Snow and Ice Storm Halts Services From Cal to Nebraska
Emergency rooms powered by portable generators as doctors in Joplin and Pittsburg Kansas treated patients by emergency light. Freezing rain and sleet disrupted highways from California to the Mississippi River and left communities isolated. Temperatures plunged across the region with record lows in several states as Kansas City and nearby areas faced halted bus routes and damaged trolley lines.
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California
Mississippi River
Rockies
Illinois
Texas
Nebraska
Iowa
Havre
Mont
Pembina
N.D
Butte
Cheyenne
Wyo
Rapid City
S. D
Denver
Kansas
Missouri
Joplin
Kansas City
Mt. Carmel
Pittsburg
Kans
Ft. Scott
Columbia
Smith Elected President of Elyria City Board of Education
Pierre R. Smith heads Elyria City Board of Education for 1949 with Worth A. Fauver as vice president. Smith previously served as president in 1946 and started his second term after joining the board in 1943. Fauver joined in 1946 to fill a vacancy and has three years left in his current four year term. W. C. McClean continues as clerk treasurer. The board moved regular meetings to the second Monday of each month to finish monthly business reports. Ohlemacher thanked the board and superintendent for their cooperation as he concluded his service as president.
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Pierre R. Smith
West Avenue
Elyria City
George A. Lamberton
Smith
Fauver
Richard F. Stevens
Shaker Heights
Ohlemacher
Plan Aims To Inform Elyria Voters On School Bond Needs
Elyria school board discussed an educational program for voters ahead of the proposed bond issue. A 1949 timing plan follows a Segoe master plan study and a 1944 survey re-check that could cost over four million dollars. A citizen advisory committee and several publicity efforts were proposed, plus upcoming publications and a September–October building program prospectus.
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Elyria
Harold H. Eibling
Ladislas Segoe
Segoe
Bureau of Educational Re
Congress Seems Willing To Increase Tax Load
Congress showed a willingness to fund President Truman’s budget with higher taxes, despite partisan concerns. The 1950 budget totals 41.9 billion dollars, with revenue around 40 billion and a projected deficit near 0.9 billion. Democrat Doughton admitted a probable tax increase. Cannon noted much of the spending is cold war related and difficult to cut. Continued on Page 2.
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Congress
Washington
Truman
Capitol Hill
Robert N. Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Clarence Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Weather outlook for Cleveland and northeast Ohio
Northeast Ohio remains cloudy and cold with light freezing rain or snow flurries possible this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Tonight’s low around 26 and Wednesday’s high near 3.
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Cleveland
Osio
Victim of Burns in Serious Condition at Oberlin Hospital
Oberlin reports 19 year old Jack Keys remains in serious condition after a fuel oil stove exploded Monday morning at the William Twaddle farm near Clackfield. Keys suffered burns to the arms legs face and abdomen. Hospital attaches report.
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Oberlin
Jack Keys
Allen ‘Hospital
Keys
William Twaddle
Clackefield
Thomson Will Not Retain Dept Heads in Probate Court
Probate Judge-Elect Malcolm Thomson announced he will keep the probate and juvenile court staff but replace two department heads Chief Probation Officer Carl Curtis and Chief Deputy Charles Husted. Reappointments include Josephine Fay Grace Grouse Henrietta Colburn Gwendolyn Wagner Catherine Norman Jane Pondy Lillian Kozonics in probate and Jane Patterson Pearl Reynolds in juvenile court. James Mollison expected as chief probation officer.
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Malcolm Thomson
Probate Court Department
Carl Curtis
Charles Husted
Probate
Judge Thomson
Josephine Fay
Grace Grouse
Henrietta Colburn
Gwendolyn Wagner
Catherine Norman
Jane Pondy
Lillian Kozonics
New Lorain Farmers and Businessmen Club Charter Night Set
The Lorain County Farmers and Businessmen Club plans a Charter Night at an as yet undecided Elyria venue on Wednesday January 26. The Elyria Chamber of Commerce sponsors the new division to unite county farmers with Elyria business and industrial leaders to foster mutual understanding and growth. Chamber officials aim to enroll 100 or more charter members.
