Edison adds protection at Dresden nuclear plant
Commonwealth Edison installs a $20 million three part pollution prevention system at Dresden to reduce radioactive emissions by 20 to 25 percent. The system includes catalytic recombiner units on generating Units 2 and 3, charcoal filters, underground gas channels, and a maximum recycler to distill and store remaining radioactive liquids. Completion of filters is expected by mid 1973 with the recombiner ready in fall 1973.
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Commonwealth Edison
Dresden
Arlene Bennyhoff
Leo Burke
Burke
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Bodies Found in Burned Vehicle on Chicago’s South Side
In Chicago, two bodies were found in the luggage compartment of a burned car on the South Side. Identified as Sidney Frankfort, 51, a pharmacist, and his clerk Ann Barton, both shot. Frankfort had been due to testify in Circuit Court on November 17 against two men free on bond for a pharmacy robbery. A third man tied to the holdup was found dead in another burned vehicle on June 18.
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Chicago
Sidney Frankfort
Ann Barton
Frankfort
Christensen
Morris
Lisbon
Morris Community High School
Beaupre
Kankakee
Kankakee County
John Marshall Law School
State Revenue Department
Thankakee County Legal Ai Society
Breaks blamed as light trains aid Chicago crash
Federal officials say on site probe finds new lightweight steel cars fall short of old equipment as two Illinois Central Gulf commuter trains collide near a South Side station. Death toll rises to 44 with 57 hospitalized and hundreds injured. investigation to last months.
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Chicago
John H. Reed
National Transportation Board
Transportation
John Volpe
Reed
Chicago Today
James A. Watts
27Th Street
Watts
Nixon
George McGovern
Pittsburgh
Volpe
Washington
Elizabethport
N.J
Richard B. Ogilvie
Tuesday Afternoon's Morris Daily Herald front page note
The Morris Daily Herald provides the Tuesday afternoon edition details for volume ninety two, number one fifty seven, marking another local issue of the historic paper.
List of 44 Crash Victims by Cook County Coroner
Cook County coroner releases an official list naming 44 victims of Monday's Illinois Central Gulf Railroad crash. Names include Robert Heide Edwin Glazewski Mary Ann Baldino Le Roy Preacely David Topolis Elsie Osborne Clarence Woodring Cynthia Landrum Robert Ryan Mary Powell and others with ages and addresses in Chicago.
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Chicago
Cook County
Robert P. Heide
Avenue G
Walter F. Plocharski
Saginaw Ave
Frank Zuccarelli
Yates Ave
Chiu Mui Yu
S. Harper St
Edwin Glazewski
Burnham
Mary Ann Baldino
Avenue L
le Roy Preacely
Mary Wirlich
S. Avenue H
Herson, Steven
Cynthia Landrum
S. Coles Ave
Robert J. Ryan
Communists Step Up Attacks Across South Vietnam
Communists launched more than 100 attacks in South Vietnam over two days, overrunning Ba To ranger camp and Que Son district town, shelling Da Nang air base, and striking in Quang Tri Thua Thien and Mekong Delta. U.S. B 52s struck supply caches as Hanoi claimed American plane strafed a North Vietnamese boat.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Ba To
Que Son
da Nang
Inces
Quang Tri
Thua Thien
Highway 1
Central Highlands
Dak To
Tan Canh
Kontum
Pleiku
Highlands
Mekong
Highway 8
Rach Gia
U.S
North Vietnam
Radio
Hanoi
Italian air crash kills 27 near Bari farm house
An Italian air liner with 24 passengers and 3 crew members crashed and burned near a remote farm house while en route from Naples to Bari Brindisi. All aboard were killed and three persons at the farmhouse escaped injury as debris ignited.
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Bari
Italy
Fokker
Naples
Brindisi
Absentee Ballot Deadlines for Upcoming Election
The article notes absentee ballots must be requested by Thursday and can be mailed for the November 7 election. In-person voting ends at noon on Saturday, November 4, with ballots available daily in the county clerk’s office from 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m.
District 43 Senate and House Contest Preview
In the November 7 election voters in District 43 choose one state senator and two representatives. Republican Edward McBroom faces Democrat Michael R. Berz for the senate, while Republicans James Washburn and George Ryan compete with Democrats Ray Christensen and Jack Beaupre for the house seats.
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Senate
Edward McBroom
Michael R. Berz
Kankakee
James R
Bud) Washburn
Morris
George Ryan
Ray A. Christensen
Jack R. Beaupre
McBroom
Illinois Senate
House of Representatives
Appropriations
Revenue and Elections
Highway Study Commission
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Edison
Springfield, Ill
Illinois Vehicle Laws Commission
Robert W. McCarthy
Decatur
Dresden Island
North States Oil CO
Rte
Michael Reese Hospital
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois
E. 57Th St
Mary Powell
Margaret Kurzewski
Burnham Ave
Mary
Floyd Fryden
Harper Ave
Constantine Lamperis
Exchange Ave
John Evans
Paxton Ave
Linda Melendrez
S. Green Bay Ave
Edwin J. Shaughnessy
Alicia Lopez
Hoxie Ave
Aurelia Urdiales
Anthony Ave
Carol Frydrychowski
Manistee Ave
Eva Cummins
Escanaba
Maria Martinez
Burley Ave
Sophie Franker
S. Marquette Ave
Nancy Hayes
South Shore Dr
Angelita Deleon
E. 95Th St
Diana Melvin
Marquette Ave
Virginia Kmak
Colfax Ave
Mary Lou Zamudio
Mackinaw Ave
Joyce Lindsey
S. Constance
Violet Lewis
Elgin
Forest Park
Marilyn Singleton
Jeffrey Ave
Pamela Beneturski
E. 83Rd St
Lisa Lyman
Ingleside Ave
Evangeline Homer
Gloria Sinkovich
Anna Smith
E. 71St Place
Arthur Ramirez
Chicago Ave
Alberta Williams
Casmira Borowski
Muskegon Ave
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