Swim safety lessons set for LaGrange Park area
West Suburban YMCA LaGrange hosts spring vacation swimming instruction for 169 boys and 15 girls in grades 5 through 8. Courses run March 29 30 and 31 at Olympic Pool with bus transport from Hinsdale Western LaGrange Park Riverside and LaGrange. Fee is bus fare. eligibility via school distribution. Chuck C. Stotz, YMCA aquatic director, stresses ten safety rules plus one: learn to swim if you can't.
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LaGrange Ani Ik
Olympseyn
Reo
Hinsdale
Western LaGrange Park
Congres
Riverside
Lae
Asses
C. H
Chuck
West
YMCA
West N- Ymca
LaGrange
Stotz
Kes
Illinois park systems show broad community role
Survey by the Illinois Association of Park Districts reports municipal parks in the state cover over 20 000 acres and provide more than 225 baseball diamonds 1000 tennis courts 76 outdoor pools 32 golf courses and numerous fieldhouses pavilions and playgrounds. President R O Sedgwick of the Park District of LaGrange says parks are vital to health delinquency reduction and wholesome leisure, calling them service stations for better citizens.
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R. 0. Sedgwick
Park District
LaGrange
Ilinois Association of Park Districts
Illinois
Sedgwick
Ulinois
Ilinois
Union
Start of Ice Business Expansion in 1799 and 1805
The first long distance ice shipment was sent in 1799 from New York to Charleston. The real start came in 1805 when Frederic Tudor of Boston shipped 130 tons to the West Indies. His first competitor Gage Hittinger and company, Boston, introduced ice to London. This was natural ice from winter harvests stored for summer use.
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New York
Charleston
S. C
Frederic Tudor
Boston
West Indies
Gage, Hittinger and Company
London
Nazareth Student Wins Chicago Piano Contest
Miss Faylene Peters a Nazareth academy senior in La Grange and pupil of Sister Mary Carl was named winner of a piano contest Saturday at Kimball Hall Chicago The Chicago Catholic High School Music association sponsored the contest Faylene will be soloist in the Spring Festival at the Chicago Civic Opera House Sunday afternoon April 25 she will perform Grieg A minor Concerto
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Faylene Peters
Nazareth Academy
la Grange
Mary Carl
C.S.J
Kimball Hall
Chicago
Chicago Catholic High School Music Association
Faylene
Chicago Civic Opera House
Grieg
Civil Rights Talk Set by La Grange Fellowship
The La Grange Inter Racial Fellowship will host Dr Hom mer A Jack from Chicago Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination as speaker for the March 16 meeting at 7 45 PM in First Presbyterian Church La Grange. He will outline the President's Civil Rights Committee report and discuss its controversial provisions and potential civil rights legislation.
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la Grange — Inter-Racial Fellowship
Hommer A. Jack
Chicago Council Against
East Side Center
First Presbyterian ‘Church
Jack
LaGrange
Washington
Detect Solvent Vapors Improved Air Analysis Device
An improved apparatus for determining vapor content of a gas has been patented. It can be used to vent air in factories and other enclosed spaces with solvent vapors and to check water vapor content in breathing oxygen cylinders to prevent ice crystal formation in respirators.
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Tuck Stotz
Lord Lumber & Coal CO
N. Spring
Ry of
Gabardine Slacks
Ene
Eme
Rlo
Chas
Montgomery Ward & CO
WARDS
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