Nixon ends rail strike amid nationwide service restart
The 13,000-member AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen ended a two day walkout after President Nixon signed legislation ending the strike. Freight trains resumed within hours, mail embargo lifted, and labor and industry officials predicted full service would return by morning. The outage affected coal mines, automakers, steel and perishable goods, with stock markets reacting and calls for broader emergency-strike legislation.
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Congress
Nixon
Penn Central
Signalmen’s Union
New York Stock Exchange
Commission mulls overhaul to unlock HUD funds in Grundy County
Grundy County Area Planning Commission plans a major restructuring to meet HUD criteria for area planning agencies. A meeting with county boards and HUD officials is set after HUD rejected a prior funding request tied to Coal City sewer connections.
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Grundy County
Gardner
HUD
Federal
County Planning Commission
Daniel Beal
Planning Commission
Charles McDonald
Lake airport ban bid dies in Illinois Senate panel
Illinois Senate Agriculture and Conservation Committee voted 9-6 to kill a proposed third Chicago airport in Lake Michigan after House approval. Democrats favored keeping study options open while Republicans cited unfavorable lake-site feasibility reports. Opponents warned of pollution and water quality impacts, noting a new Mississippi River region airport was planned.
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Springfield
Ill
Senate
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Agriculture and Conservation Committee
House
Will County
Bernard Epton
Richard Newhouse
Newhouse
Lake Front
Epton
Weather outlook turns cooler after warm day at Dresden Island
A weather summary notes mostly cloudy skies with wind and showers today and a risk of brief thunderstorms. Highs reach the upper 70s then drop this afternoon, with tonight turning much colder and a low near 50. Thursday brings partly sunny skies and cooler highs in the lower 60s. Tuesday recorded a high of 86 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam with a 66 low. At 7 am today the temperature was 70.
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Dresden Island Locks
Assumption School to Close After 50 Years in Coal City
The Assumption Mothers Club hosts 2 to 4 p.m. open house at the Coal City Lions Hall to mark the school closing. Final graduation is June 3, 50 years after the first commencement on June 3, 1921, with three Sisters on staff for the end and start of the era.
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Assumption School
Coal City
Herald
Assumption Mothers Club
Coal City Lions Hall
Dominicc’s
Chicago
John McInery
Bernard Bonino
Sisters of St. Joseph At
LaGrange
Louis Henke
Seotta Horan
Frank Hrebik
Viola Kneipkamp
Helen Leufken
Abraham Mush
Sylvia
Marilynn
Pete DiPaolo
Diane Cieslak
Juanita Blake
David Bates
Lesa Grimen
Donna Pantaleone
MCHS Announces Graduation and Baccalaureate Schedule
James Skinner and Kurt Salems will be valedictorian and salutatorian for the 1971 Morris Community High School class, with about 200 graduates. Baccalaureate is set for 8 p.m. Sunday June 6 in the MCHS gym, followed by commencement at 8 p.m. Monday June 7. Clergymen Rev Giese and Rev Baxter will give the address and benediction, respectively.
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James Skinner
Kurt Salems
Morris Community High School
Skinner
Laurance Skinner
Robinson Drive
Salems
Earl Salems
Maple Drive
MCHS
Morris Ministerial Association
First Methodist Church
Kevin O’connor
Joseph Aldridge
James Kinzig
Roy Hamburger
Willard Giese
John Baxter
Giese
Baxter
Morris
Illinois River self purification study announced for summer
The Illinois State Water Survey will study the upper Illinois Waterway from Cook County downstream through Brandon Dresden Island Marseilles and Starved Rock pools to assess self purification capacity. Dr. William C. Ackermann said results will guide pollution controls and water quality management. A field test of surface aerators to boost dissolved oxygen during stress periods is planned after a feasible design is developed.
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Illinois
Cook County
Brandon
Dresden Island
Marseilles
Starved Rock
William C. Ackermann
Illinois State Water Survey
Board of National Resources and Conservation
Aurora
Peoria
Pollution Control Board
Ackermann
Peoria Laboratory
LaGrange
LaGrange Pool
Fire destroys barn and beans near Seneca
Firefighters from Seneca Marseilles and Morris saved four farm buildings and a home from a blaze that started in a barn at the Tom Reardon Jr. farm in Malires township six miles north of Seneca. Chief Belden said spontaneous combustion from wet hay caused the fire. the barn and its soy beans burned while adjacent structures survived.
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Seneca
Marseilles
Morris
Jack Belden
Tom Reardon Jr
Malires
Belden
Morris and
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James A. Griffin
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