Southeast Economist (Newspaper) - November 13, 1958, Chicago, Illinois New t Light IN COL 2 PAGE 1 A Penny for Your Thoughts Each person Is given a penny for his or her thoughts day's interviews were con- ducted in the Jeffery Manor The question asked WHAT INVENTION OR DISCOVERY IN THE LAST 50 YEARS WAS THE EST IN YOUR Member Accredited Community Chi VOLUME 72 Published at 728 W St Chicago Tel SOUTHEAST SIDE CHICAGO THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13 1958 Price 16 Pasts In Two Your Economist Papers Publish More News More Display and Classified Ads of Your Neighborhood Than Any Other Paper ARTHUR GOERES Arthur Goeres Steger 111 in- surance The in- that make automation in industry possible today are about the greatest In time tion will prove to be a great benefit for labor rather than a detriment In the long run it will create more jobs because more things will be produced cheaper and people will be able to buy more Mrs Leslie Kamin Avalon Park The ies or inventions of the Salk vaccine and other coupled with other medical ad- vances are the most tant because it has increased the average life cy of everyone in the world by making them healthier and able to survive diseases that always resulted in death Mrs Eugene Bartenstein South Shore The polio vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk has been a tremendous boon to kind It has saved a ber of lives and now polio is almost wiped out This in ent has MRS LESLIE KAMIN MRS EUGENE BARTENSTEIN meant a great deal to people those that have children Now they don't have to worry Mrs Edward J Nemcek fery Manor Tele- vision For the children it has proved to be educationaL and they seem to grow tip faster as a re- sult of ing television It has had a tremendous impact on people Most MRS EDWARD J NEMCEK important discovery in the ical field was the Salk vaccine it has affected everyone Elmer G Evers Cicero bakery Television is thing people used to speak of but never thought would happen Radio was ful but tele- There is something on television for everyone like to watch especially when television can bring to my home town sporting events New Lights Will Cost Fifty-Nine Projects In In Plan Outlined By Mayor Daley Streets Listed By Harold Cross Economist Staff Writer Fifty-nine Southeast area street lighting projects are scheduled for construction at an estimated cost of Mayor Daley announced Preparation of plans and specifications has been Installation will begin next year The last group of new Mercury vapor street lamps will be turned on late in 1962 com- the street lighting gram of the Mayor's Five Year Plan The 59 proposed street lighting projects outlined in a prospectus of public works issued this week by the city administration will dovetail with installations of modern lights on a number of Southeast area business and streets the past 18 months Purpose of the new lights Mayor Daley said is to curtail reduce accidents enhance property values stimulate civic pride and aid in his bug program Police records show fewer and crimes pn streets after modern lighting has been installed the Mayor said Fewer pedestrians are struck by autos Not as many elderly people Proud Cousin Mrs Mary Sujack 8228 S Indiana ave first cousin of Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer who is to be en- throned Sunday as archbishop of Chicago proudly displays press clippings of her famous prelate cousin 115 Million More Sought For Congress To Be Asked To Provide Fund To Con- Dredging During 1959 By Jack Budd Economist Staff Writer Congress will be asked to cate million in its 1959 budget to continue construction of the channel John L Killian legislative vice president of the Calumet Region Congress Signs Name Wins Mom Thanks You Two Heroes A mother is still groping for words today to thank two men who rescued her old son from a burning cottage after she had told them all her children were safely outside She is Mrs Frank Klobucar of 2854 E st Chief ward Valiquet 14th battalion and Edward Romancik 44 8713 S Manistee ave risked their lives to save David Klobucar 2 when the mother became hyste- rical on remembering the boy was still in the cottage The mother had told firemen when they first arrived that she had taken three of her small children from the building and that two others were in school Then she became hysterical as she missed David and remem- bered he was in the bedroom Chief Valiquet said she came shouting to him I forgot Davey My baby is in there The firemen broke down the door of the home and according to Valiquet groped around through dense smoke before finding the child unconscious near a bed on which he had been sleeping The youth was revived with an inhalator and was taken to South Chicago Community hospital The chief said he and Romancik took a pretty bad beating from the heat and flames trying to find the boy He blamed the fire on children playing with matches under the back porch and estimated age at 1 ble and fall suffering painful crippling or fatal injuries be- cause they do not clearly see the curb after crossing a street Following is a list of the posed street lighting projects in the Southeast area and the cost of Anthony ave from S Commercial ave to E st S Baker ave from S st to S