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prepared By the youth groups of the church at 7:00. The public is invited to attend. A baked bean and <orn bread supper will be held at the Wesley Methodist church, Highwo6d aveâ€" Baked Beans And â€"â€" * Corn Bread On = Wesley Family Night Other Old Colony Home Fashâ€" ions shops operated by Linnie M. McComas, are found in Wilmette and Park Ridge. * + Big values in fine decorative fabrics for home furnishings may be found at the January Sale of Old Colony Home Fashions, the new skop now open at Green Bay and Central. . Opening Of New Shop In Home Walter Schwimmer, 105 Raâ€" vinia Court, Highland Park, IIl., president of Radio Features, Inc., has been appointed to the public relations committee of the Illiâ€" nois â€" Division,, American Cancer Society‘s 1950 fundâ€"raising drive, it was announced today by A.â€"E. Patton, chairman of the campaign. Mr. Schwimmer,;â€"whoâ€"willâ€"head the radio section, is serving for the second year with the comnfitâ€" tee. He attended Northwestern University and began his long adâ€" vertising and publicity career as publicity director for a band, and workel with WIBO, Chicago ndw‘ To Serve In _ Cancer Drive Highland Park Manâ€" . High light of the conference was the premier showing of "Big Tim", an anjmated cartoon deâ€" picting to the public the advantage of freight "car journals being equipped with roller bearings. pany, â€" spoke Monday forencon, followed by ‘Mr. W. B. Moore, vice president, in charge of sales. met 2t UNC Moraine Hotél for a 4â€"day sales> conference January 16â€"19. Sales representatives from throughout: the United â€" States, Canada and Mexico attended the conference where Mr. Wm. E. Umstattd, president of the comâ€" Company Convenes At Moraine Hotel Lives of ‘the Timkcm Rolicrâ€"Bearâ€" ing Company of Kenton, Ohio, Timken Roller Bearing â€" Officers and chief sales execuâ€" Undoubtedly there were some in that group who might have gone to work if they hadn‘t been able to draw the ,“rbckini chair money." Undoubtedly there were thousands who drew their limit without abusing the privilege in any sense. # â€" At any raté, a certain portion of 3% isn‘t "all the veterans" or even "most of the veterans." As Well, the record is in now, and "all the veterans," or ‘"most of the veterans" proves to have been a slight exaggerationâ€"as usual. The record shows that about 8% of the veterans in Illinois used up their one year‘s unemployment allowance. All told, Illinois had 1,034,â€" 000 veterans eligible for the allowance. A total of 30,286 drew 52 checks. â€" Have you ever heard anyone griping about the veterans ‘"all" going for a free $20â€"aâ€"week ride on the "52â€"20" gravy train? You‘ll probably recall that any iveteran could draw unemployment compensation amounting to $20 a week for a year during the period of his readjustment from military to civilian life. , It was standard operating procedure for conâ€" firmed "viewers with alarm" to declare that "anyone can get a job now," that "most e’gfn the veterans refuse to work at all as long as they get $20:a week for <â€"The Higbland Park Vol. N6. 38; No. 48 Behsseces (‘ By Bill Thomas * THAT $20°AMNEEKâ€"RIDE conference ended : today t saying anything worth hearing. _ â€"a tableaux series depicting the role of women in the socia} welâ€" fare movement of Chicago during tkp.tfin,yan.ln. Benâ€" jamin F. Goldstein, president of (Continued on Page ¢) Active In Producing Film On Social Welfare To Members of the Highland Park Community _ Chest, .Inc. MEMâ€" BERS‘ ANNUAL MEETING of the HIGHLAND PARK COMâ€" MUNITY CHEST Will Be Held TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 8 P. M. Community Center Auditorium, 549 Central Avenue. The annual reports of the officers will be made and eight members of the board of directors will be elected. Every contributorâ€"to the Highland Park Community Chest is a member of the om;lifition and is entitled to one vote. â€" On Tuesday ‘evening, January 24th at 8 o‘clock, the residents of this and neighboring communiâ€" ties will have %er opportunity to hear a ~lecture on Christian Science. Mrs.. Elisabeth Carroll Scott, C.S.B. of :Memphis, Tenâ€" ineuee, a member of the Board of Lectureship of *The‘ Mother Church, The First \Church of Christ, Scientist in Bofon, Massaâ€" chusetts, will speak oh "Christian Science;: The Revelation of| God‘s Sustaining Love". The local Chrisâ€" tian Science church will be hosts on this occasion and the lecture will be delivered in their church edifice, 387 Hazel Ave., Highland Park. All are most cordially 'el-‘ come. The lecture js free. _ ~ Free Lecture On Christian Science ~ Tuesday, January 24 Next week, through th;/&zrtay of ~Mr.