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Highland Park Press, 16 May 1946, p. 1

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Program at Lincoin School Sunday ‘The program planned by the Linâ€" coln school PTA for May 8 and postponed because of lightâ€" ing restrictions, will be presented Friday evening, May 17, at 7:30. rect the program, which will show the progress of our children in various skills such as folk dancing, relays, stunts and _ tumbling, marching and military tactics, and regular monthly meeting on W -g-!-y.,lqa.!n&pq:yo:: wiler, executive viceâ€"president of Abbott Laboratories, who held a position as colonel in chemical warâ€" fare service during the war, and, as such, made a trip to the Euroâ€" pean war zone, heading three sepaâ€" rate investigating teams to learn what Germany had in the way of chemicals, for the information of the Allies. Women‘s Auxiliary lowing which luncheon was served by Mrs. George O. Strecker‘s comâ€" foot Indian tribe, who talked on the traditions, habits and customs of his race. Engaging, forceful, wit. ty and magnetic, he gave a full evening of fine entertainment, at one time startling a very young lady exceedingly by drafting her in the hospital were made and a To Kiwanians were royally enterâ€" tained on Monday evening by Mr. Charles Eagle Plume, of the Blackâ€" dance. It is a privilege to hear Charles Eagle Plume. From Mr. Bert Leech, H.P.â€"723, we have information that he can still accommodate several gardenâ€" ers on the southside of West Park avenue. This is very fine garden land and should be used to the Dr. Ernest Volwiler of food everywhere are the rule rather than the exception. There are also three or four plots of land in the Moseley road section. Mr. Edward A. Dostalek, the captain, can be reached at H. P. 954. COMMITTEE FOR FOOD AND GARDENS. There is still time to start a Vicâ€" tory garden. Capt. Klingler reâ€" ports a few plots left on the south side of Clavey road. His telephone few plots on the north side. Mr. Dudley Hall, HP. 356, is the capâ€" Another presentation will be made by the Highland Park post Admission will be free, and evâ€" eryone is cordially invited to atâ€" tend this rally to honor General Wainwright. & Victory Gardeners former instructor at West Point, Major General Frank Parker. Maj. Gen. Parker was at one time commander of the Sixth Corps Students of Elm Place school will present a memento to the general who graduated from Elm Place himself in 1897. Bataan and Corregidor, will be inâ€" troduced by his close friend and wright will be the guest of honor at a mass meeting to be held this coming Sunday, May 19, in the Eim Place school auditorium. Because General Wainwright must leave Highland Park at 7:30 to fulfill previous engagements, the meeting here will begin promptly at 6:15 p.m. in charge of the meeting. Wainwright Rally Will Start at 6:15 p.m. Sunday Mr. Vincent Viesbicke will diâ€" The Woman‘s auxiliary of the General Wainwright, hero Mayor Joseph Garnett will be 36; No. 12 N. Clausen, Coâ€"ordinator. H. P. 3759. â€"_The Higbland Park Press Volâ€" of Rotary Club to Hear Tak on Dictetics . tion of America. The meeting of the Lions club on the 16th will be the attendance contest payoff. ‘The members will Mu'n:hfl;h'h% for a 7;30 dinner.. Lion M mer‘s winning team in the recent tenâ€"weeks‘ attendance contest will ‘hmduanhhko’-hn. _ Attendance contests like the one being celebrated . tonight (Thursâ€" day) are annual events in cooperâ€" ation with Lions International. This year‘s struggle was a nipâ€"andâ€" tuck tussle, a fight all the way, with both captains determined to win. â€" Mort‘s Snorts nosed â€" out lbh}‘-p-fllby.