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Home My WebLink About1973 , lET , Oak Brook Republicans '‘\-- -. ' •-- orse show to aid ‘, Mrs. Donald Kanak, 25 Chatham Lane, Oak Brook, will be Oak Brook library hostess for the Oak Brook Republican Women's Club when they present a check to Mrs.Joanna Fritter,Oak Brook librarian,for The Oak Brook Community Fall Horse William Watson. " the library at 9 a.m. Wednesday. show will be held September 29 and 3o at The horse show is being presented t� Mrs. Anthony Pitra, chairman, assisted by Mrs. George the National Shoff field on 31st street, the 21st year. Until three,years ago t1. Askounis,Mrs.George Howell and Mrs. Al Gravelle,all of Oak Oak Brook. event was called the Keith Line F Brook, are receiving treasurers to be offered at the Country . The event is sponsored by the Oak Horse show and was sponsored by t . Auction to follow the presentation. Brook Presidents'club with the principal Oak The current sprook Fire onsor, then Preside a- There is a$1 charge to cover a champagne-continental break- 'beneficiary the Oak Brook library; the fast and the activities of the program. Oak Brook Lions club share will go to club, is a not-for-profit organizat19�, activities supported by the group. made up of current and immediate pas Mrs. John Gard. P Mrs. Frank Howell, for the Mrs. Emmett There will be 76 classes including presidents of organizations including th Shanahan and Mrs. Paul Spurney are co-hostesseshunters,jumpers,pony working hunters, Village of Oak Brook, Oak Brook Par: morning. c-:.; ,...,..„ '"'' 1 'S6'. Morgan horses and saddle horses. Paul district, Association of Commerce an Weber is general show chairman assisted Industry, Caucus, Library associati it by Arthur Phillip, John Bowan, and Little League, Women's club � , citizens, including Paul Butler. , _-- ,. `�:,rt, ., .4, Zz,, :; �� I `i `l ' Oak Brook horse show is set The Oak Brook Community Fall Horse Oak Brook Women's club, Oak Brool show will be held at 9:30 a.m.Sept.29 and 30, Library assn. at the National Show field,31st street, Oak Brook. There will be 76 classes including hunters The event is sponsored by the Oak Brook jumpers, pony working hunters, Morgar Presidents' club, with the principle horses and saddle horses. General shov beneficiary to be the Oak Brook library. chairman is Paul Weber,and assistants an Cooperating organizations are the Oak Art Phillip, John Bowan and William Brook Little league, Oak Brook Lions club, Watson. Libraryjoins system D Y erg The Oak Brook library has become a member of the DuPage Library System after years of delay because of the interpretation of tax laws, Erwin B. Bahnsen, . ' president of the Oak Brook Library Association. . __ Membership entitles the holders of Oak Brook library �" -N---,\--_,,> ,. J �A 1i'{ cards to borrow 200 cassettes, films, books and other - - reference material from any library in the system," in- cluding the Chicago Public Library. The library has grown from a $7,000 to $8,000 a year Oak Brook ■ ibrary volunteer operation two or,three years ago to a more professional unit with a full-time librarian and a $35,00 budget today. loiLibrary I)uPaae System �g b9d �; .A.-.../-1 he returned'to the local library.They The Oak Brook Public Library of- must be renewed, however, at the ficiall.ybecame a member ofthe library frorra which they were DuPage Library System on Jan. 15, borrowed. 1974. Because of the extra work involved The library system is an associa- tion in maintaining such a system, fines thr ofh independent enount libr kings for overdue books are 5 cents per throughout the county working day- together to provide maximum System headquarters also has a Oakk -Broovice librarysefor everyone. large collection of framed art prints ok residents who have a and 8 mm and 16mm,films which a borrow books from any member validated library card may now may he borrowed. Catalogs for these are available at each local library, subject to.the rules of the items • other.libraries. Books do not have to library. be returned to the library from Page 39 which they were borrowed, but may TF-1/17.1 18 Library under way The Oak Brook library Work on the street began commission will undertake a Commission weighs last week. Curbs and gutters feasibility study of the are to be constructed. possibility of remodeling the village hall takeover The committee recom- village hall, Trustee John village mended that crushed stone Baschen, chairman of the paths be laid on the east side finance, corporate planning cepted for membership in the from contractors who plan to of Pine Hill and Cheval dr. and public properties corn- system,the holders of village bid on construction of the with pedestrian crosswalks at mittee, announced Tuesday. library cards will be able to civic center will,be accepted both locations. , The village hall will be borrow many more reference in the village hall until The village plan corn-vacated when the civic materials. Tuesday, November 13, at 10 mission is laying out a center, to be constructed In the letter to the system, a.m. villagewide pathway system ' behind it, is completed. The the village board stated that CONSTRUCTION of the $2 in conjunction with the park s library, now located in'one should funds for the library million,two story civic center district. room of the village hall, be curtailed or drastically is expected to begin late this would then have the option of reduced, a library district or year. Trustee Brown also an - utilizing the entire 8,180 public library with the power Trustee Frederick Brown nounced that a police a square feet. to tax residents would be reported Tuesday that the department substation will be Expansion of library encouraged. residents of Adams rd. had established in Oakbrook -- resources began Tuesday - The library is slated to submitted a petition to his Center on an experimental s when trustees approved a receive $35,000 annually for public safety committee basis during the Christmas letter of intent required to the next three years from requesting that a bicycle shopping season. ' join the DuPage Library village revenue. trail-bridle path be included Seventy per cent of the n System. In related business, in the current resurfacing village's crimes occur there, r.: -IF OAK BROOK IS ac- prequalification statements program. he said. 2. 1 '- 13 • :... 1. 1. Sr; i ..� Oak Brook21st =4 __ ,_,,__ ___ Plans .9� Community Horse Show The Oak Brook communityfall There will be 76 classes including The Presidents' club is a not-fo--a horse show will be on Sept.29 and 30, hunters, jumpers, pony working profit organization made up of-' sponsored by the Oak Brook hunters, Morgan horses, and saddle current and immediate past Presidents' club, with the principal horses. beneficiary being th'e Oak Brook General show chairman is Paul neighborhood idents of tasso at ohe many ns and rthe library. Weber. Assistant chairmen are Art following Oak Brook organizations: The cooperating organizations are Phillip, John Bowan and Bill Wat- the village of Oak Brook, Oak Brook commissions, Oak Brook Little son. League, ticket sales, Oak Brook Park Dist., Assn. of Commerce and Lions, class sponsors, Oak Brook Oak Brook community fall the 21st year f horse tle League,or the Industry, aWom Women's club, and dist- Women's club, box seat sales, and show. The show started as the Keith inguished citizens including Paul the Oak Brook Library assn. Line fall horse show sponsored by Butler. The show will begin at 9:30 a.m. the Oak Brook Fire Assn. but in the both days and will be at the national last three years it has been run by This year's president is William R. show field on 31st st., Oak Brook. the Oak Brook Presidents'club. Watson Jr. Vice president is Paul Weber. The Oak Brook Lions club will donate its portion of the show proceeds to the Lions hearing activi- ties, a device used for testing hear- ing aids.George Mueller is president of the Oak Brook Lions club.