Morris City Eyes Expanded Sewage Plant and Open Dump Ban
City of Morris faces state orders to study and add secondary treatment and effluent chlorination by May 1967. Officials consider a landfill or incinerator as open dumping ends by Aug 1, while council moves on substandard buildings and interim planning contracts with Carl Gardner and Associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Illinois Sanitary Water Board
Aage Hansen
Walter Hundt
Water and Sewer Committee
C. W. Klassen
State Water Board
Hundt
Carl Hauser
Walter Deuchler
Aurora
Donald Davidson
Floyd Siron
Siron
Davidson
Health and
Lester Johnson
Adcock
Parish Alley
Division St
High St
E. Main St
E. Jackson St
W. Washington St
James Baum
Morris Planning Commission
Carl Gardner and Associates
Baum
Charles Spivey
Nelson
Rock Island
Atty
Atty. Adcock
General Services Administration
Air Force Mothers Club
Donald Caisley
Hansen
Illinois Commerce Commission
Railway Express Agency
Joliet
Minooka
Kozy
Liberty St
Hauser
Johnson
Morris Police Commission
Ralph Knight
Agriculture Stabilization and Soil Conservation Office
Magistrate Court
Cryer Bryant
Tornado Warnings Fail To Materialize In Grundy County
Late Monday afternoon the area experienced heavy rain and reported tornado conditions with a tornado sighting near Mazon after a touchdown south west of Ottawa. Civil Defense sirens were activated in Morris and Illinois Bell reported network overloads with brief telephone delays. Cooler temperatures and a slight chance of rain were forecast for tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy County
Collins
John E. G. Olson
LaSalle County
Ottawa
Olson
Grundy County Civil Defense Office
Civil Defense
Morris
Ange Hansen
Mae Reagan
Civil Defense Director
Reagan
Mazon - Verona - Kinsman
Sheriff's Office
Mazon
Illinois Bell Telephone
John F. Kennedy
Division St
Lincoln St
United Airlines VP Ted Larson Dies at 61
Official Ted Larson United Air Lines vice president died of pneumonia in a Denver hospital Monday at age 61.
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Denver
Colo
O. T
Ted) Larson
United Air Lines
Vehicle Check Begins Here Tomorrow
The Vehicle Safety Check program for Morris motorists opens testing lanes at 9 a.m. Wednesday. It is free and voluntary, showing how vehicle inspection would be done with special equipment. Two $6,000 lanes were donated by Weaver Division Dura Corporation and Bear Manufacturing Company. Lanes travel the state with trucks donated by International Harvester. Uniformed investigators are provided by the Illinois Secretary of State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Weaver Division
Dura Corporation
Springfield
Bear Manufacturing Company
Rock Island
International Harvester Company of
Chicago
Illinois Secretary of State
Registration Open for Red Cross Swim Lessons
Registration for Red Cross swimming lessons will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday and Saturday at the Morris Swimming Pool. Open to anyone six years and older. Classes start June 28. For alternate arrangements call Mrs. Robert Brown Grundy County water safety chairman at WH 2 0318 or Miss Katie Hutchins at WH 2 2409.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Morris Swimming Pool
Robert Brown
Grundy County
Remind Rights Marchers of Past Behavior
Mississippian marchers resume a nine mile leg for voter registration after cautioning about previous scandal rumors. Floyd McKissick recalls Selma accusations as James Meredith leads a Memphis started march toward Jackson. Norvell seeks bond reduction in Ripley hearing.
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Rights
Grenada
Miss
Mississippi
Floyd B. McKissick
Selma
Congress
Aubrey James Norvell
Memphis
Ripley
Nor
Vandals Damage Grade School at Goose Lake
Goose Lake School ten miles east of Illinois 47 on Pine Bluff Road was broken into Monday night. Deputy Dick Pierce reported 31 small windows broken two door windows eight window screens damaged and the mailbox pulled up. He suspects tire iron caused the window breaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goose Lake
Illinois 47
Pine Bluff Road
Dick Pierce
Pierce
Illinois bids set for 30 million highway projects
Francis S. Lorenz announced that high way construction and related projects totaling 30 million dollars were listed for bids on July 1 by the Division of High ways. Among 92 interstate projects is 2.05 miles of resurfacing on 9.69 miles of U S 6 from Morris to east of Grundy Will County line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis S. Lorenz
Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings
Division of Highways
Morris
Grundy-Will
Weather forecast and past conditions from Collins Station
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts fair, cool tonight with a low in the upper 50s and mostly sunny Wednesday with a high near 80. A 10 percent precip chance persists tonight and Wednesday with Thursday mainly sunny. Collins Station logged 79 high and 55 low Monday. 1.66 inches rainfall. 9 am 65 and 11:30 am 75 in Morris district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris Business
Seven Injured In Second Chicago Riot
In a second night of rioting in a Puerto Rican neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side, seven people were wounded as crowds overrun a mile square area. Police arrested 81 over two nights as residents called for better relations with the city force.
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Chicago
Mile
Division Street
Humboldt Park
Richard Daley
Daley
Cook County Hospital
Bienvenido Cruz
Efrain Ortiz
Roberto Vasquez
Judges Expect Rush Near Closing Time In Morris Primary
Voter turnout in Morris Township was generally slow at midmorning with five of eight precincts reporting fewer votes than in 1964. Officials projected a late afternoon rush as turnout acrossBraceville and Aux Sable areas remained light and totals across precincts varied by location.
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Morris Township
Morris
City Hall
Mathisen
Price St
Gordon R. Hexdall
W. Wauponsee St
the Baptist Church
Telfer Printing Shop
Pine St
Union Hall
E. High St
Masonic Temple
W. Jefferson St
Coal City
Braceville
Braceville I
Braceville II
Braceville Village Hall
Braceville III
Boresi and Anger
Braceville IV
Coal City Lions Hall
Joliet
Kankakee
Aux Sable
Minooka Fire House
Bee Causes Two Car Crash In Illinois
A bee caused a two car collision on U S 6 one mile east of Seneca at 2 15 p m Monday. Clifton Robinson 21 of 562 N Farnsworth Aurora and Richard L Favish 37 of 213 N Hamland Skokie were injured along with Diana Robinson 22 Deana Robinson 14 months and James Taylor 14. Robinson was ticketed for improper lane usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton Robinson
N. Farnsworth
Aurora
Richard L. Favish
N. Hamland Ave
Skokie
Seneca
Robinson
Diana Robinson
Deana Robinson
James Taylor
Morris Hospital
Wilbur Bennett
Jack O'Hagan
State Police
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carl Gardner
James Stine
John Nelson
Barber
MCHS
Morris Community High School
Herald
Morris Junior Woman's Club
Chapin Park
Morris City
Bill Carpenter
West Point
Lonesome End
101St Airborne Division
Toumorong
South Viet Nam
Carpenter
Israel Irizarry
Miguel Cruz
Gilberto Torres
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Sastino Ribero
Irizarry
Bee
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