Mont Clare-Galewood News (Newspaper) - October 18, 1967, Chicago, Illinois Pine Homeowners Take Pride in Block Needs Gifts To Carry On Work Section 2 MONT NEWS Ml Y 11 ami Al Vol 28 No 32 4906 W CHICAGO AVE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18 1967 This Issue Consists of Two pages By At Possibility of Arson Probed In Fire at Keefe Real Estate Demand Immediate Wrecking A meeting to protest the de- lay in wrecking the three frame houses at N Central is set for tomorrow Thursday at 8 p.m at Austin Congregational church Ohio and Pine The meeting open to all con- cerned residents is sponsored by the Pine ave committee the Organization for a Better Austin Members of the com- have toured the ises and reported all doors ken or unlocked windows ken and debris including old mattresses throughout Reports from neighbors that refrigerators doors still intact were in two of the houses brought immediate action Friday afternoon from Aid Thomas Casey's ward office which dispatched workers to remove the doors The ward office also ar- ranged for a building inspector to check the structures Friday The owners were given 30 days to wreck the houses in a court hearing held in mid-September 0 k The alderman's office also re- ported the owners have a wrecking contract with wrecking company and planned to start demolition as soon as title clearance was obtained This was expected the early part of this week Edmund spokesman tor P K Builders Inc of Niles which plans a luxury apartment building for the site has told the Austin News on several occasions dating back to mid-summer that the places were to be wrecked within a week or two of the conversations He was invited by the Pine ave committee to attend morrow's meeting but declined the invitation according to Tim White 567 N Pine White said he'd checked the Real Estate index and learned Coming Down Houses at 733 737 and 741 N Central vacant for the past 18 months have doors standing open windows out or dered with jagged glass and porch steps and railings missing Van Wieren 900 N Lorel and Mike Dunham 933 N Laramie view refrigerator on second floor of 737 ing surrounding by debris Door was scheduled to be removed Friday by ward yard workers as safety precaution Staff Photos Police of the Bomb and Arson unit this week said the cause of a blaze which razed the interior of Jerry's Real Estate office 214 S Laramie scene of recent picketing was still mined The fire was discovered shortly after 5 Sunday when Elaine Lucas who lives in an apartment above the real tate office reported hearing glass break and then noticed flames coming from the ment office She called the Fire department and the blaze was quickly put out Damage was estimated at When contacted by phone Monday morning Jerry Keefe owner of the firm would not comment on the fire He also refused to answer queries as to whether or not he believed arson was involved intimating that this is a police and fire ter Although they have not ruled out arson a detective said that at this time it is pretty hard to tell just what did cause the fire He said members of his unit and investigators from the Fire department were sifting through evidence to determine if the fire was intentionally set or not There is a possibility it was the police officer said but he added that evidence if any pointing in that direction was pretty well destroyed by the flames But our unit and the fire department are gating every possible clue fully Keefe of Westchester has been charged by members of the Organization for a Better Austin with panic peddling and have filed an official com- plaint against him with the Mayor's Human Relations com- mission They have picketed his office for several weeks and Keefe has sought an injunction to halt the marchers The fire incident Sunday marked second time in the past month that Keefe's offices have been damaged Earlier rocks were thrown through the plate glass dows This occured shortly ter the picketing started The marchers have been testing Keefe's solicitation of property in Austin and also his refusal to sign a agreement with OBA's Real tate Practices committee 3rd REALTOR SIGNS OBA'S AGREEMENT The OBA's Real Estate tices committee announced this week that a third area real tate firm had signed a no- solicitation agreement OBA officials said Peter Longi 5916 Division had signed the pact after 20 bers of the committee visited him at his offices last Satur day They also said salesman Percy Mars agreed he would no longer licit property in Austin south of Lake The OBA committee says that Mars was panic peddling in the 5200 block of Van Buren and charge that he attempted to use scare tactics in at- tempting to purchase a home at 5247 Van Buren Check to Aid Work of OBA Justin McCarthy second from dent of Organization for a Better Austin check contributed to OBA to ther its work by five Methodist churches in Austin Making presentation is Dr Harry B Gibson superintendent of Chicago ern district of the Methodist church's Rock River conference Looking on are Rev Martin Deppe chairman of conference's social con- cerns commission and Rev Buddie Johnson pastor of Lamon Methodist church Aid Casey Is Holding His Own Aid Thomas J Casey Center State College Sets Open House This Week yesterday