Ex-Marine says he helped three Americans escape Brazil
Alan A. Hulsey described flying to a mountain airstrip near Anapolis with Oliver C. Kavanaugh to aid Joseph A. Truhill, Joseph McCutcheon, and Sam Sexton Jr. in a jailbreak from a Brazilian prison. The trio, convicted on trumped up smuggling charges, were freed and flown to Dallas after posing as cattle buyers and bypassing guards.
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Richardson
Tex
Alan A. Hulsey
Rio
Hulsey
Dallas Morning News
Brazil
Joseph A. Truhill
Dallas
Joseph McCutcheon
Sam Sexton Jr
Fort Smith
Ark
Truhill
Rio Grandino Kruel
Federal Security Police
Oliver C. Kavanaugh
Irving
Anapolis
Brasilia
Joe
Kent Biffley
Federal Department of Public Security
Kruel
Rio de Janeiro
U.S
Grade School Parent-Teacher Meetings Set
Morris elementary sets a series of meetings with parents and teachers. The first, for grades 5 and 6, is scheduled Wednesday night at Center School. Superintendent Kenneth Hammer notes the purpose is to explain grades work and school rules.
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Morris
Center School
Kenneth Hammer
Franklin
Garfield
Lincoln
Stine
McKinley
Franklin and Garfield
Opdyke
Center
Robert Cohenour
Hammer
Painting Found In Trash Can At Grant Park
An anonymous caller guided police to a trash bin along Grant Park near the Art Institute of Chicago where the Renaissance painting Madonna and Child with St. John by Correggio was recovered. The work suffered a vertical crack and minor abrasions but is repairable, with authorities noting the thief targeted this piece specifically.
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Chicago
Correggio
Grant Park
Michigan Avenue
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute
Charles C. Cunningham
Institute
James Melby
Melby
Cunningham
Stanley Bazarek
Crime Laboratory
Alfred Jakstas
Museum
Carmichael Speech Draws Bush, Reagan Battle Lines
Governor Brown and Ronald Reagan condemn Stokely Carmichael after his Berkeley rally where he urged “say to hell with the draft.” Carmichael, 25, called for ending conscription as 14,000 students cheered his black power stance amid debates on war policy and leadership in the Negro community.
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Berkeley
Calif
Edmund G. Brown
Ronald Reagan
Stokely Carmichael
University of California
Carmichael
Reagan
CBS
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Viet Nam
Weather outlook with freezing temperatures and snow flurries
The forecast calls for a freezing night with lows in the 20s and 30s and a cloudy cold day. Tuesday remains cloudy and windy with a chance of light showers or snow flurries and a high near 40. Wednesday stays cloudy and cold. The Collins Weather Station reports 50/21 Saturday and 52/39 Sunday, with 9 am at 50 and 11 am at 56 in the Morris district. Sunrise Tuesday at 6 25 am and sunset 4 47 pm.
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U. S
Collins
Morris
Coal City Couple Injured in Crash
Four Grundy County accidents over the weekend left three injured. John Taylor 43 and his wife Betty 38 of Coal City were hospitalized after a one car crash on S Broadway. Taylor suffered facial injuries from a shattered windshield and both were admitted in fair to good condition.
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Grundy County
Coal City
John Taylor
S. Broadway
Betty
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Reeves
Low Bid on Signs For Interstate 80 Project
A bid of 321,384 by National Advertising Co. for furnishing and erecting traffic signs along 16.88 miles of Interstate 80 from Joliet to Harlem Ave was reported by Public Works Director Francis S. Lorenz. Engineers will analyze the bid before award as the final of eight 1966 settings. A total of 242 bids were received on more than 80 projects.
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National Advertising Co
Bedford Park
Larkin Ave
Joliet
Harlem Ave
Illinois
Dirksen Undergoes Hip Surgery at Walter Reed
Senator Everett Dirksen Republican leader had surgery to remove pins and a plate from a hip injury suffered in a spring fall. A Walter Reed spokesman said his post operative condition was good.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Illinois
Corn Field Fire Near Lisbon Road No Damage Reported
Morris volunteer firemen answered a 12 20 p m call to the Silas Johnson farm three miles north on Lisbon Road and one mile west of town. The blaze was in a harvested corn field but did not reach unharvested corn and caused no damage.
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Ronald H. Kohler
Rte. 1
Oswego
Zacher
John Carpenter
Ottawa St
Morris
Walkers Corner
Charles Hawkins
Chicago St
Joliet
Guinea Relaxes Restriction on U S Ambassador Visit
U S Ambassador Robinson McIlvaine was allowed to leave his residence for the American chancery with no guard after a Sunday house arrest in Guinea. Pan Am manager G Lambert Ronstrom remained restricted to his home as protests and anti American demonstrations occurred before the embassy. State Department officials noted the arrests were retaliation for Ghana detentions, while Guinea cited no U S responsibility.
