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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1942
Page
3
The Purple X group of a Thornton township high school partners with the PTA for an open house Friday evening March 13 in the high school cafeteria. Dancing and bridge will be played from 7 to 11 30 in support of the Student Aid Fund. Ref refreshments will be served by the PTA.
The Dale theatre inaugurates Lick the Japs nights giving adults defense stamps convertible into bonds. Bonds fund bombs and bombers to beat the Japs. Attend Tuesday and Wednesday shows to receive stamps free and support the defense effort.
Plans for forming a Cub Scout pack were finalized at a meeting held at Mrs. Thomas Mullender’s home last Monday evening with interested individuals. The group discussed formation steps and aims to establish the new unit in the Ivanhoe area.
Meeting of the Scouts set for March 18 at 4 PM says Jerome Kurz of 14621 Princeton Avenue will serve as cub master. He is aided by Phil Staab and Elliot Taradash. sponsored by Ivanhoe P T A Roosevelt School. Two dens formed. more may come. Contact Kurz for details.
Earl F. Slaughter, Dalton Civilian Defense Coordinator, spoke to the Dolton Riverdale Junior Woman's club at Riverdale village hall urging 100 percent resident cooperation in civilian defense. He warned the war will be harder than WWI and requires sacrifices, enrollments, and avoiding rumor spreading.
Der William A Meis of Riverdale gave a discourse on Oral Hygiene stressing health for civilian defense and the link between teeth and health. Mrs. Lewis D Myles showed hobbies such as egg shell caricatures stamp collections a community scrap book and Civil War relics.
The Harvey Federal Savings and Loan Association reports February defense bond sales rising from January. John Bardwick Jr. cites 97,200 maturity value and an average of 33 bonds daily, up 40 percent from January and 27 percent per day. Industry payroll plans and payroll purchases boosted small buyers, with 612 of 768 Series E bonds at $25 each.
The report notes a shift from January when the smallest bond sizes dominated by de nominations to January’s pattern where minimum size bonds still represented a large portion but $100 bonds led in overall volume across denominations.
Tank orders for the American army have increased fivefold in the Calumet district since December. Pullman-Standard Car Mfg Co Hammond plant and Hegewisch plant of Pressed Steel Car Co are filling many orders and producing medium tanks for Britain. Lt Col Fred R Zimmerman cites a fivefold rise in Chicago ordnance district contracts to over 500 million dollars since the war began. American Steel Foundries reports a new 16 million dollar armor plant at East Chicago set to open in the early fall.
The company acts as DPC agent without pay beyond actual out of pocket costs. Plans are underway for a second armor plant, as reported by Calumet Record.
Norman A Buending manager of the Harvey Illinois Social Security office urges formal requests to update records after name changes from marriage or divorce and to report birth date discrepancies to ensure accurate wage records. The form used is Employee's Request for Change in Records available by writing or calling the Harvey field office.
The Paul Gall Unit 303 American Legion Auxiliary meets tonight at 8. Subscriptions for McCalls magazine offered with last sale day Friday March 18. Members urged to subscribe. prices 1 year 1.00 and 3 years 2.00 before rising.
Riverdale village board discussed Ivanhoe sewerage issues on February 24. Trustee Martin proposed a sump at the river with a centrifugal pump as an alternative to a storm sewer to address river rise above the outlet. The village engineer will compare costs. maintenance for the sump option may erase any construction savings.
David J. Heffernan assistant county superintendent of schools will speak on The School Beautiful at the Bowen school P T A meeting in the school auditorium Tuesday evening March 17. A movie New Oregon Trail will be shown and there will be the annual election of officers.
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