Pole Falls Fatality on Rt. 61 Near Norwalk
James C. Watson, 24, of Ashland, employed by Collier Construction, died when a 45-foot pole toppled while he was atop it on a state highway project eight miles south of Norwalk. Excavation and rain may have loosened the base. Watson died after landing on the pole with a belt still fastened. Coroner delaying ruling pending morgue report. Watson left a wife and several children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Rt. 61
James C. Watson
Clark St
Ashland
Collier Construction Co
Strongsville
Watson
Charles Edell
Huron County
Cuyahoga County
Edell
Civic League Meet Tonight Delves into Township Incorporation
The Civic League of Black River Township holds an 8 pm meeting at the township Fire Station to review answers to 10 questions from a previous public session on incorporating unincorporated areas as a village. Secretary Mrs. Alice Birich is expected to report progress and school status under the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Township
Township Civic League
Alice Birich
Civic League
Lorain
Burich
Two Hurt In Crackup Driver Held After Collision
At 4 25 am on North Murray Ridge Road Griswold Road a 1951 car skidded 65 paces struck a guard rail then veered 40 paces into a field. Driver Nathaniel Williams 19 Amherst was treated for facial cuts and jailed for investigation. Passenger Lattimore Marcum 19 Lorain treated for back injury. The car belonged to Hubert Mar cum Quarry Road S Amherst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Ridge
Griswold Rd
Nathaniel Williams
Quarry Ra
R. D
Amherst
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Lattimore Marcum
Woman Injured In Auto Crash In Vermilion Officer Reports
Miss Margaret Lawrence 66 of 430 East Edgewater Blvd Vermilion on the Lake is listed in fair condition at St Joseph Hospital after a crash on Lake Rd Stop 87 yesterday. The assistant county prosecutor fractured her left leg and sustained facial and arm cuts after veering off the road and hitting a telephone pole while reportedly drowsy from work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield Lake
Margaret
Lawrence
East Edgewater Blvd
Vermilion-on-the- Lake
St. Joseph Hospital
Cuyahoga County
Clarence E. Hambly
Lake Rd
Elyria Concerts Feature Symphony and Vienna Choir Boys
Elyria Community Concert Association announces the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Vienna Choir Boys for the 1957 58 series with dates to be confirmed. Concerts set at Elyria High School Auditorium. Safe Teens drive group forms new Elyria unit with car safety tests and identification cards, meetings slated after a Saturday inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Community Concert Association
Thomas Curtis
Pittsburgh Symphony
Vienna Choir Boys
Vienna Choir
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Liszt
Bruckner
Schubert
George Miraben
Howard Begin
Cochairman
Graystone
Elyria High School
Elyria Safe
Holly Hall
Elyrian
Mven
Lorain Association
Elyria
Montavani
Robert Joffre
Leonard Feather
Mim
Benzell
Lorain
Palace Theater
Six Lorain Men Inducted For Army Duty
Six Lorain area men were inducted into the U S armed forces through Local Selective Service Board 7. The inductees are Dale T Richoletto Francis B Higgins Erminio M DiFilppo Thomas J Parker Robert W Hritsko and Sammie L Jackson. Inductions occurred May 28 with Jackson awaiting induction on June 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Loarn
U.S. Armed Forces
Selective Service Board
Dale T Richoletto
Washington Ave
Francis B. Higgins
Erminio M. DiFilppo
Wth St
Thomas J. Parker
Oberlin Ave
Robert W. Hritsko
28Th St
Sammie L. Jackson
20Th St
Jackson
French Patrol Attacked in Togoland. Seven Die
Seven people were killed and three seriously wounded when villagers at Lamarka attacked a French army patrol Monday night. The patrol was reportedly attempting to arrest a villager, sparking the clash in Lamarka at the northern tip of Togoland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lome
Togoland
Lamarkara
State School Escapee Caught After Fast Chase
Dwainej Allen, 16, of Kenton, escaped from the Boys Industrial School and led Columbus police on a high speed chase reaching 110 miles per hour on U.S. 33. A deputy fired on the stolen auto. officers damaged the car’s tire, and Allen halted near Refugee Road before being captured and returned to BIS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Dwainej
