Franklin PTA Honors Founders With Plaque at Founders Day
Franklin District 19 PTA will observe Founders Day at its February 13 meeting. A leather bound history book records the PTA’s year by year highlights and an inscribed plaque naming founders will be presented.
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Franklin P.T.A
District 19
U. S. Congress
P.T.A
Franklin
Parker Gibson
Nick Lorenzen
R. Schaafsma
Edward Smith
Arthur Strassenberg
Bernard Sheahan
Peter van Drunen
William Wise
Marl Wise
George Diette
Mae Rotman
Sam Nuzzo
Riverdale Chief Receives Flag From Ek Gentry Post
Ek Gentry VFW Post 7179 presented Riverdale Police Chief Charles K. Cook with a new 4 by 3 foot fifty star flag and inscribed plaque. Commander Ralphn Day officiated.
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Ek Gentry Post
Cook
Riverdale
Charles K. Cook
Ek Gentry
Library benefit movie to aid local book purchase
Village Library and Torah Lodge B nai Brith sponsor a benefit showing of Upstairs Downstairs at Dolton Theatre on Monday February 12. Proceeds buy a new encyclopedia for high school and junior college students, continuing a tradition of expanding access to current facts. Tickets cost $1 from the Village Library Dolton Theatre Herzogs Men s Store sponsors and listed library board members.
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Village Library Board
Riverdale
Dolton
At & P
Dolton Theatre
Torah Lodge B'nai Brith
T*he
Village Library
Dolton Village Hall
Herzog’s Men's Store
Torah Lodge
Marvin Bruckner
A. Ohlsen
F. Kasten
J. Dalle
BE. Ericksen
A. Fanning
C. Konow
A. Dulner
Tree Wernicke
William Siulyak
Ant
Tod Dol
D. Hemmerling
Pointer Publications Gains National Recognition For Editor Leona Manenus
A national magazine picks Leona Manenus as Editor of the Week in a feature on Pointer Publications. The Publishers' Auxiliary, published by the National Editorial Association, notes NEA’s 6 000 weekly and daily members and 37 state affiliates in recognizing the publication’s rising stature.
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Pointer
Leona Manenus
National Editorial Association
National Trade Association of Publishers and Editors
Ne.a
NEA
Veterans to Hold Pancake Breakfast in South Suburban Area
The United South Suburban Veteran's Organization held a January 29 meeting at Paul Gall No. 403 post home led by Oscar Hines with representation from Paul Gall Post and Auxiliary Greater Dalton V.F.W Joyce Kilmer Post Catholic War Veterans and G. W. Spencer Relief Corps. A pancake breakfast March 11 at Paul Gall No. 303 post home to fund the Great Americanism Rally and Parade on April 29 is sponsored by the ways and means committee.
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United South Suburban Veteran's Organization
Paul
Ways and Means Committee
Paul Gall
W. 188Th
W. 138Th
Riverdale
Colored Youths Assault Dolton Student After Tridge Bloom Game
Dolton police report a 16 year old Dolton student, John Kimpoth, attacked after Thornridge Bloom basketball game. Four to five youths in a white Buick tried to run him over, then two men jumped out, punched him, and broke his glasses. Suspect Ezell Benmon arrested. another youth John Alexander named.
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Dolton
South Holland
Thornridge High School
John Kimpoth
Dalton
Ezell Benman
Wallare
Chicago Heights
Tilton
Thornridge
Bloom
Ezell Benmon
Benmon
Grover Cogswell
Pat Manning
Hogeveen
Luerder
Wallace
Baptist Church
16Th
Shields
John Alexander
Bloom Township
Alexander
Hardin
Beaman
Thomas Harper
Holy Name Society Chicken Dinner At Parish Hall
Queen of Apostles Holy Name Society plans a Sunday chicken dinner for the whole family at the parish hall at 144th and Wentworth Avenue. About 75 volunteers will serve an expected 1,000 diners with hostesses seating by family and a 40-person staff. Adults pay 1.50 and children 12 and under 0.75. Co chairmen are James Binder and Jerry Sulac.