-lnrdn, ly known lecturer on Dietetics, will speak on "The Joy of Eats," at the next meeting of the Rotary club, Monday, at 12:15, at Sunset Valley club. e Members lacking transportation to Wheeling are to meet at Art Olâ€" son‘s at 7:00 p.m. Highland Park, _ Winnetka and Glencoe and putting them to use as souvenirs. This is a very bad practice, for several different reasons. First, these signs are the property of are considered necessary to conâ€" venience and safety 7 serving signs _ like this in the rooms of their progeny will see that they are turned over at once to the proper authorities. Lions Club Pays Off On Attendance Contest found. Second, in these times the signs are expensive and often not replacable. . Third, in removâ€" ing the signs, these boys are addâ€" ing to the hazards of driving, for ease, and make a running front dive from the diving board. Be able to swim at least one length of the pool using these strokes â€" crawl, breast, and overâ€"arm back stroke. Class time will be devoted to improvement of form and the development of speed and endurâ€" ance in the standard swimming strokes. Instruction in the fundaâ€" mentals of life saving and water. safety will also be given. % appearing street signs was solved this week by Officer Harry Rogan, who apprehended seven culprits. These boys have been helping Instructors â€" Mr. R. Kendig and Mr. Danakas will be in charge of the classes. They will have asâ€" sistant instructors whrking with W. F. Einbecker is director of the summer school. Souvenir Hunters Are Apprehended by Police _ Classes â€" (1) Beginners â€" limâ€" ited to 25 pupils per class. Secâ€" tion A â€" from 7 years to 7th grade; section B â€" 7th and 8th grade and high school. (2) Inâ€" termediate â€" limited to 30 puâ€" pils per class. Section A â€" from 7 years to 7th grade; section Bâ€" 7th and 8th grade and high school. Entrance requirement â€" ability to swim one length of pool with ease and dive or jump into deep water. Class time will be devoted to teaching the correct form in the crawl, back, breast, and side strokes. (3) Advanced â€" limitâ€" ed to 30 pupils per class. Open to any age ‘through high school, providing the pupil can meet enâ€" trance requirements. Entrance reâ€" quirement â€" ability to swim 100 yards (five lengths of pool) with Periods are one hour long. and laundered by the school. Only school suits may be worn. Girls are to wear bathing caps. * ‘ Fees â€" Seven dollars tuition for class instruction twice a week for eight weeks. No refunds will Suits and towels will be furnished Registration â€" June 14 and 15 (9 to 4 Friday, 9 to 12 Saturday). Summer term â€"â€" June 17 to It is trusted that parents © obâ€" The mystery of persistently disâ€" Dinner will be followed by movâ€" ies, a magic act by E. V. Clarke, viceâ€"president of the club, and the presentation of certificates for let. tered jackets to the young boxers. Parents of the boys are invited to attend the presentation ceremony, which will start at 8 p.m. The awards will be made by Mel Mulâ€" linse athletic director and coach of the club; Eb Inman, Joe Tazâ€" ioli and Charles Zahnle, coaches. Highlight of the evening will be the appearance of Jack Elder, secâ€" retary of #the Illinois _ Athletic comml.toi:who will give an inâ€" teresting on . "Boxing and Sports for Boys." Elder is noted as one of.Notre Dame university‘s most _ famed _ allâ€"time football ‘stars, as ‘well as the player who made the longest run in football history. Rabbi Shulman To Be Speaker Memorial Day _ The speaker will be introduced by Comdr. Edwin Gilroy. _ Mayor Pinunt t dag feports the Ne utes + m _.Members of Highland Park post 145 and their friends are looking forward to the bingo party and ’Mbhwwm May 18, at 8 o‘clock, in the Legion elub rooms, 21 N. Sheridan. Chairâ€" man Chris Matthiesen announced that nylon stockings will be inâ€" eluded in the valuable bingo and door prizes. Tickets can be purâ€" chased at the door or from Legion members. Funds raised will go into veterans welfare work. Rabbi Shulman, who recently returned from serving three years in the Navy as Lt. Comdr. Jewish chaplain of the 7th fleet, will deâ€" liver an address at the Memorial * As a fundâ€"raising project, the club members have been selling tickets on a set of golf clubs durâ€" ing the past several weeks. The clubs will be awarded Saturday x'. and the name of the winner next week. Legion Post Bingo Party and Dance winner of the Illinoisâ€" Athletic club‘s Tenth Dirtrict boxing tourâ€" nament. Ministers of