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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1960
Page
1
Thousands of Elyria area worshipers plan Easter services as churches across the region mark the major Christian holiday. A companion list of services appears on page 5 while page 29 features the story of Lorain County’s first white settler and his reluctant journey from Pennsylvania 205 years ago.
A feature on the Elyria Youth Council highlights the group’s activities and achievements offering a positive view of young people. The story includes a full page of pictures and appears on page 31.
Elyria utility FCO billing plan with monthly option to begin Apr 30 is noted alongside a national leader in sales being honored at an Insurance Company banquet in New York. Standardization cited as key to foreign competition for American industry. Elyria fire chief warns of a 40 percent rise over 1959 levels.
Debutantes clash over a striptease act planned as a side show at the World Refugee Ball in London. Nightclub stripper Claire Never will perform in a room adjacent to the main hall, with proceeds benefiting the World Refugee Fund.
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms across Northeastern and Northwestern Ohio. Highs 72 to 77, lows 55 to 60, with Sunday mainly cloudy and widely scattered thundershowers and little temperature change. Lake Erie winds become southeasterly 10 to 20 knots tonight with mostly cloudy skies and possible storms.
PORT CLINTON Ohio an overloaded bicycle rider was in municipal court after being arrested for driving while intoxicated He was found with an excess load of intoxicating liquor Lipstraw Charles L 47 Graystown Ottawa County. A patrolman spotted him along a county road between Bono and Elmore and Lipstraw fell into a water filled ditch before being taken to the city jail to dry out.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base the Discoverer XI mission aims to recover a 300 pound capsule after its 17 foot satellite is placed in orbit. Eight C-119s and two Navy ships cover the planned 262 hour retrieval route southwest of Hawaii. Signals from the satellite were heard in Argentina Newfoundland and Baltimore as scientists warn of potential failures in prior attempts.
Federal Aviation Administrator Elwood R. Quesada faced a call for congressional inquiry after he refused to ground uninspected Electra airliners despite CAB recommendations. Sen. Vance Hartke urged review amid two crashes and ongoing investigations as airlines defend safety and Chief’s stance.
In Youngstown James Nelson, 57, tried to blast pigeons from his house using a roman candle. He grabbed the wrong end, the device backfired, and he was treated for burns after admitting he had been drinking. The pigeons remained on the eaves.
Hamilton report says Herr Schel Hires, husband of Roxie Marie Hires, opposes Gov. Michael V. DiSalle’s planned on the spot visit to evaluate clemency for Frank Poindexter, who killed Hires’s wife during a robbery attempt. Prosecutor Marrs defends judicial process and notes broad support for the death penalty from Ohio prosecutors. Poindexter claims self defense after the shooting. Hires survived injuries from the attack.
Eric Peugeot, four, was abducted from a Paris playground Tuesday and released safe outside a bar Friday after a $100,000 ransom was paid. Police vow to pursue the perpetrators and deter a wave of similar crimes in France. The father is silent, promising not to cooperate, amid fears of more kidnappings.
A 17 year old trapeze artist Doris Opolka fell forty feet during practice with the Mills Brothers Circus in Jefferson Ashtabula County Ohio. She is in serious condition at Cleveland Clinic with a broken wrist possible internal injuries and head injuries. The three ring circus opened a one day stand today.
Michigan troopers and police from Oberlin and Wellington joined a five hour manhunt through fields and woods north of Wellington to seize Harold Dean Wolford 21 of Dearborn and Earl Estep 18 of Thacker W Va. They aided in solving armed robberies including a gas station holdup on West Erie Ave. Wolford was on probation from West Virginia State Penitentiary and injured a sprained ankle. Estep was unhurt.
A tramp steamer named SS Ethel C carrying over eight million pounds of scrap iron sank off the Virginia coast after taking on water. Coast Guard units searched a 2,700 square mile area. all crew members, led by Captain Diomedes Caravias, were unaccounted for. The ship had been en route from New York to Newport News to refuel before an Atlantic crossing to Rotterdam.
In Lyndhurst Ohio two year old Shawn Matthews dies after 36 hours of heroic rescue efforts by his physician father and patrolman. The boy's heart stopped at home and was restarted multiple times before final death at the hospital.
The Chronicle-Telegram notes that three or more bedrooms are now common in new homes due to larger families and rising incomes. For buyers, check the Classifieds for excellent listings and for sellers, call FA 3-3321 in Elyria or CE 3-6173 in Lorain to get help wordings ads for fast sale.
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