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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1968
Page
5
Avon officials consider state offer to resurface Moore Road and cover upkeep while used as dirt haul road for the I-90 project. State would also allow Chester Road haul use with bridge reinforcements and future resurfacing after completion. A Monday meeting will discuss the plan.
The Lorain County Tuberculosis and Health Association Inc. names Betty Wolfe as representative director to serve out Dr. Durfee’s term ending March 1969. New trustees are Al Dale of Lorain Frances Smith of North Ridgeville and Mrs Ralph Brucker of Brownhelm, replacing resigned members. Dale and Smith terms end March 1969 while Brucker’s ends March 1970.
Wellington the Board of Public Affairs created a new part time assistant clerk position to handle overloads when the village staff is ill. The post aims to hire a woman and offers no set wage with applications to village clerk John Duff or any board member. In other business, retirement bids were extended for Howard Hawk after 16 years service. The board will advertise for bids to purchase three transformers for the planned Wellington reservoir pumping station.
The Elyria Public Library hosts an 8 p.m. presentation titled The Christmas Story in Art with Donald J. Sager, librarian, guiding a 45 minute slide lecture. It features works from the National Gallery in Washington DC by artists such as Raphael, Juan de Flandes, Bellini, and Jan van Eyck. The Scheide Room on the library’s lower level hosts the public program blending history and art.
A list shows divorces granted for Sandra L May of Lorain from Charles and Mary H McCoy of Avon Lake from Roderick, among others. Names include Alberta Cook from Albert, Emile G Plato from Stanley, Elizabeth L Resch from Ozzie, Joan Saley from Steve, Dorothy Yancy from Robert, Joanne Nagle from Dennis, Linda Pincura from Joseph, John Voorhies from Artense, with addresses in Lorain Grafton Vermilion South and Avon Lake.
Botswana regulates refugee activity, requiring registration, noninvolvement in local politics, and disclosure of visit contacts. The country, once Bechuanaland, hosts several hundred refugees from South Africa Rhodesia South West Africa and Portuguese territories. The report notes the new controls in the former British territory.
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