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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1961
Page
1
Elyria High basketball lost to Marion 74 57. Other scores include Lorain 62 Findlay 45 Elyria Catholic 61 Lorain St Mary 47 Avon Lake 59 Midview 52. Details of these and other games appear on pages 22 23 and 24.
Elyria’s Ohio Archaeology column by Col. Raymond Vietzen presents a story on a rock carving created by prehistoric Indians in Ohio. The note appears on page 15 alongside weekly features. Also promotes family friendly Week-End Dividend Pages on pages 14 and 15.
Washington set for next week inauguration events as county officials seek to attract attendees. Court date noted as a potential conflict for Mrs. Ely Ast Pg, 2nd Sect. with details limited by available text.
A pink wrapped infant girl found on a car rear storage lid near the Miller Avenue station in Brooklyn was saved by a passerby. She was healthy and later taken to a hospital before being moved to the New York Foundling Hospital. Walter Beekman reported his wife missing the baby and identified the child as Catherine born December 7 at Lutheran Hospital.
In Campbell suburb near Youngstown a second floor rear apartment fire killed a family of six by asphyxiation. Two firefighters were overcome and hospitalized. The cause remains unknown though believed to have started in the kitchen around 3 am. The victims: Henry Palen 42 Rose Palen 39 and children Michael 14 Debbie 8 Gerald 5 Carol Ann 2. Palen owned the building and worked at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. The fire was the area’s worst in decades. one other family escaped.
Mostly cloudy, colder with a high near 4. Tonight remains cloudy and cold with possible snow flurries, low around 22. A slight temperature change is expected, with little overall variation.
An undetermined blast at Quaker State Oil Refining Corp in St Marys West Virginia ignited a massive fire. Six hours later two workers Carlton Roby and Clyde Roush were missing feared dead as flames spread across tanks and filter houses. Firefighters faced continuing explosions and oil spills along Route 2 as authorities attempted to establish an emergency communications system.
In Katanga Province a six hour clash between United Nations forces and Lumumbist troops ended in a truce. Five U.N. soldiers were wounded and casualties for Lumumba forces were not known. Troops moved on Monono near Elisabethville and deployed 600 Moroccan and Nigerian troops by U.N. planes while Lumumba loyalists also moved toward Equator Province. President Kasavubu and Col. Mobutu flew to Thysville to calm unrest after Lumumba's alleged release.
The University of Georgia suspends students after Wednesday riot as FBI and state officials investigate. Judge Bootle orders readmission for two Negro students amid campus turmoil and threats of further action from state leaders.
Seven teenagers died when a car speeds over 100 mph and broadside another vehicle on Minnesota 36 near St Paul. The crash tore the speeding car apart, injuring five inside the other auto. victims include Tom Irsh and Ronald Crawford. Two Canadian truck drivers witnessed the high speed run before the collision.
Cincinnati reports new evidence in the 1958 murder case of Mrs. Bergen. Prosecutor C Watson Hover says items including glasses a necklace fragments of blood evidence and a gun partes were turned over to investigators and may influence potential pardon actions for Edythe Klumpp. Hamilton County officials plan discussions with Cincinnati detectives on latest developments.
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