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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
12
Oak Avenue schools claim top honors as heavyweight and lightweight teams dominate the sixth annual grade school tournament held in the LaGrange High School gym. Sponsored by the L Club and LaGrange Recreation Commission, the event wrapped up Friday.
Oak heavies and lights advance through rounds beating Seventh Avenue and Sossitt to reach finals. Bennett nets 23, Kacas adds 10 baskets as Oak heavies lead 28 to 14 after three. Congress Park’s Clay and Baker top their attack while Groeser leads Oak lights 14 to 5 in the championship.
Sunday and Saturday nights, March 19 and 20, the high school will present HMS Pinafore performed by the choir with Carol Ruminer Marilyn Gray and Roger Norton in cast. The program featured selections from the operetta at a Kiwanis luncheon with Shirley Johnson on piano and Bob Quinlan on violin.
The Romans used warm air and smoke to heat baths by building fires in lower areas and hollow tile flues under floors and up walls. This method circulated heat through walls and floors, warming the building and foreshadowing modern radiant heating.
Secretary of LTHS Miss Neaman D Homer was nominated for a second two year term as corresponding secretary of the National Association of School Secretaries at the midwinter meeting in Atlantic City New Jersey. Frances E Rosenthal addressed the group on the important role of the school secretary in public relations. Dr J R Mitchell spoke on the secretary as an educator and workshops for school secretaries were announced for Purdue University UCLA and likely Western Reserve University Cleveland after the summer meeting.
The Lyong Township Junior College sprint medley team won the Midwest track meet at North Central College in Naperville on Saturday. Dick Bowman ran three laps, Don Van Horn two, Bob Barker one, and Eakin Graber six, finishing in 4:32. Morton Junior College placed second, eight yards back, led by Wilson and Thorn.
Two LTHS English instructors mourned as their mothers died last week. Ruth McCusker of Mattoon Illinois and Julia Bladt of Elmhurst died within days of each other. Funeral services for McCusker were held in Mattoon on February 29 and Bladt’s services were conducted at Harris Funeral Home in Joliet with interment at Elwood. Bladt taught at LTHS and LC. Swift JC runners face next test at Illinois Tech relays under coach Max Armer.
The readable text references residents and households in New Jersey with scattered population figures and averages. Specific names appear obliquely, including Mrs William Spiler and Mr Gusti Bethke, among others, within a fragmentary OCR passage.
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