Door to door Corn Festival button sale planned Tuesday
Music students from Morris Community High School or Shabbona School will canvass Morris areas Tuesday evening for 1972 Corn Festival buttons. Proceeds fund school music departments with 10 cents per 50 cent button, and buyers gain admission to festival events and fireworks prizes.
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Kris Stangland
Morris Community High School
Grundy County
David Smith
John Hendrickson
Morris
Morris Music Boosters
Stanley Cade
MCHS
Charles Hammond
Kris
William Stangland
St. Corn
Herald
Shabbona School
Bob Seamen
Minooka
Illinois River
Seamen
Chamber
Joint school programs proposed by Morris district officials
Administrators from Morris Community High School Morris Grade School and Saratoga Grade School plan kindergarten through high school coordination. A board meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday will discuss these plans, a proposed 1972 73 tax levy and a new business manager to unify systems and cut costs.
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Morris Community High School
Morris
Saratoga
McHs Board of Education
Board of Education
Harold Sutter
MCHS
Robert Chord
H. Dale Barr
Morris Grade
Shabbona
Little Seven
Probe Chicago vote fraud widens federal inquiry
Federal officials led by U S Atty James R Thompson continue a broad probe into alleged mass vote fraud in Cook County The investigation centers on thousands of voter records and signatures provided by Stanley Kusper Jr Chicago Board of Election Commissioners chair and follows a Chicago Tribune report of more than 1000 violations found during an undercover review The county grand jury previously indicted 18 people on election related charges and Kusper acknowledged voting irregularities but cited limited resources for full investigations
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Chicago
U.S
James R. Thompson
Cook County
Thompson
Stanley T. Kusper Jr
Chicago Board of Election Commissioners
The
Chicago Tribune
Election Board
Tribune
Kasper
Kusper
Atty
Edward V. Hanrahan Kusper
Weather Summary for Dresden Island Area and Morris
Forecast calls for today mostly cloudy warm and humid with showers and thunderstorms likely. Tonight showers and thunderstorms likely with a low in the lower 60s. Tuesday mostly cloudy and cool with a chance of showers or thunderstorms highs in the 60s. Weekend at Dresden Island Locks and Dam recorded 71 degrees Saturday and 51 low. Sunday 79 high 54 low. At 7 am Morris downtown 63 degrees and 11 am 72 degrees.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Kissinger Tho Talks Collapse in Moscow and Paris Drift
Kissinger began talks in Moscow with Soviet officials but the effort to also meet Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam collapsed when Tho flew to Paris. Tho said he had not met Kissinger in Moscow but did not rule out a Paris meeting. Kissinger planned three days of sessions with Brezhnev Kosygin and Gromyko as US officials assess Soviet relations amid Vietnam arms talks and security issues.
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Moscow
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
North Vietnam
Tho
Paris
Kissinger
Nixon
John Negroponte
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.S
Vietnam
West Germany
Willy Brandt
Brandt
East Germany
Police detain three Arabs after Munich Olympic raid links
German police announced three Arab suspects including a woman were held as they checked Munich Airport on the Olympics final day. Investigators linked the trio to the raid that killed Israeli hostages, while autopsies showed the terrorists shot the hostages after the attackers opened fire.
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Munich
Olympic Village
Les Arends Luncheon Draws Illinois Officials in Morris
State officials including Illinois Secretary of State John Lewis attended a Les Arends luncheon at the Morris Holiday Inn with women from 10 counties of the new 15th District. The event mixed music and politics as Arends urged support for the Republican ticket in 1973 and praised Nixon's policies.
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Leslie Arends
Morris Holiday Inn
Walter Phillips
Wilbur Brown
Grundy County
Russell
Betty) Woodrich
Streator
Republican Central
Woodrich
Les
Phillips
Brown
Herald
Illinois
John Lewis
15Th Congressional District
House of Representatives
Ford
Livingston
DeKalb
Putnam
Marshall
Kane
Woodford
Grundy
LaSalle
Kendal
Richard
Ogilvie
America
Jerry Keck
Pontiac
Lewis
Arends
William Stratton
Hope McCormick
Chicago
Gwen Sherrick
James Anderson
17Th
Charles Hamm
Ford County
Robert Mitchler
James B. Holderman
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Carl Hunsicker
Richard Nixon
Nixon
White House
North Vietnam
George McGovern
Lewis S
Congress
State Central
Edith Morgan
Kane County
Walter J. Phillips
Morris
Annette Noren
DeKalb County
Mary Middleton
Morgan
Mary Bricker
Hazel Watson
Ilinois Federation of Republican Women
Lucille Goodrich
Livingston County
Eleanor Benson
Jerry Wilson
Stella Graves
Kendall County
Dorothy Serrine
Putnam County
Marjorie Rosetti
Marshall County
Robin Cohenour
TARS
Roberta
Rebecca Herman
Ken
Woodford County
Firemen resign in Limestone over fire chief dismissal
Officials in Limestone Illinois near Peoria sought new volunteer recruits after 30 firefighters resigned over the dismissal of Fire Chief Lionel Burns. With 13 on the force the discontented firefighters demanded the two trustees who voted to oust Burns resign to return.
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Limestone, Ill
Peoria
Lionel Burns
Burns
Morris man held on felony forgery warrant in Angelton
Robert Goodlet, 21, of Morris, was arrested Saturday afternoon by city police after LEADS showed a felony forgery warrant in Angelton, Texas. He is held in county jail awaiting extradition to Texas. Goodlet was previously arrested March 15 for burglary and sentenced to three years probation with six months in jail, released Aug. 23 early for good behavior.
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Robert Goodlet
Morris
Goodlet
Angelton
Tex
Texas
Morris Receives 7405 From State Motor Fuel Tax
The City of Morris is allotted 7405 as its share of the motor fuel tax paid into the state treasury for August. Grundy County receives 19555 with 19219 allotted to road districts and townships in the county.
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Morris
State Treasury
Department of Transportation
Grundy County
Israeli diplomat wounded in Brussels cafe shooting
A gunman named Mohammad Rabah wounded Israeli diplomat Zakok Ophir in a Brussels cafe. Ophir, 42, was hit five times in the liver, ear, and shoulder, operated on, and remained in danger. Police searched for the assailant as Belgian authorities investigated possible Moroccan ties.
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Brussels
Zakok Ophir
Mohammad Rabah
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Morris Daily Herald
Les Arends
Holiday Inn
Olympic
Hans Klein
James Washburn
Tom Park
Washburn
Richard Ogilvie
Stratton
GOP
Edmund Kucharski
W. Robert Blair
Park Forest
Edward McBroom
Kankakee
Senate
George Ryan
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