March of Dimes Campaign Boosts Polio Fight in Will County
Will county chapter launches the annual March of Dimes drive for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Fifty percent of funds stay locally to aid polio victims with hospital care, equipment, and transportation. the rest support national research. The campaign, led by Harold L. Patterson, lists executive and county chairmen across Plainfield Wilmington Crete Peotone Beecher Monee Fairmont Lockport Manhattan and Joliet Township schools.
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National Foundation For
Will County
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Harold L. Patterson
W. J. Hokenson
Harlow V. Green
John F. Carey
W. E. Fay
Millard Collins
W. J. Murdock
William D. Hickey
Gilman Dunn
E. B. Millner
C. J. Kellem
al Kumfert
Edward Relyea
Phelps Hotchkiss
Melville A. Gray
V. M Fornango
Sylvester Snee
O. Carm
Andrew Barber
George D. Green
Michael Schusner
Liquoriers Association
Jewett E. Ricker
Robert Holt
Charles Wallwork
J. L. Fifer
Lawrence Wilhelmi
Leslie Lewis
Gayle N. Hufford
Roosevelt Basler
Joliet Township
August Maue
Father Bonaventure
Rev. E. W. Fr
Call of the Wild club schedules evening meeting
The Call of the Wild club will meet at 7:30 tomorrow night in the YMCA dining room. A full program includes colored moving pictures and coffee and doughnuts. Committee members are Walter Geissler chairman Art McCrack Ernie Wunderlich Paul Onmak and Joe Becker. An outdoor show is planned for late March at the main gym replacing the fishermen dinner. The next meeting will be held late in February.
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Call of the Wild Club
YMCA
Walter Geissler
Art McCrack
Ernie Wunderlich
Paul Onmak
Joe Becker
Air Medal Second Oak Leaf Cluster Awarded to Lt John E Trotter
Second Lieut. John E. Trotter 23, a combat cargo squadron pilot with the 10th air force in Burma, receives his second oak leaf cluster to the air medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is the son of Mrs Helen B Trotter of Joliet and is a Joliet Township High School and Joliet Junior College alumnus.
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John E. Trotter
10Th Air Force
Burma
Helen B. Trotter
Second Avenue
Joliet Township
Joliet
Armed Forces
Confraternity Meeting at St Marys Church Sunday
The scapular confraternity of St Marys Catholic Church will meet Sunday afternoon at 2 39 o clock in the parish hall. On Sunday January 28 the group will receive communion at the 8 o clock mass.
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church
State convention invites Will County Sportsmen members
All members of the Will County Sportsmen's league are invited to attend the state convention in Springfield on March 27 and 28. Those wishing to go should notify Ray Becker, who will arrange reservations. At the convention one or two delegates from each district will be chosen to speak.
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Will County Sportsmen's League
Springfield
Ray Becker
Rites Held for Kenneth L. Singleton Fire Victim
Funeral services for Kenneth L. Singleton 43 a former Lockport Joliet resident who died in the General Clark Hotel fire in Chicago Tuesday morning will be at 11 tomorrow. Burial is in Lockport cemetery. Survived by daughter Lois Mary and sister Mrs. Lois Byron. Navy veteran of World War I.
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Kenneth L. Singleton
Lockport
Joliet
Chicago
Lois Byron
Lois Mary
Navy
Funeral Rites Held for Albert W Astbury
Albert W Astbury died of a heart attack Tuesday morning at 320 N Eastern avenue. Funeral services conducted this afternoon at Sonntag Funeral home by Rev A A Bauman. He worked at Carnegie-Illinois Steel mill as scale inspector before retirement. Survived by wife Eleanore two daughters Mrs Frank Cohan and Mrs Raymond Rang and son Albert J Detroit.
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Albert W. Astbury
Eastern Avenue
Sonntag Funeral Home
A. A. Bauman
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Mill
Eleanore
Frank Cohan
Raymond Rang
Albert J
Detroit
Public Health Nursing Day Observed in Joliet
Joliet observes Public Health Nursing Day on Friday January 26 as part of a nationwide observance. The week’s slogan promotes awareness of the public health nurse and her role.
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Joliet
Postal notice from Jo Daviess area 1940
A clipped notice shows a U. S. Post Office filing from Jo Illinois with October 1 1940 as entry date under the 1940 act. The fragment references second class matter and postal act provisions.
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Illinois
Obituary notices for Attaway and Clarkson
Carl D Attaway 46 of 535 Scrib ner street died this morning at St Josephs hospital after a short illness He worked 15 years at Farrell Manufacturing He is survived by wife Es lie a son Alvin five daughters and two brothers and four sisters Funeral services at First Lutheran church Saturday at 130 Rev John Goeken to officiate Harry Clarkson 50 died Tuesday night Funeral services Saturday at 112 from Range Funeral home Rev T Moore King to officiate with burial at Elmhurst Survived by wife Hattie and eight children two in service Born in Charleston Missouri he lived here about 20 years
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Carl D. Attaway
Scribner
Elsie
Alvin
Louis Gaeske
Bernice
Marjorie
Betty
Norma
Do Jores
George
Samuel
E. J. Porter
Joliet
Nellie Brooks
W. M. McHugh
Albert Boyce
Detroit
First Lutheran Church
John Goeken
Harry Clarkson
Range Funeral Home
T. Moore King
Elmhurst
Clarkson
S. Desplaines Street
Navy Yards
Charleston
Hattie
Local Serviceman Returns After 27 Months Overseas
Home from the Pacific arrives today or tomorrow T/4 Martin A. Faynik of 118 Central Avenue Rockdale spent 27 months overseas with the engineers corps in the Asiatic Pacific area.
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Martin A. Faynik
Central Avenue
Rockdale
Engineers Corps
Asiatic-Pacific
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