First Jobs Across Windsor Park Residents
A group of Windsor Park residents share their first jobs. Patricia Hack recalls soda jerking at 12 for 35 cents an hour. Louis Philon worked as a nurse after training in Rochester. H E Walters left farming in 1918 to mix paint for 17.50 a week before joining the Navy. Dick Gibbons volunteered as a city lifeguard earning 90 a month tax free. Dolores Schick started as a payroll clerk in 1938 for 15 years before motherhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Hack
Windsor Park
Louis Philon
Michael Reese Hospital
Methodist School of Nursing
Rochester
Minn
H. E. Walters
South Shore
John Tuicas
H. E
Navy
Dick Gibbons
McKinley Park
Lee High School
Dolores Schick
Bud
poLores
Schick
Washington Park Plan Gets Okay
The Chicago park district approves creating a 5 acre park at George Washington school in East Side. Engineers must finalize a drainage plan and gain North of E 14th street residents approval before construction this year. The project, tied to the old field house concept, follows long pushing by local leagues and a June referendum funding sewer work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Park District
George Washington School
Gerald Thomis
Park District
E 14Th St
114Th St
S. Avenue
Fair Elms Civic League
East Side Civic League
East Side
Hegewisch
Southfield Merchants Gather for June Association Meeting
The Southfield Merchant Association will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 11, at the Gateway restaurant, 1626 E 79th St, with Loran Pierson, president, and Grace B. Pettengill also note residents nearby as supporters for improving 79th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southfield Merchant's Association
Gateway Restaurant
E 79Th St
Grace B. Pettengill
79Th St
Loran Pierson
Illinois lawmaker seeks sale of all public housing projects
State Rep. Nick Svalina announces plans to introduce a bill in the next session to sell every Chicago area housing project. He argues the programs cost taxpayers 300 million dollars annually and that land used by projects is unproductive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Nick Svalina
S. Avenue F
Illinois
Svaling
Chicago
Ald
Emil V. Pacini
Chicago Housing Authority
South Chicago
Illinois Central
Cha
South
Svalina
Baltimore Ave
Houston Ave
Chicago Ave
Classified Ad Appreciation Note
Mrs Driscuss comments on the newspaper's classified advertising response and the classified department aims to please readers with continued service. Southeast Economist Bayport 1 9701 is listed as contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Economist Bayport
Southeast couple wins 56000 on emerald green sweepstakes ticket
A $2.75 Paddy's Pride sweepstakes ticket in the Southeast produced a $56,000 prize for Charles and Joan Noetzel. They plan to pay off the Idle Hour resort mortgage and share the winnings with Joan’s aunt Mrs. Townsend, who bought the ducat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.E
Paddy
Joan Nouetzel
S. Ridgeland Ave
Economist
Fifield
Wis
Charles
St. Thomas the Apostle
Noetzels
Joan
CTA
Marie Townsend
Noetzel
Mrs. Noetzel
O’conner
Joan Noetzel
Lady Luck
Uncle Sam
Local Girl Elects Secretary of Cook County YR Group
Leone Richards associate member of the 7th ward Young Republican organization is elected secretary of the Cook County YR at the county YR annual convention. She is a private secretary with a paper products firm living at 11211 South Park Ave. The convention at the LaSalle hotel featured 7th ward participants including Quintila Hil Baum contestant for Miss Cook County YR and figures such as William F. Scannell and Edward J. Derwin ski among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leone Richards
7Th Ward
Cook County
Miss Richards
South Park Ave
Quintila Hil Baum
74Th St
Lynda Price
S. Crandon Ave
Kenneth Nemeroff
S. Essex Ave
Diane Brammer
S. East End
Mary Semple
S. Vernon Ave
Jacqueline Shea
Alice Hayes
S. Oglesby
Mary Kenny
E. 69Th St
Dorothy Baum
LaSalle Hotel
Service Held for P. J. Gale
Services for Philip J. Gale 55 retired oil executive were held Friday at 2 pm in the chapel on N Broadway Ave. He founded Interstate Petroleum Peacock Parrot and Atlas oil firms, led more than 50 Chicago area stations, and retired in 1956. A University of Chicago graduate and Temple Isaiah Israel board member. He died Wednesday at his North Lake Shore Drive apartment after returning from Miami Beach with his wife Charlotte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip J. Gale
N. Broadway Ave
Gale
S. Bennett Ave
N. Lake Shore
Charlotte
Miami Beach
Fla
Interstate Petroleum Corp
Peacock, Parrot
Atlas Oil
Chicago
Southeast
N. Lake Shore Dr
University of Chicago
Temple Isaiah Israel
South Shore Temple
Tragic accident claims life of 11 month old piano prodigy
In Chicago a quiet home mourns John Stennis 11 months who played piano with joy before his death in an elevator accident at Parkshore Apartment Building. He was buried at St Marys cemetery after a requiem mass at Corpus Christi church. Surviving are his parents Thomas and Mrs Stennis and three brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Stennis
S. Drexel Ave
John
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Parkshore
