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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1959
Page
9
Residents voted 123 to 89 to reject hiring a team of education experts to survey the Western Reserve district. only 712 ballots were cast from 18 percent turnout, with Townsend Hartland Wakeman polling mixed support and opposition.
Avon Lake Recreation Department launches Junior Olympic Program directed by Jay Melick with daily practice at 2 p.m. for ages 9 through 15. 48 youngsters enrolled so far at Avon Lake High School outdoor track. Homicide rate in the U S shows decline from 60 1 to 100 000 in 1947 to 48 in 1955, down roughly one fifth.
Avon Lake recreation department concludes its Learn-To-Swim series at Aqua Marine Pool after 12 sessions begun June 15. About 275 enrolled in the four beginner classes, with 235 currently signed up for the July 20 to August 15 session. missed sessions due to rain and the Fourth of July are to be made up next week.
LaGrange Troop 118 Boy Scouts schedule a Court of Honor for 8 p.m. in LaGrange High School Cafeteria. Presentations include 14 year-service pins, nine tenderfoot badges, one second class and one first class badge, troop officer patches, and other recognitions. Attendance urged for members, parents, and both current and last year’s committees. Summer Camp instructions to follow with camp registration starting Sunday July 19 at noon.
Weldon Minnick of Dover New Jersey travels coast to coast on horseback with mare Sharon from Kensington Connecticut to Anaheim California. He rests at Clarksfield Ohio for a night after riding through Fitchville Plymouth Bucyrus and Bellefontaine en route to Duncan Oklahoma before Disneyland. He aims to finish in four months saying traffic is his main fear and that crowds and roads are challenging.
Berlin Heights executive head Stanley L. Fox resigns to join the Ohio Department of Education in Columbus. He led Berlin Heights since 1952, overseeing a doubling enrollment to about 700 and a $250000 building program, with plans to move before September. His replacement decisions and 1960 program remain to be set.
Avon Lake officials of Lake Shore Methodist Church announced Sunday services are at 10 a.m. through the summer. Regular schedules of 9 30 a m Sunday School and 10 45 a m Church will resume in the fall.
Milan hosts a mock court on the Village Square as part of the Home Coming and Melon Festival. Judge Roy Bean role player Dick Holub presides at 7:30 pm for males over facial hair age, enforcing shaving permit rules. Friday sessions continue until the festival dates September 3 to 5.
SOUTH AMHERST The annual Parish picnic for Nativity Church is set for Sunday at 1 30 p m at Michaels Locust Grove Park. Mrs Joe Knoble Jr leads the event. Altar and Rosary Society members gave Fr Frederick Dietz a birthday cake and gift at the church meeting. Mrs Joe Gargasz presided with prizes won by Mrs Stanley Shinsky and Mrs Joe Knoble Jr. Dessert was served to twenty one members and Fr Dietz. The next meeting is Tuesday evening July 21.
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