Returnee Burt Caster Becomes Freshman Track Star
Burt Caster a Tecumseh, Nebraska native and 1945 LTHS graduate, returned from two years with the army air forces in Munich to enroll as a first semester freshman at the local college. He later joined Max Armer's junior college track squad as a high jumper while working in the finance office as a civilian. Caster blames American army wives in Germany for black market patronage and notes the Marshall Plan’s value in European reconstruction and democratic youth work to counter Communism.
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Return From Overseas Life Pleases Burt
The excerpt notes life under military government overseas, where apartment renters paid only for meals and a maid’s noon meal costing eight cents each. A couple of cigarettes could cover laundry, but Burt says these small perks don’t offset drawbacks. He is glad to be home.
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Lyons Township Debaters Target State Title at Champaign
Lyons Township High School debaters travel to Champaign for the state tournament on April 16 and 17, competing against 11 schools for the title. Coach Ivan Rehn shifts Frank Olson to affirmative and Barbara Eisler to negative, with teammates Dave Allen Allan Calhamer Mary Wood and Louisa Haskell. Other northern Illinois entrants include West Aurora New Trier and West Rockford. Earlier, LTHS claimed their second straight Metropolitan League crown at Thornton Fractional.
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Ivan Rehn
Frank Olson
Barbara Eisler
Dave Allen
Allan Calhamer
Mary Wood
Louisa’ Haskell
Minois
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New Trier
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Thornton Fractional High School
Calumet City
Debaters from LTHS Frosh Soph finish in honors
At the East Aurora contest with 13 teams, LTHS Frosh Soph placed second with six wins and two losses. West Aurora took first with seven wins and one loss. LTHS representatives were Mary Ellen Holt and Frances Charters on the affirmative and Keith Yarborough and Bob Wier on the negative. The affirmative beat West Rockford Mendota East Aurora and Riverside Brookfield except for Mendota. The negative defeated East Aurora Downers Grove East Rockford and West Aurora except East Aurora.
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Mary Ellen Holt
Frances Charters
Keith Yarborough
Bob Wier
West Rockford
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Judges Debate Compulsory Arbitration in Labor Disputes
Daring judges from local school varsity teams discussed the desirability of compulsory arbitration in basic industry labor disputes. Ivan Rehn coaches the Frosh Soph as well as the varsity high school team.
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Mexico City Square Birth of National Power
Mexico City has long framed its history around Zo calo square where control of the square has mirrored the nation’s political authority since the Aztec era. Rulers of the square shaped the country’s fate across centuries.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Ghost Town Paper Boiser News Emerges in Bannock City
The first southern Idaho paper from 1863 in Bannock City, now a ghost town, announced a yearly subscription of 12 dollars and a single-copy price of 50 cents.
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Boiser News
Idaho
Bannock City
Opening dinner kicks off master gifts drive at hospital
Community Memorial General Hospital launches its master gifts section campaign with a dinner on Wednesday April 21 at 7 PM at LaGrange Country Club. W W Kimball chairs the effort with over 200 workers from Hinsdale LaGrange LaGrange Park and Western Springs attending led by James M Elliott. Vergil Schwarzkopf will speak as hospital leaders outline plans to raise 1.5 million for a modern heart center. Campaign leaders receive final instructions and literature as the You re the Doctor film by the American Hospital Association is shown
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Community Memorial General Hospital
LaGrange Country Club
W. W. Kimball
Hinsdale
LaGrange
LaGrange Park
Western Springs
James M. Elliott
Master Gifts Group
Vergil Schwarzkopf
Hospital Board of Governors
Bill of Fare for LTHS Girls Interest Group
Psychology has engaged the attention of members of Me My self and Others interest group for girls at LTHS at recent meetings. Latest of these programs was presented April 6 in the community room with a series of recordings. Walter Payne, psychology teacher, gave a brief summary of the work of Dr Menninger a psychiatrist who was the narrator on the records and he added facts about Jimlam behavior to aid comprehension. Slides were projected on a large screen.
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Walter Payne
Menninger
Oregon centennial observances spark statewide ceremonies
The report notes Nancy Moulton as chairman of a group praising a program for girls and mentions psychology screenings and booklets. It cites Oregon’s territorial history with Abraham Lincoln’s 1849 appointment and the 1848 territorial establishment, highlighting planned celebrations across the state for the centennial.
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