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108 has announced plans for a referendum of the voters in Dist. 108 on propositions for the selecâ€" tion of a new school site and for the issuance of bonds for the purâ€" chase of the site and for additionâ€" al property at the Braeside and West Ridge schools. These propoâ€" sitions will be submitted to the SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL Briefly, the Board of Education, after its study, and the advice of the University of Chicago Survey staff, has decided on the following general program for the next Vol. 36; No. 13 Dist. 108 Plans Bond Issue And School Site Selection special series of bulletins in exâ€" planation of the proposed program, and a series of open public forâ€" umis have been held at the schools this month for explanation of the 1. Land shcald be purchased for a centrally located intermediâ€" ate school for grades six through eight, this building to be planned for later construction, and the proposal to be submitted to the voters at a later dute. This building, _ modern, _ completely equipped and with proper . bus transportation, would serve the needs of al} children in the 6, 7 and 8 grades of the district. 2. Three acres should be added to the present West Ridge school site, to take care of needs in the expected addition to be made to tion with the proposal for the conâ€" struction of a new intermediate school, a proposition would be submitted to the.yoters for the modernization of all four present schoo} buildings, and an addition to the West Ridge school. This proposal would contemplate comâ€" plete decoration, relighting, and organization "Of the buildings for use by children of kindergarten woters at a special election to be held on Saturday, May 25. The Board of Education has issued a through 5th grade. 5. At present, Ravinia, Braeside, and West Ridge schools are short of classroom space, and Lincoln is fast being used to capacity. . At present, desired educational proâ€" grams cannot be offered due to limitations in building space. PURPOSE OF NEW SITE During past years, Dist. 108 has added new sections to its old buildâ€" ings as a means of accommodating additional _ school _ enrollment. growth problems in the past, it apâ€" pears from an architectural point of view, and from an educational point of view, that this procedure Further, all study has indicated the educational advantages of a is no longer desirable. New adâ€" ditions to old buildings become exâ€" pensive, and cannot adequatiely be integrated into the éxisting school separate building for children of the 6, 7, 8 grades. With such a building, adequate libraries, shops, gymnssiums, â€" home _ economics rooms, visual education rooms, and the like can be available for all the children of the district. Under the present organization, it is necâ€" essary to duplicate these facilities each of the stresses the importance of a transâ€" itional unit between the grade school and the high school. Baseball Game Monday There will be no guest speaker at the meeting of the Kiwanis club nert Monday. Instead, a baseball ed from the ranks of the organizaâ€" In case of rain, it is rumored that there is a tentative substitute program lurking up somebody‘s DUNBAR CLUB PRESENTS PROGRAM ON JUNE 4 On Tuesday evening, June 4th, the Paul Laurence Dunbar club of the YWCA will present a program .!Ilqnm,olla-:',vfl a guest speaker. A of the life of Mr. Dunbar â€" as well as a group of his poems, will be preâ€" “h-fl-.dh-: Guests will be welcome at ‘The Board of Education of Dist. 4. At a later date, in (Continued on page 2) The Higbland Park Press > teaches sportsmanship â€" you learn to fight fair not only in the ring, but all through life," Jack Elder, secretary of the lllinois Athletic commission, and former football Young Boxers Are Honored at Banquet Park Boys‘ Boxing club when he appeared as guest speaker at the banquet given in honor of the boy boxers at Highland Park Communâ€" ity center Saturday night. Elder went on to say that "boxâ€" ing is one sport in which you must prove yourself for your individuâ€" ality. When you are in the ring you must stand in your own shoes, no one is there to help you. _A football player has 10 men beâ€" hind him, a baseball pitcher has stands alone." Following Elder‘s talk, the folâ€" lowing boxers who qualified for lettered jackets were presented with certificates to obtain jackets when they are available: Laurence Berube, Herbert Daâ€" vis, William Gerken, "Bunny" Boâ€" namarte, Richard Nugent, Robert Pizzato, Don Riddle, "Buddy" Robâ€" inson, Jimmy Weber, Frank Humâ€" Bob Weber, Ronald. Grostad and charge of Mel Mullins, athletic diâ€" rector of the club, and Coaches Eb Inman, Charles Zahnie and Joe Joe Tazioli, was witnessed by parâ€" ents of the young boxers. The afterâ€"dinner program conâ€" sisted of magic tricks by E. V. Clarke, viceâ€"president of the Highâ€" land Park Boys‘ Boxing club, and movies of the Joe Louisâ€"Buddy month, were won by Guy Grinnell of Libertyville, it