France Expels 43 Foreigners Amid Riot Clampdown
Paris authorities expelled 43 foreigners in the last 24 hours, part of 73 total since the crisis began last month. The government banned street demonstrations, dissolved seven extremist groups, and moved to end protests as talks continued to end a worker strike amid heightened police activity.
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Paris
France
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party
Internationalist Communist Party
Federation of Revolutionary Youth
Internationalist Communist Organization
Strasburg
Poitiers
Marseille
Bordeaux
Caen
Charles de Gaulle
University of Paris
de Gaulle
National Assembly
Morris Board Advances 20 Acre Site for New Middle School
The Morris Elementary Board of Education reviewed plans for a new middle school on a 20 acre site near Morris Community High School. The board discussed windowless classrooms, a cafeteria, landscaping, and 12 month operation, with bids, insurance, and bond issues shaping the project.
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Morris Community High School
Morris Elementary Board of Education
Franklin School
Yorkville Man Killed in Vietnam Confirmed Dead
Army Pfc. Michael S. Haines son of Mrs. Joyce A. Widell 306 Van Emmon St Yorkville was killed in Vietnam. His status changed from missing to dead of hostile causes in the war.
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Army
Michael S. Haines
Joyce A. Widell
van Emmon St
Yorkville
Vietnam
Weather forecast and current temps from Collins Weather Station
The U S Weather Bureau predicts a fair warm night with a low near 60 and a Friday high in the 80s. Expect possible thunder showers Saturday. Wednesday’s Collins station high was 77 and low 45, with 9 am 65 and downtown Morris 11 am 70.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Calcutta Plane Crash Kills Five
A Pan American Boeing 707 jetliner crashed while landing at Dum Dum Airport in Calcutta during monsoon rain. Six aboard died and fifty six were injured, including several in serious condition. Pan American spokesman confirmed five passengers and a stewardess killed. Survivors totaled 48 passengers and crew members.
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Calcutta
India
Pan American World Airways
Three Injured In Accident Near Dwight
Three people were injured in a two car crash on U S 66 at the Dwight cut-off at 3 40 p m Wednesday. Margaret Morris of Gardner drove a 1964 Ford and was cited for improper left turn. Frederick Katz of Port Washington New York and his wife Elsa Katz of 29 were hospitalized in Streator and Peoria respectively. Katz was treated and released.
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U. S. 66
Dwight
Margaret Morris
Gardner
St. Mary’s Hospital
Streator
Frederick Katz
Port Washington
N. Y
Elsa Katz
Katz
Peoria
Morris
Pan American Plans $57.5 Million JFK Overhaul Base
Pan American World Airways president Najeeb E. Halaby announces a $57.5 million maintenance base at John F. Kennedy International Airport to serve jumbo passenger jets under development in the 1970s.
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New York
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Najeeb E. Halaby
Pan American World Airways
Halaby
GE to Dedicate Nuclear Plant Training Center near Dresden
General Electric will dedicate a new multi million dollar training center adjacent to Commonwealth Edison’s Dresden plant southeast of Morris. The facility includes a full scale control room simulator for operator training, built by GE Apollo Support Department. Dresden’s site aims to train about 200 operators annually as nuclear power prepares to rise to 35 percent of U. S. generation by 1980.
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General Electric Co
Commonwealth Edison
Dresden
Morris
Apollo
Board votes to close Opdyke Grade School
The Opdyke School south of Morris will not reopen next fall. By unanimous vote the board of education ordered closure due to its building condition and teacher hiring difficulties for two‑room schools. First graders will go to Franklin and second graders to Garfield. enrollments show Garfield 52, McKinley 50, Opdyke 17, Stine 24, Lincoln 21.
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Opdyke
Morris
Board of Education
Franklin
Garfield
Kenneth Hammer
McKinley
Stine
Lincoln
Injured Man From Chicago Taken From Mazon Fairgrounds
An ambulance carried Robert Miller 24 of Chicago from the Mazon fairgrounds to Morris Hospital about 10 p.m. Thursday. He was treated and released. No information was available on how the injury occurred.
