Romania Again Holds Fast to West Germany Ties
In Sofia the Warsaw Pact leaders gather amid strains over Romania’s defiance of bloc line by recognizing West Germany. Brezhnev Kosygin Grechko meet Ceausescu after Bucharest walkout, as topics include a proposed nuclear treaty and Vietnam.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Communist
Romania
West Germany
Bucharest
Budapest
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei A. Greyko
Andrei A. Grechko
Vietnam
Brezhnev
Ceausescu
Two Fires Kill Nine in Houston
Nine people died in two adjacent Houston East Side fires during the night with investigators suggesting possible arson. Firefighters reported charred bodies and found a two story rooming house ablaze three blocks from the first scene as crews battled for an hour.
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Houston
Tex
Donald Hanks
Local Leaders Hear Challenge To Illinois Business Leaders
E. Stanley Enlund told a Joliet dinner crowd that social welfare and economic change will require business leaders to guide state destiny with broad awareness. He urged adaptation to a scientific and cultural revolution while citing Illinois as a key export state and the fusion of American industry and agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Stanley Enlund
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn
Joliet
Enlund
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Ership
Morris
William T
Bill) Jacobs
William B. Norton
First National Bank of Morris
Clifford A. Berglund
Plainfield Tool & Engineering, Inc
Coal Guy
Dwight
Elwood
Frankfort
Gardner
Lemont
Lockport
Manhattan
Mazon
Minooka
Mokena
Monee
New Lenox
Plainfield
Wilmington
Illinois
Potomac
Washington
Springfield
Lester W. Brann Jr
State Chamber
Chamber
Dick Apland
Organizational Service
Jack Beatty
Marseilles Police Chief James Fleming resigns
Chief James Fleming 24 of 214 Pearl Street resigns as head of the Marseilles police department after a hastily called city council session. Mayor David Guthrie cites resignation for a better paying position amid reports tied to an early morning Lincoln Street accident. Fleming reportedly paid a $20 fine and $5 costs for failing to keep his car under control.
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Marseilles
James Fleming
Pearl St
The
Herald
David Guthrie
Fleming
Lincoln St
Guthrie
Magistrate Division
LaSalle County
Darrell Davis
Chester P. Winsor
Yorkville Area To Vote on School Unit
Voters in Yorkville Community Consolidated Grade School District 15 and part of Plattville District 52 will decide Saturday on establishing a grade one through 12 unit. Polls open 12 noon to 7 pm at four precinct sites including Bristol Grade School and Plattville Grade School center.
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Yorkville
Plattville
Yorkville Community
Plattville Community
Bristol
Kendall County
Illinois 47
Weather sighted stills and warming trend forecast
The U S Weather Bureau reports fair and colder tonight with a low in the mid twenties. Thursday will be sunny and warmer with a high in the mid forties and a gradual warming into the weekend. Collins Weather Station recorded a Tuesday high of 52 and low of 30, with morning readings at 31 and 35 in Morris, and weekend showers bring total precipitation of one third to two thirds inch.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Newark Meeting by Hingis Junior College District 525
Board members meet at 8 p.m. Monday at Newark High School to discuss district matters with an agenda to be announced later.
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Hingis Junior College
Newark High School
Sheriff bans hat from police uniforms
LOS ANGELES AP reports Sheriff Peter J. Pit chess says women officers complained hats spoil bouffant hair. He announces the hat shall not be part of the uniform citing fashion concerns.
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Los Angeles
Peter J. Pitchess
63 Die As Air France 707 Crashes In Guadeloupe
Rescue teams reach Matouba Mountain wreckage where all 63 aboard the Air France Boeing 707 perished en route from Caracas to Paris with stops in Lima and Quito. Passengers include Mrs. Zeckendorf and travel agency partner Joseph Rosenbluth. Witnesses described a low approach and explosion near Pointe A Pitre.
