Illinois River Flood Salvo Amid Rising Waters Near Dresden Island
The Illinois River rose to 12.09 feet at noon, .91 feet below flood stage, as heavy rains from Joliet to Dresden Island push flows from Kankakee Mazon and Waupecan into the river. Gates opened at Dresden Dam to relieve floods, while Grundy County farms and rest homes face inundation.
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Ilinois
Army
Grundy County
Kankakee
Mazon River
Waupecan Creek
Joliet
Desplaines River
Illinois River
Dresden Island
Dresden Dam
Mazon
Waupecan
Morris Fire Department
Rainbow Council
Plans for Morris Fire Station Dedication Open House
Morris volunteers announce a June 21 open house to celebrate the new fire station at Main and Wauponsee. The event runs 1:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. with a 7:30 p.m. dedication and 8 to 11 p.m. dancing. Special treats, souvenirs, and activities for children are planned.
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Morris Volunteer Fire Department
Morris
Main
Wauponsee
Weather Outlook Roads Cleared After Showers
The weather bureau predicts a respite from showers and thunderstorms tonight with scattered rain and electrical disturbances possible this afternoon. Tonight’s low near 50 and Wednesday's cooler, partly cloudy with a high near 60. Pyatt station reports .35 inch of rain in the last 24 hours. yesterday’s high 81 and low 64. 9 AM today 68 degrees.
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Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Air Force to Shoot Moon in August Missile probes planned to crash on lunar surface
Lt Gen S E Anderson announced in Milwaukee the Air Force will launch three lunar probes this year with August to September and October targets. The missions use modified Thor and Atlas missiles to reach the moon in about two and a half days or orbit space in a potential scientific role.
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Air Force
Milwaukee
S. E. Anderson
Air Research and Development Command
Anderson
Thor
Gen. Anderson
Moon
Space
Earth
United States
General Motors
Private Speech Lessons Featured This Summer
Want ads note summer offering private speech lessons. Also listed is a five piece chrome kitchen set for sale and home grown strawberries for sale. A blue and yellow parakeet is missing.
City approves street maintenance bids and driveways rules
City council opened bids for street maintenance and a new truck. Charles O'Brien and Son won the maintenance contract for 13 172.28, Crown Rock Co. for materials at 12 per ton. Truck bids were read and left for action. New driveway rules: 14 feet curb width, 10 feet sidewalk width, drive extends to inside walk line if no walk. cement 7 inches thick, hot asphalt 2 inches.
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Charles O’brien and Son
Crown Rock Co
Joliet
Brown Motor Co
Inland Sales
Morris Motor Co
Arthur Stinchcomb
Chester P. Winsor
W. L. Dix
Benton
Spruce
High Streets
Benton Street
East Street
Spruce Street
Douglas
Armstrong Street
High Street
Wauponsee Street
Chaimlin Engineering Service
Park Committee
Goold and
Chapin Parks
Goodwill Playground
A. C. Varland
Donald Caisley
Tornado Threat Warned for East Central Illinois Area
The U.S. Weather Bureau issued a special warning for east central Illinois as thunderstorms intensify. Indications point to one or two tornadoes possible from 1:35 p.m. to 3 p.m. CDT within five miles of a point 25 miles west of Terre Haute Indiana.
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Chicago
U.S. Weather Bureau
Illinois
Terre Haute
Ind
Supervisors Approve Pine Bluff Road Rebuild Plan
Grundy County Board of Supervisors continued its June meeting in the courthouse approving a resolution to rebuild 1.51 miles of Pine Bluff road 39 G east of Pine Bluff Bridge in Goose Lake and Wauponsee Townships. The nurse Mary C. Reed's report was filed and the Grundy Tuberculosis and Sanatorium budget was approved and sent to the finance committee.
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S. H. Bergstrom
Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff Bridge
Goose Lake
Wauponsee
Grundy County
Mary C. Reed
London Flood Clears Streets After Heavy Cloudburst
A cloudburst dumped half an inch of rain on London within an hour flooding streets and cellars. City authorities warned residents to stay indoors as water inundated basements and low-lying areas.
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London
Illinois Circuit Court Judges Attend Annual Judicial Conference
The Circuit Court will adjourn Thursday and Friday as Judges Walter Dixon Leonard Hoffman and Howard Ryan attend the Annual Judicial Conference at Northwestern University Law School Chicago. The meeting, directed by the Supreme Court, aims to improve justice administration including jury selection and instructions, discuss a new Criminal Code and uniform rules.
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Circuit Court
Walter Dixon
Leonard Hoffman
Howard Ryan
Circuit and Supreme Court Judges of
Illinois
Northwestern University Law School
Chicago
Supreme Court
Ilinois
JayCees Change Meeting Place
The Morris Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet at the Morris Food Centre at 7 45 p m today instead of at the Morris Community High School grounds.
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Morris Junior Chamber of Commerce
Morris Food Centre
Morris Community High School
LSU Faculty Oppose School Segregation Bills
Louisiana State University administrators and two professors faced the House Education Committee to explain why 59 faculty members oppose a package of segregation bills. The measures would empower the governor to close integrating schools, fund private schooling, and impose new penalties for officials supporting integration.
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LSU
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
State House of Representatives
House
Louisiana Civil Liberties Union
House Education Committee
Alabama
New Orleans
Troy Middleton
Waldo F. McNeil
Charles Reynard
Illinois Legislature to convene on June 16 special session
Gov. Stratton declares a special session of the Illinois Legislature for June 16 to extend unemployment compensation by 13 weeks and replenish relief funds. He favors using the state 400 million reserve, not federal borrowing, with costs over 34 million for one year.
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Springfield
Tla
Stratton
Illinois
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Chicago
Decatur
Peoria
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Dresden
Bulletin
James Barr
Wauponsee Township
Braceville
Braidwood
Warren Blackburn
Tell
Council
Grundy County Board of Supervisors
JayCees
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