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Washington
Guinea
U.S
Robinson McIlvaine
State Department
McIlvaine
American Chancery
Foreign Ministry
G. Lambert Ronstrom
Pan American Airways
Ghana
Katzenbach
Dean Rusk
Asia
Abdoulaye Babody Barry
Morris Community High Honors 51 Seniors on First Six Weeks List
The first six weeks honor roll at Morris Community High School includes 51 seniors 13 juniors 28 sophomores and 28 freshmen with about 26 percent of seniors 7 percent juniors 14 percent sophomores and 13 percent freshmen. A and B honor roll names are listed for each class and include seniors Bill Haas Jean Weidner and many others.
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Morris Community High School
Supt
Claude Rose
Bill Haas
Jean Weidner
Andrew Anderson
Mary Ashcraft
Kay Benson
Judy Laing
Bonnie Jones
Peter Malmquist
Thomas Redmond
Donald Ryder
Jean Anderson
Sandra Bartlett
Jeann Biagioni
Frank Black
Barbara Borchett
Brenda Bradley
Sue Broderick
Diana Cain
Mary Cheshareck
Roger Cleeton
Linda Cotter
David Dorheim
Sherry Drum
John Finland
Julia
Patti Odom
Joyce Peterson
Judy Peterson
Phil Royle
William Sanders
Nancy Steen
John Tibbett
Marcia Trenter
Shari Viland
James Waters
Steve Wills
Diana Avalos
John Bruder
Janet Carlson
Sharon Enrietta
William Graham
Bradley Hayes
Ray Kopczick
Keith Laughary
Patricia Olson
Sigrid Pohl
Jay Roth
John Trucano
Pam Ziegler
Gayle Claypool
Mary Jo Diederick
Robert Haldorson
Susan Harris
Douglas Hunter
Susan Jones
Marcia Kitterman
Patti Maland
Barry Morgan
Peggy Olson
Virginia Pack
Linda Peacock
Sherry Pope
Richard Purdue
Lucinda Rose
Keith Salems
Terry Sampson
Krystal Scott
Richard Scott
Leila Siedsma
Kris
Kerner Lists Major Illinois Industrial Projects for 1966
Gov Otto Kerner named four large developments in Illinois announced in the third quarter of 1966 including an 83 million Commonwealth Edison nuclear plant at Dresden and a 15 million GE nuclear fuel recovery project. Also listed were a 120 million Granite Steel modernization at Granite City and a 16 million Donnelly printing plant at Mattoon.
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Morris
Illinois
Otto Kerner
Commonwealth Edison Co
Dresden No
General Electric Co
Kerner
Granite Steel Co
Granite City
Mattoon
R. R. Donnelly and Sons
Department of Business and Economic Development
Judge weighs crash expert testimony in Pierce-Coal City trial
Chief Circuit Court Judge Howard C. Ryan considered allowing University of Wisconsin professor Archie H. Easton a vehicle crash reconstruction expert to testify in the Pierce-Coal City Trucking Co. case. Easton offered an outline of his potential testimony at the defense's request. The suit seeks at least $108,000 for injuries claimed by Chief Deputy Richard Pierce after a collision with the trucking company's truck.
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Howard C. Ryan
Pierce-Coal City Trucking Co
Archie H. Easton
University of Wisconsin
Illinois
Ryan
Easton
Coal City Trucking Company
Richard Pierce
Father, Two Sons Born to Death
MILWAUKEE AP A factory foreman died in a suburban St Francis fire trying to save his two sons. John G Butash 31 was found with his sons John Jr 1 and James 6 months after smoke overtook their bed room. The wife Juanita 21 escaped through a window and alerted neighbors.
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Milwaukee
St. Francis
John G. Butash
John Jr
James
Frank Frederick
Butash
Juanita
Babcock, Wis
Johnson Welcomed by Massive Seoul Crowd in Farewell East Tour
Two million people packed Seoul as President Johnson concluded his Far East trip. He praised U S aid to Korea and Viet Nam, vowed to defend Korea if attacked, and urged calm amid roped crowds and throngs.
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Seoul
South Korea
President Johnson
Far East
China
U.S
City Hall
Johnson
Viet Nam
Korea
United States
Demilitarized Zone
Chung Hee Park
Washington
Anchorage
Alaska
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
County meeting on revenue and banking amendments
Grundy County Extension Service hosts a county-wide meeting Tuesday night to explain the proposed revenue and banking amendments on the November 8 ballot. The event at 7:30 p.m. in the Grundy County Courthouse circuit court room features John Henderson Jr. of the University of Illinois and Joe Matteson of the Illinois Bankers Association leading the discussion.
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Grundy County
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