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Pointe-A-Pitre
Guadeloupe
Air France
William Zeckendorf
Matouba
French West Indies
la Soufriere
Raizet
St. Claude
Santiago
Chile
Paris
Luis Guillermo Medina
Caracas
Venezuela
Lima
Peru
Quito
Ecuador
Caribbean
New York
Marjorie Campbell
Zeckendorf
Knives Found in Cook County Jail Federal Tier
Police raided the federal tier at Cook County Jail in Chicago and found knives and cooking utensils. The tier houses U S marshal custody inmates in 39 cells after a Cook County grand jury report described conditions as deplorable.
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Chicago
Cook County
U.S. Marshal
Third Caterpillar Election Thursday in Joliet
Striking workers at Caterpillar Tractor Co. Joliet vote Thursday for a new three year contract after 19 hours of talks. About 5,000 union members have staged the longest Joliet plant strike since 1950, with broader effects on some 6,000 others. Polls open after a contract changes briefing at the Rialto Theatre.
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Caterpillar Tractor Co
Joliet
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Gene Glover
Roger Kelley
Rialto Theatre
Chicago St
Emptiyes
Florida Education Association
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Steel City
Washington Teachers’ Union
Capitol
Kennedy declines to join McCarthy delegate walkout
Senator Edward Kennedy refused to join Massachusetts Democrats in resigning as delegates to avoid voting for Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic National Convention. President Johnson will not run in Massachusetts primary or have a stand-in. Speaker John McCormack says he will resign as a delegate candidate rather than vote for McCarthy.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
U.S. House
John W. McCormack
McCarthy
McCormack
Miners Trapped After Mine Hoist Fire in Louisiana
Twenty one salt miners were trapped 1 200 feet underground after a fire damaged a hoist at the Cargill Salt Mines near Calumet Belle Isle on the Louisiana coast. A spokesperson said no communication existed and danger level was unknown.
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Calumet
Louisiana
Cargill
Belle Isle
Here
Oklahoma and Nationwide Teacher Walkouts Press Salary Demands
Teachers across Oklahoma Manchester New Hampshire Florida Pittsburgh and Wellston Missouri stage walkouts or protests over pay. Oklahoma officials discuss a 37 million tax and school financing plan offering a 1300 pay raise over three years. Pittsburgh arrests mark a broader strike momentum.
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Oklahoma
Manchester
N.H
Florida
Pittsburgh
Oklahoma Education Association
Dewey Bartlett
Bartlett
Oklahoma City
Insulin Murder Trial Ends with Judge to Rule
Los Angeles nurse William Dale Archerd awaits a Superior Court ruling three months after a nonjury trial ended. Archerd faces three insulin murder charges for the deaths of Zella Winder Archerd, Mary Brinker Post Arden, and his nephew Barney Kirk Archerd, denying all counts as his case proceeds.
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LOS Angeles
William Dale Archerd
Archerd
Adolph Alexander
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Zella Winders Archerd
Covina
Mary Brinker Post Arden
Chino
Calif
Claremont Colleges
Pomona Valley Community Hospital
Barney Kirk Archerd
Long Beach
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Graying Archerd
Los Angeles County
Camarillo State Hospital
U S Air Force C123 Downed Near Khe Sanh
Communist shelling of Khe Sanh base eased as gunners shot down a U S Air Force C123 transport during fighting around the Marine base. It was unclear how many crew and troops were aboard. Across South Vietnam U S forces reported 110 enemy killed in three clashes as 50 000 enemy casualties were tallied in ongoing operations.
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Saigon
Khe Sanh
U.S
South Vietnam
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
da Nang
U.S. Army
Americal Division
Ca Mau
25Th Infantry
Planning Commission to Meet on Zoning Topics in Morris
Grundy County Planning Commission is to meet at 3 30 p m today in the community room at First National Bank of Morris. Discussion will cover Goose Lake trailer park compliance with new ordinance, three township plats for Mazon Maine and Erienna Townships, and Aux Sable Township zoning proposals.
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Grundy County
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Morris Hospital
Germany
Irving A. Shears
Newark
Paris Match
South America
Tony Saulnier
Hubert Herzog
Maurice Herzog
Don Sotanski
Kennedy
McCarthy Bolt
Associated Press
Manchester Educational Association
St. Louis
Wellston
Board of Education
Claude Kirk
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