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Vol. 36; No. 15 Women Delegates Report Recent G.O.P. Méedngs Three members of the board of the Deerfield Township Republiâ€" can ‘Woman‘s club, recently apâ€" pointed by the county and state Republican central committees as women delegates from this disâ€" trict,, have returned to Highland. Park filled â€"with with enthusiasm for the meetings they have been attending. â€"<They have brought back with them interesting reports on the downstate meetings and othâ€" er Republican activities in which they have taken part. Each one read a full report to their board on Monday, June 3, at the home of the president , Mrs. William L Winters. The three members of the club selected by the Republican county chairman and ~the state central committeeman to represent Repubâ€" lican women in this district are the following: STATE PLATFORM % . COMMITTEE i Mrs. Horace S. Vaile, a viceâ€" president of the Deerfield Townâ€"| ship Republican Woman‘s club, who was appointed an acting deleâ€" gate to the Illinois Republican state platform committee, attendâ€" ed an allâ€"day session of the comâ€" mittee on May 15 at the LaSalle hotel in Chicago. â€" This meeting was comprised of representatives, both men and women, from all dis~ tricts throughout the state of Illiâ€" nois. . Mrs. Vaile reported that at the morning session, the resolutions committee ‘presented the platform then called upon the acting deleâ€" gates for further suggestions and additions. _ Each "plank" of the proposed platform was thoroughly discussed and full information preâ€" sented to interpret its value. Folâ€" lowing luncheon, the resolutions were discussed and plans made for a further meeting. .. According to Mrs. Vaile‘s reno:t.'ux was an enâ€" thusiastic and uable -eefiu," and one productive of many conâ€" state platform of 1946. The keyâ€" note of the meeting was the effort made to obtain a crossâ€"section point of view of Republican thought from over the entire state, including the ideas of various groups such as the veterans‘ groups, the women‘s groups, and many others. Each one contributâ€" ed their own ideas to the commitâ€" GOVERNOR‘S "RALLY FOR VICTORY" DINNER Traveling to Springfield on May 22, were Mrs. William I Winters, president of the Deerfield Townâ€" ship Republican Woman‘s club, who went as the woman delegate from the Tenth Congressional disâ€" trict, and Mrs. Harold{O. McLain, a vice president of the club, who has been appointed chairman of the woman‘s division of the Lake County Republican central eu-‘ mittee. They attended a tea givâ€" en at the executive mansion by Governor ~and Mrs. Dwight H. Green for the Republican women representatives from all the downâ€" state districts in Illinois. That eveâ€" ning they joined other representa. tives, including the men, from Lake county and downstate, at the governor‘s "Rally for Vietory" dinner at the Abraham Lincoln hoâ€" tel in Springfield. Highlights of ernor Green, another by Senator C. Wayland Brooks, who attended the meeting with his bride, and an appearance of Lt. (ig) William G. Stratton, just returned from Okiâ€" nawa; who is nominee for conâ€" though Lt. Stratton was still in nifmandénlllot.ukpll-‘ tically. Gov. Green conducted the meeting, introducing the lels‘ gates and winning overwhelming enthusiasm for his speech urging the ¢lection of Republican repreâ€" sentatives in November, 1946. More Republican representatives are necessary in the IMlinois Genâ€" eral Assembly in order to break the existing legislative deadlock. He indicated this would point the way to a Republican national vieâ€" tory in 1948. ' STATE REPUBLICAN ANNUAL CONVENTION l ‘The following afterncon, May 23, the delegates met at the Elks club in Springfield for the annual Republican state convention. The meeting was pointed by keynotes of unity and preparedness among evening were a talk by Govâ€" U. E. Church Offers Vacation Bible School A vacation . Bible school for children four years of age and over is offered to the families of Highâ€" land Park, by the United Evangeliâ€" road and Laurel avenue. This has been an annual event at this church for a number of years, and offers a fine course this year with three departments â€"â€" beginners, primary and junior. Rev. R. S. Wilson, the pastor, will be in charge of the school. Manday morning, June 10, at 9:00. Children will assemble