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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1945
Page
5
The Slovak Culture club will hold its eighth annual Slovak day celebration at Rivals park Sunday. Co chairmen Vincent Kalnik and Joseph Skorupa lead a brief afternoon program with games and refreshments.
Corp. William L. Petty, 21, son of Mrs. Gertrude Betty Petty of 415 Marion Street, earns the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in combat on the 6th Army front in the Italian campaign. A radio operator with the 85th Mountain Infantry Regt, 10th Mountain Division, he joined a combat patrol to establish liaison despite enemy fire, carrying a radio and keeping contact with battalion HQ.
A swarm of about 10 000 honeybees settled on a car owned by C E Horton in Joliet after noon Sunday on N Chicago Street. Officers Fallinske and Brelin removed the swarm and placed it in a box with help from Martin Chuby.
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