Arrest in Joliet hit and run driver Clarence Needs named
A tip led to the arrest of 58 year old Clarence Needs of Lockport for the Ohio and State Street hit and run that injured three Joliet girls. Needs admitted driving a 1958 green Chevrolet after witnesses described the car and driver. He lacked a state license plate and driver’s license. A passenger, William Kidd, corroborated the driver’s account.
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Lockport
Joliet
Ohio
State
Clarence Needs
Martin Jackson
Brenda Parish
Gwendolin
Mary Burley
Joe Hinton
Jack Jones
Charles Chrisi
Needs
Altho
Orville Belfield
Edward Gora
Roy Everson
Ohio St
Auctions Clear Millions From Timken Heiress Jewels
The rare jewels of Mrs. Lillian L. Timken, who died in her Fifth Avenue home, sold for over a million dollars at a charity auction. The event followed a fall in Mississippi flood threats near Quincy Illinois as engineers sought more levee support. Everett Dirksen labeled a labor leader's critique of health policy as stinging for a second time this week. The Metropolitan Sanitary District rejected a plan to dump Wisconsin floodwater into Lake Michigan to offset Chicago’s extra withdrawals.
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New York
Fifth Ave
Lillian L. Timken
Timken
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Greater
Chicago
Wisconsin
Lake Michigan
Seek money for repairs to Highland park dam
Joliet Park Board commissioners plan a post election meeting with state legislators to obtain state aid for longstanding repairs to the Highland park dam. The dam shows a large hole risking flood to Hickory creek if spring rains intensify. park officials note no immediate danger. Representatives Wood Bottino and Loughran will ask the governor to appropriate funds.
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Highland Park Dam
Joliet Park
Ous
Altho
Park District
Warren L. Wood
Louis F. Bottino
Francis J. Loughran
Park Board to offer land for civil defense center near Joliet Airport
Joliet park commissioners will propose city council use of 2 3 acres along Route 52 near Joliet Municipal Airport as a long term lease site for a civil defense control center. A spokesman withheld price details while Maurice Berlinsky is to pick a west side location. Office of Civil Defense Mobilization offers funding with city matching funds.
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Joliet Park
Maurice Berlinsky
James P. Hennessy
West Side
Ci Defense Center
Office of Civil Defense Mobilization
Records show GOP primary vote decline since 1954
County records indicate 13,265 Republican votes in the 1956 primary, 3,564 fewer than 16,829 in 1954, while Democrats cast 9,413 in 1956, up 160 from 1954. The 1958 off year primary was even lower with 12,524 Republican and 4,896 Democratic votes.
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Joseph H. Hartley
School board to hold April 21 conference at Josiet Township HS
School board members elected Saturday will learn duties at a 7:30 p.m. conference in room 295 of Josiet Township High School. Verne E. Cracker, county school superintendent, says panel data will assist new members and allow questions. Speakers include W. R. Blew on written policies.
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Josiet Township High School
Verne E. Cracker
W. R. Blew
Carl Sandburg High School
Orland Park
Samuel Bishop
Illinois Association of School Boards
B. B. Burgess
Protestant Holy Week Services Planned Across Joliet
Next week Joliet hosts Protestant Holy Week activities with youth chapel services in multiple Joliet school buildings starting Monday and noon services in eight churches. The plan includes a Good Friday program at the Rialto theater and Easter Sunrise rites at Woodlawn Memorial cemetery, led by Rev. Powell, Rev. Burgin, and Rev. Washburn, with coordination by the Will County Council of Churches.
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Joliet
Rialto Theater
Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
J. Royster Powell
John Merrill
Paul Fuqua
Salvation Army
Barney Burgin
Edward Washburn
Will County Council of Churches
Chaney
Cunningham
Farragut
Lincoln
F. E. Marsh
Marycrest
Parks
Raynor Park
Sheridan
Thompson
Keith
Hafford
Culbertson
Eliza Kelly
Forest Park
Longfell
A. M. Varnado
Ivan Estle
David Spencer
Charles Chakour
Lester Laubenstein
J. R. Benson
Kenneth Yeoman
Fuqua
Burgin
Powell
Ottawa Street Methodist Church
Clarence Ploch
Ridgewood Baptist Church
Wendell Graham
Joliet Women and Firemen Campaign for Cancer Crusade
1960 cancer crusade kicks off in Will county with a $19 600 goal as Joliet Women’s Club and Joliet Firemen’s auxiliary start fundraising. Don Nepote leads the effort after a kickoff meeting, with donors already delivering $1 000. A downtown march and a WJOL radio thrift help raise awareness and pledges.
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Joliet
WJOL
Lohman to greet Demo voters here Saturday
Joseph D. Lohman Democratic state treasurer and former Cook county sheriff will tour Will county Saturday for his governor bid. A reception in his honor at Hotel Louis Joliet from 8 to 10 p m is arranged by campaign leaders with all Democratic candidates invited to attend.
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Joseph D. Lohman
Cook County
Will County
Illinois
Henry F. McCarthy
Lohman
Louis Joliet
Conrad J. Wirth
Dominico A. Romano
McCarthy
Ottawa Man Killed in Route 71 Crash Near Ottawa
A 21 year-old Ottawa man Dale Severson died when a foreign sports car at high speed left Route 71, struck an embankment, and vaulted onto a parked car four and a half miles west of Ottawa. Passenger Dale Weller was hospitalized. driver Norman Strow was unharmed.
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Ottawa
Dale Severson
Chambers
LaSalle County
Severson
Norman Strow
Strow
Dale Wheeler
Robert Niles
Spectator Publishing Company notices and postal filing
Published every Thursday by The Spectator Publishing Company and entered as second class matter October 1 1940 at Joliet Illinois post office under the Act March 8 1897 volume XXXIV April 7 1960 number
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The
Spectator’ Publishing Company
Joliet
Ilinois
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Tip
William Kidd
W. 11Th
Quincy
Ill
Fox River
Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
James BR. Carey
International Union of Electrical Workers
Laubenstein
Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church
East Side
Ingalls Park
Cancer Radio
Nepote
Division of Corrections
State of Illinois
Che Spectator
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
Casas Street
Joliet, Illinois
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