Seek Branch Library For L3rd St Area
Petitions circulate to Mayor Martin Kennelly and the Chicago Public Library board urging a local branch for the area bounded by 77th Street, Musketgon Avenue, 87th Street, and Stony Island Avenue. Edward Coles PTA leads, joined by Ho Race Mann and Caldwell school PTAs and many civic groups and leaders. The proposed site is 83rd Street east of Jeffery Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Kennelly
Chicago Public Library
E. 77Th St
S. Muskegon Ave
E. 87Th St
S. Stony Island
Edward Coles
PTA
Horace Mann
Caldwell
E. 83Rd
S Jefferyave
Ald
Nicholas Bohling
W. H. Sanders
S. Paxton Ave
Southfield Girl Scouts
Warren Mathews
Avenue H
Peter P. Witmanski
St. Mary Magdalene
S. Marquette Ave
Harold P. Smith
Agudath Achim
E. 79Th St
S. Yates Ave
Byron C. Lambert
Paxton Ave
Church of Christ
E. 83Rd St
Bernard Durbin
Elmer Livingston
S. Luella Ave
Horace Mann P-Ta
Martha Pederson
S. Dorchester Ave
Caldwell P-Ta
al Wallach
S. Bennett Ave
Julian Saly
S. Oglesby Ave
Coles P-Ta
Chatham Hi Y Clubs Host Second Street Carnival
Chatham YMCA units plan a Saturday street carnival on S Ellis Ave between W 83rd and W 84th. From 1 to 10 pm the block hosts a Mardi Gras themed event with a Marryn Sam, a target range, pony cart rides and booths for refreshments, games and fortune telling. Fourteen teenage clubs join to present Karnival Rapers, proceeds aid the YMCA World Service fund for youth recreation abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Ellis Ave
W. 83Rd
W. 84Th Sts
Chatham Ymca
Ymca World Service Fund
Church Sodality Inducts Officers Tuesday
Newly elected officers of the ladies' sodality at St. Francis de Paula church will be installed at the final meeting of the season at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the church auditorium. President Mrs. Francis Nolan, vice president Mrs. Henry Peth, secretary Mrs. Thomas Durkin, and treasurer Mrs. H Huizenga will take office. The Kitchen Band, directed by Mrs. Catherine Trembrello, will entertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Sodality of
St. Francis de Paula Church
Church Auditorium
S. Ellis
Francis Nolan
Dobson
Chicago’s first incubator born in 1900s spawns new premature nursery
The South Side hospital dedicates a six room premature nursery suite with room for 22 infants under five and a half pounds. A team of obstetricians pediatricians and nurses staffs the unit as research efforts aim to reduce premature births and improve survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. de- Lee
Chicago
South Side Hospital
Kellogg Fairbank Jr
United States
University of Chicago Medical Center
University of Chicago
Geraldine Phelps
Lucille Palmer
Jewish Center Camp Expands to Three More Areas
Three Southeast side communities join the Jewish Community Center summer camp this year bringing Hyde Park South Shore Chatham Merrionette Manor and Jeffery Manor into the Forest Preserves program open to boys and girls ages 3 to 19 from June 28 to August 20. Camp runs eight weeks or four weeks with activities in sports arts and crafts swimming dramatics trips and nature lore. Registration is underway and Joshua Cohen at 5200 S University Ave Museum 4 5125 can arrange parent child interviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Side
Chatham
Merrionette Manor
Jeffery Manor
Hyde Park
South Shore
Forest Preserves
Joshua Cohen
S. University Ave
Hyde Park Travel Club Officers To Meet Friday
Hyde Park Travel Club will convene at 10 a.m. Friday in the Windermere East hotel at 1642 E. 56th St. New officers include President Mrs. William EB. McCollum and several board members with roles as program and membership chairs, recording and corresponding secretaries, treasurer and assistant treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park Travel Club
Windermere East Hotel
E. 56Th St
William EB. McCollum
E. 74Th St
Warner Sivyer
S. Woodlawn Ave
Thurman Huebner
S. Dante Ave
Alfred T. Millbrook
S. Avalon Ave
Howard QO. Benett
S. Kenwood Ave
B. Warren Brown
S. Dorchester Ave
C. H. Sebring Jr
S. Ingleside Ave
Fort Wood trainees listed in basic infantry training
