Fined for Fixing Class Rings in Georgia Case
U S District Court in Atlanta fined Josten's Inc and three other manufacturers a total of 57500 for fixing prices on class rings and graduation items sold throughout Georgia. The four companies did not plead. The case is part of a nationwide series of indictments and settlements involving class ring sales and exclusive school contracts.
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Josten’s, Inc
Owatonna
Minn
Morris Community High School
U. S. District Court
Atlanta
Federal Trade Commission
Georgia
L. G. Balfour Co
Attleboro, Mass
Herff Jones
Morris Daily Herald
MCHS
Josten Jewelry Co
Princeton
Tabler
Supt. Rose
Morris
Herald
Modern Jeweler Magazine
Balfour
Sigma Chi
Phi Delta Theta
Chicago
U.S. Court of Appeals
FTC
EPA checks sludge operation near Norman Township
EPA inspectors from Peoria district and the Pollution Control Board visited a Norman Township site to review an experimental SEMCO sludge operation. They will report to Springfield officials. possible permit revocation could lead to a court action. Odor concerns from neighbors prompted the visit as digestion times vary.
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Norman Township
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Springfield
Peoria
EPA
Pollution Control Board
Chicago
Thomas Z. Rinkach
Joe Hoffman
Rinkach
Soil Enrichment Materials Corp
SEMCO
Dunn Property
DuPont Road
Eugene Sorsensen
Grundy County Building and Zoning Officer
Rinkach and
Hoffman
Dunn Brother
Carl Meyers and
Bennett
Arcola
Rinbach
Friday Afternoon's Morris Daily Herald Continuation
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Weather Outlook With Warm Tonight Then Storm Risk
Forecast calls for partly cloudy and warm conditions tonight with a chance of thunderstorms and lows between 68 and 72. Saturday should be partly sunny with storms possible, continuing hot and humid with highs in the low 90s. Dresden Island Locks high 90 and low 63 were recorded Thursday, 7 am temperature 67, and total precipitation reached .75 inches.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Sludge permit fight in SEMCO injunction case heats up
Defense accuses state lawyer of begging the question as SEMCO argues sludge is fertilizer needing no building or zoning permit. Buck asserts permits for agriculture use are unnecessary and health regulations under the EPA apply. State's Atty Wilder says case not properly before the court. Judge Clydesdale hears motion for temporary injunction to stop sludge distribution on 1300 acres in Norman Township.
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SEMCO
Atty
Richard Wilder
Semco Atty
Richard Buck
Illinois
Buck
Grundy County
Board of Appeals
Sorensen
Zoning Board of Appeals
Wilder
Eugene Sorensen
Chicago
Thomas Clydesdale
Norman Township
Plans Made for Shelter Workshop Special Education Facility
Regular Grundy County Special Education Cooperative meeting at Franklin School studied remodeling a 50 year old wood frame Hume School into a combined Shelter Workshop and Trainable Mentally Handicapped School. Estimated remodeling cost was 42000 dollars with proposals for site near a city and new structure design.
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Franklin School
Grundy County
Randall Highsmith
Coal City
Beebe declared innocent in girlfriend murder case
Kendall County Circuit Judge George Seidel found Thomas Harold Beebe not guilty of the October murder of his 19 year old girlfriend Sherry Lynn Armbrust. A bench trial followed a waived jury trial after Beebe’s December indictment and January plea of innocent. Armbrust, a Joliet Junior College student from Lockport, was found dead from multiple wounds by a .22 caliber weapon.
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Kendall County
George Seidel
Thomas Harold Beebe
Mokena
Seidel
Beebe
Robert Barons
George Troha
Joliet
Sherry Lynn Armbrust
Lockport
Seward Township
Break-in at McElvain Plant Traced by Sheriff
A break-in at the James E. McElvain Construction Co. blacktop plant in Morris led to the theft of small tools valued at 500 dollars. McElvain reported to the Grundy County Sheriff's Department at 6 45 a m. Two small buildings were entered as Deputy Sheriff Donald Davite opened the investigation.
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James E. McElvain Construction Co
Morris
McElvain
Grundy County
Sheriff's Department
Donald Davite
Morris pastor to leave in July
The Rev. Charles Salmon will resign from First Christian Church Morris and move July 10 to Oshkosh Wisconsin to become pastor at the Church of Christ. He is a 1962 Atlanta Christian College graduate and previously served in Savannah Joliet and Morris where the church was formed five and a half years ago. He leaves July 4 as the last sermon date with a replacement search underway.
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First Christian Church
Charles Salmon
Oshkosh
Wis
Church of Christ
Salmon
Atlanta Christian College
East Point
Pine Hurst Christian Church
Savannah
Joliet
Chicago
Mission Service
CDEA
Morris
Masonic Temple
Liberty St
Construction progress reported on Grundy AVC center
A June 16 meeting between architect Kenneth Unteed and contractor sparked progress on the Grundy County Area Vocational Center. Donald Kaufman says the project may miss a September start but most steel roof decks are in and floors poured while metal studding will begin soon. The advisory council approved two instructor contracts. Dennis Grace joins as auto mechanic instructor and Ann Barr as business education instructor. Grace holds degrees from Wisconsin State University and has two years teaching plus one year auto shop experience.
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Grundy County
Morris Community High School
Kenneth Unteed
Champaign
Kaufman
Dennis Grace
H. Dale
Ann) Barr
Grace
Wisconsin State University
Barr
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