Fairmont School Referendum Eyes $65,000 Bonds
Fairmont board of education district 89 votes Saturday on two measures to issue bonds totaling 65 000 and raise the tax rate to 1 16 per cent to fund repairs and 10 new classrooms. If rejected the district would keep half day sessions and risk state recognition and aid.
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Fairmont Board of Education
A. F. Hill
State Department of Education
State Department
Sible
State Building Commission
Exchange club honors Joliet members at luncheon
Joliet Exchange club honored charter members at a Tuesday luncheon. The club plans an April 15 100 percent attendance day to dedicate a new emergency ambulance and present it to the city with city and fire department officials in attendance. A spaghetti dinner is set for April 21 in St Marys church basement with service hours 11 am to 2 pm and 4 to 8 pm. Proceeds support community projects. The club marks its forty seventh anniversary and expects to be 12 years old on November.
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Joliet
Kenneth Farrington
A. ¥. Smiles
Fabian Ell
Daley to Speak at Will County Jackson Day Dinner
Mayor Daley headlines a Jackson Day dinner at the Woodruff Hotel under the Will County Democratic Central Committee tonight. A capacity crowd is expected and a few tickets remain available for purchase.
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Will County
Democratic Central Committee
Woodruff Hotel
Sack dress fashion divides Joliet men and women
Male observers scoff at the new chemise style for women while many women resist but some adopt the look. Patrons discuss Paris influences, hipless images, and the Charleston era. Parental reactions vary and local retailers await the trend’s durability as Joliet society weighs fashion versus practicality. The piece also notes a retirement party at the American Steel and Wire Joliet Works honoring retirement of Leamon and Ruth Willett after 71 years combined service.
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Chicago
Paris
Joliet
Charleston
Joliet Couple Retires After Sixty-Tone Years at Steel Plant
Leamon and Ruth Willett of Joliet retire March 31 after 71 years total with American Steel and Wire Joliet Works. Leamon served from 1918 to 1955 in roles including production records clerk Ruth began in 1927 and transferred to Joliet in 1941 becoming a calculating machine operator. They plan a Florida trip and a DeKalb home, and seek hobbies to fill retirement days.
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Florida
Joliet
South
Leamon
Ruth Willett
Richards Street
Willietts
Ruth
American Steel and Wire
DeKalb Works
Joliet Works
Ennis
Texas
Chicago
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League Aids Voters
League of Women Voters
Hufford
Robert Davis
Louis Fish
Peter Bruno
Martin Lewis
Bernard Singer
Pence Orr
Exchange Club
Mayor Daley
Nix Sacks
Papa
Ama Leamon
American Steel and Wire Division
U. S. Steel
Gordon G. Haffer
Neatus Wilson
DeKalb
Eas
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