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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1960
Page
2
Santa Claus will head a large Christmas parade organized to show the holiday spirit. The route runs from Herkimer street to Jefferson Cass to Scott Benton Chicago Jefferson Ottawa Webster Joliet and ends at Baskin parking lot. An invitation goes to groups that participated last year.
Saturday polls open 6 AM to 6 PM across 13 Joliet precincts with maps on page 33 detailing polling sites from Laraway School to Kalama Zoo Drigas Service. Also note Ottawa Illinois reports extensive $27 million highway endurance tests by Army trucks ending in a former cornfield northwest of town.
Robert Haddick and Robert Slider share conducting duties at Joliet Grade School Band Concert Sunday at Joliet Township High School auditorium. The 3 p.m. performance features junior high bands and fifth and sixth grade groups from east and west side schools along with beginner bands.
Gov Stratton warned the state electoral board may refuse to certify Illinois 27 electoral votes if evidence of fraud emerges from the Nov 8 election. Benjamin Adamowski accused Cook county Democrats of stealing the election in a blistering critique after losing his bid for re election. Federal judges ordered New Orleans school integration to proceed and approved Dallas plan. A 9 year old Milford girl created a new record price for Barrow at the exposition. Search continues for a small plane carrying two Würlitzer executives lost over Lake Michigan in a snowstorm.
Lloyd Miller, convicted of raping and killing an eight year old girl in Canton Illinois, has an execution date set for December 16 by the Illinois Supreme Court. The case has been reviewed repeatedly by state and federal courts. Warden Raven said Miller shows little emotion and sleeps most days. His lawyers may seek clemency from Governor Stratton as Miller awaits the electric chair. The death house prepares for the execution. Miller has refused spiritual aid.
A 90 ft high doughnut and a 58 ft structure form the ZGS zero gradient proton synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory Lemont 47 acre site. When complete in 1962 the project will cost about 42 million dollars and house a 5 000 ton magnet ring inside a near vacuum race track for protons to be accelerated and studied.
City vehicle tags went on sale today at City Hall and Joliet Currency Exchange. Price starts at 3 dollars with a later increase to 3.50 dollars after December 31. Truck tags vary by tonnage.
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