The Times from Hammond, Indiana • Page 18

A A I A A A I I A I A Monday, September 23, 1963 THE HAMMOND TIMES Page B-l Formerly The Lake County Times IU Consolidates Gary, Calumet Campuses Blaine Marz Times Lines New Tips To Times Win Cash Reports of fatal crashes in MRS. IOXE LUDWIG fnee Hunt) of Hammond has provided some real first hand information on the background of the Chopin Build- Jug on Hohman avenue which has caused a mild Lowell and Schererville and the of interest i first mentioned in this bingo raid in Calumet City by; column. I Cook County scherifi's police were Mrs. Ludwig should know all about the building. votec top news stories of the She was the personal secretary of the Paul Lipinski wee today in the News Tip who built it.

She recalls that he was a real estate 'Contest sponsored by The Ham- broker, sold steamboat tickets and also did a for- ond Times, eign exchange business. He was first located on First pl ac and a So check goesj West State street but purchased the Hohman avenue 0 James Allen. 301 N. Court land and built the Chopin Building as his business Crown Point, for his report ofj prospered. (the fatal accident on U.S.

30 last; In the early days of the building there was a Wednesday in which a boy wasj large music hall at the rear on the main floor, killed while riding his bicycle to! school. I The Times received his call! He had a fine only a few minutes after the i I crash of the bicycle and an auto.j MARZ There were two stores on the first floor, one of the Lipinski's office, and two large apartments upstairs. Mr. Lipinski was the leading light in a Polish singing society. tenor voice," Mrs.

Ludwig recafe The show opens Wednesday at CARL McCLELLAN, 6716 Mar- Hammond, was the MRS. LUDWIG may be a bit st Michael Ukrainian Hall at I sha11 Ave first of several readers ot The Improves School's Operation Both Campuses Will Still He I'sed; Administrative Move of history in her own right. She may have been the first lady cashier in the community when she worked in a Well's grocery on West State before going to work for Mr. Lipinski. Her husband, Matt, worked for The Hammond Times for many years and so did she in her younger days.

COUPLE of hundred people who motored to services at the First Methodist Church in Hammond a said "Oh, no" when they emerged and saw familiar looking pink tickets stuck under windshield wipers. Had the parking been changed overnight? No, it 170th St. and Columbia Times who called Saturday morn- a and continues I i to report the tragedy in through Friday. Time is 1 to 10 p.m. and Nu Chapter, Sigma Beta Sorority, is the sponsor.

Much of the story of Hammond and surrounding area will be related pictorially through the Historical Society display. We would be remiss in our duties, if we did not call attention to free distribution of leaflets at the show through courtesy of the "Know Your Antiques" column of our favorite newspaper. Mrs. Donald Gefferts, Highland, pub licity chairman for the show, sold us completely on this item Lowell where six teen-agers lost their lives about midnight Friday I in a two car crash. He will ceive a check for $3, second place I in the contest conducted each week by this newspaper.

Third place and a $2 check goes to Paul Jacobi, 8502 Hohman Munster, for his report of the bingo raid last Tuesday night at the Calumet City American Legion Post No. 330 Hall. Three men were arrested by sheriff's police as nearly 500 persons dispersed when authorities arrived. was clever promotion "requesting" attendance at a Konditori at the church at 8 p.m. Thursday, to the relief of all those motorists.

A Konditori, for the few of you who have not traveled extensively in Norway, is a coffee hour. Sounds like a distant relative to a Kaffee Klatch and definite improvement over a coffee break. MR. AND MRS. J.

PATRICK SMITH, former area residents may be proud citizens of El Segundo, but every day they are reminded of "the region." Their address is 620 Whiting St. What brought this all on is the fact that Smith has been named cashier of the new Guardian Bank in Hollywood. He has had previous extensive experience with the Security National Bank in Los Angeles. J. Patrick is the son of G.

