State to ask diagnostic center bids in Illinois Youth Commission project
Bids for the first units of the Illinois Youth Commission diagnostic and reception center are expected within 30 days. Two dormitories for 96 boys will open first at an estimated 450000 dollars. Plans for four dormitories were postponed due to costs. the Will county site was bought for 182025 dollars for buildings and grounds.
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Illinois Youth Commission
Robert D. Patton
Youth Commission
Will County
Adjustments promised for blast damage
Damages to more than 50 homes from blasting at the sewerage disposal plant will be adjusted quickly, promised by contracting firm S. N. Nielsen to City Manager Chester B. Lewis. The insurer was ordered to handle claims at once, with officials concerned over the delay and the expected completion of dynamiting this week. Roofs siding basements and plaster were damaged and residents seek settlements.
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Chester B. Lewis
S. N. Nielson Company
Lewis
Three Auto Crash Lawsuits Seek Damages Totaling 106000
Three suits filed with the circuit clerk seek damages from multiple defendants for auto crash injuries and a death. Harold P. Moxley seeks 50000, alleging injuries in a Aug 13 1955 collision on highway 54 near Monee. Ruth Frances Romines seeks 25000 for her husband Doyt Romines death in an Aug 17 1955 crash on route 54 north of Monee. Velma and Maurice Runyan seek 20000 for injuries in a collision on route 126 near Plainfield involving Marley J Wheeler Sr. and a tractor.
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Sis Harold P. Moxley
George Williams
James Koukas
Moxley
George Moseley
Highway 54
Monée
Williams
Koukas
Moseley
Monee
Ruth Frances Romines
Illinois Motor Freight Lines, Inc
Richard Goodrich
Romines
Doyt
Googrich
Velma
Maurice Runyan
Theodore R. Runyan
Marley J. Wheeler Sr
Wheeler
Route 126
Plainfield
Runyan
Maurice
Licenses Revoked for DUI and Injury Crash
The secretary of state revoked the driver's license of Otis McDonald 2114 Californ Avenue for driving while intoxicated and Vera Livingston of Braidwood for causing an injury accident.
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Secretary of State Today
Otis McDonald
Californ Avenue
Vera Livingston
Braidwood
Brophy suit against Joliet city dismissed in Ottawa court
Judge William Hibbs dismissed a $160000 suit by F J Brophy and Co over Joliet bond sale. The case argued whether the mayor had authority to sign and bind the city to a $3400000 bond issue for the sewage plant. Brophy plans an appeal within 90 days.
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Joliet
F. J. Brophy and Company
Municipal Bond Purchasers of
Chicago
William Hibbs
Ottawa
Paul Brumund
Brophy
Arthur O. Janke
Brophy Company
Will County
Brumund
James Bartley
Kieran O’gallagher
Francis E. Schlax
Joliet Catholic School Grads Total 1082 in 1956
The Joliet Chancery reports 1082 graduates from Joliet Catholic schools this year, including grammar and high schools and the College of St Francis and Lewis College. Lewis College awarded 67 degrees Sunday, with 22 women from St Francis, and 21 nurses from St Joseph's Nursing.
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Joliet
St. Patrick's School
St. John the Baptist
St. Joseph's
St. Mary's Carmelite
St. Mary’s Nativity
St. Bernard’s
SS. Cyril and Methodius
St. Thaddeus
St. Paul, the Apostle
Sacred Heart
St. Mary Magdalene
St. Joseph’s
Rockdale
Holy Cross
Guardian Angel Home
Suspect Arrested in Derby Tavern Beating
Police identified the suspect as Morgan Terrett, 36, of 301 E. Jackson St, who beat Betty Field, 29, of 112 W. Jefferson St, near the Derby tavern. Field was taken to St Joseph's Hospital with severe facial wounds after bystanders helped until officers arrived.
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Betty Field
W. Jefferson Street
Morgan Terrett
E. Jackson Street
City approves annexation for stadium site and armory
The Joliet city council unanimously adopted an ordinance annexing the Inwood golf course proposed armory site and the stadium. Mayor James P. Hennessy ensured the measure excludes the former county farm to be used as a reception depot by the Illinois Youth Commission. The mayor urged state action for Joliet including sewage abatement on Hickory Creek. An east side annexation faced Attorney Rupert C. Barnes’s objection to Elmhurst cemetery inclusion.
