Holiday traffic warnings and safety tips noted
Independence Day weekend brings grim traffic death and injury projections from the National Safety Council. Illinois may see up to 20 fatalities and water mishap dangers loom as 1.65 million people drive in northern Illinois. Police urge precautions, restraint, and avoiding alcohol while traveling.
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Illinois
National Safety Council
Chicago Motor Club
United States
Joliet
Gary
Waukegan
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Will County
Wisconsin
Michigan
Waist-High Corn Signals Shifts In Farming Methods
The article notes corn growth now reaches waist height by July due to newer hybrid varieties and modern cultivation. Heavy spring rains delayed planting by about two weeks, leaving some fields at earlier heights. University of Illinois Extension experts say hybrids and practices have redefined expectations beyond the old knee high standard.
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Dan Konjevich
Channahon Township
Miles Konjevich
University of Illinois Extension Service
New 50 star flag sale hits Joliet area for Independence Day
Local stores report heavy demand for the new 50 star U S flag ahead of July 4 with some flags selling out. Small 3 by 5 foot flags go for 3 49 while one big outdoor flag is 28 and a smaller one 19. Flags stocked in toy, notions, yard goods and office supply sections. In Russia, children reportedly receive Sabin live oral polio vaccine developed in Cincinnati.
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United States of America
Joliet
Igs
Ayther
Ussr
Albert Sabin
Cincinnati
Samuel W. Parnelle
Joliet Arsenal
Vance Cummins
Joliet Federal Savings and Loan Association
A. A. Wills
Joiet Park District
Kelly and Hausser
Gene Victor
Tippecanoe
Alexander Lumber Co
Sam Basan
Park District
City motorcycle patrolman hurt in felon search
Patrolman Harold Willard 35 of 405 Park Drive was injured while on duty during a search for an escaped convict on Weber Road near Stateville prison. He fell from his motorcycle and received emergency care at St. Joseph hospital for leg and arm abrasions and chest pain before release to his family physician.
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Harold Willard
Park Drive
Weber Rd
Stateville Prison
Willard
St. Joseph Hospital
Convict George Spiker Escapes From Joliet Prison In Illinois
State police and Grundy county guards comb a wooded area near Morris after the escape of 32 year old armed robber George Spiker from Stateville Honor Farm. He abandoned a red prison truck 10 miles east of Morris and may have changed clothes. Spiker, 5 feet 5 inches, 115 pounds, dark hair and brown eyes, was scheduled for a Fulton county parole board hearing in November 1962.
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Morris
Stateville Honor Farm
George
Pop-Eye) Spiker
Joseph E. Rngen
Grundy County
Spiker
Fulton County
Parole Board
Joliet
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William J. Bossingham
Frank Turk Sr
George R. Clare
Lester DeGeus
Robert Hershbach
John Minzing
C. D.oberwortmann
Robert K. Anderson
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