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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1963
Page
7
Oberlin city council will face vacancies on the library board and various commissions. The session will appoint a council chairman and other city officials, while Canberra considers a wool scouring and yarn quality proposal tied to a levy certification from the University of New South Wales.
Erie County Commissioner Robert Crecelus urged widening Perkins Avenue from Columbus to Milan Road to four lanes. County Engineer Bechberger said Sandusky city, Erie County, and the state would share the cost with the state paying 30 percent and the county 33 percent. The plan will be considered by commissioners, with improvements east of Milan Road planned this year to ease a steep approach.
Elyria residents remember Richard Allen an early Civil War volunteer captain and local hero from Elyma. His career spanned whale ship days British Naval service in China and Great Lakes sailing. The piece notes Allen led Co IT and inspired troops, with many Elyria and Lorain County soldiers wounded or killed, including George A. Groot and Charles Parmely.
In the wake of Fredericksburg the Eighth laments Captain Allen wounded fatally after being carried from the field aided by Corporal Lucien Abbott Elyma. A month later a Tenth U.S. Navy note reports training amateur radio operators nationwide to bolster emergency communications, mirroring Army and Air Force programs.
Elyria reports a major bonfire event with the Elva Jaycee sponsoring the Twelfth Night burn. City officials, led by Prosecutor Paul J. Vickus, announce reappointments and salaries for assistants, a new part time secretary, and discuss 1938 city appropriations.
American Surety Company of Cleveland filed suit against Francs L Campbell of Route 26 Huron in Common Pleas Court for $101 in one count. The petition says a surety bond covered Campbell while he managed Great Plains Supply Co in Willow Gil North Dakota. While employed from 1952 to 1934 he allegedly converted funds and merchandise totaling $2,033 for his own use.
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