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Highland Park Press, 14 Jun 1951, p. 1

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\_â€"_â€"_â€"â€" The Higbland Park Pregs | stead, take the children to a superâ€" vised public display. especially in swimming and boatâ€" Tragic as war is, according to the National Safety Council, the mumber of Amer!g:u' killed in traffic accidents since the invenâ€" tion of the automobile is nearly twice as great as the number killed in combat in all the nation‘s wars. American dead from enemy action in the eight conflicts of our history, including the war in Korea, total about 533,000, the Council said, while traffic acciâ€" dents have now claimed more th&n 971,000. p "With traffic deaths approachâ€" ing the 1,000,000 mark, the highâ€" hazard period of the Fourth of July celebration is a good time for every motorist to pledge that he won‘t be one in a million," said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council. ‘"The calendar wil save lives this year, since the Fourth wwill fall in midâ€"week and bring only m oneâ€"day holiday for most perâ€" sons," Mr. Dearborn said. "Even so, it will beya day of tragedy for many unless commonâ€"sense rules of behavior are observed." He said these rules are; 1. Start your trip early enough so lhnt'you won‘t have to hurry. Take it easy. take chances. _ % 2. Be patient in heavy traffic. Don‘t let annoyance make. you National Safety Council Pleads For Caution Over July 4th week in the crash of eight Fâ€"84 Thunderjets near Richmond, Ind. The country is well acquainted with the details of the catastrophe, but Highland Parkers are most concerned with the tragic fate of the boy born and brought up in their ‘town, a graduate b{ wheir their police force, and to whom they pointed with pride as one of the most brilliant fighter pilots in : World War II, holding the Distinguished Flying Cross and Distinguished Unit citation, the Air Medal with nine clusters lndl three major combat stars. ‘ After graduating from high school, Captain Moroney attended Texas Christian university, where he met Mary Jane Wright of Fort Worth, Texas, They were marâ€" ried July 1, 1943. Their daughter Kathy is six years old. He entered the army in February, 1941, was assigned to the reception center at Camp Grant, III., and in Septâ€" ember, 1942, was transferred to shock and grief that Highland Parkers learned of the death of Capt. Edward J. (Sonny) Morâ€" oney, Jr., who was one of the three jet pilots lost on Friday of last Highland Park Pilot Lost In Jet Crash Vol. 40; No. 16 Traffic accidents in the single It CAPT. E AIN EDWARD J. MORONEY , JR. Lions To Install Officers June 21 The Installation Night Cereâ€" mony of the -l‘rhlaml Park Lions club will be Reld at the Recreaâ€" tion center, ‘Thursday evening, June 21. District Governor Charles E. Twadell of Libertyville will inâ€" stail John Wehrheim as president of the club for 1951â€"52. Enterâ€" tainment will be furnished by the Garino Accordian school. green and white striped tent hung with its baskets of petunias will be the Leo J. Sheridans, the Euâ€" gene O‘Reilly, and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rose, Jr. Mrs. Walter J. Meierhoff is president of the orâ€" ganization. * â€" When the Music Theatre troupe sings the romamntic "Show Boat" score by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II, the lead will be taken by Evelyh Wycoff, the origiâ€" nal "Laurie" of Chicago‘s ."Okla~ homa" cast. Barrie O‘Daniels is the producer. ;A County Line Road. Preceding the performance, which will raise funds for the group‘s building fund, supper parâ€" ties will be given at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. George C. McClelâ€" land, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Tarpey and Mr. and Mrs. Rayâ€" mond G. Sheahen. Returning to his Highland Park home, 572 Glenview, after the end of World War II, he served his town as police patrolman until February, 1951, when he returned to the air force. He is the son of former Police Chief and Mrs. Edâ€" ward J. Morsaey ©£4575 Glenview Mr:â€"Moroney;, Sr: also serâ€" ved his town as city commissioner, retiring from that post this spring. Dinner Parties Set For Music Theatre Benefit Dotting Highland Park June 19 will be a series of Summer dinner parties given by members of the Mothers‘ Guild of the Immaculate sponsor of "Show Boat" at Music Services were held at 10 a.m. yesterday (Wednesday) at the Seguin Funeral Home,. followed by â€"military rites at St. Mary‘s cemetery, Lake Forest, where a delegation of 20 from the Illinois Police Assoviation served as guard of