A. Smith of Munster and graduated from Hammond High and then Bethany (W. Va.) College. Mrs. Patrick is the former Margene Rowley of Hammond (daughter of Henry).

In the vital statistics department it has to be reported Mr. and Mrs. Patrick are the the parents of two children. JACK MEEHAN is an area salesman who gets around quite a bit and he says there is an extra added attraction at the Tabu In Calumet City that he still does not quite believe. A waitress Gay Keesee has a parrot named Lucky that she brings io work with her.

Causes quite a stir, too, because Gay has red hair and Lucky keeps calling her "Red Red." regulations jwhen she pointed out all pro- i orn the show go to char- in some or other. IT DOESN'T have to be an accident, a fire or any kind of a police case to have you qualify Charter Members Col. Walter J. Riley (second from right) and Ambrose E. Johnston (right), both charter members of Twin City Knights of Columbus Council, were honored Saturday at a banquet climaxing the week-long 50th anniversary celebration of council.

Offering their congratulations are (from the left) Frank E. McGillen, vice supreme mas- ter, who was speaker at banquet, and Irvin Beyer, grand knight. Col. Riley, now 87 years old, is founder and chairman of the board of the First National Bank of East Chicago. Johnston, formerly employed by Green Engineering East Chicago, and then United Boiler and Heating Hammond, is retired and lives in Peru, Ind.

(Hammond Times Photo) SEARCH IN HAMMOND 5c Bargains Hard to Find Hammond Insurance Finn Grows An expansion of local office personnel is being effected by Guarantee Reserve Life Insurance I'D. of Hammond as the result its recent acquisition of Stork- men's Hesei've Insurance Co Bismarck. N. D. I'res Klvis .1.

Stalir today The expansion acquisition nnoimm Consolidation of In- were announced today by Jerome diana I i i i two Lake K. Kutak. president of Guarantee County regional operations the at the monthly mectmu ti; Campus and the Calumet j- Campus in Kast Chicago to of the board of directors of the heUer serve 'he entire northwest- Hammond a of S( of (h( merer. a is the chamber's' TO lie as the Northwest treasurer. Campus of Indiana University.

,1 N- .1 UM of a i i i at both locations The purchase of the North Da! i continue. Stalir stateci. kota insurance i is the second director announced this year by Guarantee 0 wili be in Reserve. Last March, the com- charge ot academic and related pany acquired Commerce Insur- responsibilities and carry the i of assistant (lean and director of anee Company ot Illinois. academic administration.

Dr. Harold K. Burns, who heads i I' A SAID purchase of tlu Calumet Campus, will be in charm 1 physical plant develop- jStockmen Reserve will a mcnt. budgetary and related approximately SI million more uy a t()0 ()f assjst premium payments to the Ham-! ant clean and director of planning jmond office at State a operations, will necessitate expansion of local office personnel to handle the increase in volume. He also an- regional campuses have served nounced that remodeling of northwest area, i in- home office also is under way.

eludes Lake and adjoining coun- He said that acquisition of ties, with completely separate ad- Stockmen's Reserve will mean! minis! raiive and faculty struc- that a substantial amount of re- tures. SINCE their founding the two By PAUL DRISCOLL Times Staff Writer "However, in order to provide ity Should be great for browsing and collectors may purchase items displayed by dealers. MILLARD MATTHEWS, chief deputy in the office of Lake County Sheriff Mike Truchan, has to be credited with an A-plus in the public relations field, newsmen who have daily contacts with him say. They are pleased with his general attitude of cooperation and his pleasant but businesslike manner. It's not always that way! Matthews had a large pair of shoes to fill in succeeding the late and well- liked Tim Curley and he appears to be stepping off smartly.

