Eddie the Pig Leads 1954 Chicago Children's Zoo Opening
Eddie the Pig heads the opening cast for the Children's Zoo and Farm at Chicago Zoological Park on May 15 1954 joining a baby kangaroo a tortoise and a cet. The 1954 lineup includes a new baby pony Jersey cow calf and ducklings with a lively monkey display in the hayloft. Humboldt penguins and a desert scene with prairie dogs kangaroo rats burrowing owls and horned lizards are promised along with Melinda the baby elephant. Opening day attendance reached 4811 with total for the day 17500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie
Chicago Zoological Park
Zip
Zam
Zowie
James R. Offield
Chicago Zoological Society
Brookfield
Admiral Byrd
South Pole
Melinda
Children’s Zoo
Bill Adams Feted by Friends During Leave at Brookfield
Bill Adams of 9427 Jackson Avenue in the U S N left last week for California to report to the USS Johnson for six months of duty. On his home visit, 37 Brookfield Baptist church youth held a welcome home party at his house with cake and soft drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Adams
USN
Jackson Ave
U.S.N
California
Bill
Johnson
Brookfield Baptist Church
Pinch Test Promotes Weight Reduction at Overweights Anonymous
Brookfield Health center promotes a quick self check called the Pinch Test to judge overweight status. Miss M. Pokorny notes strong response to Overweights Anonymous leading to two weekly groups, Day group Thursdays at 1:30 and Evening group Wednesdays at 6:45, each lasting one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield Health Center
M. Pokorny
Brookfield Republicans Hoffman and McVey Win Primary
Brookfield voters chose Rep. Hoffman and Rep. McVey as easy primary winners amid partial returns from 227 of 541 precincts. Hoffman led De Wolf Jr. with 11,920 votes to 3,899 while McVey tallied 12,818 against Koontz at 1,173 in 235 of 465 precincts. Joseph Meek led the U.S. Senate race in Western Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
Rep
Hoffman
McVey
Koontz
DeWolf Jr
DeWlolfe
Joseph Meek
Western Springs
United States
Appoint Aides In Final Drive Dist 208 YC
Frank S. Kanelos and Francis Creadon have been appointed to chairman ships of the Dist 208 Youth Center fund drive. Judge John C. Lowe and Brookfield President Dan Kulie announced the plan this week. Kanelos will serve as legal advisor and Creadon will head the gift committee. Teen volunteers handle steno, brochure writing, poster design, printing and publicity as fund week plans include a parade and events to recruit 615 teen solicitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank S. Kanelos
Hollywood
Francis Creadon
Riverside
John C. Lowe
Brookfield
Dan Kulie
Kanelos
Chicago
Creadon
Riverside Recreation Commission
Community Fund
Red Cross
H. L. Pesch
Carol Baumgardner
Stanley Fullwood
Wayne Wright
Brad Mack
Ray Simpson
Bob Beneditti
Dick Blank
Jack Heimerdinger
Youth Center
Ron Natale
Gail Loess
Jean Rada
Spring Duck and Possum Visit Spotted in Local Yard
Police noted a duck landed in Margery Gregory’s yard at 9118 Grant Avenue before returning to water. Nearby, Mr Haragen’s yard at 3927 Maple hosted a tree dwelling opossum that drew crowd interest but was spared. Officer Kobes reported no shooting after locals objected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margery Gregory
Grant
Grant Ave
Haragen
Kobes
Apel
Funeral for Alonzo J Flynn Held in Hawthorne
Alonzo J. Flynn died after a 41 year residency in the village, death in Florida. Funeral services today at Paloucek Chapel with Rev. Llewelyn Jones presiding and interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Survived by widow Clara Ertel, two sons Richard and Robert, daughter Jeannette Vellow, a deceased daughter Grace Allen, sister Theresa Kirchner, brother Harry Flynn, and 13 grandchildren. He was a member of Hawthorne Chapter 45, Telephone Pioneers of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alonzo J. Flynn
Grand Blvd
Paloucek
Woodlawn Park
Llewelyn Jones
First Congregational Church
Flynn
New Smyrna Beach
Fla
Western Electric Co
Clara
Ertel
Richard
Robert
Jeannette Vehlow
Grace Allen
Theresa Kirchner
New Jersey
Harry Flynn
New York
Hawthorne
Telephone Pioneers of America
