Forest Park Community Chest approves half budgets for six groups
At the January meeting the Forest Park Community Chest board authorized payments totaling half of each participating group's approved budgets. The first disbursements include Girl Scouts 1500 dollars Boy Scouts 1450 dollars Infant Welfare 1002 dollars Family Service 1381.50 dollars and Community Nursing 366 dollars. The drive aimed for 12500 dollars but only 9204.41 had been raised. Payroll deductions will continue to year end.
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Forest Park
Loyd
Howard Reich
Centennial Fund
Forest
Park Community Chest
Ceaccrae
Forest. Park Centennial
Council Grants Permit For Used Car Lot at Harlem and Madison
At a special village meeting the Mayor and Commissioners granted Palmer Buick Inc Oak Park permission to operate a used car lot at Harlem and Madison for six months. Shell Petroleum Co serves notice they will seek zoning change to open an automobile service station at the site after Palmer term ends.
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Palmer Buick, Inc
Oak Park
Harlem
Madison
Shell Petroleum Co
Local Marine Toy Drive Collects 70000 Toys
The 1957 Toys for Toys campaign ended after 19 days raising 70000 toys for 6500 needy children in the Western Suburbs and Greater Chicago area. Lt Col Verne Kennedy of the Ist Weapons Battalion USMC Reserve Forest Park announced the year four success with Western Marine Reservists and community groups coordinating the effort.
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Verne €. Kennedy
Ist
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
Forest Park
Western Marine
Chicago
Jamieson Seeks Re election as Proviso Committeeman
James Jamieson seeks re election as Republican Committeeman for Proviso township. A gala at 102 South Fifth Avenue featured nominating petitions with over ten thousand signatures to place his name on the April primary ballot. Jamieson has led Proviso Republicans sixteen years, uniting the party and solving finances via a picnic fundraiser that sustained the organization as precincts grew from seventy eight to a larger number.
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South Fifth Avenue
Jamieson
Proviso Township
Republican Party
Republican Organization
Trio Holds Up Whitehall Service Station in Harlem
A trio robbed the Whitehall Service Station at 915 Harlem Sunday evening. Two men entered the office and announced a stick up while a third waited outside in a car. About 1.36 dollars was taken before the suspects fled. Anthony Trombello and Anthony Sarmino of Chicago were later arrested and reportedly given a partial confession. Sarmino had been released from prison a month earlier on a holdup charge.
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Whitehall
Harlem
Clifford Gardner
Gardner
Forest Park
Oak Park
Anthony Trombello
Anthony Sermino
Chicago
Sarmino
Cadillacs Sabotaged at Local Car Lots
Cadillacs' Ganey Motors at 1330 Roosevelt and Joe Smart at 13th and Harlem report vandals scratching high class merchandise. Ganey's lot had three Cadillacs and a Lincoln damaged, while Smart noted four Cadillacs similarly treated.
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Ganey Motors
Roosevelt
Joe Smart
Harlem
Ganey
Man Reports Tire Punctures At Circle Address
Fred Daniel of 743 Circle reports his car had all four tires punctured with an ice pick. The incident details are limited to the single report from the resident.
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Fred Daniel
Circle
Proviso Industry Migration Supports Local Republican Leadership
Industrial workers have moved to Proviso and vote, renting or buying homes. The local Republican Organization has kept pace with population growth and delivered substantial Republican victories, prompting its members to insist that Mr. Jamieson remain in office.
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Jamieson
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Reich
Henry Desens
Lloyd
William Meyer
Roy Ratajak
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