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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1970
Page
20
City council considers first reading of a flood plain district ordinance defining Plum Creek area as housing and business nonbuildable. Planning office cites flood damage reduction and water quality goals with public hearing required before final passage.
Oberlin residents may tour the city water treatment plant at Parsons and West Roads on Aug 15 from 9 am to 4 pm. The event offers a look at water sourcing treatment and distribution, free refreshments, and a picture book about the water supply.
An auto motor scooter collision at Clearview High School parking lot injured Elyria teen Vallentine Rivera 17 of 4958 Farr Ave. He was treated at Lorain St Joseph Hospital for cuts and bruises. Gary Ellis 16 of 17 East 46th St. Lorain drove the opposing car. Minor vehicle damage. no charges filed.
Linda's Lassies Baton and Drum Corp will perform at the 33rd Annual Soap Box Derby in Akron on August 14 and 13. The group, the sole Ohio representation, recently won a tri state contest in Sheffield Pennsylvania and will appear in the Dig nitary and Pre Race parades. They financed their trip by collecting pop bottles.
Showers will be noted today over the mid and Southern Rockies Arizona and the Southern Plains. Scattered showers and thundershowers extend from Florida northwestward through the Eastern Gulf coast Ohio and Tennessee valleys into the Eastern mid Mississippi valley. Clear to partly cloudy with little temperature change elsewhere.
A regional forecast indicates mostly cloudy skies tonight with low temperatures in the 60s. Tomorrow brings widespread thundershowers, with highs between 80 and 85 degrees.
Winds mainly from the south around 10 knots this evening. The sky remains cloudy with no clear break in the overcast.
Friday through Sunday forecast shows showers or thunder showers Friday clearing Saturday and mostly fair Sunday. Temperatures cool Friday and Saturday then warming Sunday with highs in the mid 70s to low 80s and lows mid 50s to mid 60s. Danish report notes 1939 population in the country 26 percent living in rural areas now 10 percent and farm workers shrinking 80 percent since then. Since 1950 the number of farms dropped by 50 000 to 150 000.
Elyria Mayor Leonard P. Reichlin will address the Senior Fellowship Club at the Elyria YMCA Monday at 10 a.m. on Elyria's problems. The second floor auditorium is open to the public. Rome reports over 90,000 Italian deaths and 2 million injuries from 3.14 million traffic accidents in the 1960s, with 11 million new licenses issued.
In Oberlin City Hall vacation coverage, Vice Chairman Robert Thomas and Dr J Cooley chair as Edward C Smith and Arthur P Hess are away. The Aug 24 meeting will consider supplemental appropriations to hire three more police patrolmen, despite four council members opposing. Administrator Jeffre Palin confirms $3 million Allen Memorial Hospital remodel will start in September, though Councilor Schoonmaker opposes the project architecture and vows a continued no vote on hospital matters.
The Elyria City Council grants first reading to a limited franchise for School Bus Service Transit of Lorain to operate intra city trips in Elyria. A second resolution revokes the defunct Convenient Bus and Limo Service.
In Vermilion two of three youths charged with possession of narcotics entered innocent pleas in Municipal Court yesterday. William Huff, 18, and Thomas Frye, 19, both pleaded innocent and had preliminary hearing dates set. Bond was reduced to 2500 each. Warranted items were seized after police received a tip of marijuana use at Huff’s home. William Baker, 21, had arraignment continued to Saturday to secure an attorney and remains jailed with Huff and Frye. Baker’s bond status was not clarified.
The Lorain County Tuberculosis and Health Association will run the X ray bus at three sites next week. On Tuesday it will be at Carter Nursing Home Oberlin from 1 p.m. to 3 20 p.m. On Aug 13 the bus goes to Clark and Church Streets Amherst from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Aug 14 it visits Avon Plaza Rt 254 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Beverly Shirley Jr sues an auto dealer claiming the car was repossessed for failing to pay 367 in late charges after three years of payments. He says he was not notified of impending froding and the car disappeared three weeks after his supposed final payment. The suit seeks damages for invasion of privacy and harassment.
A gasoline pump hose ignited when a car toppled a pump at Gas Town station 590 Cleveland St causing a fire. A garage at 161 Clark St sustained damage to a mattress and furniture stored inside with no further damage. Cause undetermined.
Amherst boards award contracts to 10 firms totaling about 59000 for desks chairs files and duplicators at Nord Junior High and Harris Elementary Schools. The board also hires two teachers and approves a joint Lorain County arrangement for deaf and visually impaired pupils. Next meeting set for August 25 at 7 30 pm.
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