France Faces New Crisis as Riots Tighten Grip
Early voting is light as clashes erupt nationwide. In Paris Latin Quarter students barricade streets and call for a mass demonstration against Charles de Gaulle's government while Citroen workers head to the Labor Ministry demanding higher pay. In Sochaux, a 24 year old union member Beylot dies from a gunshot amid Peugeot strife, with 11 strikers and two riot police injured. The metal workers union accuses police of aggression in a larger wave of student and worker unrest across France.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
Citroen Auto
Labor Ministry
Sochaux
Bernard Vaugon
Beylot
Peugeot Auto
Metal Workers
General Confederation of Labor
Peugeot
Lyon
Rene Lacroix
Philippe Matteron
Gilles Tautin
Seine
Meulan
Tautin
Jacques Sauvageot
National Students’ Union
Ray moved to Wandsworth Prison for security
James Earl Ray, the escaped convict linked to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s slaying, was moved under police guard to Wandsworth Prison in London for tighter security after a prior escape incident at a UK jail. American authorities pursued extradition and possible return to the United States for trial as Britain weighs moving quickly via extradition or unde sirable alien procedures.
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London
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Wandsworth
Britain
Ray
Brixton
U.S
United States
Atlantic
King
Memphis
Tenn
Nashville
Buford Ellington
Tennessee
US State Department
Bow Street Court
Ramon George Sneyd
Ronald Arthur Briggs
Missouri State Prison
Council Limits Hours for Solicitation in Morris
The Morris City Council passed an ordinance amendment restricting canvassers to hours before dawn or after sunset without prior owner arrangement. Lester Johnson noted the issue has persisted, while Police and city officials cited Illinois Supreme Court guidance on permits. A 3 p.m. permit deadline may be posted, and fines for violations range from five to two hundred dollars.
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Morris
Lester Johnson
Judiciary Committee
Glenn Johnson
Ilinois Supreme Court
Johnson
Downtown Lighting Plan Clears Morris City Council
Morris City Council approved a Downtown Planning Committee plan adding fourteen 20 500 lumen mercury vapor lights and upgrading four incandescents at a total monthly cost of 102 55. Lights will be placed along Liberty Street mid blocks on Wauponsee and Franklin Streets and on Jackson Jefferson Main Streets. The measure also authorized two intersection lights on George Street west of Division Street and set goals for sidewalk work and a water sewer extension toward Saratoga Grade School with tentative owner agreements before the next meeting.
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Liberty St
Morris City
Donald Davidson
Wauponsee
Franklin Sts
Washington
Jackson Sts
Jackson, Jefferson and
Main Sts
James Baum
Baum
Lester Johnson
Judiciary Committee
Davidson
Johnson
Walter Hundt
John Nelson
Floyd Siron
Commonwealth Edison
George St
Division St
Robert Wren
James Stine
Hundt
Saratoga
Morris
Siron
Tracy Adcock
O’brien & Son
Waverly St
McElvain Construction
Illinois Ave
McElvain
Grundy County
Weather shows cooling trend amid heat wave
After over a week of extreme heat the Weatherman forecasts a slight cooling tonight. Expect partly cloudy skies and lower humidity with a low in the 60s. Wednesday should be mostly sunny and cooler with a high in the lower 80s. Thursday looks mostly sunny and warmer with Collins Weather Station reporting a Monday high of 95 and low of 65. At 9 am today the station read 79 and downtown Morris reached 82 by 10:30 am.
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Collins
Morris
Lightning Strikes Mazon Home Twice During Storms
A pair of incidents hit Mazon during weekend storms. Sunday fuses blew at the Santa Fe Railroad Station power supply and were repaired. Monday around 1 p.m. lightning damaged wiring in Mrs. Leonard Hanson’s home basement with smoke and soot, charred timbers, and fire department response. upstairs wiring and washer dryer damage undetermined.
