Franklin PTA Honors Founders With Plaque at Founders Day
Franklin PTA District 19 marks Founders Day at its February 13 meeting with a leather bound history book and a plaque honoring the founders. The inscription lists dozens of individuals including Mrs. Parker Gibson Mrs. Nick Lorenzon Mrs. R Schaaf sma Mrs. Edward Smith and others.
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Franklin P.T.A
District 19
U. S. Congress
Franklin
Parker Gibson
Nick Lorenzon
R. Schaafsma
Edward Smith
Arthur Strassenberg
Bernard Sheahan
Peter van Deunen
William Wise
Earl Wise
Robert Vandenberg
Amelia Hartman
C. W. Purnell
Harry Fuller
Henry George
Raymond Packard
Lena Wagner
Emil Verhoeven
Bruno Stazack
Albert Kroon
Lawrence Bultman
Wiliam Menzelaar
Dawson Atkinson
George Kay
Frerl Klage
George Dietic
Mae Rodman
Sam Nuzzo
Flag Presented to Riverdale Chief of Police
A new fifty star American flag and standard were presented to Riverdale Chief of Police Charles K. Cook by Ek Gentry VFW Post 7179. Commander Aarph Day made the presentation for the unit. The 4 by 8 foot flag will adorn the Chief’s office with a plaque at its base.
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Riverdale
Charles K. Cook
Ek Gentry V.F.W. Post
Aarph Day
Library Benefit Movie Promises Community Support
Riverdale and Dolton residents urged to attend the benefit film Upstairs Downstairs a English comedy at Dolton Theatre Monday February 12 at 8 pm. Proceeds fund a new encyclopedia for local high school and junior college students with World Book Encyclopedia donations benefiting youth.
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Village Library Board
Riverdale
Dolton
Dolton Theatre
Torah Lodse Bnai Brith
Hich
Collear
Library Board
Pointer Editor Cited By National Publication
The POINTER PUBLICATIONS is praised as a rising newspaper in journalism circles after national daily coverage named Editor Leona Mangnus as Editor of the Week. The Publishers' Auxiliary, owned by the National Editorial Association, highlights the paper amid a 6,000 member NEA network across 50 states and 37 state press affiliates.
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Pointer
Leona Mangnus
National Editorial Association
National Trade Association of Publishers and Editors
N.E.A
NEA
Veterans to Hold Pancake Breakfast to Fund Rally
The United South Suburban Veterans Organization met January 29 at Paul Gall No 303 post home led by Oscar Hines. Representatives from Paul Gall Post Auxiliary Greater Dalton VFW Joyee Kilmer Post Catholic War Veterans and G W Spencer Relief Corps attended. A pancake breakfast is planned March 11 from 9 to 2 at 600 W 138th to fund the April 29 Great Americanism Rally and Parade.
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United South Suburban Veteran's Organization
Paul Gall
Ways and Means Committee
Paul Gall No. 303
W. 138Th
Paul Gall No
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 on Friday January 12. Witness noted car license plates leading to Ferell Benmon of Chicago Heights. Benmon and John Alexander detained, charged, and ordered to restitution for broken glasses.
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Dolton
South Holland
Thornridge High School
John Kimpoth
Dalton
Ferell Benman
Wallace
Chicago Heights
Tilton
Thornridge
Bloom
Ezell Benmon
Benmon
Grover Cogswell
Set
Pat Manning
Hogeveen
Luerder
Baptist Church
1Éth
Shields
16Th
Benmoan
John Alexander
Bloom Township
Alexander
Benimon
Hardin
Beaman
Thomas Harper
Chicken Dinner to Serve 1000 at Holy Name Society Event
Queen of Apostles Holy Name Society plans a large chicken dinner for the public next Sunday at the parish hall near 144th and Wentworth. Two hundred diners will be seated by hostesses while a 40-person team serves hot meals with trimmings. Donations are 15 for adults and 75 cents for children. Co chairs are James Binder and Jerry Sullivan.
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Queen of Apostles Holy Name Society
144Th
Wentworth Avenue
To & P.m
James Binder
Jerry Sullivan
Tri City Leaders Profile of School District 148 Assistant
Margie J Beem serves as administrative assistant to Fred Siekmann in School District 148 since January 1960. A former Franklin elementary principal for 16 years, she began in Dalton as a first grade teacher at Lincoln School and later taught at Washington and Franklin. Born in Havelock Nebraska, she studied in McCool Junction and earned teaching credentials, a Bachelors and a Masters from DePaul University. She resides at 6815 Crandon in South Shore Chicago with her son Jack, an attorney.
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Margie J. Beem
Fred Siekmann
Beem
Franklin
Dalton
Lincoln
Washington
Havelock
Nebraska
McCool Junction
30 TB Suspects Found in Summer X-ray Survey
A summer chest x-ray survey in Dolton, Riverdale, and South Holland screened 1,227 475 and 610 people respectively, locating 20 1 and 4 suspected TB cases. Suburban Cook County yielded 3 679 films with 471 suspicious findings, Oak Park reporting the heaviest activity with 11 196 chest images and 242 referrals.
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Dolton
Riverdale
South Holland
Chicago
Cook County
Oak Park
Auxiliary Plans Meeting For Teen-Age Baseball League
The Womens Auxiliary of the Teen-Age Baseball League schedules a February 12 meeting at 8 am in the Riverdale Park fieldhouse. Hostesses are Zuni ca Realty Team mothers. Members urged to attend for upcoming baseball season planning and to bring Pepsi-Cola Plus bottle caps for the new ways and means chair.
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Womens
Riverdale Park
Zunica Realty
Ways and
Adeline Bhert
Library Corporation Nominates Directors On Tuesday Meeting
The Village Library Corporation will meet on Tuesday February 13 at 8 p.m. in the Dalton Municipal Building to nominate directors. Four directors will be elected for six year terms and one for two years to fill an unexpired term at the annual March meeting. Members urged to attend.
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Village Library Corporation
Dalton Municipal
The
Illinois
Dalton
Riverdale
District 133 Opens Patton School Replacing Bowen
The George S. Patton Elementary in Riverdale opened February 5 with 327 students and 21 rooms. District 133 funded the $755,000 brick building, replacing the 1905 Bowen school, featuring gymnasiums, administrative and classroom wings, home economics, science, industrial arts, band and music rooms.
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George S. Patton
Riverdale
Bowen
137Th Pl
State St
137Th and
Stewart
Woters
Home Ransacked in Riverdale Burglary
Burglars entered Arthur Mosser’s Riverdale home at 14430 Parnell on Monday January 29 and ransacked bedrooms. Two jars of pennies were stolen before Mosser arrived and frightened off the intruders.
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Arthur Mosser
Parnell
Riverdale
Mosser
New School Dedication This Sunday With Open House
A large new library and teachers lounge with a Pulimari kitchen will be dedicated on Sunday March 25 at 2 p.m. A school board member Mrs Canty is slated to speak today and the public can tour the facility during the open house.
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Canty
Decrease in Tri City Home Building in 1961 Figures
The Bell Savings and Loan survey shows 1961 home building fell 6 percent from 1960 across Riverdale Dalton and South Holland with permits and valuations dropping in most communities. Suburban Chicago apartment construction set a regional record with 8 851 units, up 30 percent from 1980.
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Riverdale
Dalton
South Holland
Bell Savings and Loan Association
Chicago
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