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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1961
Page
2
Two cars collided in a Riverdale drive in lot at 14501 Halsted. Drivers Donald G. Lorenzen and Jurgen M. Meyer, aged 16, reported not seeing each other until impact.
Rev Robert Bothwell and his family will speak at Lorimer Baptist Church on Lincoln in Dalton about their fifteen years as missionaries in the Belgian Congo. He attends 11 a m and 7 p m services and invites all to hear their experiences amid recent upheaval.
Born and raised in Chicago he graduated from Calumet High School and moved to the area in 1949 after serving as a 2nd lieutenant and B 29 pilot in WWII. He and his wife Joyce live at 14308 Michigan Ave Riverdale with three children. He runs offices at 162 W 144th St employing six, and holds roles with the Harvey Board of Realtors Riverdale Chamber of Commerce Ivanhoe Methodist Church and local Lions and business groups.
Vicki Moser, Thornton Township High senior and American Field Service participant, is living with the Franz Stix family at 2 Ferdinand Hanuschgasse Kapfenberg Hafendorf Styria Austria. She writes of ski trips and mountain views, while detailing the Stix household and her adaptation experiences along with a report on other local youth camp activities.
The Ruiverdale-Dalton Lions club announces a July 13 meeting to show the film An Escape from Deafness narrated by Dr. Sidney A. Lerner. The documentary explains microsurgical techniques to restore hearing in middle ear deafness and notes Dr. Lerner has performed over 125 operations with ages from 16 to 73.
Rev. William E. Yandell has been named minister of the Ivanhoe Community Methodist Church effective July 1, 1961. The appointment was made by Bishop Charles Brashares at the Rock River Conference in Evanston. Yandell, a Tennessee native, studied at Lambuth College and Garrett Biblical Institute and has pastored in Humbolt, Roseland, and Southfield churches. He and his wife Gladys live at 144-148 Clark with their four children Faith Mark Kent and Eric. He led his first service July 2 with the sermon An Adventure In Faith.
Safety engineers warn that signaling at the last moment is dangerous. The law requires drivers to declare turning intentions at least 100 feet before reaching an intersection, whether using mechanical turn signals or hand signals.
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