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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1961
Page
5
Mrs. Morton Campbell, wife of Wellington High School football coach, was in serious condition at Cleveland Clinic. Authorities report she underwent brain surgery recently and had a rough night.
Forty three area firms earned plaques for meeting the United Appeal drive standard with at least an eighty percent employee participation rate. The 1960 drive raised 418000 toward 426000 goal to fund UCS operations and member agencies. Lorain officials face two probes into financial books, one by state auditors and one by a state chamber of commerce official.
Thieves hit Whittier School on 32nd Street and two auto service stations between Thursday night and yesterday morning. A vending machine at the school was forced open with coins taken. a Grove Avenue station lost sparkplugs and batteries after a smashed door. another station reported a smashed rear window. No school entry signs of forced entry were found.
A state chamber probe led by Samuel McGavran examines Lorain’s finances from 1948 to now, noting rising city size, stagnant income, and spending excesses. Recommendations include reducing council salaries, raising fees, and eliminating taxes, with no health department cuts and budgeting to be done by April.
Amherst Township Board of Zoning Appeals schedules a public hearing on January 16 to review mink farming as a potential agricultural activity and to consider new zoning amendments for roadside stands. The dispute with mink farmer David Jenkins of Oberlin centers on whether his operation is commercial. trustees plan to challenge state law as unconstitutional. Hearing at the township garage on Cleveland Ave at 7:30 p.m.
South Amherst Congregational Church will hold its annual meeting Thursday with officers to be elected and a budget presented. Trustees Bruce Mothorpe and Harold Burdue were appointed to audit the books. World Day of Prayer is set for February 12 and a father and son banquet for February 22. Next meeting is February 1.
Two people were injured in a two car crash on Henderson Drive at Elyria Avenue. Donn Zelina 17 and Joseph Stumphauzer 23 were treated at St Joseph Hospital and released. Police said Paul Stefanik 17 turned across Stumphauzer’s path. Stefanik will meet with juvenile officers. Zelina rode in a Buckeye car driven by a Parent-Teacher Association member attempting to turn the vehicle.
Brighton Methodist Youth Fellowship plans its January meeting tomorrow night at Mrs. Dorothy Devereaux home. The Couples Club meets tomorrow at the home of Mr and Mrs Howard Merrill Rt 18 West. Proceeds from a Tony Blasius auction lunch support the hospital chapel fund. The meeting features a film Why about the Chicago Sacred Heart School fire shown by firemen with area departments present.
NORTH RIDGEVILLE Holy Name Society of St Peters Church will sponsor a Father-Son Communion Breakfast after the 8 am Mass tomorrow. More than 250 reservations have been received. CARLISLE Mr and Mrs Herb Score former Cleveland pitcher Albert Dumke now with the White Sox celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Darien Conn Dwight Eigenbrod and staff of General Foods Corp mourn publicist Joelizel Swenson 64 died at home.
Local brief from Elyria Ohio dated Saturday January 7 1961 reports a concise notice likely about community events or happenings in the Chronicle Telegram page. Details are limited in the available fragment.
Mrs. Louis Wilson will host the Huntington United Church Ladies Aid Society meeting on Wednesday with Leola Jordan Esther Querin Beverly Roice and Mare Roice on luncheon duty. Robert Wilson son of the Wilsons graduates from Kent State University in June and is practicing teaching in the Elyria schools. James Heiner is in treatment at Lodi hospital and Ronald Twining's infant son is treated at Sandusky hospital.
NORWALK The Huron County Sheriff's Department will station a car with two deputies cruising the county nightly. The unit will have a two way radio linking to headquarters and will use Willard police station as a stopover. Jail hours stay 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. The sheriff invites Norwalk ministers to arrange Sunday jail services.
Clarence J. Supérnau 43 a dean at Marquette University liberal arts college died Friday in Milwaukee after suffering a stroke last weekend, hospital authorities said.
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