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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1941
Page
5
Mr Gustaf Lindstrom of 203 Lincoln Street celebrated his 80th birthday with an open house for forty friends and relatives. The event ran from two to five in the afternoon with ice cream cake and coffee served. The photo shows him cutting the cake with his wife and sons watching.
Elwood ordnance plant will begin hiring women for the fuse and booster assembly department. Sanderson & Porter officials announced the hiring start for Monday with work possibly starting in that area a week or two later.
About 1,000 women applied for employment and roughly half passed the special aptitude tests. The first hires will come from those who passed and be notified by mail. Work conditions are said to be ideal with a fair wage, and hiring will continue toward 3,000 employees in the fuse and booster department.
The Mason Bell Ringers of Los Angeles led by the Rev and Mrs Bernard Mason perform sacred music at Gospel Temple auditorium Chicago and Clinton streets. They use Swiss hand bells musical glasses singing saw vibra harp triple octave chimes and the Theremin in a fifth concert tour stop with no admission charge.
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