CARMICHAEL es cash award. a question to sug- the popular feature, "Curbside Comments?" Is there days a picture series idea you have shaking her head and had that! We were beginning to feel i a business in North Da- sly smile that seemed to ask easy. Everyone was laughing a a i )e a strong academic program as "what kind of crazy stuffy-ill I jus today. i Guarantee Reserve's a as intellectual and educa- "Get out on the street," the-have to put up with "Take courage," we told our-: 0 ffj i a leadership, a i basis for ity editor said the other day.j "What do you a for a sc if. another hour you'll be; urc hase of the Bismarck i development of physical and find out what five cent bar-; i we asked Mrs.

I i 0 then you can make an ex: has been approved by the insur- 1 a better service to the" gen- are finding these; Hickman. a clerk at the Northernjhaustive of the local bars ior a ance commissions of the states'oral public, and efficiency of op- I.Indiana Stationery 5307 Hoh-! i gi ass beer." of Indiana and North in mind, or a feature story about somebody in the region? If so, let us know. News tips may be telephoned to The Tunes at Westmore 2-3100. Of course, we want to know about accidents and fires immediately. But if you have an idea for a feature story, you can drop a postal card to News Tip Contest Editor, The Hammond Times, Hammond, Ind.

INCLUSION of a display arranged by the Hammond Historical Society (George Nelson is president) for the fourth annual Greater Calumet Region Antique Show was a wise move by the sponsors and figures to add greatly to public interest in the event. CAM --You THEIR FOR At first it seemed like one of man Ave. those horrible practical jokes, like sending a gullible soul to get a type-stretcher. Then again, maybe the editor thought we deserved a poke in the nose, and was leaving the job up to an easily irritated shopper. At any rate, out in the street we went.

MRS. JOHN BALKO 2011 THERE WERE no pokes in the Calumet Whiting, was corn- nose, but plenty of horse laughs, ing down the escalator in Pen- With the women shoppers mak- Kutak said. Another laugh. I ing sport of our efforts, we de- When we assured Mrs. Hick-j jded to try a man.

man we were serious, she thought for a long while, then smiled brightly: "A stick of chalk." On further reflection, she offered us an art gum eraser or a six-inch ruler for a nickel. WHEN Guarantee Reserve had IN A LOCAL food mart, a malej acc uired Commerce Insurance Co. shopper was searching through last rin Wlth the result that lls the meat cooler for lean bacon. assels and insurance in We asked our question. were greately increased.

Kutak "I don't understand," he said' a said negotiations were under without looking up. i wa for the acquisition of a sec- We explained again. ond insurance company. "I'm not interested," he Guarantee Reserve, with assets "But you don't understand," we' 15 million on Dec. 31, 19G2, Dakota.

Cration, the University feels the I Lake County regional cam- should be brought under one general administrative structure," Dean Smith Higgins of the Extension Division JOt, "'tl i I I "With a question like Hohman avenue store in! a i ve 're not trying to sell was established in Indianapolis in i i 1 QAfl i i Kurvwi rtf i i East Chicago GOP Girds For Election Appoint of Republican Party campaign leaders for the forthcoming East Chicago city election was announced today. Ronnie Jaracz has been named! finance chairman, with LeRoy Derrow the campaign chairman and Joe Jurick, platform chairman. Frank a has been named coordinator for the city GOP campaign. The appoint were an- i nounced by Anthony A. Drapac, Republican nominee for after consultation with City GOP; Chairman Charles L.

Dahlin, who I approved Drapac's recommenda- tions. said Mrs. Gerald Kazen of 17532 Hammond. Green Bay Lansing, "you "Are you kidding," she laughed. are about 20 years too late." "Those days are gone Mrs.

Kazen, whose husband works for the Ford Motor Co. in Chicago, was selecting tulip bulbs in the basement of Goldblatt Bros, at 5206 Hohman Hammond. "But these are a bargain." she said, holding up a handful ofj Steel Mills 5 Production To Increase anything." "I'm not interested." So it was back to women pers. "Golly, I can't think of any! thing," said Mrs. Sue Puskas, 1940 and moved its home office to Hammond the following year.

