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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1956
Page
3
The Joliet city council on human relations aims to improve living and working conditions for the Negro community. Members from both races are expected to correct hardships, promote employment in skilled and professional fields, and stress earned rights through responsibility. Housing, schools, and tax concerns are highlighted as ongoing challenges.
A long estrangement ends with the death of Happy, once a jovial machine operator known for jokes on his friend Dutch. For thirty years he withdrew from life, and his taunting death joke to Dutch becomes a sad final chapter as Dutch is found dead by hanging, leaving Happy altered and forgotten.
A Joliet Grade School board approved a pre set salary raise, despite a teachers committee seeking a revised schedule and faster action. The average rise is 413.53 per teacher with some receiving more and others none. The meeting at Washington school auditorium also announced new hires, retirements, an absenteeism rule change, and furnace repairs costing 10784.64 across several district schools.
Thirty two municipal bond houses show interest in an 80000?0 issue to fund Joliet Hickory Creek interceptor sewer. Bids due Monday with results tabulated by City Comptroller George Comerford. Council to award on July 6 sealing end to 50 year open sewer problem.
The American Steel and Wire company will spend about $200000 to comply with a state order to cease polluting the Des Plaines river. It will separate industrial wastes from sanitary sewage and continue using the east wall for cooling water. Joliet plant officials and council members discussed sewer payments and local improvements.
Officers Dick Todorovich and Richard Cronk pursued a car at speeds up to 110 mph starting near Larkin Road and Jefferson Street. The vehicle, driven by Robert A. Lauterbach, aged 24, was found parked on Stryker Avenue with Lauterbach denying the charge. his license matched the officers’ records and he was turned over to Rockdale police for running a stop sign.
Fragment mentions a Dutch who had made out life insurance policies in Happy's name suggesting a possible fraud or beneficiary issue. No other readable details provide dates places or identities.
Lockport township Highway Commissioner William Confer defended his road program as heavy rains delayed asphalt and noted his $59,000 debt at taking office. He said in three weeks he completed five weeks of work, ordered a canal bridge contract for about $36,000, and outlined funds for maintenance amid earlier bills and a $25,000 debt target.
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