Aurora unrest erupts as mob traps police
A mob estimated at over 150 pelted Aurora police with rocks and bottles injuring four including three officers. Nine people were arrested, including three girls, after authorities, with multiple agencies, contained the northeast city section and closed taverns following clashes linked to an open housing ordinance defeat.
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Aurora
Ill
Kane County
St. Charles City
Albert D. McCoy
Donald Hutchinson
State
St. Charles
Open Pantry
William Vandemark
Vandemark
Michael Harkins
Robert Johnson
Thomas F. Davis
Sampson Lee Brown
James A. Macklin
Chicago Heights
Walter Macklin
Lester Choate
Arthur Downey
Therese McLaughlin
Gloria Lewis
Judy Durham
Dragon Lady linked to Saigon shootings, police say
Police in Saigon say a 24 year old Vietnamese woman of Chinese descent, Phung Ngoc Anh, was arrested with a .45 pistol used to kill five people including two Americans. Investigators tie her to shootings carried out from a motorcycle by a male accomplice after a Chinese embassy blast.
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Saigon
Nguyen Ngoc Loan
Phung Ngoc Anh
Loan
Dragon Lady
Lean
Miss Anh
Charles T. Chung
Axle grease fire on passing freight train reported
At about 10 a.m. a woman alerted Morris Volunteer Fire Department, thinking a freight car on a passing train was on fire. Firefighters found only a small axle grease fire with no damage reported.
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Morris Volunteer Fire Department
Illinois junior college fund allocations released
The Illinois Junior College Board staff recommends state building fund allocations totaling 125 million for public junior colleges with Chicago City College at 32.8 million and Joliet at 5.2 million among others. State and federal funds would cover about three fourths of construction costs with local funds covering the rest.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Junior College Board
Chicago City College
College of DuPage
Illinois Central
Cook County
Thornton
Triton
William Rainey Harper
Rock Valley
Parkland
Bloom
Joliet
Black Hawk
Waubonsee
Morton
Elgin
Belleville
Sauk Valley
Illinois Valley
Kankakee
Lake Land
McHenry
Kaskaskia
Rend Lake
Antitrust Petition on Peabody Coal Co
The Peabody Coal Co of St Louis the nations largest producer of bituminous coal would surrender part of its holdings under a proposed consent decree filed in U S District Court The decree drafted with the Justice Department requires Peabody to form a new company to produce 20 million tons of coal a year for 10 years and sell to a government approved buyer The company will not acquire more than 5 million tons of coal reserves in 5 years and the agreement must be implemented within 2 years
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Chicago
Peabody Coal Co
St. Louis
U.S. District Court
Justice Department
Peabody
Weather outlook with cool nights and warm weekend
U S Weather Bureau forecast calls for fair and cool tonight with a low in the upper 40s. Saturday should be sunny and warmer with a high in the 70s. Sunday looks partly sunny and cooler. Collins Weather Station logged 74/48 Thursday. 9 am 56 at station and 11:30 am 63 downtown Morris. Precipitation measured 07.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
County School Aid Up 36 Percent Across the County
Total state aid to county schools reaches $620 774 33 a gain of $164 817 56 from last year due to higher enrollment and a higher foundation level. Morris elementary leads increases with $62 459 91 followed by Coal City $31 526 10 and Minooka $15 428 95.
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General Assembly
Arthur V. Meadors
Morris
Coal City
Minooka
Saratoga
Kinsman
Verona
Nettle Creek
Goodfarm
Christmas Mailing Deadlines Outlined by Morris Postmaster
Morris Postmaster Henry Verfurth announced Christmas mailing deadlines. For Armed Forces abroad, surface gifts over five pounds by Nov 11, five pounds or less and cards via surface or air by Dec 1 and Dec 11 respectively. Domestic and overseas civilian deadlines follow with specific Dec dates for surface and air mail.
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Morris
Henry Verfurth
Vietnam
Far East
Methodist Clergy Endorse Groppi Civil Rights Marches
An Illinois area group of Methodist clergy and laymen voted to support Rev. James A. Groppi a Roman Catholic priest leading Milwaukee civil rights marches. The 81 voters endorsed nonviolent freedom marches and support for Bishop Ralph T. Alton who is to march with Groppi this Saturday.
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Springfield, Ill
Illinois
James A. Groppi
Milwaukee
Father Groppi
Ralph T. Alton
Alton
Wisconsin
Coal City Board Sets Special Meeting Time And Place
The Coal City Community Unit Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 9 30 a.m Saturday in the high school library per board member Alfred John Dearth.
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Coal City Community Unit Board of Education
Alfred John Dearth
Beulah Isolates Nearly Million In Texas Area
Hurricane Beulah isolating nearly one million people across 40 000 square miles from Corpus Christi to San Antonio and Laredo. Evacuations hit Three Rivers Pettus and Victoria as rain totals approach 30 inches with highways flooded and snake bite kits in demand. National Guard trucks aided relief while downtown Beeville shelters reported crowds of Refugees.
