Seniors Expand Facilities at Franklin Drake Center
Expansion at the Franklin Drake Senior Center 440 North Drake enables the 14 story senior citizens residence to offer full services. An open house on December 28 from 1 30 to 3 30 p m introduces activities. A first floor loudspeaker system provides music for ceramics cards and coffee. Members voted to buy a record player and records for sing alongs. Coffee hours run 9 to 11 on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Tuesday evenings feature a knitting class with knitting crochet and sewing. A board of education teacher runs a ceramics class making gifts for families. Rummage bake and candy sales funded a kiln for crafts. A pool table sparked a new activity with two members teaching. eight women now learn to play with plans for more after holidays. A bridge club began with strong interest and now runs three or four tables each Friday. A member who helped start the Sullivan Senior Center Bridge Club teaches here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Drake
N. Drake
Board of Education
Center
Sullivan Senior Center
Hermosa Women To Aid Indians And Kelvyn High
Hermosa Woman's club hosts a Christmas party at 11 a m Friday in the Hermosa Park fieldhouse 2240 N Kilbourn benefiting Kelvyn Park High School scholarship funds and the American Indian Center in Chicago The event funds come from sale dinners with Mrs Raymond Foss and Mrs Walter Solzwarth listed as hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelvyn Park High School
American Indian Center
Chicago
Hermosa Woman’s Club
Hermosa Park
N. Kilbourn
Kelvyn Park
Raymond Foss
N. Keystone
Walter Solzwarth
Tripp
Area Men Active In USN Exercise
The Blue Lotus fleet exercise off southern California involved 24,000 personnel, 45 ships, and six air units. Seaman Cesario aboard USS Halsey and other listed sailors on USS Southerland USS Oklahoma City USS Enterprise USS Eldorado and USS Long Beach were among the participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
California
Charles P. Cesario
USN
M. Cesario
Kamerling
Pioneer YMCA Offers 4 Day Basketball Clinic for Boys
A four day clinic for boys ages 11 to 14 runs December 26 to 29 at St Matthew's gym Albany and Fulton and United Congregational church 1305 N Hamlin with Chicago Bulls players assisting. Registration opens Monday at both gymnasiums and the YMCA 3700 Grand. Instruction runs daily 1 to 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Bulls
St. Matthew’s School
Albany
Fulton
United Congregational Church
N. Hamlin
YMCA
Big Santa and Tiny Dog Attract Kids to Drews Store
The giant real live Santa Claus will visit Drews Department Store at 4134 Armitage until 4 30 p m Sunday. A small terrier in holiday dress accompanies him inviting children to tell wishes and receive an extra gift from Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drews Store
Santa Claus
Drews Department Store
Armitage
Santa
Drews
Husband Discovers Wife Hanged in Basement Home
Andrew Zygey awoke Sunday to find his wife Francis missing from bed. He searched the house and found her body hanging in the basement rafter. Ambulance crew cut her down. she was pronounced dead at Belmont hospital. Funeral arrangements set for Our Lady of Grace church and St Adelbert's cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Zygey
Drake
Francis
Zygey
Fire Department
Our Lady of Grace Church
N. Hamlin
St. Adelbert’s Cemetery
Budget Hearing Urges More School Facilities
West-Northwest Side groups pressed for repairs and new facilities at the board of education budget hearing. PTA and community groups from Steinmetz Tulley Austin High and other schools urged washrooms intercoms and additions while opposing mobile units planned for Hay Emmet and Stowe schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Ptas
Northwest Community Organization
Organization For A Better
Austin
Austin Town Hall Assembly
Austin Women For Community Goodwill
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Steinmetz
Tulley
May
Spencer
Hay, Young
Lowell
Howe
Nobel
Lewis
Byford
OBA
Gale Cincotta
OBA Education
Hay
Emmet
Stowe
Cincetta
Board of Education Institute
Illinois
Chicago
Wilmette
Christmas Flower Show at Garfield and Lincoln Parks
The 55th annual Christmas Flower Show runs December 23 to January 7 at Garfield Park and Lincoln Park conservatories. Admission is free with guided tours available by request. Featured blooms include poinsettias, Jerusalem cherries, blue beebalm, primroses, marigolds, and more, with festive displays and Santa’s sleigh in the Show House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Prk
Garfield and
Lincoln Park
Erwin Weiner
Jerusalem
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Comet
Cupid
Santa
Garfield Park
Horticultural Hall
Garfield Park Conservatory
Lincoln Park Conservatory
Christmas Around the World at Our Lady of the Angels Club
Members of the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Women's club wear traditional costumes from multiple nations around a Christmas tree. Seated left to right are Mrs. Casey Grzeskiewicz of 844 N Avers Poland and Mrs. John Gibson of 928 N Hamlin Italy, with Mrs. Stephan Ola chowski president of the club at 4213 Division Italy, Mrs. John Giustino 958 N Lawndale Germany, and Mrs. Louis Kolssah 1255 Division Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Women’s Club
Casey Grzeskiewicz
N. Avers
Poland
John Gibson
N, Hamlin
Italy
Stephan Olachowski
John Giustino
N. Lawndale
Germany
Louis Kolssah
Men Lead Women in TB Deaths in Chicago 1966
A Tuberculosis Institute survey shows Chicago TB deaths in 1966 totaled 206 with 164 men and 42 women dying. Among those 45 and older, men far outnumbered women. New TB cases reached 1,977 with 1,390 men affected. The Grand Blvd area on the South Side registered 139 new cases and 23 deaths, while the Near West Side led with 267 new cases and 23 deaths. Seaman Bruce A. Gergen and Wayne J. Wiewiora, both 19, completed Navy boot camp at Great Lakes. West-Northwest Side communities show listed new cases and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tuberculosis Institute
Board of Health
Miles
Cuito
Grand Bivd
Bruce A. Gergen
Usn
William A. Gergan
N. New Castle
Wayne J. Wiewiora
Joseph
Wiewiora
Carroll
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Man Smashes Fence to Grab Purses in Night Assault
A man vaulted a fence and snatched purses from Mrs. Ella Smith and Mrs. Olga Raesner near Keystone and North just before 10 pm Saturday. He threatened violence and fled the scene. Both women live at 1724 N. Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Smith
Olga Raesner
N. Springfield
Keystone
North
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Franklin-Drake Senior Citizens Center
CHA Center
Chicago Public Library
Hermosa Women
Kelvyn High
Theresa Nitti
Medill
USS
Halsey
Anthony Amato
Guy Picardi
N. Keeler
Southerland
Richard L. Honig
John B. Honig
Humboldt
Theodore W. Hoppenrath
Mary Pompei
N. Austin
Oklahoma City
Dennis RB. Sitkiewicz
Lorraine D. Sitkiewicz
N. Fairfield
Enterprise
Frederick W. Krogman
Leo Krogman
N. Menard
Jay A. Morser
Vance B. Morser
N. Long
Eldorado
Frederick I. Kierl, Jr
Geraldine Nt. Heflin
Huron
Long Beach
Pioneer Ymca
Austin High
James) Redmond
John Middleton
The
Howe Pta
N. Lorel
Young School
N. Parkside
Mark Katzel
Pioneer Bank
4000 North
Hermosa
Avondale
Logan Square
Humboldt Park
West Town
West
North Lawndale
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