Stine District Plans Thursday Meeting on Annexation
A Stine school district residents meeting called by Board President Arthur Leach will discuss annexing District No. 51 to Morris District No. 54 or sending about 12 seventh and eighth graders to Morris in September. County Supt Lillias Walker and Morris Supt Kenneth Hammer will attend.
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Stine
Arthur Leach
Stine School
Morris
Lillias K. Walker
Kenneth Hammer
Otto Winsor
Soren Arenholdt
Pine Bluff
Weather turns warm as summer begins with chance of thundershowers
Today marks the first day of summer with a forecast of warmer air and a high near 80 degrees on Thursday. The Tuesday high reached 67 at Collins Weather Station while the overnight low dipped to 45. At 9 am the temperature stood at 62 and rising.
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Weather Bureau
Collins
Cross Purposes at Fort Monroe
Major General T S Taylor deputy chief of the Australian central staff was sent to meet General Herbert B Powell chief of the Continental Army Command but Powell was not seen. Powell was in Australia representing the United States at the Coral Sea victory celebration.
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Fort Monroe
T. S. Taylor
Australian Central Staff
Herbert B. Powell
Continental Army Command
General Powell
Australia
United States
Farmers May Clip Oats At Any Time
Maurice E F Pokarney office manager of Grundy County AS C says there is no deadline to clip oats on diverted acres under the 1961 Feed Grain program. Farmers may clip anytime or not at all depending on their situation. noxious weeds must be controlled on diverted acres.
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Maurice EF. Pokarney
Grundy As.c
Pokarney
Diary items aid arrest in Memphis shoplifting case
A 16 year old girl’s diary helped police identify hundreds of stolen items from various stores over nine months. The diary was found during an arrest for a shoplifting charge and provided an itemized list of the objects.
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Memphis
Woman on iron lung tours California in Blue Angel
Marie Thompson, 35, confined to an iron lung for eight years, tours in a specially built panel truck named the Blue Angel. Guided by nurse Louette Barber and her children, the journey from Camarillo to San Leandro highlights her wish to see many places as the truck travels for about a month.
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Camarillo
Calif
Marie Thompson
Southern
California
Fred Delay
Ventura County
Los Angeles
Wheelchair Graduate Nancy Anderson Plans Further Study
Nancy Anderson of Minooka, a 1961 graduate candidate at Chicago City Junior College, will receive her diploma tonight at McCormick Place from a wheelchair. She has studied by television daily and aims for further study in speech therapy and foreign languages, possibly at the University of Illinois.
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Minooka
Chicago City Junior College
Nancy Anderson
McCormick Place
Minooka High School
Channel 11
Nancy
William Bailey
Methodist Church
Swim Class Registration This Weekend
Miss Jean Caisley will instruct Red Cross swimming classes at Morris Municipal pool this summer with free lessons. Registrations are this Friday and Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the pool. Classes run six weeks starting next Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Tuesday through Friday, assisted by Pamela Waters Lorna Reeves Wanda Hanson and Mary Redfern.
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Jean Caisley
Red Cross
Morris Municipal Pool
Miss Caisley
Pamela Waters
Lorna Reeves
Wanda Hanson
Mary Redfern
Hampton Adopts Seal Showing Space Capsule With Crab
Hampton unveils a new official seal featuring a blue crab raising a space capsule. The design ties the city’s famed crab motif to its proximity to Langley Air Force Base where astronauts train.
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Hampton
Langley Air Force Base
Eichmann Says He Was Only a Office Hack in Nazi System
Adolf Eichmann told Israeli judges his Reich Security Office unit handled emigration and evacuation of Jews and that the extermination plan came from top police and foreign ministry leaders. He described the chain of command and asserted his bureau was a tool of higher SS and security police, while naming colleagues and documents to support his defense.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo
Reich Security Office
Eichmann
Moshe Landau
Robert Servatius
Berlin
Ii-B
IIIA
Empty Cage Opens as Morris Dogs Vanish
The Morris Herald reports Donald Welch steps in as poundmaster on Monday and prepares the dog pound area. By 7:30 am the pound south of the I and M canal sits empty of dogs, with Welch painting the cage and gathering feeding pans.
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Morris
Morris Herald
Donald Welch
East Benton St
City of
Welch
I. and M. Canal
Moon Drill Teamwork by Campbell at Armour Research
Coal City engineer John A Campbell of Chicago helps lead a group at Armour Research foundation designing a robot drill to collect lunar samples for on site analysis. The project supports NASA Surveyor mission aiming to land by 1965 with instruments and a 750 pound payload.
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Coal City
John A. Campbell
Chicago
D. R. Hynds
Armour Research Foundation
Campbell
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Surveyor
Moon
Earth
Chattanooga Junior Chamber elects Ismail Akbay
The Chattanooga Junior Chamber of Commerce chose Ismail Akbay as president. Akbay, born in Turkey, had been a United States citizen for 18 months and works as a research engineer.
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Chattanooga
Stratton Cited By Morris Rotary Club
Former Governor William G. Stratton was made an honorary member of Morris Rotary Club at a dinner at Morris Country Club. He spoke after a three week U S Naval board meeting and a tour of the atomic submarine Sea Wolf. He urged practical budgeting for Illinois and highlighted public facilities for delinquent and dependent persons as a major state challenge.
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William G. Stratton
Morris Rotary Club
Rotary At
Morris Country Club
L. C. Berger
F. W. Graham
Stratton
U.S. Naval Board
Illinois
Educaton
Center
F. W. Graham Jr
Mera Oto
Morris High Names Robert Ferguson Athletic Director
Morris Community High School board named Robert Ferguson athletic director after Harold Bennett resigned to coach at Crystal Lake East. Ferguson has 15 years in Morris, previously coached basketball football track at Piper City and El Paso, and led five of eight interscholastic sports.
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W. R
Robert) Ferguson
Morris Community High School
McHs Board of Education
Ferguson
Morris
Harold Bennett
Crystal Lake East High School
Piper City
el Paso
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