outside the church and march in for the openâ€" ing ceremony. â€" The school will continue each morning for two weeks from 9 to 11:15 a.m. It will consist of attractive courses of Bible instruction from a nonâ€" sectarian viewpoint, as well â€" as music, games _ and _ handwork. Awards will be given to all those who attend every day and also for those who complete the prescribed memory work. The school will be free to all children, regardless of their church preference. A‘competent staff of :rxn has been enlisted for the . ‘Transportation is provided from"Highwood: and Eaton‘s stJre on North Green Bay road, and alâ€" so from Ravinia. Those needing transportation should contact Pas. \mr Wilson. Last Rites Wednesday For Fred H. Clutton Funeral rites were held on Wedâ€" nesday, at 2 p.m., in the Kelly chapel on Sheridan road for Mr. Fred H. Clutton, veteran secretary ofâ€"the Chicago Board of Trade, who was taken by death on Monâ€" day at his home, 589 Kimbal road. Dr. Louis Sherwin officiated at the rites. . Born in Butler county, Pa., 61 years ago, Mr. Clutton received his college education at Northwestern university, earning his degree with honors in 1907. The following year he was awarded his master‘s degree. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. : In 1908 he became secretary of the Northwestern school of comâ€" merce, and later became registrar in the medical school. â€" In 1903 he was employed as secretary to the Butler Brothers in Chicago, and later as assistant to the president of the mail order firm. He resignâ€" ed in 1929 to accept a position as secretary to the Chicago Board of \'h-ade,andnmedhi-hmneattht time to Highland Park. Surviving are. his widow, Virâ€" ginia, a son, Wade, of Evanston, and his mother, Mrs. Ellen Clutton. Interment was made in Memorial park. A The Higbland Park Press Republicans for the fall election, with Governor Green leading the way to sweep Republicans into ofâ€" fice in Cook county and throughâ€" out the state. Many important measures were discussed, includâ€" ing the soâ€"called "Gateway Amendâ€" ment" to the Illinois Stateâ€"Constiâ€" tution to provide revenue for the soldiers bonus. â€" This measure is now being deliberated by a special session of the Illinois General Asâ€" sembly. The delegates were enâ€" thusiastic in their reports of the convention which closed with a keynote of Republican harmony throughout the state. REPORTS STIMULATING Township . Republican Woman‘s club heard the dml and stimâ€" ulating reports of t vogn_dnlâ€" egates at a meeting on Monday, June 3, at the home of the presiâ€" dent. The meeting began with an informal luncheon at one o‘clock, after which the board learned of the activities of Republican organ. izations throughout the state, and discussed plans for their own work during the next six months. The club offers membership. to all women throughout the township who are in sympathy with the poliâ€" cies and purposes of the club â€" "to promote sound political princiâ€" ples in keeping with our American within the Republican party to enâ€" courage good government, worthy candidates for public office, parti. 'm-u.-hunnmpâ€"y-a general elections." of Annual Meeting of Held On May 28th ‘The annual meeting of the Highâ€" wmufi.c_nuibe-h‘ ter on the evening of May 28, with 28 organizations represented. DISCUSS SUMMER RECREATION PROGRAM The topic for discussion was "Highland Park‘s Summer Recreaâ€" tion Program," based on the foldâ€" ers prepared by the Playground and Recreation board, and presentâ€" ed by Mr. X for the community, after a brief history of the develâ€" opment of summer recreation in Highland Park. Each representaâ€" tive received copies of the folder ltoca.rrytofiomeefim of his group. & The following directors of sumâ€" mer activities explained their orâ€" ganizations‘ programs, and anâ€" swered questions: Mr. Kendig for the high school, Mrs. Boye for the library, Mrs. FacFadden for the YWCA. As Mr. Brown could not be present for the park board, Mr. X reported upon the facilities at the new beach in Ravinia. He also told of the excellent "under the lights" softball being played at Sunset park. He said that the veterans are working out «their recreational programs in their organizations. Gordon Clavey, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, suggested that "mixers" at the "Y" and enterâ€" tainment by the