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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1957
Page
6
Frank A. Stetson, an 80 year old veteran lawyer, was honored at a birthday party by 13 friends for 54 years of practice in Elyria. Attending were Lorain County and Elyria courts judges, former Probate Judge H. C. Wilcox, and Dan Cook, who began practice in 1904.
Legal notice announces case 61652 Digna E Arocho filing for divorce in Lorain County Court and hearing set after June 17 1957. Also bids invited for two pole barns 30 by 140 feet for Lorain County Agricultural Society with bids due May 14 1957.
Elyria High School library aides traveled to Western Reserve University for the Ohio Student Library Association meeting from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The group included Miss Margaret Scott and officers Judy Sarver Delores Kurtz Martha Foss Jane Hochenedel plus Roxanne Maiden Sally Tobicash and Carolyn Huffman. They planned to hear authors Helen Ferris Margaret Mulac and Marjorie Holmes, tour Freiberger Library, visit the new Student Union, and view demonstrations of book mending and a literature searching machine.
More than 200 young musicians from Clearview High and Darling Vincent elementary schools will perform in a Sunday Festival of Bands at the Clearview School auditorium. The program features five selections per band, with the junior high and senior high bands joining in. A Rambler six-cylinder sedan economy run story and details follow, including organizers and a USAC rule change.
A demonstration of the Mark 20 airplane is rescheduled for Sunday noon to 3 at Oberlin Airport. The event, sponsored by the Oberlin Stick and Rudder Club, follows a postponement due to wet fields. The plane is owned by Jim Aire, Inc., of Cleveland.
Local notices list school events at the school house including an FFA banquet, PTA meeting, and May 2 polio shot. A Dixie Land Minstrel show, a family fish fry, and Junior-Senior prom are scheduled with trips to New York and Washington, D C. Alumni banquet, garden club tours, tulip show, and district meetings are announced. Hospital patients are named.
Ford presents the Skyliner, claimed as the world’s first fully automatic retractable hardtop. The public display ran at dealerships nationwide with a list price around 92,104. Ford officials call it the first practical all metal car. A production banquet is planned at Hayesville on April 30.
Ford engineers refined a retractable steel top for the Skyliner using electric motors and gear drives to raise and lower the top in 40 seconds with safety interlocks. Sign posts for navigation potential, hidden under the trunk lid when retracted, are discussed as a solution to redirected vacation plans across seashore, lake, mountains, cities, and rural areas.
Carlisle hosts Girl Scout Troop 76 with 20 members, ongoing literature, dramatics, and projects including knapsacks. Mary Kesson earned agriculture credits, Patty Higgins arts and crafts. cloud formation discussion. new games taught. community Homemakers commend achievements at Amherst Achievement Day. Willard J. Grant Keys to speak at Elyria Chamber banquet on local governance and cancer film plans. scarf making and textile painting sessions announced.
Walter H. Sammis of Akron was reelected president of Ohio Edison Company and all other officers and directors were reelected at the annual stockholders meeting in Akron. Directors named include Akron figures and others from Youngstown Springfield New York and Florida. Officers reelected are also listed with roles in administration and finance.
Frederick Russell emphasizes personal safety in driving, urging spring servicing of power systems brakes steering and cooling. He highlights new filtering and oil-filter tech, lifts for 1957 cars, tire checks, radiator hoses and cooling at high speed, plus notes on automatics and a Clymer reference catalog.
A dubious forecast poises the UNIVAC to replace romance as courtship becomes a matter of equation. A cement firm in Argentina celebrated a year without accidents, yet 1,000 workers fell ill from food poisoning. Auto maintenance remains essential after years of use. RANDY PAYNE LINCOLN-MER. CURY INC. 418 Middle Ave. Elyria.
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