Area Business News Honors Morris Agent for Ten Years of Service
Herbert Wyeth Jr of Morris and Grundy County will receive a 10 year service award at Country Companies convention in Chicago. Wyeth joined in January 1961 and has led the Grundy County agency since December 1968. Edwin Boss receives a corn yield award for 126.3 bushel per acre, entered in Project 200, a nationwide high yield program with over 5 500 growers.
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Herbert Wyeth Jr
Morris
Country Companies
Grundy County
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Chicago
Country Life
Country Mutual
County Casualty Mid-American Fire
Marine Insurance Companies
Country Capital Investment Fund, Inc
Wyeth
Kane County
Edwin Boss
Rte. 3
Stockdale Grain Co
Funk
Boss
U. S
Canada
Morris Glass Drive Boosts Nelson Kidney Fund
Volunteers recruited in Morris as part of a glass recycling drive to aid Steve Nelson a Seneca youth with a kidney ailment. Funds support his home dialysis unit costs with community barrels placed at churches and collection points coordinated by William McGrath. A basketball benefit and a dinner dance fundraise in Seneca further support the Nelsons.
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Morris
William McGrath
Johnson Ave
Steve Nelson
Seneca Township
Illinois Valley Community College
Steve
Clifford Nelson
Main St
Seneca
Passavant Hospital
Chicago
IVCC
Oglesby
Nelson
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
McGrath
Johnson
Seneca High School
Roger Rinaldi
Nelsons
Seneca Education Association
Da-De-Do Country Club
Ottawa
Johnny Kaye
Ronald Wells
SEA
Oak Street
Friday Review notes rescue squad links and tax example
The Friday Review discusses a department operated rescue squad not as a public ambulance and notes possible near elimination of Morris and Grundy County ambulance service if proposed legislation passes. It also presents a reader-submitted farm tax example using Grundy County figures showing $1 634.39 in property taxes on an 80 acre tract and the surprising taxation ratio. Florence Smith
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Keith Bartlett
Morris
Grundy County
Friday Review
Florence Smith
Board buys bus for grade school
Minooka High School Board of Education accepted the lowest bids for a bus body and chassis totaling 9385 at a Wednesday adjourned meeting. Coffman Bros GMS of Aurora bid 4450 plus 200 for power steering and 725 for an automatic transmission. E M Bailey and Sons of Pontiac bid 3800 for blue bird body. Other bids from General Coach Sales Corp Ward Body Chicago Hausman Bus Sales Wayne Body Chicago Truck Equipment Co Carpenter Beady Peoria Superior Coach Sales Superior Body Kankakee Russ Johnson Sales Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minooka
Minooka High School Board of Education
Coffman Bros. G.M.S
Aurora
E. M. Bailey and Sons, Inc
Pontiac
General Coach Sales Corp
Ward Body
Chicago
Hausman Bus Sales
Wayne Body
Truck Equipment Company
Carpenter Beady
Peoria
Superior Coach Sales
Superior Body
Kankakee
Russ Johnson Sales, Inc
Ottawa
Russ Johnson, Inc
Barens Ford
Morris
Bill Jacobs Chevrolet
Joliet
Broadway Ford Garage
Coal City
Hamilton Chevrolet
Plainfield
Fred Emich Ford
Greenway Pontiac- Olds
Minooka Junior High band to receive first place medals
The 43 band students of Minooka Junior High School will be presented with first place medals earned in the Illinois Grade School Music Association District Contest Class D. The band earned a first division rating last Saturday at Monge Junior High School in Crest Hill during the contest.
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Minooka
Minooka Junior High School
Monge Junior High School
Crest Hill
Area School Menus and Holiday Notice
Area schools list weekly meals for MCHS and MORRIS GRACE with daily menus and desserts. Easter vacation begins Wednesday with classes resume April 5. MAZON GRADE AND HIGH shares meal options and a no school Friday.
Minooka Junior High and Grade School Lunch Menu
Minooka Junior High lists Monday to Thursday meals with corn dogs taters applesauce pudding and milk on Monday. Beef stew over rice jello bread butter cookie milk appears for Wednesday and Thursday features macaroni and cheese pickled beets cole slaw hot rolls fruit and milk. Friday has no school with Easter vacation starting. Minooka High School lunch plans include a cheeseburger french fries cake butter milk Monday and varied dishes Tuesday to Thursday with chicken fried steak beef stroganoff and beef Stroganoff followed by buttered noodles stewed tomatoes lettuce salad rolls and milk.
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Morris Grace
Minooka
Minooka High
Minooka Grade School Board meets on petitions for April 8 election
The Minooka Grade School Board District 201 reviews petitions and candidacy statements at a special adjourned meeting for the April 8 board election.
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Minooka
Car theft at Holiday Inn site prompts investigation
Police investigated the theft of a 1971 Chevrolet Vega from the Holiday Inn construction site near Interstate 80 and Illinois 47. Owner William W. Overmann of Plainfield reported the loss at 12 05 p m. A hitchhiker seen with a light green flight jacket may be linked to the theft.
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Holiday Inn
Interstate 80
Illinois
William W. Overmann
Plainfield
Waubonsee College
Classified Ad Secondhand Deals and Bargain Picks
Local readers can shop and save with a spread of secondhand items. Deals include furniture, appliances, and miscellaneous goods advertised at low prices to attract buyers. Contact details and selling terms vary by listing.
Record enrollment boosts 1972 feed grain acreage
A USDA progress report shows 1,764,551 farms enrolled in the 1972 feed grain program, a new record above 1971. The signed base totals 107.4 million acres, 14 percent above 1969’s record, with set asides totaling 37 million acres and two options offering 6.9 and 3.3 million acres respectively to reduce 1972 corn sorghum plantings.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
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Marseilles
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Gerald Flatness
Dennis Martin
Joseph Schuck, Jr
James Paul
Coady Drive
Melvin Hentze
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Minooka Lions Club
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