Chicago plan to take over Joliet sanitation fuels tax clash
An editorial urges Joliet and Will County taxpayers to oppose Dr. James Rogers and back a Chicago Metropolitan area sanitary plan. Governor Stratton may push legislation to enable flood control and pollution cleanup, arguing taxed Joliet area residents would pay little. The piece calls for defeating the Rogers plan at the January 29 vote to avoid heavy new taxes and criticizes local traffic police red tape.
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Will County
James Rogers
Joliet
Chicago
Chicago Sanitary District
Desplaines Valley
Stratton
Hickory
Rogers
Board of Supervisors
Cowing
Joliet Post Office Weekend Hours Announced
The Joliet post office will be open Saturday 7 30 a m to 4 p m and Sunday 10 a m to 4 p m Postmaster Walter Lowery urges air mail postage for Christmas cards to distant points and air parcel post for Christmas packages at this late date.
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Joliet
Walter Lowery
Air Parcel Post
Peo
Whalen backs Joliet area water and sewer plan
Joliet water commissioner Joseph F. Whalen endorsed a regional water and sewer program for the Chicago metropolitan area as an economical approach to supply and flood control. Mayor Arthur Janke opposed the plan favoring community self sufficiency. Both oppose a Des Plaines Valley Sanitary District proposal up for a January 29 vote.
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Joseph F. Whalen
Joliet
Whalen
Lake Michigan
Arthur O. Janke
Janke
Desplaines Valley
Polio Drive Early Givers Double Previous Year
William Cunningham reports initial gifts in the March of Dimes polio drive are well ahead of last year as volunteers distribute cards. George F. Bartling notes $216,000 spent on 428 victims over 16 years and gamma globulin doses reaching 1,000, urging continued generosity to fund a new vaccine next year.
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William Cunningham
Advanced Gifts
Cunningham
George F. Bartling
Will County
Bartling
School principals seek state aid deficiency measure
Ten county school principals and Supt. Verne Cracker met in the courthouse to discuss formulas for covering a 12 percent deficiency in state aid grants this year. Joliet grade schools face a $26,000 shortfall, and administrators urge the legislature to pass a deficiency appropriation when it convenes next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verne E. Cracker
Joliet
Post Office Christmas Help Prompt Mailbox Checks
Residents with many Christmas cards are asked to hang a shopping bag or place a carton on the porch to signal mail. Names on mailboxes and visible house numbers help prevent misdelivery amid extra post office staff through the holiday season.
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Ple
Toys top 1953 as 1954 drive ends in Joliet
Joliet's ninth automatic weapons battery of the marine corps announced it has surpassed the 1953 Toys for Toys total and needs more toys to reach the 10 000 goal. Today is the last day to donate new or usable toys and calls to 2 8313 will arrange pickup.
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Joliet
Marine Corps
Injury at Rockdale mill injures Edward Snedic
Edward Snedic 39 of 205 Doris Avenue Rockdale injured his left wrist yesterday while working at the American Steel and Wire mill.
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Edward Snedic
Doris Avenue
Rockdale
American Steel and
Major shopping center rises at Marycrest West Jefferson
Ground breaking for a 27 store center on West Jefferson street at Hammes avenue marks the Marycrest development. Romy Hammes and A L Jauron of Hammes Enterprises described a 15 acre site with 1,700 parking spaces, housing Piggly Wiggly and other stores planned to expand the residential Marycrest subdivision.
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Marycrest
West
Jefferson Street
Hammes Avenue
Romy Hammes
Hammes
Hammes Enterprises
A. L. Jauron
Louis Joliet Hotel
West Jefferson
RB. J. and FE
Spence
Boputh
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Danny Dans
William R. McCabe
Santa Claus
Santa
Bobby Spivey
S. Desplaines Street
Diane Burde
Singer Avenue
Lemont
Tommy Bucenski
Davis Street
Lockport
Boston
Toyland Spectator
Toys
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Orville Belfield
Donald Austin
Collins Street
John W. Stecher
Stanhope
Stecher
Collins and
Cass Streets
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