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
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