â€"Edward. Knox,/ manager, the ‘IlHnois .Bell Telephone comâ€" pany, a technical explanation of the ‘dial system of telEphoning will â€"be given by Mr. Garno of the Teleghone company. . picture, directed and produced by American Airlines, was shown by Andrew F. Simpson, of that comâ€" pany. The film, documentary in subject,â€"depicts life in ge Scanâ€" dinavian countries, and, covers the social: and ec€onomic aspects of these lands. It was sponsored by Chester Davis, #L Featured At~Meeting Of Kiwanis Club Instructive Films club ~ .At ‘the Mo NOTICE colored _ motion night group A Paper for Highland Parkers ® Published by Highland Parkers an.fl‘hlamdhrmh;o;t‘ is as it should be and it will conâ€" In suburban and city communiâ€" ties more and more of this responâ€" sibility â€"hasâ€" been handed over, to the schools from the home. It has wally evolved a fluid program, which adjusts itself constantly to the demands of real life. We now try to develop the whole personâ€" alities and physical well, being of our children as well as give them the knowledge for full living. In 1900, when our high school was â€"built, our children had to pass through a rigidly setâ€"up colâ€" lege preparatory program â€" "or else". As a result many did not finish or even go to high school. not only adjust to numbers of students but to expanding needs of the curriculum as it is con stanty being revised to meet the needs of our childrerl. * > considered by the Faculty and Board of the Highland Park High School; The physical plant must Will it adequately provide for futureâ€"needs if there" is growth in enrollment? _ â€" Highland Park, Illinois : ~~ ly take c rollment? Presented By Member Of School Board â€" High School Problems was a wartime officer in the Marine Corps, suffering disablâ€" ing wounds â€"in â€"Pacific combat. During the war his wife; Emily Taft Douglas, served as Congressâ€" woman at Large from Illinois. At present Sen. Douglas is chairman of_ a subcommittee of the Joint Committee ori the Econémic Reâ€" port which is making a study of fiscal policies.> ~__ Senator Douglas is serving, his first term in Washington after. a career as economics professor. He N. within the pfesent ‘charter, or of cm‘t‘lg &., ,mom world authority. â€"â€" oo \ofâ€" MAE : ues Lively debate on the varioqus M proposals will be a feature of committee hearings duri 1950 sessioiz ofr Congress." sive system for intemgtioiad coâ€" operation the . world has yet achieved," â€" has stressed the imâ€" portance of @xamining all possible methods of lllinois‘ junior . senator, noted for his willingness to expose himâ€" self in debate with political rivals and currentlyâ€"embroiled in an economy duel â€"with President Truman, is himself coâ€"sponsor of the Thomasâ€"Douglas resolution aimedâ€"to bypass United Nations Security Council veto obstacles in case of war danger. â€" . .Other leading peace plans beâ€" fore â€"Congress are the Atlantic Union resolution which requests the President to call a convention among Atlantic Pact nations to explore possibilities of joining them into a regional federation, and the World Federation resoluâ€" tion to put the United States on record in favor of a world governâ€" ment with limited powers to preâ€" vent war. League of Women Voters policy, hailing the United Nations as “ghe most comprehenâ€" .~ Joining in support of the meetâ€" ingâ€"areâ€"North Shore chapters of the American Veterans Commitâ€" tee;â€"of â€"â€"which the Senator is a member, the Atlanticâ€"Union Comâ€" mittee, and United World Federâ€" alists; the International Relations Club of Northwestern University, and the Leagues of Women Voters of Evanston, . Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Kenilâ€" worth, Northbrook, wnmetw'md{ Winnetka. > planning will highlight a mass meeting . sponsored by twelve North Shore civic organizations at Cahn _ auditoriam, : Northwestern University campus, at 8:30 P.M. on Sunday, January 22. The floor will beâ€"thrown open to discussion after the speaker tells of world peace proposals now before Conâ€" ARTICLE 1. Does our High School adequateâ€" take care of our present enâ€" ~~By Mre. areâ€"all questions being Smith _ not more than three. Our pool is so small and inadequate that we cannot. allow as many students to take swimmiftg as wish it each year. The ceiling of the pool room is so low we cannot allow much (Continued on page 5) What about the present? Right now '.huhunq'lnp five periâ€" ads a week of Physical Education for each child. Our facilities allow an increase .each year. We will 'cogd_der future growth in a later senior class 223, junior class 253, sophomore class 263, and the _ We desperately need a new ’zymnuinm, swimming pool and cafeteria, ‘among other things. Anyone familiar with the high school will fgree, but for those who are not familiar, these artiâ€" cles will present the facts Teading to that need. ne_â€"s.