U Thant Weighs Staying On As UN Secretary General
U Thant said he would consider remaining as secretary general until year end if a successor is not chosen by November 3 when his term expires. He noted East West relations are at a new low and that UN action on disarmament is hindered. He questioned an Asian Viet Nam peace conference and outlined his unhappiness with the post being seen as a glorified clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations, N. Y
U.N
U Thant
World Organization
Thant
Viet Nam
General Assembly
U.S
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Rusk
Pope Paul VI
Dwight area signals bid highlights and highway projects
Champaign Asphalt Co. bid 6 641 to furnish and install flashing beacons at the Signal Ahead signs near Dwight as part of 13 024 551 in eight Springfield bid settings. Ugland Construction Co. bid 129 527 to repair two grade separation structures carrying U S 6 over U S 66 near Channahon in Will County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign Asphalt Co
Champaign
U. S. 66
Illinois 47
Dwight
Illinois Division of Highways
Springfield
Ugland Construction Co
Joliet
Tuberculin Testing Under CODE Continues in Morris Area
CODE tuberculin testing moved through Morris after a first Sunday. A total of 1244 people were tested with x ray and skin tests at Bedford Plaza Morris Savings and Loan lot and Nettle Creek School. Today units are at the shopping center Dresden nuclear station and Federal Paper Board. Minooka site moved to fire station with tests planned Wednesday and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Code Office
Bedford Plaza
Morris Savings and Loan Association
Nettle Creek School
Dresden Nuclear Station
Federal Paper Board
Minooka
Weather forecast for Illinois with scattered thundershowers
The day brings scattered thundershowers across parts of Illinois with near seasonal temperatures. Rain should end today with a partly cloudy night and a low around 60. Tuesday starts partly sunny near 70, and Wednesday looks warmer. Collins Weather Station reports 75/50 Saturday and 77/55 Sunday with Morris at 66 rising to 69 by noon under cloudy skies.
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Illinois
U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Slayings at Percy Home Prompt Family Target Theory
Kenilworth police chief says Valerie Percy may have been killed to harm a family member with no signs of burglary. Valerie’s mother Loraine found her daughter dead in bed as siblings slept nearby. Investigators from Cook County, FBI, Chicago police tease leads from fingerprints and crime lab findings.
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Kenilworth
Ill
Valerie Percy
Valerie
Robert M. Daley
Charles H. Percy
U.S
Percys
Sharon
Gail
Daley
Percy
Lake Michigan
North Shore
Chicago
Loraine
Cook County
State’s Attorney’s Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chicago Police Homicide Division
Crime
Distribute Food Next Monday in Grundy County
Commodities will be distributed next Monday at five locations and times in Grundy County. Eligible recipients include those with public aid or those certified by the Grundy County Department of Public Aid. others should apply via their county supervisors. Bring containers and authorization ecards.
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Grundy County
Minooka Fire House
Morris City Hall
Coal City Village Hall
Gardner Farmers Elevator
Braceville Village Hall
Five Foxes Injured After Yorkville Game
Yorkville High School Foxes suffered injuries from a Saturday loss to Kaneland as five starters were out including David Avenarius with a neck injury. Four players missed classes with one in traction at Copley Memorial Hospital. others suffered a bruised chest bone fractured wrist twisted elbow and pulled Achilles tendon.
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Yorkville
Yorkville High School Foxes
Wilmington
Kaneland
Foxes
Copley Memorial Hospital
Aurora
Yorkville High School
David Avenarius
Copely Memorial Hospital
Arthur Avenarius
Plattville
Louis Nauman
Dale Walker
Gary Bullock
Jerry Ferris
Walker
Brent Ekwinski
Dennis Hastert
Enrollment Tops 28,103 at Illinois Urbana Campus
The University of Illinois announces a record enrollment of 28,103 students at the Urbana Champaign campus, marking a new high for the university system.
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Urbana, Ill
Urbana- Champaign
University of Illinois
Verona Couple Injured In Coal City Crash
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clavey of rural Verona were injured at 12:30 a.m. Sunday when Clavey lost control of a 1965 Pontiac on West Division Street and hit a public service pole. They were taken to St. Joseph Hospital Joliet. Clavey released with a head injury, Mrs. Clavey remains in fair condition with internal injuries. Car severely damaged and towed to Buzz's Standard Station.
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Coal City
Donald Clavey
Verona
Clavey
W. Division St
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Rule Out Arson in Embassy Fire In Manila
An embassy official ruled out arson as the cause of a $250,000 fire that destroyed the commissary and several warehouses in the Manila embassy compound Sunday. The spokesman said an electrical fault apparently caused the blaze.
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Manila
U.S
Two Morris Women Die in Weekend Collision
Two elderly Morris residents died in a two car crash Sunday afternoon near Morris. Mrs Kathleen Harding 74 and Miss Irene Fitzgerald 81 were killed when Harding’s 1965 Chevrolet struck Miss Diana Steffes vehicle at the Saratoga Town House Road intersection with a gravel road near Illinois 47 and Interstate 80. Steffes, daughter of Mr and Mrs Wesley Steffes and a Morris High School junior varsity cheerleader, was found in guarded condition with multiple injuries after her car veered into a soybean field. The accident remains under investigation with a yielded sign at the scene.
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Morris
Robert
Kathleen) Harding
W. Jefferson St
Irene Fitzgerald
Fulton St
Saratoga Town House Road
Illinois 47
Aux Sable
Steffes
Morris Hospital
MCHS
Grundy County
Richard Pierce
Irene R. Fitzgerald
Clarion
John M
Henrietta (Watson) Fitzgerald
Clarion Normal School
Columbia University
Bisbee
Ariz
United Presbyterian Church
Effie McKinley
Alida C. Bliss
DAR
Morris Woman’s Club
Morris Hospital Aid Society
John H. McClow
California
John B. Westfall
Robert Koza
Glendora
Calif
George Myer
John M. Fitzgerald
Detroit
Mich
Fred F. Fitzgerald
Redlands
Cal
Mazon Boy and Dog Found After Three Hour Search
A 10 year old boy Steven Walker and his dog were found at 6 15 p m Sunday after a three hour search in the Mazon area. He disappeared from the Feed Bag Restaurant around 3 p m while with his father. Neighbor reports and aerial help aided the hunt before the boy was located at the Horras farm four miles east of Mazon.
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Mazon
Steven Walker
William Walker
Walker
William Mount
Grundy County
Horras
Dies of Burns
Tommy Johns aged 1 died Sunday after being burned critically in a fire that destroyed the family home in Canton Ohio.
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Canton, II
Tommy Johns
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IELD
Weather Bureau
U.S. Weather Bureau
Sec
Ond
Herald
F. F. Fitzgerald
Davis Funeral Home
Roy Hamburger
West Hartlepool
England
John and Mary (Flesher) Clark
Robert Harding
Hartlepool
United States
St. Louis
Morris Paper Mills
Hospital Aid Society
Frank
Molly) Franz
DeKalb
Charles Clark
Great Yarmouth
Wilford Gunn
Manchester
Mazon Boy
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