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Robert Miller
Chicago
Mazon Fairgrounds
Morris Hospital
Morris High Board Approves Budget Moves and New Hires
Morris Community High School Board funds transfer of 12 500 from working cash to education fund. Five new teachers hired: Marlene Baskin English Joliet Gary Rockis industrial arts Sue Goad home economics John Bertrand music and Charles Newton science math and assistant football coach.
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Claude Rose
Education Fund
Morris Community High School Board of Education
Fuel Oil
Suburban Oil Co
Straight-Way Dairy Co
Beatrice Foods Co
Straight-Way Dairy
Marlene Baskin
Joliet
Gary Rockis
Kankakee
Sue Goad
Thornton Fractional
John Bertrand
Charles Newton
Rose
Titan 3 launches eight jam resistant satellites
A Titan 3 rocket from Cape Kennedy launched at 10 04 a m EDT carrying eight jam resistant military communications satellites to a near circular 100 mile high orbit. The mission aims to assure near full time availability of satellites for fast messages between the United States and Vietnam.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States
Vietnam
Defense Department
Annex Land to Minooka District in Kendall County
Grundy County Board of School Trustees unanimously approved annexing about 400 acres northwest of Minooka to Minooka Grade School District 201. The land in Lisbon Township was formerly in Plattville District 52 and not in Yorkville unit district. Valuation set at 126880 with no school age children. busing to be provided by Minooka.
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Grundy County
Minooka
Enemy Warns of New Strikes Monday in Saigon
Saigon residents faced fears of a renewed ground attack and a 100 day rocket barrage after Liberation Radio warned of a Monday renewal and 100 rockets nightly. U.S. officials doubted the VC could sustain such a campaign though some observers warned of a possible one visit clash. B52s patrolled the central highlands while air missions targeted roads and trucks in the south.
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Saigon
Liberation Radio
Highlands
Laos
Dak To
North Vietnam
Panhandle
U.S
Vietnam
Bronze Star Award for Spec Lawless Heroism
Spec 4 Daniel W. Lawless of 504 E Chapin St receives the Bronze Star Medal with V Device for courage during a Jan 31 action in Vietnam. He maneuvered an armored personnel carrier to aid wounded, aided medical evacuation, and is due home June 28 after a year in Vietnam.
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Daniel W. Lawless
James Lawless
E. Chapin St
Vietnam
Lawless
47Th Infantry
9Th Infantry Division
Spec
Melvin Sibley High School
Strawn
Southern Illinois University
Fort Lewis
Wash
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Kenneth Halterman
Wallace Ave
Herald
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Burton Roeth
Brendan O’mara
Phillips and Associates
Citizens’ Committee
Arthur Leach
Ronald Bell
Roeth
Leach
Romeoville
Peter Gates
Bel
John Hendrickson
Rooth
Bethlehem Steel
U. S. Steel du Pont
MCHS
Han- Sen
Quinn
Frend
Cassen
Illinois School Consulting Service
Garfield Addition
William Stangland
Leslie Tibbitts
James Peterson
First National Bank of Morris
Wilbur Finfrock
Elen Kehoe
Ray Bradford
John Foley
Northern Illinois University
Glenn Mattes
Rural
Ralph Brown
Alvin Battersby
Mattes
Mazon and
Brown
Battersby
Northern Ilinois University
Maude Davis
Myrtle Corkc
Donald Noonan
Gates
Gordon Lear
Bell
Hendrickson
Tibbitts
Peterson
McTague
Gordon Gregg
Paul Benning
Oscar Larson
ANCE
Nuclear Plant Training Center
Opdyke Grade School
Mazon
Morris High
Narvick Brothers
Willard Olson
Grundy County National Bank
Henry Smith
Enemy
Spec. Lawless
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