WREX-TV Channel 13 – Oct. 3, 1960

Source:  Rockford Register-Republic Oct. 3 1960   columns 1 -4 of 9

Source: Columns 5 – 7 of 9, Rockford Register-Republic 10/3/1960

 

 

 

Rockford Magazine – January 1995

Source: Rockford Magazine, January 1995.   Cover, shown above, Pete McMurray and Linda Lampert, WXRX-FM

People to Watch 1995 include: Mayor Charles Box, alderwoman Carol Jambor-Smith, Jayne Byrne, Jesse Dabson, Pecatonica village President Ed Smith. Ron Wait, Barb Giolitto, John B. ANderson, Congressman Don Manzullo, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Dr. John LaTourette, Lynn Martin, George Bush, Paul Simon, Ann Hughes, Marty Flagg, Rory Peterson, Percy Gordon, Doug Scott, E.J. “Zeke” Giorgi, Eugene Eubanks, Dr. Ed Sharp, Geri Nikolai, Stephen J. Wesley, Harvard mayor Bill LaFew, Register Star managing editor C.W. Johnson, Jim Herman, Mike Townsend, Linda Grist Cunningham, Frank Schier, Gary Wilmer, Mary Collins, Larry Manne, Jack White, Jimmy Johnson, J. R. Sullivan, William Gregg, Richard Raether, Stella Maggio-Dobbins, Tom Maloney, Frank Fiorello, John Gile, Brian Reck, Mark Gillette, Mike Holmes, Conrad “Connie” Kowall, more. Some pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Source: Rockfordiana: Biographies HE – HJ    through 1966 Rockford Morning Star 4/8/1958

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Source: Rockfordiana: Biographies HE – HJ  through 1966 Rockford Register Star 01/17/1960

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Board President of Swedish-American. worked as a day-laborer in Pullman Car Works then he worked in a hardware and tin shop the he started a small business of his own electrical repair and locksmith business 50 years in the metal fastener business President of Rockford Screw Products started Rockford Screw Products in 1929. One time strong man in a vaudville show 1911 worked for National Lock for 19 years.

Source: Rockfordiana: Biographies HE-HJ thru 1966. Rockford Morning Star 01/27/1961

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Chairman of the Board of Rock River Savings and Loan President of WREX-TV.  President of Illinois Hospital Service member of the board of directors of American National Bank and Trust. Was a member of the original board of Greater Rockford Airport Authority and was for a time Chm. Of the Board.

Source: Rockfordiana: Biographies HE-HJ thru 1966 Rockford Morning Star 5/25-28/1965

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Rockford Register Star 8/13/1965

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Rockfordiana: Biographies HE – HJ thru 1966 Rockford Morning Star 10/5/1965

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Source: Rockfordiana: Biographies HE – HJ thru 1966 Rockford Morning Star 10/5/1965

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Source: The Real Aviators of Rockford, from Northwest Quarterly magazine, Hilday 2013, Vol. 10, No. 4, p114