reorganized GSO would be enjoyed by the returned veterans. Mrs. MacFadden, in reâ€" plying, said that she would carry that suggestion back to the "Y" for action. COMMUNITY + CALENDAR ' | _ After Mrs. Osborn‘s report upâ€" on the usefulness ofâ€"the communiâ€" ty calendar was read, it was decidâ€" ed to place this schedule of events in the local papers, as a regular weekly feature, starting in the fall. * j DISCUSS COMMITTEE ‘ oN YOUTH PROBLEMS i Mrs. Watkins asked for a disâ€" cussion upon the need of a comâ€" mittee on youth problems, such as exists in â€"other communities, to work as a subâ€"committee of the Coâ€"ordinating council. This would permit the leaders of the . many groups in town supporting youth programs to think and work toâ€" gether ‘to achieve a stronger and broader program with a saving of time and effort on the part of the individual groups. It was felt that such a committee will be needed as the city grows, and the administraâ€" tive board was authorized to make a study of the proposal during the summer and to .prepare a report upon it for the general meeting in the fln- ‘ ; ELECT BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS The following members were elected to the board: Mrs. Beverly Hugle, Mrs. Theodore Osborn, E. A. Belmont, George Hartman, Jack McHugh, andâ€"Frank Zipoy. At the board meeting immediâ€" ately following after the adjournâ€" ment of the annual meeting, the following officers were reelected: Lester B. Ball, chairman; Mrs. H. M. Pier, secretary;. George Scheuchenpflug, treasurer. Rotary Club to Chile, student guest of the 147th district of Rotary International, will be the speaker at the Monday noon (June 10) meeting of the Senor Errazuriz is 25 years old and is a student guest at Northâ€" western university. He holds a law degree from the University of Chile, and has won honors in the field of economics. He is said to ‘h.«ht,mfdh'. club. NO. SHORE CATHOLIC WOMAN‘S LEAGUE HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING At a special allâ€"day meeting of the North Shore Catholic Woman‘s league. the board members will discussâ€"plans for the coming wear.‘~ Mrs. A. W. Molinare Wilmette, league president, anâ€" nounced that the meeting will take place at the Hearthstone in Hubâ€" bard Woods, on Wednesday, June 12, at 10:30 am. Chairmen of }&o“mdgfl committee members at this time. Highland Park, Hlinois, Thursday, June 6, 1946 U. 8. VICTORY BONDS BUY THEM . .. KEEP THEM! Rafael Errazuriz, of Santiago club at Sunset Valley golf of club tained for nine consecutive weeks GOOD PROGRAMS PLANNED _ Supervised playgrounds a the city‘s public schools an Sunset park, classes in art by the Highland Park Playground and Recreation board. once a week will highlight the proâ€" gram. _ Especially good programs have been planned for the "two principal playgrounds, _ Ravinia school and Sunset park. Sunset playgrounds will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 12 noon, and from 2 to 5 p.m., while Ravinia will be open daily except Wednesday from 9 a.m. unâ€" til 12 noon, and from 6:30 to 9 p.m. In addition, Community cenâ€" ter will be open daily except Wed. lnefl,hyforlpeehlchhandnm room play. One of the new features of the summer program this year will be the Outing and Sports club. Deâ€" signed especially for boys 10 years of age and older, the club will hold a business meeting and play proâ€" gram at Community center â€" on Thursdays at 2 p.m., and on Monâ€" days the members will be hk\en on outings and trips. Pit ALL DAY CAMP AT SUNSET NEW FEATURE PLAYGROUND BOARD The allâ€"day camp, which has alâ€" | ways proven one of the most popâ€" ular of the summer activities, will again be held on Wednesdays at Sunset park, starting at 9:30 a.m. A typical camp program includes a flag raising ceremony, the divisâ€" ion of children into their groups to work on special aspects for the day, morning games and races, luncheon, a story telling period, the campfire circle in which each group presents the stunt it has prepared in the morning, and the flag lowering ceremony.. Children bring their own sandwiches for lunch and may buy milk at the park if they wish. * TWILIGHT SOFTBALL : Twilight softball leagues will be organized both for teen agers and for men 25 and over. Games will be played at Sunset park, Ravinia school and Lincoln school. Softâ€" ball fans will also have the opporâ€" tunity