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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1957
Page
8
Elyria merchants and officials discuss reviving the West Broad Street business area. They cite slipping land values, vacant stores, parking problems, and rundown fronts, proposing coordinated plans, rear parking access, improved lighting, and new development from Mill to West Avenue toward Chestnut Street.
Elyria Chronicle Telegram reports locals urge city owners and investors to cooperate on a Broad St redevelopment. A downtown core store plus cleared Tremont Street back to the railroad could create parking and rear entrances, with Chestnut Street parking nearby. Condemnation may be needed, Chamber of Commerce could organize a Downtown Property Owners Association, with leaseholder cooperation essential. action viewed as urgent to keep Broad St as a thriving business street.
Grading and site work began this morning for Armco Drainage and Metal Products Co on a new 400000 plant west of the Nickel Plate line on Rt 18. Norwalk based firm will lay the foundation and Armco plans a prefabricated building by May 13 with 25 workers at start rising to about 50 later as operations are expected by midsummer.
Albert Squires a 41 year old Eaton Homes allotment Rt 82 resident was held in the county jail awaiting arraignment on assault and battery and resisting arrest charges Deputy Ted Weeks reported. He was arrested by Deputy Edward Brainard after a man hunt across woods when Mrs Squires said her husband was beating her and he threatened Ralph Smith with a chair. Squires fled but was captured a mile away at a farm after help from about six area residents.
Elyria Public High and Elyria Catholic High School basketball squads and coaches will be guests of honor at the Rotary Club weekly luncheon at the YMCA. Edward Melvin, head cage coach at the University of Toledo, will speak. Club directors meet at 11 a.m. to elect officers.
The Capitol Theater in Brie-Comte-Robert will stage a women only screening of a cancer detection film sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The showing occurs tomorrow starting at 11:30 a.m. with three showings during the period, and admission is free.
Investigators identified the murdered woman as a St Louis divorcee and cleared a former Lorain barber and ex convict of involvement in the Columbus area death. They focus on the victim’s friend Jackie Ray Lawson 27. The 43 year old ex Lorain resident paroled after a second degree murder sentence in 1940 remains in sheriff custody for parole checkups while his photo drew suspicion. Terms of his parole restrict him to the Columbus area.
Positive identification of Mrs Credia M Mallady 29 of St Louis Mo completed as the murder victim found strangled and encased in a laundry bag in Big Darby Creek near Columbus. Lawson a North Columbus produce trimmer admitted living with Mallady in St Louis and is slated for a redetector test at the London Ohio board. Relatives aided the ID and investigators say the body was taken from St Louis to Columbus.
Deputies cleared up a gasoline theft case from March 17 at the Leonard Baker farm Rt. 10 Oberlin with confessions from four boys aged 9 to 16. Suspects include Michael Ondreyev and James Myers who aided the inquiry this weekend.
Clayton C. Bowers 83, owner of a Broad St. drug store for 45 years before retirement, died at Elyria Memorial Hospital. Born April 14 1873 in Wellington he lived in Elyria 60 years. He was a member of the First Congregational Church Masonic Lodge and Elyria Country Club. Surviving is a nephew Serena Gammell of Hartford Conn. Services pending.
Carl Salisbury of 1835 Grafton Road Elyria died of a heart attack while driving near Long and Stoney Ridge Roads Avon Lake. Avon police and fire crews attempted resuscitation with two devices but failed. He was pronounced dead at Burmeister's Funeral Home Avon Lake by a local physician. He had left his daughter Mrs H G Garret’s home on Long Road and was found slumped over the wheel. Funeral arrangements are with Burmeister Funeral Home.
A Ford Foundation grant of $88,300, issued in December 1955, was fully paid with a second half of $44,150 received by Harold Zeakey, hospital administrator. Projects finished include a nurse aide training room at M. B. Johnson School of Nursing, expansion of the surgery recovery and tonsil department, and a new records storage room.
Two groups from Local Selective Service Board 72 traveled to Cleveland. Eleven men underwent pre induction physicals led by Keith H. Meyers of Elyria and six were inducted under Edmund Navy of Island Run with six more to be inducted on April 2 per clerk Miss Catherine McKee.
About 700 farmers across Huron and Richland counties back a petition urging that wheat quota referendums be held by state boards of elections. The drive supports a Betts House bill and seeks broader farmer eligibility and an eastern farmer voice in the wheat referendum. Congressman Baumhart endorsed the move and pledged support.
Lorain County Election Board offices on Third Street Elyria and Broadway Lorain stay open tonight and tomorrow night to add last minute voter registrations. The May 7 primaries deadline remains Wednesday at 4 00 PM. Clerk Ruth Fox notes registrations have been light. offices open daily from 5 7 AM.
A Stanley Engineering Co representative from Cleveland will present last year’s survey results on using Lake Erie water for industrial expansion at Medina Chamber of Commerce on April 1. John Byrne of the Lake Erie Watershed Conservation Foundation will discuss progress in pumping lake water. the plan envisions Medina and Lorain Counties drawing from the same pipeline. The meeting will occur at 8 9 pm in Medina High School with chamber members county officials and Medina officials invited.
A total of 1 549 polio inoculations were given at the Oberlin and Wellington stations marking the completion of the second round for those unable to pay. Dr A C Liddell, chair of the Oberlin Area committee on Poli for the Lorain County Medical Society, announced the figures. Broken down the totals show Oberlin with 190 children under 19 and 101 adults 28 or over while Wellington served 1 child and 272 adults.
A demurrer to the indictment re writed last month charges Zella Brown of Lorain with possession and selling marijuana. The filing argues the term Cannabis sativa L renders the indictment invalid and that linking marijuana with narcotics could create cruel and unusual punishment. Similar demurrer motions were filed for John Gay. judge Le Roy Kelly has not ruled yet.
James P. Lavey a member of the State Board of Education from Milan will be guest speaker at the Lake Erie Elementary Principals Association annual meeting in Elyria. The event includes a dinner at 6 30 in the high school cafeteria followed by a Q A session. The EHS flute quartet Mary Ellen Rose Sally Sweet Lila Young and Dana Petersen will perform their winning selection. Election of officers is on the agenda with Raymond T. Bolon of Sandusky as president and Vietta Linsdley of Lorain as secretary treasurer.
Medina County Health Commissioner Dr Vaughn Hartman said the health department will receive additional vaccine but not enough to fund a clinic style inoculation program. He noted the department currently has little vaccine on hand and expects little in the coming months. A survey by county Parent-Teacher Associations to assess Salk vaccine needs is not yet finished.
The Lorala County Academy of General Practice will host a 6 30 p m dinner meeting in the Oberlin Inn. Guest speaker will be Dr. Robert D Mercer of the Cleveland Clinic. Wives of county physicians have been invited.
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