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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1958
Page
1
Mayor James P. Hennessy urges a spring election on employing civil service for most city workers. Council factions split with Labor opposing and a councilman warning against civil service, citing fear of power concentrated in a city manager.
City council failed to rescind approval of an east side housing site yesterday but is expected to bless the Joliet Housing Authority project at Monday’s meeting. The area is bounded by Eastern avenue Irving Franklin and Liberty streets. The authority is under contract with the city for the next years and proceeding with other units at a cost of a million dollars.
Project supervisor James Roppa reports hard ground on the east side interceptor sewer ditch along Washington street. Workers cut through up to 27 feet of solid rock as the ditch runs 15 to 34 feet deep and blasting removes six to seven loads daily, slowing progress amid traffic and nearby homes. Spectator Photo.
Postmaster J. Walter Lowrey of Joliet warns that new rates take effect tomorrow for regular first class letters four cents per ounce and air mail seven cents per ounce. Air mail stamps four and seven cents and postal cards three and five cents are available, with substitutions using old stamps shown. Stamped envelopes in four and seven cent denominations are also stocked.
Mayor James P. Hennessy ordered City Manager Chester B. Lewis to provide immediate relief to residents of a flooded area known as Alann drive and Delmar avenue. Engineers call the drainage correction an impossible situation as heavy rains keep water filling basements and lowering home values.
Postmaster J Walter Lowrey presents new 4 cent stamps bearing Lincoln for first class letters replacing Miss Liberty. Mrs Estelle Powers of Lemont receives stamps and learns about 3 cent semety stamps, with Lowrey explaining the transition details.
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