Back to School Cover Photo Praises Prompt Memories
The Spectator thanks staff photographer Dennis Weiser for a cover image featuring Mrs. Lucille Joseph and the Shulk children in front of a restored one room school. Farragut School pre school registration for new pupils to be held August 31 from 9 30 to 11 30 a m at the Glenwood Ave gym. Parents should bring birth certificates and note age and exam requirements.
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Spectator
Dennis Weiser
Lucille Joseph
N. Briggs St
Wendy Jo Shulk
Scott Shulk
Robert Shulk
Farragut School
Wilcox Street
Glenwood Ave
Farragut
Hospital Class For Parents Set By Silver Cross
Silver Cross Hospital opens free prospective parents classes to begin Sept 28 with sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 30 p m. For enrollment call Naomi Corsini director of nursing education at 727 1711 ext 765 weekdays 8 a m to 4 p m.
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Silver Cross Hospital
62nd County Fair Gets Underway
The fair opens with a tractor pull at 12 30 p m and a Teen Cavalcade from 9 30 to midnight led by a TV personality recording artist Marty. Friday features pony races and hitching, a 1 30 start, and a two hour United Midget Auto Race at 7 30 p m. Saturday brings the Kovaz International Auto Daredevils at 2 and 7 30 p m with 28 stunts. Sunday closes with two rodeo shows at 2 and 7 30 p m, baby show at 2 30, livestock parade at 7, trophy presentations, and a busy midway.
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R90
Marty
Kovaz International Auto Daredevils
The
Rodeo Cowboys’ Assa
All Blue Ribbon
Will County Historical Society to review Bluff St progress
The Will County Historical Society will present a full report tonight at 8 p.m. on the Museum Historical Site Committee's efforts to save the old Westphal Bank on Bluff St from demolition. The Joliet Federal Savings and Loan Association Building hosts the meeting with discussion of a park planned by the Joliet Park District. Elmer Ott will show slides of Bluff St and all interested members are invited.
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Will County Historical Society
Museum Historical Site Committee
Joliet Park District
Elmer Ott
Bluff St
Historical Society
Marines To Add To Air Arm In Joliet Area
Local Marine Corps recruiters announced openings in Marine Aviation the air arm of the Marine Corps. GySgt. Charles W. Gamm urged qualified young men to seek training at Marine Corps Aviation Schools to gain needed skills. Contact details provided for the Joliet Recruiting Office at the post office or by phone.
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Marine Corps
Marine Aviation
United States Marine Corps
Gennery
Charles W. Gamm
Joliet
Gamm
Marine Corps Recruiting Office
Vernon Voss completes lineman course in overhead construction
Vernon Voss of 112 S Ottawa St has completed a lineman course in overhead construction with Commonwealth Edison Co. The program covered installing and maintaining power lines and related safety practices.
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Vernon Voss
Ottawa
Commonwealth Edison Co
Union School District 81 Tax Referendum Saturday
District 81 voters decide Saturday on tax increases to boost the Education fund from $1.07 to $1.28 and the building fund from $18.75 to $0.25. Polls run noon to 7 pm at the Joliet school building on Cherry Hill and Spencer Roads. Union School PTA urges a Yes vote for better education.
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Union School District
Board of Education
Cherry Hill Rd
Spencer Rd
Joliet
Union School Pta
NIU Reading Course to Begin at Joliet Junior College
NIU extension offers Reading Interests of Children starting Sept 23 at 6 30 p m at Joliet Junior College taught by John F Bradbury. The Lib Sci 305 course provides three semester hours of undergraduate credit and covers selecting and using library materials for children including illustrators folk legends poetry biography and informational books and fiction. Information on applying for NIU extension enrollment is available.
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Northern, Illinois University
Joliet Junior College
John F. Bradbury
Blackhawk District Roundtable Set for Sept 1 at Valley View
Blackhawk District hosts a Cub Roundtable September 1 at 7 30 p m at Valley View School Hamp ton Park with the theme Magic Words presented by Chaney School Pack 14 Grace Methodist Church Pack 18 Community Club of District 96 Packs 20 and 22 Holy Family Parish Pack 27 and Westminster Presbyterian Pack 29. Ray Vollmer directs the Cub program while Jack Powell leads the Boy Scout segment Map It meeting the same time. Commissioners and wives gather Saturday at 6 30 p m at Ken Bressler’s Mokena home for an annual steak fry bringing steaks and a dish to pass.
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Cub
Chaney School
Grace Methodist Church
Community Club of District 96
Holy Family Parish
Westminster Presbyterian
Ray Vollmer
Jack Powell
Boy Scout
Blackhawk District
Ken Bressler
Mokena
Completes Sales Course at Ford Institute in Chicago
Bob Redfern of Joliet Motor Sales has just completed a truck selling course at Ford's Chicago Marketing Institute directed by Dr Joseph Clettenberg of DeKalb MI. Inquiries ask if applicant attended NIU courses. tuition is 9 per semester hour for Illinois residents and 23 for non residents.
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Bob Redfern
Joliet Motor Sales
Scott
Cass Sts
Ford
Chicago Marketing Institute
Joseph Clettenberg
DeKalb
NIU
Illinois
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JTHS
Jolly Club
Silver Cross
Emma Welch
Joliet St
Rosa Henderson
Gould St
Second Baptist Church
George Sprange
Ate
62Nd County
United Crusade
James Wright
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co
Robert Herschbach
United Crusade of
Will County
Crusade
Blackhawk
Valley View School
Hampton Park
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