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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1968
Page
2
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reports local happenings with brief items including municipal notices, school updates, sports scores, and community events from April 8 1962, providing context for residents of Elyria and surrounding areas.
A Juarez great grandson arrived in Mexico City as part of the U S Air Force Sergeants Chair tour. Sgt Manuel Melendez Juarez said he cherished visiting his ancestors homeland while most living relatives were born in the United States. Moscow and London items note tributes to Paul Robeson on his 70th birthday and a 15-year-old conductor composer debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra. In France, Scott Lindbergh married Paris artist Monique Dubois, while Israel’s Moshe Dayan, injured in a cave in March, will soon leave hospital wearing a corset after ribs and a vertebra injury.
Avon council will consider bids for furniture and bookkeeping equipment for the city income tax department. Finance director Louis R Walker says the department should be operating by Monday and housed in the Municipal Building, taking over the former police chief and building inspector offices. A tax questionnaire and estimated form were mailed to about 12 000 residents in March with a deadline of April 30 for wage earners. The tax takes effect April 1 and applications have been received for a tax administrator and a full time clerk with decisions pending.
More than 600 supporters crowded Columbus Hall on Saturday for John Kolena to launch his bid for the Democratic nomination for the county common pleas judgeship. Kolena, a municipal judge for 11 years in Lorain, introduced Baseball Hall of Fame member Lefty Grove and Judge Clifford Brown of the Sixth District Court of Appeals, both Norwalk residents, and about a dozen Democratic running mates. Michael Zgayb, municipal court bailiff and spaghetti dinner organizer, served as master of ceremonies.
Brighton township officials will file a formal complaint with Norfolk and Western regarding repeated crossings blockages on Route 311. Resident Robert Pitts urged the trustees after a March 29 blockage lasted about an hour, sayingEmergency services like fire trucks and ambulances were hindered. Trustees authorized township clerk Ray Ewell to file the complaint. In other business trustees reviewed the 1961-1967 township books examiners report with no errors, viewed a yearly calendar of duties, and received a zoning board of appeals reorganizational report naming Clark Ewell as chairman Paul Jewett as vice chairman and Russell Sooy as secretary.
Berlin Heights announces two area residents selected to attend Buckeye Girls State at Capital University in Columbus June 15 to 23. Adgie Hill and Rose Bush are sponsored by American Legion Post 659 Auxiliary, with alternates Francie Hill and Freida Keller. Paris reports French households spend 36 percent of income on food and drink, bread at 5.3 percent.
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