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A Penny for Your Thoughts Each person clven a shiny, new penny for hU or her Today's were conducted at various locations. The question asked was: "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SUMMERTIME RECREATION?" David Hancock, 1337 W. 79th radioman: "Gelling is my favorite recreation lor the Summer in s. I shoot a 9 and enjoy com peting for a score You a a companionship a i will in thi a and yoi Wo "TM can a HANCOCK pleasure of being outdoors in the nice weather I've been golfing for three years now and like it more each year George Virgin, 9425 Trumbul Evergreen Park, filling station attendant: "Horseback riding has become a i Summer recrea- tion. I began riding as a habit a a a really enjoy the sport.

I getting out in the Palos Park forest and and just riding around. It's a great way to get exercise and to get out in the open air." John McKirdie, 9232 S. Aberdeen stationary engineer: "Baseball is what I enjoy following most during the Summer. It's the All-American sport that takes you out in the fresh air and lets you get a little relaxation. I see a i a game about once MCKIRDIE a a watch the neighborhood teams fairly often.

I also like to swim and go out to the beach fairly often." BEVERLY SUBURBAN EDITION Copyright 1954 oy Soutntown Economist. All Rights Reserved Member Accredited Community of Chicago Today If a peacock, belonging to one man, laid an egg in a neighbor's yard, who would tie the legal owner of the egg? -The answer wifl be found elsewhere in 'this column. On Schedule Another step has been completed in the Ira Hargis family, 8823 S. Austin Oak Lawn. The Hargis children are Joseph, six years old; Mike, five; Mary, four; Cathy, three; Nick, two, and Christy, one.

Step number seven was Patrick John, who was born Apiil 19 in Holy Cross Hospital. Mr. Hargis is a fireman for the Granclview Park fire department. Mrs. Hargis is the former Geralchne Kolley of Gilman, 111.

18 Months Easter Sunday in Korea was something extra special for two Southtown lads, Mrs. James O'Shea of 7039 S. Throop said this week. She had just received a letter from her son, Cpl. James P.

O'Shea, who is serving with the Army in Korea. He told her that he attended rn outdoor Easter Mass with- a former schoolmate of St. Brendan's grammar school, Thomas Daly, who also is serving with the Army. Although both South- towncra had been in Korea for 18 months, this was the first time they met. VOLUME 53--No.

29 it 728 W. flih CHictgo ENflcwooj 4-140O SOUTHTOWN, CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1954 5c 14 P.gt, News or YOUR NEIGHBORS Oak Park Mt. Worth Pales Columbus Manor Chicago Ridge Crtttwood Homowood Evorfrooa Briinord lino Island Hometown Sfktaoy Midlothian Legion Protests Appearance by Paul Robeson at of C. Equalizing Legislature Up to Voters Blue Ballot 111 ill A I Would a Separate Senate, House Districts. By Sheila Wolfe Economist Staff Writer Unless Illinois voters adopt he blue ballot reapportionment amendment at the November 2 election, citizens of Southtown and South Side suburbs will ontinue to be deprived of their Constitutionally a a ight of equal representation in the state legislature.

Under present inequitable conditions, 700,000 suburbanites in Ivergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Worth, Palos, Lyons, Stickney nd other Cook county areas end one senator and three rep- esentatives to Springfield. In glaring contrast, 752,554 have nine senators nd 27 heir interests on laws governing he state. At the same time, a total of 20,370 Southtown and South- ast residents elect only two enators and six representatives the General Assembly. The now plan provides that Cook county 'and Chicago will ominate the House of Repre- entatives while downstate Illi- ois retains control of the Senate. As specified in the amendment, will retain its present of 18 seriate 'districts T-Mcn Hunted! For criminal investigators in the Bureau of Narcotics, U.S.

Secret Service, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax division of International Revenue Service or the of Customs, the Treasury department is looking for high- type men, with either college training in such subjects as law, police science and criminology or with responsible criminal investigative experience. A civil service examination for these positions will be held June 5 to 17 ft N. Dearborn st. Abandoned Chair It has been four days now since Gresham police found a wheel chair abandoned at W. 83rd and S.

