Thornton Township Parties Plan Rallies Across Area
Thornton township Democratic and Republican groups announce political rallies next week. Democrats list Arthur Dillner and Sheriff Mulcahy among speakers at 15319 Broadway Harvey on March 29. Republicans say Gov. Green and Lt. Gov. Gross will speak March 27 at Calvin Coolidge School Lansing with Blue Island and Chicago Heights events also planned.
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Thornton Township
Arthur E. Dillner
Democratic
Democratic Organization
Broadway
Harvey
Michael M. Mulcahy
William J. Touhy
Edward A. Kelly
Congress
Edward Rainel
Recorder of Deeds
Dillner
Green
Lansing
James Gouwens
Republican
Hugh Gross
Richard Lyons
Republican Party
Calvin Coolidge
Ill
Wm. H. Winterhoff
Harry R.sherrow
Charles Haws
Ralph Hoekstra
Edward Ervin
Arthur Mason
Postal Rate Increases Take Effect March 26
Following a new Congress tax measure, postal costs rise for most services. Local first class mail ups to 3 cents, air mail domestic to 8 cents per ounce, air mail for armed services stays at 6 cents, parcel post up about 3 percent, money orders rise to 10 cents minimum and 37 cents for $100, insured air mail up to 10 cents, registered mail minimum to 20 cents, and the O. D. rate doubles from 12 to 24 cents.
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Armed Services
Parcel Post
Urged to Apply for Second Quarter Gasoline Rations
Truck operators should apply at their local ration board immediately for the second quarter gasoline allotment. First quarter coupons expire April 1 and at least ten days are needed after application for preparing and mailing the new allotment.
Wanted Clean Cotton Rags 5e Ib Pointer Office
A short classified notice seeking clean cotton rags at five cents per pound. The request appears to be directed to the Pointer office for collection or purchase.
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Pointer
58 Named for Pre-Induction Exam by Local Board No 12
Seventy eight registrants are listed for pre induction exams by Local Board No 12. The group includes Horace Templeton Thomas Crawford Ernest Olinger Fred Stanberry John Oedes Tolbert Bostick and others from South Holland Lansing Oak Glen Phoenix Riverdale Hazelcrest Harvey Calumet City Munster and nearby areas.
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Dalton
Selective Service Local Board No. 12
Horace Stanley Templeton
Thomas Alver Crawford
Ernest Patrick Olinger
Fred Marion Stanberry
Frank Louis Lottino
John Oedes
Tolbert Jennings Bostick
Henry Kortenhoeven
Henry P. de Young
Neal Voss
Floyd Milton Voss
Arthur van der Aa
Herman Weldhuis
Cornelius Veldhuis
Ray Pals
Carl Henry Merritt, Jr
South Holland
Lansing
Tony Thomas Hoekstra
Albert Edward van Kley
Herman J. Veenstra
Robert Theodore Hoekstra
Raymond John Benigenburg
Raymond van Vuren
Ralph Anthony Latulio
George J. Veenstra
William Thomas Nutridge, Jr
Oak Glen
Harvey Wade King
Elmer DeMik
Jacob Dykema
John Joseph Pacyga
James David Roach
Casimer Martin Filipiak
Roman Herman Sinwelski
Theodore Stojak
Stanley Michael Surufka
Sam Marchino
Francis Michael DeMayo
Thomas Zachenk
Phoenix
Laurence Bultman
Riverdale
Clarence Walter Lange
Thornton
Nicholas Guy Calpeno
William Herbert Follett
John August Albertino
John
44 Inductees From Harvey Draft Board Enter Service
The Harvey draft board announced March 7 that forty four registrants will enter armed forces service. Several enlisted in the Marine Corps and Navy, while others are training in the Army. Named inductees include Ralph R. Bogenschneider Hugh Ryder Garity Julius Reinhold Kahle Lawrence Davis Chester Kwiatek Vernon Eldridge Robert Harvey Allen Frederick Dalton and 28 more.
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Harvey Draft Board
Armed Forces
Ralph R. Bogenschneider
Marine Corps
Hugh Ryder
Garity
Julius Reinhold Kahle
Lawrence Randall Davis
Chester Edward Kwiatek
Vernon Augustus Eldridge
Robert Harvey Allen
Frederick Melvin Dalton
Navy
James Edward McArdle
Carl Williams Scott
Walter Teddy Witkowski
Paul Frederick Halter
Jack Elmer Mason
Ewald Herman Hetfield
Harry Ernest Thornber
Carl Omar Garry
Bruno Joe Lahueik
Harold Joseph Turngren
Donald Eugene Cox
Willis Russel Willmer
Michael Charles Caarniecki
Lawrence Edward Graig
Lawrence Edward Stephenson
Dale Lyndell Young
Warren Ross Stevens
John Frank Zzysk
Henry Emery Lisburg
Edmund R. King
William Harding Nelson
Joseph V. Lennon
William Porter Gibb
Carson Jack Orr
Marty August Garofalo
Leopold Kainrath
Elmer Edwin Bergman
Thomas Eugene LaRue
Leonard Joseph Dubey
Richard Earl Rahn
Ray Arland Harrington
Robert Alvin Mikes
Marvin Clyde Lehnig
Myron George Tibbie
Donald le Roy Raiman
Lelon Edward Thomas
Army
A Gasoline Ration Cut to Two Gallons per Week
A March 22 reduction lowers the A ration from three to two gallons weekly. The A-11 coupon now covers three months. The 60 mile occupational driving rule is gone for A ration holders to qualify for B or C. B ration holders may request extra coupons to compensate. No changes to C rations or overall gallonage of A B or C coupons.