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Lorain County Farmers and Businessmen’s Club
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Elyria
Chamber of Commerce
Red Cross Board To Meet Thursday Elyria Chapter
The quarterly meeting of the Elyria American Red Cross board of directors will gather Thursday at 8 p m in the Masonic Temple chapter office. Chairmen for the March fund drive and the disaster committee are to be announced with R W Butts presiding.
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Elyria
New Agriculture Director Names His Assistant
Columbus Ohio Agriculture Director A W Marion announced Dr H S Faust of Plain City as assistant director. Faust owns land in Champaign Franklin Union and Madison counties and earned his DVM from Ohio State in 1915. He led a basketball squad during college and farms 190 acres south of Plain City focusing on registered Guernsey cattle.
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Columbus
A. W. Marion
H. 8. Faust
Plain City
Faust
Champaign
Franklin
Union
Madison
Ohio State University
Ohio State
Lausche Takes Ohio Office Promises Social Progress Without New Taxes
Governor Frank J. Lausche assumed active control of Ohio government for a second term promising social progress with no additional taxation. He arrived early at the job amid rain and inauguration events while cabinet members and appointees prepared to implement the two year program.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
General Assembly
98Th General Assembly
Young Democrat Clubs of
George Mingle
State Highway Patrol
Myers V. Cooper
State House
Herbert S. Duffy
Joseph T. Ferguson
Don Ebright
Charles. F. Sweeney
George D. Nye
Agriculture
A. W. Marion
Robert Moulton
H. D. Defenbacher
Theodore J. Kauer
Albert R. Waldman
Oscar L. Fleckner
John H. Lamneck
Leo J. Kreber
Clyde Hissong
John D. Porterfield
George B. Sowers
Supreme Court
Carl V. Weygandt
Five Employees In Recorder's Office Get Pay Boosts
Payroll figures from the county recorder Mrs. Leota Mitchell show five staffers receiving monthly raises. Recipients include Gladys Reese rising to 200 dollars, Harriet Belczyk to 160, Mabel Goul to 180, Clara Harr to 200, and Clara Johnson to 235, effective immediately.
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Recorder
County Recorder's Department
County Auditor’s Department
Leota Mitchell
County Recorder
Gladys Reese
Harriet Belczyk
Mabel Goul
Clara Harr
Clara Johnson
Man Struck by Car Suffers Bruised Hip in Lorain
William Estep of 1512 East Erie Avenue Lorain sustained a bruised hip at 6 33 p m yesterday when crossing Broad Street toward West Avenue and was struck by a car driven by Charles R Lynch of 229 Bath Street who was moving north on West Avenue and turning east on Broad. Another collision on Route 10 Island Road at 845 p m yesterday involved a car driven by William Metz 36 of Route 76 R D Grafton colliding with a truck trailer driven by Theodore Guncher Cleveland.
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William Estep
Erie Avenue
Lorain
Broad Street
West Avenue
Charles R. Lynch
Bath Street
Broad
William Metz
R. D. Grafton
Sheriff's
Route 10
Island Road
Metz
Theodore Guncher
Cleveland
Cleveland Judge Burt W Griffin Dies After Illness
Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge Burt W Griffin 58 died at Lakeside Hospital after returning from a basketball game with his son Burt Jr 16. Officials said the cause was coronary thrombosis and he had been in apparent good health prior to the sudden illness.
