rte. 2
Walt White
Ford
Weekend Temperatures At Dresden Island Locks And Dam
Forecast favors fair cool tonight with a low in the upper 50s. Tuesday brings sun and a warmer high in the low to mid 80s. At Dresden Island Locks and Dam weekend highs reached 80 with lows around 59 on Saturday and 75/54 on Sunday. This morning Smy Morris showed 55 at 7 am and Morris 69 at 10 15 am with precipitation totaling .08 inches.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Hearing Thursday for dairy arson suspect
Richard Rexroad, 16, faces a hearing in Grundy County Circuit Court to revoke his probation for the December 2 Straightway Dairy fire. State’s Attorney Charles Zalar alleges probation violations for weapons possession and criminal damage to property after Rexroad was found driving his father’s car with a rusty .22 caliber handgun in the trunk. He was held in Grundy County juvenile jail after admitting damage in detention, including a hole in the ceiling and damaged fixtures, and said he acted to try to get out. The hearing is set for Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
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Grundy County
Richard Rexroad
Charles Zalar
Rexroad
Champaign County
Sheriff's Deputies
Ron Fox
Mob storms Ku Klux Klan benefit show in Oxnard
About 300 protesters led by a Marxist group stormed a Ku Klux Klan benefit screening of Birth of a Nation in Oxnard California. Police said 13 demonstrators and 10 officers were injured and $5000 in city center damage occurred. Nine men two women and two teenagers were arrested.
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Oxnard
Calif
UPI
Fire at Melvin Jackman farm destroys shed and machinery
Fire early today at the Melvin Jackman farm near Braceville and Gorman Roads destroyed a large shed and eight wagons a tractor a manure spreader and straw. Illinois Fire Investigator Milton Batson with Deputy Michael Sather reported the cause is not yet known and is under investigation. Fire departments from Gardner Braceville Mazon Coal City South Wilmington and Braidwood responded to the scene.
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Melvin Jackman
Braceville
Gorman Rds
Grundy County
Michael Sather
Illinois
Milton Batson
Sather
Batson
Gardner
Mazon
Coal City
South Wilmington
Braidwood
Two Killed in Gardiner and Mazon Automobile Crashes
A 12 year old boy Kenneth S Johnson of Mazon was killed when a car hit him on Grand Ridge Road near Clavey Road at 1015 AM. In a separate crash south of Gardner Mark Telin aged 16 of Gardner died from injuries suffered in a two car collision on Carbon Hill Road and Illinois 129 near Gardner.
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Gardner
Mazon
Kenneth S. Johnson
Harmony Ave
Grand Ridge Rd
Illinois
Mark Telin
Carbon Hil Rd
Illinois 129
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Grundy County
Gary Phillips
William Sklut
Johnson
Reeves Funeral Home
Washington St
R.C. Rigby
Clavey Rd
Condemnation appeals slow Rock Island overpass project
DOT pendings condemnations hinder Illinois 47 overpass work in Rock Island Ottawa district engineer Robert Blasius said bids for grading may slip to November or December due to two land awards totaling 62000 contested in Third District Appellate Court. If overturned, cases return to Grundy County for new hearings with 12 year construction once funding resumes. federal funding timing may add further delays whether Oct 1 passes without action.
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Illinois Department of Transportation
DOT
Rock Island Railroad
Illinois 47
Robert Blasius
Ottawa
Blasius
Third District
Committee fails to act on Pioneer Oaks Subdivision
Grundy County Planning and Zoning Committee declines to approve the Pioneer Oaks Subdivision preliminary plat. A motion to reject was defeated. a revised plan to meet zoning requirements was approved. Concerns cited include distance from development, traffic impact on Pioneer Rd and I 80 overpass, flood plain issues, and potential tax effects on residents.
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Pioneer Oaks
Grundy County Planning and Zoning Committee
Pioneer Rd
Nettle Creek Township
James McElwain
William Palmer
Edwin Burnham
County Board
Burnham
Nettle Creek
Ken Sereno
Charles McDonald
Harry Melby
William Wallin
Wallin
Serena
Saratoga
Brienna
Melby
McDonald
Sereno
Morris
Grundy County
Eugene Sorensen
Sorensen
Ken Soreno
Burglar Attacks Police Officer's Wife at Prairie Drive
State Police seek a young white man after an early Sunday break-in at 116 Prairie Dr. Cpl. Francis Weidenbach’s wife was assaulted and treated at Morris Hospital with facial wounds eight stitches. He was on duty and no other occupants were present.
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District
Cpl
Francis Weidenbach
Prairie Dr
Weidenbach
District 5
Farmers urged to put corn crop in reserve to push up prices
Agriculture secretary Bob Bergland announced that farmers may place their 1978 corn crop directly into feed grain reserves after harvest if the reserve has not reached 532 million bushels by Oct 1. The plan, discussed in a telephone briefing with nine state ASC officials, aims to lift sagging prices and was praised by Iowa ASC member Sam Wise and Indiana official Loyd Jones.
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Washington
UPI
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Offices
Iowa
Sam Wise
ASC
Loyd Jones
Indiana
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Liberty
Fox
Gar
Legion Hall
John V. Hanson
W.F. Breisch
Isen Balazi
Evert Poyner
Telin
Joliet Hospital
William Favero
Rte. 1
Larry Slaughter
Robbie Thatcher
Frank Schmitt
Favero
Carbon Hill Rd
Sgt. Schmitt
Glenn Wise
Marketti’s
Standard
Tony Prombo
Pleasant St
Division St
Lincoln St
Cryer Bryant
E. North St
Bryant
Robert Malmquist
Buchanan St
Benton St
Waverly St
Illinois River Bridge
Morris Daily Herald
Melby, McDonald and
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