Elyria Music Society marks 50 years of city music
The Elyria Musical Art Society celebrated its 50th year bringing music to Elyria with stories and photos on charter members and current officers on page 19. Upsets and near upsets filled area high school games as regular seasons near end. Lorain St Mary and North Olmsted upset, Midview edged Firelands by one point on pages 24 and 25.
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Look At Old Days: Elyria’s 1928 30 Mayor Hewitt recollects
James A. Hewitt, 79, Elyria’s oldest living former mayor, recalls the city’s problems from 1928 to 1930 when he led Elyria as mayor and earlier as safety service director for four years.
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Elyria
James A. Hewitt
Hewitt
Packing Company safe yields about 100 to burglars
A packing company safe yields about 100 in a burglary report as a second safe is moved but not opened. The item notes page and section locations.
Seven ex-aides refuse to testify on Communist ties
The House Committee on Un American Activities names seven former government employees who invoked the fifth amendment to avoid questions about past and present Communist associations. They worked in the Office of Price Administration, Agriculture, and the Board of Economic Warfare. The list includes John Rackliffe Henry Hill Collins Jr Mary Rackliffe Wilfred Sumner Julia Schneer and others. The Justice Department also allows secretly recorded inter views with Louis Budenz and two FBI agents from December 1945 to be examined in a Communist party context.
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INL
House UN- American Activities Committee
Office of Price Administraton
Agriculture Department
Board of Economic Warfare
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Justice Department
Communist Party
Communist Daily Worker
Louis Budenz
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Un-American Activities Committee
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Boston
Jane Foster Zlatovsky
Boris Morris
Henry Hill Collins Jr
Scarsdale
Henry Beitscher
Philadelphia
Mill Supply House
Julia Schneer
New York
William Rossmoore
Montclair
N. J
Mary Rackliffe
Wilfred Sumner
Public Affairs Institute
Zlatovskys
France
Weather Outlook Northeastern Ohio Cold With Snow Flurries
Considerable cloudiness and windy cold in Geauga and Ashtabula counties with snow flurries and squalls and possible locally heavy amounts. Snow flurries continue tonight and Sunday with a high near 20 and a low around 10. Friday temperature range near 22 with 0.01 inches of precipitation in the last 24 hours. Sunrise 7 32 a m sunset 5 52 p m.
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Renperl
Village Bombing Strains Franco Tunisian Relations
French planes bombed the frontier village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef near the Tunisia Algeria border for about an hour. Reports say over 100 people killed, with 25 aircraft including U S built bombers and Mirage jets involved. France and Tunisia clash over border incident and rebel support.
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Sakiet Sidi Youssef
Algeria
France
Cold Wave Grips Nation Across Midwest to Gulf Coast
A severe arctic air mass drove subzero readings from Minnesota to Texas and Louisiana with highs plunging as much as 103 degrees in spots. International Falls dropped to 20 below, while Florida warned of a hard freeze as a storm center off New Jersey altered temperatures. At least 13 deaths were attributed to the cold front.
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Midlands
Man Admits Killing Five Including Ohioan
Jerimiah McCray, 25, confessed to killing five robbery victims across Alabama Georgia and Ohio over a year and a half after a lie detector test in Richmond Virginia. He claimed a sixth victim survived and Georgia authorities believe he forgot additional murders. The victims ranged from 49 to 86 years old with one 53 year old Atlanta man. A survivor was the 79 year old mother of the Hanburys. Contimmed on Pg. 3, Col. 3.
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Georgia
Ohio
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Richmond
McCray
Erse
Robert Hanbury
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Hanbury
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Calhoun County
Three Hurt In Head-On Crash Near Carlisle
Edward Hurst 18 and Frank Michowka 96 were among three men injured in a head on collision on Merlin Road near Carlisle. Provoznik 21 was trapped and rescued as one car caught fire. both cars were destroyed and victims faced fractures facial cuts and burns.
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Hiames
Robert Weitzel
Weitzel
Super Market
Weizel
Eva
Carlisle Fremen
Harold Bruce
James Myers
Air Force Hopes to Run Space Ships and Satellites
Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy voiced the Air Force’s case for commanding space ships and manned satellites, signaling a shift in a dispute with the Army and Navy. He cautioned his stance could change, though, and noted Army aims to deploy a family of earth moons for global mapping and communications.
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Lab Expansion Plan Protested
Mayor James Topping of Brook Park criticized the proposed expansion of the NACA laboratories near Cleveland Hopkins Airport. He called the plan a shame for a prime residential area and urged government expansion north of Brook Park in a less desirable site near landing strips.
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Class A County Tourney Draw Set For Lorain County
Lorain County Class A Basketball draw places Ridgeville atop as bye recipient and Firelands as second seed facing Columbia. Semi finals Feb 12 with finals Feb 16, leading to Lorain Sectional Feb 27 to March 1. Remaining teams South Amherst Avon LaGrange Brookside and Columbia fill two four team brackets. Ridgeville 11-4 and Firelands 8-8 lead group. Columbus?
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Avon Schools
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East German purge solidifies Ulbricht power
Berlin dispatch reports Walter Ulbricht purged several leading East German Communist Party members including Karl Schirdewan and Ernst Wolltreber. Purge cited as deviation from party line and a move to prevent an East German Hungary scenario.
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Kremlin
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Hungary
White House cites slight improvement in Eisenhower illness
President Eisenhower shows minor relief from a sore throat and cold after a week of illness. News Secretary Hagerty said the White House will press forward with space program plans as Roy W Johnson of General Electric is named to head ARPA.
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Britain
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Lyndon B Johnson
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Defense Department
Roy W Johnson
President’s health improves slightly before Georgia vacation
Hagerty reports the President remains with a sore throat and huskiness but shows slight improvement. He and the doctor see progress as he plans to depart Washington on Wednesday for his annual winter sojourn in Thomasville, Georgia to recover from the ailment.
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Thomasville
Cancer Fatal To Novelist Betty MacDonald
Seattle author Betty MacDonald 51 died in hospital after a long illness. Her 1945 novel The Egg and I sold over a million copies and inspired Ma and Pa Kettle films. She also wrote The Plague and I Onions in the Stew and Piggle Wiggle stories for children.
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Betty MacDonald
Groza Penalized for Improper Turn in Traffic Court
Lou Groza, Browns place-kicker, admitted making an improper right turn last Wednesday and paid a $5 fine in Cleveland traffic court. Judge Thomas Farrmo suspended court costs.
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Lou Groza
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Nine Day Wonder and the Want Ad Urgency
A Chronicle Telegram Want Ad Taker offers to craft ads that produce fast action. An example shows Mrs. Myers-Sold and an electric store ad for a 40 Kenmore item in excellent condition priced at 45 dollars, with a contact phone listed.
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