Pvt. Robert F. Haney son of Frank J. Haney 7824 S Langley Ave is undergoing basic infantry training at Fort Leonard Wood. Another trainee at that post is Pvt. William J. Rosenthal son of Mr and Mrs W Rosenthal 7710 S Coles Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Haney
Frank J. Haney
S. Langley Ave
Fort Leonard Wood
William J. Rosenthal
W. Rosenthal
S. Coles Ave
Grand Crossing Chatham Chamber Holds Election
The Grand Crossing Chatham Chamber of Commerce discusses name-change proposals at a luncheon. The next regular meeting on June 21 will include the annual election with Harold Miller as president nominee and unopposed candidates Arthur Rothschild Howard Webb Walter Barnes John Sullivan Arthur Palermo Abel De Haan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Crossing-Chatham
John P. Sullivan
Arthur Palermo
Abel de Haan
Abner Culpepper
Walter Feldhoff
H. B. Fox
Russell McNally
G. Wiliam Skeeles
Carl A. Swengel
Harold Lotz
Theodore Somers
Monmouth College Names News Editor of the Week
Janice Singelman of 7417 S Kimbark Avenue, a freshman at Monmouth College, has been named news editor of the week for the college newspaper Oracle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janice Singelman
S. Kimbarkave
Monmouth College
Oracle
Iron Lung Gift From Stern Foundation To Polio Patients
Polio patients in Cook county will receive a Drinker-Collins respirator funded by the Dorothy Stern Polio Foundation. The gift will be accepted by Frances Karl Steen, executive secretary of the Cook county Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The presentation follows the foundation’s 1952 origin in memory of a young mother of two. The group will meet at 8 15 pm at the South Shore View hotel and install new officers and board members, with King and Zerita entertaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Dorothy Stern
Polio Foundation
Frances Karlsteen
National Foundation For
South Shore View
Local figures listed in city directory panel
Walter S. Oleynik Edmund S. Pianowski Raymond P. Riedel Vinel J. Ross Edward G. Roszkowski Harry F. Skibbins Edward J. Stack Emmert A. Thoney Robert Waddell Damel E. Zdrojeski are named in the community roll call or directory segment. The snippet records several individuals likely associated with local governance, business, or civic groups in a period-accurate roster.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Seek
L3rd St
Church Sodality
A Rive
Buenos Aires
Gordon’s Pet Shop
E. 79Th ST. Bayport
Gore
Furniture Waters Bedding Co
Reemee
Maytag
Cottage Grove
Hudson
Fort Wood
Grand Crossing
Marfax
Texaco Sky Chief
Petrox
Sider's
Texaco Service
Jeffery
Stern
King
Zerita
Max Einhorn
S. East End Ave
Arthur Fradkin
S. Ridgeland Ave
Eliott Gordon
S Cregier Ave
Paul Fine
S. Clyde Ave
Delbert J. Horn
S. Chappel Ave
Edward Guthman
Seymour Bern
Jordan Daniels
Norman Dollinger
E. A. Galford
Jerome Klinenberg
Raymond Levin
Robert L. Polachek
Lawrence Schoenberger
Laurence Seeger
Seymour Winokur
Harvey Fine
Leon Mendelsohn
Revere
U.S
Sanwics
Ladies Home Journal
Drive-In Cleaners
Santtone
Calumet Gateway District
The
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Henry W. Adams
the Prudential
Insurance Company OF America
A Mutual Life Insurance Company
Mid-America
Islinois
Indiana
Prudential
East 92Nd Street
Leo J. Arsini
Louis J. Bastien, Jr
William J. Hanna
Edward J. Skovie
Edwin F, Zack
Frank E. Adams
Ivan J, Aitken
Arthur J. Bernoska
Willard E. Blake
Eric S. Button
Carl L, Carlson
Dennis F. Cummings
Albert J. Doherty
Raymond E. Dressler
Herbert G. Echholz
Wiliam J. Fagan
Thomas P. Fanning
Miles F. Gibbons
Joseph F. Gunderson
Fred C. Haack
William H. Jahnke, Jr
Norman II
Jouse
Elroy F. Kohlman
Sylvester Kowalczyk
Edward J. Krawcewicz
Theodore W. Kucaba
John I. Kurzawiak
Edmund L. Mazur, Sr
John D. McNaughton
George R. Miller
Francis E. Mitchell
James M. Mitchell
Royce W. Munro
Walter S. Oleynik
Edmund S. Pianowski
Raymond P. Riedel
Edward G. Roszkowski
Harry F. Skibbins
Edward J. Stack
Emmert A. Thoney
Robert Waddell
Damel E. Zdrojeski
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