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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1962
Page
1
A half day schedule reduces academic handicap but crowds extra curricular effort and parental supervision strain family life. The Chronicle-Telegram Week-End Dividend Pages feature an educator's view on addressing school crowding and include notes on history stamps square dancing life on the moon and youth activities.
Elyria High School and Elyria Catholic suffer losses that leave both in a four way Buckeye Conference tie for the title while Elyria Catholic risks no share in the North Central Conference crown. Keystone and Columbia wins boost tournament buzz as the season nears its climax. Wrestling shifts focus as Elyria High improves its district championship odds.
Budget Commission trims allocation after levy approval, directing funds to subdivisions as authorities plan reallocation. Cadillac's Cleveland Ordnance Plant intends rapid employee growth starting April with projected peaks above prior levels. Elyria mayor weighs policy on city employment awaiting solicitor guidance on union shop change. Lorain harbormaster faces Civil Service Board hearing on political influence charges with a decision anticipated in coming weeks.
A 200-pound man described as walking like a zombie smashed open 46 cages in the St. Louis Zoo reptile house pre dawn. Two snakes escaped briefly before recapture. Damages near 5000 dollars closed the area for repairs. Police pursued the intruder after he ripped doors, bent bars, and shattered glass, escaping in a nearby car.
Cape Canaveral reports say John H. Glenn Jr. remains prepared for an earth orbital flight after delays. NASA rejected claims Glenn faced psychological fatigue, rebutting concerns raised by Dr. Constantine Generales Jr. about rising anxiety in Glenn.
New York educator charges that U S and German history texts distort Nazi crimes and postwar realities. A study by Mark Krug finds West German books biased against the United States and East German texts used to indoctrinate students, with limited, uneven coverage of the Holocaust.
Rio Grande do Sul leftist government seized the $8 million National Telephone Company, offering about $400,000 to ITT. ITT President Harold Geneen condemned the move as repugnant to Alliance for Progress aims and said Brizola’s regime harassed the American firm. The seizure followed past state actions against foreign and Brazilian assets, with the franchise canceled and compensation placed in a bank.
North Sea tempests lash Europe with winds up to 177 mph. Holland dikes breached on Polarderland and Schiermonnikoog islands. Germany reports Elbe and Weser floods with Hamburg and Bremen flooded. Two deaths in Einfeld. Sheffield homes damaged. Denmark losses near one million dollars. Major disaster area declared in Schleswig-Holstein. Norway and Denmark also hit.
In Oberlin a student among three convicted in municipal court received a semester suspension and home return from Long Island. Daniel Stromberg faced harsher terms after a prior status of censure for a campus group incident. the Men's Board urged possible readmission next September.
Discriminated leaders of a student peace movement hoped for a break from the weatherman as 1,300 to 3,000 members of Turn Toward Peace prepared to resume picket lines before the White House and the Soviet Embassy. They planned more interviews with government leaders, with a final rally featuring Norman Thomas. The day promised sun and clouds after Friday’s snow and rain. The group opposes atmospheric nuclear testing and resumed tests, and criticizes civil defense. Some leaders felt a chilly reception from officials, especially at the State Department, while press access varied. Senate aides and White House officials held mixed views on the protesters.
Frost, a noted poet, was discharged Friday from Iren Baptist Hospital where he had been treated for a major illness. He arrived with canes and had been under care for days, returning home after treatment and rest.
Britain rushed troops by ship and air to restore order in Georgetown British Guiana after a weeklong general strike turned violent. At least three killed and ten wounded as mobs set fires and clashes escalated between rioters and police.
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