Iran Delivers Three Point Oil Ultimatum to Britain
Iran's Vice Premier Fatemi announced a three point demand in the oil dispute. Britain must buy oil from Iran's National Oil Company, Iran will set compensation for Anglo-Iranian, and British staff must stay at Abadan refinery.
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Houssein Fatemi
Britain
Iran
Abadan
Fatemi
Privy Seal
Richard Stokes
Mohammed Mossadegh
Stokes
Anglo-Iranian Company
National Oil Company
Anglo- Tranian Oil Company
Manage
Elyria High Band to Meet New Director August 21
Elyria High School's 80 piece band will meet new director George Wilson for the first time at a 7:30 rehearsal on Tuesday August 21 in the band room. Twenty members were chosen last spring and will attend. The group faces a busy season ahead with daily rehearsals before the September 14 game against Elyria Euclid. Wilson comes from Defiance after five years and has marching band experience at Ohio State and the University of Michigan.
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Elyria High School
George Wilson
Elytia Euclid
Ohio State Feign
University of Michigan
Cruiser Reaches Lake Erie After Inventive Overland Move
Oberlin reports Clarence Winfield’s 60 foot motor cruiser completed a six year effort to reach Lake Erie. The vessel traveled from Winfield yard to Vermilion’s Lee’s Boat Yard after a multi hour, road bound journey with a lengthy convoy. Traffic halted and detours required as the moving crew navigated narrow roads and culverts before the Lake road delivery.
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Oberlin
Clarence Winfield
Lake Erie
Winfield Yard
East College Street
Lee
Vermilion
Outler Town
Winfeld
Dick Parsons
Wakeman
Parsons
Parson
Baumhardt Road
Brawnhelm
North Ridge Road
Claus Road
Sunnyside Road
State Promises Quick Action On Removing Trees
County commissioner J Norman Thompson pressed the State Highway Department to cut tall trees at the Detroit Road Route 301 junction. A letter dated August 3 prompted a reply promising immediate removal after safety concerns and near misses reported by motorists turning onto 301 from the north.
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J. Norman Thompson
State Highway Department
Detroit Road
Route 301
Thompson
Detroit
301
Driver Escapes Injury After Car Hits Two Trees
Ronnie Lee Sampsel of 393 Furnace Street escaped injury when his vehicle struck two trees in Cascade Park and slid toward the river bank. Police records report front-end damage to the car.
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Ronnie Lee Sampsel
Furnacetreet
Cascade Park
Weather Outlook For Northeastern Ohio Tonight Through Thursday
Northeastern Ohio forecast calls for cloudy skies with a few thundershowers and warm conditions tonight. The low will be around 64 degrees. Thursday will be partly cloudy and not as warm.
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Ohio
Reds Resist Fiercely In 2 Sectors
United Nations forces fought stubborn battles on two sectors of the Korean front. Infantry stormed three Communist positions near Kunsong, seizing heights as heavy fire pressed Allied troops. The third hill near Kansong remained contested as dawn broke, with earlier hills already taken. Elsewhere patrols clashed near Kaesong and air raids on Pyongyang were reported. UN warships kept shelling Wonsan to disrupt Communist supply lines.
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8Th Army
Korea
United Nations
Kunsong
Kansong
Kaesong
Pyongyang
Wonsan
Plan Czech Plane Ban Over U S Zone of Germany
Washington reports the United States plans to bar Czechoslovakian commercial planes from flying over the American zone of Germany in retaliation for the arrest of AP correspondent William N. Oatis. The House approved a trade cutoff until Oatis is released, sending the measure to the Senate as officials weigh broader punitive steps against Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
United States
Germany
U. S
Czechoslovakia
William N. Oatis
House
Oatis
Senate
State Department
Prague
Europe
Western
Geremany
Great Britain
France
Pan-American Airways
Associated Press
Oberlin Soldier Wounded In Korea
Oberlin High School sophomore Theodore W Smith and brother Roland Smith are named in a war department notice. Theodore reportedly suffered penetrating chest wounds and rib fractures in Korea after enlisting at 17 and serving with the Medical Division of the 7th Infantry. His mother Mrs Hattie Smith of 300 North Pleasant Street confirms telegrams from the War Department and Tokyo hospital.
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Hattie Smith
North Pleasant Street
War Department
Pfe
Theodore
Ted) W
Korea
Young Smith
Oberlin High School
Army
Roland
Seas
7Th Infantry
Cpl
Roland Smith
Pusang
Cpl. Smith
Okinawa
Ditch Cleaning Proposal Estimated At 1100
County Sanitary engineer L W Osborne presented to the board an estimate of 1100 dollars for cleaning the East 36th street open ditch in Sheffield Township and Lorain. The project includes clearing the ditch and culverts, removing weeds, and hauling away earth and debris.
