Grun dy County Faces Junior College Tax Burden Deadline
Grundy County voters consider a Class I Joliet Junior College district as state action moves through the higher education board. Local districts wrestle with tuition expenses seen at about 74 400 dollars under class II, plus 3 cent tax levies, while applicants from several districts rise toward 21 or more in some areas, with totals around 20 000 dollars in Morris and 16 800 in Coal City.
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Grundy County
Joliet
Kenneth Timm
Timm
Central Citizens Committee
Junior College Board
State Board of Higher Education
Joliet Junior College
Minooka High School
Rex Siron
Gardner- South Wilmington
Mazon
Harold Wright
Coal City
John Tuiner
Morris
Lawyer Claims State Bugging Defense Offices in Menard Case
Springfield AP a defense attorney in the Menard prison case alleges rumors that the Illinois Public Safety Department has been bugging hotel rooms apartments and conference rooms used by defense lawyers. Judge Douglas notes rumors will arise amid the trial of John Stamps and three other convicts as a 12 member jury is seated and alternates chosen.
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Springfield
Ill
Menard
Illinois Public Safety Department
Richard Shaikewitz
Alton
Creel Douglass
Irving Wiseman
Wiseman
John Stamps
Granite City
Shaikewitz
Robert W. Crain
Centralia
James McMahon
Public Safety
Crain
Douglas
Convoy Passes Through Morris en Route to Camp McCoy
The 1st 106th Cavalry 33rd Armored Division paused on Illinois 47 at the river bridge for about 40 minutes Friday afternoon while passing Morris on the way to Camp McCoy Wisconsin. The 126 unit convoy left Danville at 6 a.m. and stopped at Grundy County fairgrounds Mazon for lunch. They crossed the Illinois River Bridge around 2 p.m. and planned to spend Friday night in Rockford before arriving at Camp McCoy Saturday morning.
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Illinois 47
River Bridge
106Th Cavalry
33Rd Armored
Morris
Camp McCoy
Wis
Danville
Grundy County Fairgrounds
Mazon
Illinois River Bridge
Rockford
Bloodmobile Seeks 250 Pints Next Tuesday in Grundy County
Red Cross bloodmobile visits Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Tuesday from 11 30 a m to 5 30 p m. This is Grundy County 250 pint deficit to reach year end. Call Red Cross office WH 2 1046 or Mrs John Harder WH 2 0950 to schedule. Needles and Spoons 4 H club offers babysitting at the event.
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Grundy County
Red Cross
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
John Harder
The
Fire Engulfs Abandoned House on Main Street
Firefighters found a locked front door and broke a second floor window to enter the abandoned two story home at 820 E Main St. A section of the floor burned near the stairs but overall damage was minor. The house owned by Lawrence Kenney is one of three the city plans to demolish as a public hazard. Trooper Jack O Hagan, who lives nearby, reported the smoke. A disordered abandoned trailer sat behind the house.
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E. Main St
Lawrence Kenney
Jack O'Hagan
Weather for the Day and Weekend Forecast
The forecast calls for sunny hot weather with highs in the low nineties and a slight evening shower risk. Sunday will be hot and partly cloudy with another shower chance. Collins Weather Station logged 93 degrees for Friday's high and 63 for the low. 9 am temperature was 78 degrees.
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Collins Weather Station
Senate Acts to Tighten Auto Safety Standards
The Senate approved mandatory new car safety rules by Jan 31 1967 and a three-year 465 million program to reduce highway hazards. The measures include driver education auto inspections highway design and stricter law enforcement. President Johnson called it landmark for reducing highway deaths estimated at 50 000 last year.
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Washington
Senate
Slaugher
Secretary of Commerce
House
Johnson
White House
Six Firemen Hurt in West Side Lumber Yard Blaze
A West Side lumber yard fire at Western Lumber Co. injured six Chicago firefighters. Two were struck by an iron cross-beam, one suffered smoke inhalation, and the blaze spread to a neighboring auto agency damaging about 34 cars. Commissioner Robert J. Quinn pegged damage at $55,000 and 55 apparatus and 300 men fought the flames.
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Chicago
West Side
Western Lumber Co
Robert J. Quinn
Four-H Judging Tour In Grundy County Attracts 85 Members
A group of 85 Grundy County 4-H members toured six area farms for the county livestock judging contest. Judges included Ron Fink and Nolan Nelson with dairy judge Russ Mathews. Selections will send 12 members to the state contest at the University of Illinois.
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Allan Hoffman
Dwight
Art Hornsby Farm
Morris
Grundy County 4-H
Ron Fink
la Salle County
Francis Holland
Gardner
Art Hornsby
University of Illinois
Champaign
County precinct committeemen to elect officers Monday
County Republicans and Democrats meet Monday night in the courthouse to elect officers for the next two years. Republican county chairman S J Holderman said the meeting opens at 7 30 p m and whether it is public. Democratic acting chairman James McEvilly said the session starts at 8 15 p m and will decide if it is public.
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Atty
Pawnee man killed in Dwight crash near bridge abutment
Darel Ray Givens, 24, of Pawnee died Friday when his car struck a bridge abutment at Illinois 17 and U.S. 66 near Dwight. His vehicle then bounced into the car of Leonard J. Sweig, 44, of St. Louis, who was unhurt.
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Dwight, Ill
Darel Ray Givens
Pawnee
Illinois 17
U.S. 66
Dwight
Givens
Leonard J. Sweig
St. Louis
Sweig
Ex-Convict Charged With Kidnapping in Chicago
A 40-year-old ex-convict, Jesse Owens of Chicago, is charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl, Lucy Lugo, and Raymond Govia, 27, after abducting them from a West Side apartment. Police say Owens held them for seven hours and released them today after robbing a night watchman earlier.
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Chicago
Jesse Owens
South Side
Owens
Lucy Lugo
West Side
Jamie
Ramona Lugo
Raymond Govia
Govia
Miss Lugo
Gavin
Stateville Penitentiary
Demonstrators Rally as Whites Attack in Meridian Philadelphia
In Philadelphia Mississippi civil rights marchers join 300 Negro demonstrators outside the Neshoba County Courthouse while 1 000 whites behind barricades taunt and threaten. Martin Luther King Jr leads the protest calling for respect and rights across Mississippi amid hostile crowds and gun patrols.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Neshoba County
America
Stokley Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Canton
U.S. 51
Tougaloo
Memphis
James H. Meredith
Mississippi
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Freedom
Five Complaints Filed in First Week of Grungry County Board
Grundy County Supervisor Eugene Sorensen says the Board of Review has received five complaints in its first week of meetings. The board will continue to meet Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays through August 1.
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Grundy County
Supervisor of Assessments
Eugene Sorensen
Board of Review
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