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Highland Park Press, 14 Jun 1951, p. 2

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Communieations inteamded for publication must be written on one side of the paper only, and be signed with the name and address of the writer. Issued Thursday of each week by the Highlandâ€"Park Press, 616 Laurel avenue, Highland Park, MI, Telephone: Highland Park (HI) 2â€"0557. Subscription rates: $1.50 per year; 5 cents per single copy. $3.00 per year outside of Lake County, Tilinois. p Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the Post Office at Highland Park, Illinois. Sudden Thought : Are you the kind of person who sees the thorns on a rose bush? Or the roses on a thorn bush? " AVC Poll Finds Us Proâ€"Mac, Proâ€"Ally Most North Shore voters supâ€" port MacArthur‘s war plans, but few would cut off European alliâ€" ances, a crossâ€"section poll of 500 citizens here showed this week. A sizable minority think the President should be impeached for gelting us into a jam, according to figures released by North Shore Chapter of American Veterans Committee. . AVC polisters said that answers collected recently from radio audâ€" iences | by â€" commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., and published by Conâ€" gresswoman â€" Margucrite Stitt Church, were out of> step with average 13th Congressional Distâ€" rict opinion. Errors in the Lewis poll ranged up to ten thousand per cent, they, charged. "Where Lewis found 87 per cent of his listeners Tlacked faith in our Europeap allies‘ will to fight against communism," stated North Shore AVC Chairman Howâ€" ard Kraus, Glencoe, "our replies showed 70 per cent of voters here do believe in Europe‘s potential ability to,resist the red tide." Better than threeâ€"quarters of their ballots _ favored universal military training, the vets found, THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS How Safe Is Highland Park? ... You‘ll enjoy "Show Boat"â€"and the many other musicals that‘ll be at the Music¢ Theater for the rest of the summer. â€" Parting Thought ... y â€" § | â€" "Man may have more courage than woman," says| 0. E. Reed, "but he doesn‘t get half the chance to show | his backbone!" ¢ â€" | "Show Boat" is a gay musical with wonderful tunes that have remained popular for years. Wonder How The Women Would Do? .. . . We were talking with a neighbor the other eveâ€" ning and he said that he has learned it‘s usually best to let his wife have her own way. ... . _ "Life is too short to argue," he said. "And, mayâ€" be," he added, "we mgn â€"aren‘t right..We‘ve done a, fiég;t,y_]}oqu()b of running this nation of ours. Perâ€" aps the women can do a farfinerâ€"jebâ€"Whoâ€"knows?". â€" â€"Could be? . 1 | â€"__â€" Highland Park, scouts report, has fewer policeâ€" men on duty now than it did several years agoâ€"when Highland Park was a much smaller town ! e Our police force is doing more than its duty. Why? Because it‘s underâ€"staffedtand underpaid. . "Show Boat" Next Sunday! ... Talented Barrie O‘Daniels and his allâ€"star cast bring the immortal "Show Boat" to theâ€" Music Theater next Sunday evening. o es [ B £ _ In addition, we‘re told, many of our conscientious policemen have had to get part time jobs, during offâ€" duty hours, to meet the rising costs of living. Result? . : Many of the policemen are weary when they go on duty and cannot perform as alertly as they must in their important work. _ P sok s What to do? Up the salaries of our important law enforcement officials and hire more men. We can do both. . It‘s up to us. We want Highland Park to be a safe town. _ _® Page 2 by ‘Everett L. Millard Lester 8. Olson, Publisher. (SPECIAL TO THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS) Random Jottings. . .. | row, while a solid majority approve ecâ€" onomic aid to our European allies. These results, too, are the reverse of opinions found in the Lewis radio audience. . Ordinarily George and Boo‘ket’ T. enjoyed more.leisurely pursuits. Today they were discussing their individual prowess. "Yo‘ has got a bet," said George darkly. "You ain‘t nothing of the kind," said Booker T., "and Ah‘ll prove it to you. Ah‘ll bet you fo‘ dollahs Ah can wheel something in that wheel barrow from here to the fence that you cain‘t wheel back." ‘‘I‘s about the strongest man they is in this town," said George. Should all ableâ€"bodied U. S. male citizens have military training? ... Do you feel that Euâ€" rope can really resist Communism? ... Do you approve of ecâ€" onomic aid to our Euroâ€" pean allies? ...........2.. Do you approve Gen. MacArthu‘s war plan? Should â€" Congress â€" imâ€" peach President Truâ€" MAMT ........l0.0.0ullu0s. As of today would you vote for President Truâ€" nthn? Wieenencten All right, man," said Booker moving toward the wheel barâ€" Highwood Glass & Paint Co. 963 Waukegan Ave. All Phones, HI 2â€"7811 VENETIAN BLINDS Window â€"Gilcrafter Pct. Pet. Yes No "7.