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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1968
Page
5
More than 20 000 people lined Broad Street as Elyria hosts a 1966 Christmas parade sponsored by the Elyria Retail Merchants Association. Santa arrived on the Kiwanis float amid cheering crowds despite light rain and a 43 degree chill.
The crowd enjoys a Candy Cane House event at 10 Ely Park in Cleveland with Hoolihan and Big Chuck from WJW Channel 6. Santa arrives after delays, is hoisted on a bench, and 10,000 peppermint canes are handed to children as the mayor leads him inside for appearances through Christmas Eve.
Local paper notes the daily edition for Wednesday December 4 1968 in Elyria Ohio with brief community items and notices. Readers gain concise local updates from The Chronicle Telegram archive format.
A 17 year old Oberlin girl Geredia Phillips suffered multiple injuries and is in satisfactory condition at Allen Memorial Hospital after a car rolled five times near Oberlin. Her father Rev Frances Phillips is in fair condition at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a different crash. Stanley Koba, 55, is dead and his wife Katherine, 55, is hospitalized in fair condition.
The Soviet Union will start a naval drill in the Northern Pacific that will run through January 2, according to the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency report.
Three months of work by Thomas Ku dela and his brothers to fill the Joppa Road farm barn with 3000 bales of hay were wiped out when a fire destroyed the barn and hay last night. The blaze also damaged a nearby building. three horses were in the barn, one brown mare missing. Firefighters from Florence Township faced rain and wind, keeping flames from spreading to other structures. No injuries. cause undetermined.
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio extended hearings on Penn Central discontinuing two passenger trains between Cincinnati Columbus and Cleveland. A third hearing will be held in Cleveland as Wellington residents protest and seek a second daily trip to Columbus.
Paul J Mikus, elected common pleas judge last month, spent 84707 in his campaign for that office according to an expense account filed with the Lorain County Board of Elections. He was the first to file a campaign expense report for the November 5 election. All candidates and committees must file by 4 pm December 20. The Lorain County Democratic Candidates Committee reported expenditures of 3205.41. Lake Er ie depth note included.
Richard Broadberd aged 40 will assume the directorship of the Lorain County Juvenile Detention Home Monday announced by Catherine Cantanzarite of Juvenile Court Judge Harry P. Webber’s office. He comes from the commission where he served eight years. A 1953 John Carroll University graduate, Broadberd is married with eight children. He fills a vacancy left three months ago by George Clark who left for a utility firm in New York City. Broadberd’s salary is 8.4 thousand dollars a year.
Harry S Burr 82, Elyria’s oldest jeweler by age and years in business, plans to move from 228 Second St to 1312 Butternut Ridge Rd on December 15. The longtime craftsman, healthy at octogenarian, will focus on clock repairs along with watches and jewelry fixes in the new location near Durkee Road, leaving his Broad Street storefront history behind.
A Lorain County Common Pleas Court jury heard testimony in a $60,000 suit against Stephen A Yon kof, a North Ridgeville police officer, over a double fatal traffic accident on April 9 1965. Ex executrix Wavelene Meeks seeks damages for her son Robert Meeks 16 and Roger A Adkins 16 who were walking on Avon Belden Road when struck by the police car. The trial hangs before Judge John D Pincura.
Army 1st Lt Thomas A. Pienta, 21, of Avon Lake, was seriously burned after a helicopter he piloted in Vietnam was hit by a Viet Cong rocket propelled grenade. He is listed in serious condition at 106th General Hospital Yokohama Japan. He earned his wings in August and was stationed near Saigon.
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