Newspaper article on the ground breaking ceremonies marking the start of the construction of water mains bringing Chicago water to the village, clipping includes photograph of three police officers receiving oath of office, 1964

              START WORK ON WATER MAIN

Officials from Chicago

Ridge and Oak Lawn parti-dpateJ

in ground breaking

ceremonies Wednesday,

marking the start of con-struction

of the huge main*

which will bring Chicago

water to the village.

President Arthur Cooper

of Chicago Ridge and Presi-dent

Fred Dumke of Oak

Lawn were among the offi-cials

who took part in pro-gram,

held at the Central

avenue location of the water

lines.

Workmen are rushing con-struction

on the Chicago

Ridge water project with the

hopes that Chicago water

may be running through lo-cal

faucets by early in 1965

A contract in the amount

of $ 1,225,000 recently was

awarded to Stanley Friedly

for the installation of the

complete water system,

Chicago Ridge is getting

Chicago water under a spe-cial

contract arranged

through Oak Lawn.

Village President Fred

Dumke of Oak Lawn, candi-date

for state senator of

the Sixth district on the De-mocratic

ticket, aided Chi-cago

Ridge in getting the wa-ter

agreement^ Chicago Ridge Village Clerk Marie * Jiemer gives the oath of office to three new