Brookfield Village Files Foreclosure Over Unpaid Assessments
The Village of Brookfield filed a foreclosure suit Thursday over unpaid special assessment taxes on four properties. Hazel Davis owns 3915 Maple Avenue worth 950, Betty Austera 8946 Monroe Street 1,250, Frank Haban 9107 West 26th 875, and the Southwester Corp. at 4005 Dubois bivd with possible interest by Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Anne Pray at 1,175. The Maple Avenue property also carries 450 in back taxes and houses on site, abandoned years ago, boarded up by court order, with boarding costs liens. Utilities funded by special assessment bonds include sewers, sidewalks, water pipes, curbing, paving, electric lighting, and water mains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CNS
Brookfield
Maple Avenue
Hazel Davis
Downers Grove
Monroe Street
Betty Austera
West 26Th
Frank Haban
DuBois Bivd
Southwester Corporation
Frank
Anne Pray
Leonard Bosgraf
Bosgraf
Brookfield News Highlights Old Timers Meet and Local Events
The Brookfield area news notes the Old Timers club meeting of Bow man Dairy employees at the Lake Shore club on April 16 featuring Adeline Schultz a 26 year veteran. Also covered are Kiwanis club talks by Major Ora Bard US Army and a trade mark registration for Old Brookfield Brand by Frank Incrocci. Easter breakfast reservations at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church and PTA plans for St Paul’s school sale are mentioned along with spring vacation notices at Riverside Brookfield High School and Easter bunny duties by Kiwanis member John Crumbaugh. Advancing dates include Wheaton College choralaires performing at Brookfield Baptist Church on April 25 and local wedding and engagement updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Timers Club
Bowman Dairy
Lake Shore Club
Adeline Schultz
Cleveland Ave
Ora Bard
USA
Japan
Brookfield Kiwanis Club
Springfield
Brookfield
Frank Incrocci
Leo‘s Liquors
Broadway
Elvira Harvey
Luther Leaguers
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church
Harold Or Pat Lindberg
Arlene Fischer
Lois Thorien
John Tuschall
Kiwanis Club of
Eure Inter- Misr
Flands
Iami
Florida
PTA
St. Paul’s Church School
Ogden Ave
Riverside - Brookfield High School
Max Birkelbach
Semioccasional
John Crumbaugh
Hollywood
Army
PFC
Anthony Waszak
Gloria
Forest Ave
24Th Infantry
Korea
The
Magnet
Dorothy Watson
E. L. Watsons
John Pufahl
Downers Grove
Haebich to Quit A-B in June 1955
I E Haebich longtime Riverside Brookfield High School superintendent requests board to select successor for 1955 retirement end of school year 1954 55. He joined A B in 1919 and led science then. A 2 5 million addition expanded facilities for 1800 2000 students by 1961 1962. An 18 member advisory screening committee will assist the board in choosing his successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. E. Haebich
Riverside - Brookfield Township
Board of Education
Haebich
Riverside- Brookfield
343Rd U. S. Infantry
Stockton
Downers Grove
Riverside-Brookfield
C. W. Sanford
College of Education
University of Illinois
Top Seniors Named at R B High School in 1954
Supt Haebich announced the upper ten percent list for the year’s R B High School seniors. Valedictorian Barbara Zika and salutatorian Nancy Lindquist lead a group of twenty seniors including Loretta Bardauskas Patricia Bloomquist Frederick Brokaski Carolyn Copeland Dorothy Curdes Carol Cotta Diane Dietrich Melissa Exdell Phyllis Gerhold Susan Hastings Robert Janca Arlene Johnson Loretta Kellman Alan Kracht Gail Kulie Rosalie Maier Robert Pesch Gaylord Rogeness Marilyn Sering and Maryanne Sorensen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt. Haebich
Barbara Zika
Nancy Lindquist
Loretta Bardauskas
Patricia Bloomquist
Frederick Brokaski
Carolyn Copeland
Dorothy Curdes
Carol Cotta
Diane Dietrich
Melissa Exdell
Phyllis Gerhold
Susan Hastings
Robert Janca
Arlene Johnson
Loretta Kellman
Alan Kracht
Gail Kulie
Rosalie Maier
Robert Pesch
Gaylord Rogeness
Marilyn Sering
Maryanne Sorensen
New Office Hours At The Village Hall
Brookfield Village Hall offices will close to the public on Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. starting May 5, 1954. Village manager C Harold Bash says the change aligns with suburban business hours and supports staff workload balance. A partial staff will handle emergencies. From the week of May 3 the schedule is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