has been anâ€" nounced by Mel Mullins. Series of Burglaries Committed by Youths The golf clubs, on which the club sold _ chances during the past been committed recently by local youths ranging in age from 12 to 17 years of age. Among the places burglaries are the North Shore Yacht club, the Lake Shore Golf club, the Green Bay school, the Moraine hotel and a series of othâ€" Baer fight, followed by a short depredations seems to be unusualâ€" ly well organized, instructions evâ€" en being given on the proper way in which to enter a place, etc. A systematized record of proceedâ€" ings was found in a book â€" which was of great assistancé to the poâ€" lice in rounding up the culprits. A truckâ€"load of loot has been recovâ€" ‘The guest speaker at the Lions club luncheon today, Thursday, at Sunset club, was Mr. Herbert M. Johnson, attorney for the Chicago case probably will be handed over to the juvenile court in Waukegan. Lions Hear Talk On Ghandi and Peace way, whose subject was "Ghandi and the Road to Peace." \ Two members of the Lions are at present in attendance at the conference of the Lions Internaâ€" tional, at Rock.Island, 1IL They are Fred Moon and Raymond J ELM PLACE PICNIC PLANNED FOR FRiDAY . ° _ Elm Place will hold its annual er permitting. Otherwise the fesâ€" ‘â€"7“77' MM‘- Lâ€"â€" will be the order of the day ‘The presentation ceremony, in Six or seven burglaries have A boxer Harold railâ€" Police Chief Reports On Traffic Check ing‘ conducted by the Highland Park police, 29 cars have been checked, of which 8 failed to meet requirements, Police Chief Anâ€" drews reports. ._ Motorists . whose cars barely met requirements of repairs made at once. Results of the program are very encouraging. . People have begun to realize that their cars must last for a long time yet and are c0â€" operating with the police in these spot inspections. There will be an organization meeting for a men‘s 16 inch twiâ€" light softball league at the Comâ€" munity center on Monday evening, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. The league for men 25 years of age and older will be a twiâ€" light one and most of the games will be played at Sunset park. when necessary. In this way hazâ€" ards of traffic are greatly reduced. This traffic safety check proâ€" gram being conducted by the High land Park police is a part of a natâ€" ional program in progress in all the states. Throughout the naâ€" tion drivers involved in traffic acâ€" cidents and violations are being checked for driver‘s license and registration tags, and cars given spot check safety checks. Last year a nationâ€"wide brake check program produced remarkaâ€" For this program to be comâ€" pletely successful, motorists should voluntarily take their cars to ‘reâ€" pair shops and have lights, brakes, horn, windshieldâ€"wipers and tires ble results. _ The traffic safety check program is on a much wider scale, and the reduction in numâ€" ber and severity of. accidents should be corresponding ly greater, Motor vehicle accidents in 1945 resulted in deaths to 28,500 Amerâ€" icans, and injury to 1,000,000 othâ€" ers. The traffic safety check is a means to prevent rapid increase in traffie accidents. wono MEN‘S 16 INCH The league is for town teams only and players in the league must either live or work in Highâ€" land Park. __Managers of teams. interested are urged to be at the meeting on June 3. Mr. Al Danakas of the Playground and Recreation board summer staff will ‘conduct the High school boys who have softâ€" ball teams and who wish to play in the Playground and Recreation board sponsored league are urged to have their managers present at a meeting this coming Monday evening, May 27, at 7:30 p.m., at Women of the Moose Plan Box Social ing will be conducted by Al Danâ€" A, box social will be held by the Women of the Moose on Monday evening, May 27 Women are inâ€" vited to bring box <lunches. . Last Wednesday evening the wi& 18th birthday, at hall, with George Scheuâ€" presented by Thos. Stillwell, govâ€" ernor of Lodge 446, and the lodge 'â€"detdu‘floncl“hr the Highland Park food collection for foreign relief, COMMUNITY CENTER During the first week of the The Spring festival and picâ€" nic of the Highland Park Girl Scouts, postponed last Sunday because of rain, will be held in Conception, Lincoin, Green Bay, Sunset Park on Sunday afterâ€" noon, May 26, starting at 2:30 p.m. The original schedule of events will be followed, it was men Mrs. Hamilton R. Winton and Mrs. Wyatt Jacobs. Five hundred giris, from the Eim will participate Ravinia and West Ridge schools In case of rain, the event will be moved from Sunset Park to Highland Park, lilinois, Thursday, May 23, 1946 LEAGUE of Old Classmates Among Throng To Welcome General Wainwright rers at last Sunday‘s rally in his wright discarded his prepared adâ€" dress and spoke to the gathering informally and from the heart. The auditorium of Elm Place school from which the general was graduated in 1897, was filled to overflowing with those who had braved the