Park District Awards Two Harbor Improvement Contracts
The Chicago Park District commissioners awarded two contracts totaling about 159,570 for harbor improvements in Jackson park. Harry A. Thompson will build 23 shore slips and 67 double-file slips for boats up to 35 feet at the 59th harbor, with steel bulkheads and a new jetty. N. S. Mackie Co. will construct 30 slips for motors up to 45 feet at the 63rd street harbor, aided by dredging to deepen shallow water. Work to start in spring and finish by fall if materials arrive on time.
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59Th St. Harbor
63Rd St
Jackson Park
Chicago Park District Commissioners
59Th Ft
Harry A. Thompson
N. S. Mackie Company
Steel Co Atraction
Park District
Puzzler: Pronunciation Question About a Common Word
Today’s puzzler asks which common word alters the letter o to sound like the letter l. The answer is promised elsewhere in this column.
Southeast side holders listed for 1947 low license numbers
Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett releases the 1947 first 100 automobile license numbers. Southeast residents include Douglas K. Huntress with No. 25 at 1011 East 50th Street and George A. Malcolm No. 71 at 7321 South Shore Drive. Cardinal Stritch holds No. 1. Dr. Preston Bradley owns No. 9. Bishop Bernard Sheil No. 45. Bishop Wallace Conkling No. 36. Martin Thon, 83, retires from the Art Institute after 54 years as assistant superintendent of buildings, living at 7729 Cornell Avenue with daughter Astrid Irene Taft, whose initials spell AT.
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Edward J. Barrett
Douglas K. Huntress
E. 50Th St
George A. Malcolm
South Shore Dr
Louis J. Behan
E. 56Th St
John G. DeLong
Drexel Blvd
William H. Burke
Hyde Park Blvd
Samuel Stritch
Charles M. Hayes
Chicago Motor Cab
Preston Bradley
North Side
Bernard J. Sheil
Martin Thon
Art Institute
Mr. Thon
Cornell Ave
Astrid Irene Taft
Taft
Astrid Irene
Baby Buggy Stolen From Hallway Traps Family At Home
Mrs. Gunnar Mortenson and her infant are house bound after a baby buggy was stolen from the hallway of their building on Christmas Eve between 8 30 and 11 pm. The loss leaves them unable to carry the child over icy sidewalks and confines them to their Vernon Avenue residence.
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Gunnar Mortenson
Vernon Ave
Mortensons
Reverend Lyman Howes Receives Christmas Tobacco Pun
The Southeast Economist religion editor Rev Lyman J Howes received a pound of smoking tobacco named Revelation as a Christmas gift from a brother minister. He quips the brand suits the occasion, noting its appropriateness.
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Lyman J. Howes
The
Southeast Economist
Howes
New Year Thought Ponders a Polish Proverb
A note to readers answering today’s puzzler the line about a helping hand at the end of the arm is presented as a Polish proverb and a New Year reflection. The brief prompts readers to consider self help and practical effort.
Lack Curbs On Plants U S Finds
A Chicago Cook county health survey advisory report faults industrial plants for operating under the smoke ordinance and cites Lake County Indiana as failing to enforce smoke control. It says light smoke may pollute more than brief heavy emissions and urges county and Indiana communities to pass stricter abatement laws. Railroad smoke violations rose 40 percent last year, now blamed for about a quarter of the citys total smoke.
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Chicago
Lake County
Ind
United States Public Health Service
Cook County
Indiana
Hammond
Whiting
East
Indiana Harbor
Gary
Cop Stops to Buy Paper Nabs Two in Holdup
A off duty Southeastern police officer, Steven Barrett, stopped at a drugstore to buy a paper and, from his car, foiled an attempted holdup. He restrained George Schaults and Leonard Dogoda, recovering two firearms, while no money was taken.
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Southeastern
Steven Barrett
78Th St
79Th and
State Sts
Barrett
Navy
Paxton Liquor
E. 79Th'st
George Schaults
Green St
Green St. Barrett
Schaults
Leonard Dogoda
Bishop Sr
Dogoda
Philip Fisher
Leslie
Fisher
Butler Laughlins Announce Engagement of Daughter
Butler Laughlin and Mrs Laughlin announce the engagement of Donna Joyce Laughlin to Carl W. Hunding Jr son of Mrs Carl W Hunding The couple were introduced at a holiday tea in the South Shore Country club Friday Laughlin is principal of Harper High school Laughlin graduate of South Shore High school attended Penn Hall Hunding is a St John Military academy graduate who resumed studies at the University of Illinois after army discharge last Summer
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Donna Joyce Laughlin
Butler Laughlin
Bennett Ave
Carl W. Hunding Jr
Carl W. Hunding
Hunding Dairy Company
South Shore Country Club
Laughlin
Harper High School
Miss Laughlin
South Shore High School
Penn Hall
Chambersburg
Penn
Hunding
St.John Military Academy
University of Illinois
South Area Council Sets Traffic Talks in Windermere East
The South Area council of the Chicago Motor club met at the Windermere East hotel at 1642 E 56th St to discuss South Side traffic issues. They referred 95th Street and Woodlawn Avenue signal lights to the city traffic engineer and timing changes at 100th Street Avenue L and Indianapolis Boulevard to the Chicago Park District. A pedestrian safety zone at 106th Street and Ewing Avenue was proposed, contingent on streetcar platform removal, and referred to the 10th ward alderman.