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Robstown
Linton
Pettus
Three Rivers
Corpus Christi
Rio Grande Valley
Beulah
Indiana
Mexico
Rio Grande
Laredo
Tex
Monterrey
San Antonio
State Highway Department
Matagorda
Ed Schroeder
Nueces County
National Guard
Gatesville
Victoria
Guadalupe River
Beeville
Dismissal in Morris fatality case on one ticket
George A. Goode, 50, of Morris, had one of two tickets in a fatal August 1 collision with cyclist Michael Dummitt dismissed in Grundy County Circuit Court. The DUI charge was dropped after State's Attorney Richard Wilder found insufficient evidence. Goode pleaded guilty to illegal transportation of liquor and paid a $100 fine plus $5 in costs.
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Morris
Grundy County
George A. Goode
Rte. 1
Michael Dummitt
Rte. 3
Young Dummitt
John E. G. Olson
Goode
Richard Wilder
Robert W. Malmquist
Malmquist
Atty. Wilder
Wilder
Thomas Dunn
Doubt Mummy Mystery Case Will Be Solved
In New York the chief medical examiner predicts the case of three mummified newborns found in a trunk will likely remain unsolved. Autopsies show the infants were swaddled in cloth and wrapped in city newspapers from 1920 to 1923, with autopsy hindered by advanced mummification.
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New York
Milton Helpern
Helpern
New York City
John Hartnett
Upper Manhattan
Anne Solomon
Regatta Boosts Grundy County Festival With 60 Power Boats
About 60 power boats are set for the Grundy County Corn Festival regatta sponsored by the Morris Chamber of Commerce and Chain O Lakes Boat Club. The Illinois River race near William G. Stratton State Park runs 12 30 p.m. to 5 30 p.m. Saturday October 7 with APBA sanctioned events and $1 000 in prizes. Local entrants include Jack Lewis Ansley Olson and George Walker driving 14 to 16 foot boats as they chase national high point totals and APBA rules.
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Grundy County
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Chain O Lakes Boat Club
Illinois River
William G. Stratton State Park
American Power Boat Association
APBA
Jack Lewis
Ansley Olson
George Walker
Lewis
Walker
Olson
Murder Charge Against Driver Dismissed in Indiana
Durward Brown 26 of Chicago faced a murder charge in Fountain County Indiana but the count was dismissed after his wife withdrew a statement that he struck a pedestrian. He was recharged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident and slated for trial October 9. The case concerns the death of James Watson 20 a hitchhiker from Pippa Passes Texas found on U S 41 south of Veedersburg. Brown had been free on a $5 000 bond during the investigation.
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Covington
Ind
Durward Brown
Chicago
Fountain Circuit Court
Roy Fenters
Brown
James Watson
Pippa Passes
Tex
U.S. 41
Veedersburg
Liberty
Gromyko blasts U N peace talks bluff on Vietnam action
At the United Nations General Assembly Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko accused the United States of using peace talks as a cover while continuing bombing in North Vietnam. He warned that the war could expand and draw new states into the conflict and urged a broader condemnation of U S actions. He vowed Soviet and socialist support to help repel aggression in Vietnam.
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United Nations
N.Y
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
Vietnam
U.N. General Assembly
Gromyko
U.S
Arthour J. Goldberg
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Goldberg
Plane Crash Kills German Industrialist Harald Quandt
Harald Quandt, a leading German industrialist and co owner of the Quandt group with stakes in BMW and Daimler Benz, died in a private plane crash in the Italian Alps en route from Frankfurt to Nice. Five others perished. the plane belonged to the Quandt company.
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Milan
Italy
Harald Quandt
Germany
Frankfurt
Nice
Quandt
Saluzzo
Geremany
Quandt Group
BMW Automobile Company
Daimler-Benz Auto
Quandt Company
Bad Homburg
Guenther Quandt
Magda
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Ariane Sheppard
Samuel H. Sheppard
Cleveland
Ohio
Wallace says he is the ideal 1968 presidential candidate
Former Alabama governor George Wallace told the St. Louis Rotary Club he considers himself the only ideal candidate for president in 1968. He said he will run as a third party if no candidate supports returning domestic institutions to the people.
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ST. Louis
George Wallace
Alabama
Himsel
Wallace
Alabama Democrat
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Mazon
Herald
Carlos Scandalli
Dixon
Jr. College
Good Farm
Hume
the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Gardner
Gardner-South Wilmington High School
South Wilmington
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Mazon High School
Morris High School
Minooka High School
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Weather Bureau
Parker Dam
Colorado River
Arizona
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
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