Emphasis Shift at Lorsin County Children's Home
The Lorsin County Children's Home reports a year with 54 daily residents, stressing family living over a pure custodial role under Superintendent Lloyd Gamble. A full staff enabled individual care and community integration through Scouts and school activities. Costs totaled $34,505.52 with $10,168 in salaries and $20,540 in maintenance. average per child $640 for the year. Funding included $2,000 in donations and $1,000 in federal commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorsin County
Lloyd Gamble
Iuperintendent
Fruehauf Plant Election Tomorrow
The National Labor Relations Board will oversee a bargaining agent election at the Avon division of Fruehauf Truck Driver Company tomorrow. J B Hicks, N L R B examiner, will supervise as U A W C I O leads the drive with Martin Kruse directing. About 1,812 eligible voters will choose among U A W C I O, No Union, and A F L options, with polling 10 am to 12 pm for workers and 6 pm to 7 15 pm for night shift. If no single option wins a majority, a runoff will follow between the top two candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Labor Relations Board
Avon
Frueheut Traler Company
Eid
J. B. Hicks
N.l.ab
Todsy
United Auto Workers
C.I.0
Martin Kruse
U.a.w.-Cilo
C.S.0
Kruse
U.A.W.C
Priest Dies in Sanitarium Blaze in Michigan
In Clemens Michigan at St Josephs Sanitarium an elderly Catholic priest The Rev Thomas Barry about 60 from Cleveland suffocated a fire endangered 50 guests and staff. Barry died in his room while 25 guests and 25 sisters fled in night clothes. A second item notes Dr Edward J Humphreys resigning as acting Ohio mental hygiene commissioner to take a deputy role in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt, Clemens
Mich
St. Joseph's
Thomas Barry
Cleveland
St. Joseph's Hospital
Barry
Columbus
Edward J. Humphreys
Ohio
John H. Lamneck
Humphreys
New Jersey
observers tie pressure on Egypt Israel to settle
Observers said Western powers including the United States and Britain were pressing Egypt and Israel toward a settlement. They cited recognition of Israel by Western union countries and U S recognition of Transjordan as evidence of a Britain U S accord on Palestine and Middle East security. Egypt was expected to concede on disputed points as new Bunche working papers summarized Israeli Egyptian differences threatening the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Britain
Egypt
Israel
Trans- Jordan
Palestine
Middle East
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
Cancer Clinics Open For Persons Over 35 This Month
Two cancer detection clinics are scheduled this month for men and women aged 35 and older. A typographical error yesterday had stated 25 as the minimum age. The women’s clinic is February 10 and the men’s February 24. Appointments at the Cancer Information Center in the Elyria Block are available today and Friday this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formen
Cancer Information Center
Elyria Block
Woman Injured In Blaze At Cleveland Three Family Home
One woman seriously injured and seven others homeless after a $25,000 fire destroyed a three family house in Cleveland. Earlier, 43 people were evacuated from a Grand Hotel fire in a refuse closet with no injuries. Mrs. Grace Sheats, 48, suffered a possible fractured back after leaping 34 feet from a second floor window. her husband John Sheats, 38, leaped to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Grand Hotel
Grace Sheats
John Sheats
Local option vote looms as council debates liquor law
The council discusses enforcing a two precinct local option to regulate liquor, with Solicitor Baird noting the ordinance is not valid and unlikely to stand in court. Mayor Ault and Director Kothe seek an AG ruling in Columbus while residents push for a tested outcome. Local option would bind area for four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
Baird
Lord
Henry Ault
D. W. Kothe
Columbus
Ohio League of Municipalities
Cyril Brecknock
Longfellow Street
Law Js
Election Board
Elyria
Death notices for George Lee Jr and others in multiple cities
