Elyria City Schools Budget Report And Health Service Review
The Elyria City School board approved a funds certification showing 1 380 236 for operating taxes next year, based on 4 12 millage and 9 80 mills in special levies, plus 485 859 from bond issues for building projects. They also approved withdrawing 150 000 from inactive funds for anticipated building program bills and discussed adding a second school nurse in the budget following a health services study.
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Elyria City
Lorain County
Franklin Gottfried
Ex-Officer M L Obitts dies at 66 in LaGrange
Milton L. Obitts 66 a former Elyria police member from 1922 to 1938 died at his LaGrange home. Born August 25 1889 he also ran a Birmingham farm gas station and restaurant. Survived by daughter Mrs Ellavine Skle and son Milton both of LaGrange. two grandchildren. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. LaGrange Baptist Church. Burial LaGrange Cemetery. Memorials to American Cancer Society.
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Lagrange
Milton L. Obitts
Elyria
West Main St
Ellavine Skle
War
Milton
Russell D. Fulton
Grafton
Edward C. Hojmick
LaGrange Baptist Church
LaGrange Cemetery
Lorain
Margaret Marshall
Broadway
New Mains
Jentland
Perfield Baptist Church
Daughers
Scotland
Andrew
Catherine
Robert
Rachel McGill
Elizabeth Nelson
Catherine Blair
Thomas
John Hund
Reichlin-Cooley
C. D. Burt
Elton’ S Hukill
Jim Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Columbia Driver Charged With Hit Skipping
George Haley of 197 Henwill Drive Columbia was charged with leaving the scene after a collision at Root and Sprague roads. The complaint was filed in Justice James Furlong's court in Columbia and Haley was held on a $100 bond pending hearing. Haley denied the charge saying he gave his name and address after the wreck.
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George Haley
Henwill Dr
Columbia
Robert
Woman Driver To Face Court On Two Charges
Miss Ruth Patterson, 28, of 3730 Aga Ave Lorain, held in county jail pending arraignment before Mayor Henry Garland South Amherst on driving without a license and driving under the influence. Committed to jail at 12:37 a.m. by South Amherst police.
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Ruth Patterson
Aga Ave. Lorain
Henry Garland
South Amherst
South Amhersit
Davis
Spence
Paul G. Freeman
West Main St
Broad St
Washington Ave
Freeman
George Markou
22Nd St
Lorain
East River St
Yale St
Barbara Cooke Cool
Huron
Roy Crites
Crites
Two Plead Guilty Receive Probation from Judge Cook
Judge D A Cook grants probation to Samuel Willams Cleveland and John Pasterak Detret after their pleas of guilty to enticement charges. The defendants faced charges related to narcotics and unlawful conduct, with probation terms set by the court.
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Probar
D. A. Cook
Samuel Willams Cleveland
John Pasterak
Powers elected head of Ohio Exempted Village Supers
F R Powers superintendent of schools in Amherst was elected president of the Ohio Exempted Village Superintendents Association for the coming year in Columbus. He will begin duties January 1 and leave Amherst August 1. H C McCord Worthington named vice president and C B Burnell Bradford secretary. Robert Roche of the State Education Finance Division spoke on school finances.
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Amherst
F. R. Powers
Columbus
Powers
H. C. McCord
Worthington
C.E.S
C. B. Burnell
Bradford
Dixon Yates Site AEC Suit Seeks 3 5 Million Reimbursement
The Dixon Yates interests sue the Atomic Energy Commission in U S Court of Claims to recover 3 534 778 spent on the canceled power contract. Mississippi Valley Generating Co represents the action asserting the deal was illegal from the start due to a conflict of interest.
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Washington
Dixon-Yates
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S. Court of Claims
Daniel James
Mississippi Valley Generating Co
AEC
Allen Hospital
Elizabeth Howie
Theress
Adolphe
Oberlin Hospital
Wenzell
First Boston Corp
Dixon-Yates Combine
Mississippi Valley
Southern Co
Middles South Utilities Co
E. H. Dixon
Middle South
E. A. Yates
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Eisenhower
Cty
Memphis
Hospital grants and legal remarks fill local report
The article notes reactions to a judge's assertion that all evidence must be considered and cites a juror communication ban concern. It mentions T shirt findings, a prosecutor's rebuttal, and hospital grant figures including $16 900 to a Sandusky hospital and $92 000 to two hospitals. Ford Foundation grants total near one billion since inception.
