Morris drivers reach near 3 million accident-free miles
Four Morris area intercity drivers based at Aurora, R. A. Jones, R. R. Keech, W. K. Lewis, and L. D. Starks, as part of Consolidated Freightways safety unit, helped the 69 member team log 2,986,361 consecutive accident-free miles from April 20 to Sept. 23. Terminal manager Vince Vittorio said they were one day from the 3 million mile milestone when an unpreventable accident occurred.
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Morris
Consolidated Freightways
Aurora
R. A. Jones
Rte. 4
R. R. Keech
Rte. 2
W. K. Lewis
Meadows Circle
L. D. Starks
Verona
Vince Vittorio
George Bliss Returns to Tribune as Investigative Specialist
George W. Bliss, 53, leaves the Better Government Association to rejoin the Chicago Tribune as an investigative reporting specialist. A former Tribune reporter 1942 to 1968, Bliss won a 1961 Pulitzer for a 87‑story series on inefficiency and corruption in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago.
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Chicago
George W. Bliss
The
Better Government Association
Chicago Tribune
Bliss
Tribune
Private
Taxpayers
Greater
Kerner home sale under federal grand jury lens
Chicago Daily News reports federal grand juries are probing former Gov Otto Kerner's 1962 sale of his Glenview residence to W J Fowler, then president of Banner Mutual Insurance Co. The deal followed a 1955 purchase for 64 000 and came as Banner faced insurance department scrutiny over profits and related payments.
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Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Otto Kerner
The
Daily News
Kerner
Glenview
W. J. Fowler
Banner Mutual Insurance Co
Fowler
State Insurance Department
Oil painting demonstration by Estelle Fedelle in Peru
The Illinois Valley Art League will host Chicago artist Miss Estelle Fedelle for an oil painting demonstration Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Colonial Trust and Savings Bank meeting room Peru. A coffee hour will follow and the event is open to the public.
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Illinois Valley Art League
Chicago
Estelle Fedelle
Colonial Trust and Savings Bank
Shooting Park Road
Peru
Fedelle
Miss Fedelle
Royal Society of Arts of London
Art Institute of Chicago
Northwestern University
the Institute of Design
American Academy of Fine Arts
Dropout Project Aims National Model In Chicago
Sister Joyce Williams, urban education consultant for the Cleveland diocese, will become director of educational service for the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice in Chicago. She will develop a national model to address high school dropouts after arriving in Cleveland three years ago following 18 years of teaching in Minnesota high schools.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Joyce Williams
Diocese of
National Catholic Conference For Interracial Justice
Chicago
Minnesota
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Coal City
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Tony Vota
Billy Klegman
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Lutheran Church
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