Air Force Maintains Open Mind On UFO Reports
The Air Force says it will not hush sightings and explains what is seen. Project Blue Book has explained 9 501 of 10 147 reports through 1965 and found 646 unsolved cases cannot be matched to known phenomena.
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Washington
Air Force
Donald E. Keyhoe
National Investigations Committee
Pentagon
Keyhoe
House
Gerald R. Ford
Special Office
Congress
Project Blue Book
Michigan
Project Blue Book Information Office
SAFOI
Washington, D.C
Planning Commission to Review Public Hearing Testimony
Morris Planning Commission members will meet at 7 30 p m in City Hall council chambers to review testimony from a recent public hearing on a proposed comprehensive planning map. Meeting open to the public.
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Morris Planning Commission
City Hall
Johnson Warns Of Tax Raise
President Johnson signaled a possible early tax increase to curb inflation possible options include a five to ten billion dollar spending cut or a five billion dollar tax hike. Republican and Democratic leaders weighed the political impact and debated the need to defer or approve tax measures amid Viet Nam spending pressures. Johnson pressed business leaders to slow capital spending while aides studied economy options.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Budget Bureau
Dirksen
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
House
Ways and Means
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Dconn
Senate Finance Committee
Ribicoff
Labor Department
White House
Business Council
Robert H. Fleming
India Receives U S Grain Aid Offer During Gandhi Visit
President Johnson offered India 3.5 million tons of bread grain and invited other nations to match it. He proposed additional aid including vegetable oils and milk powder while Indira Gandhi prepared for talks in New York to seek food relief and long term development support.
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Washington
Johnson
India
Indira Gandhi
New York
U.S
Canada
Bids Open for 79 Highway Projects in Illinois
Illinois Division of Highways lists 79 road projects eligible for bid, due Monday, April 18, led by the state 1966 program. Grundy County has one project FAS 1268 a 1.82 mile surface treatment on a road from Braidwood west. Another project FAS 1271 covers 4.23 miles of surface treatment on a gravel road east from Sheridan in LaSalle County.
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Illinois Division of Highways
Springfield
Grundy County
Braidwood West
Sheridan
LaSalle County
Bell Labs’ W O Baker Wins Priestly Medal
Dr. W. O. Baker, vice president of research at Bell Telephone Laboratories, received the Priestly Medal, the American Chemical Society’s highest honor in chemistry, for his contributions to the field.
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Pittsburgh
W. O. Baker
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Baker
American Chemical Society
FBI Crack Draft Dodging Schemes
The FBI arrested 38 men in dawn raids cracking draft dodging networks in New York and Cleveland. Investigations show fake enlistment papers sold for up to 5,000 dollars, with New York cases involving Solomon Gottfried and Paul Miller who profited from each customer. Cleveland suspects included National Guard members Frank Kovach Jr and Donald Taylor, who allegedly charged up to 600 dollars to route papers to draft boards. The operation coincides with a Defense Department call for 34 600 draftees in May.
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New York
FBI
Cleveland
Akron
Ohio
Chicago
Albany
N.Y
Asst
U.S. Atty
Leonard Pheberge
Solomon Gottfried
Paul G. Miller
Flushing
Queens
Gottfried
Miller
Earl E. Brown
National
Asst. U.S. Atty
James Oaker
Robert D. Spaletto
Wood Dale
Ill
Oaker
Spaletto
Plane crash ends life of Chicago pilot in Lake Michigan
Veteran pilot David Bishop, 56, of Chicago, died after his twin engine plane sank 400 yards offshore when engines failed. Rescue crews reached him but could not revive him, and he was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital after the Lake Michigan plunge.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
David Bishop
Bishop
Coast Guard
Surfside Teens Kidnapping Drives $50,000 Reward
Miami police and FBI race through leads in the Daniel Goldman case as friends form a committee to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of the 18 year old. The kidnapper, seen forcing Daniel from his home, remains unidentified amid ongoing investigations and family anxieties.
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Miami
Fla
Daniel Goldman
Surfside
Miami Beach
Daniel
Temple Raphael
Aaron
Warren Dalrymple
Goldmans
Biscayne Bay
Larry Wardell
FBI
Goldman
Phil Schwitzer
Phil
Sashcard
Congress Adopts Daylight Saving Time Plan
Congress approves a uniform six month Daylight Saving Time schedule starting in 1967. The bill requires regions observing DST to implement from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October and allows states to opt out to stay on standard time if their legislature votes.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Senate House
Weather outlook and recent readings at Collins Weather Station
The article notes cloudy tonight with a mid 30s low and warmer Thursday with highs in the 50s. Friday looks fair and mild with possible light precipitation by the weekend. Tuesday's high was 47 and the overnight low 31, with 0.26 inch of rain and snow measured earlier.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
World Famous Newsman To Speak Here
John Morley world news correspondent from Pacific Palisades Calif will speak at a Morris Club meeting on Tuesday April 19. Dinner with admission tickets at 3 include the address at 8 pm in the MCHS Cafeteria and school auditorium profits go to the Morris Hospital Benefit Fund. Morley will discuss East West tensions and Vietnam era insights from extensive on the scene reporting.
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The
Morris Business and Professional Woman’s Club
John Morley
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Baum
XL Radio Shop
Wheeler's
MCHS
Morris Hospital
Morley
U. S
Bed
South
Viet Nam
U.S. Cavalry Fights Large Communist Force Near Pleiku
Two hundred U S cavalrymen battled near Pleiku as a strong Communist force countered their advance and helicopters were shot down. A captured Viet Cong officer said about 1 000 in the sector. Airstrikes killed many Viet Cong and destroyed buildings.
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Saigon
U.S
Central Highlands
Pleiku
Red Lines
Chu Phong
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Break-In Attempt Reported at Zimmerman Drugs
Nick D Andrea owner of Zimmerman Drugs 218 Liberty St reports to city police at 7 50 a m today that during the evening someone attempted to break in by forcing the front door lock. The burglars were frightened off when the lock held and he discovered the attempted break-in this morning.
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Nick D'Andrea
Zimmerman Drugs
Liberty St
D'Andrea
Six Sites Named for Proposed Atom Smasher
Atomic Energy Commission announced a firm decision to choose a site for the 375 million atom smasher from six recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences. The sites include Ann Arbor Michigan Brookhaven Lab Upton Long Island New York South Barrington or Weston Illinois near Chicago Denver Colorado Madison Wisconsin and the Sierra foothills near Sacramento California. The academy stressed the recommendations were nonbinding on the AEC or on Congress which must authorize the 200 billion electron volt device.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
National Academy of Sciences
Ann Arbor
Mich
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
Long Island
N.Y
South Barrington
Weston
Illinois
Chicago
Denver
Colo
Madison
Wis
Sierra Foothills
Sacramento
Calif
Academy
AEC
Congress
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Morris Community High School
Betty Cornish
Finian McLonerga
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Ron Hamburger
Herald
Chalmers
Field Museum
Tural
Brazil
AP News Service
Rick Merron
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Divison
17Th Parallel Frontier
North Vietnamese Panhandle
da Nang
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