Penny for Your Thoughts New Year Eve Plans at Jeffery Manor
Interviews at Jeffery Manor reveal varied plans for New Year’s Eve 1957. Mrs Harold Goldman hosts a yearly party with champagne planned. Mrs Miriam Reinberg attends Temple Kedirth Israel’s 150 couple buffet fundraiser. Mrs Harold Levey and Mrs Michael Kaplan plan quiet or home celebrations. Mrs Morris Trubnick hosts a small at home gathering with friends.
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Jeffery Manor
Harold Goldman
Harold
Miriam Reinberg
Kedirth Israel
Wes Myriam
Reinberg
Michael Kaplan
Mrs. Morris Trubnick
Mrs
Churches To Welcome 57 In Services
Churches across the Southeast plan watch night and New Year services to bid farewell to 1956 and welcome 1957. Sermons, Holy Communion, and candlelight observances will be held at Trinity Mission Covenant Hyde Park Lutheran Woodlawn Immanuel South Shore Baptist Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Elim Baptist Avalon Park Community church and others with varied start times on New Year Eve and Day.
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E. Eric Peterson
Trinity Mission Covenant Church
E. 74Th St
S. Cottage Grove Ave
St. John’s Methodist Church
S. Jeffery Blvd
Louis J. Schwartzkopf
Hyde Park Lutheran Church
S. Greenwood Ave
Windsor Park
Avalon Park
Ernest 8. Heeren
Southeast area plans 1957 highway program approval
The board of county commissioners approved a 1957 Southeast area and suburbs road program totaling 3,499,000 dollars led by President Daniel Ryan. Projects include widening and resurfacing on Cottage Grove Avenue, Burnham Avenue, South Park Avenue, Wentworth Avenue, and multiple bridge and grade separation construction efforts across Calumet Park, Lynwood, and surrounding communities. A Zionist campaign kickoff by South Shore Hyde Park and Chatham districts is set for 8 p.m. at 8207 S Crandon.
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Board of County Commissioners
Daniel Ryan
Calumet
163Rd St
S. Burnham Ave
Glenwood
Dyer Jd
E. 159Th St
Grand Trunk Railroad
Burnham Ave
148Rd St
Burnham
South Park Ave
Dixie Hwy
159Th St
Hazelcrest
Markham
Harvey
104Th Ave
Calumet Sag Channel
Illinois Central Railroad
S. Wentworth Ave
E. 171St
E. 167Th Sts
Lansing
Homewood
Joe Orr
S. Halsted
S. State Sts
S. State St
Steger Rd
Sauk Trail
W. Vermont St
Division
127Th
Calumet Park
Chicago
Blue Island
S. Halsted St
138Th
130Th Sts
Riverdale
E. 131St St
96Th St
S. Harlem Ave
119Th St
S. Western Ave
S. Ashland Ave
W. 148Rd St
Will-Cook
Wolf
Chicago Rd
W. Marion
E. 159Th Sts
Thornton
E. 159Th
E. 155Th Sts
South Holland
W. 154Th St
Dalton
Calumet City
Michigan City Rd
S. Jeffery Ave
E. 154Th St
S. Ridgeland Ave
115Th
110Th
151St St
Spring Creek
South Shore
Hyde Park
Chatham
Zionist Organization
Sylvan Wagner
S. Crandon Ave
Christmas Tragedy as Boy Dies in Front of Hyzy Car Crash
Eight grade student Michael of Our Lady of Peace school died after a collision on 7982 South Chicago Ave. Driver Hyzy faces charges including reckless homicide and DWI. Accused uncle William E. Gorham Jr. attacked during an inquest. Funeral held. interment at St Marys. Inquest adjourned to Jan 25.
