"No user of electricity, other than a public water supply or sewage disposal system or public street lighting system, shall, durâ€" ing the sevenâ€"day period February 27,1950 to March 5, 1950, incluâ€" sive, and during each successive sevenâ€"day period thereafter until ______otherwise ordered by the compmisâ€" .sion, use more than 75% of such customer‘s average igekly_m of electricity‘ during January, l’_fo. â€" _A customer‘s average weekly use ‘~during January, 1950 shall be personnel and services. Some of it had to.be used to grant well deserved and too long delayed pay increasâ€" â€"es to employées who had been retained and who had given loyal and efficient service in the face of.â€"inadeâ€" quate compensation and public indifference to the injustice of that compensation‘s inadequacy. & e lc m al0cl WV ue : 1 â€"Public Service Co. Begins Brownâ€"Out; Urges Strict Economy daily average number of kilowatt hours used by him in his meter : In_ lgé-ï¬;t}}‘bonds were };aid off, and some of the revenue from the operation of the water departâ€" ment became available for general purposes. there be no unnecessary or improâ€" vident use of electric energy. Therefore, customers are urged to effect the Jargest possible and practical reduction beyond the 25 per cent by reducing their conâ€" mesns as elimination of dispensâ€" able window, display, sign, marâ€" quee lighting, and other uses, This is in accordance with the IIlinois Commerce Commission orâ€" der, which said in part: f As part of the emergency coal conservation program, customers of Public Service Company > of Northern Illinois began as of Febâ€" ruary 27 to reduce the use of electricity by 25 per cent. h I i arnoetinoo orarbaid mnois d ; Mayor Robert Patton maintains a simplified statement which shows the city‘s income and its exâ€" penditures. He will be glad to show this statement to any interested citizen upon request. He and the rest of the city council will welcome and consider any constructive suggestion. If the suggestion is workâ€" able, it will be adopted ; if not, the reason or reasons that "1“t will not work will be .explained. There‘s the story;â€Ã©;n;.'frl'x_c-{i-v:.;u“égestion may help solve some of the problems. Sitting back and yelping, "I don‘t like it", won‘t solve anything. _ The referendum was given wide publicity. The voters were told that if they voted down the increase, it would be necessary to reduce the police department by three men, the fire department.by three men, and to make cuts in the personnel of the street departâ€" ment. In addition, it was explained, the city would also have to curtail othér services. The voters were told that the city would have to cut its expenditures to the exent of some $37,000 a year, because its inâ€" come would be cut by that amount if â€"the referendum were not approwed. > â€" §* <% 4 C On theâ€"election day, in April, 1948, about 60 per cent of the city‘s legal voters didn‘t bother to come to the polls. About 1,150 voted for the proposition ; about 1500 voted against it. So the cuts in personnel and service were made. / > a * However, the average wage of the city worker in Highland Park was about $400 a year less than that }fvgid‘for eomï¬arable jobs i2 <omparable cities. Thereâ€" oÂ¥e, all of the money available from the water deâ€" artment could notâ€"be used _the reduced taxâ€"rates, it became obvious that Highlanldn.Bark’s tax rate would not yield sufficient income to maintain the aboveâ€"mentioned departments ‘at the size they were at that time. Under the new state law, it became necessary to hold a referendum so that the voters might authorize a higher tax rate, if they wished to Specifically, this information concerns the size of the Highland Park police, fire and street departâ€" ments ; the reason for their present size and what the city administration has tried to do about it. /. â€" This week‘s comment will be largely historical. It is designed to bring certain widelyâ€"known informaâ€" tion to those who are obviously not in possession of it. Vol. No. 89 ; No.1 The â€"serious .nature.. of ~theâ€"exâ€" In 1947, because new state laws limited the city t T Tw us on ul 1 s ioi y ib ce 120 t nenupge eï¬ n 1 ... _ The Higbland Park Pregs |=== Township Supervisor To Address Kiwanians At Monday Meceting _ The guest speaker at that meetâ€" ing will be Mr. Emmett Moroney, Twm'iip supervisor, . who will speak on township affairs. * Mr. Moroney is a native and Hfelong resident of Highland Park. Schedule For Wasteâ€"Paper Pickâ€"up The Kiwanis club will meet .at 6:30 p.m. at the Sunset Valley club house next Monday evening. total fees collected by the Buildâ€" ing department to $3,816.21. _ Permits for 9 sanitary sewers, 6 storm sewers, 9 water taps, 3 re(htutiom'_a_nd 1 driveway, raise Comparative ‘values and nimâ€" ber of buildings for February 1949â€"1950: March 6â€"Elm Place school March 7â€"Lincoin~, â€" * March 8â€"Ravinia March 9â€"Braeside March 10â€"Green Bay and Permits for 8 dwellings, 1 private garage, 3 alterations and 2 public buildings have a total valuation of $939,946â€"fees $2,â€" popepndnietpriietaiith in t adiciaOiLaninicdil. a.2 s 606.96. 