allâ€"denominations, as well as all other interested citiâ€" zens, Jew or Gentile, are invited to attend theâ€" meeting. There will be no solicitation of funds. The organizations sponsoring this meeting are Men‘s club of North _ Shore _ Temple, _ B‘nei B‘raith, ORT, Hadassah, Zionists and Jewish congress. Highland Park Community cenâ€" ter on Saturday, starting at 6:30 p.m., will officially close this year‘s very successful season for the Highland Park Boys‘ Boxing club, BOXERS END SEASON WITH BANQUET _ _ Entertainment and a banquet at Gerald Frank, whose material appears in over 100 newspapers in the United States, will also speak. Mr. Frank accompanied the Anâ€" gloâ€"American Inquiry committee, appointed by President Truman to investigate the situation, to all cenâ€" ters of inquiry. Beginning in Washington, D.C., and ending in Jerusalem he traveled over half the globe . The primary object of this group was to. study the problem _ of resettling homeless Jews of Europe. Palestine was the committee‘s choice of a place of refuge for these homeless people, with ‘the recommendationâ€"that 1,â€" 000,000 Jews be allowed to make this their home. The findings of this committee, released after a thorough study of the situation, will be thoroughly analyzed at the meeting of the 28th, with. all its pro sand con phases. x remnants of six million Jews, left destitute and homeless by the war, with no future to look forward to. Congressman Coffee will disâ€" cuss the Jewish problem of Euâ€" rope, ‘which has to do with the people of Europe. Rabbi Shulman speakers will be Congressman John North Shore Temple Â¥ Tuesday, May 28 Gerald Frank, eminent foreign news correspondent. Glencoe, Tuesday, . 8:15, to discuss the Preventable accidents take a A meeting will be held at the Highland Park, lHlinois, Thursday, May 16, 1946 meet next Tuesday, May 21, at the home of Mrs. Lois Haller at 290 Marshman. _ Tuberculosis service in Lake county will be the subâ€" Community Holds Aâ€"I&&ga The annual meeting of the High. be held Thursday, May 23, in the Highland Park Community centef â€" check your accident." mlaeheuhfihv&hflrmd by a police officer will be checkâ€" ed for safety requirements or deâ€" at 8 p.m. Legion to Award Life Membership Pin to General Wainwright On Sunday, at the meeting honâ€" oring General Wainwright, a reâ€" ception committee from the Highâ€" land Park American Legion, conâ€" sisting of Comdr. Zipoy, Eugene Singer, Harry Aiston and Henry Hansen, the 10th district chaplain fects, and the owner warne cautioned concerning them. A publicity chain has been startâ€" ed by five people, who called ten people each, by telephone, ex plaining the project, and asking each to call five more people, reâ€" minding them to make their donaâ€" tions. Posters are being displayed at all railroad stations. COMMUNITY PLAYERS DONATE FUNDS Proceeds from the production "George and Margaret" will go toâ€" ward â€" the . drive, according to Chairman Ben Bruce of the Comâ€" munity Players. â€" Highland Park is conforming to the national program of accident prevention, being observed May 15 to 22. The slogan in this drive is "Check your car â€" check your HEALTH COMMITTEE TO MEET ON TUESDAY of the American Legion, will preâ€" sent General Wainwright with a diamond â€" studded pin, representâ€" ing a life membership in the Leâ€" the Highland Park Ngws and Alice Zabel of the Highland Park Press. Awards to the winners will be preâ€" sented to the schools by Mayor Joseph B. Garnett. _ Barrels will be placed at all the schools to receive donations. Each school child is asked to assume responsibility of collecting from his or her own family and from two other families not sending children to the schools. In order to further interest the children, each child in cach grade in each school will take part in a written contest. This will consist of a message of greeting to the chilâ€" dren of the countries to receive the foods. Each teacher will seâ€" lect the best message from her from her room, and these winning letters will be presented to a comâ€" mittee which will: in turn select the best one from each