Village Law Sets Hemlines In Braidwood
Braidwood voters approve a $2 207 bid for a new squad car with delivery expected within two weeks. The council approves four inch water main installation and enacts ordinances on farm equipment transport and female restaurant workers attire preventing soliciting alcohol. Population rises above 2200 per the local census update.
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Braidwood
Gordon Pontiac
Joliet
Donald Barns
Thomas Bergera
Main St
Bergera
Joseph Tryner
First St
Henry McElroy
Tryner
Robert Pellack
Braidwood Community Organization
Pellack
Viet Cong attack devastates delta hamlets near Can Tho
In dawn assaults the Viet Cong hit two adjoining delta hamlets 110 miles southwest of Saigon, killing 19 civilians and wounding 41 plus militia. U S Dragon Ships provided air support 24 times, while a Pilot died in a crash near Pleiku. Air strikes hit infiltration routes in Quang Tri.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
Delta
Can Tho
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Tan An
Dragon
U.S. Command
Pleiku
South Vietnam
1St Corps
Quang, Tri
78 Cars Checked Here For Safety
Morris Chief of Police Donald Ward announced the two day vehicle safety check sponsored by Auto Industries Highway Safe r Committee and Look magazine in cooperation with local officials. Of the 78 autos tested, 74 earned safety stickers, five failed initially but three later received stickers after corrections. Sixty six had seat belts. Ward urged motorists to get untested cars checked by a qualified mechanic before summer travel.
Very unsettled five day forecast warm and humid
Five day outlook calls for temperatures 6 to 10 degrees above normal highs 79 to 84 and lows 58 to 63 with little daily change. Precipitation around half an inch and thundershowers likely most days. tonight cloudy near 70. Thursday partly sunny with upper 80s and possible storms. Friday showers possible and cooler.
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Collins
Morris
Dodd Appeals For Justice Before Senate
Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd delivered an emotional defense on the Senate floor amid ethics charges. He challenged colleagues to name any lie, cheating or dishonorable act, denying involvement in improper travel expense billing and urging expulsion only if found guilty.
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Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
United States Senate
Dodd
Senate Ethics Committee
Senate
Killing Ruled Justifiable in Tampa Rioting
State Attorney Paul Antinori ruled the 19-year-old Martin Chambers death a justifiable homicide after Patrolman James R. Calvert shot him in the back during a Tampa burglary pursuit. The decision followed three nights of violence, looting, and fires as Negro leaders warned of renewed unrest.
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Tampa
Fla
Paul Antinori
NAACP
Robert Gilder
Gilder
James R. Calvert
Martin Chambers
Antinori
Chambers
Calvert
Florida
National Guard
Claude Kirk
Riots In Cincinnati Burn $800000 In Fires
In Cincinnati's Negro neighborhoods early today two major fires caused about 800000 in damage. The Modern Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. a block long burned in Walnut Hills after a gasoline bomb. Earlier Seybold Paper Co. warehouse destroyed with 700000 damage. Police and 800 National Guardsmen monitored a second night of rioting as 22 hurt and 20 arrested. Guardsmen closed bars and patrolled streets while fire crews fought scattered blazes all night.
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Cincinnati
National Guardsmen
Walnut Hills
Seybold Paper Co
Bert Lugannani
Jacob Schott
Avondale
James A. Rhodes
Walton S. Bachrach
Rhodes
147Th Infantry Regiment
Erwin C. Hostetler
Ohio
Lib erty torpedoed ship reaches Malta for drydock
The 11,000 ton U S Navy ship Lib erty limped into Valletta harbor under her own power after an Israeli air and sea attack. Nine bodies later and 24 feared dead among 275 crew, with 75 wounded. The ship to be dry docked as a court of inquiry proceeds.
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Valetta
Malta
Liberty
Mediterranean
America
U.S. Navy
Navy
Mariner 5 Races Soviets to Venus
The United States Mariner 5 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy racing a heavier Soviet Venus 4 toward Venus to study clouds. Officials reported good performance as it deployed solar panels and prepared for a 26 minute close approach planned for Oct. 19 to probe radiation and atmospheric conditions for life habitability.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Mariner 5
Venus
Soviet Union
U.S
Mariner
Allen E. Wolfe
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Wolfe
Russia to Work To Halt Spread Of Nuclear Arms
LUXEMBOURG AP report says Russia ready to join the United States in speeding up action to stop nuclear weapon spread. Secretary of State Dean Rusk told NATO foreign ministers that the Soviet Union will present a jointly drafted but incomplete nonproliferation treaty to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. The draft to go before Geneva will include a blank Article 3 on necessary controls and safeguards.
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Luxembourg
Russia
United States
Dean Rusk
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Illinois lawmakers weigh one cent raise in state sales tax
Republican leaders in the Illinois Legislature consider a one cent increase in the 3 percent state sales tax on retail occupations as a potential solution to the year’s revenue shortfall. Sen W Russell Arrington touted a new revenue plan but gave no details, while Gov Kerner’s proposed broadening tax faced opposition.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Sen. W. Russell Arrington
GOP
Otto Kerner
Kerner
U N Security Council Deadlocks On Israel Pullback
The Security Council rejected a Soviet resolution calling Israel to withdraw its troops from occupied Arab lands, paving the way for an emergency General Assembly session. Speculation swirled around Kosygin attending. a mediator might be appointed to help peace talks as the U Thant plan proceeds.
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United Nations, N. Y
U. N. Security Council
Israel
General Assembly
United Nations, N.Y
Alexei N. Kosygin
Soviet Union
U.N. General Assembly
Security Council
Middle East
U. Thant
U.N
Thant
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations
Gromyko
Moscow
Kosygin
New York
Johnson
Jamil M. Baroody
Dairy Queen Agrees to Help Fix Sewer Issue
Mayor Aage Hansen said a plan was reached with the Dairy Queen on N Division Street after a drive-in was found to be hooked to a field tile. Officials will cooperate and could reroute the sewer line 300 to 400 feet south to a proper sewer main if needed.
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Aage Hansen
Dairy Queen
N. Division St
Floyd Sir
Hansen
Clinton
Buster) Darking
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Morris Community High School
Gerald Eisold
Inez Anderson
Herald
V.C
Connecticut
Andy Olson
Morris Minor
Morris Post Office
By Jim Strothman
U.N. Assembly
Council
Lord
Britain
Lord Caradon
India
U Thant
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