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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1959
Page
1
A near blizzard grips the Midwest amid 50 to 80 mph winds. The storm stalls traffic and maroons thousands from Nebraska to Michigan, choking communication and piling deep snows across the region.
A winter storm battered the Great Lakes region with winds up to 80 mph, snow depths of 40 to 50 inches, and widespread outages. Nine deaths were reported from wind driven accidents, tornadoes, and prairie fires in Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. Trains stalled, buses stranded, and ski areas faced heavy drifts as communities grappled with road closures and emergency declarations.
Northeast Ohio forecast calls for cloudy cold with light snow flurries and temperatures from the mid thirties to mid twenties tonight. In Texas a major rangeland fire in north central counties burned acres and killed cattle as winds stirred, a volunteer firefighter died from injuries, and a dust storm in the Texas Panhandle caused a 13 car crash near Shamrock.
The United Steelworkers Union and U S Steel officials announce 28 37 negotiations to begin Sunday in New York at the Roosevelt Hotel. USW president David J McDonald and U S Steel vice president R Conrad Cooper will lead the talks with a 170 member wage policy committee meeting April 30 May 1 to draft demands. Temperatures set to run above normal with light precipitation through Tuesday and Saturday.
Lorain County endured 75 mph winds yesterday with gusts up to 82 mph in Cleveland. In Lorain, damage included downed trees, shattered windows, and electrical outages. Six people were injured and several areas reported outages as crews worked to restore service.
Strong winds wounded William Lambert 18 at the Firestone Skeet and Trap Club in Akron after a gun discharged in a toppled skeet shoot. Cleveland residents suffered head and arm injuries as wind blasted porches, windows, and roofs. City Hall roof and Sandusky Foundry damage reported. Toledo reports uprooted trees and damaged hangars at Express Airport. weather toppled two ancient trees downtown.
Four persons were seriously injured in a two car head on crash in Fields at 16 a m. Edith Shearer 342 Ninth St Elyna Memorial Hospital in critical condition Edith Groner New York City in poor condition Ralph H Dyke 342 Ninth St and Eugene Szewczyk 3975 Lorrain Ave Lorain both in serious condition. Szewczyk was westbound on Rt 10 and the cars crashed head on in the eastbound lane.
Kingport Tennessee June report states General John Salling aged 112 died of pneumonia after influenza and age. He was near 113 on May 15 and longtime resident of Slant Virginia. His death leaves Walter W. Williams 116 as the last surviving Civil War veteran, living in Houston with his daughter.
President Eisenhower will address the nation tonight via radio and television on the Berlin crisis. The unrest has prompted calls to withdraw U.S. military dependents from the threatened city in Germany.
UPI reports weekend fires across the United States killed at least 37 people, among them 29 children. In Superior Wisconsin a father died and his five children suffocated as their home burned, identified as John Anderson 35 and Margaret 7 Rita 6 Charles 4 John 3 and Dorothy infant.
President evaluates pivotal speech on West Berlin as Prime Minister Macmillan travels toward Ottawa for talks with Khrushchev and de Gaulle, Adenauer. Across the nation, devastating fires claim multiple lives in Des Moines, Muncie, Cross Hill, Philadelphia, Half Moon Bay, and West New York, with at least eight fatalities reported and investigations underway.
Gen Thomas D White testifies behind closed doors to the Senate subcommittee on Europe force levels. He says U S ground forces in Europe should be at full strength but notes no real need for reinforcements due to the Berlin crisis. He favors filling rotation gaps rather than sending new units.
A new Elyria committee is named to launch a study of municipal job descriptions wages and benefits. In Amherst township trustees delay awarding a contract to relocate Whiskeyville. A Lorain fund drive begins to finance an animal shelter building design is released.
Rosett's cafe in Biloxi suffers its fourth vehicle strike in two weeks as another car drove into the cafe after hours. No injuries reported and investigation ongoing.
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