Allen
Kenton
Boys Industrial School
Lannew US
Caster
Jerry Malto
Reynolds-lone
Donn Jaynes
U.S
Franklin County
Fairfield County
Canal Winchester
Old
Bis
Sales Club Is Given Charter
The newly organized Sales Executives Club of Lorain County received its charter last night at Charter Night at the Graystone Hotel. Ben L. Douglass welcomed delegates from the Cleveland Sales Executive Club as charter president. Ed J. Hegarty spoke on training your salesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don L. Douglas
Thew Shovel Co
Lorain County
Doff Jansen Jr
National
Cleveland
Sales Executives Club
Lorain
Cleveland Club
Charter Night
Ed J. Hegarty
Westinghouses Corp
Denis Ryan
John Wehmson
W. C
Gromyko Denounces Norstad Statement as Aggressor Rhetoric
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko blasted General Lauris Norstad's Senate and NATO remarks as ravings of an aggressor and an attempt to cloak an arms race. He urged that U S disarmament talks be kept honest and warned against miscalculation in NATO policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Lauris Norstad
Gromyko
Norstad
Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S. Senate
United States
London
NATO
Power Line Explosion Halts Work at Shipyard
At American Ship Building Co yesterday at 10 30 am a feeder line from the transformer blew up idling about 1000 workers on first shift. The fault was fixed in time for second shift and officials estimate over 4000 man hours were lost across four Navy vessel builds, described as the yard’s most serious accident in five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Ship Building Co
Gordon Stafford
Tedrick Wins 2000 4-H Fellowship for Washington Study
William Tedrick of Wellington, associate Lorain County Agricultural Extension agent, was awarded a $2000 4 H fellowship by the National Committee for Boys and Girls Work. He will leave in late summer for a ten month program including work at the U S Department of Agriculture graduate study near a university and assignments at the National 4H Foundation center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tedrick
Wellington
Lorain County Agricultural Extension Service
National Committee
Fon
Washington, D. C
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Tedrick
University of Maryland
Cambridge
Ohio State University
Wellington High School
Four Vehicle Collision Leaves Minor Injury on Rt 954
Arbry Gray, 39, of 324 18th St., sustained a head cut and was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a four vehicle crash on Rt 954 at the B and O Railroad crossing. The pickup driven by David R. Plas struck a car driven by Robert Stewart, pushing it into a light truck then into another car driven by Melvina Pullins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arbry Gray
18Th St
David R. Plas
Earl Ct
Gray
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Robert Stewart
East 29Th St
Lorain
Elliott Salter
16Th St
Elyria
Melvina Pullins
Taylor St
Amherst
Fire at U.S. Steel tube plant blamed on hotplate
Fire Chief Alfred G. Nickley labels the cause of an estimated 1.5 million dollar blaze at the National Tube Division as an overheated unattended electric hot plate. The blaze confined to the roll shop left only the brick shell of a two story 400 by 52 foot building. Payroll records and master files were stored off site and some records salvaged. A 750 thousand dollar worth of IBM equipment was destroyed. Walter Christman faced municipal court charges for misusing a truck and disposing rubbish at the city landfill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
National Tube Division
U.S. Steel
Alfred G. Nickley
Elyria
Theler
de Jto
Walter Christman
State St
Nick
Showley
Garden Ave
Pittsburgh
Nickley
Christman
Anj
IBM
Mnicipal
Burglars Target Plas Construction Company
A burglary at Plas Construction Co on South Middle Ave last night netted about 200 dollars. Thieves broke a window after failing to pry doors, pried open cabinets in the office, and rocks were thrown through windows of the company bus used as a field office, as reported by secretary Joseph Plas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plas Construction Co
