Memorial Day Traffic Toll Hits Record
The National Safety Council president urged a billion dollars more annually for highway safety after a record Memorial Day weekend toll of 542 deaths on highways. The period ran from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, with 47 drowning and 93 boating fatalities. Illinois reported 24 highway deaths. two young motorists died in separate crashes near Harvard and Monticello.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
The
Safety Council
California
Alaska
Hawaii
Rhode Island
Vermont
District of Columbia
Pyle
Illinois
Jerry L. Ray
Los Angeles
Harvard
Richard L. Freeman Jr
Champaign
Monticello
Pratt County
Martha Miller
Alto
Reid Addresses Grundy GOP Rally Rally emphasizes limits on federal power
U S Congresswoman Charlotte T Reid of Aurora addressed about 300 Republicans at the Grundy County Moose Lodge rally. She urged realistic limits on federal power, opposed raising the debt ceiling, warned on inflation and creative federalism, and tied Memorial Day to American freedoms. The event featured local and state candidates and was organized by the county central committee, Young Republicans, and Teen-Age Republicans.
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Washington, D. C
Charlotte T. Reid
U. S
15Th
Grundy County
Moose Lodge
Reid
Central Committee
James Peacock
George Michael Lindner
Susan
Boston
Carol Prenzler
Republican Women
Robert Mitchler
Oswego
Harold
Atty. Holderman
Charles Percy
GOP
U.S
Harris Rowe
Ray Page
Prenzler
Robert Cohenour
Barry Leng
Cochairman
James Higgins
Ladies Auxiliary
VFW
Hazel Pawlowski
American Legion Auxiliary
Howard Pinder
Clara Harper
Woman's Relief Corps
Soukup
Wiliam Moran
Department
Dick DePung
Harold Dude
Methodist Church
Two Electrical Faults Triggered Morris Area Blackout
A Sunday night blackout hit Morris and surrounding towns Norway Lisbon and Newark for about one to two hours after a tree fell on a 34 000 volt line from the Dresden nuclear plant and a second fault burned out a jumper. Commonwealth Edison crews restored power, except for one industrial user Material Service Corporation south of Morris.
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Morris
Lisbon
Norway
Newark
Illinois River
Dresden
George Travers
Commonwealth Edison Co
Material Service Corporation
Gemini 9 Set for Orbit Wednesday
Cape Kennedy Florida AP the Gemini 9 crew is cleared to launch on a three day space trek aboard a Titan rocket to link with an Augmented Target Docking Adapter and reach a 185 mile high Earth orbit. Cmdr Cernan and Lt. Col. Staford prepare for practice and a possible lunar Surveyor TV view.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Navy
Eugene A Cernan
Gemini 9
Atlas
Titan
Gemini Twins
Space Agency
Gemini
U.S
Stafford
Cernan
Douglas speaks at Morris rally in Moose Lodge
Sen. Paul A. Douglas arrived in Morris at noon for a Democratic rally at the Moose Lodge, sponsored by the Grundy County central committee. A noon luncheon preceded his 12:30 p.m. talk, with local and area candidates in attendance including Martin Gleason, Atty. John F. Cirricione, and Joe Russell. Douglas previously spoke in Grundy County two years earlier at the Grundy County fair in Mazon.
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Paul A. Douglas
Big Machine Operators End 50 Day Strike
In Chicago the 50 day strike by heavy equipment operators on northeastern Illinois construction projects ended. Local 150 president William F. Martin said some workers returned while others took jobs in Michigan Wisconsin Ohio and elsewhere. A new contract retroactive to Jan 1 raises wages by 1.40 per hour for 4500 members and runs to April 30 1970, ending a wage gap from previous agreements.
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Chicago
Illinois
William F. Martin
International Union of Operating Engineers
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Douglas Brown
Martin
Cook
Lake, du Page
McHenry
Will
Kane
Kankakee
de Kalb
Grundy
Kendall
la Salle
Livingston
Surveyor 1 Heads For Moon Landing After Course Change
Spacecraft Surveyor 1 neared a planned landing in the Sea of Storms after a precise steering maneuver 97,000 miles from Earth. Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials reported proper commands and a hoped for smooth touchdown about 20 miles north of the initial target as final approach proceeds.
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Pasadena
Calif
Surveyor 1
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Surveyor
Memorial Day parade and park weekend in Morris and Grundy Counties
Memorial Day weekend in Morris and Grundy Counties featured cool but clear weather. Stratton State Park drew crowds with campers and boating near four launching ramps noted by a conservation officer. Morris hosted a Memorial Day parade down Liberty Street and services at the courthouse led by local officials and veterans groups, with a full program of marching groups, a color guard, patriotic speakers, and wreath laying.
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Morris and Grundy County
Stratton State Park
Morris Swimming Pool
Donald Caisley
Morris
Liberty St
VFW
Aage Hansen
James Higgins
Department of Illinois
Vern Soukup
Polish National Alliance
Ladies Auxiliary
V.F.W. Post
Air Force Mothers
Sea Scouts
American Legion Post
Girl Scouts
Boy
Alabama Democratic runoff under federal watch in six counties
Federal poll observers monitored the Alabama Democratic runoff in six counties Choctaw Greene Hale Marengo Perry and Sumter to detect Voting Rights Act violations. Negro candidates sought seats in white precincts while hoping for bloc support and high turnout of newly registered Black voters.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Justice Department
Choctaw, Greene
Hale
Marengo
Perry
Sumter
Jefferson
Tuscaloosa
British Built Buses in Havana
Twenty three more British built buses arrived in Havana on Monday and will begin operating immediately. Havana Radio reported 654 British buses already serve the Havana metropolitan area with 146 more vehicles to be added before year end.
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Miami
Fla
Havana
Havana Radio
Sunny Weather Outlook With Mild Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts fair and cool conditions tonight with a low in the 40s. Wednesday should be fair and warmer with a high near 70. Collins Weather Station records show Saturday 70/37, Sunday 64/45, Monday 66/41, with 55 at 9am and 61 at 11am in the Morris district.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris Business
Monk Leaders Seek End to Crisis in Surprise Talks
In Saigon Buddhist leaders met Premier Ky and Chief of State Thieu amid a rising anti government campaign. A teenage girl died by self harm in Hue, the fifth or sixth such protest death, while Thich Tri Quang urged restraint and self sacrifice. U.S. air power intensified strikes across North and central Vietnam as ground operations continued near the Cambodian border.
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Thich Tam Chau
Buddhist Institute
Saigon
Thich Phap Tri
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
Hue
Thich
Tam Chau
Tri Quang
Nguyen Thi van
Thanh Hoi
U.S
Dalat
North Viet Nam
17Th Parallel
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
U.S. 25Th Infantry
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Aurora
Congress
Washington
Great Society
Viet Nam
United States
Lunar
Sen
Douglas
Morris High School
Courthouse
L. G. Hinderaker
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Hansen
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