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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1940
Page
5
The County Board opened bids for about 20000 dollars of annual commodities for the county engineering department. Awards to low bidders are planned, with questions raised on tire bids and whether to re advertise. Readvertisement or award based on current bids remains under consideration.
Thursday night June 27 features a special guest night at Jubilee the Stage Arts Studio production in the high school auditorium. Guests include Filson Robins Peg and Bee Gibson and other Cleveland Luminaries. Volcano effect tested reportedly thrilling with Rockettes Indian Fantasy number rehearsal noted.
A list of residents including Elmer Nickols and Marjorie Grueser of Elyria and numerous others from Elyria Lorain and surrounding areas who appear tied to licenses and occupations such as stock clerk, graftsman, inspector, lineman, farmer, teacher, nurse, foundry worker and electrician. The roster includes ages and street addresses in Elyria Lorain Oberlin and nearby towns.
The Windsor Ontario Evangelistic Quartet will present Negro spirituals and folk songs tonight at 6:15 p.m. at Second Baptist Church. The quartet also performs Sundays on Radio CKLW at 3 p.m.
Inch reinforced concrete pipe priced at 96 cents for 160 feet. 15 inch reinforced pipe bids noted. 500 tons of cinders at 90 cents. West Side Lumber quotes nails 3.57 to 4.00 per hundred for 1,860 pounds. Builders Standard Steel bids 6 cents per pound for 400 pounds of rolled steel bars. McCoy Sales 1,520 pounds of wire 1.24 to 3.74 per hundred and four drums of auto freeze at 35 cents per gallon. Robert Chesler offers wiping rags at 10 to 12 cents per pound for 800 pounds.
Oberlin police held a car and tires believed stolen and abandoned at 339 m today after two men fired on approaching officers. The fugitives fled into fields on Groveland street a dead end, shots were fired to stop them, and a 1937 Dodge coupe with eight Atlas tires and other gear was impounded before suspects vanished.
The Young Ladies' Sodality of Holy Trinity church sponsors a Sunday evening dance at the parish hall on June 23. Music will be by the Avon Aces.
Reports detail Franco German actions as talks wrap and Paris asserts a take it or leave it stance. Berlin moves to Berlin war aims while Germany argues retribution and memorials shift to the victor. French resistance stiff near border as Maginot line endures attack. US cabinet picks draw ire from rival parties.
Hospital admissions include Mrs Earl Hanlon Amherst Margaret Scholler Mansfield John Richards North Olmstead Mrs Alexander Laskay R D No 1 Clarence Blackett Oberlin Richard Carruthers 266 Prospect Street Mrs John McDonough 80 Chestnut Street Hamlin Humphrey R D No 1 Mrs William Theis 98 Courtland Street Frank Lafferty 357 Furnace Street Robert Hunter Lakewood Discharges include Bobby Krzyzanak No 5 Wooliford Avenue Janet Guerra Ashtabula Ruth Shephard 157 Beebecourt Mrs Michael Krenzel 333 Cambridge Avenue Theron Bronson Grafton Carl and Cable Youngquist Lorain Ardell Oster Bay Village Mrs Ernest Dewey Oberlin.
Ethel Dock and Henry Dock receive a divorce on neglect grounds from Judge Guy Findley. Marie Fowell, restoring her maiden name Marie Martin, is granted a divorce from Alfred Fowell. Marry Moriarity is divorced from W J Moriarity Jr. on neglect and cruelty. A will dispute over Barbara Spolarek Potacek property allocates proceeds to three children. Steve Staszak faces probation on auto theft charge. Court awards damages to Phiiis Darakis, and alimony contempt sentence for Marie Geres.
Hiram E. Penkoff of 230 Ninth street pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated in police court today after his arrest on West River street at 12 40 am. He was released on a 260 dollar bond pending trial at 4 pm Tuesday, as reported by Police Chief E J Stankard.
About 1 000 delegates elected officers for the Third National Hi Y Congress in Oberlin. President is 18 year old Robert Benziger of Chicago Illinois. First vice president is Kenneth Meredith of Prince of Wales Vancouver Canada. Second third and fourth vice presidents are Robert Burnette of Chattanooga Tennessee Louis Paponis of San Francisco California and Dale Leonard of Evansville Indiana. Secretary is Richard Johns of North Phoenix Arizona.
