Bayonet Examined as Possible Percy Murder Weapon
Crime experts examine a recently found 14 inch bayonet in Lake Michigan as a potential weapon in Valerie Percy’s stabbing. Police say a matching fingerprint from the Percy home does not match known-access individuals, with hundreds of tips pouring in.
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Kenilworth
Ill
Lake Michigan
Valerie Percy
Robert M. Daley
Charles H. Percy
U.S. Senate
Daley
Percy
Continental United States
Coast Guard
Crime Laboratory
Irwin Haviland
Chicago Police Crime Laboratory
Valerie
Massieon Assigned to Seven Gables Gambling Case
The Grundy County Circuit Court will hear the Seven Gables gambling case October 17 with Associate Circuit Judge John S. Massieon of LaSalle County presiding. Circuit Judge Howard Ryan and Leonard Hoffman are occupied elsewhere, and warrants were issued by Judge Ryan with Malmquist approving sufficiency. Defendants include Richard J. Close Sr and Jr, Robert Warren Daugherty, Wayne Dyson, Lester Gunteman, Marion Hettelle, Harold Jovanovitch, James McNamara, Stanley Moore, William Spellisy, and Rudolph Vidosh. Massieon, from LaSalle County, became county court judge in 1958 and later associate circuit judge when the system changed.
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Seven Gables
Grundy County
John S. Massieon
LaSalle County
Howard Ryan
Ryan
Richard J. Close Jr
Robert Warren Daugherty
Wayne W. Dyson
Lester Gunterman
Marion S. Hettelle
Harold H. Jovanovitch
James D. McNamara
Stanley J. Moore
William Spellisy
Rudolph J. Vidosh
Massieon
Seven Die in South Side Apartment Fire in Chicago
A South Side Chicago apartment blaze killed seven people including two children and three adults, with one father Marvin Snipes and his infant son surviving after leaping from a second story window. Firefighters battled the tinderbox blaze as diversely aged multi unit buildings, many former mansions, faced destruction.
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Chicago
Marvin Snipes
Marvin Jr
Michael Reese Hospital
Mary Wright
Calvin Wright
Minnie Hall
Moses Wright
William Hall
Willie Hall
Woodie McCune
Lake Michigan
Accident Toll Climbs to Six Near Dwight
Six people died and several injured after a two car crash six miles east of Dwight in Livingston County at the Illinois 17 Campus blacktop intersection. Nurses from Peoria traveling to collect blood donations perished in the flames. others injured included two additional nurses and a Cullom resident.
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Dwight
Illinois 17
Peoria Red Cross
Kankakee
St. James Hospital
Pontiac
John E. G. Olson
Edith Olson
Washington
Carolyn Jean Schmidt
Ruth Proctor
Nesrin Tuzun
Peoria
Louise Koerner
Kempton
Margaret Ginter
Cullom
Livingston County
Grundy
Koerner-Ginter-Dietz
Koerner
Ginter
Margaret Dietz
St. Mary’s Hospital
Betty Cady
Bartonville
Sandra Terry
Weather Forecast and Temperature Readings
The U S Weather Bureau projects fair cool conditions tonight with a low around 50. Saturday should stay fair with a high near 70. Sunday looks partly cloudy with little change. Collins Weather Station logged Thursday high 75 and low 46. Morris downtown read 56 at 9 am and 66 at 11:30 am.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Enrollment in County Schools Up 88 Pupils
The 1966-67 Grundy County school enrollment rose to 5,791, up 88 from last year. Elementary districts mostly up. Goodfarm and Braceville fell, Morris and Saratoga rose. high schools also gained, led by Morris with 40 more students. Overall public and parochial enrollment reaches 6,340.
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Grundy County
Goodfarm
Braceville
Morris
Saratoga
Coal City
Gardner
Mazon
Minooka
Kinsman
Verona
Nettle Creek
Assumption
Immaculate Conception
CODE Project Clears 75 Percent of County In Tuberculin Drive
With two days left in the tuberculin skin test and chest x ray program CODE reports 16 766 county residents, about 75 percent, have used the free service. The mobile unit will stop at Eagle Hall Morris Liberty and Washington Streets from 2 to 8 30 p m today and Saturday and at V F W Hall McKinley Pine Street Saturday. In Saratoga Community the unit is at town hall today 2 to 8 30 p m. At Morris Eagle Hall 365 skin tests and 347 x rays were done from 402 visitors. in Minooka 427 skin tests and 316 x rays from 457 visitors. Two day totals show 836 tested or x rayed in Minooka and Morris. 3 583 have cooperated countywide from Sunday through Thursday to aid tuberculosis eradication.
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CODE
Eagle Hall
Morris, Liberty
Washington Sts
V.F.W. Hall
Town Hall
Morris
Minooka
Festival Queens Chosen Tonight At Grundy Corn Festival
Five high schools name finalists for festival queens during halftime of Morris Community High School versus Hall Township High football game. Queens chosen will ride in convertibles, receive festival support, and attend Sunday parade. Also covered are craft shows, demos, a car derby, a pet parade, water fights, dances, and multiple Saturday events at Morris for the Corn Festival.
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Grundy County
Morris Community High School
Hall Township High
Spring Valley
Wayne Graham
Johnny Barton
KHOW
Paramount Skating Rink
Bedford Road
Libert St
Morris Chamber of Commerce
W. Washington St
MCHS
MCIS
Morris
Hall of Spring Valley
Queens
Coal City
Gardner
Mazon
Minooka
Herald
Bar Association Elects New Grundy County Leader
Atty. William Hynds became president of the Grundy County Bar Association at a Thursday meeting in the county courthouse. The tenure follows the rotation rules. Retiring president Atty. Erwin Godfrey. Secretary Atty. John-Black. Eleven of twelve members attended.
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William Hynds
Grundy County
Former student consigns $50 to Purdue and confesses past theft
A former Purdue student in Lafayette Indiana sent a $50 contribution to the university along with a signed letter admitting a theft committed decades ago.
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Lafayette, Ind
Purdue University
Gromyko Presses for Vietnam Peace via US Withdrawal
At the United Nations General Assembly Soviet Foreign Minister Anrei A. Gromyko demanded the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from South Vietnam and an end to bombing as the sole path to peace. He dismissed Goldberg’s peace plan as a false offensive and urged unconditional action by all nations to end U.S. aggression. He also introduced three draft resolutions on nonproliferation, nonintervention in internal affairs, and disbanding foreign bases.
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United Nations, N.Y
Soviet Union
U.S
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Viet Nam
Gromyko
Democratic Republic of
United States
South Viet Nam
Assembly
Asia
Africa
Latin America
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Youth Injured in Coal City Crash Near Area Club
A Dwight teen, Steven Eddington, 16, was injured when his car side swiped a 2,300-volt power pole at the Coal City Area Club entrance. He is listed in fair condition at Morris Hospital with facial and head lacerations. His extensively damaged vehicle was towed to Buzz's in Coal City.
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Dwight
Coal City Area Club
Morris Hospital
Steven Eddington
S. St
Grundy County
Richard Pierce
Eddington
Buzz
Coal City
Sheriff's
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Liberty St
Herald Uhoto
Franklin School
Thomas Turner Jr
Illinois State University, Normal
Times
Franklin St
North
Jackson Sts
Liberty
Illinois Ave
Washington St
Dwight, Essex
Custer Township
Ottawa Fire Rescue
Bar President
U.N. Assembly
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