Hermitage and no one has claimed it yet. The specially made chair was left in the middle of the sidewalk as if the person using it had no longer needed it, Capt. William Hen- ncssy explained. Answer to the Puzzler. Peacocks don't lay eggs.

Peahens do. MEMORY LANE From Frank Kennedy: "Who remembers when South side Athletic clubs held an annual ball at the 7th Regimental armory, 34th st. and Wentworth From R. O. (Dick) Hehviir: "Remember when the original Chicago Lawn volunteer fire department building stood at 62nd pi.

and Homan the sile of West Communities YMCA?" 'hicago umber one senator each) on a perma- ent basis; Cook county outside Chicago will have six senate istricts, an increase of five, and ownstate will embrace 34, an ncrease of two. Thus, the legislature would be omprised of 58 senators, an increase by seven-over the present 51, on an area basis. Just like the federal House of Representatives, the state's lower chamber would be voted according to population. Under the proposed amendment, Cook county will have 30 representative districts (from which three representatives each are elected,) 23 of them within Chicago, and downstate will have 29. All of Cook county now has a total of 19 districts.

The state chamber observed that, had the general assembly rcdistricted the state according to the 1950 census figures, the population of 8,712,176 would have been divided into theoretically ideal districts of 170,827 each. Southtown's llth i i bounded on the north by 55th on the west by Cicero ave. lo 87th st. and Western ave. to 107th st.

South and on the east by State four years ago contained 387,760 persons. Even more out of balance is the 13th district, with a population of 432,610 in the area bounded on the north by 63rd on the west by State st. to Pay Tribute ToMothers Sunday Mother of mine high up yonder in the blue, That star that shines brightest, I know it is you. There is no diamond fairer, nor any gem so rare As that i jewel in heaven My mother, who makes her home up there. Mrs.

Jay Hill 6618 S. Richmond st. Southtown Mothers will receive tributes from their sons and daughters this week in commemoration of Mother's Day, May 9. While most of the activities will be concentrated on Sunday, mothers will be honored throughout the week with parties, teas, luncheons and other celebrations. On Sunday, many Southtown churches will pay special tribute to mother with Holy Communion receptions, sermons and songs dedicated to mothers.

At many of the ers will be "presented with sages and floral tributes. It has also become a custom for people whose mothers are living to wear a white carnation on Mother's Day. This custom is believed to have originated with President McKinley. Mother's Day, as the second Sunday in May, was officially proclaimed 40 years ago on May 1914 by President Wilson. Special Mother's Day celebrations will include the annual Mother's Day parade which is staged by -the Holy Name society of St.

Gabriel's parish. Par- Evergreen Reactivates Plan Group Commission to Work with the Village Officials on i i Pro ects; Five Members Appointed. By Lucille Dohlgren Economist Staff Writer Evergreen Park trustees at their regular meeting Monday reactivated the village plan commission, appointed its five members, and called a special meeting for next Monday night to consider President Joseph H. Tanner's list of appointees for various village offices. Inactive since 1950, the Evergreen Park plan commission has seen brought back into existence to undertake a program of civic projects.

The commission will work with village' officials on all undertakings where its services wilJUbe of value, the-trustees ex- William J. Laskey, 0547 S. Troy was named chairman with a term to run until April 30, 1959. Other members of the commission and the lengths of their are Herbert T. Kroeger, 9219 S.

Trumbull 1958; Herbert R. Kaiser, 9201 S. Utica 1957; Orval A. Larson, 9802 S. Homan and T.

R. Mack- nson, 9305 S. Millard 1955. All will serve until April 30 of he years in which their terms expire. President Tanner had a list in the Woods' Find a Friend --Economist Staff Photos by George Bertonz ux ou ici a HO j.

