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Highland Park Press, 3 Jul 1947, p. 1

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@ We note that the city is planning to hold Civil Service eligiâ€" bility test for laborers, but we hope that it won‘t be necessary to wait until additional men are hired to have Highland Park‘s annual weed crop harvested. The weeds constitute traffic hazards at many points which should be eliminated immediately, and as far as the hay fever sufferers are concerned, if the weeds aren‘t cut soon, they might as well not be eut at all. We know that the problem is an annual headache to the street department, but we hope that something can be done â€" soon. Vol. 37 ; No. @ There was a squib in the daily papers recently to the effect that the legislature in its wisdomâ€"and concern for the common man, had passed.a law making it illegal for dispensers of spiritus frumenti to dispense same in a shot glass of less than one ounce capacity. This raises some interegting conjectures. Just what happened ? Was the liquor lobby asJeep;, or did it have a change of heart or did some lawmaker carelessly stick ‘his finger in a shot glass and find he couldn‘t remove it without the aid of a hammer to break the glass? ‘There are, of c‘ixtu-lf:, some taverns which won‘tphave to buy new shot glasses to comply with the lawâ€"(if the word goes out that compliance .will be enforced) but some of the boys have been reaping a nice harvest. ‘When you double the price and halvé the portion (of course, some of them only cut to threeâ€"fourths of an ounce) your profits, despite extra taxes,; can‘t do anything but spiral upward. Well, it was nice while it lasted. * f f R. O. T. C. Inspection Tour ~‘‘@ An irate father, writing a "voice of the reader" column re: cently, was complaining about the army sending his boy "alluring" recruiting material, urging him to reâ€"enlist. The father felt that in view of the fact that his son had spent five years in the army, he had done his duty and ought to be let alone, to follow civilian life, as the father wished. . 3¢. He‘s wasting his i;im:. Most of us were strictly civilians in uniâ€" form, but occasionally there turned up a lad who simply liked army; life. His reasons would be various, and as often as not he couldn‘t or wouldn‘t define them. But, once a man discovers that at heart, he‘s a "30â€"year man," father, mother, wife, sister or daughter might Fort Sheridan was observed . by the "Highland Park Press" last Wednesday, when we were conâ€" ducted.on an inspection tour by the genial Captain Walter L. Norâ€" fray, head of public. information of the ROTC. _ just as well save their breath. If he doesn‘t reâ€"enlist now, he will later. He jastâ€"likes the arniy.â€"And maybe he isn‘t‘so WPong after all. No one can decide that but theâ€" man himself. & Capt. Norfray, on a 90 day leave of absence from duties as a memâ€" ber of the Chicago police depart ment, reported at Fifth Army headquarters in May, and will terâ€" minate his ROTC service on Aug. 16. & Information On State Bonus . . . @ Because hundreds of exâ€"vets in Highland Park are anxiously awaiting their state bonus checks, Whitt Schults has gone to some trouble to obtain new ‘dnd exclusive information about it, when it will be paid and so oX. See LET‘S TAKE A LOOK on page 2. During the war, Capt. Norfray served almost four years overseas. As provost marshal, he organized the auxiliary _ military _ police throughout all the islands in the Caribbean and in the northern part of South America, By coordinat ing work and time he saved more than $3,000,000 annually for the young man, Cpl. R. C. Klein, of West Bend, Wis., doing secretarial work in. his office. . Cpl. Klein is a student at Towa university.â€" In the morning several classâ€" rooms were ‘visited while in sesâ€" sion. Among them was a class on traffic control. The lecturer was Capt. Rex O. Presley ofâ€" Northâ€" western Univéersity Traffic Instiâ€" tute staff, who is field representaâ€" tive of International Association of Chiefs of Police. = Another lecture being delivered to a class was on antiâ€"aircraft with Major James A. Sullivan of New Citadel, South Carolina, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Kansas State, a military _ college, was studying charts on the organizaâ€" positions of men, equipment, etc. Capt. Murphy of Kansas State uniâ€" versity was lecturing. An ‘automatic weapons lecture was given to University of Cinâ€" cinnati, University of Kansas and University of Minnesota students, A typical day at the ROTC in (Continued on page 5) up of Norfray 19 Up To Now the New York Audiences hearts‘ " is the way one New York critic described Miss ‘Gloria Linâ€" ari, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Domenic Linari, 534 N. Central, Highwood. _ The silverâ€"voiced young star, known on