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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1956
Page
26
An experienced motoring column warns drivers to monitor instrument panels and engine indicators to avoid breakdowns. It explains how oil pressure, temperature, and braking signals reveal problems, and offers practical steps for safe driving, maintenance checks, and theft prevention.
Kipton notes describe the Missionary Society meeting at Mrs Guy Morgan home with twelve members and six children rolling bandages and sewing. Frances Perkins led devotion, plans were made to visit Findlay Baptist Church in September, refreshments served. Also birthday party for Damon Sigsworth and birth of Debra Lynn Pippert are noted along with several social visits and a wedding in South Bend.
The AMA at its Chicago convention urged seat belt standardization nationwide, estimating belts could save over 10,000 lives and cut about one million injuries annually. Other groups push testing standards for belt strength and proper installation, while Ab Jenkins is highlighted as a premier safety figure with a long racing record and endurance feats. Chrysler touts a highway hi fi auto record player as a compact, under-dash unit paired to the car radio.
National conventions spark broad political drama with Republicans narrowing to a choice after Stassen's surprise move and Democrats fielding many candidates. A courtly Midwest note follows a girl jailed for stealing jewelry at a police ball, then a local ad touts a “Safe Buy Used Car” at Randy Payne Lincoln-Mercury in Elyria.
Membership secretary at Elyria Automobile Club recommends visiting Hinckley Reservation in Cleveland Metropolitan Park system. Hinckley Lake offers boats for rent and shore fishing, with Sunday afternoons banned for boat fishing. Swimming is excellent, lifeguards on duty, and the area features Whipp's Ledges with sandstone and conglomerate outcrops, caves, mosses, wildflowers, a picnic ground, shelter, and running water.
The Pfaudler Co, oldest maker of glassed steel process equipment, posted a fiscal year ending May 31 with a 26 percent sales gain to 18.39 million and net earnings of 0.907 million. Orders rose 40 percent to 22.359 million while production backlog neared 83 million. Dividends were 3.25 per share. The firm, based in Rochester with plants there, Elyria, Germany, Scotland and Japan, funds research and fellowships and conducts seminars for customers worldwide.
A fragmentary reader submission by Jon Washburn of Stowe Vermont lists whimsical titles and translations in a playful Roaring Twenties style. The piece mentions Polly and Dr Schwine alongside invented names like Mrs Goonsgarten and Dr Katvenger, all presented as lighthearted wordplay.
The U S Mint faced a copper shortage affecting penny production. The government requested aid from the General Services Administration emergency procurement service which supplied 200 tons to the Philadelphia mint and 26 tons to the Denver mint.
Amherst The Amherst High School marching band will hold its first rehearsal of the year Tuesday at 6 30 p m at Central School All band members must attend director Russell Petersen says additional rehearsals are planned Aug 33 28 and 30
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