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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Feb 1938, p. 5

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Chief of Police Cloyd C. McGuire attended a mieeting of North Shore and northwestern' suburban police, chiefs held at the North Shore hotel, Evanston, Tuesday, called jointly by Chief McGuire: and Chief of Police William O. Freeman of Evanston, for the. purpose of promoting doser co-operation among the police de- partments in the area. Among other things. on the ýpro- gram is' a system of teltype comn- munication' which will permit -of in- stantaneous transmission of messages f rom one departmnent to ail of the *other departments. For example, if a burglary occurs in Wilmette,, al of the, known facts relating- to the case aie, typed out on the teletype machine, and.aire instantly. trans- mitdand written on identical: machines in. ail the other, depart- ments on thesystem. *Attendiing the conference were heads of the cdepartmnents of nvans- ton, Wilmette, Highland Park, High- *wood, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Ken- osha (Wis.), Lincolnwood, Nules Center, Des Plaines, Park Ridge, Glenview, Mount Prospect and Nules. Village Board Adjusts Bond Situation Here At an adjourned ineeting of the -Village board Tuesdaynight, an or- dinance was passed prsoviding for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the Village in the amount of $57,- 000, for the purpose of retiring pub- lic benefit bonds amounting to $56,- $19.34, which, with interest thereon up to March, 1,> 1938, total $57,084.53. It. was explained that' the public *beneifit" bonds outstanding represent judgments entered in the County Court of Cook county, on account of local improvements 'on special as-, the' moiey apart and for the, pw aepartnern, and of the wi orphans of deceased membc fire department. Thé The Rev. J. JH. Gockel, pastor ol. St. John's .Lutheran chitrch; Wil-, mette, announces a series of Leni en even - ng1 services to be, held at the church pet Wednesday, and Thurs- days beginning March 2 and con- tinuing through the. Lenten sea- son. He invites ail interested vil- lagers to attend these servi ces.. Sckool Officiais IVill IAttend Two EducationI Meetings During Week School officials and teachers from north shore villages will attend the meetings this week of the Progressive Education association in New York and the National Education associa- tion in Atlantic City. of .both oéri erintendent Kenilworth. ewise -ai zat ion s rier L ýbb Harper 0' ttend sessions as will Sup- Nygaard of A, large 'delegation is going froen Winnetka, ýheaded by Superintendent Carleton W. Wasliburne. With himý also will be S. R. Logan, principal of Skokîe school, Miss Marion Cars- well, principal of Hubbard, Woods eý ing Lent at 8 o'clock. On Asti Wedc- * 1 nesday evening, Mardi 2, the first e day of Lent, holy communion will bc administered' at the service. New. Trier -bas won ail but, two of its debates thuls far this season, while winning four. Other opponents have been -Lane. and Clark-High schools. Four: members of the team, Clif- ford Goodman, 'Dick Lehmian,. Bob Magtthews,. and Bob ýGruhu, aret mem- bers of theNational Forensic lIeague, whose. chapter at New Trier was founded. in 1906. 1Other miembers of tbe debate team are: Wilcox . Hodgkins, Marshall Regen,. Clarenice* Hubbard, Pete Oliver, 'Herbert Steinberger, Joe Graf, and George Yetter. Chester E.MacLean of the school faculty is the coach. GUESTSý FROM INDIANA Dr. and Mr.s. L. E. Penberthy of 1524 Wilmette avenue recently bad -a their hotisegrezsts, ftittids frôfh Indianapolis, who were here for the Dental convention held last week in Chicago. pu~blic schools of Chicago and ite of Illinois were moved up eek as heavy artillery .to .6. y' the forces of Governor Henry mer in bis Democratic party against the KÇelly-Nash. ma- cine. 'The- outward, evidences did flot seem. to loom very big to people'at' large,, but. to those i n the know spe- cial -significance. attached to the .__ drainatic Miing of ,thé petition of. Frank A. Jensen of La Salle,'for the, Post, of state superintendent of,1 pub- lic instruction. Here are the principal angles of importance: 1. Mr. Jensen is, to oppose the pres- ent incumbent John Wieland, . who *has 'the «support of -the Kellyv-Nash forces, and, in turn, is .expected to. reciprocate. DPowntat. -F.ud 2. There is a, feud between Gov- ernor m.Horner and Superintendent Wieland because of his affiliation, but also on the count tbat Wieland did not help the governor in his ef- forts to establsh a state'board of eclucation for Illinois. 31 This alléged blocking in turn is (Continued on page 46) Single Feature Policy Lauded __by New Trier Township Women Metflodist church, was eltci presi- dent of the association. He will suc- ceed the Rev. 'David R. Kabele who kas been president for the past two years. The Protestant Ministers' a s- sociation is an organization designed to instill greater cooperat ion. among the churches of the village and to show a united front on 7111 the moral issues w'hich face the village, it is ex- plained. CLASSIFIED ýSECTION preentngasau vAper2imenIt, a single feature picture the week beginnmng this Friday, was voiced yesterday by members of better film councils and parent-teacher organizations in New Trier township. The film to be .shown, it was an- nounced, is Paramount's "Wells- Fargo," starring Joel McCrea, Fran- tces Dee, and Bob Burns, depicting the growth of the western part of thIe United States. --"W -heÎeas, t-he double f ature novie involves long sitting indoors, latp eve- ning heurs, eye strain, and thet~ing (Contiuued 'on page 7)

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