« Does our high school adequateâ€" ly take care of our present enâ€" rollment? Enrollment for the fall of 1949 was 1024, distributed thr?u’h_un school in this way; â€" Many 1934 be But . the time has now come for a new outfit, not discarding the old, but putting new life into the old by the addition of someâ€" page book will be completedâ€"toâ€" day, Mr. Knox said. ___ f Highland Parkâ€"telephone numâ€" hers are prefixed by HI ghland Park 2 and Highwood numbers by HI ghwood 2. The manager explainedâ€"that customers dialing HI ghland Park. 2â€"8134, for inâ€" stance, should dial the black "H" ahd then the black "I", followed by the figures "2â€"8â€"1â€"3â€"4," which are red on the dial. \ Information on how to use the dial telephone and other service tips ‘are covered in the directory‘s preliminary : pages. Delivery â€" of theâ€"9,800 copics ofâ€"the new 250â€" dial service starts; On Sunday subscribers â€" should remove the temporary . number . mask from their telephones revealing | the new dial number, according to Manager Knox. Subscribers are urged to be sure of the dial numbers, listed in the new directories, when dialâ€" ingâ€"calls to avoid getting wrong As part of the change, every telephone involved will have a new or . modified number when Mayor R. F. Patton of Highâ€" land Park will make the first dial telephone call to Mayor T. F. Musatto of Highwood, immediateâ€" ly after the inauguration of dial service at the new twoâ€"story and basement telephone building, 116 North Second Street. sheridan are expected ‘to attend the Saturday night ceremonies: City officials, representatives of civicâ€" and business organizaâ€" tions, clergy from Highland Park and Highwood churches and miliâ€" tary representatives ‘from Fort This close timing of various opâ€" erations at cutoverâ€"hour is reâ€" quired so that the new system will replace the old witzout. interruptâ€" ing service, Mr. Khox explained. crews ~ofâ€" menâ€"willâ€"snip ~cables taking the nonâ€"dial lwitthboll’d’ out of service while other. operaâ€" tions start the new dial switches elicking, E. M. Knox, lllinois Bell Telephone â€" maniger, said this week. â€" Simultaneouslyâ€"with the awaitâ€" ed word that no.callsâ€"are in proâ€" gress through '.qu- switchboards, Close Timing Required To Make Switch Without Interrupting Service ‘_ With splitâ€"second timing, more than 9,800 Highland Park and Highwood telephones will be changed to dial operation &t midâ€" night, Saturday (January. 21).. DIAL PHONEâ€"SERVICE sUNDAY Telephone fisers (Continued on page 5) stheduled for the fourth Wednesâ€" day of each of the months followâ€" ing, through <April. Everyone is welcome to attend. t League Health Workshop To Meet Januaryâ€"25 meet at the home of Mrs. Elwood Hansmann on J 25th at !*'mm-mp.m skates. Larry and Ronnie Reich, with Sherman Kilen, will enterâ€" tain with a bull fight skit. : Refreshments will be served and the committee promises an afternoon of fun for young and There will be racesâ€" for the kindergarten through the eighth grade, also mimetics, folk dancing, thythm dancing, relays and basâ€" ketball â€" onâ€" ice. Debby Keough, Mary Bellé Biggert and Cherry Mason will give an exhibition on group of races and special events. The Lincoln School Ice Carniâ€" val, sponsored by the PTA, will be held on Sunday, January 22 at 1:30 p.m. at the school. : pleased to accept them or zi;ré any further information to those who &Â¥Il her at Highland Park Skating Exhibitions At Lincoln School This is the one event in the year from which the procéeds are given to maintenance of the Club property. ‘It is not absolutely necessary to make advance reserâ€" vations, but Mrs. Spangler will be Ice Carnival With The annual dessertâ€"card party ’of the Highlandâ€" Park Woman‘s ‘Club will be held in ‘the Club House at ~1:30 P:M. next Tuesâ€" day, January 24th.. Mrs. Earle K. Spangler, chairâ€" man â€"of the Finance Committee, which â€" is sponsoring the party, promises a delicious dessert and attractive table prizes. | As this is a pleasant manner in which to_entertainâ€"friends, the Club members and friends are urged to. make up tables for bridge, Canasta or whatever game Woman‘s Club Plans