Spitzer to Speak at Lorain Farmers and Business Club Meeting
John Spitzer of Spitzer Motors will address the Lorain County Farmers and Businessmen Club at 8 p m March 2 in Elyria First Methodist Church. He will share experiences from a 30 day South America trip visiting 14 embassies and covering many miles by air and auto. The board outlined two fiscal year programs: broaden scholarship fund participation and study of a county soil testing lab with financing plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Spitzer
Spitzer Motors
Elyria
Cleveland
Lorain County
Ray Eppley
Henry Schriver
Grafton
Stan Wolfe Jr
Avon
Harold Sweet
North Olmsted
Kiwanis Irish Floor Show Delights at St Patrick Dinner
Kiwanis hosted a St Patrick’s Day dinner dance at Spring Valley Country Club featuring Armitage Wilkens dancing school students in the Shamrock Review. Highlights included Diana Haag and others, with adults Tom Wilkens and Margaret Ware performing, and Ed Bembower accompanying. Over 100 Kiwanians and spouses attended, with corsages given by Jack Meyer and Dr Gordon South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Spring Valley Country Club
Armitage-Wilkens Dancing School
Jim” Armitage
St. Patrick Day
Shamrock
Diana
Tina Haag
Joyce
Ruth Redman
Sandra
Paulette Senneff
Betty Ann Wagner
Vivian Thornburg
Richard Pond
Patty
Jack Meyer
Gordon South
Bond Bid Rate For New Elyria School Praised
Ryan, Sutherland and Co. of Toledo submitted the best bid to the Elyria Township Board of Education for $360,000 in bonds to finance a new elementary school. The rate was two and three quarters percent with a premium of $4,257. Bonds dated April 1, 1954. County Superintendent C A Gibbens called it the best county bid in five or six years.
Pacific Alliance Urged By Nationalist China
The Nationalist Chinese assembly in Taipei urged anti communist Pacific powers to form a Pacific alliance and aid nationalists in an early invasion of China. It appealed to the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, the Philippines, and Indochina states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipeh
Formosa
China
National Assembly
Taipei
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Pan
Republic of Korea
The
Tippines
Indochina
Vermilion Boats Net Season's First Catch
Vermilion commercial fishermen opened the lake season March 15 with two Kishman Fish Co. gill net boats reporting 500 to 600 pounds each of yellow perch, pickerel, white bass, whitefish, and sheephead. Catches up to 6,000 pounds are rare. Fish were boxed for shipment to Ohio restaurants and markets. The Kishman fleet operates 14 Vermilion and Huron boats. captain crews typically number five. The Kishman name has 9 years of local fishing history, tracing to founder Adam Kishman.
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Beason
Vermilion
Kishman Fish Co
America
Lester K
Henry L
L. H Kishman
Kishman
Huron
Adam Kishman
Lake Erie
UN probes murder in Jordanian Israeli bus attack near Beersheba
The United Nations opened an inquiry into the Jordanian murder of 11 Israelis after attackers dressed as Arabs ambushed an Israeli bus near Beersheba in the Negev. Five people survived, including a woman in serious condition. Prime Minister Lavon joined the UN observers at the scene. The incident heightened Arab Israeli tensions and drew UN censure over past violence.
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Middle East
United Nations
Mixed Armistice Commission
Jerusalem
Negev Desert
Israel Jordan
Beersheba
Negev
Moshethas Lavon
Israel
Tel Aviv
Jordan
Scorpion’s Pass
Egypt
Sinnce
Kibva
Miram Lasser
McCarthy vows to press fight against Communism
Senator Joseph McCarthy declared the fight against Communism would continue despite objections from both parties. Speaking at Chicago's Irish Fellowship Club, he criticized Pentagon and Army actions, defended his methods, and claimed President Eisenhower must back Stevens amid the Army investigations. He promised to send a document to Eisenhower he said showed a party line urging loyalty to the administration.
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Chicago
Joseph F .McCarthy
Wis
Irish Fellowship Club
McCarthy
Palmer House Grand Ballroom
United States Senate
Army
Robert T. Stevens
Roy M. Cohn
Stevens
Pentagon
Pvt. G. David Schine
Eisenhower
Mutual
Communist Party
U.S
Chest Being Filled For Pupils In Another Land
Junior Red Cross Council nears completion of an International School Chest to aid foreign schools. Coordinated by the League of Red Cross Societies, the kit provides supplies for 48 students for a year including pencils, tablets, paper, brushes, and health items plus recreation gear and a first aid kit. Also included are reference books and a world atlas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RED Cross
Lorain County
Junior Red Cross Council
Elyria High School
Jean Plas
Elyria Catholic High School
David Rothen
Columbia High School
Shirley Cowen
Elyria Catholic
Nancy Fitch
Jim Davidson
Phil Shaver
Oberlin High School
Red Cross Council
League of Red Cross Societies
Switzerland
The
United States
685 Road Accidents In County Reported In 1953
The Ohio State Highway Patrol notes Lorain County had 685 highway accidents in 1953 with 1970 arrests and 3853 warnings. Speed was the top accident cause, followed by driving on the wrong side of the road and failing to yield right of way. 2036 deaths statewide, 125521 drivers arrested, 123852 convictions, and 265328 warnings were recorded. Ohio’s licensed drivers number about 3.5 million.