33 electrical permits and 20 tank burner permits raise building department permit fees to $2,982.291. _ > _ °~â€"_ 1949 1950 February Report Of Building Department Number Valuation 14 $129,198.00 14 939,946.00 â€" Highland Park, Ilinoiz: â€" Concert Date Changed; April 2 Is New Date Highland Parker Heads Ilinois Cancer Drive~ To Open April 1 Goal for the 1950 fundâ€"raising campaign of the Illinoisâ€"Division, American Cancer Society, is $900,â€" (00, announces A. E. Patton, 453 So. Sheridan road, vice presiffent and secretary of the Public Servâ€" ice Company of Northern Tilinois, state campaign chairman. The _Bunday, April 2 is the date set for the Annual Spring Concert in The band and chorus will both appear in the program. * executive in the trucking industry. Lincoln are at Lincoln and for Braeside and Ravinia at the Raâ€" vinia School, . drive will open Abpril 1. Auditorium at 3:30 in the afterâ€" The election will be held Saturâ€" day April 8 from Noon to 7 P.M. Polling places for West Ridge and The Caucus, composed of repâ€" resentatives from the four schools in District 108, held its final meetâ€" ing on Sunday, Feb. 19, at the West Ridge School. The Caucus presents and endorses the followâ€" ing slate of three. Robert S. Cushâ€" man for president to succeed J. M. Maxwell who is retiring after three terms as president. Munroe Fearing â€"as a candidate for memâ€" b*r to run for a three year term. Haroldâ€"â€"Foreman, Jr., who has served one year on the Board, as a candidate for a three year term. president and ~General Merchanâ€" dise Manager of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Harold Foreman, Jr. Three Candidates Named Robert S. Cushman is a gradâ€" uate of Harvard Law School, Class of 1929.and is a partner in the firm of MacLeish, Spray, Price and Underwood. Munroe Fearing is a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1929 and is now viceâ€" For School Board Of District 108 would travel up these as it would When the core program deâ€" veloped into a regular part of our curriculum, it was necesslry,‘ because of the method of teaching (by the study of projects, particiâ€" pation in committee activity#«de bate and discussion, oral‘ repoi'ts.g ete.) ‘to have a large room to house it. To provide this a ‘qalll between two rooms was removed, but the two sections are still" on different floor levels. ~ The Cafetcria is in the basement of this building. We have three lunch periods, serving a total of from 300 to 400 students in each of the different shifts. On hot and humid days in the fall and spring, the pipes drip and the walls get wet. and. the floor becomes slipâ€" pery and/dangerous, when so many are walking around on it. methods of education in which student participation is stressed. Five® of the rooms are roughly 15 ft by 22 ft and must accomâ€" modate 20 to 25 students at desks or in chairs with writing arms, plus a teacher‘s desk and supplies. The rooms are used for Science, English, Core Curriculum, and Commerce subjects, * % 1915, and is now "useléss"â€"Let‘s face it!â€"from an administrativeâ€" standpoint, as a functional buildâ€" ing in our present setâ€"up. The rooms are too small for modern: In our tour of inspection of the High School these last few, weeks, we ‘started at the ‘back of the grounds with the Power ‘Plant, Sandwick Hall, the Auditorium and Industrial Arts buildings. & Today we _ramble around the East building, the one along St. Johns Avenue, that extends beâ€" tween Shields Hall and the area< way south of the Auditorium. It contains the English Club Room which is familiar to all . PTA members past and present. The building is also a fire hazâ€" (Continued on page 6) stromg bid in the first half, gainâ€" ing a 13â€"8 advantage at the end of the first quarter. At half time the Little Giants were behind by a 23â€"18 score and could not come back to gain the lead again. George and Lorenzo Marchietti, sparked the team in theâ€"first perâ€" lod and both gave good accounts of themselves in their first game as members of the varsity. Bobby Frieman and George led the Blue and White scoring with 11 points each. Conch Chet Carlson used Freeâ€" man, George, Marchietti, Coleman, Little Giants Defeated By New Tricer 55 to 39 In Regional Tournament The Highland Park high school Little Giant basketball team team mot with a 55.to 39 defeat in the first round of the Regional turnaâ€" ment held at Evanston high school last night. Ponsi and Booth in an effort to advance in the tournament. The