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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1945
Page
1
Washington reports postwar housing will dominate reconstruction talks. Officials project 15 million new dwellings and 45 million needed over the next decade, with a three year lag before a building boom. prefab and new materials push costs down and wood loses its grip.
Washington reports the Navy reduces September draft call from 92 000 to 13 000 for Navy and Marine Corps. Original plan aimed 17 000 Navy and 1 000 Marines. Reduced to 10 000 Navy and 3 000 Marines. Navy seeks Truman order revocation to recruit 18 to 38 year olds, aiming to cut selective service needs.
Washington government war agencies reassess wartime powers to align with President Truman's reconversion plan. The War Production Board may revoke about 60 of its 400 orders while retaining key controls to ensure military needs, regulate wages and prices, and prevent scarce materials from concentrating in big industry.
Allied forces welcomed Lt General Jonathan M. Wainwright after his freedom from a Japanese camp in Manchuria. Parachute teams in Mukden area aided the operation as Wainwright, cited as Skinny, hoped to reach Manila for surrender ceremonies.
Death notices for Malcolm M. Ely 78 of Mamaroneck New York funeral at Hartsdale. Lora Beutel 81 of Miami Florida multiple survivors and services. Angelo Tsarones 20 Elyria death at Pleasant View Sanatorium. John Wilbert Sr 76 Elyria funeral at St Agnes. Emma Weiler Avon 82 obituary details. additional notices include John Becker and bike theft report in Elyria area.
A funeral notice for a local boy lists surviving relatives including a brother in the U S Navy and multiple sisters and half siblings. Services are at Brownhelm Evangelical church with burial in Elmwood cemetery Lorain. A separate accident report details six injuries when a car forced into a tree on Oberlin Avenue near Lorain with victims from Amherst and Flyria and others treated at Memorial Hospital.
President Truman and Mrs. Truman led Americans in prayers of Thanksgiving for Allied victory on the nation’s first Sabbath of peace in nearly four years. Leaders from military, government, and Congress joined in a non denominational service in the White House East Room.
Washington reports a status update on the home front with anticipated ration changes. Cheese and canned fish expected next. meat points reduced and meat and butter rationing to end later. Shoes rationing to end within two months. textiles released from military control. Wage guidelines stay under War Labor Board oversight with no inflationary price increases. OPA to maintain price ceilings. WPB to revoke many of its 400 industrial orders.
The Lake Avenue Woman's Association met at Irene Miler's home with strong attendance. President Mary Croskey led devotionals, plans for a fall bazaar were made, and committees were named for baked goods, white elephant, refreshments, fish pond, and sewing. Two soldiers received gifts, and the next meeting will be September 19 at Ruby Strodsack's with Nellie Edwards handling the elephant.
County commissioners extended to September 18 a hearing on the Guthrie inquiry in Camden township after a petition for improvement was filed. Two bids for a Crow creek channel change, from Sam Triffleth and Sam Fatbo, were referred to the engineering department for tabulation. The will of Mrs. Kitty M. Athe, who died August 2, left $7,000 in Elyria stocks bonds and cash to her daughter Kathryne Symons, with the remainder to her husband Albert. an appraisal was ordered.
The market report lists Homegrowers items with prices for vegetables and fruits such as celery onions mushrooms peppers cucumbers lettuce peaches plums and squash. It also details Cleveland Livestock byaland cattle sheep and lamb prices with bids for various grades and cuts. Notable names appear in a sewing and cooking awards note mentioning Patricia Karnes Lillian Starkey Nadine Higgins and Jeannine Howard with an A grade for a secretaries book.
Wooster Ohio L C Boles 41 longtime athletic director for 30 years and Wooster College football coach 1915 to 1939 died suddenly at his home after a heart attack while directing work on the college golf course. He came to Wooster in 1916 coaching high school teams in London Fostoria and Cleveland East. His Wooster squads won 134 games with 51 losses and 19 ties. He was a native of Blanchester Ohio and a graduate of Ohio Western University.
In Zanesville near Roseville at One Snyder McClelland strip mine a rock and dirt slide released about 200 tons, pinning 18 year old Robert Purdum against a steam shovel and fatally injuring him while critically injuring 40 year old Bernard Hulbert.
Elyria liquor dealers vote to keep open to the maximum legal hours now that hostilities end. Association president Edward Goudy cites postwar entitlement while noting 2:30 a m closing reflects Elyria time. B-3 permits end at 1 p m, D-3 A and D-5 permits may stay open until 2 30 a m. A separate item reports a disorderly conduct fine of 10 dollars plus costs for Crew Newberry of Litchfield after a midnight disturbance on Broad Street near West Avenue. Montana is nicknamed the treasure state.
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