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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1958
Page
1
City Manager Chester Lewis announced plans for a new guild works building for Joliet to begin in 30 to 60 days. The structure, estimated at 1000000, would house most city departments except police and fire. Downtown police and fire stalls plans are paused pending new proposals for districts and county routes.
Holy week observances announced for Catholic and Protestant churches with noonday services in Ottawa Street Methodist Church and a three hour Good Friday program. Bishop McNamara and Catholic clergy lead Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday rites at St Raymond's Cathedral Joliet. Easter services set at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Newly elected Will County Bar officers took over at a Woodruff hotel luncheon led by incoming president Francis P. Kelly. The group outlined a medical legal dinner on April 10 and a May 1 Law Day observance with help from the American Medical and American Bar associations. A future committee will study local legal industry costs and income while noting shifts in tasks to accountants, real estate professionals and others.
Volunteers mobilized for the April Cancer Crusade at a luncheon in Ottawa Street Methodist church. Guest speaker Harry Arthur Brinkman of Hinsdale told about 50 workers that cancer is the vicious enemy of mankind. Last year the disease killed 145 in Will county, 121 in Joliet.
Joliet receives approval to reserve 500 low rent housing units after the Economics Research Agency survey found 3644 units without running water and 2988 lacking private baths. The study, conducted ten years prior, warned conditions had worsened since then.
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