Canvass Underway In Red Cross Drive
Canvass for the Red Cross War Fund began March 17 after weather delayed the start. Local chairmen urge contributions toward a national goal of 200 million dollars, noting ninety cents of every dollar funds direct aid to service members. Dalton's quota remains unfinished. volunteers ask residents to help reach the top.
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American Red Cross War Fund
Red Cross
Armed Services
Dalton
The
Marines recall Marshall Islands battle in letter from Pfc Pfotenhauer
U S Marines Pfc Clarence G Pfotenhauer Jr writes from overseas about participating in the Marshall Islands invasion with the 4th Marine Division. He describes landing on captured soil and taking control of the area, and encloses Japanese souvenirs as proof of his service. He mentions missing the Pointer and awaits word on transfers and home leaves.
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Clarence G. Pfotenhauer, Jr
U. S
Marshall Islands
4Th Marine Division
Thorn ton PTA Hosts Adams On Democracy On The Home Front
James Luther Adams of Meadville Theological Seminary will speak on Defending Democracy on the Home Front at Thorn ton township high school and junior college PTA meeting Tuesday evening March 28. Madrigal Singers and Joan Adler perform. Blue Island Boy Scouts present colors. Social hour follows hosted by women of the faculty.
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UHS - JC Pta
James Luther Adams
Meadville Theological Seminary
Thornton Township
P. IT. A
Madrigal Singers
Joan Adler
Blue Island Boy Scouts
Marines on Expedition Linked to Jason Argo Quest
The first recorded account ties Marines on expeditionary duty to those aboard Jason's Argo ship. The crew set out in search of the Golden Fleece in ancient mythic lore.
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Jason
Argo
Thornton Township High School Band Concert Honors War Effort
The Thornton Township high school band, directed by Lyle A. Hopkins, presents its 15th annual concert on Friday March 31 at 8 15 p m in the high school auditorium. Proceeds aid the Red Cross drive and War Bonds, with three winning tickets to receive 26 War Bonds each. Admission is fifty cents with box-office seat reservations now available.
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Thornton Township High School
Lyle A. Hopkins
Hopkins
American Red Cross
Our Savior's to Hear Nurse Returned on Gripsholm
Miss Mae Rohlfs of Davenport Iowa a Lutheran missionary in China will speak at Our Savior's church Riverdale Wednesday March 29 at 8 p.m. She arrived in New York on the Gripsholm December 1 and will relate her experiences as a missionary and as a prisoner of the Japanese.
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Gripsholm
Mae ‘Rohlfs
Davenport
China
New York
Our Savior’s
Riverdale
Rohlfs
Carthage College
Carthage
Tsingtao
Local Ration Boards Survey Food Prices Across Towns
Dalton and Riverdale boards joined a nationwide check on more than ten grocery and meat items per store. Ordered by OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, the survey aims to curb price gouging in the national food emergency as food purchases weigh about 40 percent of the typical family budget.
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Dalton
Riverdale
Chester Bowles
OPA
Riverdale Police Reports Window Breakage and Theft
Riverdale police received a report early Saturday that all the windows in the 137th st. I. C. station had been broken. On Sunday morning a separate report said a bicycle belonging to a Dalton youth was stolen from the Parkview Bowling lanes.
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Riverdale
137Th St. I. C
Dalton
Parkview
Ivanhoe Resident Among Victims of Fatal Auto Crash
Ivanhoe resident Jack Kredell 43 of 14209 Emerald Avenue died when his northbound car collided with a second vehicle at 159th Street and Crawford Avenue Tuesday morning. Panko Borys Joliet and John Dolph Lockport also died. Beula Irene Stielow Homewood and Frank Wojewoda Joliet were seriously injured. Kredell leaves a wife Goldia a son Ronald and a daughter Jacqueline with siblings Anita Manross Herbert and Albert. Funeral services Friday at Open Bible Church Riverdale with burial Cedar Park Cemetery.
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Open Bible Church
Riverdale
Jack Kredell
Emerald Avenue
Crawford Ave
159Th St
Crawford
Panko Borys
Joliet
John Dolph
Lockport
Beula Irene Stiel
Kredell
Miss Stielow
Chrysler
Man
Buda Company
Gary
Goldia
Ronald
Jacqueline
Anita Manross
Houston
Texas
Herbert
Albert
West Palm Beach
Fla
San Antonio
Ivanhoe
Roseland
Hickey
Blue Island
Otis Wasson
Cedar Park
Riverdale approves 6 inch oil pipeline at special meeting
At a special Riverdale village board session on March 8 an ordinance granted Texas Pipeline Co permission to construct and maintain a six inch pipeline crossing the village for forty years. The firm outlined past transport from Lockport Illinois to Indiana Harbor Indiana and said War Production Board and Petroleum Administrator approvals allow expedited construction under village engineer supervision.
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Riverdale
Texas Pipeline Company
Lockport
Ill
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Petroleum Administrator
War Production Board
Troop 9 Bunco and Card Party Set at Bowen School
Riverdale Boy Scout Troop 9 will sponsor a card and bunco party at the Bowen school auditorium on Saturday April 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets are sold by the Scouts. Proceeds fund a new trailer for camping gear and tents plus future canoes for the Little Calumet river. a new assistant scoutmaster will join staff at the next Scout meeting.
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Riverdale Boy Scout Troop
Bowen School
Little Calumet River
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Red Cross Drive
Miss Mae Rohifs
Local Ration Boards
159Th
Riverdale Board O.K
Troop 9
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