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Newspaper

The Chronicle Telegram

Location

Elyria, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1954

Page

11

Easter Program Highlights On WJW Radio With Vir ginia McWaters

Metropolitan Opera star Virginia McWaters appears as guest on The Evening Comes with Milton Cross Easter Sunday 5:05 to 5:30 p.m. est on WJW 850. The program blends inspirational music and faith with a Gospel reading from Mark chapter 16 verses 1 through 8. Highlights include Jesus Christ Is Risen Today The Lost Chord Westminster London Suite and The Hallelujah Chorus. Navy Chaplain Lt Elvin D. Leavell offers the closing prayer.

Metropolitan Opera Virginia McWaters Milton Cross WJW Canterbury Choir Macklin Marrow Robert Armbruster Westminster Eric Coates New Symphony Orchestra Hallelujah Cantebury Choir Mr. Marrow Navy J.g Elvin D. Leavell Terra Bella California

Fourth Ring Expands Super Circus on WXEL Telecast

Telecast Sunday 5 to 6 pm features The Fourth Ring film segment showing acts too large for indoor stages or remote to attend. April 18 bill includes Ming Sing acrobats Toscanella Aero- Stylites with clowns and Easter parade with Princess Mary Hartline. Claude Kirchner hosts Ringmaster. Bruce Chase leads the orchestra. Produced by Phil Patton, new acts filmed nationwide for monthly surprise packages.

Tensons Pat’ Anthony WXEL ABC Civic Theatre Chicazo Ming Toscanella Nicky Cliffy Scampy Mary Hartline Claude Kirchner Bruce Chase Super Circus Phil Patton

Grass In His Desk No Mystery Now

RICHMOND VA Joe Proffitt foreman of a planing mill tried three times to catch the prankster who kept putting grass in his desk. The fourth time he discovered the prankster a wren that had built a nest and laid five eggs in it. Proffitt moved to another desk.

Richmond Joe Proffitt Proffitt

Easter Sunday Specials Planned by WGAR Station

WGAR schedules a full Easter program lineup starting with sunrise services April 18 led by Dr. Thomas S. Keppler at Sunset Memorial Park in cooperation with the Cleveland Kiwanis Club. The Parma-Schaal High School Choir performs, with a detailed hourly list of services, music, and broadcasts through 5:30 p.m. including Epworth Euclid, Hollywood Bowl sunrise service, and a Cedric Hardwicke narrated drama.

WGAR Thomas S. Keppler Sunset Memorial Park Cleveland Kiwanis Club Parma-Schaal High School Epworth Euclid Methodist Church Sugabill U. S. Weather Bureau Hollywood Bowl Arthur Shuck Boy Scouts of America Music Room Nell Tangeman St. Francis Hallelujah Chorus Boys Choir School of Palm Beach Fla New York Philharmonic Symphony Sir Cedric Hardwicke Welch Chorale

Guest Stars to Take TV Spotlight on Colgate Hour Sunday

Jane Russell Beryl Davis Connie Haines and Rhonda Fleming will be featured with Abbott and Costello on the Colgate Comedy Hour at p. m. Sunday on WNBK Channel 4. The Four Girls will present an Easter song Do Lord.

Jane Russell Beryl Davis Connie Haines Rhonda Fleming Abbott and Costello WNBK Channel 4 Four Girls

Singer Monica Lewis Guests on Paul Winchell Show

Monica Lewis will guest on the Paul Winchell Show on Sunday at 7 p m on WNBK Channel 4. A dramatization based on Frankenstein features Winchell with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, plus a sketch with the trio as gypsies and Knucklehead acting as a fortune teller tambourinist.

Monica Lewis Paul Winchell WNBK Channel 4 Paul Jerry Mahoney Knucklehead Smiff Knucklehead

New Owners Take Over Elyria House Of Beauty

Ownership of the House of Beauty at 375 Broad St has changed hands to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hensley. The couple bought the business from Marie Huffman, plans include reducing programs for women, and Mr. Hensley, working at Furd Sivlar Co. in Cleveland, reduces men three days weekly. Mrs. Hensley, with coiffeur Mr. Vincent formerly of Higbee's Cleveland, has 17 years as a beautician and hair stylist. The eight year old shop is now run by the Hensleys who live at 882 Cleveland St.