Bond ave S Bramerd ave from State Line rd to Torrence ave and S Colfax ave from E 95th st to S Anthony ave S Bond ave from S Baker ave to E pi S Cottage Grove ave from E to 75th sts E 75th to and to 95th sts and S Doty ave from E 130th St to E at S Ewing ave from E to E 100th sts S Hamlet ave from E to E sts 000 S Harbor ave from South cago ave to Avenue O and S Indiana we to Roosevelt rd to St S Indiana ave Calumet river to E 130th st S Jeffery ave from rd to E 95th st S Lake Park ave from E to E sts and S Mackinaw ave from E st to E st and from S Ewing ave to E St E st Lake Park ave to Lake Shoie dr E st S Indiana ave to South Parkway 000 E st State st South Park ave E st Eberhart ave to Stony Island ave and st S Vincennes ave to South Chicago ave and Stony Island ave E st Illinois Central E R to South Shore dr E st S State st to Stony Island ave E st State st to Cottage Grove ave E st to South Shore dr E st Cottage ave to New York Central E Both st State st to Ewing ave and E St S Halsted st to South Park ave E 100th st rd to Avenue L E st S Vincennes ave to S Torrence ave 000 E st Avenue O to Avenue L E st South Park to Cottage Grove ave and E st Halsted to Doty and st Halsted to Doty S Michigan ave from E to E sts Monterey ave from S Hamlet ave to E st S Narragansett ave from Marquette rd to E st and South Chicago ave from E 95th st to E St South Park ave from E 95th to E sts S State st from E st to E St 000 S State St from E sts S Stony Island ave E to E sts E Stony Island ave from E to E sts S Stony Island ave from E to sts and S Torrence ave from E st to E 95th st Van rd E 100th st to S Jeffery ave S Vincennes ave S Halsted to S State sts S Vincennes ave to 95th sts S lawn ave E to E sts 819.000 E 43rd st S Halsted st to Lake Park ave E st South Park ave to S Cottage Grove ave E st from S Narrangansett ave S Kedzie ave and S Cottage Grove ave to S Kimbark ave South Chicago ave from E 95th to E sts E st Michigan ave to Cal umet ave E 130th St naw ave to Avenue O By Jerry Barach Economist Staff Writer He will endear himself to everyone here I'm sure of that So spoke Mrs Mary Sujack 8228 S Indiana ave of her first cousin Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer of Milwaukee who be enthroned Sunday at p.m in Holy Name dral as archbishop of Chicago 1 ar g diocese in the United States He will be very fair and marvelous in his capacity as Mrs Sujack pre- I know his capabilities are unlimited is fering a great loss But it's such a tremendous position and requires so much of a I hope people will remember him in their prayers Mrs father Nicholas a Stanley Iowa farmer for many years was the brother of the father Her sister Mrs Mathilda O'Connor formerly of 7124 S Dobson ave is now a patient in St George's hospital here Before her illness Mrs O'Connor had been living with her daughter in Dayton Ohio Mrs Sujack described her famous cousin as being very open and warm brilliant and hard working He has a good sense of she said but at the same ime he has a reserve befitting he dignity of his office Although she never lived in Milwaukee where the archbishop was born Mrs Sujack said she has seen him on various family occasions the last when he of- at the funeral of another cousin Dr Joseph Meyer 9942 S Longwood dr on August 1 in St Barnabas church 10134 S Longwood dr Mrs two children Edwin 604 E pi an at- orney and Mrs Joseph A Zulfer 10501 S Maplewood ave were married in ceremonies a month Area Woman Burned In stated recently Killian who said the channel widening and deepening project is now 27 per cent complete added that the allocation will be asked for the fiscal year starting July 1 1959 He said the amount will only be sufficient for con- struction during the one year and Of additional wm Family of Mrs Florence Rieck 47 2219 E 80th st who suffered third degree her is in a serious condition in South Shore hospital has made a plea for blood for her Mrs Irene Hinds of Lake Eliza Ind sister of the victim said Mrs Rieck was given two pints of blood and eight pints of blood plasma from Saturday midnight to Tuesday noon She asked the Southeast to plea to its readers for blood donations Persons ing to give blood for her should make an appointment with the blood bank of the South Shore hospital 8015 S Luella ave SOuth Shore Blood can be needed each following year until the project is completed be given Wednesday only and on Monday Friday The family has only 14 days from Monday to begin repaying for the blood or they must pay cash for it The amount used to date totals the sister said Mrs Rieck suffered the burns Saturday about 10 p.m in her home She was in the bathroom fixing her hair and as she started to light a cigarette she dropped the ignited match and it caught her pa jama shirt on fire Her husband Fielder a salesman said the ignited jama top flashed into flames and melted to her body He said she suffered the third degree burns from her waist up Due to burns on her face she is unable to eat and must be fed through the veins The sister said the family has been told Mrs Rieck may have to be nearly a year to com- plete skin grafting where needed by Archbishop before he was apart in 1953 Meyer shortly consecrated archbishop of waukee Edwin's wedding was on August 