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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1956
Page
4
About 185 residents gathered at Meadow Aire Farm on Rt. 301 south of LaGrange for Lorain County soil conservation air tour. Richard Keep of the Lorain County Soil Conservation District said the strong turnout ensures more tours and an annual event.
Lorain County farmers joined a Twin Waterways tour to view grass water drainage practices with Paul Leidheiser noting its success. Dr. Harry A. Ross, Oberlin's new head, criticized as aggressive, planned future tours to extend outreach and training, including a cooperative program with students splitting time between studies and local stores banks and factories. Six planes carried 185 passengers on a 175 mile Lorain County flight segment landing at Meadow Aire farm airfield.
The Wakeman Board of Education and the Department of Industrial Relations plan to convert the present school bus sheds into a vocational home economics room. Once finished, the current home rooms in the high school will become classrooms to handle increased enrollment. Driver training will be taught again locally. A car will be donated by Kenneth Hurst of Socal Chevrolet. Allan Cok attends Bowling Green University to teach the course next year. First grade entrance age remains six on Sept 15. some students may test to qualify if born after.
Seventy one guests from Texas, Florida and several Ohio towns attended the Searles family reunion at Shel y Hawk’s home in Ripton. The business meeting noted three weddings, four deaths and 11 births in the past year. It was the Hawk brothers first reunion as a group.
LaGrange Metal Refining Co officers will be elected at a stockholders meeting tonight in Ver Milion. Production manager James R. McCarthy said the meeting will be an organization session for the young company. The zinc plant is under construction with plans for a large warehouse. McCarthy said the controversial siting fears about fumes have been settled and residents are mostly satisfied the plant will not emit offensive odors. he seeks operation to prove it.
New York safety division reports farming leads in work accidents and ranks third in danger among occupations. The findings attribute most farm accidents to ignorance or carelessness.
Progress was reported in meetings between Local 4910 CIO United Steelworkers and United Food Management Services. About 60 Lorain Works cafeteria staff at U S Steel National Tube Division have been idled since July 1 due to strikes by two other locals. Local 4910’s contract with United Ford expired June 30 and was extended.
A jumble of household advice covers cement removal from asphalt tile without solvents, repairing teaky pipe joints with pipe dope, patching holes in driveways with cold asphalt compound, cleaning cane furniture with soap and shellac, and maintaining linoleum with waterproof cement paste.
Texas born actress Martha Hyer reflects on her career shifts from plain Jane parts to glamour roles in Sabrina and later films. She discusses wardrobe transitions from heavy wigs and hoopskirts to tailored uniforms and riding outfits, and she aims to play a femme fatale in her current project Kelly and Me.
Lloyd Binford, 89, longtime Memphis film censor, steps down as the city moves away from strict censorship. Mayor Edmund Orgill did not reappoint him, creating a liberal shift and a special committee declaring censorship not needed. Binford had previously banned Ingrid Bergman and Charlie Chaplin works, calling films degenerate and immoral and criticizing Duel in the Sun as stark depravity.
Elyria police reported four traffic incidents, two caused by a malfunctioning north bound red light at West Ave and Third St, including a collision between John W. Lave and Walter J. Truszak. A second incident involved a car rolling from a parking lot on Beverly Ct when parked. A third case charged Margaret Burkholder with failure to yield after a Park Ave collision. The fourth saw Ralph Atkins cited for improper parking after a minor court collision with Samuel Gerdine.
Three alleged narcotics sellers from a Belmont County case scheduled for trial in St Clairsville with Edward Todd of Bellaire Thelma Hughes Todd wife Carl Leach of Steubenville named in the indictment The May 4 raids at Todd home and locations in Pittsburgh Clairton Aliquippa Steubenville yielded a cache of heroin and linked the trio to a three state ring
Thomas H. Joy of Somerville Massachusetts earns a bachelor of arts degree from Boston College after delaying law studies to work as an accountant. He restarted college aiming to pursue a career in law despite earlier career changes.
Ox roast at Townsend School grounds will feature a four by four by thirty foot pit cooking two tons of red hot coals. Students and communities plan games, band concert, floor show, and dances with parking by Boy Scout troops and serving by parents.
Eight members from Chatham High School classes of 1936 and 1937 reunite with families at Lodi Park for a Sunday picnic. Officers re-elected. next reunion set for last Sunday in July at the same site. Attendees include Robert Knepper, Elmo McVicker, Byvelyn Clifford Springer and others. total attendance 31.
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