Death of Alan Braghini ruled drug overdose suspected
Alan Braghini, 26, of Verona was found dead Friday near the Walsh truck garage Joliet amid suspicion of a drug overdose. He had three years probation for possessing barbiturates and was to enter a treatment program. An autopsy and toxicology tests are pending. Funeral services were planned in Joliet and burial in Mazon.
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Alan Braghini
Rte. 1
Grand Ridge Rd
Verona
Walsh Truck Garage
Gardner and
Michigan Sts
Joliet
Will County Sheriff's Department
Braghini
Grundy County
Illinois
Department of Mental Health
Morris Police
Gerald Dames
Will County
Will County Sheriff's
Robert Pederson
James Olson
Peoria
Donald
Doris
Kidnapped Bonnet Children Found After Abduction in Belgium
Two year old Ingrid and six year old Hubert Bonnet were found in a Middelkerke telephone booth barefoot in pajamas, unharmed, a taxi driver locating them 24 hours after the kidnapping. Police traced four bandits who held them at a rented house. no ransom was paid.
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Ostend
Belgium
UPI
Hubert
Ingrid Bonnet
Middelkerke
Hubert Bonnet
Berlin
Knokke-Le Zoute
Bonnet
Steel
Pierre Bonnet
Lottery numbers appear in Morris Daily Herald Box
Friday night drawing results will be published in the regular box on Page 4 of today’s Morris Daily Herald.
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Morris Daily Herald
Weather Outlook with Showers and Warm Tuesday
Partly cloudy tonight with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Tuesday will be partly sunny with highs 84 to 92 and a warm start to the week. Sunday’s high reached 91 and the low 68, with 71 at 7 am and 77 at 9 57 am in Morris downtown.
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Dresden Lock and Dam
Morris
New Jersey Supreme Court backs prison disciplinary power
The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld state prison officials authority to run institutions under their own discipline rules, affirming the scope of administrative control over inmate management and security. The ruling reinforces executive governance within state correctional facilities and limits judicial interference in internal disciplinary procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N.J
UPI
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Department of Institutions and Agencies
Hughes
Morris Community High School Board action on salaries and agenda
The Morris Community High School Board schedules action on administrative and non certified salaries for 7 p.m. Wednesday in the annex, adjourned from June 11. Other items include an executive session on negotiations, long range planning, buildings and grounds report, instructional materials center progress and extracurricular activities assessment. The rest of the text discusses a court ruling on inmates rights in disciplinary hearings and self incrimination following a 1971 Rahway prison riot.
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Morris Community High School Board of Education
Rutgers Law School Correction Clinic
Rahway State Prison
Rahway
Richard J. Hughes
Local Woman Disputes Real Estate Assessment in Morris
Mrs. Erwin Wix of Brentwood Drive protests an advertised real estate assessment in Friday's Morris Herald. The paper listed $18,510, but she says the figure being protested is $20,360. Figures supplied by Supervisor Milton Carlson under the assessors’ notice.
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Erwin Wix
Brentwood Drive
Morris Herald Today
Extended deadline in Clydesdale retrial case in Oglesby
The filing deadline for all retrial motions in the Thomas Clydesdale case and three other Oglesby bank directors was moved from June 16 to July 23. Indicted May 8 for conspiring to defraud First National Bank of Oglesby of over 55000, Clydesdale Peter Corgiat Gildo Costa and Oliver Halm, all of Oglesby, pleaded not guilty at May arraignments. Assistant U.S. Atty. Theodore Scuder said the extension seeks time to file motions and a July 23 hearing or further extension decision will follow.
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Thomas Clydesdale
Oglesby Bank
First National Bank of
Oglesby
Gildo Costa
Oliver Halm
U.S. Atty
Theodore Scuder
Scuder
Storm damage reported in Verona with uprooted trees
The Grundy County Sheriff's Department received a report from James Finch of Verona at 7 30 p m Sunday noting heavy rains and winds uprooting several trees. A downed power line was reported on Clark Street in Verona.
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Grundy County
Senators clash over disbanding the CIA
The Senate debate centers on abolishing the CIA with Proxmire warning against it as dangerous to security and Goldwater defending the agency as essential like the military. The inquiry resumes with Bundy to testify as Church notes possible murder plots tied to CIA actions.
