MCHS Board Hires Six New Teachers
Morris Community High School board approved contracts for six new instructors at a Tuesday meeting. They also discussed many unfinished items and scheduled a follow up to clear matters, with urgent action needed on Summer Driver Education and vehicle options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Community High School Board of Education
Dale Steffen
MCHS
Janis Kaye Reetz
Eastern Illinois State University At
Charleston
Eleanor Cook
Reetz
Hoopeston, Ill
Eastern
The
Pi del
Car flips near Gardner injures six. Dixon hospitalized
Charlie Dixon 28 of Chicago drove a car with eight passengers when a tire blew on a Rte 66 overpass near Gardner. The vehicle overturned in a ditch leaving Dixon with a fractured left ankle treated at Morris hospital while others suffered bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Dixon
Woodlawn Ave
Chicago
Gardner
Dixon
Morris Hospital
Dorothy
Charleta
Michael
Reginald
Mabel Dixon
Memphis
Tenn
Carol Blackman
Eugene Bremage
St. Louis
R. G. Warner
Davis Ambulance
Cold Night Follows 89 Degree Heat At Collins Station
After a Tuesday high of 89, Collins Weather station records a 33 degree plunge to 56. By 9 am today the temperature had risen only two degrees. The forecast calls for a cool night with a low near 50 and a high around 70 tomorrow followed by a slightly warmer Friday with fair skies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collins
Water Fights Highlight Morris Summer Festival
Ten of the thirteen teams started the first round at Goold Park as Morris Fire Department sponsors the Morris Summer Festival. The next round is set for Thursday at 6 30 p m with finals Friday night. Grand Ridge Lisbon Yorkville Morris and Reading Township advanced with wins over Essex Ottawa Rescue Team 1 South Wilmington Sheridan and Marseilles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goold Park
Morris Fire Department
Grand Ridge
Lisbon
Yorkville
Morris
Reading
Essex Department
Ottawa Rescue
South Wilmington
Sheridan
Reading Township
Marseilles
Simon
Judge Felled By Poison Ivy Leaves Morris Court-Shutdown
Circuit judge Leonard Hoffman, a gardener by hobby, is bedridden at 424 Vine St after a severe poison ivy reaction. He had been due to preside in Morris and Princeton circuits this week but cancelled all appearances.
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Leonard Hoffman
Vine St
Hoffman
Morris
Princeton
Morris Hospital Donors Group Reaches $4962
Total contributions reach $4962 from 245 donors to Morris Hospital as donations renew or join the Donors Association. President Mrs. Paul Vogeler notes an increase of $747 since May 26. Indebtedness stands at $59135.47 for expansion and remodeling. A donor list will be published June 24 in the Morris Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Hospital
Morris Hospital Donors Association
Paul Vogeler
Vogeler
Morris Herald
State Farmer Award Bestowed on Ron Flatness
Ronald Flatness son of Mr and Mrs Gordon Flatness of Morris received the State Farmer degree from the Future Farmers of America at a spring state meeting. He graduates Morris Community High School on June 5 plans to study agriculture at the University of Illinois. He began with a single calf and built a 13 head dairy herd winning blue ribbons and championships while serving as FFA treasurer and Grundy County 4 H federation president. A V Meadors MCHS vocational agriculture instructor and FFA leader attended the ceremony.
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Ronald Flatness
Gordon Flatness
Rural
Morris
Future Farmers of America
Flatness
Morris Community High School
University of Illinois
Ronnie
Saratoga Junior Farmers
FFA
Grundy County
A. V. Meadors
MCHS
Spy Scarbeck Charged With Providing U S Secrets
Irvin Searbeck a 41 year old Foreign Service officer was arrested in Washington on a charge of supplying classified information to Polish agents in Warsaw. The complaint cites that he admitted transmitting material that could affect U S security. Bond set at 50000, potential penalties include up to ten years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Poland
Irvin Chambers Searbeck
Warsaw
Searbeck
FBI
Washington Street
Justice Department
Sam Wertleb
Scarbeck
United States
State Department
Department
San Francisco
J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lincoln White
U.S. Security
Naples
Italy
Dusseldorf
Germany
Foreign Service
Irvin Chambers Scarbeck
U.S. District Court
Washington, D.C
Music Man Tour to Expand to Small Towns in Autumn
A bus truck tour of The Music Man is being organized for autumn to visit smaller communities for 34 weeks. It will supplement the existing traveling company on the road since August 1958. Profits from the first run will fund the second expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bids to Open On Minooka Shop Building
Minooka high school board will open bids Thursday at 8 p.m. for a new shop building to add an industrial arts course. Funds are available and no bond issue is needed. The annex will separate shop from the agriculture program under the current system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minooka
High School Board of Education
Lost Boy Found on Way Home
Elby Hensley a 14 year old new Dresden Acres resident was reported lost at 10 15 p m Tuesday and found near Route 6 Route 47 by Sheriff Edward Wilton He had wandered while looking over the area and was on his way home after his family moved into the subdivision yesterday He said he followed the E J and E tracks to a trestle over the Illinois River wandered into Morris and then set out for home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elby Hensley
Dresden Acres
Edward Wilton
Hensley
Yesteray
Illinois River
Morris
Methodist group opposes unilateral military action abroad
The executive committee of the Methodist General Board of Social Concerns condemns unilateral military intervention in Cuba, Laos, and other nations as harmful to internal affairs and international stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Methodist General Board of Social Concerns
Cuba
Laos
New York Power Outage Tests City Amid Heat
In Midtown Manhattan a major blackout halted trains and traffic signals, trapping thousands in sweltering subways and shutting down elevators and projectors. The Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Ave faced a slow exit as venues improvised with candles and generators, while the New York Times delivered late editions after switching printing to the World Telegram plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midtown Manhattan
Tishman
Fifth Ave
Mary Martin
Sound of Music
New York Times
Times
New York World-Telegram & Sun
Second Trial Scheduled for Next Monday
Ottawa Illinois Chester Weger 22 seeks delay of a second murder trial for the Starved Rock killings after his counsel filed for a writ of habeas corpus. The defense argues a U S Supreme Court ruling on April may affect the Lindquist case and asks to pause until the first trial outcome. Judge Ry an will decide on postpone motions Monday as Weger is transported from Stateville and remains in prison garb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ill
Chester Weger
John McNamara
Weger
Lawyear
Illinois Supreme Court
McNamara
U.S. Supreme Court
Lindquist
Howard C. Ryan
Ex-Prisoner Killed by Train in Marseilles
Hugh Hale a 58 year old prisoner at Grundy County jail was killed by a Rock Island train Tuesday night at Marseilles. Police called it death by own action after witnesses said Hale stepped into the crossing path about 10 feet from the train. A note in his clothing indicated a suicide intent. Hale, sentenced for vagrancy to up to seven days by Justice Chester Winsor on June 8, had requested confinement due to an infected foot and asked for release on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Hale
Grundy
Rock Island
Marseilles
Hale
Chester Winsor
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Wegers
McHs Board
Robert Baird
Nashville
Baird
Mary
Fall River
Mass
Order of the Holy Union of the Sacred Heart
Donors Association
State Farmer Award
Ron Flatness
Ganization
Springfield
Willout
W. B. Ragsdale JR
N.Y
By Andrew Meisels
Miami
Fila
C. H. Hansen
Michigan State University
J. B. Liljedahl
Purdue University
Roy Rainer
University of California
Hugo Pineda
American University
Duane Greathouse
United Auto Workers Union
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