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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1955
Page
7
In Elyria the country offers elbow room but fewer formal facilities while the city center hosts Cascade Park Elywood Park and a YMCA YWCA with playgrounds pools and tennis. Youths praise baseball leagues skating and Little League but seek expanded pools and modern planning to balance city growth with teen recreation.
City leaders discuss need for larger summer and winter recreation facilities as Elyria grows. Currently two small pools and limited teen venues push youth to crowded beaches and streets. Comparison with Cleveland highlights gaps in athletic fields and organized programs. Newbold Morris says Opera Center season 1954-55 on sound financial footing after changes in management structure.
A new sport, skin diving, gains interest as a Father's Day gift idea. The piece covers budgeting by arts groups, gear tips including wool trunks, socks, masks, and fins, and a DIY fishing spear with a rubber sling. It notes the sport's accessibility and practical equipment considerations for beginners.
The garden on Washington Avenue features two weeping beech at the entrance, a black mulberry attracting goldfinches, syringa, smock orange, female syngko with yellow fruit, white mulberry, sweet and sour cherries, apples and pears. Kentucky copper and other trees line the hillside, a yellow poplar, crab blossoms, a hawthorn, ash, elm, maple, red bud, copper ox purple beech, gingko, snow ball, a heirloom tea flower, pepperidge, and English lupine bloom. Ralph Murbach plans to keep the river gorge natural and says it will not be affected by the Ohio Turnpike. A rhododendron planting adorns Columbus Street, with red blossoms in Reynolds yard nearby. The True Monkshood known as Aconite bears blue and white flowers with poisonous roots, once used in Europe but now rare. An old sundial reads Life is but a shadow, the shadow of a bird in his flight.
New York critics praise Sam Davis Jr. for Decca’s Starring Sammy Davis Jr. featuring 11 tracks from nightclub performances and notable impressions on Because of You and Birth of the Blues. Victor collects orchestral suites from Oklahoma and Carousel with Gould translating Rogers scores, enhancing Davis’s listening library. Angel adds Gilbert Becaud mood albums with lively French translations and strong accompaniment.
A vintage guide explains that lively expressions beat dull looks in photos. It covers posing a laughing subject, using sunlight and a flash, road maps for trips, and practical filming notes. It also warns about underwater cautions and lens tricks such as reflectors and color filters to enhance eyes and hair tone.
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