threatening weather to see and hear the hero of Bataan. The general was delighted with the atmosphere of rest and quiet. He liked the town, he liked the With the simplicity and sinceriâ€" ty of the truly great, General Wainwright spoke of personal matâ€" ters. He praised the beauty of our worst came on the birthday of the Japanese emperor, April 29, 1942, when 500â€"pound shells were rained upon the Americans for 5 hours, at the rate of one every 5 seconds. Finally, to prevent further useless slaughter of his men, the general town. "I was always crazy about expressed his pleasure at returnâ€" ing after years of absence. He spoke of his sister, now deceased, who was the wife of the late Dr. Daniel Rogers of Highland Park; of his mother who made their home hers, and of her association with the Highland Park branch of Then, with dramatic understateâ€" ment, he spoke of his experiences in the Philippines. Placed in charge of four Filiâ€" pino divisions, poorly equipped and under trained, he fought off enemy troops, veterans of Manchuâ€" rian warfare, and twice the numâ€" ber of his own forces, for a week, until ordered by Gen. MacArthur to withdraw to Bataan. Then Gen. MacArthur, ordered to Australia to organize a counter attack, in turn ordered Gen. Waihâ€" wright to withdraw to Corregidor, where presently he was cut off from the rest of the island and subjected to murderous artillety surrendered his forces. three months and 18 days of his incarceration, the general said, he was tortured ‘by the thought that the American people, not realizing the conditions, might‘condemn him for giving up. â€" His welcome all over America, since, must have disâ€" pelled all such misgivings. Conditions in the prison camps, the general stated simply, were pretty bad. "In fact," he added, it â€"â€"and still am," he said, and the Legion auxiliary until her fire. Lacking foo#l, ill and woundâ€" ed, his men were obliged to slaughâ€" oners. Finally, through the mediâ€" um of a besotted Jap soldier, the news of Japan‘s surrender seeped through. _ From that time the arâ€" rogance of the enemy began to ‘his signature of the peace terms. The pen then handed him by Gen. MacArthur, will always be cherish. ed by the Wainwright family, he declares. But the pesk of the thrill came when "those little men" put their signature to the dotted line. All through his address there "we almost starved." No news of at the general declared, came . that day of September 2, aboard the historie USS Missouri, when he stood behind Gereral MacArthur, was a noticeable lack of bitterness or vindictiveness in the general‘s manner. One-pt.x-. .'dhh-‘.;‘ 'l‘-nzb. companien at time, genâ€" eral remarked, chuckling: "Well, A second thrill arrived when he witnessed the surrender of the "Tiâ€" Bataan, but right now he looks to me like the Pussycat of the Philipâ€" As a climax to the rally, the guest of honor was presented with Place pupils ~A group headed by Harold McLain, Jr., presented the token. _A dismond studded pin also was presented by Comdr. Ziâ€" Park post No: 145, American â€"Leâ€" gion, signifying a life membership in that organization. present to greet the general were: Raymond Flinn, Mrs. Flinn (Nellie Palmer), Mrs. Ann Getzoff (Annie Goldberg), Mrs.© Mary Fancett (Mamic Cox), Miss Olive Hacfole, Edward J. Moroney, Albert Meeâ€" The great moment of his life, of Boy Scouts To Hold day and Sunday, May 25 and 26. Patrols representing most of the scout troops on the North Shore will participate. The program will once again be in charge of Harold Spinney Jr. and M. Warner Turâ€" riff, two veteran scout leaders. Patrols will report at : Camp Dan Beard for registration on Satâ€" urday morning between 9 and 1 Poppy Symbolâ€"of Hope; Flower of Remembrance camporal at the Henry Fowler resâ€" p.m. _ They will stand inspection as they are equipped for carrying on the camporal program, They will then be assigned to campsites on Henry Fowler reservation and will proceed with setting up camp. Saturday afternoon patrols will compete in scoutcraft events such as fireâ€"laying, string burning,, waâ€" ter boiling, flapjack cooking and The next morning following ditional games including nature, signaling and judging will be held. Awarding of certificates will be made just: before the camporal closes at 1 p.m. Sunday. Over 400 scouts are expected to take part. The next camping event will be the opening for the summer seaâ€" son at Camp Maâ€"KaJaâ€"Wan at Pearson, Wis., on July 9. It will operate for two twoâ€"week periods through August 5. Any scout planning to attend Camp Maâ€"Kaâ€" Jaâ€"Wan this summer should mail Boy Scouts of the North Shore Area council will hold their annual evening meal a mass campfire will be held at 8:30 p.m. in his application to Scout Headâ€" John B. Jackson, 1516 Westâ€" view road, Highland Park, is celeâ€" brating his 35th anniversary with Commonwealth Edison company. He entered the Chicago utility‘s employe as a mechanic after gradâ€" uation from the University of Neâ€" braska and has risen