Death notices report George Lee Jr aged 25 of Ashland died at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Survived by wife Virginia and two young children with funeral plans in Bedford. Also listed are Mrs William Bullock 61 in Tucson, Rev Dale A Crites 79 in Spencer, Cora A Walker 65 in Grafton, and Walter J Hales in Columbia with survivors and burial details in local plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lee
Virginia
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Spensters Trailer Court
Ashland
Bedford
Ind
Lee
Ashand
Mahoney Contracting Company
Betty Jo
Larry
Rodney Hages
Mortis
Bittner Funeral Home
Carter Funeral Home
William Bullock
Tucson
Ariz
East Prince Road
Dale A. Crites Spencer
Dale A. Crites
Spencer
Olive B
Albert T
Atlanta
Deah QC
Columbus
Charles G
Batavia
Java
Ethel L. Wil
Canton
Miriam D. Anspeck
Ada
Percy
Jerome
Seville
Eva Steele
Sterling
May Seeley
Spencer Methodist Church
Hoffman
Woodlawn
Wadsworth
Parker Funeral Home
Cora A. Walker
Grafton
Hemmerle
Chestnut Street
Cleveland
Grafton Methodist Church
Ernest
Arleen
Henry
Erwin
Russell D. Fulton
Robert Chaunce
Riverside Cemetery
Soil Conservation Directors To Meet Monday
Lorain County Soil Conservation District elects officers at the county extension office Monday morning. Newly elected supervisors include a president and secretary plus treasurer and possibly a publicity chairman. I H Breyley will report on a state meeting in Columbus. A R Seaford and Leland Schuler will assist, with extension specialists aiding educational meetings and demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Leland Schuler
Faces Life Sentence For Slaying Of Wife
Steven Michaels, 48, faced a life sentence in Ohio for the slaying of his wife Hazel Michaels, 26, in their Cleveland home last Aug 20. A three-judge panel found him guilty of first degree murder after rejecting insanity pleas. After the shooting he took sleeping pills in a failed suicide attempt, and daughter Patricia, 14, found him and rushed him to a hospital where he was revived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Steven Michaels
Ohio
Cleveland Athletic Club
Hazel Michaels
Patricia
Dayton Enacts City Payroll Income Tax
Dayton becomes the fifth Ohio city to levy a 0.5 percent city payroll income tax for residents. Collections begin April 1 with officials estimating about 1,687.50 in revenue for 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
Ohio Legislature Debates Jobless Pay and Public Employee Bans
Ohio lawmakers push to repeal the Ferguson Law banning public employee strikes and to liberalize unemployment compensation. Aiming to boost maximum benefits to $32.50 weekly for up to 52 weeks, the measure would remove the two week waiting period and allow compensation if seeking work in the prior trade. Senate hearings examine a natural resources department and other bills expand local and state labor rules, with several new measures on policing, licensing, and public pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
House Committee On Industry and Labor
David Ferguson
R. Cambridge
Dept. of Resources
Senate Committee On Highways
Department of Natural Resources
Ohio
Gav
Paul M. Herbert
Senate
House
M. J. Damas
Lucas
Frank W. King
Morton Neipp
D. Lucas
Qchicans
Frank J. Lausche
Toledo
Bureau of Unemployment
BUC
Liquor Department
Lake Erie
State Highway
House of Representatives
A. i
Prices At Noon On December 7 In Central Markets
A compact price listing shows shares and stock levels for major U.S. companies and industries. Notable entries include American Radiator Glidden Co Sears Roebuck Warner Bros Woolworth Bendix Chrysler General Motors U.S. Steel Anaconda Copper Kennecott Standard Oil units and a Cleveland exchange snapshot reflecting varied percent changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. S. Central
Penna
Sarerberes Glidden Co
Montgomery Ward
Sears Roebuck
Warner Bros
Woolworth Co
Bendix Aviation Chrysler
General Motors
Republic Steel
U.S. Steel
Anaconda Copper Kennecott Onbre Standard of
N. Ohio
Standard of Ind
Standard of Ohio Socony Vacuum
Texas Oil
Cal, Gas & Elec
American T. & T. Cities Service
Avcc
American Brake Shoe
Fruehaut Non Sschebouses Industrial Rayon
Cleveland ‘Exchange
Cleveland Cliffs
Cleveland Elec
Richman Bros
Markets page shows varied produce and livestock prices.