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Cleveland — Cuyahoga
General Solicitation In Hospital Drive Opens Monday
More than 200 Elyria employees from industry and business gathered at the Elks Club to organize a city wide drive for 11 000 workers in the 850 000 Elyria Memorial Hospital campaign beginning Monday January 17 Dexter S Kimball Jr chaired the meeting Rabbi Carl I Miller described the effort as the only cause in Elyria that can unite all citizens toward building new hospital facilities The drive already shows over 900 000 in pledges and aims to reach and surpass the goal with a united community effort leading the employee solicitation by key volunteers from industrial and commercial divisions and hospital staff
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Elyria
Elks Club
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Dexter S. Kimball, Jr
Carl I. Miller
Rabbi Miller
Miller
Ood
Allan
W. Fritzsche
Earl W. Bell
R. C. Cook
Harley Reese
A. F. of L. Building Trades Group
Herbert G. Fickes
Harold M. Haywood
Speakers’ Bureau
Elyria School Board Adopts Temporary 1949 Allocations
The Elyria school board approved temporary appropriations totaling 291,897.24 to fund operations in early 1949 until full year figures are set. The plan allocates 205,600 to the general fund, 56,417.44 to bond retirement, and smaller sums to relief, Massey Trust, cafeteria, and federal building plans, with balances reflecting year-end figures and a $13,333.76 general fund balance after late December payrolls were paid.
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Elyria
Massey Trust Fund
W. O. McClelan
McClellan
Elyria Memorial Hospital Campaign Expenditure Answer
The question asks what percent of contributed funds will cover campaign expenses. The answer: No part will be spent on campaign expenses. The hospital Board of Trustees has provided for campaign costs. All gifts will go to steel brick and equipment for the expanded hospital plant.
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Elyria Memorial Hospital
Hospital Board of Trustees
Mayor Fixes Bond For Three Men
Pleas of innocence entered by William A. Moore Cornelius Porters and Henry Jackson all of Cleveland when arraigned before Mayor Henry W. Ault on charges of breaking and entering Neisner Brothers store. Bond set at 5000 each pending a 9 a.m. Friday preliminary hearing. Police report says they were apprehended in the act of breaking into the office safe at Neisner's.
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William A. Moore
Cornelius Porters
Henry Jackson
Cleveland
Henry W. Ault
Neisner Brothers
Neisner’s
Read the 1949 Want Ad Pages for Prosperity
The Chronicle Telegram highlights hundreds of classified ads as a key to 1949 prosperity. Readers are urged to make scanning the want ads a daily habit to catch deals, jobs, and opportunities across the year.
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Chronicle-Telegram
State Of Emergency Declared In Gordon Nebraska
Snowbound Gordon Nebraska population two thousand faces a state of emergency as supplies run low and officials plan rationing. Crews push toward the isolated town eight days without rail or road access while governor Peterson says every effort is being made to reach Gordon. An air survey will follow when weather clears.
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Gordon
Neb
Wal. Peterson
Nebraska
Body Of Grafton Soldier Arrives In Elyria
The body of Pfc Chester T Smith formerly of Grafton will arrive in Elyria Wednesday afternoon per word here He died in England July 12 1944 at 33 years old He served in North Africa Ireland Sicily and Italy and landed in France with the 82nd Airborne He was awarded the Purple Heart and Presidential Citation posthumously Burial will be in St Marys cemetery Grafton with Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3341 in charge of military rites
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Chester’ T. Smith
Grafton
Elyria
Smith
Thomas Smith
Cernter
England
France
Amherst
Assumption Church At
Elyria Eagles Lodges
United Polish Club of
Lorain
North Africa
Ireland
Sicily
Italy
82Nd Airborne Division
Pfc. Smith
Eugene Knechiges
Bittner
Assumption Church
William S. Kopiczewski
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Bittner Funeral Home
Retirement System Costs Rising for Elyria Schools
The Elyria school board faces higher Ohio Teachers Retirement System costs this year. The clerk treasurer read a letter from the Retirement System noting a 7.5 percent rate, split into 5.25 percent normal and 2.25 percent deficiency, with an estimated $39,232 due. Last year’s rate was 5.75 percent.
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Elyria School Board
Ohio
W. O. McClellan
Elyria Board
Taw
McClellan
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