Johnson forms blue ribbon panel to study violence
President Johnson appoints a 10 member commission to investigate the roots of violence and assassination in America after the Los Angeles shooting of Senator Kennedy. Milton Eisenhower heads the panel with members including Archbishop Terrence Cooke and lawmakers Jenner Hart Hruska Boggs McCulloch. The group will seek scientific input and consider measures to protect public figures.
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Milton S. Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Terrence J. Cooke
New York
Congress
Albert E. Jenner Jr
Chicago
Warren Commission
Johnson
America
Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.y
Milton Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhow
Eric Hoffer
Terrence Cook
Archdiocese of
Philip A. Hart
Roman Hruska
Hale Boggs
D-La
William M. McCulloch
Robio
Jenner
John F. Kennedy
Robert
Lee Harvey Oswald
Eisenhower
Two Ottawa Men Charged in Grand Ridge Bank Robbery
In La Salle County two Ottawa men Allen Figge and Norman Bayer were charged in U.S. District Court with robbing the First National Bank of Grand Ridge of $9,000. Bond set at $1,000 each. The men fled from a car after a collision and were arrested shortly after. Lawrence J. White, bank president, said the robbers demanded cash and threatened staff before leaving with the money. No customers were present.
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Chicago
Ottawa
U.S. District Court
First National Bank of
Grand Ridge
la Salle County
U.S
James T. Balog
Allen Figge
Norman Bayer
Lawrence J. White
White
Jurors Deliberate in Kenneth Hamilton Trial in Morris
Grundy County jurors began deliberations after final arguments by State's Atty Richard Wilder and defense attorney James Fleming. The case concerns a Jan 28 burglary and the alleged reported incident with a young mother of two, with defense claiming lack of intent. The jury of five women and seven men heard judge Walter Dixon's instructions and Hamilton's testimony prior to the closing rebuttal.
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Grundy County
Hamilton
Morris
Fleming
Alden Thompson
Thompson
Weather outlook and readings from Morris area
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts fair and warm weather tonight with a low near 70. Friday will be very warm and humid with possible late day thundershowers and a high around 90. Saturday shows little temperature change with chances of thunderstorms. Collins Weather Station logged a Thursday high of 90 and a low of 63, with 9 am reading of 80 and 10:30 am downtown Morris at 85.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Five Televisions Stolen From Shay's Furniture
Five television sets valued at 1000 dollars were taken in a Tuesday night break in at Shay's Furniture and Appliance on N Division Street Morris city police reported. Entrance was gained by breaking a side window. Police chief Donald Ward said the case is under investigation. Dennis Shay discovered the burglary on Wednesday morning and said the front door appeared to be jimmied. No cash was reported taken. Merchandise scattered throughout the store.
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Shay
N. Division St
Morris City
Westinghouse
Sylvania
Ballot samples shown for Morris Herald primary use
Page 9 displays ballots for the upcoming Tuesday primary election and voters are urged to save them for reference while page 8 carries a separate ballot for the county board of school trustees election.
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Morris Herald
County Board of School Trustees
Herald
Planners Debate Trailer Park Size and Subdivision Rules
Grundy County Planning Commission will ask State's Atty Rich ard Wilder to rule whether pre existing trailer parks must meet a 7 200 square foot site minimum. The panel also weighs non conforming subdivisions near Dresden Acres and potential limits on industrial noise and waste. Hearings set for Hornsby Shopping Center and Van Acres subdivision with 16 single family homes.
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Richard Wilder
Grundy County
Planning Commission
Edwin Burnham
Will
Kendall
Burnham
Grundy
Dresden Acres
Commission
Treasure Island
Hornsby
Vanacres
Pine Bluff Road
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Under Guard in Los Angeles Jail
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24 year old Jordanian charged in Kennedy’s assassination, is under maximum security in a Los Angeles County jail hospital ward. Investigators say a notebook found in his room notes a supposed need to kill Kennedy before June 5, 1968, with police noting potential inflammatory views and a past arrest record confusion involving a brother.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Samuel W. Yorty
Sirhan
Sen. Kennedy
Pasadena
Milt Smith
Asst. Dist. Atty
William L. Rizzi
Kennedy
Russell Stone
Stone
Sharif Bishara Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan
Los Angeles County
Carnival Begins Tuesday at Morris High School Lot
The annual Firemen's Festival and Carnival starts Tuesday in the Morris High School parking lot and runs five days. About 17 rides, concession stands, and booths are planned. Local clubs may reserve a stand by calling Pete Muffler at 942-0660 by Monday. A Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. offers two bicycles as prizes.
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Morris High School
Pete Muffler
Viet Cong Holding Saigon Building
Saigon battles erupt again as rangers fight to seal off a Viet Cong holdout on the third floor near a Roman Catholic church in Cholon. Tanks blast the structure while Marines and paratroopers sweep Gia Dinh to trap withdrawing forces and aid restaging for a June 15 assault.
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Saigon
Cholon
Gia Dinh
Horst Faas
Charge Two Men With Murdering Man in Streator
Two men James Russell Mathews and Frank Lee Trost were charged with murder and armed robbery in the killing of John H. Jacobs, a Metropolitan Insurance Co. agent and station attendant in Streator. Police found three guns at Trost’s home. Mathews was arrested near the suspect’s residence.
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Pontiac, Ill
James Russell Mathews
Frank Lee Trost
John H. Jacobs
Jacobs
Metropolitan Insurance Co
Streator
Robert Richardson
LaSalle County
Trost
Mathews
Hearing Set On School Annexation in Kendall County
Grundy County Board of School Trustees schedules a public hearing at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the county superintendent’s office to consider a Kendall County transcript for annexation of about 200 acres northwest of Minooka into Minooka Grade School District 201. The land now lies in Plattville District 52 and was not included in Yorkville district plans. Kendall County trustees already approved the annexation, Grundy County action needed to finalize.
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Grundy County Board of School Trustees
Kendall County
Minooka
Lisbon Township
Plattville
Yorkville
Grundy County
Kennedy Dead at 42 After Ambassador Hotel Shooting
Los Angeles AP reporting Sen Robert F Kennedy died at 1 44 a m PDT after being struck by a bullet at the Ambassador Hotel He did not regain consciousness and his body will be flown to New York for lying in state and a Requiem Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral Arlington burial Sunday Pres Johnson proclaimed a national day of mourning and Gov Reagan declared California mourning Sirhan Sirhan is jailed on $250 000 bail for the murder attempt and the shooter faces court Mon day
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Sirhan
Kennedy
Pete Hagen
U.S
Israel
New York
Jordan
Sen. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
White House
Ethel
Ambassador Hotel
Pierre Salinger
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
Salinger
Arlington
Potomac River
Washington
John Kennedy
Good Samaritan Hospital
Johnson
Ronald Reagan
California
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Schedule for Final Rites for Senator Kennedy
The tentative rites schedule for slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy includes arrival of his body at LaGuardia from Los Angeles at 8:30 p.m. today, lying in state at St Patrick's Cathedral Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., a Requiem Mass at 10 a.m., transfer to a train at 12:30 p.m. for Washington, arrival at 4:40 p.m. with funeral cortege to Arlington Cemetery, burial at 5:30 p.m.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Washington
Senate Office
Department of Justice
Arlington Cemetery
John F. Kennedy
Bursie
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