U.S. Confronts North Vietnam in Paris Peace Talks
In Paris, Ambassador Harriman accused North Vietnam of moving substantial and increasing troops into the South while urging Hanoi to take steps toward peace. He outlined U.S. demands to restore the demilitarized zone, honor Laos neutrality, allow South Vietnam to determine its future, and cooperate on Southeast Asian development.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Hanoi
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
Johnson
Congress
Harriman
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Laos
Southeast Asia
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Jr College Plans Move Ahead With New Campus
Board to authorize architects for schematic drawings in two phases for a total campus cost of 13,927,072 and 3,500 full time equivalent students. Temporary campus discussed. President Elmer Rowley to present civil technology curriculum.
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Junior College District 525
Elmer Rowley
Major Strike In France Fails to Paralyze Nation
In Paris and across France a first nationwide general strike under de Gaulle began with unions students and opposition leaders. By midday disruptions were limited with trains flights and city traffic affected sparingly while the Viet Nam peace talks proceeded unimpeded.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Vietnam
Open House at Dresden Lock Saturday in Armed Forces Day observance
Eight Illinois Waterway locks from Chicago to LaGrange south of Beards town including Dresden Island near Morris will open to the public Saturday for Armed Forces Day. Visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with tours and observation areas open. Other locks listed include Thomas J. O'Brien Lock Brandon Road Joliet Marseilles Starved Rock Peoria and LaGrange. Road signs will guide visitors. Chicago district of the Army Corps of Engineers oversees operations.
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Illinois Waterway
Chicago
LaGrange
Beardstown
Dresden Island
Morris
Army Corps of Engineers
Thomas J. O’brien
130Th St
Lockport
Brandon Road
Joliet
Marseilles
Starved Rock
Utica
Peoria
Operators Refuse To Send Men Back To Mines
In Hominy Falls West Virginia mine operators refuse to send workers back to the Gauley Coal and Coke Co No 8 mine until rescue crews locate ten men believed drowned in a flooded shaft. Twenty five men were trapped May 6 when a Maust subsidiary crew breached the abandoned McKenzie shaft. Fifteen were rescued after five days entombment. ten remain missing and presumed dead.
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Hominy Falls
W.va
Sewell
Gauley Coal and Coke Co
Maust
McKenzie
C. E. Richardson
Three Injured In Accidents This Weekend
Morris police reported three accidents over the weekend causing injuries to three people. Dennis A. Bryant, 17, was treated at Morris Hospital after a motorcycle crash in the bowling alley parking lot on Bedford Road. Harold G. Rowland, 22, suffered a damaged car and loose front teeth after his Ford left Division Street and hit a utility pole. he was cited for DUI with a May 27 court date. Judy B. Farley, of Joliet, received 30 stitches for a foot gash after a motorcycle skid north of the Self Locking Plant and was also hospitalized.
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Morris
Dennis A. Bryant
E. Jefferson St
John Hutchins
East St
Harold Crumb
Morris Hospital
Bedford Road
Harold G. Rowland
Jefferson St
Division St
Rowland
Morris City
Robert L. Lynes
Judy B. Farley
Joliet
Ronald L. Murphy
Mild March Weather With Clouds and Showers Expected
The weather page notes mild temperatures under partly cloudy skies. The U S Weather Bureau forecasts mostly cloudy conditions with a slight warm trend and a chance of showers or thundershowers tonight, with a low in the 50s and highs in the 60s to near 70 on Tuesday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Randolph Urges Law Support at Eagles Dinner
Ross Randolph director of the Illinois Department of Public Safety urged civilians and officials to back law enforcement at a Freedom Under Law dinner in Morris. He condemned violence and rioting, warned of national doom without enforcement, cited crime costs, and highlighted policing reforms and courage cited by Chicago Mayor Daley. Local officials and visitors attended including Morris Police Chief Donald Ward and Park Ranger Gordon McIntosh who received a law reverence award.
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Ross Randolph
Illinois Department of Public Safety
Morris Fraternal Order of Eagles Club
Eagles Hall
Randolph
Voltaire
United States
Chicago
Richard Daley
Daley
Morris
Donald Ward
Coal City
Gerald Bitner
Robert Georgantas
Joliet
Gordon McIntosh
Illinois Department of Conservation
Gebhard Woods State Park
Morris Eagles
Seville Lovel
Manley Hawks
Illinois
Firearms Owners Identification Division
Department of Public Safety
Russ Fosen
Aage Hansen
Eagles Club
Minooka Legion Auxiliary To Sponsor Poppy Day
Minooka American Legion Auxiliary Post 1188 will sponsor Poppy Day in Minooka on May 24. Members of the Minooka Nimble Fingers 4 H Club will assist in canvassing.
