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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1952
Page
1
Community notices list Brookfield locals including Bessie Brill Rose and Gladys Ragens at various Brookfield addresses. Also lists Diews offices, map locations, telephone, and rates, noting ad and subscription bills due at specified addresses and noting the only magnetics office locations in town.
Local column notes a Rosemead couple returning from a California month long trip visiting relatives in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It records a first birthday for a Woodside Avenue child born August and condolences to Mrs. Nick Strafaci for her brother’s death. Mentions house guests, theatre attendance, and a new son Michael Lee Kayse born June in Oak Park hospital as the Kayse family announces their third boy.
A visitor describes a Berlin tour including famous night clubs with Rest as a highlight, noting phones and pneumatic tubes at tables, Russian and British sector contrasts, and派 high prices. The piece covers the Hammack house stay, memorials, and wary views of civilian access and security in the city.
Paul A. Gorman of 524 S Catharine Ave LaGrange is promoted from manager of Western Electric central distribution zone to personnel director for the company. He will relocate to New York Sept 1. Born Dec 16 1907 in Carrollton Missouri he is a University of Massachusetts graduate and has held multiple posts at Western Electric including central distribution zone manager and manufacturing engineering roles. He serves on the Electric Club LaGrange Country Club and has been a director of Hawthorne Credit Union.
Edward Bednar of 3513 Sunny Side Ave plans to drive his 1923 Stearns Knight to the Fair Grounds Friday morning August 15. He joins about 200 antique car enthusiasts from Illinois and five neighboring states in this meet offering up to 2000 dollars in cash prizes with trophies and ribbons provided by Secretary of State Barrett.
The district announced eight new hires for the high school across multiple departments. New staff include Miss Lois M. Cheeseman of Berwyn, Kenneth R. Miller of Pekin, H1., and William T. Gooch of Hoopston. Positions cover English, remedial training, social studies, language, mathematics, art, woodworking, mechanical drawing, and speech. Several hires replace departing teachers and veterans with army service, reflecting a broad recruitment drive.
Frank Sliva 71 longtime Brookfield Sokol first president died Tuesday morning. Funeral from Mansfield Funeral Home to National Hall at 9 Saturday with Sokol honors. He lived with daughter Mrs Jerome Diner at the family address and had served 20 years as Sokol president after his wife’s death in March 1949. He traveled to St Petersburg Florida last winter and returned in June.
A longtime educator from Sisseton South Dakota taught at the local high school for two years and spent the last two summers as a program director in a national park. The article notes she is married.
Illinois highway department plans bituminous resurfacing along about three quarters of a mile of Ogden avenue from Elmwood avenue to LaGrange road this year Sealed bids to be opened in Springfield on Tuesday August 19 for this and other Cook and Lake County street paving projects with Cook County receiving a substantial portion of the 11 million dollars slated for road improvements in the near term The LaGrange area is mentioned in the context of the Ogden avenue work
A 4 metal handling shed is being constructed south of Southview near Blanchan by Brookfield Iron and Metal Co. The building will house light manufacturing and sits south of the Quonset building used by Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Village officials say the area is already zoned for light manufacturing.
A 0.77 mile section of bituminous resurfacing is planned on U S 84 along Ogden Avenue near Edgewood Avenue, extending southeasterly toward the LaGrange Road intersection. The order references paving work and project scope in the noted location.
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