New Lenox Plans Multi Dwellings and Ordinance Updates
The village board leases space for police magistrate sessions and advances a zoning ordinance to cover multiple dwellings. Edward Lord receives a permit for two two story buildings on Cooper Street with a $10,000 bond, front yard 30 foot setbacks, 2,000 square feet per family, and pending building code amendments led by Levon Seron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lenox
Edward Lord
Cooper Street
Stanley Gilmore
Levon Seron
Joliet
Seron
Donald Anderson
Evans Drotts
Gilmore
Chester Rowan
Thomas D. Skene
Forest
Amos Bruns
Ronald Whittaker
Frankfort Bank Opens Showroom With Remodel Open House
Frankfort State Bank unveils a 3000 square foot, air conditioned remodel with walnut paneling and aluminous ceiling. A $25,000 vault, new service counters, and light brick exterior accompany a two day open house June 16 17 offering free gifts coffee and doughnuts to attendees. Howard W Remier serves as cashier with officers James Walker Alvin Bruggeman and Albert Kreuseman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort State Bank
Howard W. Remier
James P. Walker
Alvin Bruggeman
Albert .Kreuseman
Amvets Four Day Carnival Opens In Mokena Tonight
Final plans set for the Mokena Amvets Five Point Post carnival at Wolf and LaPorte roads starting Thursday with games rides and a main prize of 500 on Sunday. Amvets Auxiliary runs the food booth and parade closes the event. In other items Carl Kuntz of New Lenox treated for a hand cut and Ted Dunham of Mokena to study chemistry at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for ten weeks this summer while planning a September wedding to Jeanette Love.
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Mokena
Amvets Five Point Post
Amvets
Wolf and LaPorte
Ted Dunham
Edwin Dunham
Atomic Energy Commission On
Oak Ridge
Kansas State College
Pittsburg
Kansas
Jeanette Love
Houston
Austin College
Lincoln Way High School
Bon voyage party for Carol Sherwood heads to Holland
A surprise farewell for Carol Sherwood of Mokena a Lincoln Way high student left Friday for an exchange summer in Holland. Tom Marcoux hosted the gathering at his parents home with about 25 classmates present as Sherwood modeled a wooden shoe in a side photo. She flew to Montreal Friday then boarded the liner Seven Seas to Rotterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Sherwood
Mokena
Lincoln Way
Holland
Tom Marcoux
Leo Marcoux
Randall Smith
Miss Sherwood
Montreal
Rotterdam
Will County drives revoke 17 licenses this week
A New Lenox man and 16 other Will county residents had their driving privileges revoked in Illinois during the past week. R. W. McElfresh of 205 S. Cedar Rd lost his license after a drunken driving charge.
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Will County
Illinois
R. W. McElfresh
S. Cedar Rd
Mokena Village Board Drafts Zoning and Repairs
The Mokena village board on Wednesday appoints a zoning board including Elias Brown and Ralph Yunker to hold a hearing on proposed zoning ordinance plans. Durward Fant is named village treasurer for one year. Plans for village hall tuck pointing and street repairs are set, with fire department seeking a new siren funded partly by Civil Defense.
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Mokena
Charles J. Swanberg
Elias Brown
Robert Geuther
Ralph Yunker
Fred Lehmann
Morris Angland
Durward L. Fant
Fant
Howard Schieblick
Willard Munch
Civil Defense
Fire Department
Swanberg
Washington
Anthony Dina
Frank Murray
Norther Illinois Gas Co
George Bennett
Amvets
St. Mary's
Will Tuttle
Vernon Bormet
Tuttle
Bormet
Joliet
Henry Shevlin
Bond Issue For Frankfort School Addition
Frankfort district voters approved a 145000 bond for an school addition by 290 in favor to 277 against with six spoiled ballots. The board will proceed with construction plans and arrange temporary classroom space at St Peters church for next fall at estimated annual cost.
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Frankfort
1. 7-C
St. Peter’s Church
Teen Injured Diving at Joliet Pool
Stanley Douglas a 16 year old of New Lenox struck his head on a board while diving at Nowell swimming pool in Joliet. He was treated at Silver Cross hospital.
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CATS
Carl Kuntz
S. Cedar Rd
New Lenox
Silver Cross Hospital
Joliet
Kuntz
Stanley Douglas
Nowell Swimming Pool
Northern Illinois holds 62nd commencement in record year
Henry Irving Clark III of Mokena was among 755 degree candidates at Northern Illinois University's 62nd commencement in DeKalb on Glidden Field. The largest class in school history included 479 graduates earning a bachelor of science in education.
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Henry Irving Clark III
Mokena
Northern Illinois University
den Kalb
Glidden Field
Clark
City to shut off water for bypass work tonight
The city will cut water for about three hours starting at 8:00 p.m. tonight to complete final connections on a bypass beneath the Mokena village water tower. If weather delays occur, work will resume Friday night. Clyde Yunker, hired by the village board, says future repairs may require additional piping below the tower but the bypass now will avoid a longer shutdown later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Rauch Jr
Mokena Village
Clyde Yunker
Village Board
Fathers Day Observance and Origin Details
Fathers Day, proclaimed as the third Sunday in June, will be observed this Sunday June 18. It originated in 1910 by Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane Washington and spread across the United States. A national Father’s Day committee formed in 1936 with headquarters in New York City, and some cities elect a Father of the Year annually.
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John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
United States
New York City
Recreation program opens at New Lenox Lions Den
The village sponsors a six week summer play ground program starting Monday June 19 at the Lions Den. Ronald Larson, Lincoln Way High School wrestling coach, leads with LW student Jeanine Peters assisting. Activities include whiffle badminton arts and crafts and papier mache made from old newspapers. Sessions run Monday through Friday 9 am to noon with no charge.
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Lenox
Lions den
Ronald Larson
Lincoln Way High School
Jeanine Peters
Family Fitness Program To Start Monday
The Mokena family fitness program begins Monday June 19 at Carpenter street school and the community park. Four instructors teach dancing gymnastics and sports for all ages from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and 1 00 to 4 00 pm. Miss Sharon Cappel leads a park program for children ages five to 14 with archery baseball croquet badminton and more. The eight week schedule offers games and activities to help children learn cooperation and social skills. Gymnastics dancing and other sports run 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and 1 30 to 3 30 pm on the same day at Carpenter street school under William Donaldson.
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Mokena
Carpenter Street
Sharon Cappel
William Donaldson
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Normoyle and Berg Co
Normoyle
Berg
Eugene Hunt
State Highway Department
Hunt
Normoyle and
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Frankfort Bank
Herman Barlewort
Arthur C. Bauch
LeRoy Bettenhausen
Adams Heusner
LeRoy Mager
George Tate
Post Office Department
Ramond Hoolihan
Commit Tee
Munch
William George
Peotone
Paul Lambrecht
Connecticut Hills
Lincolns Way High School
Future Farmers of America
Fathers Day
Salvation Army
Patty Burns
Karen Rahm
Charles McManimen
Frankfort Geass Bank
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