the stage as Gloria Lind (possibly reminiscent of the fair Jenny) has sung her way into the hearts of her New York audiences, before whom the Miss Linari is well known in these parts, having been brought up here and having attended the local schools. Many have heard her in local entertainments (she was very generous with her talent in connection with USO work dur~ ing the war), ‘and she has done concert and radio work in ‘Chicaâ€" go. â€" In a recent visit to Hollyâ€" wood she was offered film eon-‘ mhtmwzh-dovnh‘ favor of a stage part with that very solid production from the pen of Victor Herbert. An unâ€" derstudy to the star, when that laâ€" dy left the show, Gloria was given the lead. show is now being staged. Since the age of 8 Gloria has felt that singing would be her ca~ reer, and she is possessed of a wise head, as well as a very pret: ty one. Her agent‘s prediction: "She will go far." 3 Ground Broken in Ravinia for New An S8â€"unit apartment dwelling is being erected at Roger Williams avenue and Broadview, in Ravinia, each unit consisting of 5.orâ€" 6 rooms. Co â€" owners are H. L. Newborne, architect, and Joseph Cabonargi, contractor, The building will be ready for occupancy next spring. Make a 3-Yea£ontribuflon b. Highland Park H 1 Building Fund m The Higbland Park Press "The sweetheart of ԤSweetâ€" A Paper for Highland Parkers © Published by Highland Parkers Tennis Pros to Instruct Adults and Youngsters of Center The services of four well known tennis professionals have been seâ€" cured to belp Highland Park chilâ€" dren _ and _ adults improve their game, according to Bert Leech, diâ€" rector of summer playgrounds for the recreation board. The board is sponsoring the lessons free of charge at Sunset park on July 14, from 9 to 12 noon and from 2 to The pros are: John Kenfield, in structor at Lake Shore â€"country ¢lub in the summer and at Uniâ€" versity of North Carolina during the school hpn; George O‘Conâ€" nell, Exmoor‘club professional; George Jennings, pro at Northâ€" moor, and Emmett Pare, pro at Shore Acres, and former clay court national champion. Two of the professionals will be on hand at the Sunset tennis courts in the morning, and two in the afternoon. They will play exâ€" hibition matches and will teach back hand, serving, etc. The services of these professionâ€" als affordsâ€"Highland Parkers an excellent opportunity to dust off their gameâ€"in preparation for the cityâ€"wide tournament to be sponâ€" sored for adults by the recreaâ€" tion board the first week of Angâ€" ust. â€" Further information will be given later. Trip to Be Held Thursday,â€"July 10 Highland ~Park ‘boys who enâ€" joy taking long bicycle rides into the country are urged to join the members of the Bike Hike club on their next trip on Thursday, July 10, at 9:30 am. The boys meet at Community center and are back home again in the early afternoon. Lunches should be provided. Stanley W. McKee, adult leadâ€" er of the group, reports that the following boys were on last Thursâ€" day‘s .bike hiko:sel:?r Sheahen, George Tyson, Ewing,. Ky Hilding,. M. Periman, Charles Weeks, _ Bill _ Lowenthal, Peter Goelter, Paul Klein, Doug Heinâ€" richs,, Jack Johnson, Bill Murray, Johnâ€"Crowell and Jan Buckman. Mel Mullins To Conduct Boys on Instructive Trip Under the leadership of Mel Mullins, director of Community center, members of the Highland Park Boys Outing and Sports club will visit the Chicago Natural Hisâ€" tory museum, Shedd ‘acquarium and the Adler planetarium next Monday, July 7. % Any Highland Park boy, 10 years of age or.â€"older, who is inâ€" terested in joining this club, may accompany Qc members on the trip.. Theigroup will meet at the center at 9 am. Each boy should provide a lunch and bus fare. Elect New Officers ‘The weekly teen age dance, fea~ turing the juke box with 16 popu~ lar dance records, will be held in Cokesâ€"Meâ€"Inn, Highland _ Park Community center on Wednesday, July 9, at 8 pm. The attendances to date have been good, but the committee urges a better response, Admission is 10"cents and all teen agers living in Highland Park high J;;_: district are welcome. > following club officers Pat Morren; board members, Marâ€" garet Rouse, Mary Cahill, Connie Atkinson, Nancy Bernardi, Jackie Weil, Eileen McClellan, Mary Lou were recently elected: President, Bob Peddle; secretary, Dean Dickâ€" over; publicity, Ginny Ahrens and Cameron, and Peggy Pagenkopf, Dads and Sons to Compete at Softball Thursdays at Ravinia Teen Age club is sponsored by the recreation board. Thursday nights are set aside at Ravinia playgrounds for Highland Park dads to get together with their sons in a softball game, ac~ cording to Kenneth Crowell, Raâ€" vinia summer playground instrucâ€" tor. _ Play usually starts about 6 :80, To date, mixed teams have been z-rn-..nmmm $ showing . a nrpr: amount of agility