League announced the folâ€" lowing list of officers and memâ€" bers of its general committee: Chairman, Raymond C. Warner; viceâ€"chairmen: Gordon Clavey, Frederick Halton, "Jr.,; Lorentz Knouff, Bruce Krasberg; execuâ€" tive secretary, Harold Pfister, Sr.; secretary, Wendall Haner; and treasurer, Gaylord Kalseim. Members of the General Comâ€" mittee: Harry Aiston, Mrs. Alfred Aldridge, ~Bertram _ Beers, _Mrs. William Behrens, Walter Crowâ€" dus, Emory Curtis, Robert Earâ€" hart, Ross Goodwin, C. W. Haupt, Mrs. Gordon Holland, Darwin Inâ€" man, . Reginald Johnson, Mrs. George ‘Kirkgasser, Howard _ Lauâ€" sche, Walter Lillie, Clifford Makeâ€" lim, George McGhic, Jr., Frank C. ~Miller, ‘Mike Miotti, Geotge Mueller, Mrs. David Pasquesi, Mrs. George Piper, Robert S. Prosser, Stanley Rosenbaum, Lester Sandâ€" ers,â€" Hugo â€" Schneider, Sidney Schwartz, Howard Slater, Mrs. J. Calvin Smith, George Spiel, Marâ€" Voters League Receives State Charter; List of Officers & ~\_‘Mr. Warner stated that the first objective of the League will be to work for the consolidation of school districts to correct what has been described as "the present crazyâ€"quilt pattern‘" by Dr. HJ H. Linn, Columbia University expert District 108, whose recent report confirmed the findings of the Voters‘ League and . resulted in the shelving of the proposed $1,â€" 400,000 intermediate school. shall Strauss, Mrs. Alfred Trude, Mrs. Harry Van Ornum, Mrs. W. the names of the block workers who will be ringing your doorbells during the month of March, urges the residents of Highland Park to remember. the many Red Cross services that benefit our own community and to give generousâ€" ly. Names of block workers will appear next week. c _ The issuance of a charter from the State of Illinois to the Disâ€" trict 108 Voters" League as a not for profit corporation, and the completion of the permanent orâ€" ganization of the: League were announced todayâ€"by Raymond C. Warner, League chairman. _ The 1950 Red Cross Fund Campaign is in full swing in Highâ€" land Park and every resident will have an opportunity to contribute. Block workers have been chosen to bring in each neighborhood‘s share of the $2,700,000 quoty set for the Chicago Red ‘Cross Knp- ter. The Chicago Chapter serves some 5,000,000 persons living in DuPage and â€"Cook Counties and the southern half of Lake County. ._ More thar half of each Red Cross dollar goes to help members of the Armed Forces and victims Carl Holzheimer;fund chairman fe!- Highland Park, in announcing community is served by such Red Cross services as lMfieâ€"saving clasâ€" ses, food and nutrition counselling, first aid and accident prevention training and the teaching of home nursing techniques for caring for the .sick at home. + RED CROSS DRIVE PROGRESSES "Big" Boh tion of the tax funds originally appropriated for the proposed in> termediate school, the plans for With this thought in mind, the Voters‘ League has addressed the following <letter to each of the candidates upder date of Februâ€" ary 27: s( e ._"In view of the vital importance of certain matters which will come Voters‘ League Invites Statement From Candidates which have now been shelved. before the new â€"Boardâ€" of Educaâ€" tion in the immediate future, parâ€" ticularly with respect to the quesâ€" tion of school district consolidaâ€" tion and the use to be made of the unexpended $1,400,000 in tax suant to its purpose of providing information â€" for ¢he voters to guide them in advancingâ€"~educaâ€" tional standards, respectfully reâ€" (Continued on page 6) Raymond C. Warner, chairman of the Distriét 108 Voters‘ League, stated today that the issue of school district consolidation makes the approaching school board. election in District 108 one of extreme importance, in view of the fact that $1,400,000 of tax money still remains in the hands sideration of prime importance is the position of each candidate on the vital issues of school district consolidation, the reeds of the high school in relation to those of District 108, and the disposiâ€" and their‘ guests, Members who have not yet sent their 1949â€"50 dues are urged to renew ~memberships with H. L. Nelson, treasurer, 618 N. Green Bay road. 8. of the board without any anâ€" nounced plans for its giisposition. He observed that a caucus group recently made public the names of three candidatesâ€" who will: seek office _as.. members_of .the.. school C While the Voters" League notes with _ interest ‘ the â€" annour¢ed qualifications of each of these candidates, the League feels, acâ€" _ The significance of the elecâ€" tions held in England last week will be discussed by Roy C. Maâ€" <ridis, well known political anâ€" alyst, at the second of a series of open house events at the Highâ€" land Park Public Library at 4 p.m. Sunday (March 5). The speaker