Its total assets then were $33,000. Combined assets of the companies and its subsidiaries are now placed at $17,591,000. BUHNER BURNS Administrative i have of 1342 Hoffman Hammond. Presently licensed in 25 that the home addresses Guarantee Reserve soon will students enrolling in both re- MRS PUSKAS, a clerk at authorized to do business in i i a campuses are scattered Goldblatts was eating an ice more states, according to Kutak. throughout the region and cream cone in the basement of I lllat nn particular campus draws bulbs.

"If you wait 10 years, you! CLEyELAND The a the W. a TM at 52.3J any one locality. i -11 :11 i I laii "Even this," she said can the bulbs will come to about a nickel a piece." AS WE LEFT, Mrs. Kazen was steel mills will increase production this week for the sixth the jce cream out for our Today in History By The Associated Press isecutive week, Steel magazine 'said today. Output will exceed the 1.820,000 ingot tons that Steel estimates the 'industry poured last week.

Opera' tions will be near 60 per cent Is Desegregated FACULTY committees are now i studying the most effective way Ition, "costs a dime." MACON, Ga. A -The Vine-! present libraries We searched on. In one store, ville Baptist church has quietly and of Aiding a strong library we found shopping bags for five desegregated its membership, the as the college program develops, cents, 19 gum drops for the same! first Southern Baptist church i During the fall semester of last amount, and a pack of off-brand the state to take such action. a the two Lake County cam- razor blades in Man's Bad Heart Foils Robbery SAN MATED, Calif. fAP.i A San Mateo Junior College zoology professor's bad heart foiled a robbery.

local drug storei The church voted puses had a combined enrollment unofficial capacity, having risen nickel i unamimousJy Sunday to accept of 2,958 credit and jgradually from the a lowj We trie( to get a bargain price! Sam Jerry Oni. 22. a ministerial students enrolled in adult point of 56.8 per cent in the of a a i as a -i student from Takoradi, Ghana, non-credit courses. ended Aug. 17.

caution against the last item, but Oni presented himself for mem-1 The credit, enrollment for the I Prices of scrap, a slee.makmg i bership i a group of i two campuses i the spring Today is Monday. Sept. 23, 1963.. raw material, held firm last week. A a ij jt was a day ij nt.s from recently desegregated; semester was 2,732 and for the I the 266th day of 1963.

There are! steel's composite on No. 1 heavy i kings Tne exhaustive search. Mercer University, a Baptist inon-credit program 4.IG9. 99 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1779, the battle between the American ship Bon Homme Richard and the British frigate Serapis took place off the melting was $27 a gross ton the fourth week.

Dr. Daniel Bonnell, 52. told po- -ast erf England which ui. ouuiien, LOIU uo- a lice that as he was walking uttered his im- his home to a grocery store late! mortal words: "I have not yet Saturday, three teen-agers ap- be un to 'S ht proached and demanded money. it.

Steel bookings are running well, And thfi Eromo night for nickel beer also! school in this central Georgia i was fruitless. I Oni, was converted to i i a A RKSIDKNT faculty of 38 DO YOU REMEMBER? Form Safety Council IMPROVED demand for sheets! reflects an upturn in appliance; industry buying and more sales i miscellaneous customers Bonnell said he replied, "I have! ON THIS date: 'are filling holes in their a bad heart. I will offer no re! In 63 B.C., Augustus, the first tories. Auto requirements are no- sistance. but don't excite me a emperor, was born.

ticeably more active. you will add murder to vour 1" "89. the pay of the chief; Activity in the construction in- crime." justice of the United States was dustry is providing a fairly strong The trio fled without the set at $4,000 per year. demand for plates which are still money. i In 1800, the American educator among the most active of the land compiler of the finished steel products.

reader H. McGuffey was! structural fabricating born near Claysville. Pa. hold fair order backlogs, In 1806, Lewis and Clark ar-; a nd they continue to book new- rived in St. Louis to steadily, though ordering their expedition to explore beginning to slacken seasonally, territory west of the The volume of business being In 1846.

