Report highlights serious inadequacies in Joliet grade schools
A Joliet school district study shows overcrowded classrooms, basements and temporary spaces used as classrooms, with many buildings dating before 1900 and limited play space. The Sept. 24 referendum will seek tax rate and bond approval to fund improvements.
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Joliet
Century of Progress Ex
Citizens’ Advisory Council
District 86
McKinley Park School
Pershing
Taft
Forest Park
Marycrest
Reedswood
Washington
Vance Cummins
Advisory Council
Trizna Praises Officers in Robbery Arrest
Police Chief Joseph R. Trizna commends Patrolmen Loscheider and Theodore Wolff for excellent police work and devotion to duty in the arrest of armed robbery suspect Donald Scroggins. The officers stopped Scroggins’ car for a minor traffic violation and linked him to the robbery. Loscheider and Wolff are new department members.
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Joseph R. Trizna
Loscheider
Theodore Wolff
Donald Scroggins
Scroggins
Wolff
Strikes and Campaigns Roil National Headlines
The Pennsylvanian Railroad wage strike halts operations across its 10 000 mile system affecting 20 000 workers. Congress adjourns early freeing Kennedy Johnson for three to four Kennedy Nixon debates with networks lined up for Sept 26 and Oct 21 in Chicago. Allied planes fly into Berlin despite a Communist ban amid Soviet air activity. Maurice H Halperin, once a US intelligence officer, seeks renewal of his Moscow citizenship under current law.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania R.R
Berlin
Germany
Washington
State Department
Maurice H. Halperin
Moscow
Joliet Students See Puerto Rico Trip Foreshadow 51st State Interest
Barbara Lenz and Scott Chaney, Joliet Township High School graduates, returned from a two month Latin string congress in Puerto Rico attended by U S and international youth. They toured San German and met Pablo Casals. The trip funded by the musicians union and Joliet groups aimed to foster string talent for future symphonies.
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Barbara Lenz
Marquette
Scott Chaney
Glenwood
Puerto Rico
U. S
Chaney
Pablo Casals
San Juan
Moci
Musicians’ Union
U.S
Italy
Chile
Panama
Canada
Miss Lenz
Robert Lenz
William Chaney
Joliet Township High School
Illinois Wesleyan
Drake University
Joliet to Adopt Seven-Figure Telephone Numbers
Joliet area customers will receive seven-figure numbers as the Joliet West dial building becomes operational early next year. Ed ward Bennett, telephone manager, cites rapid growth and code shortages as the driver. Existing prefixes will translate to all figures, with mail notices and a new directory listing guiding customers before the changeover.
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Joliet
Joliet West
Edward Bennett
Bennett
Joliet West Dial
Joliet West Area
Grateful Sandersons rally after July fire and aid drive
A mother of 12 thanks donors who rescued her family after a July 22 fire destroyed their home. Six children will start school with new shirts, others get clothing and supplies. a Lions dance Sept 10 funds a new home. Father works as a Caterpillar welder, home to be erected with proceeds. Oldest 18, youngest 2 months.
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William Sanderson
Golf
Sandersons
New Lenox Lions Club
Caterpillar Co
Golf Rd
Lions Club
Goodings Grove
Roy Pfeifer
Don Weinlund
Sanderson
Joliet
New Lenox
Lincoln-Way seeks referendum to raise educational fund tax
Lincoln-Way High School in New Lenox plans a Sept 17 vote on a 13 cent educational fund tax increase from 86 to 99 cents per $100 of valuation and a 3 cent transport tax rise from 2 to 5 cents. The district expects 800 students and projects $400,562 from the education tax, with transportation costs about $33,000 annually.
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New Lenox
Lincoln-Way High School
Second burned-out family aided after Joliet fire
Neighbors shelter 12 members of the Major Milan family after a blaze at 216 S Joliet. Milan, a Sacred Heart church employee, saved kitchen gear for three infants. Red Cross groceries and shoe plans, Salvation Army furniture help, and clothing drive coordinated to outfit six schoolchildren as the family seeks a new home.
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Milan
S. Joliet
Sacred Heart Church
Red Cross
Home Service
Salvation Army
Braxton Home
Class matter filed at Joliet Post Office in 1940
A notice records a class matter entered October 1, 1940 at the Joliet Illinois Post Office under the act of March 8 1897. The entry reflects a formal filing in the postal system during that era.
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Joliet
Illinois
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Rehn
Thompson
Keith
Raynor Park
Trizna
Congress
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Lincoln-way
Educational Fund
Echo I Timetable
Echo I
Mizon
Che Spectator
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
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