grade. The committee of judges will consist of Betty Karger, of the Waukegan Newsâ€"Sun, Emmy Lou Jackson, of This call for foods for people left starving and destitute by the war is being presented to the peoâ€" ple through the pulpits of the loâ€" cal churches, through the clubs and lodges, service clubs and the Chamber of Commerce by means of brief messages from persons apâ€" pointed for that duty, through the schools and by ‘telephone. SCHOOLS PLAY IMPORTANT PART Especially needed are tin cans of condensed mflk, meat, fish, peaâ€" nut butter, fruits, fruit juices, baâ€" by foods and soups. â€" Foods in glass containers cannot be accepted. PLANS FOR PUBLICITY The Jocal food drive, in behalf &u-munmu.b-.m« starving peoples of Europe and China, is now under way, headed by Mason Smith as general chairâ€" man. _ Assisting him are Gene Singer, viceâ€"chairman in charge of promotion and publicity; Frank 8. Wichman, viceâ€"chairman in charge of collections and shipâ€" ment; Martin Hart, treasurer, who will receive cash contributions at the local bank; and A. E. Wolters, Lester Ball and E. C. Reichert, representing the schools. CONTRIBUTIONS _‘ SOLICITED "Give â€" That They May Live" Is Slogan in Local Food Drive The Lay Health committee spon. red by the League of Women Important Job," is the title of the film that will be shown. All exâ€" pectant mothers are urged to atâ€" and treasurer. Maternal and Infant Classes at Center Maternal and infant care classes will be held on Thursday, May 16, at 1:15 pm., at the Community center, 549 Central, in Highland members of the North Suburban Philatelic society, exhibited their private stamp collections. â€" Sanâ€" born serves asâ€"adult leader of the junior group. | Judges at the show, who also are members of the North Suburban Philatelic society, were Sydney Graham, Arthur Brown, and Wilâ€" liam McCullough. ‘ urdays of each month in Highland Park Community center. Memâ€" bership is open to all Highland Park boys and girls. Officers for the present term are David Owen, The following subjects wvill be offered : Junior Stamp club meets at 2 p.m. the second and fourth Satâ€" English 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, (new and review) â€" Miss Palmâ€" An enthusiastic crowd of adults, including many stamp collectors, gathered at Highland Park Comâ€" munity _ center â€" Saturday afâ€" ternoon to view the first annual exhibit of the center‘s Junior Stamp club. A student may register for as many as three subjects if one or more review subjects areâ€" includâ€" ed. Classes are held in the mornâ€" ing only. Each class is 1% hours in length. . A fee of $10 will be charged for each subject. No tuiâ€" tion refunds will be made after Mathematics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (5 for seniors only) â€" Mr. Winkley. (Math. 1 and 3 review only) â€" Mr. Stunkel. United States History and Ecoâ€" nomics (new and review) Mr. Burâ€" well and Mr. Eiker. 4 European History â€" Mr. Eiker. Latin 1, 2, 3, 4 (review only) â€"Miss Joiner. _ : Typewriting 1, 2, 3, 4 (new and \l"ifl') _â€" Mr. Zipoy .and ~Mr. Héins. * * & Awards Made at Junior Stamp Exhibit awards, were presented to David Owen, whose stamp collection was displayed under glass frame, and to William B. Makelim, whose alâ€" bum of stamps was termed one of the finest they had ever seen by both judges and adult guests at the ter Ohlwein, and Robert ‘Wilson; red ribbons to Bruce Spencer, Phil. ip Dorough, Gene Wilson ‘and Bill Goldberg, and white to Raiph C. Harza, David Maxon and Norman bookkeeping, consumer mathematâ€" ics, and commercial arithmetic. David Marks, Ralph Wanger, Peâ€" As a special event of the show, Peter Keim and Charles Sanborn, \-cmwmmw will begin at 8 a.m. on Monday, June 17, and classes will begin on the same day. . The summer school is open to all students of the Deerfield â€" Shields Township high school. district. Teachers are drawn from the regular staffs of the Lake Forest and Highland Park high schools. Students from eleâ€" mentary schools within the district and students from high schools outside the district are