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Inwood
James P. Hennessy
Illinois Youth Commission
Joliet
Hickory Creek
Rupert C. Barnes
Elmhurst Cemetery
Hammond firm to build main on Black road
The Cliff Hammond excavating firm submitted the low bid of 21 905 dollars for the Black road water main from Barthelme avenue to Larkin road. The contract was awarded immediately by unanimous vote. D Andrea Construction won the Midland avenue six inch main job for 6 567 dollars, 3 dollars under Hammond.
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Low
Black Road
Barthelme Avenue
Larkin Road
Cliff Hammond
Hammond
D'Andrea Construction Company
Midland Avenue
Campbell
Glenwood
Second
Fourth Avenues
Hickory Creek
Glen C. Carlson
John Kubinski
Earl Herren
Plainfield
Tropical Paint Company
Hickory creek sewer project moves forward with bids
By unanimous vote the city council adopted a resolution to advertise for bids on an 800000 bond issue for the Hickory creek sanitary sewer. Plans and specs were accepted and bids sought, with construction not to start before July 30 after bonds are delivered.
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Hickory Creek
James P. Hennessy
Chester B. Lewis
Lewis
Lockport Man Eugene Fogarty Dies of Natural Causes
Eugene Fogarty 65 found dead at home 217 Hamilton Street Lockport from natural causes. Coroner Blood said Fogarty last seen Saturday. neighbor Andrew Wrobel noticed a light on and four days of newspapers. Police investigators Taskey Vincent and Alderman Devine found a broken screen door. no foul play suspected. He was born August 20 1890 in Odell lived in Lockport most of life. survived by son Donald four brothers a sister and two grandchildren. Funeral set for Miller Funeral Home 9 am tomorrow for St Joseph Church with interment at Cavalry Cemetery.
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Eugene Fogarty
Hamilton Street
Lockport
Wilard Blood
Fogarty
Andrew Wrobel
Jerome Taskey
William Vincent
Joseph Devine
Odell
Phillips Control Company
Lockport Moose 1557
Donald
Louis
Clarence
Dwight
John
Jerry
Chicago
Margaret Hadman
Pontiac, Mich
Miller Funeral Home
St. Joseph’s
Cavalry Cemetery
Petition filed to block new housing tract on South Desplaines
Twenty two families on South Desplaines street filed a petition with the city council to stop a proposed housing project. Spokesman Hosea Spinks and Jesse Craig objected that longtime residents face displacement and that nearby slum and vacant properties should be addressed. They will seek action from the housing authority and questioned how a census taker learned of the plan.
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South Desplaines Street
Hosea Spinks
S. Desplaines Street
Jesse Craig
S. Desplaines ‘Street
Spinks
Water Street
Craig
Housing Authority
Seniors at JTHS Observe Ivy Day Traditions
Joliet Township High School seniors participated in Ivy Day with Jeane Adkins as class orator Dom Raine as commencement speaker Joe Zalar as class poet and Joyce Glinz as ivy bearer. A baccalaureate service was held last night and joint commencement for high school and junior college is set for tomorrow at 8 p m in the combined gymnasiums.
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Joliet Township High School
Jeane Adkins
Dom Raine
Joe Zalar
Joyce Glinz
The Spectator Published in Joliet Illinois June 7 1956
The Spectator weekly paper edited by William R McCabe published every Thursday in Joliet Illinois with offices on 105 118 West Cass Street and post office registration dates from 1940 The June 7 1956 issue notes price 50 cents a month 237 delivered by carrier and back copies 10 cents
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Spectato
Cass Street
Joliet
Knots Telephone
Bates
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Joliet Catholic
Main
Police Protection
St. Joseph’s Post
The
American Legion
Hickory Street
Jefferson
Washington Streets
Palmer DeGuilid
Ottawa Street
Zoning Commission
Zonin
le Bar
Thomas H. Flint and Son Company
JTHS
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
Spectator Fishing Company
Illinois
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