Minister's Church Used by Gang for Guns and Marijuana
George Rose a former Blackstone Ranger war lord testified to a Senate committee that Rev John Fry pastor of First Presbyterian Church on Chicago's South Side advised the Rangers to seek a $927000 OEO grant through The Woodlawn Organization. He said Fry urged the grant amid alleged police harassment and later discussed killings connected to the gang.
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Washington
Chicago
Senate
George Rose
Blackstone Rangers
Rose
Senate Permanent Investigations
Rangers
Office of Economic Opportunity
John Fry
First Presbyterian Church
South Side
Woodlawn
Fry
Watusi
Mad Dog
Eugene Hairston
The
Gene
Jimmie Lee Straughter
Straughter
Haistron
Open House at Dwight Library Highlights Modernization
Dwight Illinois invites residents to 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday for an open house at the newly modernized Dwight Public Library. The event also opens the restored Pioneer Gothic Church for meetings and social gatherings with refreshments.
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Dwight Library
Dwight Public Library
Dwight
The
Historical Society
Robert Freund
Crystal Lake
L. H. Beyer
Christian Hahn
Thomas Moffatt
Weekend forecast from The Weatherman
The Weatherman calls Saturday mostly sunny cooler and less humid with a high of 76 to 84 degrees. Saturday night will be fair and a touch cooler. Sunday sees partly cloudy skies and little temperature change. Collins Weather Station reports a Friday high of 96 and a low of 66 with 78 degrees at 6 20 p m. Downtown Morris shows 82 degrees at 6 20 p m.
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Collins Weather Station
Morris
Health board shelving tighter air rules room smoking clash
Atlanta readers learn the State Board of Health moved to stricter air pollution rules with attention to room pollution. Vice Chairman John M. Martin proposed banning smoking at board meetings, but several members opposed while still smoking cigarettes pipes and cigars.
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Atlanta, Ga
State Board of Health
John M. Martin
County Employment Rose In Grundy County 1966 to 1967
The U S Department of Commerce Census report shows Grundy County private employers and non profit groups increased wage and salary workers from 4487 to 4822 between March 1966 and March 1967. Manufacturing accounted for about 2000 workers with a 3 13 million payroll.
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U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the
Grundy County
Treasury
Thieving Guests at Bavarian Student Event Steals $2750
In Erlangen Germany a Bavarian student anti high society gathering drew about 2000 paying guests but 4000 entered the castle grounds without paying. After the event missing items included 2500 beer tankards 27 beer barrels and fittings furniture and band equipment totaling about 2750 dollars per the organizing committee.
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Erlangen
Germany
Erlangen Castle
Thailand Protests Highlight New Constitution Limits
Thai students clash with police during a march on Parliament in Bangkok as martial law remains in force and the new constitution restricts free speech. Demonstrators from University of Thammasart protest U.S. troop presence and Bangkok as a servicemen rest center, while seeking bus fare cuts and lower rice and pork prices. Government officials meet student leaders and pledge to relay complaints to Premier Thanom Kittikachorn.
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Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
University of Thammasart
Pan Fah
Government House
Sarit Thanarat
Bhumipol Adulyadej
Democracy Monument
Chulalongkorn
Prasert Ruchirawong
Police
Prasert
Thanom Kittikachorn
Suits Filed for 300000 in Accident Damages
Barbara Heap of Morris sues James Entwistle and Steven Braghini for a total of 300000 in damages. Entwistle allegedly drove at high speed on Calan Road over the Illinois and Michigan Canal bridge on March 14 1964 causing the collision. Braghini faces charges of excessive speed and loss of vehicle control. Heap claims extensive and permanent injuries.
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Root and Adcock
Barbara Heap
Rural
Morris
James Entwistle
Steven Braghini
Verona
Entwistle
Miss Heap
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Calan Road
Braghini
Smuggled Chinese Goods Reach Northern Bihar
contraband crosses Tibet and Nepal trails to Patna in exchange for Indian jute products. Women wear Chinese nylon saris and drink tea sweetened with sugar from Russian or Czechoslovak sources while wrist watches pens and lighters also enter the country.
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Patna
India
Bihar
China
Tibet
Nepal
Rail lunch at crossing sparks 30 day postponement bid
Coal City police and Gulf Mobile and Ohio officials probe a switch engine blocking a crossing while engineer Jack Davis dined nearby. The case raises traffic hazards as motorists risk the flashing signals. A 30 day postponement of the magistrate trial is sought.
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Coal City
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Jack Davis
Rte. 3
Bloomington
Herald
Davis
Collision Kills Family of Six in Illinois Crash
A Des Moines Iowa doctor Dr John LaMar his wife Patricia and four children were killed in a collision with a semitrailer at U S 20 and Illinois 73 west of Freeport Illinois The truck from Dubuque Iowa carried 40000 pounds of beef hides Driver Raymond Hall of Kentucky survived in satisfactory condition at Freeport Memorial Hospital The victims residence listed as 3833 East 28th St Des Moines authorities reported.
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Freeport, Ill
Des Moines
Iowa
U.S. 20
Illinois
Freeport
John LaMar
Patricia
Stephenson County
East 28Th St
French display of Be sancon museum treasures in Montreal
Be sancon museum treasures will be shown at the French pavilion on Montreal's Man and His World site from June 28 to October 15 and will travel to Quebec afterward, announced cultural affairs minister Jean Noel Tremblay.
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Quebec
Besancon
France
Montreal
Jean- Noel Tremblay
Rusk Presses North Vietnam for De-Escalation Signals
Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged North Vietnam to show readiness to scale down the war including halting rocket attacks on Saigon. He noted some signals in Paris talks but warned against overoptimism while calling for on ground de escalation and restraint in bombing. Rusk also announced the July 1 signing of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and planned NATO talks in Iceland.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
North Vietnam
Saigon
Rusk
Clark M. Clifford
W. Averell Harriman
Paris
Clifford
Johnson
United States
Harriman
Moscow
London
Stateville Penitentiary graduation day honors 362 inmates
A total of 362 men at Stateville Penitentiary received caps and gowns for graduation day. Of these 259 earned high school diplomas, 21 earned associate of arts degrees through a Wright Junior College program, 39 completed the guides for better living course, and 38 finished 26-week drafting and industrial electronics courses.
House Destroyed By Fire Friday
A one story frame home on Cemetery Rd half a mile west of Channahon State Boy's Camp was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Friday afternoon. The Lampman family occupied the dwelling and no one was home when the fire occurred. Morris volunteer firemen arrived at 3 30 p m to find the building in flames.
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Cemetery Rd
Channahon State Boy's
Paul Lampman
Morris
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Kenneth Hallberg
Ells Pastor
Loop
Zola Hodgman
Carol Christenson
Louis Groll
Harry Riegel
Dwight Women’s Club
James H. Oughton
Corn Belt
Henry R. Meisels
Library Board of
Lloyd Bush
C. J. Ahern
John Gardner
Earl Hager
Richard Oughton
Edward Hoffman
Library Board
Cc. J. Ahern
Jennins Milbauer
Historical Society Board
Rush
Space Plumbing
Bendix
Apollo Moon Rocket Tower
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Morris Daily Herald
Saturday Review
Larry Anderson
Anderson
Morris Police Department
Joseph Mattson
Police Board of Commissioners
Robert Zink
West Ave
Zink
Associated Press
Kenneth Hammer
Immaculate Conception
District 54
U. S. Department of Commerce
House of Representatives
NATO
Iceland
Central
Europe
Stateville Penitentiary
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