Board approves sale of unused school property
The Joliet school board moved to sell surplus property including Babylon and Hillcrest after superintendent Dr. John W. English reported both as surplus. Low bidder All-Steel Equipment of Aurora supplied lockers for Washington Hufford and Gompers schools, aiding remodels and new facilities. The board also accepted a $32 PT A gift for special education wall mags, eyed bus additions for Hufford Junior High, and noted cafeterias at two new junior highs in operation.
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Babylon
Hillcrest
John W. English
All-Steel Equipment Company of
Aurora
Washington, Hufford and Gompers
Washington
Joliet Area
Nomics
Hufford
Gompers
Washington School
Butler
Hufford School
Plainfield votes on new grade schools plan in special referendum
Plainfield residents decide Saturday whether to approve a plan funded by the state revolving fund to rent two new grade schools on site of the current Plainfield High property and in Crystal Lawns. Critics fear walking routes on Route 30 and high traffic risk while board notes enrollment growth from 341 to 1045 since 1947 and supports scalable one-unit design. The referendum seeks about 6 percent rental fee. polling is at a single Plainfield location.
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Plainfield High School
Crystal Lawns
Foss
Verne Cracker
Cracker
Plainfield
Grade school hobby show opens Tuesday night
The ninth annual hobby show by the Joliet Grade School Band Parents Association opens Tuesday in the American Legion hall, Feb 18 through Feb 22, with doors 6 to 10 p.m. weekdays and noon to 10 p.m. Saturday. Attractions include fishing pools, radio station greetings to service members, crafts, movies, fashion shows, and student booths. Proceeds aid band activities and travel. tickets 50 cents adults 30 cents students.
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Joliet
Parents’ Association
American Legion Hall
Joliet Amateur Radio Society
Band Mothers Club
Jasper Litherland
Robert Ehrsman
William Wenger
George Hughes
Booths
Norman Keck
Marvin Jothen
William Trainor
V. N. Fornango
Jerome Cerny
Leroy Benson
Robert Ditten
Eli Orlovich
Virgil Hammon
Maurice Engelhardt
Eugene Walling
Louis Fletcher
Eldon Hoffman
John Barber
Bamd
Booth
Newmam Keck
Emmett Grewenig
Stanley Johnson
Utilities
Chaviex
Peters
Solsistis
Band Parents Association
American Legion
Merchants to hear Joliet Park and Shop plan
Joliet business leaders and government heads will hear William G. Barr of the National Parking Association discuss the proposed Joliet Park and Shop plan at a breakfast meeting next Wednesday.
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Joliet
William G. Barr
National Parking Association
Joliet Park
Child Beaten: 5 Year-Old Hospitalized in Joliet
A Joliet 5 year-old girl Victoria Gourneau is reported improving after severe head and limb injuries from beating by mother Elizabeth Gourneau at their Stevens Avenue home. The child was moved to Silver Cross hospital where doctors call her condition pitiful. Police plan further investigation with local Indian agent Rudolph Russell involved.
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Gourneau
Rudolph Russell
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Richard J. Barr
Barr
Illinois
University of Illinois
University of Wisconsin
U. S Air Force
NPR
Office of Defense Mobilization
Real Estate Research Corporation
Chicago
Chambers of Commerce
Bnet
Char
Monroe
Marne Ind
Burlington
N. J
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the People’s Newspaper
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