and giving youngsters a good lesson in runâ€" ning and hitting. It is hoped that enough men will turn out to form a team of their own to show their sons what real opposition is. Highland Park, Mlinois, DOROTHY DOW TO SING AT RAVINIA A new soprano and a new symâ€" phonic work will be presented at Ravinia during the Second week of the twelfth annual Festival, with Eugene Ormandy, as guest conâ€" ductor of the Chicago Symphony orchestra. The sopramo is Dorothy Dow, who made her professional debut just two months ago with Ormandy and the Philadelphia orchestra and has since won for herself conâ€" siderable acclaim on Broadway in Virgil Thompson‘s "Message from Home." Thursday, July 3, 1947 The symphonic work is Paul Creston‘s "Symphony No. 2, Opus 85;\.iidl was introduced by the New York Philharmonic under Rodzinski in 1944. > The week‘s series of concerts opens on Tuesday evening, July 8, at 8:30, when Ormandy presents the Bachâ€"Ormandy "Passacaglia in C Minor" in its first Ravinia proâ€" gramming, followed by the Brahms "Symphony No. 3," and the Beet hoven "Symphony No.â€"5." â€" Miss Dow will make the first of two appearances at the Thursday evening, July 10, concert at 8:30, singing . three _ solos â€" Verdi‘s "Pace, Pace" from "La Forza del Destina," et‘s "I1 est doux" from “Bm." and . Verdi‘s "Ritorna Vincitor" from "Aida." ‘The evening‘s concert will open with the Bach â€" Ormandy "Toccaâ€" ta in C Major" which Ormandy inâ€" troduced at Ravinia in 1942. The Schubert Seventh Symphony will occupy the entire second half of the program. On Saturday ‘evening, July 12, at 8:30, Ormandy will play the Brahms "Variations on a Theme of Haydn" and will follow it with the Creston "Symphonyâ€" No. Opus 35°" This work, which has also been presented by the Bosâ€" ton Symphony, is in two . moveâ€" ments, Introduction and Song and Interlude and Dance. With Miss Dow as soloist, an allâ€"Wagner program will be given on Sunday ancmoon, July 13, at 4:00. The opening number will be the Prelude to "The Meisterâ€" ‘The second half of the program will be devoted to the Franck "Symphony in D Minor." â€" x playing the Prelude from the same opera. The second half of the program will open with "Siegâ€" fried‘s Rhine Journey" â€"and "Siegâ€" fried‘s Death and Funeral Music," from "Damnation of the Gods." Miss Dow will conclude the proâ€" gram with Brunnhidle‘s "Immoâ€" lation Scene." Highland Parkers Are Governor Green has awarded a selective service medal and Conâ€" gressional certificate of merit to uncompensated members of the 11â€" In the words of Paul Armstrong, state director, ‘"These men served without compensation ‘and, in my opinion, their sarcifice and service was second ofily to that of those who served as members of the armed forces." Citizens of Highland Park who received this recognition, and are still active in the selective service system are: Board members Clarâ€" ence E. Huhn, Robert L. Johnson, Walter F. Moeller, C. Edward Norâ€" ris, Richard L. Thorsch; examinâ€" :':m mhl&mi:h..,.‘ Grover Q. Grady, Livingston Jos: selyn, J. H. Lundstrom, W. M. Meâ€" Millan, Morley D. McNeal, Syivan H. Robertson, Allan D. Weish, W. L. Winters and Ernest B. Zeisler; reemployment committeemen, Wm. Cruickshank, Edward Jacobson and Frank J. Zipoy, Government appear agent, Frank Nosek, is no longer active. Miss Dow will then sing "Elsa‘s Dream" from "‘Lohengrin‘ and "Isolde‘s Love Death" from "Trisâ€" The Highland Park teen age 12â€" inch softball teams have started play at Sunset park in their first league games. ‘The first games of the first round were played last Wednesday. Games in this league are to be played every Monday and Wednesday, starting at 6:45 pm. First games scores were, Bugs, 16, Ermine Cleaners, 11 ; Juke Box 12, Kings, 11; School Paper Drives Library Membership Drive Highly Successful; Still Of school paper drives," the Parent Teachers association ~is urging Highland Park residents this week Money received from these drives is an important and helpful soure of revenue for all Highland Park schools. The paper drives will continue all summer and start the first Monday of each month. Paper and magazines should be tied in bundles or packed in carâ€" tons and placed on the curb the day before the scheduled pickups, regardless of weather conditions. Following is the July schedule: Elm Place school areaâ€"Monâ€" day, July 7. Lincoln school areaâ€"Tuesday, July 8. C Ravinia school areaâ€"Wednes day, July 9. Braeside school area â€" Thursâ€" day, July 10. West Ridge areaâ€"Friday mornâ€" ing, July 11. } Green Bay areaâ€"Friday after. noon, July 11. Results of the June collection are as follows: us Eim Place ........................... . $18.25 Braeside .............â€".............. 