the planet Neptune was booked by steel service centers is 'first seen--by German astronomer improving, and September's total Galle. may be 5 to 10 per cent above last month's. Most distributors TEN A aeo the anticipate gains in i IjlVllllJ I I I ahead of last month's and October C()st a i a shipments are expected to be: about 10 per cent higher a September's. the! ity in Ghana by a Mercer supplemented by 105 10 Years Ago A rash of burglaries in Kigh- 50 Years Ago 25 Years Ago Tne National Safety Council The Lansmg Board of Trustees prepared tQ Us Is expected to pass an ordinance anniversary by annou ncing that land dunn the ast three months Uni Nations delivered to Indian October. on dogs kept within the village Qpen a branch office has enforcement authorities'custody the last of some 14,699 limits at its meeting tonight.

the Region the community stymie d. and 7.878 North Korean! STEEL consumption is running Board i Alfred; NSC officials say the heavy in-j 'prisoners of war who had rejected well ahead of earlier expectations Van Steenberg said the and dense popula-i Marsnal Hansen, the town to tne i Communist and it may accelerate to a record which will require dog owners to on ne area dictates the move, number one policeman, said thathomelands. pace next year. Steel reports keep their animals under control. ie C0 uncil.

a private organiza- a half-dozen break-ins during the! Five years ago the foreign Some industry economists believe is certain for passage. dedicated to improving safety pas jght weeks appear to be 'ministers of 20 Latin American 1963 consumption will be second It will be the first such law to by cutting accidents through edu- or j. of same Dertlon countries and the United States only to that of 1955. go into effect in the Calumet cation, will be 25 years old on met in Washington to open talks The business magazint points Region, which has been plagued Oct. 17.

persons. on crea tj on 0 an economic de- out a steel industry trend toward canines all year long. Officials of the organization say The American Newspaper Guild velopment loan institution. "customer orientation" in mar- Lansing trustees decided to take their initial target" will be the members of The Hammond Times: One ear a a lane ketin S- II eans: action when it became apparent industries--steel and petroleum-- with 76 aboard--mostly service-; Steel suppliers will offer a wide such an ordinance would eventu- of the region. They say the are re a to nold tnsir tRira and their families--crashed range of design, metallurgical.

ally be needed, Van was prompted by re- annual "Page One Ball" thiSjj the Atlantic off Ireland and other forms of said. jquests from labor. jmonth. la loss of 28 lives. (technical assistance.

61 Years Ago This 1M2 calendar of the Lion opcrau-'l by a a and in Harrimond. v.a;-, found by Louis Thompson of 4819 Pine Hammond, in the attic: of his home. One of Hammond's merchandise emporiums of ar, earlier era, the Wolf Store was on the Hohman avenue site 1 associate faculty members, who jteach make up the in- l.struftional staff for the two Lake i County regional campuses for the school year. At the Gary a arc 22 full-time a nvmbor.s and 'i6 associates whil'- Calumet. Campus a i and 39 associate rncrniifr.s.

The i 'wo yf-ars of afadcmic work i i i i for dfgrf-es in a a fields of study may obtained nl (fie Northwest Campus. Also many upfXT-divi- sion coursrs and a program of a a fourvcs arc offered. The Calumet. Campus, 3901 In- clianapolis B'vl has bcr-n i courses sinre It was. boir-f'd in the velt Hii S'-hool i 1939 when the i i was con- i a was founder! in from then i cons i in of the present i i i in Park operated fo rthe moxT.

part in leased in the commercial wing of the City Methodist Church in Downtown Gary A ORADL'ATK of a i College. Buhner has A and Ph.D. Heurecs in government from Indiana i i He joined the I I Division faculty in 1943 as instructor for the Calumet and Gary and administrative assistant for the where he later served as now occupied by Goldblatt Bros, store. (Hammond Times Photo) director..