Elyria YWCA plans new activities center for 2400 members
The YWCA board announces a public campaign to raise at least 392000 to build a modern activities center in Elyria replacing an old barn. Howard C. Gollmar and Mrs. Scott Gillmore will chair the drive, targeting improvements for girls and women including teens.
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Elyria
Ywca Board of Trustees
Howard C. Gollmar
Scott Gillmore
Gollmar
Association
Chamber of Commerce Rotary Club
al Koran
YWCA
Elyria Ywca
Gillmore
Three Courses Added to Elyria High School Curriculum
Elyria Board of Education approved new courses for the 1951-52 program. Seniors must take a Screening test in general mathematics and fundamentals of English with a review option for those who fail. A health course for sophomores not taking biology was added and a Business English track offered for stenographic students.
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Elyria High School
Elyria Board of Education
Roof repairer falls from housetop in France
Michel Berthomme, a roof repairer in Les Sables-d'Olonne, slipped and fell about 60 feet from a housetop onto a mattress placed on a passing truck. He survived with a broken ankle as his only injury.
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Les Sables-D'Olonne
France
Michel Berthomme
Weather outlook for northeastern Ohio
Partly cloudy with an occasional shower this afternoon and tonight. Highs and tonight's low near 35. Wednesday brings more clouds and a few showers then turning colder. Five day forecast shows temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal, colder midweek, then a warmer trend by weekend with light showers possible Wednesday and again Saturday or Sunday totaling a quarter to half inch.
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Ohio
Amherst Foils Second Burglar In Local Tavern Robbery
Amherst police nabbed Kenneth Geisey thirty from Cambridge Ohio when he returned to collect his car at the Weak Garage after a massillon Stark county burglary scheme. Geisey and partner Jack Morris of Amherst had previously fled with Morris’ car. Morris was wounded and hospitalized in Massillon. Morris had been released from Stark county jail on October nineteenth on a breaking and entry charge.
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Massillon
Amherst
Kenneth Geisey
Cambridge
Jack Morris
Morris
Stark County
Massillon Hospital
Geisey
Telephone Rate Hearing Set for Elyria Thursday Morning
A public hearing on Elyria Telephone Company’s rate increase is scheduled to begin at 10 am Thursday in Columbus. City representatives from May or Henry Ault and solicitor Richard Baird will attend along with Hub bard Wilcox and Lorain County Industrial Council and Elyria Chamber of Commerce members. Local residents with tele service interests plan to attend. Mayor Ault will attend civilian defense duties tomorrow afternoon.
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Elyria Telephone Company
Columbus
Henry Ault
Richard Baird
Hubbard Wilcox
LaGrange
Lorain County Industrial Council
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Ault
Richard Stith
Wilcox
Baird
Norris Ryder
Chamber of Commerce
Public Utilities Commission
Elyria
British Defense Budget Approaches Four Billion
Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell announced in Commons that Britain will spend 4.172 billion dollars on military purposes this year. The defense appropriation is 448 million more than expected, with implications for higher taxes and reduced living standards as wartime controls may be reimposed.
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London
Hugh Gaitskell
Commons
Britain
Gaitskell
Drive Against Gambling And Vice Grows In Ohio
Ohio law enforcement drives against vice and gambling expand as sheriffs and safety directors target bingo slot machines punchboards and rackets. Stark County grand jury witnesses will testify as it reopens, while Dayton police raid a bingo game and Lorain merchant pleads guilty to displaying punch boards and tip jars.
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Ohio
Stark County
Harry W. Grossglaus
John Rosetti
Donald Cook
Columbus
Cook
Uhrichsville
Common Pleas
J. S. Hare
Tus- Carawas County Grand Jury
Dayton
Dayton Eagles Aerie No. 323
L. F. Bucher
Lodge
Lawrence Young
Three Teachers Resign Seven Hired In Elyria Schools
The Elyria Board of Education approved seven new teachers for 1951 52 and accepted resignations from three after ill health and career moves. Resignations came from Mrs Laura B Gill Mrs Marian Spencer and Mrs Alice M Beal. New hires include Miss Carrolee Schafer Miss Joyce Seif Miss Margaret Esther Brown Miss Elaine Dirrim Miss Grace Stuckey Miss Edna Mae Overholt and Mr Robert Luecke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Elyria Board of Education
Laura B. Gill
McKinley School
Marian Spencer
Jefferson
Oberlin
Alice M. Beal
Allen School
Ohio Colleges
Uni
L. N. Nicholas
Carrolee Schafer
Bethesda
Ohio University
Joyce Seif
Shelby
Ohio State University
Margaret Esther Brown
Hebron
Elaine Dirrim
Montpelier
Bowling Green University
Grace Stuckey
Alliance
Heidelberg College
Edna Mae Overholt
Wadsworth
Robert Luecke
Louise Wood
Sylvia Abramoska
Ruth Aikey
Jean Anderson
Lika Aukerman
Robert Baeder
Olive Beck
Robert Biddle
Marjorie Bigham
Norma Calvisi
Margery Chetister
William Coyer
Earnest Curcillo
Katherine Dawson
Ward Dennis
Vera Doane
Yuvon Doenges
Mildred Frank
iAnne Gates
Gail Gillmore
Jack Gray
Della Harding
Beverly Heisman
Robert Heisman
Winifred Holm
Elsie Hurley
Arlene Keller
May Kihm
Mary Kostro
Anne Litteau
Edith Mathieson
Donald McGaughey
Virginia McKee
Erma McVetta
Bertha Meesig
Frances Michael
Grace Nau
Marjorie Niemeyer
Martha Radachy
Robert Ringer
Norma Borer
Gertrude Rose
Clarence Scarbrough
John Sheldon
Barbara Shoemaker
Helen Simpson
Ruth Anne Smith
Paul Stewart
Anne Stinson
Chitford Stubbiefield
John Taylor
Jean Templer
Carrol Tibbais
Mary Visnick
Countess Wallace
Keith Wallace
Ernest Watts
Ruth Watts
Eleanor Watson
Ray Wilson
Ruth Anne Wolltz
Steve Zvosec
Elyria Board Approves Plans for Five School Sites
The Elyria Board of Education approves site development plans for four new or remodeled high school centers and one elementary school. Final approval follows weeks of planning. Plans include full-size football fields, baseball diamonds at all sites, playgrounds, skating ponds, turf play for field hockey and soccer, and basketball volleyball areas. Two junior league baseball and softball diamonds to be added at Eastern Heights, Jefferson, and Allen. Staff parking provided. Also discussed are the 1951 52 calendar, library circulation report, and a $100000 government bond to be deposited around April 11.