E. 55Th St
Alberta Jackson
S. Evans Ave
Arthur Meyer
W. Otto St. Oak Lawn
Meyer
16Th Battalion
Illinois Central Hospital
Young Stennis
Corpus Christ School
National Piano Guild
Corpus Christi Church
South Parkway
Thomas, Jr
William
Raymond
Southeast artists named to judge Navy Pier show
Two Southeast residents were named to judge the 1958 Chicago Artists exhibition at Navy Pier. Rainey Bennett, former Art Institute instructor and freelance artist, and Frederick A Sweet, author and curator, served on the four day jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast
Chicago
Navy Pier
Rainey Bennett
S. Dorchester Ave
Art Institute
Frederick A Sweet
The
Seek S C Acres For Conserving Urban Renewal Plan
South Chicago Community council plans a June 20 mass meeting to push an alternate urban renewal program designating at least 160 acres as a conservation area east of the Illinois Central tracks. Alderman Pacini and local leaders met to oppose CHA’s 1,450 housing project, with organizers circulating flyers and seeking broader neighborhood support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
South Chicago
CHA
Theresa O. Flores
S. Burley Ave
Council
United States Steel
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Hall
91St St
Ald
Pacini
Flores
Richard D. Jaffe
South Shore Commission
Julian Levi
South East Chicago Commission
Bruce Sagan
Southeast Economist
Southtown Economist
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Sagan
Calumet Heights
Manors
South Chicago Community Council
CTA Refuses To Resume Jeffery Ave Bus Service
CTA general manager Walter J. McCarter cites too few riders to restore the Jeffery avenue route serving the East Side. Four civic groups pressed for reinstatement, noting youths and residents need direct access to Calumet park and the Loop. The service paused December 15. current southern terminus is E 106th and S Torrence. The Taylor Civic League led the effort, with a July picnic planned at Calumet park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Transit Authority
Jeffery Ave
East Side
Taylor Civic League
Walter J. McCarter
CTA
Taylor League
Calumet Park Fieldhouse
East Side Civic League
Fair Elms Civic League
The
Marsh Improvement Association
E. 100Th St
Indianapolis Blvd
E. 106Th St
S. Avenue C
E. 112Th St
E. 113Th St
S. Green Bay Ave
Chicago
Loop
League
Calumet Park
SE War Hero Sentenced For Bank Job
Christopher L. Magee a 40 year old war hero from Southeast area faced 25 years in prison for a 46000 bank robbery at Lincoln West Way branch South Bend Indiana He was sentenced June 4 in South Bend for bank robbery and assault in the commission of a crime Magee a World War II naval aviator with a Navy Cross later served in the Israeli air force He was arrested in Chicago last October and earlier linked to 1955 1956 Cicero robberies
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Christopher L. Magee
S. Crandon Ave
Lincoln West Way
National Bank and Trust Company
Magee
Chicago
Republic Savings and Loan Association
Cicero
Indiana
Woman Seeks 200000 From Chicago Narcotics Detectives
A Southeast woman, Leora Lucas, 33, of 2008 S Harper Ave, filed in Circuit Court seeking 200000 in damages from Chicago Narcotics Bureau detectives. She alleges her arrest by the narcotics team cost her job with the Chicago Park District after police failed to prove she possessed narcotics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Narcotics Bureau
Leora Lucas
S. Harper
Chicago Park District
Tragedy as estranged husband kills friend and wife then himself
Eugene Underinder 43 shot and killed Hal Melander 47 on the lawn in front of the Hanson home after an argument over reconciliation. Underinder then shot his wife in the abdomen and left hand before turning the gun on himself. He and his wife survived initial hospital treatment. Melander, a steel mill foreman, left two sons and two young children in the care of relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Melander
East End Ave
Claremont Ave
Eugene Underinder
S. May Sr
Economist
George Bertonz
S. East End Ave
Adolph Hanson
Underinder
Mary Hospital
Ted Cregan
Morgan Park
Melander
Underander
Underinders
Gary
Janet
Sandra
One Millionth Driver Receives Skyway Year Pass
Theo dore Sikaras of 5704 S Newcastle Ave led the one millionth vehicle on the Calumet Skyway Thursday and earned a one year free pass. His family Elly Charles Chuck and Helen watched as George DeMent, public works commissioner, and John Zimmerman Skyway manager presented the award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet Skyway
Theodore Sikaras
Newcastle Ave
Ohio
Sikaras
Elly
Charles
Chuck
Helen
George DeMent
Public Works
John Zimmerman
Shapiro Twins 18 to Be Sworn Into Marine Reserves
Stanley and Philip Shapiro both 18 of 7952 S. Essex Avenue will be sworn into the Marine Reserves this evening. The brothers are sons of Mr and Mrs Joseph Shapiro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley and
Philip Shapiro
Joseph Shapiro
S. Essex Ave
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Washington Park
Hudson
Ridgeland
P. J. Gale
By Gretchen Leitzell
Pal
S.C. Acres
Jeffery
Mrs. Underinder
Skyway
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