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Vol. No. 39; No. % “hw.‘b-finhmbhâ€"‘*fiu..eriaah;udbim-la fll!@.flfl-%-&fiflfibdlmumhmfl&kfm Public Aware of Need For Reduci Traffic Accidents A sharp upsurge during the past year in the number of high schools throughout the country which pidly growing public awareness of the need for reducing street and highway accidents, was reported today by the Association of Casâ€" ualty and Surety Companies. At the same time, the underâ€" writers‘ organization, which mainâ€" tains a close watch over motor acâ€" a board of leading educators and safety specialists had selected 17 states to receive awards for outâ€" standing achievements in advancâ€" ing safe driver education in their high schools. The states selected for this recognition are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, DDT Ineffective As Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Polio Preventive, Boyd, Board of Health president, Massachusetts, states that it has never been proven that mosquitoes or flies spread polio. Fourâ€"fifths of the polio cases, he said, have been traced to contact with other e NO COMPETITION WANTED More than one edict emanating from Washingâ€" ton during the past few years has been laughableâ€" but the laughter more often than not has had a heavy sprinkling of bitter overtones. However, the FCC ban on "giveaway programs" has aspects, we think, that are sheer comedy at its best. Some of our statesmen have set this country up as a veritable Santa Claus (for almost everyone exâ€" cept the U.S. taxpayer). Yet, this same government frowns on a broadcasting company following the same pattern. The government has given away alâ€" most everything except the Statue of Liberty, but it doesn‘t want a radio announcer to be able to give away a refrigerator. The government has given "Sâ€"Day" for 1 West Virginia and Wisconsin. and recent attendant at a special polic school for doctors in Boston, lilinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, business men who knew General Vaughan‘s first name special priorities to fly almost anywhere in the world, but it doesn‘t want somebody who happens to know the middle name of the present ambassador to Arabia to get a free trip to Hollywood. e FIVE PERCENTERS rate, we‘d wager that the five percenters, who have to know something, because they are paid for what and whom they know, operate more efficiently, and probably more economically, than would another government bureau set up to perform the same While we don‘t condone the five percenters as such, it seemse almost inevitable that some such arâ€" rangement would be made, in view of the fact that our federal government has grown so cumbersome, unwieldy and gigantic that no one knows for sure just who does what, where, at what time. At Up To Now By Bil Thomas September 12th Postponed Until Monday, Kiwanian Reports On Participation In U. N. Conference Latest announcement is to the effect that the first regular schedâ€" uled helicopter flight in the Chiâ€" cago area will start Monday, Sepâ€" tember 12th. Time of arrival at All airâ€"mail letters for dispatch via this first flight will receive a special cachet, a facsimile of a event. They may be mailed under The regular schedule of heliâ€" copter landings at Highland Park thereafter is: 6:33 A.M.; 12:18 At the last meeting of the Kiâ€" wanis club at Sunset Valley club, William C. McCulloch, one of the members, gave a brief report on his recent activities at the United Nations Conference at Lake Sucâ€" Helicopter Service Highland Park will be 12:18 P.M., daylite savings time, at Vetter‘s Field just east of Sunset Valley Golf Club. land Park, up to 11 A.M. on the 12th of September. P.M.; 7:07 P.M. cess, New York. â€" Mr. McCulloch, a mining enginâ€" eer, with Roberts and Schaeffer, Chicago, discussed a paper written by a Polish representative on The Utilization of Fuel. bor Day, there will be no meeting of the Kiwanis club. The Higbland Park Pregs | A Paper for Highland Parkers ® Published by Highland Parkers Highland Park, Illinois Thursday, Sept. 1, 1949 More Persoris Killed In Residential Fires Than In Any Other More persons are killed or inâ€" jured in home fires than in fires of any other kind, Fire Chief Henâ€" nig said today. Chief Hennig‘s statement was made as he announced that the Highland Park Fire Department is serving as local sponsor of Fire Prevention Week, to be held from October 9â€"15 by proclamation of President Truman. * Chief Hennig explained that o!