Four Inches More Snow At Chicago
A winter storm delivered 4 inches at Midway Airport bringing Chicago’s season total to 65.2 inches and threatening the record 66.4. O’Hare logged 5 inches as the system draped the region north of Rock Island to Kankakee with heavy wet snow. Some schools in Dakota, Lena-Wins ton, Stockton, Pearl City, Warren, and Orangeville closed while Freeport stayed open.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Midway Airport
Weather Bureau
Rock Island
Kankakee
State Highway Department
O’hare International
Dakota
Lena - Winston
Stockton
Pearl City
Warren
Orangeville
Freeport
Mississippi River
Ky Calls On LBJ To Step Up The War
Premier Ky of South Vietnam calls for a sharp escalation of the Vietnam conflict urging bombing Hanoi blocking Haiphong and widening actions into Laos and Cambodia while U S officials in Guam emphasize no escalation and cite rising enemy tempo and new weapons.
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LBJ
Frank Cormier
Guam
Johnson
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
Hanoi
Haiphong
Laos
Cambodia
United States
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamare
Rusk
McNamara
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Mt Vernon YMCA membership drive led by Bob Ward
Mt Vernon figures announced a spring YMCA membership campaign led by Robert D Ward partner in Ward Insurance Co and active in the chamber of commerce He will head about 125 volunteers across five divisions planning meetings March 29 and April drive to reach roughly 600 current members serving about 3000 people through the YMCA programs The Springfield Illinois Senate moved to investigate the IHSA amid concerns over funds and accountability and a potential return of Sweet Sixteen to Champaign
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Robert D., Ward
Mt. Vernon
YMCA
John Lipps
Ward
Ward Insurance Co
Kenneth Olson
James Jackson
Ronald Adcock
William Ruppel
Robert Poisall
Rolland Lewis
Ymca Board of Directors
Lewis
IHSA
Lyons
al Willis
Champaign
Horsley
French Use Troops In Somaliland Clash
French forces and armored vehicles moved into Djibouti's Somali quarter to quash a demonstration protesting Sunday's vote to keep the territory linked to France. Police reported arrests of leaders of the anti-French Pro-independence Party Movement including president Moussa Idris and 12 territorial assembly members. Governor Louis Saget urged calm as a dusk to dawn curfew was imposed.
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Djibouti
Nine Pound Baby Left In Truck
A newborn baby boy was found abandoned in the seat of a pickup outside a cafe on U S 45 in Louisville Illinois. An unidentified man alerted Clay County Sheriff William Hiser. The infant, healthy and bright-eyed, was taken to Clay County Hospital. A note on the blanket read born at 6 45 today take good care of him.
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Louisville, Ill
U.S. 45
Louisville
Clay County
William Hiser
Clay County Hospital
Helen Duke
Negroes Raise Legal Aid Fund in Civil Rights Push
Forty seven of the nation’s wealthiest and most prominent Negroes join to raise a million dollars a year for civil rights legal aid. The National Negro Business and Professional Committee for the Legal Defense Fund was formed at the Harvard Club in New York, with 1,000 pledge members to donate $1,000 annually, per NAACP official Jack Greenberg.
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New York
Harvard Club
Jack Greenberg
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Washington
National
Negro Business and Professional Committee
The
Legal Defense Fund
Greenberg
Seven seek Mt Ver non board and five for Mt Vernon High
Filing period ends with seven candidates for three Mt. Ver non elementary district board seats five candidates for three Mt. Vernon high school posts and two incumbents seeking two openings on the Rend Lake area Class I junior college board. Elementary candidates include Rue Steffy Musick Greene and others with incumbents Rue Steffy Musick. High school nominees McAtee McDonald Wood Incumbents McAtee McDonald Wood. Junior college slate Forrest Stewart Texico and Dr Allen Baker Pinckneyville first elected after the district created last fall with terms dated from prior April.
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Mt. Vernon Elementary
Mt. Vernon High
Rend Lake
Edward E
Bud) Rue
Salem Road
Helen C. Steffy
William McAtee
Oakland
Jack McDonald
Marteeny
Guy Wood Jr
Kensington
Paul Tyler
Lake
R. A
Rack
Ex-Game Farm Supt Walter Gutzler Dies At 61
Walter Fred Gutzler 61 of Bluford former Mt. Vernon State Game Farm superintendent died at Fairfield Memorial Hospital. He served as southern Illinois area representative for the Illinois Conservation Department and was a Jefferson county Democratic leader. He previously ran an Bluford ice plant foreman and Mt. Vernon tavern operator. He led quail-raising programs and supported regional sportsmen and conservation groups.
