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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1932
Page
8
Washington August 26 banking and industrial leaders from coast to coast met to hear President Hoover present a definite program to stimulate business and employment. He outlined immediate needs including credit distribution coordinated employment agricultural relief and equitable work sharing.
Partly cloudy with local thunder showers this afternoon or tonight. Tonight and Saturday in extreme east and south portions see slight cooling. Northwest tonight and Northeast Saturday turn cooler with unsettled skies.
Sheriff Clarence Adams and Deputy Paul Chapman investigate a burglary and fire at F. W. Gnessner of Cooper road Brownhelm. A car with two men stopped by about 5 p m yesterday. A lady’s gold watch and chain a man’s watch and a shotgun were taken. The house later burned as Gnessner returned and contacted a neighbor. Description from the neighbor is being used to locate the thieves.
Fog and drizzle blanketed the Atlantic as two young fliers Clyde Lee and John Bochkon departed Harbor Grace Newfoundland in the monoplane Green Mountain Bay seeking a nonstop crossing to Oslo. They left at 5 02 A M EST aiming to reach Norway in about 30 hours. Weather officials warned of headwinds and danger from rain and fog while tracking conditions over the North Atlantic.
Three persons were injured ~11:15 am when a car skidded on wet rails on East Bridge street, overturned, and crashed into a telephone pole. Driver George Burkhart of Royal Oak Mich bruised shoulder. G T Adams of Ridge street cut above eye and forearm. William Fairman of Lorain Blvd cut forehead and knee. Police investigated.
Lorain County Four-H Club members were chosen to represent at the Ohio State Fair next week. Ten youths, six boys and four girls, will compete in club events including a dairy judging team of Raymond Grills Ralph Schraram and Frank Wise. A rabbits care and selection demonstration team features Merton Mason and Walter Dietrich. Health contest entrants are John Van Arsdale and Neva Darek. Girls demonstration team includes Mildred Pallas Marguerite Streicher and Rebecca Rea in the style revue. Accompanying staff are Horton B. Alger and Miss Alice Bird.
Lorain county women plan to attend the Fourteenth Congressional District Republican Women's Rally at the Hotel Mayflower Akron on September 19. Speaker will be Congressman Francis Seiberling. guest will be Mrs. David St. Ingalls. About 1000 women expected. buses available for a sight-seeing tour.
The Elyria Township Tax League meeting planned for tonight has been postponed to next Friday night. It will be held at Lake Avenue School.
The county budget commission cut the health department budget from 52000 plus 2000 state aid to 14000 for 1933, an 8000 reduction from this year. Prosecutor Myers called the cut imperative though it may curtail department operations. Health Commissioner Dr. H R O'Brien had asked for 20000, but the commission held firm. Representatives of the Citizens Tax League attended. A meeting with the county school board is planned for Friday at 9 am to discuss budgets.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick died of cancer at age and lay in an undertaking parlor near her Lake Shore Drive home. Relatives said no funeral arrangements had been set. Her brother John D. Rockefeller Jr. visited, and her father reportedly could not attend due to age. The family, including estranged daughters, was at the bedside as others noted her long struggle and recent financial losses amid the Depression.
Council Bluffs Iowa August 26 farmers strike heat rises as city county and state officials work with strikers to avert bloodshed in the Pottawattomie county trouble zone. Talks hinge on legal deputy sheriffs on highways into Omaha to calm pickets while 3 000 strikers stand by and troops are ready at Camp Dodge if needed.
A temporary injunction was granted to the Beaver Park Company against the State Highway Department delaying plans for Lake road west of Lorain. The company claims material damage if the road project proceeds. Judge W B Thompson scheduled a final hearing for September 3.
More than 100 Lorain County residents gathered at Clearview School Penfield Junction to appoint a committee and raise funds opposing the Rural Power and Light Company service charge. E C Wolf reported 1152 signatures on petitions from about 1300 company consumers as appetite for cooperation grows.
H C Weil of 120 Columbus Street resigned from the Elyria Memorial Hospital board of trustees. His departure was accepted with regret and the trustees passed a resolution praising his service. The meeting discussed nursing school plans, but no action was taken. The board previously decided no new entering class this fall and to admit no new students.
The Elyria Board of Education approved opening the Jefferson School as a junior high on September 6, the start of the 1932 33 school year. Seventh to ninth graders from Jefferson Gates and Edison districts plus tuition students north and west of Elyria will be accommodated. Enrollment is expected around 350 with 100 in ninth grade. Two new teachers to join staff as organization begins.
Chicago market notes show seat prices at the Board of Trade rising from 7000 to 8100 with a next offer at 10500. Improvements in Chicago taxicab business since August 1 are reported by Benj amin Samuels of Yellow Cab. Continental Illinois Bank chairman George M. Reynolds departs for Hoover conference and cites rising confidence. Holyoke sees a 50 percent surge in August orders for American Writing Paper Co. Dyersburg Cotton Products runs double shifts with 825 workers amid orders through January 1, per E L Amis.
The Elyria Board of Education at a special meeting reduced the next year’s operating costs by 310000, after earlier cuts totaling 65000. It reorganized buildings and grounds by eliminating the superintendent post, two high school janitors, and all women assistants, and shifted clerical duties to new arrangements. It will sell books at cost and monitor inventories monthly, move the clerk’s office to other quarters, and reduce the attendance department to half time with a 900 annual budget, allowing some teaching duties for the attendance officer.
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