10 ii. A --iwiuHumist stair t-nuios ay ureorge oerLonz icipating in the parade will a a this week's meetinei Basil Seplin, above, recently took over the role of Mama for these four wild rabbits 0 iho Anipriran leaa at weeh. 1, he Kiltie band of the American L.egion Stock Yard post and other Legionnaires, an honor uard of Boy Scouts, the Madonna council Knights of Columbus and members of the Thomas Ylore court Catholic Order of The group will parade to St. Gabriel's church, 4522 S. Wai- ace where they will attend 107th st.

and Western ave. to 138th st. on the south and by the lake on the east. In a comparison -with the last redistricting at the turn of the century, the state chamber said in 1900 Cook county had 1,838,735, 38 per cent of the population, and 4,508,792, or 51 per cent, in 1950. State-wide, the population increased almost 100 per cent during the half century.

One of the most glaring examples of disproportionate representation today is the suburban seventh with its more than 700,000 voters electing the same number of legislators as the 17lh on the West side, which has slightly more than 39,000 residents. "This means that the vole of a person living in the 7th district is worth about as much as the vote of i resident of the 17th district," the State Chamber asserted. a.m. Mass and receive Communion in honor of Holy their union breakfast will be held after the Mass in the St. Gabriel's social center the Rev.

Leo A. Devitt, pastor, giving the invocation. At Visitation church, there will be a Mother's Day celebration at 3:30 p.m. the new statue of Our Laciy of Fatima being dedicated. The statue is being dedicated in memory of the late Msgr.

Daniel Byrne, who has been pastor at Visitation church for almost 25 years. All of the high school and grammar school students will march in a procession to the statue which is located near the rectory. Mary Rev. Richard Wolfe will preside at the ceremonies. Special devotions for living mothers and memorial services for the deceased will be held on Mother's Day at the National I Shrine of the Little Flower, 6400 S.

Woodlawn ave. Services will be held at 3:30, 7 and 8 p.m. with thousands expected to participate. The Englewood Kiwanis club observed Mother's Day Tuesday with their annual Ladies' Day Spring luncheon and musical at a luncheon Tuesday at Parker High school. The Mothers and wives of the Kiwanis members heard a program of music presented by the choral group at Parker.

Appoint G. H. Krcis on Midlothian Park Board The Midlothian Park board has a new member, He is George H. Kreis, 14S01 Kildare chosen to fill the vacancy left by Charles Charlton who recently moved to California. The selection was made at a meeting April 8, according to an an-' The report also stated that this week by Carl stale's 26 smallest districts, with Kascbein, 14526 Turner one-fourth the entire of the board.

Mr. was able in 1950 (o elect moreiKreis will serve until Novem- than half the Ibcr, 1955. but he said no discussions hadj a tne rea mother failed to return home--either as result of a mishap or abandonment. Seplin, proprietor of a service station at 5400 S. Kedzie cacts the pne-and-a- half-week-old bunnies to work each day so that he can keep an eye on them and feed them hourly.

Here, as brother rabbit swigs his milk, three of Mrs. Rabbit's other youngsters line up for the camera. The cotton tailed babies are greyish brown in color. Seplin, who has raised tame rabbits, has a small farm near his home at 10610 S. Central Oak Lawn.

taken place beforehand between himself and the trustees and therefore, it was decided to call next Monday's special meeting A list of trustee committee chairman and members, presented by Tanner, was tabled by the board for study at Monday's session. If approved, the men will serve from May, 1954 to April 30, 1955. The list follows, first named on each committee being chairman: Presidential appointees for finance and license, Ray Johnson, John Leo, Oscar Gicrman: law, ordinance and health, Howard Dahl, Kenneth Cullinan, Louis Bruinius. Also, police and fire, Gierman, Dahl, Johnson; sewer and water, Bruinius, Leo, Cullinan: streets and drainage, Cullinan, Dahl, Bruinius; plats, public grounds and buildings, Leo, Gierman and Johnson. A maintenance program for 1954-55 under motor fuel tax funds amounting to $4,835.10 was approved Monday.

