Controversy Over Hand-Picked Slates for Joliet City Posts
A public critic denounces the plan by the better government league and the association of commerce to nominate a curated slate of Joliet city councilors and a mayor. The piece argues against elitist control, warns of self‑interest, and questions Dr. Rogers and an engineer’s motives in a sanitary district proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association of Commerce
Better Government League
Joliet
Jim Bell
Voliet
John Rogers
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Joliet Firemen Raise 3304 For Muscular Dystrophy
Joliet firemen collected 3304.24 during a four day campaign last week for the Muscular Dystrophy Association funds. Fireman Ed Peters announced the total and thanked the public for their generosity.
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Joliet
Ed Peters
Peters
Judge Approves Five Adoptions on Holy Day
Judge John C. Cowing presided over a rare adoption day approving five cases in county court. He noted adoption totals rarely reach five in a month and suggested Immaculate Conception Day may inspire Catholic couples to adopt on the holy day.
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John C. Cowing
Joliet Woman Files for Separation from Chicagoan Husband
A Joliet resident filed suit in Cook County Superior Court seeking separate maintenance and support from her husband Tyrell and Glasser are listed as the attorneys. The complaint alleges abandonment in 1933 when their children were aged 5 to 10 and that $15 000 to $20 000 was taken. Moore is described as a multimillionaire with roles in Central Motor Freight, American Trucking, and a Chicago bank directorship. The wife resides with a son in Joliet while other children live in Washington Park Forest and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Joliet
Tyrell and Glasser
N. LaSalle Street
Chicago
Chester G. Moore
Adelaide Moore
Linden Avenue
Moore
Central Motor Freight Association
American Trucking Association
Central National Bank
Cooperative Building Corporation
N. Astor Street
Gold Coast
Africa
Congo
Lemont Refinery News Printed for Pure Oil Employees
The Lemont refinery of Pure Oil will publish a quarterly staff magazine named Lemont Refinery News. J. W. Lawson announces the new employee activity paper. John R. Minzing of Joliet is editor, a Notre Dame journalism graduate who edited a newspaper for the 9th air force in Germany.
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Lemont Refinery
Pure Oil Company
J. W. Lawson
Lemont Refinery News
John R. Minzing
Joliet
Minzing
Notre Dame University
9Th Air Force
Germany
Lemont
Fuel Oil Stolen From Barrel Beside Home
Stewart Miles reports 20 gallons of fuel oil stolen from a barrel beside his home on Des Ptaines Street Tuesday night. Local police are investigating the theft and reviewing nearby surveillance footage.
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Stewart Miles
N. Desptaines Street
Real estate officers installed at Joliet convention
Three Will county judges from Joliet attend the Illinois Association of Real Estate Boards convention in Joliet with Judge John C. Cowing to speak on juvenile justice. Dominic A. Romano is to be installed as state president with Oliver Moore as Joliet group president. Other Joliet officers include Harold Relyea Joseph Wilhelm Anthony Samios Lewis Hogan Ray Speciman and Kenneth Johnson. Ralph W. Gwinn guest speaker at a 6 30 p m hotel event drawing realty leaders from across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plan Realty
Illinois Association of Real Estate Boards
Dominic A. Romano
Oliver Moore
Joliet-Will
Arthur J. Stevens
Louis Joliet
Will County
Chicago
State Judges Association
John C. Cowing
Colorado Springs
Colo
Joliet
James V. Bartley
Stewart C. Hutchison
Vera M. Binks
Springfield
State Department of Registration and Education
State
Joliet- Will County
Harold Relyea
Joseph Wilhelms
Anthony Samios
Romano
Lewis Hogan
Decatur
Ray O. Speciman
Kankakee
Kenneth Johnson
East St. Louis
Typewriter Stolen From Dr C Seudieri Office
Dr C Seudieri reported a portable Underwood typewriter was stolen yesterday from the waiting room of his office at 813 West Jefferson Street. The machine is valued at $56.
Will County Christmas seal sale nears $35000 goal
Will County Tuberculosis Association reports $20108.36 raised toward its $35000 target as 27,000 sale cards were mailed. The 50th anniversary of the association coincides with progress in TB control, with Saranac sanitarium closing to TB patients and hospitals expanding care and early detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will County Tuberculosis Association
Saranac
N. Y
U.S
Voluntary Tuberculosis Association
Will County Association
Gordon L. Richards
Robert L. Matthews
Will County
Safety engineers meet in Peoria December twenty first
The Central Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers will hold its monthly meeting at the Elks club 110% N Madison Ave Peoria starting 6 30 p m. Don Hanson will present a traffic safety talk and the group will view Caterpillar Tractor company 16 mm color sound film The Perfect Crime.
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Central Illinois
American Society of Safety Engineers
Peoria
Elks Club
Madison Avenue
Don Hanson
Hanson
Catertpillar Tractor Company
Plan study of world trade in local area
In early 1955 the Joliet League of Women Voters will survey Will county industries to assess how world trade affects the community through exports and imports. Mrs. Mac Chesney of Evanston outlined U S foreign trade issues from the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act to the Reciprocal Trade extensions and urged a national policy shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet League of Women
Will County
League
Brunson MacChesney
Evanston
Universalist
Elizabeth Barns
MacChesney
A. H. Jackson
Bernard Singer
Voters Service
John Elway
Woman Fractures Collarbone After Sterling Hebbard Crash
Joan Aschenbrenner was admitted to Silver Cross hospital with a fractured left clavicle after a two car collision at Sterling and Hebbard streets. Raymond Johnson, 313 N Briggs street, initially suffered no injuries but later returned for treatment of abrasions to the right shoulder and neck muscles before being released.
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Sterling
Hebbard
Joan Aschenbrenner
Silver Cross Hospital
Raymond Johnson
N. Briggs Street
Puncture Injures Mrs Kuzma in City Accident
Mrs Peter Kuzma age 50 of 455 North Scott Street suffered a palm puncture yesterday. She required two sutures and was taken to St Joseph's Hospital for treatment.
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Peter Kuzma
Scott Street
St. Joseph’s Hospital
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William R. McCabe
Jolietan
Refinery To Print Magazine
TB Group
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