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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1950
Page
3
The notice urges all citizens able to vote to participate and enjoy the polling experience. It promotes voting the blue ballot as a path to modernize the 1870 state constitution and upholds the duty and privilege of good citizenship.
A. W. Tarter, assistant managing director, is considered a leading candidate to replace John Y. Randolph as Joliet Association of Commerce director. Randolph plans to leave December 1 to become general manager of Corn Belt Hatcheries.
Mrs. Pearl Thompson, 68, died this morning at her daughter's home 413 Jefferson Street after a lingering illness. Survived by two daughters Clare Cos grove and Elmer Weber, a son James, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at Sonntag Funeral Home 221 Herkimer Street with Arthur W. Hoffman officiating. Burial Elmhurst Cemetery. Friends may call 7 to 10 p.m. this evening. Born March 11, 1882 in Idwood Illinois, longtime Joliet resident.
Meade Baltz announces the 1950 Community Chest dispersal totaling 173360.25, with 17 agencies receiving monthly one twelfth allocations. Agencies include Boy Scouts Catholic Charity and Home Bureau Catholic Youth organization and more, distributed over the year.
Auditors will examine Joliet city books later this month. The accounts are audited four times a year by the Allen R. Smart company of Chicago. A report on city finances will follow the audit.
One hundred ninety seven Joliet area youths will be sent to Chicago for induction or physical examinations by Will County selective service boards. Forty seven inductees departed from Union Station at 6 30 a m today and more groups are scheduled for Monday and Thursday with Red Cross volunteers providing coffee and doughnuts.
Anton Kauzlaric 82 of Coal City died yesterday at Seeley Nursing Home Joliet. A Yugoslavian immigrant who came to Coal City in 1895 he built a hardware store and blacksmith shop and remained active in business. Funeral from Reeves Funeral Home Coal City to Assumption Catholic Church 9 30 a m Saturday Rev James McDermott officiating Burial Mount Olivet Wilmington. Visitation 7 10 p m tonight and 5 7 p m tomorrow afternoon and 7 10 p m tomorrow evening.
In Joliet yesterday probate court named two administrators. Anna Soley was appointed administrator for the estate of Frank Orenic who died December 9 1947 leaving a personal property estate valued at $2000. William M Wright was appointed administrator for the estate of his son Harold W Wright who died March 12 with estate value yet to be determined.
A giant Armistice Day parade will march through downtown Joliet on November 11 led by Captain R. C. Carson. It features five bands from Joliet Township High and other schools, plus units from the American Legion, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, two National Guard units, city and county officials, and aerial escorts. The route runs Chicago and Jackson to Washington Joliet Jefferson Ottawa streets ending at Benton Ottawa, with a 10:45 a.m. start and a 10:59 a.m. halt for a moment of silence. A bomb salute will mark the observance, and Lewis School of Aeronautics will send planes over the parade.
Horace Heidt's Youth Opportunity radio program arrives at Joliet Township High School auditorium on February 4. The Joliet Lions Club sponsors the event with over 70 cast members, including local amateur winners, and tickets are limited. A talent scout will visit Joliet three weeks prior to the broadcast on WBBM Chicago.
Commissioner William Meade says no dogs from the coy pound were sold to laboratories during his three-year tenure. He notes dogs are held 24 hours to 10 days and, if unclaimed, gassed rather than sent to labs. He also disputes accusations about Dog Warden Frank Grein.
The Kankakee county board of supervisors approved Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline’s plan to drill 10 to 50 test holes on highway rights of way to evaluate a sandstone layer 1600 feet deep for underground natural gas storage. Drilling begins immediately to augment the firm’s 30 inch pipeline capacity from Texas gulf to Joliet and provide summer and winter gas supply.
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