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Walter Fred Guitzler
Bluford
Mt. Vernon
Fairfield Memorial Hospital
Gutzler
Southern Illinois
Illinois
Jefferson County
Illinois Central
Torrey Canyon oil spill salvage efforts struggle
Calm seas lift hopes of refloating the 123000 ton Torrey Canyon after grounding on Seven Stones Reef off Lands End. A quarter of its cargo has leaked, forming an 18 mile oil slick. Britain orders navy operations to shield shores as detergents disperse portions of the spill.
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Granville J. Watts
End
England
Grews
Coast
Torrey Canyon
Barracuda Tanker Corp
Union Oil Co
California
Cornwall
Scilly Isles
Ireland
France
Harold Wilson
London
Seven Stones Reef
Lands End
Pastrengo Rigiotti
Five Break Out Of Indiana Jail
Police hunted five escapees who sawed through ten cell bars and jumped a jailer at Morgan County Jail in Martinsville Indiana. Ray Laughlin was overpowered while investigating the break as three other inmates aided the escape. The list of fugitives includes Donald Bradley Clyde Bartlett Robert Mitchell Mike Myers and Roger Murray, all aged from 20 to 32 from Martinsville and nearby areas.
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Martinsville, Ind
Morgan County
Ray Laughlin
H. Fred Neal
Laughlin
Neal
Donald Bradley
Louisville
Clyde Bartlett
Dayton
Ohio
Robert Mitchell
Mike Myers
Roger Murray
Martinsville
Fire claimed life of Freeport man after smoke inhalation
Charles Davis aged 81 died Sunday in Freeport Memorial Hospital two days after he suffered smoke inhalation in a fire at his apartment. He was found unconscious and rushed to the hospital where he passed away.
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Freeport, Ill
Charles Davis
Freeport Memorial Hospital
Orient North pool discovery extends Illinois oil output
February drilling report shows Orient North pool in Franklin County with No 4 Crown well near Orient, initial 21 barrels oil and 42 water daily from Aux Vases. Oakdale pool in Jefferson County yields 300 barrels daily from No 2 Gibson, plus two new pay zones in Parkersburg Consolidated and Thompsonville pools. Overall Illinois drilled 100 tests with 59 oil wells, 41 dry holes, and February production around 4.84 million barrels.
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Urbana
Orient North
Franklin County
John C. Frye
Illinois State Geological Survey Division
Department of Registration and Education
W. R. Gallagher
Orient
Orient Pool
Aux Vases
Pennsylvania
Parkersburg
Edwards County
Thompsonville
Oakdale Pool
Jefferson County
Eastern Petroleum Company
Gibson
Ilinois
Illinois
Fierce fighting as 9th Division bears brunt of Vietnam clashes
In Vietnam the U S 9th Infantry Division saw heavy losses with 279 Viet Cong dead at two bivouacs north of Saigon and 55 more killed at Bau Bang near Route 13. U S forces reported 29 Americans killed and 131 wounded in 24 hours. Air and artillery strikes hit North Vietnam’s industrial targets as helicopters were heavy casualties in ongoing Junction City operations along the Cambodian frontier.
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George McArthur
Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Thai Nguyen
Viet Tri
Hanoi
9Th Infantry
Bau Bang
Rach Kien
Names In The News Quiz Promotes World Figures Recall
The Register-News presents a weekly News Quiz on Page 11 titled Names In The News to test readers memory of notable people and events. Answers appear on Page 12 as part of VEC Instructional Materials for area schools.
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Aswers
VEC
Register-News
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Manuel F. L. Guerrero
White House
Guerrero
Otto Kerner
Warren Hearnes
Missouri
Vote High
Mt. V
Bob Ward
Springfield
Ill
Illinois Senate
Illinois High School Association
William Lyons
D-Gillespie
House
Senate
University of Ilinois
Big Ten
Robert Ward
Somaliland
Minnesota
Dodge Center
National Farmers Organization
Mt. V. High
Pace Avenue
Rue
Steffy
Musick
4Th Infantry
Pleiku
Walter F. Gutzler
Game Farm
Walter Gutzler
Theresa Fregia
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
Texas
Votaw
British
Miller
Lloyd Miller
Canton
Joseph Sam Perry
U.S. District Court
Fulton County
Perry
U.S. Supreme Court
Janice May
Indiana
Oakdale
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