Powell Faces House Education Wing Power Battle
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's future as chairman may be decided Thursday by 10 Republican members. Rep. Sam M. Gibbons leads a bid to strip Powell of power, proposing an executive panel of six subchairmen. If all Democrats vote, Gibbons needs 16 votes. Powell insists he will prevail.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
House Education and Labor Committee
GOP
New York
Powell
Sam M. Gibbons
D-Fla
Gibbons
House
John W. McCormack
Corn Festival Queen Contest at Grundy County event
The Corn Festival Queen and a king will be chosen for the Grundy County Corn Festival and Corn and Flower Show. They will ride in the parade on Sunday and receive $10 prizes plus attend a senior citizens dinner at Morris Country Club. Entries must be submitted by 1 p.m. Saturday at Morris Chamber of Commerce, 104 W Washington St.
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Grundy County
Morris Country Club
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Washington St
Morris
North
Division Sts
Morris Business District
Liberty St
Rock Island
Dick Stump
Herald
Aurora
Jackie L. Starky
McLean
Ill
Richard L. Miller
Ottawa
Charles E. Limbach
Braceville
Alice Ziarko
Maryland
Steve Butcher
Frances Humphries
Chicago
Miss Steffes
Immaculate Conception Church
Lloyd Bowden
Mt. Carmel
Finland Funeral
Rites Today for Valerie Percy
Kenilworth Illinois investigators build case in Valerie Percy murder. Police say a piano bench was near a French door used by the intruder and the killer may have entered quietly. State authorities FBI Chicago detectives and 32 leads assist Kenilworth officers as Valerie’s wake draws thousands.
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Kenilworth, Ill
Valerie Percy
Percy
Robert M. Daley
Valerie
Kenilworth
FBI
Chicago
Lake Michigan Shore
Daley
Percys
Loraine
Chief Daley
Lake Michigan
Weather outlook for Morris with mild temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy skies tonight with a low near 60. Wednesday should be mostly sunny in the lower 70s and Thursday with little temperature change. Collins Weather Station logged 70/60 yesterday. 9 am 62 downtown Morris at 11:30 am 66.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Cracker Box Derby Set For Saturday
The annual Cracker Box Derby will run Saturday at 10 a.m. on Franklin Street in Morris between North and Jackson with boys from local grade schools building non streamlined cars under strict rules. Inspectors issue post numbers at 9 to 10 a.m. and entrants must stay under ten dollars in cost with rubber tires and wheel locks. First and second place trophies will be awarded.
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Akron
Ohio
Franklin St
North
Jackson Sts
Morris
Harlem school opens as teachers protest Negro principal swap
In New York City Harlem a new five million dollar model school opens despite a strike over the replacement of white principal Stanley Lisser by Black assistant Beryl Banfield. Teachers picketed and parents demand integration and local control, while Banfield agrees to assume duties.
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New York
Harlem
Beryl Banfield
Murray Hart
Board of Education
Stanley Lisser
Brooklyn
Zoning Hearing Set for Morris Sept 28
Morris residents may register approvals or objections to a proposed zoning ordinance at a public hearing at 7 30 p m Sept 28 in Morris Community High School. Opinions filed in writing or spoken become part of the record for later review before the plan goes to the City Council. Copies of the ordinance are available at city hall, the Morris Public Library and the Morris Chamber of Commerce.
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Morris
Morris Planning Commission
Morris Community High School
Planning Commission
City Council
City Hall
Morris Public Library
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Surveyor 2 Aims For Moon Landing Thursday Night
Cape Kennedy reports Surveyor 2 launched on a 63 hour voyage toward the moon to photograph a potential landing plain and scout a site for future astronauts. Engineers monitor a tight countdown and track the spacecraft as it nears Sinus Medii Central Bay for a possible soft landing and TV relay.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Flight Control Center
Sinus Medis
Robert Gray
Sanford
Gray
Surveyor 2
Benjamin Milwitzky
Surveyor
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth
Moon
Surveyor 1
Morris Community High School Budget Hearing Planned
A public hearing on Morris Community High School yearly budget is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the school to discuss proposed funding and allocations.
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Morris Community High School
County Teachers Meet Here Friday
More than 300 Grundy County teachers and administrators will attend a fall workshop in Morris on Friday. The event, sponsored by County Superintendent Arthur V. Meadors, features elementary and secondary sessions with talks by Dr. John B. Adams and Dr. Robert Topp, plus multiple specialist groups and hosts from local schools.
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Grundy County
Morris
Arthur V. Meadors
Garfield School
Morris Community High School
Meadors
John B. Adams
Aurora Public Schools
Adams
Martha Slater
Lucille Werner
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Robert Chord
Morris Center School
Werner
Phyllis Ferrell
Elk Grove School
Arlington Heights
Marjorie Johnson
Mazon
Lavina Nelson
Minooka
Lorraine
Robert H. Radcliffe
University of Illi
nois_ Circle
Gerald Eisold
M. D. Peterson
Argonne National Laboratory
Edwin Keene
Gardner
Conrad E. Carroll
Illinois State University
Robert Crane
Don Kaufman
MCHS
Dale Wise
Arthur Juan
Joe Riggs
William R. Ferguson
Festival Queen Contest Winners Named by Morris Chamber
Five Grundy County high schools announced noon today the Festival queen and attendants for Corn Festival. A. Frank Leathers of Morris Chamber of Commerce introduced one winner per school for senior class. crowns to be presented at halftime during Morris Community High versus Hall Township of Spring Valley game.
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Grundy County
A. Frank Leathers
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Morris Community High School
Hall Township
Spring Valley
Morris
Peggy Gorman
Linda Finland
Beverley MoeClintock
Linda Telfer
Mazon
Janice Work
Shirley Finch
Sharon Williams
Kandyce Knibbs
Minooka
Catherine Roberts
Bernadette Rapp
Carol McDonald
Myra Spencer
Coal City
Sharon Tenney
Carol Davy
Nancy Ferrari
Gail Valiente
Gardner-South Wilmington
Marilyn Chase
Maureen Olson
Patricia Yatuni
Judy Harrop
Diana Steffes 16 Dies After Rural Grundy County Crash
Diana Steffes sixteen of Morris dies from internal injuries after a two car crash near Interstate 80 in Grundy County. The collision at a Saratoga Town House road intersection also killed two occupants in the Harding car. Autopsy set for today.
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Diana Steffes
Morris Hospital
Grundy
Diana Lynn Steffes
Rte. 4
MCHS
Saratoga Town House
Illinois 47
Steffes
Morris
Robert
Kathleen) Harding
West
Jefferson St
Harding
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Marcia Trenter
George Finkboner
National School
Minneapolis
Minn
Diana Steffel
Morris Daily Herald
Diana
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