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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1962
Page
4
Oberlin High School site plan totals 485000 plus phased work with athletic fields parking and facilities. A smaller 104400 plan plus 18487 savings from slag pave a reduced program. Knight drew plans. board will decide on next steps and timing.
Lorain County GOP plans a Monday visit by U. S. Senate candidate John Briley a Toledo attorney and business executive. Activities include an 8 a.m. breakfast at McGarvey Party House a tour of National Tube Co Lorain Harbor a GOP luncheon at the American Legion Hall Elyria and a Lorain County Fair stop in Wellington. The 21 member committee led by Allen D Easterwood includes local officials attorneys and business figures from Lorain Elyria Wellington Oberlin and Avon Lake.
Burglars robbed Marshall Drug Store at Westgate Shopping Center. They entered through a hole in the store room wall and forced the door latch to the shop. The inner safe frame was bent and the safe dial found on the floor. Items taken include watches radios cameras and jewelry. Loss awaits inventory.
The term Aborigines, once used for an ancient Latin race, now applies to native inhabitants of various nations. The North American Indian is cited as an example of broad usage.
Wakeman council accepted the resignation of Police Chief George Baker effective tomorrow. Baker, a former patrolman, replaces Donald Notzinger who left earlier this year. Aides were told to refrain from comment. The town plans a patrolman opening with a nine member auxiliary unit.
Lorain County 1962 share of funds for 94 county and independent fairs totalled 9707.97, per state auditor James A. Rhodes. Revenue sources include the Ohio Fairs Fund from a half percent tax on trace track wagers, a legislative appropriation of 1000 per fair, and wagering tax refunds totaling 24096.81 from 24 fair tracks.
Lorain County residents of Scottish descent may have Norma Higgins The Chronicle Telegram correspondent visit their native land via a two week Europe trip starting next Saturday. She will travel through the northern Highlands visiting Braemar Grantown on the Spey Inverness John O Groats and possibly the Shetland Islands then return along the east coast through the Trossachs Skye and Glasgow. Residents seeking interviews should write the papers managing editor with relative details.
An 18 year old armed assailant, Richard Crawford, held Fred Leimbach at gunpoint for nearly an hour in Amherst Township before surrendering to sheriff deputies and Lorain police. He fired at Leimbach, missed, and fled into nearby woods while threatening officers. Crawford claimed mental illness and had prior violence against his parents. He was jailed on assault charges as authorities investigate further.
Republican U S Senate hopeful John Briley told Coshocton Rotary Club that Congress should not be blamed for slowing social and economic changes. He argued the Founding Fathers built a system of checks and balances and that change should evolve through standard legislative processes. Briley spoke in Springfield in support of State Sen. Charles E. Fry during the Republican primary campaign.
Marshall Robinson 138 of Elyria pleaded innocent in Lorain Municipal Court to traffic manslaughter in the July 22 death of Albert J. Chambers. Judge S. Kolena set a Thursday preliminary hearing and $1,500 bond. Chambers died after the collision at East 28th Street and Vine Avenue where he rode as a passenger in Robinson’s station wagon.
County prosecutors and officials seek a formal plan before approving moving the North Ridgeville water system from the county to the city. The plan by Squire, Sanders and Dempsey outlines steps to shift financing and obligations tied to the $1 million Sewer District Nine project.
Joseph Sells of the Ohio Edison Co reports two windows 14 by 36 inches broken in his office at 405 Broad St across from the Elyria Recreation Center washroom. Police found a marble and a metal fragment on the floor near the damage.
Ashland County officials and representatives from Elyria and Amherst travel to Ashland for a morning briefing with E L Toberen of the Ohio Dept of Highways. They review Route 254 plans, interchanges, and a $10 million northern Amherst corridor linking Rt 57 to Baumhart Rd and aiming for Rt 90 access.
The Chronicle Telegram will open a message center at the Lorain County Fair press tent in Wellington. Fairgoers can post notes to family or friends on a CT board while a Tex group board and world news bulletins link patrons to current events. Free daily editions and a staffed press tent will be provided.
New London hosts an impromptu rally at Recreation Park at 7 p.m. with speakers J Grant Keys Gordon Whetstone Roy Erdman and Mayor Preston Golding to honor the New London Senior Little League team before its 7 a.m. Thursday departure for Williamsport Pennsylvania. The 14 players plus two alternates depart in front of the First Methodist Church and arrive in Williamsport by 3 p.m. Friday.
The Ohio State Board of Education adopted new bus operation regulations to take effect September 1 after a June 20 hearing. Each pupil must have a fixed seat and buses may not exceed seating capacity by more than 10 percent. Drivers face medical exams and possible certification revocation. A public hearing on bus construction and equipment is slated for September 20.
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