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Mazon
Santa Fe
Leonard Hanson
Warehouse Pact Aims at Unified Illinois Grain Warehouses
Springfield Illinois AP reports a cooperative agreement on grain warehouse examinations between the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the U S Department of Agriculture Consumer and Marketing Service. Howard McWard announces the agreement effective July 1. it covers all Illinois grain warehouses licensed under the Illinois Grain Warehouse and Warehouse Receipts Act. A single group of trained examiners will conduct the inspections under federal supervision.
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Springfield, Ill
Ilinois Department of Agriculture
Consumer and Marketing Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Howard Mc Ward
Illinois Department
Illinois
Federal Service
Council Urges New Zoning On Trailers
City councilors voted unanimously to amend the zoning ordinance to permit trailers as temporary dwellings for custodians or guards in city parks. A public hearing was requested, and the city attorney was directed to draft the amendment while noting wording confusion between mobile homes and trailers.
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Zoning Board of Appeals
Robert Wren
Stratton State Park
Wren
Blaiberg Receives Emergency Hepatitis Care in Cape Town
Dr. Philip Blaiberg, the world's longest living heart transplant recipient, was treated for liver complications at Groote Schuur Hospital. Dr. Christiaan Barnard said Blaiberg has hepatitis but is not in a critical condition and plans remain hopeful as the patient underwent routine tests and moved to his previous sterile recovery suite.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur Hospital
London
Christiaan N. Barnard
Blaiberg
Barnard
Britain
Frederick West
National Heart Hospital
West
Groote Schuur
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Present Site Favored for New Morris Library
Trustees reached general agreement to place the proposed Morris public library on the current 604 Liberty St. site. Building committee members met with Crystal Lake architect Robert Freund to discuss site and design and to prepare preliminary drawings for a federal grant request.
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Morris Public Library
Liberty St
Robert Freund
Crystal Lake
Arthur Meadors
Gordon Gregg
Freund
Eugene Hayes
Frank Condon
Robert Macdonald
John Roth
Atty
William Hynds
Conrad Weitz
Price Dean
Jaycees Sponsor Lung Cancer Event At Legion Hall
The Morris Jaycees sponsor a public program on lung cancer at 7 30 p m Thursday in the American Legion Hall. Two short films on cancer will be shown and Mrs Donald McCormick of Mazon will speak with an attending physician. The event lasts about one hour followed by a brief Jaycees membership meeting.
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Morris Jaycees
American Legion Hall
Donald McCormick
Mazon
JayCees
Light Turnout Hits Morris Township Precincts In Primary
Breezy morning weather coincides with a record low turnout across six Morris Township precincts. Uncontested county races and lack of contest deter voters, with precincts reporting markedly fewer ballots than in 1966 and 1964, despite varied registered voter totals.
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Morris Township
Morris Til
Gordon Hexdall
Wauponsee St
Morris VII
Telfer
Pine St
Union Hall
E. High St
Morris City Hall
Morris I
Robert T. Williamson
Richard Wilder
W. Clark Davis
Albert Pfaff
Saratoga II
Barens Garage
Division St
Pfaff
Coal City
Braceville I
Aux Sable I
Minooka
Aux Sable II
Stine Named to Morris Public Library Board
Acting Mayor Davidson announced three city appointments Monday night Alderman James Stine will replace Tracy Adcock on the Morris Public Library Board of Trustees Adcock resigned for personal reasons Stine said he would accept the post Davidson also named Adcock as civil defense committee chairman and Charles Roseland to the Morris Planning Commission to fill vacancies
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Davidson
James Stine
Morris Public Library Board of Trustees
Tracy Adcock
Library
Stine
Adcock
Civil Defense Committee
Charles Roseland
Morris Planning Commission
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James Thompson
Washington St
Grace
Andrew
Herald
Morris City Halls
Elvin Matteson
Morris Lions Club
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Wauponsee and
Council
Waverly
Bedford Plaza Shopping Center
Sharp’s
Donald Caisley
Morris Municipal
Tinley Park
Caisley
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