South Middle Ave
Sheriff's Department
Joseph Plas
Plas
Dunn Attends Columbus County Commissioners Meeting
Columbus Ohio Oscar G Dunn attended a meeting of the executive committee of the County Commissioners Association of Ohio today. He has served on the associations executive committee for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar G. Dunn
Columbus
County Commissioners Association of Ohio
Dunn
Association
Lorain Barber Fights for U S Citizenship in Cleveland Court
Loraiite Vasiloff, a 55 year old Lorain resident with a Macedonia origin, is in U S District Court seeking naturalization. The government opposes he since he is a Socialist Labor party member. His attorney argues he adheres to constitutional principles and lawful means.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Christ Vasiloff
East 29Th St
U. S
Cleveland
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Vasileff
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Party
Communist Party
U. S. District Court
W. E. Riedel
Naturalization Examiner
United States
Marvin S. Zelman
Vasiloff
Zelman
Atty. Zelman
James C. Connell
Macedonia
Greece
Broadway
Alexander
Wilma Kelly
Milan Sebo
Czechoslovakia
Elyria Plans Space Shuffle In City Hall Annex
City crews rearrange offices in the City Hall annex as Elyria eyes August 1 tentative possession of space in the former Turner Block O Donnell Building. Officials expect a lease to add three more second floor offices once council approves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Finance and Buildings and Lands
Clerk of Courts
Lorain County Welfare
Stear
Veterans Service Officer
Recreation and Park
Robert J. Sorts
Civil Service Commission
Recreation
O'Donnell Bros
Goodrich
Fim
Bluebird
Courthouse Relocation Plans Spark Elyria City Council Meeting
Elyria Mayor J Grant Keys said he arranged a 2 30 p m Friday information meeting with county commissioners to discuss a possible new Lorain County courthouse on Route 57 north of the city. The study assesses a 4 5 million facility and explores using the current site for a municipal lot or city hall with annexation needing legislative approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County Court House
Elyria
J. Grant Keys
Rt. 57
Keys
Richard Baird
Council
James Horn
Victor F. Stewart Jr
Buildings Lands
Joseph Cirigliano
Plant Cleaning Plan Sparks Union Protest At Lear Romeo Plant
Lear Romeo Division announces hiring a Cleveland cleaning firm for after hours office cleaning. IAM Local 1849 claims national contract covers janitorial work and protests the move while offering two options: retain status quo with seniority or lay off. Notice targets two cleaning women with July 1 effective date for firm start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lear-Romeo
Lear, Inc
National Association of Machinists
Albert Mertz
IAM
Mertz
Kaisers Honored by Elyria Realtors Club
Mr and Mrs L P Kaiser received a gold pen and a corsage for Kaiser's 59 years as a local realtor. The couple attended a lunch meeting where Kaiser was honored and the 50 Year Club induction in Columbus was noted for Kaiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Kaiser
Elyria Board of Realtors
Kaiser
Jack Ryan
Kaisers
Columbus
Ohio
Elks Marine Room
Clayton S. Brough
Oberlin
Alaska
Sheffield Lake Village Sued by Kalill Co over Sewer Contract
The Kalill Co. of Cleveland filed suit against the Village of Sheffield Lake and Andrew Croudup alleging 9782 dollars due on a sewer construction contract. The case cites neglect of duty and requests payment with related claims. The filing notes a June Fisher attorney and county actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalill Co
Cleveland
Sheffield
Andrew Croudup
South Park Lake
Oberlin
Eleanor Piskura
June Fisher
Sheffield Lake
Bother Rain County Humane Society
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Pole
Man
Lorain Area
Sales Club
Wanda
Barker St
Marissa
Melinda
University of Wisconsin
Horace A. Vioses, Inc
Plas Company
Loraiite
Duddle
Legisature
Henry Keim
Mert
Ada McKisson
C. Val Spicer
Lester Drage
Glen Sealey
John Kinter
Harald Ewing
Elyria Country Club
Russell D. Davis Jr
Sheffield Lake Village
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