1416 If the trucks miss your contri~ bution, call H. P. 1256. West Ridge Lincoln ... Green Bay . Julius C. New . officers of the Highland Park Lions club were installed at a dinner meeting last Thursday night at the Moraine hotel. as Robert for the past year. 4 Floyd D. Godfrey was seated as first vice president; Raymond J. Sheahen second vice president; Bert Greene, third vice president; Vernon Mortimer, treasurer; John L. Werheim, secretary; Greig O. Yarger, tail twister; Gene Konsler, Lion tamer; Martin C. Hart and Fred R. Moon, directors, and Robt. Park, district governor of the Lions, was the installing officer and he praised the Highland Park club . for its successful activity during the past year after Presiâ€" dent Slayback had given a brief report of the club‘s accomplishâ€" ments during the year. _ holdâ€"over directors, â€" Wilfred J. Seguin, Highland The new board of directors met at the home of the presidentâ€"elect, Julius Laegeler, 620 Skokie, on Monday, June 30. Teen Agers Contribu $325 to Cancer Fund Warner Rosenthal, treasurer of the Teen Agers, a new organizaâ€" tion in Highland Park, which last week gave a bentfit performance at the Alcyon theater for the canâ€" cer research fund, announces that the contribution of the club toward The regular monthly . business meeting will be held today at 12:15 at the Moraine hotel. this worthy cause will be someâ€" what in excess of $825. * lrlumofflbdd will Se held from now on, at some place to be decided upon, and it is understood that invitations will be sent to 100 boys and 100 girls this week to join the organization, :f‘ivhkl Ramona May is presiâ€" t. â€", Hospital Auxiliary to Hold Meeting td Mocthl Mc The regular monthly meeting of the Woman‘s auxiliary of the I!bfl:dhltk?*?l'llhhdl nest Wednesday, at 10 am hhpflhk-m church, 1t is hoped that there will be a good attendance, as there is great need of surgical dressings. _ Luncheon, will be served at 12:80. "Save your waste paper for the Julius C. Laegeler was installed 10.00 10.05 Accomplishing what they # out to do, the Friends of the ‘ land Park Public library this week _ that y 1500 Highland Parkers gave ly $3700 to help support their li~ brary during the rest of 1947.. _ "This money, generously by the people of our town, will b used to liquidate the current * ry debt, to buy new and books and to cover expenses forthcoming cultural® programs,‘ Louis P. Haller, president, is this newspaper. «. e The membership drive, hq by James T. MacMurchy, was far better than anticipated. the telephone _ strike erably, still hundreds gave willingâ€" ly for the worthy cause. . %s Donations are still being receiÂ¥yâ€" ed and _ the Friends‘ executive bouwdwuhutodnnkdo“‘ persons who gave more than memâ€" bership fees of $1 and $5. Indiâ€" vidual gifts for as much as $100 were given. 5 f Definite plans have not been announced about future cultural programs. . However, the execu~ tive board is considering a library "open house." Such an event, it is ‘believed, would better acquaint Highland Parkers with the many Programs on art, music and great "l'hememb.'_lllipdflnh"g m:n; closed," . Mr. MacMurchy said. "Aue To keep our library up front with the leaders, adequate funds must be on hand for personnel, books and maintenance.~ '!'h"fi’! ple of Highland Park, by joining the Friends, will help supply these. funds. And by doing so, &q& gain a great deal more from excellent library." Lo Mr. MacMurchy added that if present nonâ€"members wished to join the Friends of the Highland Park Public Library, they can still Rate Increases for Telephone Service do so by sending their checks, for $1 or $5, to the Friends of the H. P. Library, c/o the library. _/ Increases in telephone s commission will become eff : in . Highland Park on July ‘é 1947, E. M.. Knox, manager the Illinois Bell Telephone pany, announced. _j _ The new monthly rates, he ex~ pinined, will be as follows: _ _ _ | _,Fourâ€"party residence, . $2.25; twoâ€"party residence, $2.75; indiâ€" vidual line residence, $3.25. _ _ ‘Twoâ€"party business, $5.00; dividual line business, $5.50; * dence extension $.60; business tension, $1.25. 4 Rates on long distance calls ing outside Illinois are not aff ed, according to ch:m manager, and rates on outâ€"ofâ€"t calls between Illinois point increased slightly. The stai threeâ€"minute initial P vhlchmnnlh-:l.: ing 30 cents or more will on calls taking a 15 cent 6r h rate. . The fivefminute i talking period will apply on taking the 10 cent toll rate, 1 will be the lowest standard for any toll call. S A feature of the higher provides . a m‘\.fid m"whkhhonm‘.li optional basis to individual business and individual line | twoâ€"party residence This service enlarges their . unlimited calling area, entitles them to unit low standard toll rates on Chicago and to many for a rate somewhat the new local rates, th will afford economies + (Continued on 5c a copy; $1.50 a

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