critical was still condition listed in at St Homeowners on N Pine St Take Pride in Their Block Homeowners in the 100 block i ready to start on the second of N Pine were genuinely The porches and window when asked if the freshly frames have been completed in painted look to a brighter yellow their block was the result block club or other tional effort Joseph Urbutis 136 N Pine climbed down from the step ladder he was using to install storm windows Block No we don't have any block club The neighbors just take care of their places The fellow up the way is painting his and the one across the place just paint we fix the property was listed in trust I finished We at the Central National bank I things up and that a Ronald J Park Ridge had paid the 1966 tion Every other home in that block of older homes both sides of the street fresh paint somewhere Hedges are trimmed neatly and many L P Cormany owner of the one-time toll gate er's house at 153 N Pine painted every inch of his 100-year-old house with two coats of white to his own surprise The unexpected project ed last May when he was ting up the screens The num screen door looked a little so he went over it with fine grade steel wool It looked so good it made the surrounding porch look bad IT j -u So he painted the porch Urbutis understated the F F ISRAEL CHAIRMAN Dr Hobart H N Pine is a of the i are as well cared for as 17th anniversary committee for i COUntry club putting greens Americans for a Music Library The porch look so good it made the side of the house look bad So he painted the side And so it went I paint the wood trim every in Israel Send The Newspaper Send your Community neighborhood newspaper to your son sweetheart or in service anywhere in the world for a special subscription rate of Chock full of news of the home like in extra letter from home every week The offer is good for any of the 7 community tions Northwest Journal Austin News Humboldt Journal Kelvyn Park Journal wood News South Austin News Send check or money der to Circulation Manager Community Publications 4906 W Chicago Ave go HI 60651 Delivery starts immediately Urbutis home a gray sided place had new white steel awnings and a coat of paint on its porch and front steps Last year many yards of new ing was erected around the full well clipped lawn Frank Maier 159 N Pine two years he said I really hadn't intended to paint the whole Cormany and his wife take particular pride in the house they've owned for 27 years due to its connection with the history of Austin It once stood on the site of the Pot and Pan restaurant 343 X Central serving as the ter for a Grampa Pinney paint on its wrought iron ings and window frames Even the elderly two story brick houses running from N Pine have seen a paint brush recently f Three have had sagging porches bolstered and covered in white and a routh displays a coat of robin's egg blue The new brick townhouses covering the south end of the block on the east side were con- by neighbors following their constructions as racks Now however all have well tended lawns attractive hedges and ises I Both the owner and the I ants have been taking care of these grounds lately neighbors I report which seems to indicate that the pride of the individual hospital where he was taken Oct 8 He is holding his own and responding to a hospital spokesman said last night Although he had not been in recent weeks the alderman had been in poor health and had been forced to miss many important functions His illness prevented him from taking part in the recent tour taken by Austin business ers to study projects which might be suitable for the com- pocket of blight which is to be rehabilitated un- der the city's urban renewal program Aid Casey had been mental in obtaining the ahead from Mayor Daley to include the area bounded by Parkside Lake Menard and Huron in Chicago's renewal project Aid Casey was reflected to his city council post in ary of this year by an almost margin after serving two years to fill out the term of the late Paul Corcoran homeowners in the block is con- ISRAEL SERMON United Nations Building a Tabernacle of Truth is the title of the sermon to be give by Rabbi Z Fineberg al 9 services Saturday ai Congregation Israel o Austin 5433 Jackson Two open house programs will be held this week by the West Center of Chicago State college 500 N Pulaski to in- the senior college facility to local tors and prospective students An open house for teachers counselors and administrators of Chicago and West suburban schools will be held from 2 to 5 p.m today W e d n e s d a School officials and department displays and exhibits will ex- plain the programs and which the new center offers Guided tours will be con- ducted On Friday an open house tea will be held for tive students also from p.m West center students will be hosts and together with displays and tours will ex- plain West Center operations More than 600 students are now studying at West center During this first school term of the center some 55 different courses are being offered on both undergraduate and ate levels West center offers courses for those preparing for careers in education and for teachers wishing in-service training or Austin Proposed For New Campus A big new senior state Dr