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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1949
Page
10
A brief item from Elyria Ohio dated Tuesday December 20, 1949 notes the launch or feature of Choriale Telecram service or display in the local area with unspecified details. The entry identifies Elyria as the location and December 20, 1949 as the date of publication.
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. announced a $6,000,000 purchase of Ohio coal acreage from principal stock holder M. A. Hanna Co. The deal, the largest in years, adds land in Belmont Harrison and Jefferson counties containing about 97,000,000 tons of recoverable coal.
Pittsburgh Consolidation will buy Hanna's Ohio bituminous coal acreage for 4.655 million plus debenture bonds and assume about 1 million in obligations. Hanna had leased the land to Pittsburgh Consolidation and Jefferson Coal Co, with minimum royalties of 400,000 annually through 1956 and 450,000 yearly thereafter. The deal includes a 157,830 cash payment and marks the second major transaction between the firms in three years.
News arrives of the death Saturday in Sarasota Florida of Dr Edwin Fauver of Rochester New York retired athletics director at the University of Rochester He was 73 years old He was twin brother to Edgar Fauver who died three years ago and a brother of L B Fauver of Elyria The Fauver family lived in Eaton moved to Oberlin Ed win attended Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College where he earned his degree He dedicated his life to physical education The note mentions a 1946 Pittsburgh Consolidation acquisition of Hanna Coal Co in Ohio for 325600 common shares of stock.
The passage honors a former Oberlin football player who led the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges and the New York State Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. He championed mandatory physical training in preparatory schools and colleges and organized the Western New York Intercollegiate Athletic Conference along with the Rochester section of the National Association of Certified Basketball Officials.
NORTH RIDGEVILLE St Peter's church will begin Christmas events with hymns and carols on Christmas Eve followed by the Midnight Mass. The procession will move to the crib at 12 o'clock for the Solemn High Mass with the Sodality choir performing Ancilla Domini. The Christmas morning 8 o'clock Mass features a children’s choir with Christmas Chants Mass by Norman Dee. Low Masses and hymns occur at 10 and 12, with confessions scheduled 3-5 each eve until Christmas Eve. Reverend Francis Rance is pastor and Reverend Eugene Karch assistant.
Harvard a Deep River school fourth grade teacher faces a problem identifying among her 30 students four sets of identical twins. Public laughs last as Carmel, California, traffic is fed up for hours by a Hollywood movie company filming a Robert Young sequence on a main street.
Irate residents who had blocked sidewalks learned the film strip had to be discarded due to poor lighting. Britain's head town planner Lewis Silkin, on a visit to Ireland, warned Dublin was getting too big and urged more industries to move to rural areas.
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