-i approximately 650,000 building fires annually, nearly half occur in homes. Records show that more than 11,000 persons burn to death every year. Chief Hennig listed six fire hazards which cause an "overâ€" whelming majority" of residential fires: (8) Dirty and poorly mainâ€" tained chimneys â€" amd ~heating equipment. K (4) Flammable wood shingle roofs. Fireâ€"resistant material electrical circuits. Wiring should always be installed by a qualified (1) Careless disposal of cigarâ€" ettes and careless handling of matches. Matches should be kept where small children can‘t reach (2) Needless accumulations of combustible rubbish. Stacks of old newspapers, magazines, wornâ€"out clothes, broken furniture and discarded boxes are ideal tinder for a stray spark. Is Deerfield Manager Of Ruttkay Jewelers there for several years. Until reâ€" cently Mr. Young taught at Elm Place school, but resigned his poâ€" during vacation months, and reâ€" ceiving intensive training in the workings of intricate and delicate parts of scientific apparatus durâ€" ing the 4% nnnlu'modu meteorologist in World War IL Mr. and Mrs. Young have a daughter, Nancy, aged four. Group Casts Unanimous Vote of "No" On New School known in Deerfield, having lived sition for the new He is well qualii The 250 people attending a meeting of District 108 voters in West Ridge school, Tuesday eveâ€" ning, voted unanimously against building an intermediate school for the district. single district, under one superinâ€" A plan to unite grade school districts and high school into a that the school enrollment is now less than it was in 1939. Highland Park Library Plans for the winter season are now being formulated at the Highâ€" land Park Public Library. dren‘s librarian, takes up her work with the Highland Park children beginning September 1. Joseph C. Young, of Osterman (5) Defective or overloaded (6) Improper handling of gasâ€" for Block By Block Drive To Start On October 3 12 Agencies to Benefit CHEST SETS QUOTA AT $69,700 A quota of $69,700 has been ut‘ as the goal of the 1949â€"50 Comâ€" munity Chest campaign in Highâ€" land Park scheduled to get under way on October 3rd, President Spencer R. Keare revealed this week. The amount, which repreâ€" sents an increase of $6,700 over last year, was recommended by the Budget Committee under the chairmanship of Lee Ostrander after careful study and deliberaâ€" tion. The need for increasing the budget was obvious to every member of the board and the quota was approved unanimously, Mr. Keare reported. It was felt that increased welfare needs, plus mounting operating costs which affect every agency supported by the Chest, made the increase imâ€" perative. One of the prime factors in the increased budget is the needs of the Highland Park Hospital. This year, the hospital will receive and increased cost of provdiing top medical service during the current hospital construction proâ€" gram is the reason why additional funds are essential. funds than were allocated to it last year. The additional burden The Chest funds allocated to the Hospital are used solely to defray the operating deficit; the Hospiâ€" tal‘s own campaign for funds durâ€" ing the past several years has been for the expansion of the physical The budget is allocated among the eleven member agencies of the Community Chest and the U.S.0. as follows: Arden Shore Association, $3,100; Boy Scouts of Girl Scouts, $6,340; Highland Park Hospital, $17,000; Family Service of Highland Park, $11,â€" 250; Women‘s Auxiliary of the Highland Park Hospital, $2,750; Infant Welfare Society, $3,000; Northwestern University Settleâ€" ment, $1,500; Ridge Farm Preâ€" ventorium, $2,000; YWCA, $5,â€" drive. Under the leadership of David J. Harris, the Special Gifts men on September 8th to initiate plans for the organization of Block Captains for the October 3rd Schram, Jr., to head the Business District Committee. The personnel organized and will swing into acâ€" tion to canvass all Highland Park business establishments beginning the Chest by local business men, this drive is being conducted in for this committee is now being pach, John Bosselli, Earl W. Gsell, Ray Molendy, Emmett Duffy, Stanley Pollak, Claude Mitchell, and Neuman Fell. For Repairing â€" State Highways Work will begin soon on two paving projects in Highland Park and vinicity, with contracts aâ€" mounting to $683,886. Peter Baâ€" ker and Sons Co., of Lake Forest received a contract for blacktopâ€" ping State Rte. 57, in Highland to the Lake county line; mmt‘ $368,302, awarded by the State division of highways. | Four miles of highway on Rtes. 22 and 99 in Lake Forest will also be resurfaced by the Skokie Valâ€" imue...un-m-. at a eost of $816,584. ‘The following business men will of Announce Plans For VFWâ€"All Star Game To Be Played At Sunset Park Open Letter Clarence Pedersen wrong again! Actually the township will stand to lose $110.63 according to figâ€" ures taken from the records in the County Treasurer‘s office in Waukegan. That discrepancy clearly indicates the kind of an itnelligence test that Clarence Pedersen could pass. Irene A. Rockenbach, Town Clerk of West Deerfield Township has widely publicized Clarence Pedersen‘s report to a recent meeting of the Town Board in which he stated that "if the obâ€" jections presented by Attorney Charles S. Roberts and his thirty seven clients