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Minooka
Select Jury To Hear Car Theft Case
Grundy County Petit Jury selected five of twelve jurors by 11 a m to try Anthony Insolata a 24 year old Chicago man charged with the January 3 theft of a 1961 Ford leased to Donico Vending Inc from the Coffeehouse Restaurant near Dwight. Circuit Judge Walter Dixon said the trial would last three days with sessions Monday Wednesday and Thursday.
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Anthony Insolata
Chicago
Grundy County
Petit Jury
Eugene Golimowski
Jackson St
Robert Ollerman
Donald Gilchrist
Fremont Ave
Dennis Gill
Grant St
Ben Bernstein
McKinley St
Walter Dixon
Insolata
Ford
Donico Vending Inc
Illinois Ave
Coffeehouse
U. S. 66
Illinois 47
Dwight
Union Rejects Federal Paper Contract Votes 325 17
The Local 292 union rejected a new contract offer by 325 to 17. Negotiations resume Tuesday between Federal Paper Board Co officials and Local 292. The current two year pact, extended in 1967, expires Sunday night. 541 union members are represented. Ray Dolan said another vote will occur before the deadline, date TBD.
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Federal Paper Board Co
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
Ray Dolan
Wedding Prank Delays Louisvilles Ceremony
Just 30 minutes before his wedding Larry Judd faced a prank as friends found his missing shoes and painted HELP on the soles. An audible titter rose from the church crowd as Judd knelt at the altar.
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Louisville
Larry Judd
Judd
Illinois survey lists $38 million in new Morris area projects
The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce survey details 20 larger projects and 30 major projects for early 1968. Morris area investments include a $15 million air separation plant by Burdett Oxygen Co and a $12 million ethylene oxide plant by Northern Petroleum and Chemical Co. Other items include a $5 million Reichhold Chemicals site near Morris and a $15 million GE radiated fuel reprocessing plant near the Dresden site.
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Morris
Economic Development Department
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
Burdett Oxygen Co
Cleveland
Reichhold Chemicals, Inc
Detroit
Northern Petroleum and Chemical Co
General Electric
Dresden
R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Dwight
Poor People Converge on Washington for Resurrection City
In Washington Abernathy began the Resurrection City shelter project with a stake driven into the grass, signaling nonviolent construction for about 3,000 demonstrators. The Poor Peoples Campaign launched with a May march led by Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and NWRO, drawing 2,000 to 3,500 participants from diverse communities.
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Washington
Ralph David Abernathy
Resurrection City
Abernathy
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congress of the United States
Martin Luther King Jr
E. J. Prete
Nationwide
Welfare Rights Organization
NWRO
Clerks Error Narrowly Impacts Speck Murder Case
Illinois State's Atty. John J. Stamos said he will seek a correction from an Illinois Supreme Court justice after a clerk misentered the trial record. The error allegedly dismissed six murder indictments against Richard Speck, leaving only two murder charges. Speck was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 14 1966 nurse dormitory killings.
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Chicago
John J. Stamos
Illinois Supreme Court
Richard Speck
Speck
Merlita Gargullo
Valentina Pasion
Peoria
Stamos
Champaign Teacher Killed Wife Critical After I-55 Crash
Gerald Zeedar a 42 year old chemistry teacher at Central High School Champaign died in a car crash on InterState 55 north of Gardner. His wife Carol 27 is in critical condition with possible head and spinal injuries and multiple contusions. A seven month old son Mark Zeedar survived with no injuries and is under observation. The driver could not be determined and both adults were ejected from the vehicle. An inquest will be held later.
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Champaign
Gardner Road
Gerald Zeedar
W. Healey St
Morris Hospital
W. Clark Davis
Carol
Mark Zeedar
Davis
Glen Ellyn
Zeedar
Central High School
Davis Funeral Home
Morris
Heath Memorial
Grundy
McElroy
Gardner
Patterson
Braidwood
Youth Pleads Innocent in Five-Murder Arraignment
Thomas C. Fuller II, a Charleston high school senior, pleaded innocent at arraignment on five indictments charging him with killing the Cox children. William Cherikos asked for jury trials on each count, with trial set for June 3.
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Charleston, Tit
Thomas C. Fuller II
William Cherikos
Harry S. Hannah
Circuit Court
Fuller
William Cox
Mattoon
Cherikos
Hannah
Ostrem Appointed Part Time City Marshal
Paul Ostrem formerly with the Morris Police Department from February 1964 to May 9 1966 was named a part time city marshal. He resigned to join U S Rubber Co Joliet but will keep a full time post there and was re hired with mayoral approval due to staff shortages. Chief Ward said Ostrem will be on call rather than assigned a fixed shift.
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Paul Ostrem
Morris Police Department
Ostrem
U. S. Rubber Co
Joliet
Donald Ward
Aage Hansen
Ward
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Cook County
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