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Goldwater
Proxmire
CIA
Senate
McGeorge Bundy
Kennedy
Johnson
CIA Committee
Frank Church
Didaho
Laos
South
Vietnam
Chile
Fidel Castro
George McGovern
Havana
Castro
McGovern
John Roselli
Riverdale Brothers Drown Victims Laid To Rest
Funeral services were held today for Wilson Haughtigan 15 and Stephen Haughtigan 17 who drowned last Monday in the Mazon Creek. Wilson’s body was recovered Friday at 7 14 p.m. by Coal City and Morris Fire Department boats. Stephen’s body was later recovered. Stephen was born December 31 1957 in Chicago and Wilson born October 24 1959 in Chicago. They are survived by their parents William and Carol Haughtigan three sisters and grandparents Mrs Ella Wilson Mrs Loretta Haughtigan and Joseph Haughtigan.
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Braghini
Verona
Steven
Joliet
Phillip
Linda Knop
Glaudia Gasaway
Muskegon
Mich
Corba Braghini
Gerald Dames and Sons
Sherman St
Ward Cemetery
Mazon
Assumption Catholic
Riverdale
Mazon Creek
Braceville- Gardner
Wilson Haughtigan
Mazon River
Coal City
Morris Fire Department
Stephen
James Reeves
William Haughtigan
Atlantic
Grundy County
William Button
William Sklut
Hennesy-Hornburg Funeral Home
Chicago
Wilson
William and
Carol Haughtigan
Ella Wilson
Loretta Haughtigan
Joseph Haughtigan
Morris Daily Herald June 23 1975 front section brief
Local Morris newspaper issue dated June 23 1975 with a fiften cent price. Details of community events and notices appear on this page. Readers are advised to check for upcoming meetings and local announcements.
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Morris
Illinois
Armed Robber Holds Morris Super Market in Narrow Escape
Morris Police seek a composite sketch of a short man who robed the Morris National Super Market on Friday afternoon at Washington and Franklin. The suspect, 35 to 40, 5 foot 5, wore a maroon sport coat and gray pants, fled with $83 after displaying a blue automatic. Police surrounded the store with Chief Robert Lynes and deputies but found no clues.
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Morris
Robert Lynes
Washington
Franklin Sts
Lynes
John
Elaine
E. Main St
Bond Forfeiture Ordered in Calhoun Case in Grundy County
A $10,000 judgment was entered in Grundy County Circuit Court Friday against Ralph Calhoun for failing to appear in court on May 16. The order, signed by Circuit Judge Leonard Hoffman, forfeits Calhoun's bond after he did not surrender for sentencing following a March 21 conviction for marijuana possession and manufacture and possession of controlled substances.
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Grundy County
Ralph Calhoun
Coal City
Leonard Hoffman
Calhoun
David Chapman
S. Broadway St
Jerry Wren
Washington St
Third District Appellate Court
Ottawa
Wren
Chapman
Department of Corrections
William Denny
Hoffman
Two Griffith youths injured in I-80 crash near Illinois 47
Two Griffith Indiana youths were treated and released from Morris Hospital after a two car crash on Interstate 80 four miles west of Illinois 47 at 9 50 am. Michael Corcoran 26 Palos Park was parked with engine trouble when Scott Randhan 18 Griffith and passenger David St Claire 19 Griffith struck his car. Randhan and St Claire were injured and transported to Morris Hospital. Corcoran cited for invalid registration Randhan cited for failure to reduce speed. No damage estimate available for the two vehicles both towed to Clark s 1 80 Texaco in Meyris.
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Griffith
Ind
Morris Hospital
Illinois
Michael Corcoran
Palos Park
Scott Randhan
Corcoran
Randhan
David St. Claire
Morris
David Lauer
Ford
Clark
Texaco
Meyris
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Carbon Hill
Herald
Booth
Brussels
Clabecq Steel Works
Ingrid
Motor Valet
Clydesdale
Peter Corgiat
Raul
Che Guevara
Eisenhower
Sam Giancana
Roselli
Senate Committee
Giancana Colby
House
U.S
Washington Post
White House
Justice Department
Braceville-Gardner Cemetery
Terry Halterman
California
Terry
Maurie Halterman
Josephine Calhoun
Lincoln St
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