Landscaping approved by Spencer Township trustees
Spencer Township trustees approved landscaping the J B Firestone family burial plot in Spencer cemetery at a Thursday meeting. The plan aligns with surrounding veterans’ monument grounds. The American Legion Auxiliary No 608 was granted use of the kitchen and part of the meeting room in town hall for spring homecoming festivities. Trustees set a Wednesday meeting at 8 p.m. at Lynn Hendricks’s home, who is convalescing with a broken leg.
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Spencer Cemetery
Veterans Monument
American Legion Auxiliary No. 608
Town Hall
Legion
Lynn Hendricks
Spencer gas rates to drop after winter fuel use reached
Wellington area council heard from Spencer Ray Spirek of Columbia Gas Co that weather bureau projections show 70 percent of the heating season elapsed and spring nears. Effective March 1 gas costs to consumers fall about three cents under the ordinance rate, a 1.54 cent per 1000 cubic feet reduction. The meeting also noted January rains caused basement floods with repairs planned where needed on storm sections and railroad lines were asked to fix crossings on North Main Street.
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Spencer
Ray Spirek
Wellington
Columbia Gas Co
Ohio
Aid Company
Spirek
Norfolk & Western
Akron
Canton
Youngstown
North
East Main
Donald Browse
North Main Street
Water plant rewiring underway with state funds approval
SPENCER The Board of Public Affairs will hire an electrical engineer to draft rewiring plans for the water plant. The Village Council granted EPA permission to employ the engineer for the project with part of costs paid by the J B Firestone Civic Trust fund. After plans are finished bids will be invited. The state flower of Michigan is the apple blossom.
Sunderland man calls off wedding over locomotive
STAN KIPLING, a 62-year-old Sunderland miner, cancelled his planned March wedding to JANET PARKIN rather than move his model locomotive from the bridal chamber. He said the engine is his only hobby and he wants to keep tinkering. The bride-to-be collapsed upon learning the wedding was off and protested she would not be sidelined by a locomotive.
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Stan Kipling
Sunderland
England
Miner
Janet Parkin
Kipling
Olivier has successful appendix operation in London
Sir Laurence Olivier underwent an emergency appendix operation in London after a dash from Edinburgh. The surgeon said no trace of the cancer like ailment troubled him for a year. Boris Karloff to return home tomorrow and resume work by Tuesday after bronchitis. Princess Irene of Greece to perform piano in Cincinnati with the Symphony April 11 and 12. Max Rudolph notes she is an accomplished pianist.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
Edinburgh
Scotland
London
Sir Laurence
Boris Karloff
Dorothy
Karloff
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Irene
Greece
Orchestra
Max Rudolph
Constantine
Columbia Middle School drainage easement approved
The Columbia Board of Education accepted a township easement allowing a large main drain to pass beneath the cemetery driveway for the new West River Road middle school. State Health Department preliminarily approved the terminal point. final approvals expected soon. C W Barres Plumbing bid $7,500 for the work and two construction plan change orders were approved.
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Columbia
Columbia Middle School
West River Road
Columbia Board of Education
State Health Department
C.W. Barres Plumbing
Elyria
Donald Hagen
Editor criticizes coverage of civil rights issues
Ohio editor James Fain of the Dayton Daily News told the Georgia Press Institute that critics misread press mistakes. He urged inspecting speakers credentials, questioning sources, and warned against relying on official reports for communist activity. He urged deeper reporting and warned publishers about cost and objectivity.
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Athens, Ga
UPI
Ohio
James Fain
Dayton Daily News
Dayton
Georgia Press Institute
Fain
Doors installed to expand library room use for savings
Hagen announced that new doors in the library will make rooms more versatile and save 225 dollars. A second change order adds terrazzo floors in corridors and floor and curbing in restrooms at a cost of 7400 dollars. With a projected 30 to 40 year life, Yates Construction of Elyria will perform the work, expected to pay back in maintenance savings.
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Hagen
Elyria
Two seniors at Steele High score perfect tests in math and chemistry
Marion L. Steele High School records a first with two seniors achieving top test scores. Don Stuber earned perfect 90s in math and chemistry on college entrance board achievement tests. Jack Goodell also scored 90 in math on the same tests taken alongside the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Principal Vernon Nicholas notes participation was voluntary in math English and chemistry and confirms the testing context. North Carolina leads tobacco production nationwide.
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Amherst
Marion L. Steele High School
Don Stuber
Leon Stuber
Orchard Hill Drive
Jack Goodell
Lewis Goodell
Foster Park Road
Vernon Nicholas
Village awards dump truck bid to Ford with $4400 bid
Spencer Armee org submitted the low bid for a 1968 Ford F-600 dump truck chassis and body at 4400 dollars. Four bids were close on the tow and a half truck for village maintenance and snow plowing, with 375 dollars separating the top bids. Delivery is expected in about 60 days, per sales rep Joseph Miler.
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Orn Tem
Coraas Ford
Lodi
Vilage Council
Cordas
Joseph Miler
Lorain Lorain area marriage licenses filed
Marriage licenses list several couples from Lorain and nearby areas. Saul Maldonado 17 of 405 East 23rd Street and Shirley Brewer 16 of 2321 Westview Court. Raymond Witt 28 of Erie Road Vermilion and Ann Yurovich 19 of 4365 East Liberty Street Brownhelm. Robert Allen 25 of 311 Center Road Avon Lake and Janet Graves 23 of 17 Beck Road Avon Lake. William Phillips Jr 18 of 346 16th Street and Toni Inge 18 of 641 West River Street South Amherst. James Wilhelm 26 Clyde and Mary Hall 18 of 112 Maroy Drive South Amherst.
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Saul Maldonado
East 23Rd St
Lorain
Shirley J. Brewer
Westview Ct
Raymond G. Witt
Erie Road
Vermilion, Barber
Ann K. Yurovich
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Michigan
Sterner
Ityis Fisk Chaleotto
AL and
LU Sterner
Erd West Broad Street
Elyala
Broad Street
West Broad Street
Ruth Tisher
W. Maini
Rte. 3
Seville
Moderat
Ed Music
Son
Jo Ann Thompson
Ohio Reformatory For Women
Thompson
Eric
Elyria Dairies
Lake Ave
West Main St
Harvest House
Midway BouleVard
Nimrod Club
Diagonal Rd
Cate
Tayria Dairies MC
Lake Avenue
Chie
Rap Brown
Stokely Carmichael
Benjamin Spock
North Carolina
Lerais
Obie
Peessas
Oess
Sun
Harvest House Cafeteria
Midway Mall
Summit Mell
Chapel Hill
Richmond Mall
Richmond Heights
Chronicle
Ieee
Spencer Armee Org
James M. Wilhelm
Clyde
Mary E. Hall
Maroy Dr
South Amherst
Lorain Ris
Ponderosa
Wells
Lela Ray
LaGrange
Lk’s
LK Restaurant
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