City Officials Plan New Municipal Building
Mayor William A. Hennessy will push a plan for a new municipal building housing the police department and fire headquarters on city property at Ottawa Street and Crowley Avenue. He favors separate police and fire facilities and would fund the project by selling the current fire engine house and police station for about 125000, avoiding borrowing. The plan would use city property and avoid buying a central lot, with page six continuation noted.
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Fire Department
William A. Hennessy
Theity
Ottawa Street
Crowley Avenue
Hennessy
Prize winner Nicholas Green earns chemistry scholastic medal
Nicholas Green a De La Salle high school student tops the Mississipp valley provincial exams in chemistry with 99 percent. The report lists many local names and snippets from daily life, including updates on sports, weather, and public notices, all in a classic small town newspaper voice.
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Nicholas Green
de la Salle High School
Mississippi Valley
Green
Tennis Champion Helen Austin to Wed Joseph Pickering
Announcement from Mr and Mrs John M Austin of 113 Lincoln Street reveals their daughter Helen Austin, a longtime tennis champion, will marry Joseph R Pickering, son of Mrs J Pickering of 807 Second Avenue. The notice appears in a local society column with continued details on page twenty three.
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John M. Austin
Lincoln Street
Helen
Joseph R. Pickering
Park Board Withholds Airport Lease Control In Joliet
Joliet Park Board votes to keep the municipal airport under board management and reject leasing or renting to private individuals after the resignation of airport chairman Don Mateer. Arthur Chester had been proposed to oversee the half million dollar facility. The move follows editorials and public opinion favoring direct board control.
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Joliet
Park Board
Don Mateer
Arthur Chester
Altho
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Spectator
Nowell Park
Woodruff
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