Air War Deepens in Vietnam With Bombing Raid
American jets hit rail lines to Hanoi and dispatched 113 North Vietnam strike missions along with four B52 raids on South Vietnam. MIG interceptors engaged, three fighters reported shot down, and one Navy Crusader jet down with pilot missing. Heavy bombardment damaged English air field and caused casualties and material losses in Binh Dinh Province.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Thai Nguyen
English Airfield
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
U.S
Binh Dinh
Morris holds free vehicle safety check next week
Morris police announce a voluntary safety check next Monday and Tuesday on Illinois Avenue between Liberty and Franklin Streets. Lanes run 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. with qualified volunteers performing visual checks and issuing windshield stickers.
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Morris
Donald Ward
Ward
Aage Hansen
Illinois Ave
Liberty
Franklin Sts
Auto Industries Highway Safety Commit
Unsettled Weather Tonight Through Thursday with Showers
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts showers or thunder showers tonight with a low in the 60s. Wednesday brings variable clouds and a high near 80 with a chance of showers. Thursday looks warm and humid with more thunder shower chances. Collins Weather Station shows a Monday high of 84 and 65 low, 9 am reading 66 at the station and 11 15 am reading 73 downtown Morris, with trace precipitation recorded.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Graduation at Morris Community High School Ends 93rd Commencement
A crowd of over 1,500 filled the Morris Community High School gym as 180 seniors received diplomas during the 93rd commencement. Kay Lindsay, valedictorian, spoke of new horizons and responsibility, while Dr. Ben Hubbard delivered the address.
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Morris Community High School
Jay
Jean Weidner) Varland
Virginia
Claude J. Rose
Kay Lindsay
Miss Lindsay
Lindsay
Ronald Hamburger
Rusk accuses Cairo of malicious lie over U S air activity report
Secretary of State Dean Rusk charged Cairo with lying in its report about U S air activity on the Israeli side of the Mideast war. He called the document invented for an unclear purpose and suggested Arab actions aimed at pressuring Americans.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Cairo
Rusk
Near East
U.S
Iraq
Kuwait
Israel
US S
Beirut
Lebanon
Baghdad
Damascus
Alexandria
Soviet Union
Egypt
Kremlin
West
Private Session on U.N. Deadlock
U S and Soviet representatives met in private to break the United Nations Security Council stalemate over a cease fire in the Israeli Arab conflict. Ambassadors Goldberg and Fedorenko discussed withdrawal terms with council president Hans R. Tabor as diplomacy continued overnight.
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United Nations, N.Y
United States
Soviet Union
Security Council
U.N
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Council
Hans R. Tabor
Denmark
Goldberg
Fedorenko
Strait of Tir
Sharm el Sheikh
Egypt
Hundt switches on water rate increase position
Morris aldermen misreported as Walter Hundt and Tracy Adcock in a motion to raise water rates. Hundt, longtime opponent, says new facilities at the treatment plant justify the hike and revenue will be used for water improvements only, with sewer spending staying to the general fund.
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Hundt
Morris
Herald Monday
Walter Hundt
Water and Sewer Committee
Tracy Adcock
Adcock
Water Department
Morris Hospital
General Fund
Astronaut Edward Givens Dies in Houston Area Crash
Houston area crash kills Edward Givens Jr., 37, Air Force major and father of three, shortly after midnight near Pearland. He was dead on arrival at a Houston hospital. This marks the seventh astronaut death in under three years. Police say his 1964 foreign compact left the road on a sharp turn and struck a ditch.
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Houston
Tex
Edward G. Givens Jr
Manned Spacecraft Center
Givens
Air Force
America
Astronaut Corps
Pearland
Egypt Syria and Algeria Cut Ties With United States
Cairo radio said Egypt broke relations with the United States accusing Washington and London of aiding the enemy. Damascus radio reported Syria severed ties with the United States and Britain. Algeria announced a break with the United States via Radio Algiers. Britain also had severed relations with Egypt.
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Bulletin London
Egypt
Syria
Algeria
United States
Cairo Radio
Britain
Cairo
Rhodesia
Damascus Radio
Radio
Algiers
Arab Countries Cut Off Sale of Oil to U.S.
Arab states Kuwait Iraq and Algeria halted oil exports to the United States and Britain amid a widening war in the Middle East. Lebanon curbed pipeline oil. Cairo accused Western planes of aiding Israel. Israel advanced toward the Suez Canal, controlling Gaza and Abu Aweigila as air battles raged with reported Arab losses.
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U.S
Associated Press
Suez Canal
United States
Israel
Kuwait
Iraq
Algeria
Britain
Lebanon
Cairo
Washington
London
Soviet Union
Moscow
Jordan
Syria
Egypt
Tel Aviv
Sinai
Abu Aweigila
el Arish
Svinai
Amman
Sinai Desert
Gaza Strip
Mediterranean
Gaza
Radio Israel
Strip
Inmates Kept Busy With Work and Educational Programs
A three part series on the Illinois Reformatory at Dwight describes new arrivals placed in five to seven days of quarantine with medical exams, tests and interviews. Inmates are trained across eight cottages and two halls in cooking, sewing, clerical work, nursing, and horticulture, with profits funding inmate activities.
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Illinois Reformatory
Dwight
Eleanor Anderson
Florence Smith
Terry Tripp
Herald
Illinois Reformatory For Women
Reformatory
Julia K. Jaffray
Margaret Morrissey
Chicago
Albert (Harriett) Flaminio
Flaminio
Pauline Lux
Streator
Rita Yatani
Gardner
American Institute of Laundry School
American Institute of Laundry School and Has Been At the Reformatory
Rural Springer
Greenhouse
Pontiac
James
Lucinda) Kavanaugh
Mazon
Dwight Reformatory
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Aristides Demetrios
San Francisco Bay
MiGs
MCHS
Vietnam
Hamburger
Ben Hubbard
Illinois State University
Ted Morgan
Frank Leiva
Argentina
Morgan
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