Lisbon Homecoming Parade Highlights 1973 Queen and Winners
The Lisbon homecoming parade featured Gina Giannotti as queen with a court from Lisbon and nearby areas. Fifty parade units competed, with top floats from West Lisbon Lutheran Church and Lisbon groups, plus prize winners in commercial, mini float, and old car divisions. Attendance surpassed last year’s 1500 as skydivers and Soap Box Derby were canceled due to weather.
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Lisbon
Gina Giannotti
Roy Giannotti
Sherri Walker
Thomas Walker
Karen Hauge
Tilman Hauge
Shelley O’brien
Earl O’brien
Carrie Buck
Galen Buck
Gina
Newark High School
Aurora
Kendall County
VFW Post
Plattville
Mariam Circle
West Lisbon
Hathorn Inspection Station
Brian Johnson
Don Baudino
Mary Ann Williamson
Tammy Urbanik
Rickie Heylek
Morris
Newark
Ladies Aid of
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
James Brooks
Plattville No. 2
Plattville No. 1
Minooka
Ransom Firemen
Tire theft at Morris Holiday Inn parking lot
The Morris Police received a report at 9 42 p m Sunday of a tire and rim stolen from a vehicle in the motel north lot valued at 80. Lou Berger of 733 Fremont Ave reported a missing blue and white AMF bicycle from his porch on Saturday or Sunday night. Richard Woodcock of 311 W Odell Gardner reported a missing tackle box valued at 300 from his boat near the garage.
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Morris Holiday Inn
Morris Police
Lou Berger
Fremont Ave
Morris
Richard Woodcock
W. Odell, Gardner
Grundy County
Weather outlook and record heat at Dresden Island
Mostly cloudy and humid today with showers and storms. Highs in the mid 80s and a warm night with intermittent showers. Wednesday expected to stay cloudy with more showers or storms and highs near 80. This August saw a high of 96 on the 27th and a low of 50 on the 25th with 83 units of precipitation, the driest since 1948.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Man Falls From Courthouse Ledge in Grundy County
Rick Shannon 23 escaped serious injury after slipping from the second courthouse ledge while pulling a TV antenna wire. He struck a fence guard and a window, hung onto a wire cage, then fell to the ground. He was treated for minor back cuts and muscle and disc injuries.
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Rick Shannon
Grundy County
Shannon
Hurricane Delia Heads Toward Texas Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Delia nears the upper Gulf Coast and could strike between Port Arthur and High Island as forecasters warn of 5 to 7 pm landfall. Evacuations expanded along the Sabine Pass area, Bolivar Peninsula, and Brazosport beaches while 6 foot waves hit Galveston shores and Christine weakens offshore.
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Galveston
Tex
Delia
Texas
Gulf Coast
Port Arthur
National Weather Service
High Island
Sabine River
Upper Texas Coast
Louisiana
Galveston-Freeport
Sabine Pass
Louisiana Line
Bolivar Peninsula
Galveston Bay
Brazosport
Freeport
Pete Collins
Christine
Caribbean
Leeward Islands
Illinois Gov. Walker grants state workers collective bargaining rights
Governor Daniel Walker issued an executive order granting state employees the right to organize and bargain collectively in Illinois. It allows joining unions without reprisals and the right not to participate in bargaining groups, but it preserves the current prohibition on strikes. The move labels Illinois as the fourth state to extend public employee bargaining, covering workers under the governor and those funded through the Department of Finance.
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Springfield
Ill
Daniel Walker
Walker
Illinois
Inter
Department of Finance
Narrow boating escapes near Morris during Labor Day weekend
Two boating mishaps near Morris over Labor Day weekend left four men safe after a motorboat struck a barge beneath the Illinois River Bridge at 12 15 a m. The crew swam ashore while on shore help aided another victim. A fifth person, Barbara Mauer, was treated at Morris Hospital for arm and hand cuts from propeller contact while another boat skidded out of sight.
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Morris
Illinois River
Grundy County
Stratton Park
Continental Grain Co
Ron Schroeder
S. 78Th Ct
Bridgeview
Alan Love
Schroeder
Jeffery J. Allen
W. 81St St
Jim Manske
Harlem Ave
Mark Hansen
Helm Rd
Barrington
Barbara J
Tim Neary
Morris Hospital
Coal City
Eileen Grady
S. Kedzie Ave
Chicago
William Sklut
Inmates Free Three Prison Guards After 35-Hour Siege
Indiana State Prison ends a 35 hour uprising as three guards are released unharmed. Leader Orlester Beverly says protests over overcrowding and conditions triggered the revolt while Gov. Bowen agrees to amnesty and warden Lash outlines reforms including an independent ombudsman and improved food medical services and isolation cells.
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Michigan City
Ind
Indiana
Orlester Beverly
Arthur W. Jaques
Donald W. Schultz
Joseph S. Kujawski
South Bend
Russell E. Lash
Otis R. Bowen
Lash
Bowen
Robert DeBard
DeBard
Beverly
Holiday Toll at 524 in Labor Day Weekend
The National Safety Council says 524 people died in traffic accidents nationwide over the three day Labor Day weekend. Earlier, estimates ranged from 550 to 650 fatalities for the period ending Monday midnight local time. The prior Labor Day toll was 580, the highest since World War II until 1968's 688. In the first six months of 1973, 26,500 people died in traffic accidents.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
The
Safety Council
Zoning Board hearing on Bower Home Sales rezoning request
Grundy County Zoning Board of Appeals will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Grundy County Courthouse to hear the Bower Home Sales petition to rezone 20 acres along Illinois 47 north of DuPont Road from A agriculture to BP I commercial.
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Grundy County
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Kimberly Thorson
Donna
Linda Mickelson
Scott Anderson
Marcee Rehberg
Melissa
Roxanne Rehbert
Peter Buck
Fred Wehling
Sandwich
Newman Olson Jr
Willys-Knight
Newman Olson Sr
Franklin
International Fire
Seagraves
John Sell
Tom Fletcher
New Radio
William Button
June Wix
Motorola
Sheriff Button
Herald
Morris Daily Herald
ADM Grain Co
River Road
Richard Jefferis
Ugland Construction Co
Joliet
Jefferis
YES
North States Oil CO
Rte
Lake Charles
New Orleans
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