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Queen of Apostles Holy Name Society
144Th
Wentworth Avenue
James Binder
Jerry Sulac
Afair
Beem Named Administrative Assistant in School District 148
Margie J. Beem has served as administrative assistant to Fred Sickmann in School District 148 since January 1960. A former Franklin elementary principal for 16 years she joined the district after teaching at Lincoln Washington and Franklin schools. Born in Havelock Nebraska she studied at multiple colleges and earned degrees from DePaul University. She resides at 815 Crandon in Chicago with her son Jack an attorney.
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Margie J. Beem
Fred Sickmann
Beem
Franklin
Dalton
Lincoln
Washington
Havelock
Nebraska
McConl Junction
Nebraska State Teachers College
Kearney
Nebra
National College of Education
Evanston
DePaul University
Chicago
Thirty TB Suspects Found in Chicago Area Summer Survey
A summer chest X-ray survey in Dolton, Riverdale, and South Holland found 24 TB suspects among 2 2 L 3 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.
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Dolton
Riverdale
South Holland
Chicago
Cook County
Oak Park
Auxiliary To Plan Coming Baseball Season
The Womens' Auxiliary of Teen-Age Baseball League will hold its monthly meeting Monday evening February 12 at 8 pm in the Riverdale Park fieldhouse. Hostesses will be mothers of the Zuni ca Realty Team. Members are urged to attend as planning for the coming season continues and to bring Pepsi-Cola Plus bottle cars to support the new ways and means efforts led by Mrs. Adeline Ebert.
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Womens
Riverdale Park
Zunica Realty
Adeline Ebert
Library Directors Nominated At February Meeting
The Village Library Corporation will hold a special meeting on Tuesday February 13 at 8 p.m. on the library’s second floor to nominate directors. Four directors will be elected for six years and one for two years at the annual March meeting. All members are urged to attend to help form a slate.
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Village Library Corporation
Dojton
The
Illinois
Dalton
Riverdale
District 133 opens Patton Elementary replacing Bowen
The George Patton Elementary School in District 133, Riverdale, officially opened February 5. A 327-student body and staff moved from Bowen School to the new 21-room brick building at 137th and Stewart, funded by a $755,000 bond issue. The two-story facility includes a gym, administrative wing, science room, home economics, industrial arts, and a band room.
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George 5. Patton
Riverdale
Bowen
137Th Pl
State St
137Th and
Stewart
Home Burglary on Parnell Street in Riverdale
Burglars entered Arthur Mosser’s Riverdale home at 14450 Parnell Street on Monday January 29 and ransacked bedrooms. Two jars of pennies were stolen but police say the intruders fled when Mosser returned home.
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Arthur Mosser
Parnell
Riverdale
Mosser
New School Dedication Set For March 25 With Open House
A dedication program will be held Sunday March 25 at 2 pm followed by an open house to tour the new school. Mrs Canty, a school board member, announced the event and inviting the public to view the facility including a large library and a teachers lounge with a Pullman kitchen.
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Canty
Tri City Area Shows Drop In Home Building In 1961
A Bell Savings and Loan survey reports 1961 home building fell 6 percent from 1960 across Riverdale Dalton and South Holland with ironclad declines in total construction. Suburban apartment units set a Chicago metro record, rising 30 percent over 1960 to 8 851 units.
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Riverdale
Dalton
South Holland
Bell Savings and Loan Association
Chicago
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Robert Mooney
Mary Conley
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Nancy LaRue
John Brown
Franklin Pta
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Orville Atdr
Jane Eager
Wendel Klem
Evelyn Lux
Edgar Bachman
Minnie Proper
Walter Pohlers
Wilma Jurgensen
Martin Johnson
Maleta Pohlers
Lew On
Ary Ee
Nat'l
Leona Mangnus
Bob Canavan
Dalton Civic Ass'n
William McLaughlin
Dorchester Club
Sam Boustead
John Gasperi
Ivanhoe Jr. Woman's Club
Clarence Simnick
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Holy Name Society
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Margie ¥. Beem
Library Corporation
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South Tolland
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