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Elyria
Elyria Board of Education
Io Grier Riemer
Cleveland
Franklin and
Eastern Heights
Ely, Jefferson, and
Allen
Franklin
Jefferson
Edna G. Moore
Menzies Defends MacArthur Campaign Conduct
Prime Minister R G Menzies of Australia defended General Douglas MacArthurs conduct in the Korean war. He outlined Australia objectives to resist aggression, maintain a strong position, limit the conflict area, and seek a negotiated settlement. He faulted Labor leader J B Chifley for urging withdrawal from Korea.
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MacArthur
Sydney
Australia
R. G. Menzies
Douglas
Former Elyria Man To Be Paroled
Former Elyria resident Charlies Preston, sentenced May 11, 1949, for probation violation in traffic manslaughter, is to be paroled May 16 per the Ohio pardon and parole commission. The commission also grants parole to Theodore Lonabaugh, who was arrested July 5 in Lorain for auto theft and sentenced here in 1947.
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Charlies Preston
Elyrian
Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission
Preston
Brookdale Cemtery
Oberlin College
Theodore Lonabaugh
Lonabaugh
Reds Fight To Hold Allies At Hwachon Reservoir
In Korea Tuesday Chinese Communist troops fought to delay Allied forces reaching the Hwachon dam as flood gates were opened by hand. U S and French infantry moved near the dam while Reds opened several gates, but water levels rose slowly upstream and caused limited disruption to the advance.
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Tokyo
Korea
Hwachon
U. S
Key Dam
38Th Parallel
Pukhan
Duice Gates
Chunchon
Chongryong
Seoul
Reds
Coroner To Move Office To Lorain
Dr Norbert A Tillman of Lorain announces moving the coroner headquarters from Elyria to 221 Eighth Street Lorain He plans to hire an Elyria doctor as assistant coroner reappoint Elyrias Bernhard Chomet and Lorains Charles Chesner as pathologists each paid 1000 annually Tillman previously served as assistant coroner and succeeded his brother Dr Paul Tillman who resigned to join the state mental hospital at Tiffin.
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Norbert A. Tillman
Lorain
Elyria
Eighth Street
Bernhard Chomet
Charles Chesner
Norbert Tillman
Paul Tillman
Tiffin
Flood aid rush as four states hit by midwest floods
State and federal officials moved swiftly to aid flood victims in a four state area where the Red Cross says damage tops 3 million dollars. Nicollet Blue Earth Lyon and Brown counties are labeled disaster zones and relief funds are sought. An Air Force plane directed marooned farmers to signal for help using an H shaped signal and towns like North Mankato wrestle with rising waters.
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Midwest
The
Red Cross
Minneapolis
Misssissippi
South St. Paul
Minn
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Nicollet
Blue Earth
Lyon
Brown
Roy Schulz
North Mankato
Mankato
Backers of Draft Bill Predict Easy House Passage
Backers say the House will pass a bill to lower the draft age by six months to 18 and extend service to 26 months with a stand-by universal military training program, while opponents push substitutes to kill or redefine UMT. Amendments aim to pause UMT pending new congressional action, with votes expected on amendments today.
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House
Ashington
Congress
Armed Services Committee
Oln E. Teague
D. Tex
Europe
MacArthur seeks wider U N war powers and more troops
Gen Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo pressed Secretary Pace for a free hand to use troops and urged expanding Far East forces. He asked for more U N manpower, removal of limits, and use of Chinese Nationalist forces, warning of Communist expansion if not checked. The report notes Pace and MacArthur held a long night meeting. details remain unconfirmed.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
U. S. Army
Frank Pace Jr
MacArthur
Pace
U. S
Far East
United Nations
Korea
U. N
Asia
Red China
London Daily Telegraph
U.N No. 4
Truman Silent On MacArthur Controversy
President Truman offered no public statement as House Republicans seek to compel a report on the Far East stance. GOP leaders plan to urge direct orders to MacArthur while Tokyo HQ denies Pace pressured policy talk. Pace visits MacArthur but the trip is not tied to current dialectic.
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Washington
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
House
Congress
GOP
MacArthur
Tokyo
Supreme Headquarters
Farmy
Frank Pace Jr
Pace
Joseph W Martin Jr. Mass
Martin
Lay Off Order Not Expected To Apply Here
A New York Central lay off order is not expected to affect local staffing as business improves. The railroad plans a ten percent clerical cut across 11 states including Ohio, but officials say conditions here do not justify reductions. Separately, South Abbertide plans a joint improvement project with road work including paving slagging and oiling.
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New York
New York Central Railroad
Chronicle-Telegram
New York Central
Ohio
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