Joliet Parade Marks Winners and Marchers in Holiday Float Event
The 70,000 view loop parade featured top prizes for the two orphanages and St. Patrick's church entry. The Exchange club float carried a creche centerpiece with a flood light from Grate Sign company. Parade marshal was George Shepley of the Marine corps reserve, with Major Hennessy as honorary marshal.
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St. Patrick's Church
Exchange Club
George Shepley
Marine Corps Reserve
Hennessy
Grate Sign Company
Joliet Township
Christian Family Movement
Our Savior Lutheran Church
Joliet Junior Chamber of Commerce
St. Francis Academy Parents Association
Catholic High School
Boston
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Pershing School
Lions Club
Providence High School
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Theodore Street Lutheran Church
C&o
Kiwanis Club
Bethe Baptist Church
St. Francis Alumnae Association
Will County Home Bureau
First Evangelical Covenant Church
Faith Lutheran Church
Mastic Tile Corporation
First Baptist Church
Knights of Columbus
Ottawa Street Methodist Church
Catholic
Hufford
Gompers
Laraway and Chaney
Bridge Repair Plans On File In Illinois River Project
Elgin Jelief and Eastern railway seeks to remove a channel pier protection on a bridge across the Illinois River at Divine and replace it with a concrete filled steel sheet piling cell. The U S Army Engineer District Chicago published details for public inspection at 475 Merchandise Mart building Chicago 54. Protests must reach Army Engineers by December.
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Elgin
Jelief and Eastern Railway
Ilinois River
Divine
U. S. Army Engineer District
Chicago
Corps of Engineers Officce
Merchandise Mart
Army Engineers
Dec
Fire damages multiple shops in Lidice shopping block
A morning blaze at the Straka Cleaners branch on Theodore Street and Raynor Avenue, possibly sparked by a torch, caused extensive damage to several firms in the Lidice block. The Straka unit and an adjoining apartment were gutted, with nearby Lidice Food Mart and several other businesses damaged by fire, smoke, and water. Fire crews from Lockport and Joliet controlled the blaze.
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Straka Cleaners
Lidice
Theodore Street
Raynor Avenue
Dominic A. Romano
Straka
Louis Moroni
Thomas Malnar
Lidice Food Mart
Lidice Variety Store
Romano
Joseph Belom
Robert Donald
Betty Martin
License plates go on sale Monday in Illinois
Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier announced that motor vehicle license plates will begin mailing Monday and be sold over the counter in Chicago and Springfield. Plates must be displayed by February 15.
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Chicago
Springfield
Charles F. Carpentier
Leather hobbyists craft with hands on tools and flair
Ed and Jackie Pavey of Joliet share a long standing leather hobby from their home. They emphasize flaws reveal authenticity and advise buyers to spot machine stamping and doctored hides. They and other crafters follow trade journals from Texas noting live oak hides and live trends in hand tooled purses belts and saddles.
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Ed Pavey
Siegmund Street
Joliet
Paveys
Jackie
Texas
Mexico
Three car crash injures child on West Cass Street
A three car collision on West Cass Street near the waterway bridge injured 3 year old Renede Mathis and led to an arrest ticket for driver Clarice Nemanich 39 of 907 Bartheime Avenue after police said brakes failed. The Mathis car struck by Nemanich was pushed into a third car driven by Stanley Hylek 37 of 807 Davis Avenue. the child received a mouth laceration at St Joseph hospital.
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West Cass Street
Waterway Bridge
Renede Mathis
Margerite Mathis
Lemont
Clarice Nemanich
Bartheme Avenue
St. Joseph Hospital
State Won’t Oppose Diana Allen Release From Prison
Masters said prosecutors do not judge rehabilitation and will respect the parole board. Diana Allen, scheduled for December parole board review, was committed as a teen for a Ridgewood murder with insanity ruling and later discharged from Elgin State Hospital in 1956. She then faced a Kane County sentence of one to 20 years after a 1956 Lockport robbery netted $29.
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Diana Allen
Masters
Parole Board
Miss Allen
Illinois Parole Board
Ridgewood
Charles “Snookie” Johnson
Elgin State Hospital
Kane County
Lockport
Tow Abandoned Car Towed After Standby on Route 66
Deputies Wayne Thornburg and Sherman Davis were alerted by U S Rubber plant guard Harry Martin about an abandoned vehicle parked for two days on Route 66 a half mile north of Kankakee River Drive. The car was towed to a public garage for safekeeping.
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Sheriff's Police
Route 66
Kankakee River Drive
Wayne Thornburg
Sherman Davis
U. S. Rubber Company
Harry Martin
Five Chicago youths held for investigation after car stop
Five Chicago youths were held at the city police station after officers stopped a car on East Jackson Street at 3 30 this morning. The driver could not prove ownership of the vehicle and lacked a driver's license. A knife with a five inch blade was found on a youth who said he carried it for protection.
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Chicago
City
East Jackson Street
Robert May
Richard Chizmark
May
Auto Insurance Rates Rise Under State Directive
Auto insurance rates Increased today after a decision by Joseph S. Gerber Winds insurance director. brokers expect about a 30 percent rise in bodily injury rates and proportional increases in property damage. Chicago quotes show 34.5 percent for bodily injury and 14.3 percent for property damage as firms push for higher rates to cover rising accident costs and injuries.
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Joseph S. Gerber
Winds Insurance
Chicago
National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters
Car Crash Injures Two On Kankakee River Drive
Two people were injured at about 4 a.m. when a car left the curve on Kankakee river drive and struck a tree. Driver Warren H. Davenport 34 of Wilmington's Dee's trailer court and passenger Vance Davenport 30 of the same area were involved. Neither was hospitalized. Charles Cantone and John Egan were passengers.
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Kankakee River
Warren H. Davenport
Dee’s Trailer Court
Wilmington
Vance Davenport
Charles Cantone
John Egan
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Baskin's Lot
Blaze Hits Shop Center
Santa
James P. Hennessy
Santa Claus
Jackie Pavey
the Spectator
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
The
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Illinois
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