took his M.A, and PH.D. degrees at Harvard and stuiied law and sociologyâ€"at the University of Paris. During the war, he worked in the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services, In 1946 he served with the State Department as a member of the allied mission to observe theâ€"elections in Greece. He taught at Harvard before comâ€" ing recently to Northwestern. ; The third event of the Ffiends %é,_%_ggjxï¬hnd Park Library will n Sunday, ApFT 7 XC A p.m. when Major Howard T. Markey, sole survivor of the original ‘pilots who tested the early jet planes, will discussâ€""Jet Propulsion and Guided Missiles." â€" ; The events are open without charge to members of the Friends No election abroad has held the interest of Americans as has the recent ballotting in Britain, and it is expected that Macridis will evaluate the effect of the voting on Angloâ€"American relations and on world affairs. There will be a question period after Macridis makes his ‘presentation. Political Analyst To Discuss Recent Elections In England Macridis is assistant professor of comparative . government at Northwestern University. He is well known as an able speaker and is unusually well qualified by years of studyâ€"to describe "The Prosâ€" pects for the New British Governâ€" The Friends of the Highland Park Library are presenting the discussionâ€" as part of the organâ€" ization‘s Spring program. o Friends Of Library To Present Roy C. Macridis Sunday March 5 Next week‘all members of the Association will receive a letter accompanied by a return enâ€" welope for ease in renewing subâ€" ‘scrigon.s. Memberships, costing the same as last year, may be reâ€" newed at the high school audiâ€" torium the evening of March 15, before the Pittsburgh Symphony concert. They. also. may be forâ€" warded‘ by mail, with checks payâ€" able ‘to the Community. Concert Association, â€"to Mrs. Robert D. Ingwersen, secretary, at 346 East Park Ave., Highland Park. ® Pittsburgh Symphony > Concert . members will" receive an unusual treat when the Pittsâ€" burgh Symphony plays here beâ€" cause the great orchestra will have as guest director the worldâ€"reâ€" nowned French conductor, Paul Monitor: said: "It was the most exciting concert we have heard in ‘a long time . . . ‘La Valse‘ had the most startling performance we have heard since Ravel himself conducted it." Of his New York concert, Olin Downes, the eminent g critic of the New York ‘Times, said: "Mr. Paray is a find . . . In this remarkably equipped conducâ€" tor we have first and last a musiâ€" cian, not a sensationalist, but a most perceptive interpreter, whose art should be better known to our Paray Widely Famous Emblem Club To Nominate Officers At March 8 Meeting A regular business meeting of the. Highland Park Emblem club will be held Wednesday, Marck 8 at 8 p.m. in the Elks clubrooms with the president, Mrs. Norman _ Heretofore: a communityâ€"wide campaign has been conducted each year prior to the first concert in the fall. The executive committee voted last night to accept memâ€" Berships for the first time during the week of the Pittsburgh Symâ€" phony concert. This decision was reached because of the. spirited interest and enthusiastic attendâ€" apce throughout the current serâ€" ies. 3 Since he became conductor of the Concerts Solonne in Paris, Mr. Paray‘s fame has become wideâ€" spread throughout Europe. In this country he has beem guest conâ€" ductor of the Boston, New York, Cincinnatiâ€"an‘d â€"Pittsburgh â€"Symâ€" phony Orchestras. + f public Robert . Ingwersen, â€" treasurer, pointed out thatâ€"the number of memberships not only â€"will determâ€" ine the quality ‘of next season‘s lineup, but that the greater adâ€" vance response obtained, the betâ€" ter opportunity the ‘Community Concert Association . will have in obtainingadvance booking for arâ€" tists of the stature members have Mrs, Bert Berube, chairman of the ‘rominating committee, will present the slate of those nominâ€" ated for election as officers. There will be a board mesting for al officers Monday, March 6 at 8:15 in the Elks clubrooms. from a threeâ€"year precedent to acâ€" The Highland Park Community Concert . Association will depart next ~winter‘s series . during its final concert, Marck 15, when it presents the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra at the high school audiâ€" torium. â€" This announcement was forthâ€" coming from,Harold W. Norman, president, and Alfred T. Sihler, vice president, who will succeed to the ‘presidency next season. Both officials emphasized that the qualâ€" ity of the 1950â€"51 series will deâ€" pend upon the number of members who join. Attendance at the conâ€" cert programs is limited to memâ€" Concerts Association To Accept Next Year‘s Memberships, March 15 In Mr. Paray‘s debut in Boston, a eopy ; $1.50 a year .