Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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President-Donald Linstead 9 2 2 4 Vice-President-Robert Young - Secretary-jane Armellani Vernon Kapala, Kathryn Sheyhan, Roger Kleffel, Shirley Wilcox, jack Mitchell Donald Rokusek, Dolores Buratti, James Stokesherry, Peggy Fahy, Donald Annett Jeanette Charboneau, Willis Anderson 9 Donna Sundberg, lack Wolfensberger, Phyllis Zumhagen, Gerald Smith, Jane Armellani Robert Nethery, Rose Mary LaFevre Donald Hoglund, Shirley Haggin, Richard Bonaguro, Rosalyn DeKalb, Van Black, Shirley Williford, Harold Peterson Virginia Bilodeau, Ronald Furze, Pauline Shuly, Lyle Bell, Audrey Krause, Charles Gould, Rose Ann LaFevre Robert Young, Joanne Cooling, Wendell Reugh, Lawrence Hinde, Dolores MacFarland Donald Linstead 28

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The Iowan, will leave Rockford t 7:22 p. m. and reach Chicago at 245 p. m. The train now leaves ockford at 6:48 p. m. The Sinnissippi will leave Chi- go at 9:25 a. m., instead of 8:55 . m. and reach Rockford at 11:30 . m., 30 minutes later than at 'esent. The westbound Hawkeye will ave as usual at 6:25 p. m. and ar- ve here at 8:15 p. m., while the estbound Iowan still will leave hicago at 11:50 p. m. and reach ockford at 1:55 a. m. Fifteen minutes are to be cut from e running time of the Land O' om between Chicago and Water- o, Ia. The train will leave Water- o at 6:45 a. m. Thirty minutes will be cut from le 1'U1?HiI18 time 'of the Iowan 'om Sioux City to Chicago. The a1n will leave Sioux City at 7:20 m. and will leave Waterloo at 05 p. m., Dubuque at 4:23 p. m. d Freeport at 6:25 p. m. hildren Open Cas Jets in Vacant House Chilldren playing in a vacant use at 1104 Underwood street ere blamed by firemen last night r menacing the residence with a -tential explosion by turning on s jets in the kitchen stove. When someone called police head- arters to report that the house s full of gas, Motorcycle Officer uncan Graham was dispatched the scene and verified the report. t knowing whether anyone was the house, ,Graham nevertheless s powerless to act and he asked r a company of firemen equipped 'th gas masks to investigate. Firemen found no one inside, t discovered every gas jet in the tchen stove had been turned wide en. WOUNDED IN PACIFIC Donald William Bocox, ship's cook, cond class 7 - I, a te? 'ed the 5H5l'E' meeting at which Burdine Tobin, of St. Louis, Mo., spoke on Catholic practices in planning for a service- man's family, and Ruth Michel of Dubuque, Ia., described placement of Catholic children for adoption. Miss Michel emphasized the in- ability of the institutions to keep the records of illigitimate children confidential, placing part of the blame on the lack of uniform pro- cedure for birth certificates through- out the countryf V At the afternoon session, Alice R. May, of the Michigan social welfare commission, Detroit, spoke on the value of institutions and the train- ing they give the children. She de- clared the institution should be built for the ichild, not the child for the institution. She also said that if the average time a- child remained in an institution was more than two and a half years, then the institu- tion was not doing a good job. Details Reorganization Plan for Street' Dept. A plan for reorganizing the city street department to improve ef- ficiency was outlined to the city council streets and alleys committee last night by Ragnar Levine, newly appointed superintendent of streets. Levine and Acting City Engineer Ted Johnson were given full author- ity by the committee to proceed with the proposed reorganization. Levine declared foremen now are required to spend too much time traveling between headquarters and work sites, thus leaving work crews without adequate supervision. As a result, he said, workers are often idle through no fault of their own. He proposed a clerk in the stree department office be designated t prepare work schedules and mak arrangements to have labor, ma terials, and equipment on hand a job sites when required. This, he said, will free foreme from the unnecessary trips to th ' ,-. -..A ,..,.-1.1- u--.-- J... l.-