Marion chosen for state regional office building
The Illinois Building Authority selects Marion as the site for a new regional office complex housing seven state departments on federal surplus land near the Veterans Hospital. The project covers about 38 000 square feet on six acres and is expected to create 200 jobs, with construction and site access around Old Route 13 and nearby interstates.
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Roger Hughes
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
Illinois
Ilinois
Carbondale
Veterans Hospital
Illinois Building Authority
IBA
Rt. 13
Murphysboro
Herrin
Benton
West Frankfort
Steeleville
Harrisburg
Collinsville
Rt. 57
Marion Center
William Ford
Ford
Robert Butler
U.S
Planes Hit North Vietnam Truces End. 100 Trucks Destroyed
U S warplanes launched strikes as the Christmas truce ended. Air Force Navy and Marine jets reported about 100 trucks destroyed or damaged and more than 300 trucks spotted along major supply routes. Convoys of 150 and near 100 trucks were hit along Thanh Hoa and Vinh areas, with a ferry carrying eight trucks sunk.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U. S
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Tonkin Gulf
Thanh Hoa
Vinh
Three killed in ship fire in New York harbor
A fire on the Norwegian freighter Dianet at Hudson River anchorage off 87th street killed three crewmen and left 18 injured. Fire officials said an alarm may have been 30 minutes after the blaze started while a Christmas Eve party is cited as potential context.
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Hudson River
87Th Street
Ostrica
New Orleans
Peking silent after seventh Chinese nuclear test report
U S Atomic Energy Commission says China may have conducted a seventh nuclear test Sunday but Peking remains silent. Radio Peking did not mention the blast while Japan reports radioactive fallout but says it does not threaten public safety.
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Tokyo
Peking
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
China
Radio
Lop Nor
Central Asia
Mao Tse-tung
AEC
Hiroshima
Japan
Lunar Module Set for January 17 Flight Test
NASA officials announced Apollo 5 as the first uncrewed Lunar Module mission date for January 17. The bug like LM atop a Saturn I will conduct a about six hour Earth orbit test to verify readiness for manned lunar operations following the previous tragedy on a nearby launch pad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Weather outlook cloudy and chilly with light snow chance
The forecast calls for increasing cloudiness and a low in the low 20s tonight. Wednesday brings a chance of snow and a warming trend with highs in the 30s. Weather details on page 18.
Harrisburg Escapee Still Sought After Jail Break
Four youths escaped Saline County jail at 7 55 p m Sunday. One, Clyde Wiseman 17 Raleigh returned Monday morning by his father Glenn Wiseman. Authorities continue search for Leonard Upchurch 17 and Joel White 18 Harrisburg and Leroy Fryer on burglary auto theft charges. Sheriff Jones says they assaulted him and forced entry to his quarters. A blue 1956 Chevrolet from Harrisburg Junior High School parking lot is believed stolen.
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Saline County
Clyde Wiseman
Raleigh
Glenn Wiseman
Leonard Upchurch
Joel White
Harrisburg
Leroy Fryer
Clint Jones
Jones
East Raymond Street
Harrisburg Junior High School
Christmas Holiday Road Toll Tops Last Year
The Christmas holiday period from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight saw 672 motor fatalities, higher than a nonholiday three day weekend but below 1965’s record. Nationally the figures beat 484, while Illinois reported 25 deaths, with experts predicting 625 to 725 deaths nationwide.
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Associated Press
The
Safety Council
Chicago
Illinois
Central train wreck injures sixteen near Churchville
A New York Central passenger train derailed near Churchville, west of Rochester, injuring sixteen. A dining car cook was the most seriously hurt as hot liquid scalded them. the injured were taken to Rochester hospitals with eleven admitted and five discharged. The 15 car train No 62 carried 219 passengers and eight crew en route Buffalo to New York.
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Churchville
N.Y
New York Central
Rochester
Buffalo
New York City
Medinet plan could expand rural medical care in Illinois
Southern Illinois University professor Robert MacVicar outlines a plan to use medical aides and remote diagnostics to bring hospital level care to small towns like Vienna Cobden and Grand Tower. The proposal aims to fill first-echelon medical needs when doctors are scarce, though it faces licensing and policy challenges.
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Southern [Illinois University
Illinois
State Board of Higher Education
SIU Board of Trustees
Robert W. MacVicar
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois
MacVicar
Illiois
Vienna
Grand Tower
Cobden
Sears Foundation
SIU
Gas blamed for Moscow apartment blast and car bombing
An apartment building explosion in Moscow killed several and injured many as police blamed a faulty gas main while witnesses cited higher casualty figures. Separately a bomb damaged the empty car of AP Moscow bureau chief Henry S. Bradsher. no injuries were reported.
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Moscow
Henry S. Bradsher
Associated Press
Kremlin
Woman Pronounced Dead Then Returns to Life
Miss Glenda Gampher, 23, of Ballwin, found by a lake in Forest Park, was pronounced dead by an intern at City Hospital due to no heartbeat temperature or breathing. Detected movement at the morgue led to transfer to Jewish Hospital where she remained in critical condition over the weekend before dying.
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Glenda Gampher
Ballwin
Forest Park
City Hospital
Jewish Hospital
Yuletide prank heads to kitchen chaos and town squares
In Milwaukee a Christmas dinner prank shrank a 12-pound turkey to 16 ounce by neighbors swapping it for a Cornish hen while the Lees attended church. In Roanoke a Santa effigy was hung from a bridge on Christmas Day. In Great Falls, Tom Corbally aged 87 ends 50 years of Santa duties, noting sleigh bells dating to 1877.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Eugene Lee
Roanoke, Va
Santa Great Falls
Mont
Tom Corbally
Corbally
Fort Benton
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Butler
Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Williamson County
Bill Brown
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Brown
C. Leo Cox
L. C. Cavaness
Marion Chamber
Mitchell
Delmer Mitchell
C. William Norman
Harry Weeks
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
Weeks
Departments of Children and Family Services
Mental Health
Public Aid
Ilinois Youth Commission
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
University of Ilinois
Alexander
Franklin
Gallatin
Jackson
Hamilton
Hardin
Massac
Perry
Pope
Pulaski
Randolph
Saline
Union
White
Williamson
Springfield
Peoria
Rockford
Urbana
Veterans Administration Hospital
North Vietnamese
New York
Holiday Road
N.Y. Central
Ben Gelman
Joe
Vienna Medical Clinic
Doctors Hospital
St. Louis
Turkey
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