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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
4
A Chronicle Telegram report from Elyria Ohio details local tours on August 7 1952. It highlights civic groups and educational outings organized by the Elyria publication for residents exploring nearby communities and historic sites.
More than 40 specially built ships run direct shipping from European ports up the St Lawrence river to inland Great Lakes ports. This new route expands maritime trade linking Europe with North American inland markets.
A government survey notes most postwar lake ships were built for inland ocean service to Canada. Eight liners operated 41 vessels on weekly routes to the UK and Europe with 10 to 15 chartered voyages in summer, while winter navigation via the St Lawrence is blocked by ice.
Akron man Ernest G Hunsickler is described as a longtime electronics tinkerer with a lifelong passion for circuits and gadgets.
Cleveland dispatch reports Edmond C Powers of the National Street and Traffic Safety Lighting Bureau says a direct link exists between street lighting and crime rates. During a 3,000 mile tour of the southeast, cities showing improved lighting saw fewer nocturnal crimes and traffic deaths drop up to 50 percent.
An inventor, Hunsicker, has created an electronic device named the automatic raid alarm that would automatically activate a home's radio, television, or lights to relay air raid warnings. It would operate only under directives from civil defense officials and aims to save thousands of lives if America is bombed. Plans are to move toward production.
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