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Highland Park Press, 25 Dec 1930, p. 27

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Thursday, Dec. LEGION COUNCIL IN MONTHLY MEETING Session Held Friday in Waukeâ€" gan; Plan Christmas Cheer for Vets; Business An enjoyable Christmas with gifts| in and entertainment, radip headsets and miscellaneous other events calculated | to make Christmas, 1930, a memot-l able event to veterans in both Nosth Chicago and Great Lakes hospitals,‘ was promised by Bob Gullic, at the‘ eighth district Legion meeting held in Waukegan, Friday, Deo. 19. He nn-‘ nounced that the fund subscribed by posts for this purpose would cover his plan for the affair. The nine new wards that were lacking in radio headsets from the central Majestic receiver, had been put in to use under the aid and direction of Bob Wilson of the Cook county Legion district, ! Bob Gullic announced. An additional Christmas remembrance was promised a for veteran‘s orphans at the Lake )& Bluff orphanage. â€" Deerfield‘s auxilâ€" | d iary. will care for several orphans at i Dorcas home it was stated. i Loses Appeal { Waukegan lost its appeal for larger i representation on the eighth district i council, American Legion, by one /4 vote. _ Monty Rasmussen of Lake“ Forest opened the battle against thc‘| plan with a fiery speech denouncir‘m“l its adoption. He was warmly secondâ€" | 1 ed in this attitude by Charles Frey of | Villa. Protests from other posts in“ Deerfield and Ben Haydad of Lake!|| the district were also heard. On the | other hand friends of the measure.j explained their reasons favoring its | adoption. It was pointed out thatl‘ the plan would double the number of | delegates from the whole district and | cause double the number of men (as | at present) to become active in Legion | work. It was also pointed out that‘ where Waukegan would gain four or five more delegates their ratio in reâ€"| lation to the balance of the county| would be smaller than at present.‘ Upon roll ‘call five posts‘ delegates voted against the measure, in accordâ€" | ance to instructions from their respecâ€"| tive posts. Attempt was made to bring the Waukegan post‘s recent investigation of the Lake County Hospital into the discussion and also that of the recent action of the Waukegan post in the Keller membership dispute. However, action on both matters was withheld. Marshall Pottenger of Deerfield was introduced as the new advertisâ€" ing manager of the Lake County Leâ€" gionnaire, relieving the editor, Dan Hunt of a part of his duties. Mr. Pottenger gave a rousing talk to exâ€" plain his new plan: to induce adverâ€" tisers to patronize the Legion‘s paper. No Coâ€"operation £ Brad West, Bogardus act officer, reported that he had secured no coâ€" operation in relief work from Vetâ€" erans of Foreign Wars, nor the Spanâ€" ish American War Veterans associaâ€" tion. He asked that means be deâ€" vised whereby duplication in this reâ€" lief work could be avoided. > Art Montgomery of Highland Ps By Dan Hunt 25, 1930 ger of Deerfield the new advertisâ€" : Lake County Leâ€" ; the editor, Dan f his duties. Mr. ark introduced a resolution asking that: the officials at Fort Sheridan disconâ€" tinue using soldiers for laborers and building tradesmen in the construcâ€" tion work at the Fort. Sergeant Klein explained that the soldiers there were obliged to do this as the appropriaâ€" tion allowed for this purpose was so small as to practically force the use of soldier labor. Sergeant Bellew addâ€" ed that the restricted fund was in ‘lline with President Hoover‘s economy iprus{ram and suggested that those linterested direct the appeal to Washâ€" ington rather that to the Fort. \ _ Jack Nelson, the district service QWKWKWWWM Successors to George Tucker Telegraph Road at Half Day Road For THE Bannockburn Poultry Farm Fresh Dressed Turkeys, Geese, Chickens and Ducks All Poultry Dressed to Order Only © . _ RGGS and BUTTER THE PRESS officer, told of the woes of obtaining erans. He stated were coming in at day. _ Many vets hospitalization are Houmay FEAST h various trials and relief for the vetâ€" that "D.A." cases the rate of 100 per Mussolini, a dispatch says, drives 81 miles an hour. But, then, he is the speed law in Italy.â€"Oakland Tribune. Phone Deerfield 427â€"] 81 $\ Fr

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