Red Cross Bloodmobile Set for Morris VFW Hall Visit
The Red Cross bloodmobile will visit Morris VFW Hall next Monday from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm. Mrs. Alan Spangler notes Grundy County residents receive free blood at Morris Hospital and in 42 Peoria division counties, with costs covered by volunteers and contributions. Donors may make appointments at 942-2932. the program relies on volunteers, nurses, labs, and community support to keep costs down.
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Grundy County
Red Cross
Morris Hospital
Ruth Woerner
Center
Peoria
Marilyn Gunderson
Margaret Mossmann
Ruth Olson
Marie Rasmussen
Bonnie Murphy
Gwen Willmington
Beverly Spangler
Grundy County Bloodmobile
Herald
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Morris Vfw Hall
Alan Spangler
County Blood
V.F.W. Hall
Labora
Peoria Regional Laboratory
Grundy County Housing Authority
Saratoga Tower Apartments
June Bollen
NRC issues draft environmental statement on LaSalle nuclear station
NRC staff issues draft environmental statement for Commonwealth Edison LaSalle County Station near Seneca Illinois. Each unit uses a boiling water reactor about 1078 megawatts with cooling lake condensers. Comment by May 22 to NRC Washington D.C. 20555.
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NRC
Edison
LaSalle County
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Commonwealth Edison Company
Illinois River
Seneca
Weather Update Forecast and Readings for Dresden Island
Tonight’s forecast calls for fair skies and warmer conditions with a low near the 40s. Friday should be partly sunny and warmer with a high in the upper sixties. Wednesday’s high reached 50 degrees at Dresden Island Locks and Dam with a 29 degree low. At 7 am today the temperature was 31 in Morris and 10:30 am readings showed 43 degrees.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Polar bear cub learns to swim under mother’s rescue at Brookfield Zoo
Brookfield Ill communities watched a new polar bear cub struggle to exit water as mother Trisha dived and taught swimming. The cubs born last November appeared outside their den earlier this month and the pool had been kept empty until Wednesday. Trisha lifted the cub from the water after the two cubs argued nearby, leaving the frightened animal shaken beside the pool.
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Brookfield, Ill
UPI
Brookfield Zoo
Trisha
Zoo
Morris police and state troopers join Easter Seals telethon
Morris police Sgt. Alan Love and Officer Robert Stansberry along with Illinois State Troopers John Johnson Jim Matteson and Jack O Hagan will volunteer for the Easter Seals 21 hour telethon airing Saturday at 10 PM through Sunday 7 PM on channel 44. They join more than 150 FOP volunteers aiding pledges and fundraising. Calls to donate can be made at 1 725 2194. The Morris lodge underwrites a telephone at 49.25. Other details note national host Jack Klugman and Chicago area support.
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Morris Police Department
Illinois
Alan Love
Robert Stansberry
Morris Fraternal Order of Police
FOP) Lodge 79
FOP Lodge 41
John Johnson
Jim Matteson
Jack O'Hagan
Channel 44
Morris Fop Lodge
Los Angeles
Calif
Jack
Klugman
Oscar
Chicago
Holiday Inn
Ohio St
Jerry G. Bishop
Peoria
Morris
Sgt. Love
Morris Fdp Lodge
FOP
Joseph L. Vertuno
FOP Lodge
Forest Park
Morris Daily Herald Front Page March 30 1978
Morris Illinois Saturday weekly front page item with local notices and brief summaries. Contains generic headings and small community notices without detailed events.
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Morris
Illinois
Judge bars suspect's oral statements in Morris Pizza Hut case
The Grundy County trial of Dennis Willis for armed robbery proceeds as Judge Leonard Hoffman sustains defense objections to police notes and alleged statements. Investigator Lynes testifies Willis acknowledged spending stolen money, knew about the gun, and implicated two other Morris youths, while the defense probes missing report content and the handling of statements. The hearing also addresses why certain remarks were not written or signed, and whether additional suspects were questioned.
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Morris Pizza Hut
Leonard Hoffman
Dennis Willis
Sycamore Rd
Grundy County
Morris
Robert Lynes
Atty
Charles Zalar
Lynes
Willis
LaSalle County
William Surin
Police Department
Atty. Surin
Zalar
Atty. Zalar
Hoffman
Timmy Brown
Hatcher Woods
Brown
Rondell Davis
Liberty St
Davis
James Flood
James Young
Plano
Morris Pizza
MVE Board mulls financing fix with 500000 bonds
At the adjourned Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Board of Education meeting the board discussed funding strains from rising costs and reduced state aid. It favors issuing 500000 in working cash bonds, liquidated over eight years, with about 17 cents per 100 dollars of 1976 district valuation. Alternatives included boosting the general fund, waiting for income gains, merging with nearby districts, or tightening standards. Residents may contact board members or administration with questions.
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Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Board of Education
Carter attacks steel price hike in inflation warning
President Carter denounces a 2.2 percent steel mill price rise by United States Steel and Wheeling-Pittsburgh, saying the April 1 increase raises inflation risks. White House council calls the move unjustified and inflationary, noting energy costs from the coal strike.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Carter
Brasilia
Brazil
United States Steel Corp
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp
White House Council On
U.S. Steel and
Wheeling Pittsburgh
Commission objects to waste plan in Illinois
CHICAGO UP I Sen Charles Percys plan to centralize nuclear waste storage authority in a federal Office of Nuclear Waste drew strong criticism Wednesday from the Illinois Commission on Atomic Energy Dr Paul Petersen director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and a member of the commission said states should share in governing low level radioactive waste sites
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Chicago
UPI
Charles Percy
Illinois Commission On Atomic Energy
Illinois Republican
Springfield
Paul Petersen
Illinois Department of Public Health
Commission
Massachusetts parents win court allowing boy to stop chemotherapy
In Hingham Massachusetts a state judge allowed Diane and Gerald Green to discontinue their 2 year old Chad’s chemotherapy for leukemia The Greens say the treatments are poisonous and favor an organic diet Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital warn the decision may be appealed and could reach the U S Supreme Court The Greens lawyer predicts an eventual ruling at the federal level while the hospital suit to force therapy was dismissed
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Hingham
Mass
UPI
U.S. Supreme Court
Diane
Gerald Green
Chad
Massachusetts
Amnesia victim identified as Mel Karshin of Randolph Mass
Chicago police linked a 33 year old man found in the West Side to Mel Karshin of Randolph Massachusetts after he could not recall his name or origins. Clues from clothing and items pointed to Boston area ties and state by state purchases.
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Chicago
API
Boston
Mel Karshin
Randolph
Mass
Karshin
West Side
Ohio
Indiana
Tanker overturns on I 80 spills sulfuric acid
A 40,000 pound sulfuric acid tanker from Roger Cartage's Trucking Co. overturned at 2 45 p m on I 80 near Joliet while entering eastbound traffic from Illinois 45 causing a chemical spill that took about eight hours to clean. The acid was neutralized with lime and the vehicle moved after pumping out remaining cargo. The driver was not identified and the accident report had not been filed.
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Illinois 45
Roger Cartage’s Trucking Co
Chicago
LaGrange Rd
Joliet
Illinois State Police District 5
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State Troopers
FOP National Board of Trustees
Melrose Park
Vertuno
Providence
R.I
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Morris Daily Herald
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Steel
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John Wayne
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