C. Harold Bash
Fash
Gross Is Winner In 4 Way Fight In R-B Election
Brookfield voters chose March 4 school board candidates with Margar et Lindwall of North Riverside winning 647 votes in a four way race. Harold Kracht of LaGrange Park was second with 491, Gale Gross of Brookfield 446, and Irvin Richter of Hollywood 379. Lindwall and Kracht won in their caucus contests. Richter lost to Gross who joined the race late. The board canvassed results Tuesday as the new board organized, with Supt. I E Haebich to retire in 1954-55. Other members: James MacGowan, Hollywood. Frances Benda, H A Bamford, Riverside. F E Hodek, president. Dist. 102 results: John W Heppes 194, William L Leavitt 192, W Harry Center 109. Riverside Dist. 96: Lyndle W Hess 203, Ralph A Heimsen 202, Ernest E Zimmerman 203. all reelected. Dist. 204 LTHS: William Seymour 1391, Russell James 1390. Dist. 95: Chris Wetzel 262, Vivian Bachmann 257. canvassing set for Apr 19. Harold Peel, Brookfield, and Thomas Cerny, Stickney won Dist. 103 seats. Chris Deminski, Stickney, lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
Riverside-Brookfield
Margaret Lindwall
North Riverside
Harold Kracht
LaGrange Park
Gale Gross
Irvin Richter
Hollywood
Lindwall
Kracht
Richter
Gross
I. E. Haebich
James MacGowan
Frances Benda
H. A. Bamford
F. E. Hodek
Riverside
Harold Peel
Thomas Cerny
Stickney
Lincoln — School
Chris Deminski
Union Good Friday Service Planned at Brookfield Church
Good Friday services will be held at First Congregational Church of Brookfield from noon to 3 pm on April 16. Ministers from Hollywood Presbyterian Nazarene Congress Park Methodist Maywood Congregational lead readings prayers and music across seven periods with solos, organ preludes, and benediction as Brookfield area churches share in the observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
First Congregational
Brookfield
Lincoln
Mapleaves
Curtis Glick
Hollywood Presbyterian
Robert Mollar
Church of the Nazarene
C. A. Chamberlin
Congress Park
Vretblad
Edward Ellison
Dubois
James Baird
Llewellyn Jones
First Congregational Church
Tschaikowski
Russell Leander
Leonard Maunder
Maywood Congregational Church
Nazarene Church
Salo
Niles
Helen Suk
C. A
Faure
Gene Mulder
Holden Foltz
Calvary
Brown
Clarence Schultz
W. Meinhart
George Vulgaris
Faith Lutheran
Joseph Kapp
Reiner
Menane
Bayly
Illinois SDA Moves to New Office Building
The Illinois Conference of Seventh Day Adventists moves into a new building on Prairie Ave north of the post office, with 18 staff, headquarters and a Bible house. Groundbreaking was in 1953, cost over 175000, 120 by 76 feet, parking at rear, offices on two floors, plus a motion picture room and Civil Defense space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Illinois. Conference of Seventh Day Adventists
Prairie Ave
Pacific Press Publishing Association
Illinois Conference
Pacific Press
Seventh Day Adventists
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Brookfield
Midwest
E Pacific Press
Completes Engineer Training in US Army at Fort Leonard Wood
Pvt. Raymond J. Bronsteader son of Mr and Mrs Jack Bronsteader 8814 Rosemear Hollywood recently completed engineer basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri with the 6th Armored division In eight weeks basics of Army life infantry weapons and eight weeks engineer training were completed He learned pioneer and power tools bridge construction and combat skills The training cycle ends with the Super Sixth and graduates are eligible for specialist schools or replacement assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond J. Bronsteader
Jack Bronsteader
Rosemear
Hollywood
Fort Leonard Wood
Riverside crash involving 17 year old driver and injured woman
Donald Bergman, 17, of Brookfield, said to have tried to evade police after a Riverside crash that injured Mrs. Doherty, 28, as she crossed Pine Street after arriving by train from Chicago. Bergman faced three charges with $1,000 bail on each, secured by his parents. A girl companion claimed she warned him of excessive speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookfield
