District 149 to Start School August 28 With 4500 Pupils
About 4,500 pupils are expected in seven District 149 elementary and junior high schools when classes resume Tuesday August 28. Regular schedules begin August 29 with early opening for grades 1–8 and special requirements including physicals for new entrants and fifth graders. Registrations and book fees set for August 16–17. bus tickets and schedules available then.
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Dalton Berger
E. Sibley
Diekman
Dorchester
Vandenberg
Avalon
South Holland
Waterman
154Th St. Calumet City
Caroline Sibley
Sibley and Yates
Sandridge
Oglesby
Everett M. Dirksen
154Th
Michigan City
Albert
Overpass Bill Backed As Regional Development Aid
Congress approved a 5.2 million railroad crossings bill to finance overpasses in Dalton Blue Island as part of a 20 billion federal highway package. The measure, backed by Rep. Robert Hanrahan and Sen. Adlai Stevenson with strong support from local officials, advances mass transit funding and Crosstown expressway provisions, though Hanrahan opposed Crosstown. Nixon expected to sign.
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Dalton-Blue Island
Congress
Robert Hanrahan
R-3rd
Nixon
Chicago
Senate
Chamber
White House
Senate House Conference
House
Hanrahan
Cigarette smuggling crackdown leads to car seizures in Illinois
State revenue investigators arrested John Baptist Lee and John L. Gonzales for illegal transportation of unstamped cigarettes from Indiana. Each car was confiscated under the Illinois Cigarette Tax Act with potential fines up to 1000 dollars and one year in jail.
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State Department of Revenue
Indiana
Robert H. Allphin
State Revenue Director
Illinois
Allphin
John Baptist Lee
Calumet City
Lee
Langley Ave
Chicago
Youngstown Sheet and Tool Co
John L. Gonzales
Subaru
Gonzales
155Th St
Illinois-Indiana
Revenue Department
Thornton Community College Opera Workshop Night
The Thornton Community College opera workshop presents a 5 30 PM program in Building 21 on the interim campus at 162nd and State Street South Holland. The evening features scenes from La Perichole, The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Candide and more with cast members Mike Novak Loretta Cooper Bob Duffe and Rebecca Bednarek. Tickets cost 150 at the door under the direction of Dimona Clarin and Sue Weldon.
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Thornton Community College Opera Workshop
162Nd
State St
South Holland
Rigaletto
Maid and the Thief
Mike Novak
Loretta Cooper
Bob Duffe
Rebecca Bednarek
Dimona Clarin
TCC
Sue Weldon
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James R. Albert
Julie Horn
Snoopy
Joanne Musial
St. Mary's
George Wurtzinger
Rep
Adlai Stevenson
Charles Percy
State Revenue Department
Opera Workshop
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