also adâ€" mitted if they receive approval from the director of the summer school. . No new registratiops will be accepted after June 20, The summer school will last a full eight weeks, closing on August 9. Special arrangements can be made for other subjects such as Mr. 1946 Summer School At Highland Park High Starts Monday, June 17 Rev. Morrison Speaks at Legion Smoker May 23 Purple ribbons, special honor Blue ribbons were awarded to Mechanical Drawing â€" Mr. Shop_â€" Mr. Durbahn. Swimming â€" Mr.. Kendig Registration for summer Alvin Singer,â€"secretary Life‘s Most He adds _ that Highland Park feels. particularly honored by the appointment of the Msgr. Morriâ€" son whose prominence in church and civic affairs is well known. He received part of his education in France, attended St. Mary‘s semit nary in Baltimore, the Catholic uniâ€" versity of America in Washington, D.C., and was former personal repâ€" resentative of Cardinal Munâ€" delein, is governor of the Cathoâ€" lie Ch Extension iety and dn!hg“fiMp of the Holy Name cathedral was an important leader in both church and civic afâ€" meeting of all managers of high schoo! age softball teams â€" who mthnmtbdr:rh.-}' dommunity league summer The meeting will be held at the Community center on Monday evening, May 20, at 7:30. Al Danâ€" Plans â€"for the sammer league will be made and al} teams are urged to have a representative inch twilight men‘s softball league. '!.\.blnqu b.mth“-fln: league conducted year Sunset park. ‘The league sponâ€" ber of teams wanting to join :-hquhmobfi.m To Organize Softball League at Center :fl will be in charge of the meetâ€" 16â€"IN. MEN‘S SOFTBALL LEAGUE TO ORGANIZE Next week the Playground will announce the place and date of a team managers meeting for a 16â€" : At the 6:30 dinner meeting of the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce, ‘Tuesday evening at Sunset Valley club, the speaker was A. W. Conover, president and general manager of the North Shore Gas. Co., who used as his topic, "Business and the Outlook for the Future." Currently president of the Waukeganâ€"North Chicago Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Conover also serves as director of the Illincis State Chamber of Commerce. Durâ€" ing the war he served on the War Production board, © representing gas utility in the midwestern states, and also in the War Labor board as an industry member. â€" His stirring message, delivered in a forceful and humorous manâ€" ner, was of deep interest and enâ€" lightenment to business people. : Edwin L. Gilroy, chairman of the Legion speakers committee, states" that in keeping with the importance of this event and the opportunity it affords, invitations are being issued to city officials and the heads of all leading busiâ€" ness, fraternal and patriotic orâ€" ganizations in â€"the community :: well as the entire membership the Legion. T fairs in Chicago as y throughout the archdiocese. Mr. Gilroy concludes that the Legion takes especial pride in beâ€" ing able to present the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Morrison and the opportunâ€" ity of presenting a highly qualiâ€" fied speaker on a subject which today is of concern to all. The Rt. Rey. Msgr. Morrison will speak on "Some Phases of Inâ€" teracial _ Justice," a subject on }which he is expertly qualified to speak as Be has served for a numâ€" ber of years as representative of the archdiocese on the interâ€"racial relations committee "by appointâ€" ment of the Cardinal Archbishop and was for more than 17 years rector administrator of the Holy Name cathedral, Chicago, before assuming charge of Immaculate Conception church in Highland Park, in August, 1945. *> y Legion Smoker to be held in the Legion club rooms Thursday eveâ€" ning, May 23, will be an important climax to the series of monthly smokers which have been held durâ€" ing the season, . featuring imporâ€" tant personalities. American Legion announces that the guest appearance of the Rt. Commander Frank J. Zipoy of the Highland Park post of the 5¢ a copy; $1.50 a year

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