â€"928 70 30 70 30 T72 28 48 52 13 87 | The patriotic ballad "America pegcaks" written by three seventh grade English groups, under the direction of Miss Edna Grenoble, was the last number on the proâ€" gram and was given by a special ballad choir chosen Trom. the sevâ€" enth grade. During Brotherhood Week these groups had talked simply and freely about what iAmvrica means to them, about the beauty of their country, about | their responsibilities,â€" privileges, |and . opportupities, about their freedom, and about people #hom they knew who had sought new homesâ€" in â€" Ameriea. â€"Eachâ€"pupil wrote on the part he. felt he could {do best; thus "America Speaks" |\ was the resultâ€"the composite | work of the entire group. % Evening Of Choral Poetry At Elm . Recently the sixth and seventh grades of Elm Place School invited their parents and friends to‘ an evening .of choral poetry in the Jesse Lowe Smith Auditorium., Five verse speaking choirs, conâ€" sisting of home room groups, parâ€" ticipated in the program, which was aâ€"culmination of the study of poetry in the literature classes. Some of the poems given were written by the older poets, and others were by the more modâ€" éfn writers. They included poems about the beauty of nature, peoâ€" pleâ€"queer and otherwise, and creaturesâ€"both great and small. Some poems were humorous and others were patriotie and religâ€" 10u8, / Miss Clara White directed the choral speiking choirs. The colorâ€" ful tableau for the ballad was staged and costumed by Miss Fern Sprague and Miss Edna Grenoble. The evening‘s program was a proâ€" duct of the Language Arts Deâ€" partment, â€" Installation Of Officers At B & P W Club North Shore Business and Proâ€" fessional . Woman‘s Club will inâ€" stall their officers for the 1951â€" 1952 year at a dinner meeting in the Winnetka Community House on Thursday, June 14. The installing officer is to be Mrs. Maxine Woodruff, President of: the Illinois Federation of Busiâ€" ness and Professional Women‘s Clubs, Inc. Mrs. Woodruff, a resiâ€" dent of Mount Vernon, Ill., is President of the Illinois Federaâ€" tion for the second time. Choral speaking originated with the Greeks who made use of it in their dramatic productions, Later the bards and minstrels of Europe went from one part of the counâ€" try to the other speaking and singâ€" ing. The common people joined in the refrain. After the invention of printing verse speaking by groups fell into disuse. About thirty years ago Marjorie Gullan formed The Verse Speaking Choir of Glas gow. Since that time choric speakâ€" ing, as a means of expressing poetry, has been enjoyed by both adults and children. The poetry given by the choirs was illustrative of the various types of choral speaking arrangementâ€" refrain, lineâ€"aâ€"child, â€" antiphonal or two part, part, and unison speaking. The evening of . choral poetry was enjoyed by ‘the parents and friends who attended, and by the children. who participated. Miss Helen Boice of Highland Park will be installed as Vice Presâ€" ident, and Miss Lillian Tucker, so a Highland Park resident, *in will serve as the Recording ecretary for the North Shore Club. The members and friends of the B. & P. W. Club are cordially inâ€" vited to attend this meeting. As the last line of the ballad ended, the curtain opened: onâ€" a beautiful, colorful tableau ‘depictâ€" ing many characters mentioned in the ballad .who were ‘grouped ubout Cglumbia, the ce ure. o O omrenseiee A Television Fix? Call "Moley" sure, For video grief, we have the cure! Your radio too, when it needs repair, A ‘"Moley" mend, is beyond compare! . m Moley Radio & Elect. 31 S. St. Johne HI. 2â€"2042 THE â€"PRESS ntral fig John D. Pickett of 303 Ravine dr., Christian Science practitioner, was selected by The Chrigtian Science Board of Directors to read a special report from the Field at the Annual Mecting/of The Mothâ€" er Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., on June 4. A former Cfiicago busiâ€" nessman active in local, civic, and social affairs, Mr. Pickett now deâ€" votes his full time to the public ractice of Christian Science healâ€" ing. > â€" f More than 400 years before this nation was founded, King Edâ€" ward II of England sought to meet the problems of inflation with a price control edict that provided: "Butchers, fishmongers, regators _ (produce merchants), hostelers, brewers, bakers, poultâ€" erers and all other sellers of all ‘manner of victual, shall be bound to sell the same victual for a reaâ€" sonable price and if they sell such victuals in any other manner and thereof be convict, he shall pay double for the same that he so Wherses" _ _ Phone â€" HI 2â€"1401 betweenâ€"9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Window Cleaning Service Residence and Commercial FIRST QUALITY Belleâ€"Sharmeer NORâ€"SHORE Garnett &â€"Company Presbyterian Church School Holds Promotions the Worship Service held for all children of the Church School, | their parents, andâ€"the congregatâ€" tion as a whole on Sunday, June 8, at the Highland Park Presbyâ€" terian Church. Dr. William Atkinâ€" | son Young, Minister, moderated | the service, conducted almost enâ€"| tirely by the boys and girls themâ€" selves. Mr. Greenfield, Associate Minister, delivered the brief Serâ€" monette for boys and girls, and | More than 250. boys and girls from Nursery through High school departments were recognized for promotions to new departments in monette for boys and girls, and Miss Diana Crawford, Educational Secretary, made the presentations for promotion to the departmental superintendents. Those. who were promoted, all except the High school seniors receiving certficates, were in the highest grade of each department. More than 250 pupils were recogâ€" nized. HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Superintendents who have serâ€" ved this past year in the various departments are as follows: Nurâ€" sery, Mrs. Elzie Partlow; Kinderâ€" garten; Mrs. Harold Pfister; Priâ€" mary, Mrs. Frank Trangmar; Junâ€" ior, Mrs. Thore Johnson; Junior High, Mr. John Stevens; High School, Mr. A. 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