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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1956
Page
1
The county fair of 1956 drew about 5 000 attendees despite bad weather with high winds and rain. Readers are directed to the first page second section and pages 3 and 9 for full round up and pictures. A newsman returns from vacation on page 10 and another faces a dramatic moment on page 11 in Scene About Town. Dividend pages highlight top reading.
Chilly air signals fall and Elyrians peek Lorain football prospects. A feature with story and pictures appears on page 4 with cake hotrods and European jewelry linked to Jeri OConnor's Coffee Break. Page 5.
Lorain Council committees propose a compromise in the gas rate dispute as nine projects totaling 174305 dollars begin work in Elyria and Today's News preliminary listings. Lorain men accused of assault on a reporter waive reading of affidavit in Municipal Court. hearing scheduled.
London sources predicted President Gamal Abdel Nasser would demand Britain and France halt their military buildup in the Middle East before any meeting to discuss the Suez Canal crisis.
A five nation committee waits in London for Nasser to respond to a call for a meeting to present the Dulles plan on international canal control. Arab League partners express irritation that Nasser did not consult them before seizing the waterway while Cairo reports four opposing nations plan to present their own proposal.
Dale E. Searles, 8, of Sugar Ridge, was struck by Clarence M. Smith’s car on Sugar Ridge Road as he rode a bicycle near his home. He died at Elyria Memorial Hospital. Smith, driving about 33 mph, said he had no time to brake. The accident is Lorain County’s 47th traffic fatality this year. Burial plans are at Camden Cemetery with services pending.
The five day Lorain County Fair at Wellington wrapped up last night with a motor show drawing overflow crowds. Two performances featured daredevils delivering high risk stunts despite weather difficulties and other challenges.
Dag Hammarskjold dismissed Viktor Ivanovich Petrov a 33 year old Soviet translator who sought to obtain U S military aircraft secrets. U S delegates expressed gratification at the prompt action. Petrov reportedly left the United States with his wife and son.
A U S Navy task force searches for more crew members of the Martin Mercator after the plane was shot down near the Chinese coast. One body, aviation electronic technician Albert P. Martin, was recovered by the destroyer Dennis J. Buckley about 60 miles off the Chinese mainland. Four officers and twelve enlisted men remained missing as American ships and aircraft pressed the hunt southeast of Hangchow Bay amid charges from Radio Peiping of a grave military threat.
UAW members will receive a four cent cost of living raise, the largest to date, effective with September pay. The change follows the July 15 Bureau of Labor Statistics index of 117, up from 114.9. Local 780 at Brown-Lipe-Chapin, Local 671 at Bendle-Westinghouse, Local Western Automatic Machine Seven Co., and Local 996 Elyria Manufacturing units gain the raise, with others to follow on different dates. The increase comes after a prior six cent rise on August 15 under a three year contract.
Fair weather dominates most of Northwestern and Northeastern Ohio with little temperature change today. Highs around 50s and 60s, with a warmer trend into Friday and variable winds near Lake Erie. Humidity shifts from 91 percent in the morning to 48 percent later, with sunrise at 3 33 a.m. and sunset near 7 1 p.m.
Deputy Joseph Rosso questions witnesses and the car driver who struck and killed Dale E. Seames, eight, of Sugar Ridge Road. Clarence M. Smith, the driver, Ricky Krage a witness, and Lewis Searles, the boy’s father, appear in the scene as investigators gather testimony.
The text traces Alfred Kinsey’s move to the Institute for Sex Research on Indiana University campus and his rapid rise to fame after the 1948 Kinsey Report on male sex behavior. It notes his 1953 female behavior volume, his Hoosier-born background in Hoboken New Jersey, and his upbringing in South Orange.
Columbus for aged persons receiving state aid the September checks will not be cut by 20 percent after the state controlling board borrowed 20 million dollars from next year's second quarter. Lawmakers will convene in January and House Finance Chairman Rep. J Frank McClure said action on next year's deficit is needed. The shortage followed a July 1 increase lifting the $200 annual ceiling for health and nursing care of dependent aged, with extra benefits costing about a half million dollars monthly.
Nassau County detectives questioned if a Brooklyn friend aided Angelo LaMarea after he abducted 33 day old Peter Weinberger. LaMarea confessed he left the infant in Brooklyn and picked him up next morning, while his wife was cleared. FBI linked ransom note to LaMarea through handwriting analysis.
Alberta L. Delich of Royal Oaks Michigan, mother of three, was awarded $50,000 by a Cleveland federal court jury for the death of her husband Daniel Delich, a truck driver killed by a New York Central train at a crossing near Norwalk Ohio in 1951 after a five day trial.
The item notes shinplasters, U S paper money of low denomination, valued poorly due to insufficient security and depreciation, leading to replacement by coins. It then touts Paper Want Ads as best value and urges placing a Want Ad in the Chronicle-Telegram with the dial number 4751.
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