Electrifying City Pumping Station Approved by Council
Elyma city officials approved an emergency ordinance to electrify the lake shore pumping station as part of a seven point water supply program. Debate focused on further steps and funding while committees were tasked with immediate study and progress reporting from the Havens and Emerson firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyma
Solons
Lake Shore
John Hovis
Eugene Smith
Victor Stewart
Pedley
Lord
Council
Cty m
Sheffield
Gerald Marlin
East Avenue
Chronicle-Telegram
Hovis
Kipton Resident Named PCA Officer For Elyria Office
Arthur J. Blackwell of Kipton will take over as association representative of the Production Credit Association office in Elyria on February 22, replacing Gilbert Walker who has held the post for three years. The Elyria PCA serves Lorain and Cuyahoga farmers with short term loans and is one of seven offices in the Ashland Division. Walker will become association supervisor, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Blackwell, 41, runs a 127 acre farm in Ripton and previously taught as a veterans agricultural instructor at the Camden School. He also spent five years with the U S Department of Agriculture and served as Farm Security Administrator in Van Wert, Ross and Montgomery Counties. He will supervise loan applications and govern Elyria branch advertising. Walker will continue work largely in Northern Ohio while residing in Elyria with his wife and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Blackwell
Kipton
Production Credit Association
Elyria
Gilbert Walker
Elvna
PCA
Lorain
Cuyahoga County
Ashland
Walker
East Avenue
Louisville
Ripton
Blackwell
Camden School
SDA
United States Department of Agriculture
van Wert
Ross
Montgomery
Ohio
Productions Credit Association
Obie
First Aid Course For Explorer Scouts Offered
A standard First Aid course for Scout Explorers begins February 15 at 7 30 pm in the Red Cross office at Ohio and Gulf roads and continues Mondays until completion. Eligible Explorers are 15 or high school sophomores. limited to 25. The program covers 18 hours of Red Cross First Aid and four hours of atomic radiation burns. Registration with Larry Joyce or Alan Fox. Completion earns the First Aid Menu Badge.
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Red Cross
Ohio
Gulf’ Roads
Larry Joyce
Alan Fox
Ee Joyce
Rejection of Anti Reds’ U S Resettlement Request
Panmunjom AP Lt Gen K S Thimayya rejected a bid by 64 unrepatriated prisoners to be sent to the United States. He said they must choose a neutral country or be returned to the detaining side. The prisoners refused Korea or Formosa and want U S resettlement. Thimayya noted the U S is a belligerent in the Korean War and asked UN and Communist commands to honor the prisoners’ wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Repatriation Commission
South Korea
Formosa
United States
Thimavya
United Nations
U S To Send Technicians For Indochina Planes
Diplomatic sources report the United States will lend France a number of Air Force technicians to service American built aircraft in the Indochina war. The first group could depart for Saigon within a week in U S uniforms to train French mechanics and remain behind the lines as instructors. The State Department would only say it favors France requesting 400 mechanics, with the final number likely below four hundred. France fears Chinese Communist involvement as fresh fighting surges and Vietminh forces push toward Luang Prabang.
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Washington
U. S
France
Air Force
Saigon
State Department
Luang Prabang
Laos
Muongkhoun
U. S. Air Force
Far East Command
Flier Hopes To Recover $425 Lost In 1942
Cook Cleland of Cleveland, a Navy flier in World War II, seeks $425 from the federal government for five money orders bought before the carrier Wasp was sunk near the Solomon Islands in 1942. A private bill introduced by Rep. Frances P. Boston aims to secure the payment if passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President.
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Washington
Cook Cleland
Cleveland
Wasp
Cleland
Solomon Islands
Frances P. Boston
Rcleveland
Leland
Senate
Eisenhower
Former Elyrian's Husband Appointed U S Air Force Chief Scientist
Chalmers W. Sherwin, husband of the former Irene Acker man, has been named Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force at the Pentagon in Washington. The 37 year old University of Illinois research professor of physics will advise the Air Force Chief of Staff and will reside in Alexandria, Virginia. He leaves Urbana after three years at the University of Illinois Control Systems Laboratory and has been on the US staff since 1946. Sherwin helped develop radar at MIT during WWII and was key in Ground Control Approach systems. He is a Wheaton College graduate and has four daughters and a son, with the family living at 308 Mansion Drive in Alexandria.