Dessertâ€"Card Party est necessary to maintain the health ard â€"welfare groups whick are vital to the needs of our.city. ‘"The Chest extends its thanks to all those who contributed to the success of the Chest drive, with particular appreciation to those who increased their conâ€" tributions this year to meet our increased budget) The Chest sinâ€" cerely thanks the‘large group of workers who also gave unstinting= ly of their time to effect the soli= citation Weeks. the announced goal of $69,700.00, the showing is considered highly â€"satisfact in view of. present conditions under which the. Chests in many cities have found it exâ€" tremely difficult or impossible. to meetâ€"their quotas; It shows that the citizens of our community possess the publicâ€"spirited ‘ interâ€" "This year‘s pledges and contriâ€" huons represent, the largest amount ‘of funds everâ€"raised for the.member agencies of the Chest in the history of Highland Park," Mr. Weeks stated, "While the total i’f' actually 2%â€"less than Record Collection â€" For Member Agencies The Highland Park Community Chest has completed its ~1949 campaign with a fotal of â€"$68,â€" 176.14, arnounced Francis D. Weeks, Genérgl C;mp-l;(;lwahllr- COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE ENDS WITH $68,171 TOTAL rrvrogpmebig f it it amy in m ce m ic of funds," concluded _Mi' of Iumhdmmn.mhh_ crease over book value. y Onâ€"October 2, 1949 the bank celebrated its â€"Fiftieth anniverâ€" sary, an event observed with flflcm."*,“‘ At the close of 1949 our inâ€" vestments in United States Govâ€" ernment securities was $8,642,â€" 625.00 â€" classified by â€" maturity dates as follows: $5,345,000.00 (or 68.8%) due or callable in ohe year; $2,622,625.00 (30.8% ) due one to five years.â€"and $675,â€" 000.00 (7.4%) due over five years. Holdings ‘of other bonds, mostly State and Municipal obliâ€" gations, were $1,484,779.72 all of ~which have been carefully selected. ‘Analysis of d?h security portfolio as of the of this borrowers is considerably below the usual pattern followed by loan companies, the department is Eaynings reflected a modest inâ€" crease over 1948, and your direcâ€" tors have seen fit to write down our furniture and fixtures, always an asset item of uncertain value, to $1.00, Losses during the year were . minor in number â€"and amount, and all known losses have been ‘eliminated. Special Loan Department es A Special Loan Department for the handling of personal, autoâ€" mobile,â€"appliance and installment loans was established on May 1, ‘1948. The gain in volume of busiâ€" ness, bothâ€"as to the amount of loans and the number of people s fltns yc s 11 7 T stantial segment of the communiâ€" ty. Alfllfll{h iflhl'glt charged "to ~ Deposits for the. year reflect an increase of $698,130.98, while loans show an increase of $937,â€" 000.00, the rfiajor â€" portion of which was in mortgage loans. We have experienced a steady demand for funds to finance home purchâ€" ases, and the bank has endeavored to â€"meet this demand on a fair basis. to the borrower and on a safe basis for the bank. Mortgage loans are confined to properties in Highland Park and adjoining communities. 3 of soundness and liquidity in the bank‘s investments.~ /~ =~ ier to Cashier. ~ Annual Repqrt . ~Excerpts ‘ fromâ€" President Apâ€" pel‘s annual report are as folâ€" lows:<"1949 was a satisfactory year of operation for our bank. An increase in deposits, a consisâ€" tent gain in the numbdr of acâ€" counts, and expansion of banking activities and â€"services â€" all of Promotions â€"include ‘ Mr. Martin C. Hart, from Assistant Cashier to Vice Président, and Anthony N. Schinler, from Assistant Cashâ€" Journment. _An election of offiâ€" cers was announced as follows: Reâ€"elected ‘as President .â€" Mr. Vallee O., Appel; as Executive Viee President, Cale Torrence and as Vice President and Trust The directors : held their orâ€" ganization meeting *immediately following ~the ~shareholders adâ€" â€"The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of The First Naâ€" tional Bank of Highland Park was held on â€" Friday, Januaryâ€" 18th. The principal matter of business was election of directors for the ensuing year. All niembers were reâ€"elected, and they are: Messrs. Vallee O.â€" Appel, Fred A. Cuscaâ€" den, Joseph B. Garnett, â€" Charles F.â€"Grant, Herbert M. Lautmann, Morton\ R. Mavor, Theodore L. Osborn, Cale R. Torrence and Fréderick A. Watkins. Bank Reâ€"elects Officers In Aninual Meeting Hetd January 13 (Om-p..)_ Highland â€"Park‘s 1 5+4 Official Newspaper |+~~~~> a eopy ; $1.50 a year on a reasonable profit