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LET SEWAGE

PLANT WORK IN

STREAMWOOD

The Metropolitan Sanitary

district expects to have its

newStreamwood sewage treat

ment works competed by the

end of next sumnar. A $154,-

674 contract for jthe job was

awarded by the   tllstrict last

week to Collins aftdWilson.

Horace Ramey, chief sani

tary district engineer, said

the plant's initial capacity

will

bo

for a

population

of

4,000. Within 10years, it could

be expandedto serve an antic

ipated population of 28,000,

he said. Theplantwill bebuilt

on the south bank of the east

branch of Popfer creek, six

miles southof Barrington.

National College Pupils

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Today

The Children's school of

National College^ of Educa

tion, Evanston, will present a

Christmas party ata0;15a.m.

today in Arnold auditorium

The faculty and staff of the

college will meet f|r tea at

4 p. m. In the Alum^ room.

Alvln Carlson and his fam

ily, 2338 N. Spauldlng av.,

have decided to return to the

islands where they spent

three years as prisoners in a

Japanese concentration camp.

Carlson,

43,

a

missionary,

will return as director of a

Bible seminary on the island

of Cebu In the Philippines, a

post he first assumed In 1941.

 Anxious to Return

His wife, Imogene, and

three children are going back

with him.

 The children are just as

anxious to get back as we

are, Carlson said.  They

liked the islands so much

they felt discriminated against

when we returned to this

country in 1954.

The children, Robin, 17,

Larry, 15, and Ted, 10, all

were born in the islands.

Larry was only three months

old when the family was in

terned by the Japanese on

April 9, 1942. Ted was born

after their release.

Worked as Censor

Carlson was working as a

censor for the army when the

Japanese finally reached

Cebu, about 300 miles south

of Manila, four months after

Pearl Harbor. He was destroy

ingarmy

telegraph equipment

at the timeofhis capture.

 At first we were interned

in a camp on Cebu with

about 200 other civilians,

Carlson recalled.  Things

were pretty rough because the

Japs obviously weren't pre-

pared to handle prisoners and

[we had to fend for ourselves

pretty much.

 But things got b e t t e r

when we were transferred to

a larger camp near Manila.

There we got help from the

Red Cross and set up an or

ganization to take care of our

selves.

Itfany Died

 Eventhen it wasn't easy,

Carlson continued.  We all

lost weight, and many prison

ers, especially the older ones,

died from malnutrition and

disease.

 

Toward

the endtheywere

dying so fast we could hardly

keep up with the burials.

Shortly before being res

cued, the family was trans

ferred to another camp near

Manila. There on the morning

of Feb. 23, 1945, they looked

up to see paratroopers of the

army's 11th Airborne division

floating down.

After being

rescued,

Carl

son and his family went back

to Cebu to find the seminary

in ruins. They rebuilt it as

best they could with native

help and gotit running again.

In 1954 the familyreturned

to Chicago to be with ailing

relatives. While here, Carlson

has beenworkingin the bene

fit section of Teletype corpo

ration.

He left there recently toj

prepare for the trip back toI

the islands. Carlson said the

family plans to leave Chicago

in late January and sail Feb.

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