honeor. Mrs. G. W. Cowart of Albuquerâ€" gue, New Mexico; two brothers, Emmett, of. Highland ,Park, _and Patrick, now stationed in Texas with the, armed forces. the air corps. He put in 300 comâ€" bat hours in the Eighth air force, shot down six enemy planes in the European theatér, and was, himâ€" self, ‘downed by enemy fire in January, 1945. Falling a few miles from the Belgium border, he landed unhurt within the Allied lines in that area. In addition to his wife, daughâ€" ter and parents, Captain Moroney is survived by two sisters, Mrs. H. E. Lang of Highland Park, and on _Skokio Highway at Church before the Highland Park, Illinois A Paper for Highland Parkers ® Published by Highland Parkers Summer Schedule At Presbyterian Church With the Church School ‘proâ€" gram. closed for the summer months, Sunday mortning services of worship at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church will be held, beginning June 17, at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday morning until reâ€" sumption of the fuil church and church school schedules in Septemâ€" ber. The worship services for the summer will continue to run for e ie soming "Stpie. ons «an throughout most of June and July. Members of the Highland Park Kiwanis club entertained their ‘hdiq Monday evening at "The Island Restaurant." The speaker ‘tor the occasion was Capt. Herâ€" man Swenson, USMCR, Officer in Charge of Intelligence for the 6th Marine Division in World War II Capt. Swenson has spent 30 years in China, and speaks the language fluently. He is a member of the Royal Geographical Society and is at present buyer of jewels for Marshall Field‘s of Chicago. Both he and Mrs, Swenson are close friends of the Chiang Kaiâ€"Shekd. Special music ;.ll; hg::&&e’d each Sunday by nom from members of the Quartet. Kiwanians Hear Marine Intelligence Officer Herman W, Leuer, chairman of the dance committee, said that Louis Garino and his orchestra will furnish the music. There will be‘ both square dancing and ball room dancing. The dance is being given for the benefit of the Legion Building Fund. All members and friends of the Post are cordially invited to attend. Legion Plans Fun For All SaMy, June 23 Commander Bernard P. Sheehy announced that the Post will hold a Hard Times Party and Barn Dance at the new Legion Memorial Building on Saturday Evening, June 23rd at 8:30 p.m. Plan to attend this double headâ€" er on July 29. The price of adâ€" missions will be used to prevent or at least minimize juvenile delinâ€" quency in our community. All participants in this doubleâ€"header are paying the regular entrance fee as will the spectators. 4 Center, is working in . collaboraâ€" tion with the Moose AthleticgJiy rettors and Lodge officers to make this annual event a real success. Bocker Peterson will play the secâ€" ond game in a 12 inch ball game against an opponent to be anâ€" nounced at a later date. Mr, McCarthy, our new director of the Highland Park Recreation ~â€" The second annual benefit game sponsored by the Loyal Order of Moose will help out the Highland Park Recreation Board as all reâ€" ceipts of the games will go to the . Tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. (weather permitting) the Moose will play: host to the powerful Somenzi & Son Furniture Allâ€"Stars from ‘Highwood. Their roster is studded with experienced ball players who have been playing exceptionally well together for the past few years, Bruno Somenâ€" zi, ‘Highwood, merchant is the sponsor and pfiys with the team while Bruno Bertucci is the playâ€" ing manager. The Governors and Somenzi‘s will oppose each other on July 29th at the High school athletic field as the first of a twin bill to be offered at the Second Annual Benefit ball game. The Highland. Park Merchants, managed ° by Second Annual Benefit Game Next Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. the Highland Park Moose Governors play their first home game in the Moose 16 inch softâ€" ball league, The Barington Moose Lodge is the newest addition in the District and they are expected to field an excellent softball team. In the future, the "Governors" will play a':rtheir home games every other week under the lights on Monday night at 8:30. To Play Barrington; Hold Benefit Game Last year the Moose team aâ€" massed a terrific total of runs in this league but failed in the finals for entrance into the State finals played at Mooseheart. Highland Park Moose Scarcely had Highland Parkers accepted the fact that "Sonny" Raffert yhad lost his life in a plane crash while a passenger in a transatlantic transport, when the news broke that “SonnÂ¥l" Moroney was one of the