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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1965
Page
4
Citizens, clergymen, students and labor leaders gathered at City Hall to urge an ordinance allowing any citizen to buy a house they can afford. Catholic and Protestant leaders call segregated housing immoral while others fear government interference. leaders stress housing access as moral education and a path to opportunity.
The Spectator’s weekly roundup reports Rep. John N. Erlenborn proposing a National Water Awareness Week, IIT's $1 million gym gift, color-changing fall scenery from Wisconsin, GM’s five-year service gifts, Vietnam volunteer surge for the Army, a woodcut offer to Illinois schools, odd promo items from AMF and Studebaker, and Secretary Powell rescinding a Will County resident’s license suspension.
The Spectator exposes serious planning flaws in the Bluff St project and alleges omissions in presenting details to the Land Clearance Commission and public. It urges Joliet officials to bring staff and architects before the council to justify the plan and ensure taxpayer dollars deliver value.
McNamara floated replacing 60,000 civilians with 75,000 soldiers to free Pentagon personnel for duty possibly in Vietnam. Joliet figure Ralph Smith, who helped push the Sheriff’s Police Merit Board, was sidelined as local leaders appointed party stalwarts instead of backers of the bill.
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