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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1950
Page
1
Royalists surged into St. Gudules Cathedral in Brussels to greet Leopold as extraordinary security girded preparations for his return. Crowds chanted Leopold’s name during a public thanksgiving service and waved his pictures. A king’s representative, the first since 1940, was cheered as Parliament leaders prepared to fly to Geneva to summon him back.
Public invitation announced for Lorain County Children's Home at Oberlin with open house from 2 to 4 p m on Sunday August 6 marking the 50th anniversary. The event is organized by the home’s children and staff. Separately James L Honaker of Lorain was ordained a full pastor in the Church of the Nazarene during ceremonies at the Central Ohio District Assembly. The Nazarenes host their 27th annual camp meeting through July 30.
Northeast Ohio enjoys sunny and mild conditions this afternoon and cool tonight. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies with warmer afternoon temperatures. Low tonight around 55 and high Saturday near 72. Market notices reference page two and a local adv.
Iola Jackson 27 mother of five, arrested on a warrant charging false pretense in obtaining $5,909.58 in county relief from Feb 1948 to July 1950. Her husband Harold Jackson, 33, was jailed for non support. both linked to a house Shaw deeded to a daughter with life use.
County Engineer Don E Patterson chair of the Admiral King State Park Committee announced a meeting at the Lorain Chamber of Commerce at 8 p m next Tuesday to review the feasibility of a state park at Beaver Creek west of Lorain. The group will discuss delays in acquiring property and implementing the legislature's will which funded over 600000 for two Lake Erie parks east and west of Cleveland.
Washington reports that President Truman plans to ask Congress for authority to spend about 57.5 billion dollars in the current fiscal year. The plan foresees a 20 billion dollar deficit for 1951 with ongoing high spending for defense and aid to allies. Tax increases of 10 billion dollars or more a year are possible to balance the deficits.
Edward Hill of 366 Columbus street, Madison Cab driver, was injured last night on West avenue after his cab swerved to avoid a dog. He hit a sewer drum, crashed into a parked car, and was treated for a lip laceration at Elyria Memorial Hospital.
Chairman Carl Vinson says the House Armed Services committee will take no action to draft veterans or older men. Selective Service can supply likely needed manpower from ages 19 to 25, with only a change to lift the 2,005,000 man cap on total armed forces planned.
Savannah Georgia report says National Guard fighter pilot First Lt Bayard M. Peace of Columbia died in the F 51 wreck after two planes collided during a simulated attack on a B 30 bomber. First Lt Robert T Hooks of Columbia bailed out and fractured his ankle when his parachute caught in a pine tree.
Akron obituary notes the death of Dr Albert Riemenschneider, longtime director of Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Berea, renowned as a world authority on Bach. served 50 years in leadership. The notice appears amid local business ads for Elyria Trading Post on Middle Avenue.
The body of Sgt Harold R Telzerow son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Telzerow of 118 Pearl Street Amherst will arrive in Elyria at 7 44 am Saturday. Military services are set for 2 30 pm Monday at Emmerich Funeral Home Amherst with Rev Ludwig Mayer and Elmer Johnson Post of the American Legion officiating. Pall bearers will be former Amherst High classmates. Born June 3 1922 in Elyria he moved to Amherst in 1937 and after graduating Amherst High in 1940 entered service October 1942 at Camp Perry. He trained at Harlingen Texas and served as tail gunner with the 8th Air Force dying in action over Eberswald Germany February 1944. He received the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart. He is survived by his parents a sister Mrs Marie Stang and maternal grandmother Mrs Mettie Bartholomew. Burial will be in Brownhelm cemetery.
Elementary summer program at Elyria High School ends at noon with 87 students from grades two through eight completing six weeks of study. A progress report goes to parents and a transcript to future schools. Students come from 23 systems including West Cleveland Westlake and Henrietta. Advanced placement remains at local officials discretion. The seven week high school program ends next Friday.
Four members of the Belcher family were killed and three others injured in a car truck collision five miles south of Danville Kentucky. The dead are George W Belcher 69 Ver non Mrs Nancy Belcher 65 Helen Belcher and Henrietta Carter five. Jean Carter 25 driver of the car was in critical condition at McDowell Hospital. Her daughter Vickie Ray three also injured. Frank Lay 33 Willisburg Kentucky driver of the creamery truck lightly hurt. The crash occurred when the auto veered on a curve and struck the truck head on en route to LaGrange to visit Mrs Carter's husband.
Washington reports ample soap materials talow and grease and prices down ten percent from prewar levels ensuring plenty of soap for a long time. Moose members are advised of a Saturday night dance by Rocco Trombetta and his band at the Moose Club.
The Marine Corps orders all 47,000 organized Reserve ground troops to active duty while the Army prepares regular units for Far Eastern duty and the Navy recalls air reserve squadrons. National Guard leaders await word on required strength as Defense Secretary Johnson holds back the signal to call up Guard units amid plans to recall married and single reservists for a one year duty.
The defense department released the updated casualty list from the Korean war zone naming five Ohioans. Phc. Leland M. Smith of De Graff is wounded along with Cpl. Howard E. Hamilton of Batavia and Pfc. Freeman Sparks of Cincinnati. Pfc. Robert L. Golden of Dayton and Pvt. Neil R. Scott of Hillsboro are listed as missing in action.
U S forces retreat after a major Chinese offensive southeast of Taejon as North Korean tanks and infantry press toward the Yongdong highway junction. Maj Gen William F Dean of the 24th Division was last seen with a unit cut off, but wounded and under treatment, his fate uncertain, as American troops withdraw into hills to delay the Red advance. South Korean units reportedly hit the Yondok coast area in a separate push toward Pusan.
United Nations plans a large expeditionary force from 15 to 25 nations to fight alongside American GIs in Korea. Eight or nine countries are actively considering sending troops, with Nicaragua and Thailand the only definite offers so far. Movements likely kept secret until landings.
A quirky pitch urges readers to sell their unwanted items for vacation cash using Chronicle-Telegram Want Ads. Call 4752 or 4753 to have a courteous ad-taker craft a result-getting notice and turn don’t wants into funds.
Small hardware and fishing equipment listing for Elyna Trading Post located at 5061 Middle Ave. Includes phone 2717 and hours: evenings and Sunday morning. Ad from LWSPAPERHRAE.
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