The page lists prices for fruits vegetables and dairy including apples, celery, radishes, potatoes, eggs and butter. It also reports Cleveland livestock market figures with cattle steers heifers cows bulls hogs and sheep and lambs with price ranges and receipts for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wleveland
Pontien
Cameron
American Repays Nazi's Kindness
G Louis Beliveau, a former American POW captured at St Vith in 1945, recalls how guard Paul von Muller in a Nazi prison camp fed him from his own rations and even gave hard boiled eggs as an Easter gift. Now living in the Soviet zone of Germany, Muller receives Beliveau’s monthly food packages as thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
N. H
G. Louis Beliveau
St. Vith
Paul von Muller
Germany
Muller
Beliveau
Britons' views on colonies reveal gaps in knowledge
A colonial office survey of 2000 British adults finds three percent believe Britain is still a colony. About 24 percent say most colonial inhabitants are white, 22 percent think colonies pay taxes to Britain, and 25 percent see no difference between colonies and dominions. The office warns knowledge is sketchy and inadequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
America
British Colonial Office
Britain
Colonial Office
Decline in prices for Ohio farm goods mid January
Prices received by Ohio farmers for farm commodities in mid January averaged slightly less than a month earlier, the federal state crop reporting service said today. Feed grain prices rose from mid December by six cents, but gains were offset by declines in meat animals, dairy, eggs and wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Democrats Press 142 Resolutions in First Month in Office
In The Court House report the Democratic board of county commissioners led by its first month in office passed 142 resolutions in January, versus 78 by the Republican predecessors the year before. The journal records the official record of the board. Various local cases appear including suits, divorces, and welfare funding changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Board of County Commissioners
Charles Hamilton
Elyvia
South Amherst
Arminda
Police arrest truck driver for license violation in Elyria
George Robinson aged 63 of 13 Shear Street was arrested at Garford and Columbia for operating a truck without a proper operator's license. He had prior warnings and faces police court on February 5. Four Elyria M C A officers attended the Cleveland M C A annual meeting with Dr Robert S Wilson as president and other officials in attendance. Arthur W Smith 68 of Fremont was killed when his car collided with an eastbound Nickel Plate train at Old Fort crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Robinson
Shearstreet
Terminal Service Co
Garford
Columbia Avenues
Elyria ¥. M. C. A
Cleveland
Tiffin
Arthur W Smith
Fremont
Old Fort
Book Character Miska Petersham to Speak at Library Story Hour
A live book character will step from stories tomorrow at Elyria Library Longfellow Room. Miska Petersham, author and artist, will read Miki and Mary stories to Grades 1–6 at 3 45 p m and share wartime navigator experiences aboard a B 24 in the Pacific War Theatre. He attends Cleveland School of Art and is married with a daughter Mary. Petersham autographs books beforehand and some Works for religious education are recommended by Mrs Florence Taylor. A preschool Story Hour follows at 4 p m with Mrs James Christie reading and Petersham verses and nursery rhymes on tap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longfellow
Elyria
Miska Petersham
Maude
Miki
Mary
Celia Jane
Petersham
Cleveland School of Arts
Florence Taylor
New Papa Faces Disorderly Charge After Hospital Fracas
Price Corn of Dyke road was jailed on a disorderly conduct charge after a night of turmoil when his wife Gladys gave birth. Police and hospital staff avoided escalation as the new father threatened a shotgun and caused a disturbance while seeking access to mother and child.