at the hearing on August 5th are upheld, the Townâ€" ship will stand to lose more than $3,000 in taxes." The rest of his "report" is equally fantastic nad untrue. The whole report is merely an echo of a story which was falsely told beâ€" tween swigs of whiskey in a Wauâ€" kegan saloon by a Lake County Official. Clarence has teamed up with this whiskey drinking Counâ€" ty official in attempting to retain unfair tax burdens for the home owners of West Deerfield Townâ€" ship. ty Official‘s activities. Clarence Pedersen does the Township a great injustice when he acts as the "Charlie McCarthy" for one of the participants in such an ugly contest. A vicious personal political fued in Waukegan is back of this Counâ€" Deerfield Bank Plans Board are to be severely criticized for passing any resolution on voting for a resolution on such short notice and without an opâ€" portunity to verify the facts. For Next Year Plans for an expansion and uod‘ninfiogmmumhr way at the State bank. The remodeling of a new home at the Arcade Building, property of the bank on 813 Waukegan road, will be started next year. the north side of the structure, where customers may do business at a teller‘s window from the car, without alighting. Almost double the present amount of space is planned for the main floor, and greater space near the vaults, with more safety deposit boxes, as well as private rooms for consultation will be provided. Harry E. Wing is president of the bank, and Robert S. Ramsay Chicago Superintendent Of Schools To Address Teachers Frank Kottrasch, Fred J. Lebahn and Solomon Shapiro. and of the Highland Park High school will meet for two days of inâ€"service meetings today and Friâ€" day in the auditorium of the high Dr. Herold C. Hunt, genmeral superintendent of schools of Chiâ€" cago, will give the opening adâ€" Bethany Guild Has Fall Luncheon Featuring Vera Fitzgerald Hazen Music, poetry, drama, and huâ€" mor are all included in the proâ€" gram featuring Vera Fitzgerald Hazen to be presented at the Fall Luncheon of the Bethany Guild olthmlvnalh-l:-h“ Brethren church at the of Laurel and McGovern Streets. All members and friends are invited A novel feature of the new schools of Charles S. Roberts Tennerman Plans were announced yesterâ€" day for an Allâ€"Star game between the Highland Park VFW, and a picked team from the AA league in Highland Park to be played under the lights at Sunset Park, Wednesday, September 7. Each Opposing managers for the game will be Boker Peterson of the VFW, and for the Allâ€"Stars, Hank _ Arenberg of Harrison team in the AA League will be represented by three players, picked by the manager of each of Bob‘s Braves, heading their roster of some twenty players. Arenberg stated that the startâ€" ing lineup for the game will not be announced until game time, Wednesday night. He hopes to get in at least three practice sessions Wholesale and Welton Mansfield with his squad before then, with one intraâ€"squad game so his players can face some of the fast pitching that will be in store for them, at the hands of Ace Miner. "Our really big problem, is how to solve the pitching of Miner, as there is no pitcher in our league that has either the speed or such a deceptive change of pace as he does." Arenberg has two fine pitchers on his roster in Mel Harder and Sam Rexford. Harder has turned in a fine record of nine wins against only two losses for Marchis this season, which include two one hitters. Sammy Rexford has a in 53 innings of league pitching. Practice sessions will be held at promptly at 6:15, with the request that all players on the Allâ€"Star squad report there, with gloves Red Cross Makes * Appeal For Nurses Polio victims in 14 midwest states need at least 100 more regâ€" istered nurses at once, according to an appeal for nurses made toâ€" day by Lona L. Trott, director of "It is not our intention to take nurses away from jobs or homes professions, and those whose emâ€" them for two or more months. Married nurses with children can, for example, enlist for general ward duty in hospitals, thus reâ€" Miss Trott pointed out that the Red Cross recruits only registered nurses to give nursing care to polio victims by agreement with the National Foundation for Inâ€" whose recovery might be impeded by inexpert handling. ‘"I appeal to the compassion and responsibility that has always disâ€" tinguished the professional nurse," fantile to furnish only the best possible she said, "in urging nurses, wherâ€" ever possible, to ask their local Red Cross chapters how they ean help in this crisis." Night Blooming Cereus Views A Nightâ€"blooming Cereus (saâ€" guaro) owned by the Truax famâ€" ily en Egandale road, decided, this year, to be different. Though the blossoms normally appear at night and close at sunâ€"up, this bloom cactus, has its natural habitat in western United States and tropical (Thursday). be a eopy ; $1.50 a year Highland Park‘s Official Newspaper of for