8 in St Philip church 2100 E st and Mrs Zulfer was married on September 5 in St Clotilde's church 8400 S Calumet ave Dr Mann To Sum Up 35 Years Dr Louis L Mann's 35 years as spiritual leader of Chicago Sinai congregation 5350 South Shore dr will be summed up in his anniversary sermon Our 35 Years Together at 11 day services in the temple Dr Mann who is the holder of degrees from Yale university Ripon college and Northwestern university was instrumental in the founding of many famous American institutions and among them the can Birth Control league the Hillel foundations for Jewish uni- versity students and the tional Conference of Christians and Jews Propose New Parking Bans Proposed ordinances to hibit parking at all times at specified Southeast area tions were introduced at a recent meeting of the city council and referred to the committee on traffic and public safety Locations where parking would be banned E st South side between S Cottage Grove ave and a point 60 feet east thereof CTA bus terminal S Blackstone ave West side be- tween E pi and a point 50 feet north E pi South side between S Crandon ave and the alley east S Maplewood ave East side be- tween W st and a point 50 feet south S Pulaski rd at No 5625 30 S Damen ave West side between a point 185 feet south of W st and a point 50 feet south thereof First Reformed Church of S Homan ave West side between W lloth st and a point 250 feet south S Homan ave West side between S Prospect ave and W Pryor st E st South side between S State st and S Wabash ave E st North side between S Indiana ave and the first alley west S Indiana ave at Nos Temple CME Also introduced were nances calling for the erection of stop signs on both sides of S Stony ave at E st The chairman explained that the total money which has nel navigable is approximately million Final cost of the channel is estimated to be in excess of million The channel already has been widened for the first six miles from its junction with the tary and ship canal north of Lockport Construction is now underway on another four miles which is expected to be com- late next year The two phases will bring the project to the outskirts of Blue Island though numerous railroad and highway bridges still must be widened or relocated to complete the work Killian said the million should take the widening project through Blue Island help to pay part of the cost of the Thomas O'Brien lock and dam and help to finance work on 16 of the highway bridges that need to be built altered or moved He broke it down to about 25 per cent or for widening and dredging and the balance of for the bridges Completion of the entire ect intended to give a link be- tween the Lake Calumet harbor to the Inland river system in- the Mississippi river Completion is scheduled for June 1963 The project is expected to have a vast effect on trial growth along its route Brig Gen P D Berrigan for- mer division engineer of the U.S Army engineer division and rently advisor to the Calumet Region Congress has The will unlock the door to a period of unparalleled economic expansion in this mid- continental region He has said that industrial growth along the channel will provide an estimated jobs m the new factories erected there and that additional jobs will result from interrelated de- including expansion of present industries to serve the new industries and expanded retail wholesale and service trades to serve the increased population Mrs Bertha Mellema 304 W st holds entry blank to the contest in which she won What would you do if suddenly learned that you had just won A 70 year grandmother Mrs Bertha Mellema learned last Tuesday that she was faced with answering such a question when her name was drawn from among thousands of entries in the Frigidaire stakes contest for the week ing October 24 The contest ends November 21 The first thing I'm going to do with the said Mrs lema its to give at least a tenth of it to charity and to missions of the First Christian Reformed Church of Roseland The winner who lives with her husband Frank 74 a retired produce man has suffered from glaucoma for eight years and was recently informed that she would need an operation to remove a cataract that has formed on her eye So with another part of the money the operation will be paid for After that Mrs Mellema said she will use the money to fix up her home in which she still does all her own work She first came to Chicago from her native Holland when she was 11 months old and has lived in the Roseland area since 1927 Mrs Mellema has 13 grand- children nine boys and four girls Her hobby is sewing and knitting for them and I'll keep right on doing she said The appliance salesman who endorsed the winning entry seph Arnsdorff 50 1800 E st received 50 shares of Genera Motors stock 2 Policemen Injured In Doty Crash Two Kensington Police station were injured Sunday vening at E st and S Doty ave when they swerved to avoid a street while chasing a traffic Injured were Patrolmen Real Estate Series Ends At So Shore You and Your Real last in a series of four discussions on Property and Its will be given November 14 at 10 in South Shore Country club for women and friends Presented by officers of the Chicago Title and Trust com- pany the series