victims of the crash of eight jet fighter planes last Friday. i: 3w Both of these fineâ€"young men had served with distinetion in World War IIâ€"Captain Rafferty as a bomber gilot and Captain Moroney as a fighber pilot. Both had returned home to their families after having earned, many times over, the c:ifiht to live in a world of é)eace. Both answered the to return to service ‘:in ,t’;oth have given "the last fall measure of devoâ€" on. ¢ Both were needed by their families, their comâ€" munity and their country. May their children see the peace for which their fathers paid. * Someone has suggested that an umbrella is the only thing we have left that can be put away for a rainy day! The customary closing seventh week of chamber music will bring together the Budapest String Quartet and William Kapell in four concerts of quartets, quintets and solos. William Steinberg, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmoni¢ and a Ravinia favorite, will conduct the first and sixth weeks of orchestral music. Izler Solomon will conduct the second week‘s concerts; Pierre Monteux, the third week; Dimitri Mitropoulos, the fourth and Victor DeSabata, the fifth week. Soloists are William Kapell, piâ€" anist; Michael Rabin, violinist; Jan Peerce, tenor; Mrs. Alyne Dumas Lee, soprano; Theodore Lettvin, pianist; Etta Mae Moten, soprano; William Warfield, baritone; Abba Bogin, pianist; Frances Yeend, lyâ€" ric soprano; Eléna Nikolaidi, conâ€" traito and Yiâ€"Kweiâ€"Sze, bass. The Northwestern University Chorus and Eva Jessye Choir from New York will appear with the orâ€" chestra, and the De Paur Military Chorus will present a special conâ€" â€"â€"Persons livingg west of Ravinia will find Waukegan Road (42A) with a turnâ€"off at Lakeâ€"Cook rd. (often called County Line Road) a quick, convenient route to the park. Skokie highway also is an excellent route to Ravinia. Concert evenings will be as usual on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings at 8:30 ‘o‘clock and on Sunday afternoon at 4:00. The Ravinia Festival Association has announced & brsiant program forâ€"itsâ€"=1951â€"season. â€"Five world famous guest conductors, eleven soloists and wo choruses are schedâ€" uled© to appear with the Chicago Symphony ; Orchestra during the _ The new Ravinia pavilion, comâ€" pleted last summer, is a unique architectural structure which seats 38,000 persons in its bowlâ€"shaped interior. Ravinia enjoys the disâ€" ;tinction of being one o{ the only two summer music festivals in the United States which are present / under a permanent roof, the othi being Tanglewood in Massachuâ€" setts. Ravinia, however, is the oldâ€" est of all such artistic enterprises. Green Bay Road is the most diâ€" rect route to Ravinia Park for those who live east. Sheridan Road to Ravinia is a scenic, but longer drive. Ravinia is located betWween Glencoe and.Highland Park. Five World Famous â€" Artists During Season. > The parking area immediately south of the begutiful new $350,â€" 000 steel pavilion has been enâ€" larged to accomodate 300 more cars. Entrance at this area is a northâ€"turnâ€"off from County Line Road at the first road east of the Northwestern and No%h Shore parallel railroad tracks. Entrance to the other parking area is from Sheridan Road. A substantial increase in parkâ€" ing area this year at Ravinia Park on Chicago‘s North Shore will proâ€" vide space for 4,500 automobiles when the Ravinia Festival opens its 16th season of symphony music on Tuesday evening, June 26. Ravinia Will Present RAVINIA FESTIVAL OPENS JUNE 26 Thursday, June 14, 1951 i13 C "s erved in numerous supervisory capacities since then. He was named superintendent of the company‘s transportation ofâ€" [fices in Evanston in 1948. Camera;" Robert A. McCoy‘s "Practical Photography;" Hugo Van Wadenoyen‘s "Photographing People;" "Negative and Print Reâ€" touching for Amateur and Pro« fessional," by Anne J. Anthony; and "An Introduction to the Sciâ€" ence of Photography," by K. The library offers a comprehenâ€" sive collection of books to amaâ€" teurs and professionals in this popular. field. Among new titles to be found on the shelves are: Jacob Deschin‘s "Say It With Your _ An unusual photography exhibit is currently on view at the Highâ€" land Park Public Library.. The work of Mrs. Lisbeth Anrod, wellâ€" known expert in this field, the exhibit features portraits of chilâ€" dren,â€"engaging in their simplicity apd individual charm, Mrs. Anrod, who has exhibited several times in the Chicago area, is a specialist in child photography. She began her career as a painter in Germany, but later became inâ€" terested in photogrophy and