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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1961
Page
9
Forest Park merchants press a larger June 5 Sidewalk Sale as 20 000 people flooded last year with bargains and balloons. Chamber leaders promise European style shopping and prizes while Mayor Meyer urges cooperation with the Village Council for joint progress.
The Friends of the Library present part two of a documentary on Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Shown in color, it depicts Schweitzer at work in his jungle hospital in Lambarene. Free admission. 8 p.m. in the East Meeting Room.
General Chairman Fred Pociak reports Cancer Drive totaling $2500 with final figures pending. Envelopes returned at doors of nonhome donors continue arriving at the American Cancer Society headquarters in Oak Park. Pociak thanks the newspaper, volunteers, and co chairmen Milton Prueter Lt Mac Schnurstein William Garvey and Earl Whelpley for their support.
Last week unknown vandals removed storm windows from the Park Administration Building and threw them into the adjacent swimming pool, causing property disturbance and requiring site cleanup.
Thatcher Woods Area Council honors four Scouts for selling two or more books of tickets in the Scout-O-Rama. Howard McBride Ed Wallace Robert Hentzel and Ken Wentland earned cameras. John Strange led with 110 tickets winning a translator radio at a Court of Honor.
A man described as about 6'7" with blond hair wearing a blue cap was chased by Dr. Jerry Scalise Monday night after a peeping incident at Hanover Animal Hospital on 7215 Franklin. Police estimate the suspect's age around 30 based on footprints.
Members and friends of the Ladies Aid of St John Ev Lutheran Church are invited to a pot luck luncheon on Thursday May 18 from 12 to 1 30 p m in the Parish Hall Free will offerings will be taken
Grant mothers meet Thursday May 18 at 1 30 p m for the last meeting of the school year. Plans for the annual June picnic will be made. Refreshments will be served by Mrs Betty Ellguth Christine Giunedna Betsy Biddinger Lorraine Mosevich and Jean Bixler.
At the annual Service of Dedication and Prayer Concordia Teachers College River Forest announces Barbara Beck of Forest Park will teach at Nativity Lutheran School Detroit Michigan. She may accept the assignment as a permanent position after graduation.
The Village Council passed a unanimous ordinance governing tumbling centers, banning music after 10 p.m. providing parking, limiting one person per apparatus, requiring first aid facilities and staffing ages 18 or older, prohibiting children under six without a parent, and restricting drinking and dietary facilities. The ordinance, prompted by nearby residents near 10th and Harlem, takes effect next May after last year's license granted with few rules.
Otto Heckert of 1132 Thomas known as The Flagman asks Forest Parkers to display the American Hag Sunday for Mother's Day. He praises mothers as caregivers teachers and guides whose happiness lies in their children’s smiles and whom they shelter in trouble.
The Garfield Jr High Band Parents Association will hold its final meeting of the year at the school Friday at 8 p.m. President John Sallee will direct the meeting.
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