Arlington Park approves three 34 hour racing schedules
Illinois Racing Board, following an attorney general ruling, approves three possible 34 hour schedules for Arlington Park 1969 racing. Races run June 16 to Sept 8 daily except Sunday with hours 2 to 5 30, 2 30 to 6, or 4 to 7 30 p m. Arlington Heights residents voice concern over night racing and traffic.
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Illinois Racing Board
Arlington Park
Arlington Heights
Jack Siegel
Racing Board
Balmoral
John Woods
Barbara Widmar
S. Walnut
Motorola To Break Ground For Offices in Schaumburg
Motorola Inc will break ground next spring for a corporate headquarters building in Schaumburg on a 326 acre tract off the Northwest Tollway at Algonquin and Meacham roads. The two story 135000 square foot facility will house finance law human relations and public relations offices and the chairman and president.
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Motorola, Inc
Schaumburg
Tollway
Algonquin
Meacham Roads
Motorola
Communications
Franklin Park
Augusta Blvd
Elgin
Mesa
Ariz
Fish of the Week at Chicago Shedd Aquarium
During Thanksgiving week the Shedd Aquarium highlights the turkeyfish as its star. The fish earns top billing among tankmates including kissing gouramis guppies puffers flatfish and flounders in a light hearted aquarium feature.
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Chicago
UPI
Shedd Aquarium
The
Aquarium
Radcliffe Girls Stage Lunch In At Harvard
Radcliffe College students staged a lunch in at Harvard University as a playful protest. The event drew praise from participant Daniel Shiel who called it an immeasurable advance in male female relations.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Radcliffe College
Harvard
Daniel Shiel
Kenyan official urges ugali push in hotels and restaurants
Nairobi Kenya UPI reports Education Minister Eric Khasakala urged hotels and restaurants to promote ugali, Kenya’s national dish. He questioned why tourists cannot find ugali readily, calling for a campaign to raise its profile across hospitality venues.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Italy
New York
Ant
Eric Khasakala
Ugali
Khasakala
PTYO Extends Deadline to Finance Levade Ranch Purchase
The Palatine Township Youth Organization extends the option to buy Levade Ranch to December 14 to raise 550000. PTYO has raised 38000 so far with local support from Foremost Liquors Lions Club Kiwanis and community groups. Funds will cover the 55000 purchase and 45000 remodeling plus a 93 car lot as part of The Joint teen center plan.
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Palatine Township Youth Organization
PTYO
Levade
David Yeats
Palatine
Rolling Meadows
Yeats
Foremost Liquors
Palatine’s
Lions Club
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Lions Pres
Henry Pitstick
Lions
Levade Ranch
Study sale or shared time plan for Sacred Heart High
Catholic officials weigh selling Sacred Heart of Mary High or creating a shared time program as Dist. 214 eyes a new high school on Central Road. A move depends on archdiocese expansion of St. Viator and district population studies, with a decision not before 1971.
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High School
Dist. 214
Sacred Heart of Mary High School
Rolling Meadows
Central Road
Sacred Heart
Father O’brien
Archdiocese
St. Viator
O’brien
Sacred Heart of Mary
Archdiocesan
Real Estate Research Corp
Palatine-Elk Grove Township
Elk Grove Park District approves dirt reshaping bid at Byrd Park
Arnie's Excavating and Landscaping Service of Elk Grove Village won 6500 to move over 10000 yards of dirt at Byrd Park to correct drainage and create sledding and a flat baseball base area. Work should start soon and finish by January 1.
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Elk Grove Village
Byrd Park
Elk Grove Park District
Palatine site sale OK after yearlong MSD action
A 38 acre site at Palatine and Quentin roads in Palatine Township sold for 557000 after a year of court action by the Metropolitan Sanitary District. MSD trustees approved the purchase and a Salt Creek flood retention basin is proposed to aid Pleasant Hills Orchard Hills and western Palatine and Rolling Meadows.
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Palatine and
Quentin Roads
Palatine Township
Metropolitan Sanitary District
MSD
Circuit Court of
Cook County
MSD Board of Trustees
Salt Creek
Quentin Utility Co
Chicago Title and Trust Co
E. George Thiem
Atty
Allen Lavin
Pleasant Hills
Orchard Hills
West Palatine
Rolling Meadows
Palatine Park District
Salt Creek West Branch
City annexes Isenstein-Parker property after 10 months
The Rolling Meadows City Council voted 8 to 2 to annex 118 acres at the southeast corner, paving the way for 1,300 apartments with 30 acres of commercial and 10 acres of light industrial zoned land. The vote followed a length of negotiations and opposition by Aldermen Ahrens and Retzke.
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Rolling Meadows
Isenstein-Parker
William Ahrens
Kenneth Retzke
Roland J. Meyer
Arlington Heights
Golf Road
Jack Siegel
John G. Woods
Richard Houpt
Share Yule Custom And Win Up to $15
The Paddock Publications Christmas letter writing contest invites children under 12 to share a family Christmas custom in a 250 word letter. Weekly prizes include 15, 10, and 5 dollars with publication of winners and honorable mentions before Christmas. Entries due by Dec 6, 13, and 20.
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Paddock Publications
Paddock
P.O. Box
Arlington Heights
Ill
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Charlene Swichtenberg
Fran Lindquist
Pat Hallerud
Olga Carlson
Board
Patrick O’block
Atty. Gen
William Clark
Graham, Anderson, Probst and
White
Robert W. Galvin
Chicago-area
Galvin
Fish
P. O
Sale OF Sacred Heart High
Mary Schlott
Office of
Dist
Edward H. Gilbert
T. J. O’brien
Arnie
Lively Junior High
Park District Administration
Jack Claes
Lions Park Pool
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