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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1937
Page
15
The report states Africa will receive 27 new radio beacons to guide flying boats, enhancing navigation and safety across regional air routes. The installations are part of ongoing aviation infrastructure upgrades aimed at expanding air travel access and reliability.
Preparations to organize educational work for Lorain County adult blind residents begin Thursday afternoon at Room 138 Washington School Building. Speakers include Daniel Thiman and Miss Helen Lapp from the State Commission for the Blind, with assistance from John G. Olmstead. Demonstrations cover Braille typing cane seating sewing knitting and basket making with materials provided. The Elyria Woman’s Club serves refreshments and transportation is arranged by the Lorain Lion Club and the state commission. Mayor D A Baird of Elyria will speak.
Sheffield Lake Village Council appointed committees for the year including Finance with Kensik Morgan and Osborne, Printing and Sanitation with Huebener Kishman and Collins, Streets and Drains with Os bore Kishman and Morgan, Buildings and Lands with Morgan Kishman and Collins, and Fire Department with Kensik Kishman and Huebener. Street signs were ordered for Ivanhoe avenue and Idlewood avenue sewer work is slated to start next week.
Miss Helen Bodnar was honored at a shower hosted by her sister Mrs Clarence Weber of South Point Drive. Avon Anna Garron and Betty Bodnar acted as hosts. Guests came from Oberlin Lorain Lakewood and Avon Lake. Prizes went to Betty Huner of Lake. The bride elect received many nice gifts.
The report groups visits by the Schroeders and Tafts to the Chambers family in Ford Road and West River Road. Lois Youtzy joined a Cleveland radio broadcast. June Chambers had tonsils and adenoids removed at Elyria Clinic. Betty Chambers visited her aunt Mrs Clifford Spaulding. A Soil Conservation meeting is planned at the Gulf Road school house on Thursday evening, April 15, inviting those interested in the 1957 program.
A compact adage notes true happiness does not come to those who stop seeking. It urges persistent effort and action over complacency.
A nation comprises individuals who form a structured whole, where orderly collective action and shared institutions define its character and governance. The emphasis rests on cohesive organization as the backbone of national identity.
Psychiatric theory notes an avoidance complex in which people dread revisiting places tied to unhappiness. Billie Burke shuns the Tarrytown estate of her honeymoon while Earl Carroll avoids Dukev Wyon Theatre. The Broad Street Fulton Street corner, once Eve ning Mail site, haunts the author.
After the stock market collapse crowds walk to work and business life shifts toward offices showers and brisk rubdowns. Juxtaposed are hardy figures like Dr. John H. Finley and John D Jr as walkers, while poverty and begging fade with fewer alms and fewer street comedians such as Ring Lardner and Kin Hubbard noted.
James Whyte of the Elyria YMCA announces a new diving helmet built from donated lead toys. The helmet features a front plate glass window, a water jet to keep it clear, a top waterproof speaker, and an air tube for easier breathing. It aims to let boys stay underwater 10 minutes or more at depths up to 20 feet, with adjustable weights for buoyancy.
Editors note a rising appetite for light humor with subtle wit as a new market. American magazines increasingly seek English material for lighter pieces. A taxi altercation near the Biltmore ends in casual talk and cigarette-light camaraderie after tempers flare.
A Friday PTA meeting at East Carlisle School showcased youth leadership with Ridgeville students performing rope skipping, boxing, calisthenics, parallel bars, and pyramid formations. Parents and teachers praised the cooperative spirit amid an absence of Ridgeville coach Dyer Sweet.
Martha Bialliday plans a rushed wedding to Nick Garnet but suspects his motive. She flees to Oakville incognito becoming a hotel waitress while Nick pursues with Nita Lombard. Martha befriends Gregory White the pianist and wonders about his ties to Nita as a storm traps them at the resort.
H E Willis led the boys team while Miss Elizabeth Wilcox directed the girls team with students from freshman to senior classes. Audrey Ketchum played piano as Dorothy Forney participated. FE Gates spoke on scouting. June Harrison announced open art room inspections. shrub committee led by A P Bailey. audits by Frank Harrison and H H Gregg. nominating committee names. All School Orchestra performed with Frank Chambers directing. Moral Blindness temperance talk by Rev Thomas Huthes. Kappa Tau Sigma chorus sang. LaPorte WCTU to meet at Mrs Clara Pitkin’s home.
East Carlisle Mothersingers will be guest singers at the County Council meeting of Parents and Teachers Tuesday evening after the council's all day session at Eaton school. Representatives of East Carlisle School will attend to participate.
Mr and Mrs Fred Hornby and family joined Mr and Mrs George Bush on La Grange Road for Sunday dinner. The F F Fling and Nancy with Mr and Mrs H H Gregg toured to Wellington and visited Mr and Mrs Russell Waldorf along with Mr and Mrs P T Kristof and son Billy.
Friends and relatives attended the funeral for Mrs. Emily Waldron of Elyria buried at Ridge Lawn Cemetery under Nicholas Funeral Home direction. She was grandmother of Betty Leonard and Dickie Waldron, children of Wade Johnson. Hubert Mackert of Grafton, brother of Andrew Mackert, died Wednesday after a heart attack at seventy six. Born in Sheffield he moved to Lorain then Grafton where he farmed. Funeral services were held Saturday morning.
Community records show a Soil Conservation meeting taking place at the Thassdads residence with attendees noted in the sparse OCR fragment. Authorities and specifics remain unclear due to the damaged text.
Recent guests at a birthday party honoring Mrs. Jack Bringman gathered at their Elyria residence. The report notes Mrs. P. T. Kristof visiting her mother, Mrs. Frank Muller, in Valley City. Miss Beth Nichols, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Nichols, returned home from Elyria Memorial Hospital after pneumonia.
On April 15 the township invites residents to join the 1937 program with the committee led by E. C. Caror K. E. M. Youtss H G Chambers and F. C. Eldred coordinating the effort.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodruff of Sheffield Lake Village have returned home after spending the winter touring the South and Southeast with much time in San Antonio Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Thoma and family of Avon Lake were evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson and family recently.
Sheriff C F Cheshter reported locating the Fayette County steel bridge that once spanned the Kaskaskia River in a local junkyard. A junkman said he bought it from a nearby farmer, dismantled and moved it to his yard.
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