to see five of Highland Park‘s fastest class A teams play top notch outâ€"ofâ€"town teams at Sunset park under the lights on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, starting about 9 o‘clock. All Highland Parkers are urged to boost the local teams by attending these games regularly. OTHER SPORTS A complete program of outdoor Other sports to be offered on the recreation program are tgnnis lessons at Braeside school, Sunset park, and Ravinia school, swimâ€" ming lessons at the high school, and a golf school if interest warâ€" rants it. ‘.5% ;fli.hland Park YWCA will sponâ€" sor a club for girls 11 to 14 years of age. Activities will include outâ€" door cooking, hiking, nature lore, etc. _ Meetings will be held on Tuesday, starting at noon.. In adâ€" dition, the*YWCA has planned classes in sewing and cooking. "Around the World with Books" is the theme of the children‘s sumâ€" mer reading program at Highland Park public library. . Awards will be made at the end of the summer mainly of informal dances, will be held at Community center on Tuesday evenings for high school students. Programs giving in detail the activities planned for cach playâ€" ground, together with a registraâ€" tion form, have been distributed at all of the city schools this week. ‘The children have been asked to parents, select the activities they wish to participate in, and return the signed registration blank eithâ€" er to their teacher or to Communiâ€" ty center. f e CC more, treasurer; W. J. Hodge, see. retary, and George Hartman, acâ€" tivities chairman. Director of recâ€" reation for the city of Highland popularly known as "Mr. X." president; Mrs. David Levâ€" 227 Receive High School Diplomas On June 13th Andrew W. Kramer One Of 200 Press Members To Attend Atomic Tests A Highland Park resident, Anâ€" drew W. Kramer, of 330 Woodâ€" land road, will be a witness at the atomic bomb tests scheduled to @ke place this month at Bikini island in the Marshalls group. Mr. Kramer, who is attending the tests in the capacity of the technical press, is a scientific writâ€" er for "Power Plan Engineering" magazine. He is one of two hunâ€" dred members of the press, which includes representatives of newsâ€" papers. radio, general magazines and the technical press, who have been invited to attend. He will leave Saturday for San Francisco, and will board the USS Appalachian there on June 12 for Bikini. ' Sixth Year at Bethany Last Sunday, Rev. Lester H. Laubenstein began his sixth year of ministry at the Bethany Evanâ€" gelical church, Laurel at McGovâ€" ern. _ He wa$ recently reappointâ€" ed at the annual conference of IIâ€" linois Evangelical churches held in Peoria in accord with the tradiâ€" \tion of this communion. M. A. Frantz, lay delegate to the Peoria conference, gave a reâ€" port of the‘ major actions during the worship service on Sunday. Chief among the observations was the vote on the union of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and of the Evangelical Church. The Illinois delegation voted 148 to 0 in favor of the When the final action of both denominations ~takes place in Johnstown, Pa., next fall, the loâ€" cal Bethany congregation will be ~eme an integral past of the new merged denomination to be known as the Evangelical United Brethâ€" ren Chureh. _ Church Plans 50th Anniversary Celebration Plans are being completed to obâ€" serve the fifticth anniversary of the present edifice of the First United Evangelical church on S. Green Bay road. _ A recent meetâ€" ing of the committee chairmen was held at the home of Frank Wickâ€" man, who is general chairman of the observance. . The anniversary celebration will open with a dinâ€" ner at the Community center on Saturday, June 29 at 6 pm. A program will be presented in which various departments of the church will be represented, and a skit unâ€" der direction of Mildred Maechtle, 152 N. Second, will be given showâ€" ing some of the history of the con. gregation. _ All day services on Sunday, June 30, are expected to attract many â€" former â€" members. Former pastors F. R. Cardwell of Reading, Pa., and C. G. Unangst of La Grange, Ind., are expected. A historical exhibit is planned. John J. McDonough Honored by Chicago John J. McDonough, 121 Lake avenue, Highland Park, assistant viceâ€"president of the Harris Trust and Savings bank, has been apâ€" pointed chairman of the 1946 