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Chalmers W. Sherwin
Irene Ackerman
M. Ackerman
East River Street
United States Air Force
Pentagon
Washington
Fofinois
Lloyd Morey
Sherwin
Urbana
Washington, D. C
Air Force
Nathan Twmmer
Unti
Mansion Drive
Alexandria
Control
Wheaton
Wheaton College
University of Chicago
Radiation Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
MIT
James Doolittle
University of Illinois
Lews Ridenour
Graduate School
Griggs
UCLA
Sherwins
Mayor Names Three Appointments To City Commissions
Mayor J. Grant Kels announced at the Elyria City Council meeting the appointment of three box ing and wrestling commissioners for Elyria and one Park Commission member for a three year term. Ellsworth R. Schneider was seated on the Park Commission for three years while Harold M. Horace J. Theodore Emench and Harry E. Day were named to the Boxing and Wrestling Commission for one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Park Commission
J. Grant Keysl
Ellsworth R. Schneider
Boxing and Wrestling Commission
Harold M. Horace
J. Theodore Emench
Harry E. Day
Spring Upturn In Business Signals Mild Economic Revival
Washington experts see signs of a moderate spring upturn in business with potential mild revival in industry and a reversal of the downward trend. Rehirings at some firms, heavy spring stock purchases, and expectations of a brisk spring in the East widen cautious optimism for a rebound from layoffs and a possible end to the slump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Two Children Die In Sandusky House Fire
SANDUSKY Ohio UP report says a house fire claimed two young children, Jimmie Dietrich, two, and Sue Dietrich, one, while their parents were away. The blaze at the Lyons Trailer Park trailer destroyed the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
Jimmie Dietrich
Sue
James R. Dietrich
Ther
Joan Dierich
Lyons
Elyria Junior High Arts and Crafts Center Spotlight
The Nation’s Schools features Elyria Schools in a national article titled For the Junior High a Comprehensive Arts and Crafts Center. Dr. Franklin J. Gottried and Miss Dorothy Jones describe the two year old program including woodworking sewing painting weaving and metal work. The piece notes lab expansion to 10 percent of junior high facilities, teacher selection and training, room design, materials, and plans, with student photos and a floor-plan chart accompanying the article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Franklin J. Gottried
Dorothy Jones
DiSalle Seen As Active Candidate For DNC Post
INDIANAPOLIS Ind UP Former Price Stabilizer Michael V DiSalle is reported an active candidate for Democratic National Chairman He is described as front running potential successor to Stephen Mitchell He visited former chairman Frank McKinney and said he would be glad to take the post Mitchell expected to resign after November elections Butler of South Bend said DiSalle has considerable support for the bid
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Michael V.disalle
Toledo
Ohio
Stephen Mitchell DuSalle
Frank McKinney
Indianapolis ‘Times
Mitchell
Paul M Butler
South Bend
Indiana
DiSallie
Truth Serum as Dental Aid Reported in Boston
Dr John F Novatney of Cleveland reports that truth serum sodium pentathol anesthesia can enable massive dentistry in one sitting. Useful for psychotic neurotic patients children and those with dentophobia or time constraints and allows high speed tools while patients remain under general sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
John F. Novatnev
Cleveland
Ohio
Massachusetts
Novatney
McCarthy Demands Court Martial After Kilmer Case
Senator Joseph R McCarthy urges Army to halt the honorable discharge of a major accused of forming a Communist cell at Camp Kilmer New Jersey The major a New York area dentist refuses to testify invoking the Fifth Amendment and faces potential court martial while McCarthy vows to block his release and press for action The Army says the officer will be separated under general strength reduction after a 12 month tour and scheduled April release is moved up
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New York
Joseph R. McCarthy
Army
Camp Kibmer
N. J
Wisconsin
Robert T. Stevens
Washington
Lman
McCarthy
Communist Party
United States
INS
Sen. McCarthy
Lver
U. S
Camp Kilmer
Senate Investigations
United States Army
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Senate Banking Subcommittee
J. Glen Beall
Maryland
Beall
Paul Douglas
Ilinois
Frederick Payne
Maine
J. Allen Frear
Delaware
Prescott Bush
Connecticut
Fourth Street
Dale Kellogg
Safety Service
Michael J. Lotko
Brandtson
Pasadena
Henry, Bell, Roosevelt
Marseilles
Utilites
Furnace Street
Cascade
Keys
Ment
Leity
City Engineer and Finance Committee
Kellogg
Mty
Ohio Turnpike Commission
John Lansdale
Pike Commission
U.S
Indochina
G. S
Indo-China
Iiform
Elyrian
Esenhower
Addion
Nepal
Gualtiero Capor
Rovereto
Say DiSalle
Fank
Downey
Calif
Robert B. Duke
Armored Cavalry
California National Guard
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