of meetings on property discussed how it can be preserved and handled erly for the future W Long assistant vice president will discuss the ad- vantages of real estate as an investment in the final lecture Hold Funeral Services For Glenn Worst Funeral services for Glenn C Worst 58 Board of Education district superintendent in thi area since 1954 were held yes Mr Worst died at Sunday in Grant hospital He had been ill about three week and had been hospitalized one week Services were held in St John Divine Evangelical Lu theran church W st and S Oakley ave yesterday and in terment was in Elmhurst tery in Joliet He was district of district 17 which include Bowen South Shore and Wash ington High schools and 21 ele mentary schools and five branch es Many area school principal and teachers knew him as Mr Organization for the way he ran the district He is survived by his widow Hulda three brothers Floyd Herman and Raymond and tw sisters Mrs Clara Bruzek Mrs Lois Sibby Rates Are In Effect Friday President Of Railroad Terms Increase ly Asked Boost Illinois Commerce Commission yesterday granted the Illinois Central railroad a 20 per cent across-the-board fare increase to become effective as of next Friday at Though the railroad petitioned the for an increase aging 50 per cent Illinois and sions authorized only a flat 20 per cent increase Wayne Johnston president of the railroad immediately termed the increase grossly quate He had stated earlier during hearings that the commuter service lost a million dollars last year and would go deeper into the red for 1958 unless the proposed 50 per cent increase was established E Wales of representing the sociation of South County municipalities at one of the hearings recommended the lower increase and said the 20 per cent increase would produce net income after taxes Johnston added that weekly and monthly commutation ets will be honored for the riod for which they were issued but that one-way tickets will have to be redeemed for tickets at the increased rate The railroad in announcing Souhrada 44 of 9809 approval of the fare in- ave and Raymond crease used the W Randolph st 3 of 225 W Bryn Mawr station rate as the Dobson Souhrada suffered hip and back He is in good condition at Roseland Community hospital Giroux was released from the hospital after he was treated or cuts and bruises The two patrolmen told investigators they were ing south on Doty ave in leavy traffic when they observed he car driven by Thomas R McGeoghegan 30 of 220 E st weaving in and out of traffic The flashing red light was turned on the patrolmen said and McGeoghegan was chased until E pi Where the patrolmen motioned gan to pull over but he swerved Giroux who was driving the police car swerved too and saw a barricade ahead He attempted to stop but the police car skidded and turned over Doty ave is undergoing repairs in this area and there are a number of barricades set up along the street police said to direct traffic around obstacles The normal 45 speed limit has been reduced to 25 while work is in progress The temporary speed limit signs are not readily visible at night said police Giroux estimated that he was going approximately 50 in an effort to catch up with McGeoghegan when the accident occurred Patrolmen Martin Smith and Gail Wakefield of the South Area Traffic division charged McGeoghegan who was jured with negligent driving Local Chamber To Meet Today South Chicago Chamber of Commerce merchants division will hold a special meet at noon today in the South Chicago YMCA to establish a unified method of issuing parking stamps to be given out for each sale by merchants and professional men The date for the pre-Christmas evening shopping will also be de- at the meeting according to James Papageorge vice ident and chairman of the chants division sample of what the increase will mean The present and new rates for that station are one way from 33 cents to 40 cents to to weekly to monthly to and 5 monthly to Ceremony To Mark Yates Blvd Ceremony will be held at 2 p.m Sunday November 30 to mark the official opening of the widened paved and lighted Yates blvd Aid Nicholas J Bohling 7th said yesterday The ceremony will also mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in South Shore according to J Henry Aronson president of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce Plans for the ceremony were set Thursday during a meeting attended by members of the chamber dedication committee the alderman also a member of the chamber committee and of the Chicago Park district Edward L Erickson Jr 1650 E st chairman of the chamber of committee led the chamber group Aronson said to mark the be- ginning of the Christmas ping season Santa Claus will ar- rive by helicopter in the South Shore Country club grounds Motorcade will carry the and Santa Claus from E st and S Yates blvd to the end of the improvement work at E st and South Chicago ave The widening of S Yates blvd is still being completed from E st to E st The portion from E st to E st has been completed and is open to traffic The street is being widened four feet on each side from 22 feet to 30 feet The widening and paving is costing and installation of new mercury vapor street lights ready completed cost j
