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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1948
Page
1
President Truman defers husbands and fathers from peacetime draft and grants job-based deferments to critical workers. He orders equal treatment regardless of race creed or color and sets registration for August 30. First Army call expected in September with inductees in November. 18 to 25 must register for 21 months unless deferred.
County Superintendent C A Gibbons reports only four teaching vacancies remain in village and rural schools. Remaining posts include Avon Lake first grade Brownhelm vocational agriculture Amherst home economics and English Beiden and Clearview commercial subjects. If Brownhelm cannot fill the vocational post the department may close there until a teacher is found. Brookside and Brownhelm boards completed staffs, with resignations from Miss Florida Fajfr and Mrs Ciere Carosier and new hire Rexmond Garilord to replace Miss Sylord.
Northeastern Ohio forecast calls for fair skies this afternoon and tonight then cloudy with showers Saturday. Light variable winds today turning south at 15 to 20 mph tonight. Low around 60 and high near 80 tomorrow. Also ads for Hahn's Ivy plants and Terra Lite products from Darek Florist.
Seven German officers in Berlin’s American sector were seized by Russian soldiers and four remained missing after Soviet police opened fire on German black marketeers in Potsdamer Strasse. Up to 600 Germans were detained, several wounded, and reports conflict over casualties. American and British authorities prepared hospital guards and investigated amid tense postwar tensions.
C R Cook announces three new faculty members at the M B Johnson School of Nursing Elyria Memories Hospital. Elisabeth L Moffitt leads as director of nursing. Velva Davis becomes science instructor with prior roles in Lorain and Cleveland. Haline Nagorke joins as nursing arts instructor from Elyria Memorial.
Mrs Oksane Kosenkina the teacher who leaped from the Soviet consulate is back in an oxygen tent at Roosevelt Hospital in New York after a brief relief. A 6 am bulletin described her condition as still critical with labored breathing following a temporary out of the tent.
Reports from Jerusalem say fighting between Arabs and Jews has resumed near Government House. No further details available. Trans-Jordan officials say talks for unification of Arab armies were continuing.
King seeks to bar Lorain municipal judge candidate Malcolm Thomson from the ballot in a challenge to his nominating petitions under new election law. The case, before Judge Ahl, moved quickly due to looming primaries and contracts, with lawyers for both sides presenting arguments.
J D Severs, longtime Elyria High School executive, accepts a senior high post in Tucson Arizona reporting September 1 He plans to move with wife Mrs Severs who will join him after business matters are settled in Elyria Severs previously led Elyria High and served eight years as principal and eight as assistant principal He has also worked in Wheeling Martins Ferry Mansfield and Columbus Ohio schools.
The Rainey family of Elyria learned their son Staff Sgt Eugene W. Rainer was returning from Italy. He served in North Africa and Italy, was wounded in Italy on May 12 1944, killed May 24, and leaves parents a sister a brother and grandmother. Funeral services will be at Bittner Funeral Home with the Hinkson Hyseli Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars taking part. A separate Cleveland report describes parolee Michael J Balguint murdering his wife and injuring others during a stabbing spree after a job dispute. He fled after tearing a shirt and was last seen fleeing through backyards. He had been released from the federal reformatory at Gall icothe Ohio two years earlier after prior convictions.
Chicago crowds chase a man through the loop shouting stop that thief. Nelson De Bree of Kalamazoo, Michigan trips the suspect as he runs by. Police arrest the accused with De Bree sustained a broken leg. Auto Radio Sales and Service advertises Dick Stewart at 242 Marseilles.
The Elyria Lions Club donated a welding torch to the Elyria Fire Department to speed extrication in emergencies. Chief W N Bates thanked the club while noting the torch is part of five key life saving tools alongside an inhalator resuscitator fresh air mask and rescue gear. The club supports community service including eyeglasses sunlamps school screenings and aid for hospitalized patients with a history of charitable projects totaling about $7000 in the last year.
Harry Spurling of 537 Irondale Street was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital for abrasions to his left arm and forehead after the motorbike he rode skidded on gravel on West River Street in Fisher. The bike was operated by James Bottomier of the same address. Police report.
The United States stripped Lomakin of authority as Soviet consul general in New York over abuse of position and gross violation of official conduct. It rejected Soviet charges in the case of three Russian teachers who stayed in the U S and demanded Lomakin leave within a reasonable time. The note, signed by Robert Lovett, labeled the conduct highly improper and not substantiated. Continued on Page 2.
Lorain County Board of Elections reports two requests to place levies on the November ballot. Wellington Village seeks a 1.5 mill five year sewer levy starting next year. Penfield Local School District requests a two mill five year operating levy taking effect this year.
Aviation officials praised Captain Edward Cycon and Co pilot Ervin Boldt after landing Convair 240 Flight 363 from Cincinnati to Chicago with a jammed nose wheel. The emergency at Glenview Naval Air Base involved 100 firefighters and multiple rescue vehicles. passengers were examined and released.
Quota Club members met at the Graystone hotel to plan a charter party tentatively set for October 2 in Elsmna. Freda MacKay chairs the event with Grace Rivers Shepard inviting, Betty Robinson decorating, Frieda Bruck handling menu, and Clara McAllister coordinating reception. A Lorain club report and upcoming Sept 2 luncheon were noted.
A brief notice promotes Chronicle Telegram services to craft effective job wanted ads. It invites readers to visit the paper for ad writing help to quickly find suitable employment and escape mismatched roles.
Message requests a two bedroom house for a family including a wife and two grown daughters. Caller asks to contact George Armold at Hale's Cleaners, phone 44 751. Adv sent.
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