studâ€" ied at the School of Arts and Phoâ€" tography in Berlin. Soon after her arrival in the United â€"States in 1940 her photographs were exâ€" hibited in the Library of Conâ€" gress. In addition to her portraits of children, Mrs. Anrod specialâ€" izes in plant photography. Photography Exhibit At City Library _Stukey is a member of the Soâ€" ciety of ‘Automotive Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Automotive Transporâ€" tation Supervisors Association, the American Legion, Masonic Lodge, and the social fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon which: he joined while an undergraduate at Northâ€" western University. The Stukeys have two sons. David C., Jr., is employed by the Sandee Corporation in Chicago, while Stanford K., recently comâ€" pleted his freshman year at the . Tomorrow (June 15) will mark the 30thâ€"anniversary with the Pubâ€" lic Service Company of Northern Illinois for David C. Stukey, 1527 Sheridan road. R Starting as an inspector in the engineering department at the utility‘s Evanston office in 1921, Cancer Contributions Over $6000 Reported By Chairman Cohen Public Service Veteran David C. Stukey The last regular meeting before the start of the summer vacation of the Woman‘s Association of the Highland Pk. Presbyterian Church will be the spring luncheon, to be held in .the parish house of the church, Thursday, June :21, at 12:30. Mrs. Gordon Parks‘ group will serve the luncheon, assisted by_Mrs. Carl Howard‘s group, who will prepare the dessert. Those planning to attend are asked to make their reservations with the activity chairman of the group to which they belong. ‘ At 2 o‘cl6ck Mrs. Keenth Lacy, program chairman, will present Mts. Harry W. Hoppe, who will review Logise Dickinson Rich‘s book ""My Neck of the Woods," a series of incidents based on Mrs. Rich‘s experiences in the backâ€" woods country of Maine. f . A special work meeting will be held in the parish house of the :::rehfiy 19, at.10 a.m. to sew e hospital dressings, Members are asked to bring sandâ€" wiches, and coffee will be served. â€"to swim, to picnic ‘round: the swimming pool and grounds, and to see a special showing of exhiâ€" bition and working dogs, arranged by C. H: Wallace.‘ In addition, an amusing and informative political skit â€"willâ€"be â€"presented byâ€"theâ€"Dear: Presbyterian Women To Hold Spring Luncheon, June 21 The Women‘s Republican Club of the 13th congressional district, a fastâ€"growing club with a memâ€" bership of 1,500 women banded together to work for a GOP vicâ€" tory in ‘52, welcomes to its memâ€" bership any interested Republican woman in the district, upon reâ€" ceipt of aplication and the payâ€" ment of current dues. The 13th district consists of all of Lake county and the following townâ€" ships in Cook county: Niles, Barâ€" rington, Elk Grove, Palatine, Application for membership may be made to Mrs. Irl Marshall, Lake ounty membership chairman, 1100 Waukegan rd., eerfield; Mrs. William L. Winters, 188 Lavurel, Highland Park, Coâ€"chairman, Lake county or Miss. Thoretta Gregori and Mrs. Kenneth Kraft of Highâ€" land Park. > Wheeling, Evanston, Hanover, Leyden, Main, New Trier, Northâ€" _fleld, Norwood Park and Schaumâ€" Republican Women To Enjoy Day At Stoneybroke Farm The Women‘s Republican Club of the 13th congressional district will enjoy "A Day in the Country" on Monday, June 18; at the beaâ€" tiful Stoneybroke Farm near Wadsworth, Ill. Mr. James Simpâ€" son, Jr., Republican chairman of Lake County, has generously inâ€" vited the club‘s entire memberâ€" ship to come and spend the day fieldâ€"Shield‘s Women‘s Republican Club. Members are expected at 11:00 a.m. The host will serve coffee and lemonade to the guests who will bring their own picnic lunch. 4i c + Stoneybroke Farm is Nocated in the country near Wadsworth, % mile west of route No. 41 and 1 mile south of Wadsworth Road. Most mail contributions have been acknowledged. H o wever, some addresses were not available, and those contributors are being thanked herewith. Je â€" For those who have not yet conâ€" tributed, checks should be made payable to the American Cancer Society and sent to Mr. Cohen at 235 Central ave. Highland Park Tops 4 Quota For Cancer Fund Drive Mr. Perry Cohen, chairman of the recent campaign of the Amerâ€" ican Cancer Society, reports that Highland. Park has topped its quota for the 1951 drive for funds. Contributions amounted to ovér $6,000, f s L Mr. Cohen wishes to thank all contributors. and to congratulate Highland Park for its splendid showing, . ~~Official Newspaper ~| ~ a copy; $1.50 a year

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