City Council Faces Recall Amid Labor Backlash
City Manager Chester Be wis leads a contested personnel ordinance backed by Councilmen Flint Bell and Wilson provoking labor anger over funds transfers. A union official says a recall petition could trigger a new city election before January 1 if about 10 percent of votes cast sign. Potential resignations and new faces loom as rumors swirl.
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Chester Bewis
Flint, Bell and
Wilson
Bell
Labor Movement
Ted Flint
Reunion of war torn family at St Thaddeus Church
Separated for 17 years by Russian and German regimes a Polish father Daniels Ciperas 60 and his son Valentine 37 reunite in Joliet for Christmas with grandson Richard 11 after years of miscommunication and Red Cross efforts. They share seven languages and plan a quiet Mass at St Thaddeus Church.
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St. Thaddeous Church
Daniels Ciperas
Russia
Germany
Valentine
Joliet
Siberia
Daniels
Argentina
Poland
Butzbach
International Red Cross
Richard
Parks Avenue
Christmas reunion in Joliet for three refugees
Daniels, a Polish air force veteran, shares a small Joliet home with two companions as they rebuild lives after years of displacement. They study at the Illinois Institute of Technology, add gyro instruments to their library, and await naturalization while music binds them. Christmas Eve prayers cap a 17 year dream of peace.
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Siberia
England
Royal Air Force
America
Daniels
Joliet
Caterpillar
Illinois Institute of Technology
Valentine’s
Buenos Aires
Altho
Lilli Marlene
St. Thaddeus Church
Christmas Dinner Feeds 20 Tons at Joliet Stateville
At Joliet Stateville penitentiary the Christmas dinner will feature oven fried chicken with sage dressing and a homey menu. The meal will require 5 000 pounds of chicken and large quantities of potatoes peas and cranberry sauce with 78 pounds of coffee and 2 000 pounds of pumpkin for pies. Warden Joseph E Ragen announced the plan with Harry E Dowden overseeing dietary details.
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Joliet- Stateville
Illinois State Penitentiary
Joseph E. Ragen
Joliet
Stateville
Harry E Dowden
Turkey Dinner Planned for Jail Inmates on Christmas
Sheriff Roy Doerffler announced that about 20 inmates confined at the county jail will receive a turkey dinner with all the trimmings on Christmas Day.
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Roy Doerffler
Illinois Bell clerks to hold party at Joliet Moose Hall
Attractive co chairmen Miss Grace Sandal and Miss Virginia Margraf prepare for a Saturday night event in Joliet. Dinner at 7 p m will be followed by dancing and entertainment. Illinois Bell personnel and friends are invited to attend.
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Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Joliet Moose Hall
Grace Sandal
Virginia Margraf
Illinois Bell
Joliet Post Office Open Saturday For Peak Mail Load
The Joliet post office will stay open Saturday until 4 p m to handle packages as mail volume runs heavy. About 100 extra clerks assist the regular staff and all out-of-town mail should go special delivery air mail while in-state mail uses special delivery to ensure pre Christmas delivery. The office closes at noon on December 24 to allow employees Christmas Eve time at home.
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Joliet
J. Walter Lowrey
Lowrey
Lewis Center Plans Communication Course at Lewis College
Lewis college industrial relations center launches its first course on individual and group communication skills. A conference discussion group meets Tuesdays at 7 30 p m at the Louis Joliet hotel from Feb 4 to Apr 8. Joseph J. Garvey directs. center links to University of Chicago center.
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Lewis College
Industrial Relations Center
Louis Joliet
Lewis
University of Chicago Industrial Relations Center
Joseph J. Garvey
Will County Tuberculosis Seal Sale Aids Research Drive
The Will County Tuberculosis Association reports 25291 dollars raised in the annual Christmas Seal sale to fund TB research and education. Illinois fundraisers support Northwestern University, University of Illinois, and University of Chicago research efforts as state cases rise five percent from 1956 to 1957.
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Will County
Illinois
Cooks County
Northwestern University
University of Illinois
University of Chicago
Illinois Public Health Department
Bishop Convalescing Misses Midnight Mass
Bishop McNamara is convalescing after a three week illness due to the flu. He will not officiate at the midnight mass on Christmas but will celebrate a low mass in his private chapel.
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McNamara
Forest Park Christmas tree lights lights tonight
Forest Park will glow as its Civic association lights the Christmas tree at the corner of Woodruff road and Draper avenue. John W. Shroba will officiate at 7 30 p m. Forest Park school children sing carols and tour the area before the tree lighting. The association hosts the party in the school gym with community singing led by Victor Karpaitis and his daughter Sharon on celeste.
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Forest Park
Woodruff Road
Draper Avenue
John W. Shroba
Forest Park School
Association
Victor Karpaitis
Sharon
Celeste
Christmas Homeward for Miss Chasing Bear From Fort Yates
Miss Chasing Bear a 24 year old Indian woman from Fort Yates N C travels to North Dakota for Christmas. She stays with her mother Mrs Aliades Bear and works at St Josephs Hospital in the lab learning new skills. Born with an unusual name she says Christmas feels the same as for non Indians and enjoys friendly mid west welcome. The relocation program of the Bureau of Indian Affairs brought a Cherokee man Dick Smith 27 from Pah-le-quah Oklahoma and a family group to Joliet recently.
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Christine Chasing Bear
Bureau of Indian Affairs
North Dakota
Miss Chasing Bear
Fort Yates
N. C
Mid-West
Juliet
St. Joseph’s Hospital
N. Broadway
Id - Seorself
Smith
Jones
Joliet
Morris Building
Dick Smith
Pahlequah
Oklo
Fred Chazaghs
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Kenneth Palmer
Roland Price
Robert Johnson
Clarence Allison
Paul Orasco
Lester Sapp
Richard Rodgers
Walter Lindstrom
Joseph Ott
Stanley Malnar
Raymond DeSalvo
William Koleen
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