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AL* fin Swimming PoolHTY—Deep end of Summer-Port pool, where floor con- t ng a hint of the future are (from left) Ann Hubbell, danc Jackson, Susan Seely and Penny Kuhp,—Staff Photo.In Up Sext Spring8110.000 Summers'-PortPool Nears (CompletionCompletion in October In ex-1 treasurer. A dozen committees perted for the $110,000 swim*' were hard at work. The site mlrtg pool being built through committee investigated 123 pos-cooperative funds of Summers’- j sible locations for the pool. The I Port. Inc.. near Greenwood lane engineers designed a pool to ac.' off Rt. 100 in Godfrey at the commodate 500 families and northeast comer of the Floyd selected an engineer and archi-Hexon property. teet team from St. Louis, OsThe 821* by 75-foot L-shaped tea Id and Schmidt, pool is being built by Cannon1 The women worked on a name Construction Co. of Wood River for the organization and per for 500 stockholders whose fam- fee ted plans for recruiting 900 Dies expert to he spashing in memtier-famUies willing to put Its cool water* as soon as warm up 1162 each. w«.thtr striven non »pnng. FrmM. i»r Hm..LIt wa. . Sunday evening In -n* p|„nncr« m«lt;1# pm-December 1955. when Joe Shultzvision for raising (80,000 by la-and Carl Cromrlnc. w.th thrlr n| bond. to make thr tot-wive, were returning to Alton ,j «* ,u; soo whlrh w„, lhr by train attrr a weekend In Ctrl- .mourn originally thought to br | rago Cart ... tailing Jo. that ^equnte lm tht y*. he thought he would build a „ . , ... ,backyard pool. Jo. »aa pointing “‘I' ln'r1 T™out th. rtnka. rc.pon.lblhllc, and h'”.‘P “* ch*r,'r *rnup , ho’''heavy roata ol building a back- V T** «'lt;ur'yard pool. Then Jo. a,kerf thai*? * ch*r,rr 01qucailon -Why don't w* atart * E™’- ™mp . *!a pool aaaoc'ationT'* l,nd * *«lt;■a complete package to present.M Began j junt j was set as the deadlineThey had Just visited friends for recruiting a minimum ofin the Chicago area who belong- j 350 familes. otherwise t h eed to such an association. That's j whole project would be aban-huw it all began nine months doned. This number was exeeed-a«o. Carl and Joe went to work ed by May 1 and the first gen-on their friends. On the Sunday eral meeting and election of before Christmas, six couples hoard members was held on May met at Joe Shulls’ house to lays 10, Five hundred families were plans. This included the Crum-i enrolled before June 1. i rine., the Dick Fishers, Jimj The pool site has been leased j Lyons. Howard Rhoads. Jack from Flexon for the first 15 j Penning*. i years, with option to buy forThe each agreed to bring another couple to their next meet-j mg. In three weeks the group$15,000.Budget IncreasedThe original budget for thelhad|n^.wdt0 30 roupl«...lt;-h pnoi h,, h..n inm-aved from of whom had put up $25 which $U7.50ll lo $142,5110. Originallythcv were Wt inn in an mKI nn .,
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Aug 20, 1956
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