Elyria Chronicle Briefs From April 12
Short item notes Elyria Ohio happenings on a Saturday in April. Local names and events are briefly mentioned with minimal detail.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1969
Page
6
Short item notes Elyria Ohio happenings on a Saturday in April. Local names and events are briefly mentioned with minimal detail.
Oberlin Mt Zion Baptist Church starts its annual post Easter spring revival with 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services. Rev Fred L Steen leads the event through Friday with guest preacher Rev L Morton fromGreater Mt Zion Baptist Windsor Ontario and his brother James as guest organist.
Spencer awards two bus contracts for the Black River Board of Education. A 72 passenger bus costs 9,952 with C W Sommer Inc supplying the chassis and Superior Bus Body providing the body. The second bus, a 66 passenger model, costs 3,759 with Superior supplying the body on a Ford chassis bought from Fuhrman Ford Sales. Total for both buses 18,751 after a 700 trade in.
Valente Schultz reports burglary at 638 West 18th Street in Lorain. A watch valued at 125 dollars, a radio, and four pellet guns were taken after entry gained by forcing a basement window. Schultz returned home about 11 30 p m to find the living room ransacked.
Airman 1C Paul H. Minert, son of Mr and Mrs Henry L Minert of 334 Cornell Ave, is home on leave after injuries in Vietnam. He was injured when a truck overturned near Phan Rang Air Base and was treated in Japan before transfer to Wright Patterson Air Force Base. His twin brother Kirk serves as a jet mechanic at Phan Rang.
A reader recalls watching Walter Cronkite’s Ike tribute shortly after Eisenhower’s death. The letter praises the program’s portrait of a humble leader who rose to world stature, noting Cronkite’s Gettysburg visit and Eisenhower’s longing to leave land in better shape.
Small distressed notice seeking a lost male cat described as gray with a fancy collar. Contact 333-204 Rast Broad at Williams St. Corner, 50 by 117 lot with a well built seven room structure. Potential commercial gateway site in Eastern Heights.
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