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Chhildren
Corn
R. D
Dyke Road
Gladys
Sergi
L. D. Brown
Corwin Burrer
Papa
Wellington Church Plans For New Boys Club
Wellington prepares a Christ centered Boys club program on February 4 at 7 30 in Herrick auditorium. The event aims to introduce an organization offering a well rounded program for boys 8 to 18. A Christian Service Brigade group from Cleveland will present the plan under First Baptist Church committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Herrick Auditorium
Christian Service Brigade
Cleveland
First Baptist Church
Missing Man Not An Oberlin College Student
A report states Edward Westlake, 30, of Parma, Ohio, was not an Oberlin College student but a student at the Oberlin School of Commerce. Westlake, a war veteran, was thought to have amnesia per sheriff’s department notes. The item mentions a mistaken college affiliation. The article shift then notes a separate Cleveland brief about a honeymoon money disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin College
Oberlin College Today
Edward Westlake
Parma
Oberlin School of Commerce
Westlake
Sheriff's Department
Dormitory at Ohio Northern destroyed by fire
Firemen blamed a defective furnace for a blaze that gutted a three story dormitory for freshman women on the Ohio Northern University campus. Sixteen coeds on the second floor fled into near freezing air, saving little clothing. The 1888 frame building suffered about 25000 dollars in damage. contents loss was not yet estimated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada, O
Ohio Northern University
J. A Potter
Con Terta
Four Hurt In Bus Truck Crash Near East Liverpool
Four persons were injured today when a Greyhound bus and a truck collided on U S Highway 30 near here. The injured include bus driver Reynolds Jones 32 of Pittsburgh and three passengers Ada Amrine 42 of Spokane Harold Nash 28 of Urbana and Elizabeth Bumgardner of Beeblerville Pa. The bus rammed the rear of the truck as it pulled off the highway into dense fog. The truck was driven by Robert Means of East Liverpool who was not injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Liverpool
Greyhound
Reynolds Jones
Pittsburgh
Ada Amrine
Spokane
Wash
Harold Nash
Urbana
Elizabeth Bumgardner
Beeblerville
Midlands
Aid Reduction Co
Robert Means
East Liver¢pool
Fun Frolic At Ridgeville School Draws 200 Teachers
More than 200 teachers and guests attended the 1949 Fun Frolic of the Lorain County Education Association last night at Ridgeville School. Skits from Belden Camden Brookside and Clearview groups, group singing, and vocal solos by Elyria High School student Fred Hammons highlighted the program with Dyer Sweet as master of ceremonies and Ridgeville staff providing refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County Education Association
Ridgeville
Belden
Camden
Brookside
Clearview
Fred Hammons
Elyria High School
Dyer Sweet
Perfect Egg Spoon Dream Nears Realization
In Gary Indiana thirty five years ago a waiter flawed by the egg cracking need sparked a search for a perfect spoon. Jesse Mars now in Providence proposes an egg spoon with a knife like blade to crack eggs neatly. He notes diners favor fried and scrambled eggs, questioning if his effort pays off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Gary
Ind
Jesse Mars
Mars
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Fruehauf Plant
Sudro-Curtis
Death Records
Walter J. Hales
Columbia
Eldon FE
Hales
Lawrence Hales
Clifford
Willliam
Bertha
Baker Feneral
Berea
Columbia Cemetery
Soil Conservation
United Press
Rhode Island
U. S
Russert
al Denpe
Milton Hahn
Race Road
James Horn
Russell Board
West River Street
Justice C. C. Lord
Floyd Dyer
David Gildthorpe
Amherst
Dyer
Ray Litke
Grafton Road
Rudolph Davis
Middle Avenue
Fuller Roads
Emil Ebner
Emlenton
Sheriff Department
J. W. Horner
Lorain
Henry Dean
Betty Swan
Leata Mitchell
Charles Finerd
Evelyn
Guy B. Findley
Ella Cunningham
Edward
Blackman
Patricia Beiswenger
Walter
Lent
Holton Coal Company
State Civil Service Commission
County Welfare Department
Jess
Police Dept. News
Elxrians
Mertin
Robert J. Fratusi
Ohio Northern
Lydia E. Pinknam
Lydia E. Pinkham
PERA
Wagner
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