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Jens
William E. Stevenson
Pital
Oberlin College
Ford of
Josephine Cope
Medcollege
Nalina Hospital
Oberlin
Herbert
Sol
Danaceau
Lodi Hospital
Edward Kucinski
Sandusky
Ford Foundation
Ford Motor Co
Amherst Town Hall Hosts Live Nativity Scene Display
In Amherst the Town Hall yard featured a haybale manger scene by St Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church with changing tableau positions led by Mrs. Margaret Egeland. The event ran 7:30 to 9 p.m. nightly, hot chocolate for actors, Santa's arrival at 7, and a crowded town hall for interviews. Alice Flowers led the Chamber of Commerce Christmas committee, with local merchants and professionals aiding the exhibit.
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Amherst Town Hall
Christ
Town Hall
St. Peter’s
Amherst
St Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Margaret Egeland
Tme
Santa Claus
Alice Flowers
Chamber of Commerce
Dr Alvin L. Berman Heads Elwin Memorial Hospital Staff
The 1956 medical staff officers at Elwin Memorial Hospital are named by administrator Harold Alles. Dr Alvin L. Berman becomes president with Dr E Basinger as vice president and Dr Delbert A Russell serving as secretary treasurer.
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Elwin Memorial Hospital
Harold Alles
Alvin L. Berman
E. Basinger
Nce
Delbert A Russell
Lorain County Traffic Toll Faces Record High This Season
Heavy Christmas and New Year traffic in Lorain County threatens to push fatalities to a record level. The council has started compiling a countywide traffic fatality breakdown with figures from 1945 to 1954.
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Lorain County
Market Movers Amid Mixed Settlement Notes
Stocks quoted with wire data and from Pierre BR. Smith and Co. highlight activity across major names such as American Radiator American Telephone and Telegraph Anaconda Copper Bendix Chrysler General Electric General Motors and U S Steel. Industrials utilities and retailers show varied advances and retreats as traders gauge earnings and policy signals.
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American
American T. & T
Anaconda
Aveo Mig
Bendix Aviation
Chrysler Cities Service
Ceveland Gifts
Cleveland
Etecnium
Columbia Gas
General Electrc
General Motors
Glidden Co
Industrial Rayon
Kennecott Copper
Kroger
Montgomery Ward
N.Y
Ohio Edison Ohio Qi Penna. RR
Repubblic
Standard of
Ind
K. J
Ohio
Texas
Toledo Edison
U.S. Steel
Warner Brothers
Westinghouse Electric
Woolworth Co
Lear
Deaths In Elyria Area Gather in Obituary Notes
Multiple death notices from Elyria area report Agnes F. Runkle 52 of 212 Ninth St. dies at Elyria Memorial Hospital after five days illness. Also listed are Frank Szewczyk 68 of 1300 East 33rd St. and Darrell Foglyano two day old son, plus Nell Shifkoski 48 of 2011 Grafton Rd. and Lilian Robinson 75 East Vine St. and Margaret Marshall 71 of Lorain. Burial and service details noted for St. Marys, Ridge Hill, Calvary and Westwood cemeteries.
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Agnes F. Runkle
Ninth St
Elyria Memorial Hospital
John Black
Elyria
Alex Black
Scotland
Jeannie Hoagg
James Finlay
Semine
Harold Dicken
Matthew T. Gilliland
Ridge Hill Memoria Park
Wis
Lorain
Frank Szewczyk
Wikstack
East 33Rd St
Poatt
Hema
Oberlin
Lilian Rodbinson
East Vine St
Wiggins Rest Home
Bachaba Sta|son
Cowling Stang
Henry Hamlin
Westwood Cemetery
Man Fined for Part in Theft and Death Found
William Qualls 21 of Ridgeview was fined 35 for part in theft while Mileski, found dead in his basement Saturday, died of natural causes. The arrest involved Sheriff deputies and Justice C C Lord. The report also mentions a Mileski case connected to a theft charge and a reference to Gartner’s.
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William Qualls
Ridgeview Bill
Mater
Justice C. C
Mileski
Gartner
Meetings Likely Delayed Until 1956 for Key Local Panels
Mayor J Grant Keys said no action before year end for Lorain Elyria Charter Commission and Inter City Planning Committee. He will send letters to 15 Charter Commission members to set a start date and aims for an early January Inter City meeting. The Charter Commission drafts a charter proposal for next November’s vote. The Inter City panel seeks joint Lorain Elyria solutions to regional problems.
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Charter Commission
Lorain- Elyria Inter-City Planning Committee
J. Grant Keys
Keys
Inter-City Committee
Llabor
Serain
Elyria
Inter-City Commission
Lorain
Faulty furnace sparks $100000 Norwalk building fire
Norwalk fire destroyed the John Luhr Insulating and Building Co located near downtown. Fire Chief William Lohman said a faulty furnace ignited the heavily insulated one story frame building, discovered at 3 52 a m. Damage neared $100000 with only one side remaining. No injuries reported and insurance covers the building and its contents.
