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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1968
Page
3
Ron Bernard, Newark Community High School senior class reporter, discusses the final installment in a series about the senior class officers. The article notes the vocational question facing students and previews coverage of the Minooka Community High School group next week.
Bill Mason of WGN will emcee an Ag Evening School program at Seneca High School at 7 30 p m Monday. The event features futures trading in agricultural commodities with Chicago traders. Mason has a long radio and farm background and aims toward a future in mechanical or military work.
Plattville notes announce a 7 30 p m Sunday screening of the color feature Without Onion at the Plattville Lutheran Church hosted by the Luther League. Lead actor is John Washbrook from My Friend Flicka with special musical numbers and free admission.
Connie Utley gave birth to an 8 pound 2 ounce boy on Leap Day February 29 1948 in Salt Lake City. The child named Russell D Utley won t celebrate his fifth birthday until 1988 matching his mother born Leap Year Day.
Australia supplies a major amount of titanium and has beaches nearly pure with the ore. The note highlights the abundance of the mineral along coastal areas.
Washington AP Two Republican governors urge Rockefeller entry to GOP race warning Nixon faces a draft push. McCall of Oregon and Agnew of Maryland seek broad moderate backing and a round robin petition by March 19 to press Rockefeller in Oregon. Volpe cautions no guaranteed uncommitted consensus at the Governors Conference.
Farm product prices rose one per cent in the month ended February 15, led by higher cattle and hog prices. Cotton and lettuce fell, while prices paid by farmers for goods and services climbed to a record high. Meat animal prices rose six per cent, with overall farm prices at 74 per cent of parity goals.
Circuit Judge Leonard Hoffman and Ward Sisler were re elected to Rainbow Council officers and executive board for 1968 69 at the Joliet meeting Tuesday. Re elected were Edward Strasma of Kankakee president W J Charlton of Kankakee vice president Robert McQueen Joliet vice president Sisler treasurer Robert Fabek Lockport and Al Levering Joliet council commissioner plus national representatives Judge Hoffman Clarence Bergeron Strasma Morton H Hollingsworth and Robert Leckrone Joliet Sisler named Shabbona District chair Grundy County Joseph Durak Morris joined the executive board.
Directors of the Self Locking Employes' Credit Union and the Morris Paper Mills Employes' Credit Union joined about 110 attendees at the Tri-County Chapter of Credit Unions dinner meeting and workshop in Ottawa. Notes highlighted reports by Harold T. Welsh Alvin P. Liesse and George West with three division workshops led by Illinois Credit Union League staff. The next chapter session is an annual meeting March 26 in Ottawa with Samuel Moore as program chairman.
The national water area expanded from 24 000 square miles at the end of the first census to about 66 000 square miles today.
Vegetable prices rose five percent while feed and food grains increased two percent. The report notes broader price pressures affecting households and farmers.
Applications are invited from the Air Force for employment as Air Reserve technicians at O'Hare International Airport. Technicians serve as civilian employees with civil service benefits and as Air Force Reservists with military rank. Contact the state employment office or the U S Civil Service Examiners at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport for details.
Salina AP report notes George P F Chlebak art instructor at Kansas Wesleyan College objects to March 1 birth date change on his driver's license. Chlebak, born February 29 1936, argues a Kansas statute allows Feb 29 birthdays to use the first day of March for drivers over 65 or those seeking license changes.
Chlebak quotes Docking insisting his birthdate is February 29, 1936, while the department warns that using Feb 29 would confuse computer systems. He calls any other date invalid and insulting.
A rural Decatur woman was shot and killed on Thursday and her daughter was reportedly kidnapped. Leslie Galiher, 40, of Decatur, was arrested in St. Louis with the victim’s daughter, Donna Dratwick, 33. Galiher faces a concealed weapon charge. the victim was identified as Mrs. Fred P. Baker, 68. The husband found the body on returning home.
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