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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1960
Page
19
Square dancers enjoy plastic name tags and witty badges made by Joe Taylor. He offers 33 legends for sale, from playful quips to warnings, while local hoedowns and weekly dances at multiple venues list calls by Ralph Pavlik and George Jabbusch, with schedules and partners noted.
A rambling column recalls missing Elyria observances while wandering in California. It mentions various national weeks and days, sports figures like Salinger and Knipper, and local Elyria ties including Marge Schroeder and Camnie Schroeder. The writer shifts to anecdotes from the Barons and Calder Cup playoff history, with notes on travel plans to Acapulco and reflections on public figures such as Senator Lyndon Johnson.
The library began as a 1875 reading room with a single book and Wheter's Dictionary. Now it contains about 000 volumes, becoming the largest women’s college library in the nation.
A reader question explains Patience Poker as a 5 by 5 card layout of 25 cards from a standard deck. Cards can be rearranged once within the square to form across and down five hands ranked by standard poker rules. The piece also cites brief bridge and canasta queries with practitioner-style answers and reference to the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers for puzzles.
A collage noting 1930s cinema at Rivoli and Capitol theaters with Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool in Kentucky Kernels and West of the Pecos starring Richard Dix. It mentions a 1919 sheriff William Whines and Elyria schools planning medical inspection pending a committee report and board approval.
Elyria High Band Parents organization has hosted two first rate concerts and plans a third. The article notes possible future performers like Lou Armstrong or Pearl Bailey and mentions the Mid Winter Concert at 3:30 tomorrow with tickets from band orchestra choir or at the door. It also covers Distinction Day prep, Easter assembly by Senior Y Teens, and JA club activities with local business open houses and hypothetical scenarios about enterprise decisions.
Lorain County history notes the first Lorain County automobile, a 1900 Locomobile Steamer owned by Dr. Charles F. Cushing, in Elyria. Describe the high wheel era road path to Oberlin, early bicycle riders, and the shift to motor vehicles including the 1906 Studebaker Electric used by Mrs. A L Garford and a later Studebaker coupe for Mrs. James B Thomas.
Roy Ball, 58, retired after 30 years as a Chicago postal clerk, pursues cartooning in Homestead Florida. He and his wife planned early retirement for pension eligibility, bought a modest three bedroom home, and he spends days drawing while submitting work to papers and magazines.
The piece notes Lunik II imagery allowing new lunar names, with Sea of Moscow and craters named for Tomonogov and Tsiolkovsky. It recalls early maps by Hevelius and Beer-Mädler, and explains IAU standardization. It mentions mythic figures and U S scientists with craters named for Hall Pickering Newcomb Haas and even Ben Franklin.
A Gilroy beer store clerk avoided an armed robbery by talking with the pistol-toting would-be robber. The suspect claimed a file nagged him for more money, but the clerk engaged him in conversation, then the man left without the weapon and without the beer.
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