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Norwalk
John Luhr
William Lohman
Four accidents cause over $1,000 in damages and four arrests
Police records show four accidents yesterday and today totaling over $1,000 in damage and four arrests. Grace A. Pijor pleaded guilty to violating a stop light and was fined $10 with $5 suspended after a collision with Jack Guthrie.
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Grace A. Piyor
R. D
Banks Rd
Grafton
Second St
East Ave
Jack Guthrie
Spruce St
Pijor
Guthrie Auto
John T. Davis
Bath St
Charles Spence
North Professor St
Oberlin
Lodi St
North Alley
Last Mayor Court Trial Before Municipal Court Takeover
Mayor presides over one of the final Mayor's Court trials as Michael Bailey 24 of Dewey Ave faces driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene from an August East Broad accident. The new Municipal Court will take over such cases starting January 3.
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Michael Bailey
Dewey Ave
East Broad
J. Grant Keys
Bailey
Santa Claus in Elyria Plans Gift Spree for Child
A anonymous donor will fund a local Christmas gift spree. A woman disguised as Santa will identify a youngster in Elyria and take them on a shopping tour to outfit them head to toe. The donor allows an employee to choose the participant.
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Elyria
Santa Claus
Avon Branch Library Funded by Lorain County Budget
Lorain County Budget Commission allocates 4200 to establish a branch library in Avon run by the Lorain city bookmobile service. Bookmobile funding for next year rises to 38200, up 6613 for Avon setup and higher salaries. An $86274 Lorain city library allocation is approved, up 10787 with 2000 for moving expenses plus salary and book increases.
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Lorain
Lorain City
Ayres
Two Collisions Reported in Area Roads
Deputies investigated two crashes on Rt 82 west of Rt 76 and on Lake Ave. A 1954 car driven by Chester ter of Griffon RD 1 and a 1940 auto were damaged. A second crash involved Russell Walter of Lorain in a car struck on its left side by a truck owned by K Watson, with the truck’s front damaged.
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Chester Ter
Griffon
Rt. 82
Rt. 76
Lake Ave
Russell Walter
Lexington Ave
Lorain
Donald Hebe Brand
Cleveland St
K. Watson
Grafton Rd
January Draft Seeks 16 Men From Lorain County
Lorain County mustered 16 inductees under a statewide January draft quota announced by Ohio Selective Service Headquarters in Columbus. The January call totals 4iftotal for the state, with the youngest registrant required to be 21 by January 1 unless volunteering. neighboring Erie and Huron counties have quotas of 3 each.
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Lorain County
Ohio Selective Service
Columbus
Erie
Huron
Balance Of Sentence Suspended For Ivy Watkins
Judge John Pincura suspended the $100 fine and the balance of the county jail sentence for Ivy Watkins of 222 14th Street Lorain. The charge involved carrying a concealed weapon amid a shooting incident in which Watkins was wounded. Watkins pleaded guilty to the lesser offense and earlier received a $100 fine and six months in jail plus costs.
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John Pincura
Ivy Watkins
14Th Ist
Lorain
Watkins
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M. L. Obitts
Sudro-Curtis Ambulance
VEDAP
Iprives
State Association
Ford
Bolsiers Building Fund
A. L. Berman
Pierre BR. Smith and Co
Walter C. Runkle
Szewczyk
National Ae Ca
United States
Sisteer
St. 3 Stans Church
St. Casimir
Mary
Sur
Vivors
Edward
Miss Gene
Mary Kranzer
Detroit
John R. Devin
St. Stanislaus
Leo
Geo
Stella Smith
Gulf Rd
Darrell Foglyano
Darrell Allen Foglyano
William Foglyano
Cambridge Ave
William Jr
Tony Foglyano
Ts. Har
Harid Bates
Goldcamp Funeral Home
Rudolph Praznik
St. Mary's Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Felix F. Shifkoski
Nell Shifkoski
Jan
Shifkoski
New York State
St. Mary's
Altar and Rosary Society
Felix/ F
Rita Mary Shifkoski
Dorothy Petark
Pearl Schindler
Alberst Nelson
John Nelson
U.S. Army
Sudro- Curtis Funeral Home
Liliian Robinson
Andrew Marshall
Miller Services
Albert W. Miller
Fifth St
Schwartz Home
James J. Duffy
St. Mary Church
Calvary Cemetery
Miller
The
National Tube Co
Mileski Services
John Mileski
East 2Rd St
Rivoli
Randolph Scott
Lawless Street
John Ireland
Hell's Horizon
Capitol
Bing Crosby
Mickey Rooney
Twinkle
Norwalk Building Supply Co
Lohman
Courthouse News Mayor's Court
Mayor Hearst
Avon
P. R. Smith & CO
Brokerage Service
Spa
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