Streets which will be patched and seal coated include 97th st from S. Central Park to Crawford S. Spaulding ave. from 93rd to 94th S. Turner ave.

from 102nd to 103rd 102nd st. from S. Kedzie to Turner 91st st. from S. Kedzie to California 91st st.

from S. Western to Rockwell Evergreen Legion Plans Student Medal Awards Plans are being made by members of the Evergreen Park American Legion post to present school awards to outstanding students in each oi the six village schools. Medal awards to a girl and a boy student, and certificates of honorable mention to a girl and a boy student will bo given at a ceremony at 8 p.m. June 1 in Central school auditorium, 94th st. and S.

Sawyer ave. Award winners arc selected by Lhcir -own school officials on the basis of honor, courage, scholarship, leadership and service. School award committee members are J. H. Callahan, 9211 S.

St. Louis chairman; Bert Carlson. 2620 W. 90th Alvin Sent, 9244 S. Trumbull and Norman Wagner, 11465 S.

Homan ave. Each school will receive a Suggest McCarthy'Looked Too Good 7 to Suit NBC-TV The real reason why the National Broadcasting company stopped its television coverage of the McCarthy probe was suggested this week by Human Events, a newsletter from Washington, to its subscribers. The stated, reason, the was not just newsletter that NBC 93rd st. from S. Trumbull to lac ue Spaulding and S.

California ave. from 87th to sts. In other board business, trustees registered final approval for Edward Solle's Garden subdivision, subject to the village attorney's receipt of performance bonds. Solle plans lo build homes on 10 lots north of 95th st. and a (dents will be honored are the Evergreen Park public, Most Holy Redeemer Catholic, Bethel Lutheran, Evergreen Park Christian, St.

Bernadette Catholic, and Queen of Martyrs Catholic. Murphy, 9614 S. post commander, Henry G. Kedzie said names of the winners will be S. Hamlin ave.

on the east side' annolmced latcr of the street. 1 At a cost of $750, the board Jhcrcsc Society Plans agreed to purchase 150 steel posts and 20 miles per hour speed limit signs. A group of five residents, headed by Joseph Conlin, 2740 W. 95th appeared at the meeting to seek the revocation of licenses for houses--2743 W. two 95th business si.

and 2745 W. 95th st. rear--which they stated violated the zoning ordinances. i Tanner said he would make sure th noises from the establishments Mother's Day Meeting Mothers of members of the St. Thcrcse Society of Marquctte Park will receive flowers and gifts at the Mother's Day meeting of the group at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday in Nativity hall, 6820 S. Washtcnaw ave. Mrs. Frank Krush, 7207 S. Francisco president of the society, will prc- was losing money by giving up regularly sponsored time for the probe coverage, but that the "planned inquisition" of the Wisconsin Senator had "gone sour." The televised meetings had sour," the newsletter continued to explain, because McCarthy made a rather good impression on the TV audience and the Army -crowd made many mistakes under the questioning of Committee Counsel, Ray Jenkins of Tennessee.

The newsletter said: "Another consideration that may have affected the NBC decision is being discussed in Washington. That consideration is that the average person viewing TV hearings formed his own impressions. The next morning he probably found to his disgust that the morning papers gave auitc a different, anti-McCarthy version. After several days of this, what must his impression was also cited in Events newsletter. be of the integrity of the press? Naturally, there are some exceptions in the press." Failure of the Eisenhower administration to oust the Achcson- Truman holdovers from his GOP organization the Human They explained that McCarthy had attempted to distinguish between Secretary of the Army Stevens (whom he describes as an innocent, well-meaning person) and the civilian bureaucrats who run Stevens.

The Washington bulletin said that those who know their Pentagon say that the villain in the plot is the corps of left-wing bureaucrats who have sought to entrap and smear the Wisconsin Senator, fearing his revelations when he looks into their activities. In one instance, the report stated, McCarthy might have cited the bungling last month of Army bureaucrats. While proceedings on the McCarthy inquiry were opening, the bureaucrats were arranging to send a U. S. military mission to train the Guatemalan army.