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L. W. Osborne
Board of Commissioners
East 36Th Street
Sheffield Township
City of
Lorain
Osborne
Rockefeller Weds Attorney's Widow
New York reported John D. Rockefeller Jr. wed Martha Baird Allen widow of a Providence attorney and military officer. The ceremony set Rockefeller at 27 and Mrs. Allen at 5?
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Rockefeller
New York
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Martha Baird Allen
Providence
Mil. Honaire
Allen
Parochial Schools Share Opening Plans for Fall
Three local parochial schools St. Marys St. Judes and Holy Cross announce September 5 start. St. Marys enrolls about 700 students with 16 teachers and Sisters of Notre Dame majority. renovations complete. St. Judes expects 55 to 60 more students from last year 135 total. two grades per teacher. Holy Cross projects about 99 students with three teachers across eight grades and a new principal to be named.
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St. Mary's
St. Jude's
Holy Cross
Order of the Sisters of Notre Dame
Mary Victorine
DuPont Company
St. Jude’s
Maryj lOdite
S.N.D
Holy Cross School
Seven Nurses Aides to Receive Caps in Elyria
Seven women who completed a 60 hour Red Cross nurses aides course will receive their caps at an 8 pm ceremony at St Pauls Evangelical and Reformed church on Third Street. The program included 40 hours of classroom work and 40 hours of supervised hospital service at Elyria Memorial Hospital. Instructor was Miss Marie Carley RN.
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Red Cross
St. Paul's Evangelical
Third Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Marie Carley
R.N
Wellington Town Hall Remodel Completed
The $125000 renovation of Wellington's town hall is finished. The old opera house space becomes a recreation hall with a snack bar, while front offices, a memorial hall, rest rooms, jail cells, and a new boiler room fill the two story front. The fire department moves to its own building nearby.
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Wellington
Doerzbach and Decker
Sandusky
Oscar Cobb
Chicago
S. K. Laundon
Homer Allyn
A. D. Perkins
W. R. Bently
Vo.Hemenway
W. R. Wean
G.A. Memorial Hall
Senate Democrats See Truman As Candidate
Senate Democrats view President Truman as a potential White House contender for next year though he has not stated candidacy. The President engaged in actions that suggest a campaign posture, while Humphrey moves on Minnesota’s March primary and Truman denounces McCarthyism amid loyalty debates.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
White House
Missouri
Thoms £. Dewey
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn
Minnesota
Humphrey
Whites House
State Department
Joseph R. McCarthy
R. Wis
Lorain County Schools Anticipate 7500 Pupils Next Year
Lorain County public schools expect about 7500 students in the coming term. Superintendent A Gibbons says last year peaked at 7366 and five new teachers will be added for a total of 312. Six teaching vacancies remain, and all schools will open September 4 except the new Eneview at Avon Lake, which opens September 17.
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Lorain County
A. Gibbons
Columbus
Board of Education
Gibbons
Avon Lake
Elyrian Sustains Eye Laceration in Auto Bus Crash
Elyria resident Louis Laporte received a laceration over his left eye after a collision at the corner of Lake Avenue and Adams Street between a Greyhound bus driven by Herman Meter and a car owned by Laporte. Laporte was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital and released.
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Louis Laporte
Adams Street
Lake Avenue
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Greyhound
Herman Meter
Lake Road
Avon Lake
Robert B. Spaulding
Foster Avenue
Laporte
UN Proposes Joint Subcommittee Over Buffer Zone In Korea
At Kaesong a UN bid to avert cease fire talks collapse calls for a two member joint subcommittee to decide the armistice buffer zone location. Communists admit air and naval strikes have some effect while Nam Il pushes for a buffer along the 28th parallel amid stalled negotiations. Joy rejects a Communist protest over alleged violations and proposes on site neutrality investigations.
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Kaesong
Korea
United Nations
C. Turner Joy
Joy
Buffer
Nam Il
North
South Korea
United Nations Command
Nam
Nam Tl
Fire destroys barn and damages chicken houses on Joppa Road
A fire of undetermined origin yesterday destroyed a 20 by 18 foot barn and its contents and burned fronts of two chicken houses on Mrs Emma Springhorn’s property on Joppa Road. Hay and straw were lost. chickens burned. Fire departments aided extinguishing the blaze. no loss estimate or full insurance details available. Experienced cutters to dismantle cars advertised by Elyria Commercial Auto Parts.
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Uvtingham
Itaom
Elyria
Adv
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University of Pennsylvania
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Munich
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Democrats
Elyrian
York
Marsh Guenin
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