Oak Park World (Newspaper) - January 9, 1977, Oak Park, Illinois 8 NO. 86 WEEKEND MECHANIC will give advice on do-it-yourself auto care and service his column begins in he WORLD this today's advice on a see page 6, section 1. RECENT BIRTH including local Year's see listings under on page 7,. section 1. in the 21st gear ip for the new General Assembly session while 18th-district Elmer Conti decides to run for tion as mayor of Park and prepares for his second political race in re cent POM squad a Oak Forest High School is a happy combination of cheerleading and dance and Tom Hansen tells about it on page section 2. a new column on the rights and way of life of the apartment dweller in Oak Park provided by the Association of Oak begins this Look for it on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each LIGHTED schedule will be pub Iii the Wednesday Check over the classes offered by the Village of Oak Park and send in the form to the 255 Augusta Oak sponsor full-length family type movies oh Sundays in January beginning Jan. 9. The first movie to be shown will be For more call 386-2103. SERIES of Sunday evening encounter groups wil begin 9 at the Unitari 875 Lake Oak Doors will at ant groups will start at 6:45 p.m. After the groups em at 9:30 p.m. there will be a social hour until 10. For in call the Oasis Midwest Center Human Potential at 266-0033. KAY property purchase by the village of Oak Park is a key parcel in the larger Garfield Street and Harlem Avenue site that is under consideration for motel village approved purchase of the land and building at 1130 W. Oak on Dec. 2n projected immediate use is a parking Thorpe village is considering using the site to attract commercial according to Thorpe dnd Oak Park Development Corp. President Arthur The has been speaking to about that Replogle and other municipal the real estate means that the property could be sold to a commercial Village Attorney Art Thorpe parcel bought from Margaret a widow and LaGrange includes a two-story redbrick It is located on the northeast corner of Gaffield Street arid Maple acms the street from a commuter parking the village decides to expand the parking it will tear down the building and vacate Maple Avenue north of Garfield adding 66 square feet of street to the that kind of combination there could be many uses for the land on the north side of including the recently purchased isone of four potential sites recommended for an Oak Park motel ift a professional feasibility study for little parcel W. Garfield is the part that we needed to put it all said Art is one step along a long It will help in negotiations Replogle a not-for-profit group that works closely with the village to stimulate commercial commissioned the firm of Kerr and Forster to study Oak Park market and feasibility of a motel in Oak Park about three years The site is among * Continued on page 3, section 1 CHARLES of a maintenance workers union have threatened to strike West Suburban Hospital Monday morning unless the hospital recognizes union's officials said such a strike would be a to its physicians and but that the facility will continue provide uninterrupted care to the patients and maintain all normal including regular visiting hospital's maintenance staff consists of 23 persons handling snow removal and maintenance clerical duties at the 372-bed according to J. Rock the hospital's chief The hospital is located at 518 N. Austin Blvd. in Oak maintenance workers belong to Local 7 of the International Brotherhood of Firemen and a union representing in the Chicago a union spokesperson to a hospital West Suburban Hospital authorities were notified Dec. 22, 1976, that the union's members would their services and picket West Suburban Hospital at 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1977." work stoppage is in the threat stage but John president of the union's local said there is way we can stop it unless the employer meets with us and is willing to said the union has offered to the hospital with an shutdown of maintenance before the strike and that the union stands willing to negotiate at any authorities said will assume the duties of the maintenance staff in the event of a They have that talks with the union damage position in hospital has refused to recognize the union on grounds that KAY alive the tradition of controversy in the village a new political organization is being formed by Michael 708 S. Maple Oak * wants to beat He claims that the new which has not assumed a will break the Village Association's record of victories in the village to be amassing a coalition of Oak Park Village Mall other senior residents of east Oak women and said he is organizing a full slate of 100 residents have been interviewed for their ideas and for of possible he Most of the interviewing and organizing has been done by will be meeting this weekend with the potential candidates and other participants to finalize a of candidates for village village president and village clerk he confident of some of the said Thursday that would be women and one would be a 1& are fed up with the way things are being said who works in his father's painting business and also as a tax Park is pulling out its support from the blaming the village board that by the VMA for building the mall and then letting it He cited the business failures of Montgomery Y. Gilmore and Sons and and should have been moved onto the policy of developing parking lots on the east side of Oak Park was also criticized by More apartment not parking are needed in that he on the east side are afraid the VMA is not for he which has won elections since it formed 25 years is expected to announce its slate next Then the drive for signatures on petitions will begin to meet the Jan. 31 deadline for the filing of Dist. 90 run for third HUGET whose second term as president of the school board for River Forest District 90 expires in says she to run for an third term and will probably seek the support of the District 90 board of managers for her the other District 90. board member whose term expires this year said he with search for a new superintendent in the wake of Supt. James resignation Dec. 13 and has not had a cnance to focus on the question of an attorney with the Northern Trust Indicated he will announce his candidacy intentions next a licensed school administrator and is of the REAL learning jointly sponsored by the Elmwood Park and Leyden high school She has served for six years on the River Forest school Bialek said while the board of managers rarely approaches an incumbent serving a second term to ask him or her to seek she feels an obligation as the member in when the district will be in a limbo area for six with no She said there are many relatively new members on the board and she want toilet the schools by depriving the of her board of managers includes the General Association officers former presidents of the five individual school representatives from school councils and parent and nonparent delegates the group numbers about 26, according to Roosevelt School PTA President Camille She said there was an executive meeting in November and that the board of managers will meet Jan. 18 to set up its procedures for selecting board of managers will interview prospective candidates Feb. 8 ir Feb. 9. The selection group will then announce its King said the interviews will be open to any prospective board Mrs. Bialek said that usually the board of dates are elected but should represent a broader body of emp the hospital is awaiting a decision by the National Labor Relations Board that tould send the argument before a U.S. Court of Appeals a decision apparently some weeks off. The Chicago office of the NLRB has certified the union as the official bargaining agent for West maintenance employes we begin bargaining with this with respect to maintenance Rateliff no longer would be the technical refusal to bargain and the basis for a review by a U.S. Court of Appeals would be eliminated and the issue about the size of the unit would become the New a good 1977 the year you give your family a home of their a yard tor the children and a garage for your weekend edition of the WORLD contains a special editorial feature titled CURRENT LISTINGS This weekend lists the homes arid Income properties that have recently come onto Vie shoppers check the CURRENT to find the great real estate buys offered by local the real estate pages of the WORLD to make your New Year resolution come WANT ADS CALL 524-0600
