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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1957
Page
2
About 30 merchants signaled willingness to join the Joliet Association of Commerce return trip bus token refund plan. John Chapman executive assistant said this week about 200 letters explained the concept and intentions behind the plan.
Mev expresses gratification as Joliet outlines a three month pilot to ease downtown traffic. At least 50 merchants must join, offering shoppers tokens for purchases of 3 and 5 dollars. Tokens issued on bus rides Wednesdays and Fridays with tickets date stamped. Banks and exchanges supply tokens. public radio and press to announce.
Detectives Ruddy and Fitzgerald returned two 16 year old youths to Joliet after apprehending them in a stolen car in Du Page county. The pair Robert Patrick Eagle and Billy Ray Raines admitted abandoning that vehicle and taking another from a Joliet used car lot near Aurora. Police note both have prior juvenile records.
Several people injured in morning crash on Route 6 near 179th Street. Irene Dallari and Ernest Dallari of Haverhill Massachusetts, Emma McCabe of Massachusetts, Lars Noury 14 of Massachusetts, James Boucher of 101 N Broadway injured. In a second crash on Route 45 near Peotone Norman Rusher 25 of Kankakee injured. Willie Bernard Jr 34 of Kankakee cited by patrolman Paul Fenara.
The Joliet Township High School Adult Education division resumes the Your World Today series with seven film lectures two lectures and one dance program beginning Sept 25 at 8 p m in the high school auditorium. Notable speakers include Georgetown professor on The Great Revolution for Freedom Oct 9 Sam Campbell Oct 16 Reginald Laubin Oct 23 Douglas Cater Nov 9 Noel Douglas Nov 20 James Metcalf Dec 4 Lt Col Arnold M Manhs Jan 29 John Goddard Jan 29 and Albert Lavastida Feb 19 with topics ranging from Canada to Coast to South Pacific Adventure and Mysterious Yucatan Season admissions are Four dollars for adults two dollars fifty cents for students Single admissions are one dollar for adults and fifty cents for students Registration available by mail or at room 286, Joliet Township High School.
Mack Street remains a mess 48 hours after paving as a curing process precedes a top coat. If the calendar holds, work could finish in early October and allow use by Oct 1. Residents fear sabotage and protest curb extensions reducing Mack and Mason avenues, with cost impacts and driveway reshaping. Joliet Street is set to open this weekend after delays from March 1.
A plan provides retirement support under $121 monthly with the carrier covering the rest at no cost to employees. Signatory unions include locomotive engineers and conductors, brakemen, firemen, enginemen, maintenance of way, carmen, boilermakers, blacksmiths, telegraphers, clerks, electrical workers, machinists, sheet metal workers, signalmen, oilers, dispatchers and patrolmen.
Donald J. Smith of Bennett Industries Peotone says a man calling himself Miller offered 100 and then 20 cents per pound for brass. After weighing a loaded truck the stranger vanished with 164 dollars worth of metal. A license plate tied to an East St. Louis woman is the only lead as Sheriff Doerfler seeks help.
Firemen under Chief Harold Rasmussen and Capt Edwin J Burke map plans for Fire Prevention Week. A hospital patient mock evacuation will involve nurses from Silver Cross and St Joseph hospitals. Ten thousand circulars will be distributed to businesses, schools, churches, and public halls. Fire drills will occur in public and parochial schools with Burke timing calls. Nurses will learn to operate extinguishers and move bed patients to safety. Factories will be inspected for fire hazards.
Warden Joseph E. Ragen will host his annual chicken fry at the Stateville Honor farm starting at 5 30 p m. Local residents are invited to attend and meet the warden during the event featuring farm scenes and community fellowship.
Production of explosives at Joliet Arsenal Kankakee unit operated by U S Rubber will end by September 30 and lines will go on standby. Employment will fall from about 1,000 to 500 by year end with 250 U S Rubber workers retained to maintain facilities. DuPont ran plant until 1944 when U S Rubber took over. The closure matches Army plan to close 16 facilities this fiscal year.
Colonel Samuel W. Parnelle Jr. announced that the Joliet Elwood unit will cut 200 workers in early October reducing staff from 1423 to 1223. The layoffs stem from revised artillery shell production schedules and changing requirements.
Orville Shaw 67 of Joliet had over $1000 saved in Waterman Illinois bank. He rode with acquaintance Joe Doyle to withdraw the money and later woke in a Joliet tavern minus 1054.40 dollars. Police seek Doyle who bought a used car soon after the disappearance.
E B Workman probate clerk of Will County to chair the Joliet Will County Community Chest Campaign division. Campaign official Al Smiles announced the 1957 drive aims to raise funds for 17 organizations serving youth health and welfare. Opening meeting at Woodruff hotel set for Thursday with duties assigned to township chairmen and a large executive committee.
An unidentified motorist struck two cornfields Tuesday night damaging crops. Farmer Fred Homan of Monée estimates losses at $200 and reports the incident occurred in his fields.
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