Preparations are complete for a four day Bible conference opening Monday evening at the YMCA under the Lake Erie Bible Institute of Elyria. Dr. R. E. Neighbour will lead sessions at 7 30 each night through Thursday. He recently completed a two year tour in Cuba Jamaica Palestine England India and Canada. Joe Gagliardi of Lorain will lead congregational singing and Mrs Joseph G McElfresh of Elyria will supervise special music.
New York Giants catcher Harry Danning regains the National League lead with a .359 average after adding 22 points to reach .359. Rip Radcliff of the St. Louis Browns advances to the American League top spot as Lou Finney drops from .378 to .385. Rowers Unbeaten Schoolboy Rowe heads AL pitching with five wins, Cliff Melton leads NL pitching with six wins.
L D Cason of 757 West River street pleaded guilty before Mayor Joseph Q. Petro in Elyria for driving while under the influence. He was fined 50 dollars plus costs and his license suspended for six months after being stopped on Broad street at 2 45 am yesterday.
The convention drafts a 2000 word postcard platform while approving a 35000 word report by Dr. Glenn Frank and the Republican program committee. Notable figures Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and John Thomas are absent from shaping policy as the resolutions group organizes. A dissenting vote by Smith accompanies the adoption of the motion.
Miss Ruth Carolyn Binning and Roland B Snow are married in Oberlin with a double ring ceremony. The wedding party includes Virginia Brown and John E Snow, with reception at Oberlin Inn. The couple will live in Jersey City after a Finger Lakes trip. Also noted are church school programs, a Christmas club luncheon, and several local visits and activities around Oberlin College and area.
Two Oberlin High juniors Charles Dudley and Tom Hale represent Oberlin at Buckeye Boys State held at the State Fairgrounds Columbus. The event, under the American Legion Americanization program, gathers about 700 high school juniors to organize a mock municipal county and state government for ten days.
The Union services of the First Methodist First Baptist and First Church return Sunday June 23 at First Church. Dr James A Richards will deliver the sermon on The Uses of Conflict.
Ned E. Palm was fined five dollars and costs for intoxication by Mayor Joseph Q. Petro today. Palm was arrested yesterday when police found him asleep and intoxicated in his car at Chestnut and Second.
John Kozel of No. 2 Persons court told police a set of musical horns valued at 220 dollars were stolen from his parked car in the yard Thursday night.
A Mrs Alice Alldis led a home canning demonstration for about 75 women at the First Methodist church basement. Alice Berry of Ohio Public Service Co assisted, with an electric range and a Sears Roebuck pressure cooker on hand. Jars were sealed with Kerr caps, and the process showcased fresh vegetables and fruits preserved in an electric oven and pressure cooker.
Joseph M. Wells, 53, from East Liverpool, won the Ohio state senior golf crown at Scioto course in Columbus with a 158 total, two strokes ahead of Pelton Stranahan and Crooks who tied for second. Wells previously won the state amateur titles in 1922 and 1924.
A crowded price list shows asparagus carrots cabbage celery cucumbers and more with varied prices per basket by the dozen peck or crate. Grain futures and live poultry and potatoes are noted as unchanged with market terms and conditions.
A reflective remark asserts that true leadership under a dictator requires freedom from decency honesty and humanity, challenging conventional rules and ethics in governance.
Sixteen east side children who staged a Thursday circus for Red Cross relief turned over eight dollars to J. W. Leverence of the Cleveland Red Cross office. The Elyria chapter has raised 5400 of its 8000 quota, about 67.5 percent, with national support at 13 million of a 20 million goal.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced that all 20 Latin American republics accepted the United States plan for an emergency consultative conference. The meeting would address Western Hemisphere problems stemming from the European conflict.
Governor John W Bricker signed all bills from the special session in Columbus Ohio on June 22 The measures widen appropriations for old age pensions poor relief dependent children aid and separate state and national tickets in November.
Hamlin Humphrey, 56, of LaPorte was admitted to Elstia Memorial Hospital at 11:15 p m yesterday for treatment of a laceration near his right eye suffered during a reported quarrel at his gas station.
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