through the ranks to the post of staff engineer in the office of the viceâ€"president in charge of engineering and operâ€" quartersâ€" as soon: as possibleâ€"as registrations are coming in rapidâ€" For four years Mr. Jackson was chairman of the ‘committee of enâ€" gineers which coordinated planâ€" ning and construction activities of the various utility companies fhâ€" volved in the building of the Chiâ€" cago subway. _A paper he preâ€" pared on this subject for a meetâ€" ing of the Western Seciety of Enâ€" lM won .him that organizaâ€" tion‘s Chanute medal in 1943. ‘The Edison vetâ€"ran was a memâ€" ber of District 108 school board from 1935 to 1942, serving as its president the last two years. A major in the army corps of engiâ€" neers during World War I, he was attached to the staff of the divisâ€" fon of construction in France for 25 months. He holds the rank of Heutenantâ€"colone? in the U. S. _ Mr. Jackson had two sons in World War IL John B. Jr., who was a captain in the army, is now Manufacturing Co. Robert, who was a chief boatswain‘s mate in tending the University of Texas. ‘Their sister, Mrs. Marguerite Book, whose husband is a captain in the ’u‘-umdhlemhuw cham, William _ Stecle, George Jones, James and Thomas Troxell and Frank Golden. Highland Park, Gen. Wainwright was the guest of the Harold 0. Mc. Lains, who entertained for him at dinner. Among those present were ‘fiogn-d.lhhdh.cd.lfi Pugh; Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Frank the North Shore. Parker, with the general‘s aide, see and hear one of our greatest and most gracious American genâ€" During his fourâ€"hour stay in is currently atâ€" Poppy day will be observed in Highland® Park and Highwood on Monday, May 27, when the little red flowers, made by disabled vetâ€" erans at Downey hospital, will be distributed on the streets. The distribution will be conducted by unpaid volunteers from the Amerâ€" ican Legion .nxilhylndm tributions will go into the e and rehabilitation funds of the The corps is composed of memâ€" bers of the auxiliary, both senior and junior, and young women from Highwood unit No. 501 and Highland Park unit No. 145. Carâ€" rying poppies made by veterans of both world wars at veterans hospiâ€" tais, including Downey hospital at North Chicago, they will be on the streets early in the morning of Poppy day and will continue to offer flowers, to be worn in honâ€" or of the war dead, throughout the day. "Poppy funds always have been an important source of support for Legion and Auxiliary work for disâ€" abled veterans and for families of veterans in need of aid," accordâ€" ing to the officers of the auxiliarâ€" ies. ‘"We have seen them ‘bring new hope into homes on the verge of despair and give a new chance to men struggling against the hanâ€" dicap of war disabilities. That is why the memorial poppy is to us not only a flower of remembrance for the dead but also a of lnopefnrthwutlivm "The government provides comâ€" pensation and hospital care for disabled veterans and assistance for families of the dead, but many times difficulties and delays are encountered in securing official help. When a veteran is sick and and.dollars . contributed for the memorial poppies prove a Godsend to those suffering from the results of war." they cantritt wait for cases to be processed and claims to be proved. That is when the Legion and Auxâ€" iliary step in with emergency aid. Highwood City Council Faces Further Difficulties _ _With four of the eight aldermen of the Highwood city council abâ€" sent from the last six scheduled meetings, it has been impossible to provide a quorum at the meetâ€" voting on every roll call. It is believed that the question of raisâ€" ing the license fee for sale of ligâ€" wor is at the bottom of the diffiâ€" culty. *. y Those ‘regularly failing to apâ€" pear are Fide! Ghini, Guido Seraâ€" fini, John Castellari and Bernard regular in attendance, but for the n-;::&.thhdbnl“j_oy regular attending aldermen, who are Carl Pasquesi, Russel E. Carilson and Americo. Ladurini, have ‘requested City Attorney J. E. Bairstow to report on the legal aspects of the case. â€" Some way is being sought to enforce attendance Week‘s Activities Of Legion Members This evening (Thursday) Legion members will be addressed by Rt. Rev. Magr. Joseph P. Morrison of Immaculate Conception church, Legionnaires are invited by Rev. Keller to attend Trinity Episcopal church on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 a.m. As part of the service a wreath will be placed on the winâ€" dow dedicated to Dumaresq Spenâ€" Legion members will form at Green Bay school sat 10:15 a.m. on May 30, to form in line and march to the Monument on Lanâ€" rédd avenue. Dr. Koos to Address Rotary Club Moniday At the luncheon meeting of the Rotary club, Monday, May 27, the speaker will be Dr. Leonard Koos, of the University of Chicago, who will discuss the junior college movement in Ilincis . Dr. Koos is a widely known authority on reâ€" cent educational development. 5¢ a copy; $1.50â€"a year