House of Beauty Broad St Roy Hensley Marie Huffman Hensley Vincent Higbee’s Cleveland Furd Sivlar Co Detroit Elyria Blathville Ark

South African Summer Tour Planned For TV

NBC Zoo Parade conductor Marlin Perkins will lead a 42 day South African tour this summer for a TV series. A 22 member party departs Chicago July 3, flies London to Livingston, tours Victoria Falls, Johannesburg, Kimberley, then Cape Town aboard the Blue Train. Stops include Hluhluwe Reserve and Kruger Park with Myeri treetop hotel, Swaziland and Nairobi National Park on the itinerary. Don Herbert and wife Maralella Dutton accompany the group.

South Africa Marlin Perkins Nbc-Tv Zoo Parade Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo Perkins Africa London Livingston Victoria Falls Johannesburg Kimberley Capetown Durban Myeri Hluhluwe Game Reserve Kruger National Park Swaziland Pietermaritz’ Burg Nairobi National Park Don Herbert Mr. Wizard Ion Maralella Dutton

Eisenhower Plays Golf With Masters Near-Winner

At Augusta Ike Eisenhower plays a round with Billy Jo Patton the amateur who almost won the Masters Patton shot a 290 to finish one stroke behind the leader The President is staying at the Little White House on Easter vacation and has no official duties today on the Augusta National course

Augusta Eisenhower Billy Jo Patton White House Patton Augusta National

Suburban calendar entries for Ridgeville and nearby towns

Community notices list multiple meetings and events across Ridgeville Lagrange Carlisle South Amherst Columbia Grafton Lorain County. Activities include Grange square dances PTA meetings Brownie Troop gatherings Scout events and church activities led by local groups with dates and venues noted.

Lorain County Grange Officers Association Ridgeville Carlisle Brownies Brighton PTA Columbia Grafton Henrietta Methodist Church South Amherst Red Rose Tulk Field South Amherst — Congregational Sunday School South Amherst—Board of Education South Amherst School

Ladies Aid Plans New London Bake Sale

Clarksfield Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Louise Wargo home and discussed a bake sale in New London. Plans will be made at the April 22 meeting at Mrs. Lois Gray’s home. Mrs. Georgia Sanford offered the prayer and presided over the session. Grace Russell reported sun shine cards sent to many locals. Easter poems were read, the Easter lily for church services will later be given to Mrs. Schwartz. Refreshments followed.

Clarksfield Augusta Schwartz Sanford Onie Russell Schwartz

PTA Unit Sends 12 To District Meet In Oberlin

La Grange PTA met to elect officers and plan district travel, sending 12 members to Oberlin on April 22 and the new executive committee to Ridgeville May 6. Officers elected were Mrs. William Forbush president, Mrs. Virgil De Lozier vice president, Mrs. Willard Campbell treasurer, and Mrs. Dick Durkee secretary. The group reported 26 mothers attended the spring roundup for September start. The PTA will sponsor La Grange Boy Scouts with Rolfe Till institutional representative, Clifford Brooks chairman, Robert Jackson secretary-treasurer, Kenneth Jackson outdoorsman, Cornelius Vandenburg advancement man, Wilmont Long master, Nelson Reisinger assistant master, Mr. Vickers explorer advisor, and Mr. Doss assistant explorer advisor. An entertainment program featured Fifth grade pups and a typical day in school opening with the Pledge, morning prayer, and “America” sung. Refreshments were served by second grade mothers to about 150 people.

William Forbush Virgil de Lozier Willard Campbell Dick Durkee PTA la Grange Boy Scouts Rolfe Till Clifford Brooks Robert Jackson Kenneth Jackson Cornelius Vandenburg Wilmont Long Nelson Reisinger Vickers Doss Winifred Heath Willae J. Harrison America

No Dispute No Strike At Pike Plant

At the Pike county atomic plant project about 1500 AFL workers walked off Thursday and did not return Friday while union officials deny a strike. AFL spokespersons cited member awareness of issues and offered little further comment, and management expressed puzzlement over the dispute’s basis.

Waverly Pike County AFL Nrocrace

Restaurant Sales Rise in Ohio for Week of April

The National Food Service Association reports Ohio restaurant sales reaching 8,687,880 dollars for the week of April 3, signaling a new peak for the year in the state of Ohio.

Columbus Ohio National Food Service Association

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