Guatemala is now the one Communist- controlled republic in Latin America. Walther League in Meeting leadership The Walther League of ill be attending Walther league Evangelical Lutheran Church and summer schools de- thc Good Shepherd, Palos Park.lsigncd to promote conducted its annual election i i i the league, its first regular meeting After the meeting films of Lent. refugee work being done within As the result of the election the Holy land were shown. The Wayne Hutzlcr was elected pres-1 program, featured in con- side. Refreshments will be served fidcnt; Kenneth Matthicsen, vice) junction with the congreRrUion's by Mrs.

Anthony 7134 S. Artesian and her corn- were diminished for the ncxtjmittce. Reservations will be rc- two weeks, while the bnard m- ccived at the meeting for the vestigaics legal procedure i the society is planning to Says Singer Spreads Red Propaganda By Jedy Rowan Economist Staff Writer Officials of the Anti-Subversive i of the Cook County council of the American Legion have made a formal demand upon Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago to cancel a recital scheduled to be given in Mandel Hall Saturday by Paul Robeson, classified by government agencies as being a Communist. The invitation to Robeson was extended by 40 students who describe themselves as the Student Representative Party. Permission to use the hall was granted by university authorities with the understanding, it was announced, that Robeson would render an artistic performance and not indulge in any speeches or attempts at Communistic propaganda.

Robeson, a several times visitor to Moscow and Russia, was recently denied a visa by the state department to make an- all maneuvers throughout the world. Edward damage, chairman of the Legion committee, said in a formal statement: "The (Legion) committee has registered a most emphatic resentment against the authorities of the University of Chicago for approving a request that Paul Robeson appear before the student body presumably as an entertainer, but in reality a disseminator of Communistic propaganda that he has been delivering in many foreign countries. "We of the American Legion have no hesitancy in free discussion about any foreign ideology. In view of the seriousness of a possibility of again facing a shooting war that could break out almost anywhere, including our own nation, and the current attempt at Geneva to arrive at an amicable situation that is -a remote possibility of accomplishing a better understanding among all the people, and because of many other reasons that are known to loyal American citizens, it is beyond our conception as to why a comparatively few radicals on the campus of the University of Chicago should be permitted to have their request granted to bring a notorious Communist like Robeson on the campus of one of the greatest universities in the United States. "We join with all loyal citizens in urging Chancellor Kimpton to immediately invoke his authority by nullifying the possible appearance of Robeson at Mandel Hall next Saturday." A statement Representative by the Student Party appeared in the Maroon, school paper.

It said: "The only basis on which we should decide Robcson's appearance in a respected concert hall should be that of his undisputed artistic excellence. Robeson is coming here to sing, not to give a political lecture. We do not believe McCarthyism should be allowed to tell us what artists we should hear and appreciate." Robert Stein, an undergraduate from New York, who is handling details of Robeson's appearance, said his group supports the free students two-way between exchange of the United president; Patsy Alyn, in a collection of Louis Thomas, treasurer, and; funds and refugeesj June Kuhr, historian. States and Russia and other Iron Curtain countries; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's plans to bring about an end of segregation in all education; cooperatives and aid to students in housing, book buying and restaurant facilities; and the adoption of a National A a i Freedom week in the United States. The group opposes Universal Military Training, he added.

damage said that Robeson ties in Communistic propaganda with' his songs, which are international in character; that well-known Communists appear on the platform with him, and that Communist pamphlets have been throughout the world. It is a distributed to his concert audi- matter. Dunnj? the meeting Ihe IcaRucjjoint project of the Lutheran enccs. set up a schedule of summer World Federation and the Lu- University officials indicated Hills, Wis-, on May 23. Uivilies.

Several of the leaguersitheran church, Missouri Synod. tttty would not act..