alumni reunion of the University of Chicago, Howard W. Mort, exâ€" ecutive secretary of the Alumni association, has announced. McDonough, a member of the elass of 1928 -thofllhuib_d Chicago, was head marshal and a member of Phi Beta Kappa honâ€" Epsilon while he was on the Midâ€" way campus. A lieutenantâ€"colonel in the United States army, he mtdxmthhfmthhâ€" ropean invasion in England and then was transferred to the Indiaâ€" Burma theater to take charge of counterespionage service. V. F. W. Dance at Labor Temple On Highland Park post 4737 will hold a dance on . Saturday, June 22, at the Labor temple. _ Music will be furnished by Bob Parker‘s tenâ€"piece band from Chicago. _ Tickets may be obtained by conâ€" \hflhc-ydhâ€"b-ldfi. post. Dancing from 9 to 1 a.m. "All the World‘s a Stage" is to be the subject of thrée talks to be given by members of the senior class at the graduation exercises on Thursday, June 13, at 8:15, in the high school auditorium. Three different aspects of this quotation will be discussed by Carol Spero, Louis Porterfield, and George Hilâ€" ler. and Keep You," by Lutkin.‘ As the chorus is singing in the balcony, it has not been decided whether the seniors will participate. With a comparatively small graduating class of approximately 230, the program has been planned to include as many members as possible in the different activities. The chorus will sing three numâ€" bers: "Beautiful. Savior," â€" by Christians; "He‘s Watching Over Israel," from "Elijah," by Menâ€" The traditional "Pomp and Cirâ€" cumstance" march will be played by the orchestra for the procésâ€" sional. Other selections will be "March of 'l'ononyw," by McKay, and "Under the Double Eagle," by Wagner, as the recessional. It has been suggested that seniors may play and conduct these selecâ€" delssohn ; and "The Lord Bless You The Reverend H. K. Platzer, of the Redeemer Evangelical Luthâ€" eran church, Highland Park, will give the invocation and benedicâ€" tion, while Mr. Wolters will preâ€" sent the class, and Mr. George Rogâ€" ers, president of the board of eduâ€" cation, will present the diplomas. Eileen Risjord and Henry Date, as class marshals, will lead the seniors. into the auditorium and read off their names for the acâ€" ceptance of diplomas. The graduating class consists of seniors from the following . sesâ€" sions: . Philipson, Bean, Weldin, Rasmussen, Kelly, Danakas, Hamâ€" ill, Carlson, Einbecker, and Durâ€" \ ‘«Ke wesife features of the proâ€" gram will be the presentation of the Medal of Honor to the outâ€" standing senior and the announceâ€" ment of the valedictorian and salâ€" This year will mark the fiftyâ€" sixth annual commencement exerâ€" cises of the Highland Park high Highland Park Man the nation‘s press, recently, of the Behind the announcement in formation of the International Journal of Air Affairs is a story of the reunion of two old friends, one a Highland Park man, Cody: Pfanstiehl, son of Mrs. George W. Carr of 614 Wood Path avenue. Pfanstichl was called to Washingâ€" ton, D.C., last month to become executive assistant of Air Affairs, Inc. Early in April Pfanstichl was working in a public relations ofâ€" fice in Chicago when a call from ‘Washington was put through to his desk. It was an old friend he had known at the University of Chicaâ€" go in 1936. As a result, Pfanstichl is now in the nation‘s capital as assistant to William Pardridge, president of Air Affairs, Inc., the world‘s first international project to study and present the social effects of aviaâ€" A graduate of Highland Park high school in 1934, Pfanstichl was a student at the University of Chiâ€" eago until 1938 when he joined the university‘s department of press relations. During the war he was a staffâ€"sergeant section chief of an AAF combat intelligence school in South Carolina. His wife, whom he met and marâ€" ried in South Carolina, is with him in Washington. 5c a copy; $1.50 a year By Local Bird Fancier ‘The speaker at the Kiwanis club on Monday evening, June 10, will be Paul E. Downing, a local bird fancier, president for the past 10 years of the William I. Lyon Birdâ€" banding council of northern Iiliâ€" nois, who will speak on the work of the organization and the what dnd why of the habits of our feathâ€" * ‘Las werk Last on Ladies‘ night, Mrs. Wm. Freund, former missionary to India, gave a very. enlightening iwanians to Hear Talk