Riverside
Donald Bergman
Grant Ave
Doherty
Pine Ayve
Pine
Chicago
East Ave
MacNeal Memorial Hospital
Bergman
Louis B. Stocks
Marine Cpl Chandler in Operation Flag Hoist on Iwo Jima
Marine Cpl William F. Chandler, son of Mrs Florence Chandler of Brookfield, landed with the 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima during Operation Flag Hoist. After nine years since the first landing, Marines breached the beachhead and pushed inland against a simulated enemy force staged by the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. Memorial services were held for more than 4,000 Marines and Sailors who perished in 1945 during the earliest battle for the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Chandler
Florence Chandler
Oak Ave
Brookfield
Iwo Jima
3Rd Marine Division
U. S
4Th Marines
Jima
Lt George Schreiber Case for Air Force Board Review
Lt George C Schreiber 25 of 3511 Hollywood Ave faces review in Washington before the Air Force Board of Review. The case stems from a 1952 court martial for ordering a Korean prisoner shot during a guard duty incident near Pusan. Protests and petitions circulated. attorney general Latham Castle leads for Schreiber with Grenville Beardsley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schreiber
Brookfield
Air Force Board
Washington, D. C
Pusan
Bang Soon Kil
Schreiber
Ump
Wee
Thomas L. Kinder
Cleveland
Tenn
Kinder
Eee
Beardsley
S. E. Anderson
5Th Air Force
Tokyo
Tokyo. At the Present Time, Lt. Schreiber
United States Disciplinary Barracks
Lompoc
Cal
Talafous Promoted to Sergeant in U S Army
Martin H. Talafous son of Mr and Mrs Frank R Talafous of 4236 Elmore Brookfield was promoted to sergeant. A personnel specialist with a medical battalion he graduates Lyons Township High School and studied at Illinois College of Pharmacy before joining the service He serves with the 11th Airborne Medical Battalion in the 11th Airborne Division stationed at Fort Campbell Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin H. Talafous
Frank R. Talafous
Elmore
Brookfield
Talafous
Lyons Township High School
Illinois ‘College of Pharmacy
Service
11Th Airborne Medical Battalion
11Th. Airborne Division
Fort. Campbell
Kentucky
Graveside rites for Edna Mae Webb held April 10
Graveside services were held for Edna Mae Webb on Saturday April 10 at 1. The service took place at a local rose cemetery where family and friends paid final respects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Mae
Webb
Easter Holy Week Services Across Brookfield Churches
Easter schedule outlines Holy Week observances at Faith Lutheran Union Congregational and Methodist churches. Faith Lutheran presents Maundy Thursday 7:30 pm supper sacrament and Good Friday 7:30 pm Hour of Trial. Union Congregational lists sunrise Easter at 6 am and services at 8:30 and 11 am with Sunday school at 9:45. Milton Bayly to deliver sermon The Burst Easter Morning with Rev Bayly, James Ridlen and Roysea participation. Methodist Men host breakfast at 7 am. Nursery provided at 8:30 and 11. Adoration hour at 8 pm. The risen gospel topic to be given at 10:45. (CONTINUED)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unions Congregational “Church
Milton Bayly
Bayly
James Ridlen
Mr. Roy
Methodist Men’s Club
Angelus
Jor Ee Ee
Pate i Et Kapp
Angelus Briunione
G. Austin Kuhns
Lilchard
The
Org
Miele American funds cancer fight against an
Funds are being raised by Miele American in a campaign to support cancer research and patient support services. The effort seeks donations from employees and the public to bolster treatment access and research funding.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Archie Schonemann
Wheaton College Choralaires
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Ill
Brookfield _Baptist church
Fairview, Ave
A-B
Man
Supt
John W. Heppes
William L. Leavitt
W. Harry Cente
Lyndle W. Hess
Ralph A. Heimsen
Ernest E. Zimmerman
William Seymour
Russell James
Chris Wetzel
Vivian Bachmann
Illinois
SDA
John Zermer
B. J. Bruns
Beverly Construction Co
Frank Kesman and Sons
Fisher and
Ft. Leonard Wood
R. J. Bronsteader
Cpl. Chandler
Geo. Schreiber
Edna Mae Webb
Varioui
Methodist
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