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South Area Council
Chicago Motor Club
Windermere East
S6th St
South Side
95Th. St
Woodlawn Ave
100Th. St. Avenue L
Indianapolis, Blvd
Chicago Park District Board
Aliso
106Th St
Ewing Ave
10Th Ward
Street light delays on 76th street due to strikes
Ald. Roy Olin reports efforts to replace street lights on 76th Street between St. Lawrence and Vincennes Avenues are hindered by strikes delaying steel pole production. Lloyd Johnson confirms city cannot install new lights until poles arrive. work paused since fall widening and repaving removed old poles.
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76Th St
St. Lawrence
Vincennes Aves
Roy Olin
Lloyd Johnson
Ald. Olin
Lorimer Chapel Dedication Opens New Unit at Lorimer Memorial
The Lorimer Memorial Baptist church and chapel in Southfield celebrates the dedication of its first unit at 943 am Sunday with a Bible class and worship in the new building Located at 85th Street and St Lawrence Avenue the chapel serves members who moved to Chatham Fields and Chatham Park The project aims to cost about 500000 with a 130000 furnishings addition designed by Ralph E Stoelzel and Sons and built by Cnell and Anderson in Modified English Gothic style
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Lorimer Memorial Baptist Chapel
85Th St
St Lawrence
Lorimer Memorial Baptist Church
Chatham Fields
Chatham Park
Ralph E Stoelzel and Sons
Cnell and Anderson
Public Ambulance Service Urged for Chicago Area
A United States Public Health Service report urges immediate creation of a city and county public ambulance system. It proposes a special board or hospital commissioner governance and notes police wagons handle most emergencies. The piece references 1945 injury and death totals and mentions local political updates.
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Chicago
Cook County
Chicago-Cook County
United States Public Health Service
Public Health Service
Uly
Mercy Mothers to Hear A Capella Choir at School
Mercy Mothers will attend a performance by the Mega Capella Choir under director Smier Mars Alpertine at 3 o'clock Wednesday. The event, held at 8160 Praise Avenue, invites members and guests to enjoy the lobby concert.
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Mercy Mothers
Mortgage Burning Service Ends Four-Week Drive
Snithfield Community Methodist church and nearby congregations wrapped a four week fundraising drive with a mortgage burning ceremony last Sunday. Bishop J Ralph Mayo preached on Positive Factors for Growth as the drive raised 33300 toward 15000 remaining indebtness on the 1919 church building. Participants included Rev Ellsworth S. Ewing and Dr W Lo Ewing along with Dr Steuart D White and church officers William Owen and William Linanog and Harold Kefauver.
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Snithfield Community Methodist Church
Tothst
Cregier Are
Ourneting
J Ralph Mayo
Chicago
Ated
Ellsworth S. Ewing
W Lo Ewing
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Steuart D White
Rock River
Willam Owen
Ridgelad
Cachman
Trudees
Willam Linanog
Philips
Harold Kefauver
Crandon
Detectives Rach and MacLeay Die In Squad Car Crash
Funeral services set for Detectives Erwin C. Rach and Roderick D. MacLeay after a police car they rode in overturned in a head on crash on State Street north of 29th. Rach 42 and MacLeay 36 died from internal injuries and skull fractures. Detective O Hara injured but survived after skidding on ice and colliding with a southbound car driven by John Trencan. Inquest into the accident continued.
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Erwin C. Rach
Normal Blvd
Roderick D. MacLeay
Mary= land ave
State St
29Th St
Rach
MacLeay
Earvlee Sullivan
Wentworth Ave
51St
State Sts
Sullivan
Detective Bureau
Raymond T. O’hara
Lafayette Ave
O'Hara
Michael Reese Hospital
John Trencan
Economist Accountant Is Named to Teaching Post
Edward A Zuchowski chief accountant and auditor of the Southtown Economist has been named accounting instructor for LaSalle School of Accounting classes meeting Tuesday evenings at 9 W Washington St during Winter and Spring terms. He is a Joliet Catholic High and Joliet Junior College graduate and studied at Loyola and Northwestern. He passed state exams in 1945 earning the title certified accountant and is a member of the Knights of Columbus Archdiocese council and the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants.
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Edward A Zuchowski
Artesian Ave
Southtown Economist
LaSalle School of Accounting
W. Washington St
Joliet Catheolic High School
Joliet
Zuchowski
Loyola
Northwestern Universes
American Institute of Accountants
Sam
Archbishop McHale
Knights of Columbus
Chicago
National Association of Cost Accountants
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Punster
U. S
Public Health Service Survey
Butler Laughlins
Olin
University of Chicago
Carol
Iiking
Donna Bede
Beulah
Thelma Hill
Economist
Christine Honor
Eleanor Riggle
Margaret
Catherine
Barnes
Howard Gersh
Betty Lou Dominick
Harvey Rogosin
Sally Gill
Patsy Woods
Brown
Lorimer Chapel
Southfield
U.S. Report
Russell
Russell J G'Bnen
Fighth Ward
William G Donne
Meadent
James
Legions Third Cistiier
Cook County Counc
Union Stock Yards
Chicago Board of Health
Magee
Church
Bureau
St. Francis de Paula Church
Dobson St
St. Mary's Cemetery
Edna
John J. MacLeay
Ellis Ave
Richard J
Wabash Ave
Marcella Wilhelm
Dobson Ave
Kathryn Murphy
Rath
Immanuel Evangelical Church
Michigan Ave
Cedar Park
Elsa
Shirley Haddock
Walcott Ave
Edward Kelter
Normal Ave
Arthur Kelter
N. Kildare Ave
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