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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1955
Page
2
Local news brief from Elyria Ohio dated December 2 1955 highlights community happenings. The short item notes events and people of interest within the Chronicle Telegram edition.
Beiter Lines Executive to Attend joint meeting of trucking and road associations in Cuyahoga Falls. Harry N Beiter, vice president of Beer Lines, Inc, will participate in the second annual session amid discussions of Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association and Penn-Texas Corp advertising.
Ohio Congressman Nillam H Ayres Lt Gov John Brown and Attorney General C Niliam O'Neil will highlight a meeting to discuss mutual safety problems in the motor freight industry. The session aims to improve driver safety and highway user protection across states.
Robert C. Better Jr. of Elyna is assigned as company clerk at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. As a recruit petty officer he will wear a miniature rating insignia as a badge of authority for the remaining nine weeks of boot camp, chosen for leadership shown during training.
Vermilion Willard Wallick of the Sandusky Social Security office outlined major 1954 law amendments to the Vermilion Rotary Club noting 34 changes expanding coverage. He cited seven and a half million Ohioans insured and farmers and self-employed groups as large new beneficiaries, plus a widow with children receiving survivor benefits up to 200 dollars monthly and a wage base rise to 4200 dollars.
Ohio livestock slaugher for October 1 fell from September levels, with cattle and hog totals up from a year ago while sheep and calf slaughter declined. Cattle slaughter reached 97,513,900 pounds, down from September but above October 1954. calf slaughter was unchanged, hog slaughter fell two percent from September and rose about half a percent from October 1954.
Washington report says Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield will present a plan to President Eisenhower to modernize inadequate and obsolete Post Office facilities. He warns morale and efficiency will suffer as thousands work under deplorable conditions.
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