Morris president sity may be built in Austin of SIU said in a statement to A committee of the board of the committee that the proposed higher education has received proposals from both the sity of Illinois and Southern Illinois university to establish a campus near the western city limits on a site near to and just north of the Eisenhower ex- which means Austin The new campus would have as one its prime tives education for students from disadvantaged ilies and would admit mostly junior college graduates It also would have facilities for post-graduate studies and for freshman and sophomore dents from disadvantaged families for experimental education new Chicago campus is needed because ways and means must be found to educate youths and adults to vide a pool of trained ship from the citizenry of dis- advantaged areas Dr Lyle Lanier provost of UI said the suggested site would be at the center of the student population Both Dr Morris and Dr er also recommended a major senior university be built in Springfield graduate studies ate degree programs are of- on the junior and senior year levels only Dr Floyd R Smith dean of extension services of West center termed the modern facilities of the new center a major improvement over the limited facilities able at the West Extension ter which the college had pre- operated on the campus of Crane high school and junior college West center contains eleven modern newly furnished classrooms a cafeteria brary and adjacent parking lot and is conveniently ed along CTA bus lines and the nearby Lake St elevated More than two-thirds of West center's faculty are full-time and also teach at Chicago State college's main campus at 6800 S Stewart spent the summer painting h u a al h oM toll can't find out from one whether the road ran along Central or along Said Mrs Cormany but we know it was built so that people could get to the old Cicero Town Hall at the corner We'd sure hearing from any tin resident who knows for sure The couple has a mammoth hook apparently once used to lock the gate It was found 25 years ago imbedded in the home He appeared surprised al the interest in his work I'm retired so I have a lot of he offered in Mirer had enough time after painting the w r a p a r o u n d second-floor Aindow frames and concrete foundation to dandy up a tree stump and low fence bordering a- flower garden in his side vard st The stump was painted with excess brown paint and the con- side of the place when new crete planter on top of it was siding was applied touched up with left over low Across the street from Maier's house at 148 N Pine a face-lift is still in progress owner E A Laurencig has applied one coat of soft low to the siding and Other houses in the block while not painted from stem to stern intentionally or display fresh paint on porches window frames or railings The house at 144 N Pine has a new coat of bright green She's No a Pair Mrs John Thorson 3145 Irving Park has two for that smile She gave birth Oct 9 to twins at Garfield Park hospital and also became the first patient moved into the hospital's new maternity wing The boy and a named John Steven and Jeanette With Mrs Thorson is Mrs Theodora head nurse of hospital's delivery room Garfield Park Hospital Opens Wing With Pair Garfield Park Community hospital 3821 Washington has opened its modern attractive maternity ward The first patient Mrs John Thorsen co-operated in adding excitement to the event by pre- her husband with beau- twins a boy John and a girl 4 Q ounces and 4 pounds 8 ounces respectively Thorsen is em- ployed at Coca-Cola Dr Carl H Resnick is the attending physician The interior decorating of the department was planned by Mrs Catherine assistant director of nursing service The rooms were designed as a rainbow with each room reflecting its color into the hallway The ment is on the sixth floor and affords a lovely view of the downtown area and the park The nursery is beautifully pointed and the usual tender loving care afforded infants at Garfield Park Community pital will be enhanced by the old fashioned comfort of a ing chair Say Arrest Clears Up 60 Thefts The arrest of a burglary by two sharp-eyed Austin district officers last week is be- to have cleared up a string of more than 60 on the West-Northwest Side Officers Tony Keslinke and John Dowling captured a man identified as Fernando guez after noting that the man and a car he was driving answered descriptions outlined in a police bulletin from Area 5 burglary unit Keslinke and Dowling were forced to overpower guez when he pulled a gun as they approached him in the stolen car According to police guez tor the past 5 months had posing a workman pre- tending to fix screens and storm windows in order to gain entrance to homes he believed to be unoccupied He had been seen on occasions by neighbors but because of his attire and ing indifference they thought nothing was amiss When a suspicious person did see Rodriguez at work and ed the license number of the car he was driving the auto j ways turned out to be stolen However in recent weeks Area 5 burglary detectives no- that the suspect was ing to the same stolen car They prepared the bulletin with Rodriguez's description and the car license number and it to surrounding districts
