Railway seeks service revision and fare hike in Chicago area
The Chicago and North Western Railway asked the Illinois Commerce Commission for permission to revise suburban service and raise commuter fares by 24 percent. The move may lead to closing most commuter stations within Chicago city limits. The line carries more than 40,000 commuters daily across three divisions serving north northwest and west suburbs.
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Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway
Illinois Commerce Commission
Chicago City
North Western
Open House Christmas Program At Morris Presbyterian Church
The Morris Presbyterian Church Sunday School presents an Open House Christmas program at 4 30 pm with three simultaneous areas in the sanctuary Fellowship Hall and the Friendship Room. Coordinators Arthur Baker Richard Oakland and Mrs Henry Harper supervise area programs and movement. Afterward all visit a lighted tree for caroling and Santa distributes treats to the children.
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Morris Presbyterian Church
Arthur Baker
Richard Oakland
Fellowship Hall
Henry Harper
Friendship Room
Justify Her 4 H Award Chooses Southern Fried Chicken
Chattanooga report states Carol Hemrough a Jacksonville Illinois freshman at Tennessee Tech was asked to justify her top 4 H Club food preparation award. With the regular dietitian off she oversaw kitchen and dining room for about 500 to 600 students at the annual Christmas dinner on the eve of vacations.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Carol Hemrough
Jacksonville
Ill
Tennessee Tenle College
Carol
To love’s old song of the courting toad
Zoologist Dr. Arthur N Bragg of the University of Oklahoma studied toad mating to determine the age at which males begin courting He spent evenings by ponds and found that male toads sing when they are old enough to court
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Norman
Okla
Arthur N. Bragg
University of Oklahoma
Church Schedules and Christmas Programs Across Town
A dense list of church services and Christmas programs across Maz on Lisbon and surrounding areas. Includes Holy Mass times at Saint Lawrence Immaculate Conception Assumption Catholic and First Methodist.
Christmas Program and Open House at Church School
The Rev Clifford Gilson Church hosts worship at 9 30 a m and a church school session at 10 45 a m A Christmas program and open house follow at 7 p m with attendance invited by the church community.
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ST. Thomas’ Episcopal
John D. Arnold
Curch School
Calvary Baptist
Roy D. Kindle
Baptist Training Union
Church OF the Nazarene
Russell Wickland
NYPS
Gordon Smith
Stavanger Lutheran
Louis T. Larson
Bethlehem Lutheran
L. G. Hinderaker
Gardner United Lutheran
John Alver
William Hutter
S. S
Lisbon
Bethlehem
Fraternity Must Vacate Schenectady House
A New York court rules the Delta Chi chapter at Union College must leave a Schenectady house after 23 brothers were deemed not a family under single family zoning. The appellate division declined the fraternity’s argument that brotherhood created a family for zoning purposes.
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Albany
Delta Chi
Schenectady
Union College
Appellate Division of State Supreme Courts
Smelly protest prompts U S consular appeal in Germany
Four south German villages appeal to the U S consulate in Stuttgart over persistent odors from local sauerkraut plants. Residents vote to seek a method to eliminate the stink and offer 5,000 marks for a wastewater odor removal process.
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Esslingen
Germany
U. S
Stuttgart
New Jersey's Early Government Linked to New York
Until 1736 New Jersey maintained a separate assembly while its chief executive served as governor of New York, shaping colonial governance and regional power.
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New Jersey
New York
Safety to Be Scouts Major Service Project
The Boy Scouts of America will adopt safety as its major service project for 1958. In Rainbow Council, a Health and Safety Committee meeting at Joliet Arsenal set plans for a Safety Good Turn during National Scout Week February 7 13. The program aims to reduce deaths injuries and property damage through safety education and community service.
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Boy Scouts of America
Eisenhower
Rainbow Council
Health and Safety Committee
Joliet Arsenal
Louis F. Bottino
Joliet
Bottino
James Marnell
Kankakee Trails
James Loeffler
Louis Joliet
James M. Davis
Shabbona
Grundy County
Other Wise Man Presented At Morris Presbyterian Church
A Sunday morning service features a combined Chancel and Junior Choir performing Angels Oer The Fields and Now Let All the Heavens Adore Thee. Reverend Hugo Montanus will dramatize Henry Van Dyke s The Other Wise Man in eastern costume from Syria. Gifts for Kemmerer Orphanage will be collected and transported.
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Morris Presbyterian Church
Bach
Miss Delight Montanus
Hugo Montanus
Henry van Dyke
Montanus
Syria
Richard Oakland
Edward Walker
Kemmerer
Presbyterian
Assumption
Illinois
Braceville Notes Christmas Party and Local Visits
Braceville items recount visits among residents of Whiting Streator Plainfield DeKalb Joliet Kankakee Morris Coal City Symerton Godley and others. Events include a 7 p.m. Friday Christmas party at the school community club and a 7:30 p.m. Sunday school M Y F Christmas program.
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Braceville
Andrew Namchick
Whiting
Ind
Fred Mayer Sr
Streator
Roscoe Byerley
Plainfield
Chester Reynolds
Joseph Konrath
Chicago
Anton Neitzer
James Trulipoe Symerton
Lester F. Hass
Charles Bradley
Morris
Lonnie Bradley
Coal City
Riley Deckers
Pvt
LaVerne Rury
Fort Hood
Tex
Paul Rury
Sentenced for Illegally Being Dominican Agent
John Joseph Frank was sentenced to eight months to two years in jail for acting illegally as an agent of Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo and the Dominican Republic. The Washington attorney and former FBI agent was part of a case linked to the disappearances of Jesus Maria de Galindez and Gerald L. Murphy, a matter with strained US Dominican ties.
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Washington
John Joseph Frank
Generalissimo
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Dist
James R. Kirkland
Kirkland
Frank
FBI
Jesus Maria de Galindez
Gerald L. Murphy
de Galindez-Murphy
United States
de Galindez
Trujillo
U.S. Probes Dominican Death and Disappearance Links
The State Department rejects a Dominican employee explanation after a death by self harm claim. It notes Frank was not accused in the De Galindez Murphy disappearance, while the grand jury continues investigating that case. Justice Department attorney William H. Huntley says Frank could aid in solving the other American disappearance.
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U.S. State Department
Trujillo
Frank
de Galindez-Murphy
Grand
William H. Huntley
Justi Department
de Galindez
Kozlov Named Premier of Russian Republic
Tass reports F A Kozlov rises from Moscow Lenningrad party lead to become premier of the Russian Republic replacing Mikhail A Yasnov who is demoted to deputy premier. The Russian Republic accounts for over seventy five percent of the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Leningrad
F. A. Kozlov
Tass
Kozlov
Mikhail A. Yasnov
Republic
Soviet Union
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Presbyterians
Chuck
Mazon Methodist
Henry Crede
Saint Lawrence
S. Wil’gton
Immaculate Conception
E. P. McDonough
Assumption Catholic
Frederick T. Golden Low
Church OF Christ
EE. R. Gunchin
Assembly OF God
J. L. Hughes
Seneca Lutheran
First Methodist
Harold M. Kelley
Plattville Methodist
Walter Phelps
MYF
THE
First Baptist
Frigidaire
General Motors
Oldeann Anmive Fm
PH. Morris
Mazon
Allis Chalmers
Minneapolis
John Deere
King
Hamilton
Thomas Feltenz
Perry Clauss
Vernon Degrush
Braceville Notes
William Gray
William Cherrie
Rita Youskevitch
Christian
Science
WAIT
K. C
Claristmas
Greetings
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
the Children of the Primary Department
WCMY
Children of the Intermediate Department
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