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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1958
Page
2
Three doses needed for full protection. George Bartling, 1958 Will County March of Dimes chair, warns about 25 000 residents under 40 without polio vaccine and urges wider vaccination as the January campaign begins.
Teens join a Saturday 8 30 to 11 38 polio drive event at Joliet Township High School gym. JT Swing Band provides music. admission is 1 dollar per couple. Adults welcome. tickets from Southern Fried Donut locations. William E Fay in Warm Springs dedication of new polio center facilities.
Joliet discussion centers on replacing the personnel ordinance with Civil Service for city employees to allow access to courts in disputes. City Manager Lewis and City Attorney Bartley prepared the code and working agreements for public notice. Union leaders attacked the code as militaristic while police and fire unions warned of potential coverage under new rules.
Detectives Gerald Fitzgerald and Lawrence Ruddy recovered a stolen car within 40 minutes after Robert Kolodzieg reported the theft at 10 30 p m. The driver James M Thomas 18 and accomplice Kenneth Minnick 17 were caught after a chase in the 1700 block of E Cass street with Sgt Jerome Kren and Officers LeRoy Everson John Walsh and Lester Jungels assisting.
Anna M. Wyman 36 of route 3 Treasure Island and Trailer Court died after her car collided on snow slick Route 6 one mile south of Joliet New Year eve. Husband Joseph 36 and Edwin Dempsey 49 were involved in the crash. Dempsey cited for wrong lane. Loretta Dempsey 43 injured. Wyman left with three children Gary Joe 13 Joanne 10 Jane Ellen 3. Continued on Page 47.
Mayor James P. Hennessy plans to urge an ordinance banning explosives laden waterway craft in downtown Joliet. The proposal targets the adjacent waterway near the business district to prevent a possible holocaust from an inflammable liquid blast.
The Che Spectator publishes weekly county news and social notes from Joliet area, listing staff notes and local happenings. This issue dated January 2 1958 features community notices and brief items from the Che Spectator staff.
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