From the Oct. 14, 2015, Midweek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
OCTOBER 1965, 50 YEARS AGO
Ground was officially broken Monday for DeKalb's newest shopping center called Northland Plaza along Sycamore Road. It will include a Woolco Department Store, a Kroger Super market, Super RX Drug, Leath Furniture Company and a Phillips 66 Gas Station.
U.S. military strength in Vietnam soared to a new high of 140,000 men.
U.S. Secretary of Labor, W. Willard Wirtz, a DeKalb native, will dedicate NIU's Wirtz Hall Tuesday. NIU President Leslie A. Holmes announced this Wednesday. The $1,750 building (I suppose this to be an error in print) building was named for William Wilbur Wirtz, the cabinet member's father who died last June 14.
He was a former NIU faculty member and served as chairman of the university's governing board.
Dredging work on the NIU campus' Lagoon is now completely finished. They removed about 3 feet of silt from its floor in work that began in June. The removed silt was used to build up the eqast shore of the Lagoon along the Kishwaukee River. It is slated to be seeded and planted with trees by spring.
Lots of NIU News. --Cooter
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