City street bond defeats total $985000 in four wards
Voters rejected two street improvement bonds totaling $985000 with no tax increase. The $590000 Armstrong St upgrade lost 1489 to 717 while the $395000 Lisbon N Liberty project fell 1388 to 827. Turnout 2230 with notice of canvass tonight.
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Armstrong St
Lisbon St
N. Liberty St
Donald Caisley
Kiersted St
Illinois-Michigan Canal
Rock Island Tracks
Waverly St
Adams St
High St
City Hall
Masonic Temple
Telfer
Hexhall
Lisbon-N. Liberty St
Fires suspected arson in Coal City area three blazes
Illinois Department of Law Enforcement investigated three fires in Coal City area early Sunday. A mobile home at Coal City Area Club a corn crib on Thomas Berta farm and an unoccupied home on Dresden Road were destroyed or damaged with undetermined causes. A separate Braidwood blaze destroyed half a rooming house on Main Street caused by a faulty furnace.
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Illinois Department of Law Enforcement
Division of
Coal City
Grundy County
Main St
Braidwood
George
Rural Morris Man Critical After One Car Crash
Allan O Leranger, 22, of Route 5, was reported in critical condition after a 1 22 a m crash on U S 6 east of Ridgecrest. His 1964 Chevrolet left the road, struck two utility poles, and became wedged with a pole atop the car. He was thrown from the vehicle and pinned under the right rear wheel. Rescue crews freed him as wires were cleared and the road reopened around 2 40 a m.
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Ridgecrest Subdivision
Knight
Morris
Morris Hospital
Davis Ambulance
Allan O. Leranger
Rte. 5
Leranger
Sheriff's Department
Seranger
O’hagan
Grundy
Commonwealth Edison
Olson
Arco Wrecker
Ruby C. Mitchell
Maryville
Tenn
Doris Mitchell
Dwayne Mitchell
Aurora
Douglas Mitchell
Round Lake Beach
Robert M. Hanna
Judy Hanna
Terri
Todd
Mitchell
Hanna
Illinois
Chicago
Gregory B. Stanton
Margaret
Stanton
Clayton Raffelson
San Diego
Calif
Volkswagen
Evert Poyner
U.S. 6
Walker’s Corner
Wesley L. Wing
Liberty St
David E. Goodale
Marseilles
Wing
Goodale
Kevin P. Nagengast
Ashley Road Bridge
Nagengast
Morris teen injured in rollover on Pioneer Road
A 17 year old Morris girl Rhonda Pellegrino in fair condition at Morris Hospital after her 1968 Volkswagen rolled end over end on Pioneer Road near U.S. 6 Sunday evening. She was alone and later treated and released by her parents.
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Morris
Morris Hospital
Pioneer Road
U.S
Rhonda Pellegrino
Mooseheart Drive
Pellegrino
Gardner Road
Northern Ireland paralyzed by protest across Belfast
Thousands of Protestant workers walked off jobs as electricity failed and trade halted across Northern Ireland. IRA factions denied a truce while Protestant Vanguard forces rallied 20,000 outside Belfast city hall demanding restoration of the suspended provincial parliament with expanded powers.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
City Hall
Craig
Court sets aside Partin conviction
A federal judge vacated Edward Grady Partin's three antitrust conspiracy convictions and ordered a new trial on the extortion conspiracy charge. Partin, Baton Rouge Teamsters boss, faced a five week Georgia trial on venue grounds. The judge cited juror exposure to hearsay related to a fifth charge later dismissed.
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Atlanta, Ga
Louisiana
Teamsters
Edward Grady Partin
Partin
Baton Rouge
James Battin
Billings
Mont
Battin
Georgia
Bartin
Siciliano Named to Pay Board by Nixon
Roc co C. Siciliano former president of a Los Angeles holding company and undersecretary of commerce named by President Nixon as the sole business representative on the revamped Federal Pay Board. The seven member all public panel will include four other members who volunteered to resign. Siciliano 50 a Salt Lake City native served in Eisenhower and Nixon administrations and led the T I Corp.
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Washington
Rocco C. Siciliano
Los Angeles
Nixon
White House
Camp David
Maryland
Gerald L. Warren
Siciliano
Salt Lake City
Eisenhower
T.I. Corp
Special meeting called by Morris Grade School board president
Mrs Ronald Bell president of Morris Grade School District 54 calls a special meeting for 11 30 a m Wednesday at Franklin School to discuss personnel changes for the 1972 73 school year.
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Ronald
Rose Marie) Bell
Morris Grade
Board of Education
Franklin School
Morris aldermen to weigh zoning for 50 low income housing units
Tonight the Morris City Council will consider a zoning change for 50 units southwest of Hi Park Subdivision. The Morris Planning Commission, by 7-1 vote, recommends annexing a 10 acre tract for R-III multiple housing and requires the Housing Authority of Grundy County to improve Du Pont Ave and install water and sewer to the west boundary. The 10 acres are under option until April 21 at 5000 dollars per acre. A three hour public hearing drew about 200 residents with debate over federal funding and social effects.
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Hi-Park Subdivision
Grundy County
Morris Planning Commission
Housing Authority of
du Pont Ave
Donald Gilchrist
R. W. R. Properties
H. Scanlan
Office of Housing and Buildings
Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs
James Stine
al Pilch
Wallace Burroughs
Morris Area
Atty. John Zerboglio
Coal City
Vernon DeGrush
Mazon
Scanlan
Tracy Adcock
County Housing Authority
Stine
Adcock
HUD
Arthur Hornsby Jr
Planning Commission
City of
Morris
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D. C
Elizabeth Tinman
Dresden Road
Pine Bluff Road
Art Trotter
Boyd
William Fleming
Wilmington
Braceville
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Grundy Area
Union St
Minooka
Narvick Bros. of
Morris Daily Herald
N. Ireland
Ulster Vanguard Movement
Vanguard
William Craig
UNION
Ted F. Dunham Jr
Dunham
Hi- Park Subdivision
Austin Bollen
Bollen
US. Housing and Urban Development Agency
Hornsby
Angie Patti
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