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South
Chicago Ave
Hyzy
South Chicago
William E. Gorham, Jr
N. Mulligan
Mike
Michael
Jean
Joan
Elsa
Lisa
Our Lady of Peace School
City to Build Two Off Street Parking Lots in Southmoor
James R. McKenney, right of way engineer, announces plans for two off street parking lots to serve shops in Southmoor. The 104 space project costs about 219000 with Lot 1 at E 67th street and Stony Island avenue offering 66 spaces and Lot 2 at E 72nd street and S Jeffery avenue offering 38 spaces. If purchases proceed, work could start April 1 with possible three to four month delays if condemnations occur.
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James R. McKenney
Southmoor
McKenney
E. 67Th St
Stony Island Ave
E. 72Nd St
S. Jeffery Ave
Three Die In Southeast Christmas Week Traffic
Three Southeast area residents died in traffic incidents during Christmas week. Michael Gorham, 13, of 7846 S Ridgeland Ave, was struck delivering papers near E 80th and South Chicago Ave. Anna Povilaitis, 78, of 509 W 103rd St, died from injuries after being struck while crossing W 103rd St at Eggleston Ave. Pauline Aren, 78, of 2026 E 72nd St, was killed crossing Jeffery Blvd at 72nd St. Police Capt. John H. Ryan, 7937 S Crandon Ave, who said visibility was poor, was charged with failure to yield.
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Norman Gorham
S. Ridgeland Ave
Michael
Walter Hyzy
S. Escanaba Ave
Economist
George Bertonz
Michael Gorham
Anna Povilaitis
103Rd St
Pauline Area
Our Lady of Peace School
E. 79Th St
E. 80Th
Chicago Ave
Roseland Community
W. 103Rd St
S. Eggleston Ave
Pauline Aren
Jeffery Blvd
72Nd St
John H. Ryan
S. Crandon Ave
Warren Ave
Ryan
75Th St
E. 75Th St
Charles P. Cole
Creeper Keeper Wanted At Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo seeks a serpent-servant to feed and tend rattlers cobras and copperheads. Eight hour shift, starting pay 343.82 a month. Apply to Erwin Weiner director of special services Chicago Park District 425 E 14th Blvd.
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Lincoln Park Zoo
Erwin Weiner
Chicago Park District
E. 14Th Blvd
Cal-Sag Is Biggest Gift To Chicago
Cal-Sag widening project valued at over 100 million dollars stands as Chicago’s largest peacetime public works effort. Coupled with the St. Lawrence Seaway due by mid 1959 and Calumet Lake harbor upgrades, the boom spurs plans for more than two billion dollars in new plants and up to 750 thousand jobs in the years after seaway opening.
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Southtown
St. Lawrence Seaway
Calumet Lake Harbor
United States
Chicago
Cook County
St. Lawrence
Ford
Chicago Heights
Park Forest
Tinley Park
Dalton
Markham
East Hazelcrest
South Holland
Greater
Calumet Lake
Cal-Sag
Mrs Pacini Injured in Drapery Fall at Home
Mrs. Emil Pacini wife of Alderman Pacini of 86075 Phillips Ave sustained a fracture of the left wrist and bruises last Thursday after a fall while hanging drapes in her home. She was taken to South Chicago Hospital for treatment.
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Emil Pacini
Ald. Pacini
Phillips Ave
South Chicago Hospital
1956 Record Year for Chicago Area Business
Thomas H Coulter of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry reports 1956 set city and region wide records. Retail sales in Southtown and Chicago reached 5.6 billion dollars, metro area 8.3 billion, and wholesale trade 21.3 billion, with notable gains in furniture hardware industrial machinery groceries and drugs. Manufacturing value hit 20.7 billion, up 7.3 percent from 1955, while primary metal industries led production at 3.73 billion and steel output totaled about 20.68 million net tons.
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Southtown
Chicago
mid-America
Thomas H Coulter
Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry
Coulter
South Suburbs
Central
South
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Harold Levey
Jeffery Maner
Suburban Plans
Harold Cross
Helen Culhane
Southeast Area
Kilbourn Ave
William Ecklund
S. Union Ave
Cole
Ecklund
Jackson Park Hospital
John W. Morgan
S. Kilbourn Ave
Delores Smith
Association of Commerce and Industry
Edith Thompson
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