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Ohio State Highway Patrol
Lorain County
A. C. Felty
Ohio
Felty
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Safety Department
Magazine honors deceased editor Warren Zaiss
Inside Michigan Magazine dedicates its March issue to Warren Zaiss editor who passed away February 24 1954. Zaiss also edited Inside Ohio Magazine published for several years, with a boxed mast head tribute.
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Oberlin
Inside Michigan
Just Out
Warren Zaiss
Zaiss
Inside Ohio
Police Guard Lodge After FBI Threat in New York
New York police guarded Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and other officials at Grace Mansion and hotels after an FBI tip that Puerto Rican Nationalists planned to kill the UN delegate. Security also increased at the Waldorf Astoria and residences of Governor Dewey Senator Kennedy and Representatives Roosevelt Powell and Javits.
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New York
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
FBI
Grace Mansion
Robert F. Wagner
Waldorf-Astona
Lodge
Thomas E. Dewey
John F. Kennedy
Mass
Frankin D. Roosevelt Jr
Poe Clayton Powell
Jacob Javits
French Films Face Censorship Battle Across France
In Paris and Caen debates flare over what scenes breach morality as Catholic groups push tighter film censorship. Nice mayor Jean Medecin bans Le Rage Au Corps and Avant Le Deluge citing public order worries while other officials defend current standards as stricter than neighboring Western countries.
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Paris
France
MRP
Rene Moatti
Caen
Jean Medecin
Nice
Medeem
Charlies Degand
Natonal Center of
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Will Head Division In Columbus for House Wi Campaign
Mrs. Brooke Cheney of Columbus will lead the women’s division of House Wi in Columbus. Martin A. Coyle, Saxbe’s campaign manager, announces Cheney’s role as head of the local women’s effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Brooke Cheney
House Wi
Martin A. Coyle
Saxbe
Stevenson Warns Against Dangers Of Extremism
Adlai Stevenson addresses three Harvard lectures warning against extremism and loose talk in American politics while stressing world peace, responsibility as a world power, and opposition to McCarthyism. He urges Americans to avoid fear and insecurity and to preserve unity.
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Cambridge
Mass
Adlai Stevenson
Harvard University
Stevenson
America
Fire Damages Westgate Store Delays Opening
A flash fire at the new S.S.j Kresge store in Westgate Shopping Center Fairview Park caused estimated 65,000 damage delaying the grand opening. Firemen from Fairview Park and Baumgardner assessed building damage at 15,009 and contents at 20,000 with the blaze believed to start from wiring in a display case.
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Cleveland
S.s.j ‘Kresge
Westgate
Fairview Park
Baumgardner
Board To Meet Seek Answer To Tuition Problem
The West Carlisle Board of Education schedules a public meeting for Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Carlisle Grange Hall on Oberlin Road to discuss a looming scholastic issue. Elyria City Board of Education will cease accepting tuition students from the district starting with the 1954-55 term. Citizens of the district will be informed.
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West Carlisle
Scientists Exceed H Bomb Power Surprises World
Washington reports the United States tested a new hydrogen bomb of immense power surpassing early predictions. Rep. Carl Durham and Rep. Sterling Cole discussed the blast size, suggesting it could equal at least 15 million tons of TNT and be far stronger than Hiroshima’s A-bomb.
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Washington
U. S
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Carl Durham
N.C
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Durham
Eife
Pacific
Kwajelein Island
Rep
Sterling Cole
Congressional Atomic
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Russia
Hugo Bouse Jr Ruled Off Ballot In 11th District Primary
The court upheld a Trumbull County Board of Elections decision that Hugo Bouse Jr. was ineligible to run in the Democratic primary because he had been a Republican in 1952. Edward C. Kaley of Warren will oppose Republican Oliver P. Bolton in November.
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Hugo Bouse Jr
Trumbull
Lausche Proclaims Easter Seal Month in Ohio
Gov Lausche proclaims Easter Seal Month from today through April 28 in Ohio. He notes rising costs of services to care for crippled children and urges support for the cause.
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Columbus
Lausche
Ohio
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Cubby Truxel
Lady Martinek
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Gibbons
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