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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1965
Page
5
Elyria City Council approves a $3,994,? million permanent appropriation for 1965 led by the waterworks and general fund. The plan includes $1,524,264 from the general fund and a new $7,000 contingency fund for council expenses, with debates over $1,000 raises and police fire spending.
Elyria YMCA offers a year round fitness program for men in sedentary occupations. Two calisthenics classes meet Monday Wednesday and Friday at midday and evening with a pilot group including a doctor and other professionals showing improvements. Medical exam and fitness tests are required before enrollment.
Four tractor trailers hauling potatoes crashed on Route 20 at Gifford Road yesterday. Raymond E. Amy, 25, of Dunkirk North Carolina, drove off the pavement, jackknifed, and ended with the trailer on the cab. Amy suffered only minor injuries as the cargo broke loose into instant mashed potatoes.
Police said burglars entered Gates Elementary School at 230 Lake Ave over the weekend pried open desks and storage cabinets in search of money but left the scene apparently empty handed. Principal Miss Caroline Rost announced the incident.
Representatives from ten school districts met in Elyria to discuss forming a joint vocational district for high school students. The plan would pool resources with a tentative committee led by Elyria Superintendent and seek state approval, potentially serving about 310 vocational students across participating districts.
Elyria City Auditor Edwin G. Haywood attacked a council action to move contingency funds from the general fund for a seven county transportation study. He said the transfer used largely nonexistent funds and criticized Finance Committee Chair Kenneth A. Krueck and member J. Theodore Emerich for not checking with him first.
City council holds second special session in as many days to approve a 1965 permanent appropriation and presents a separate ordinance for each annexed parcel to complete statewide mandated rezoning. Public hearings set for May 3 at 7 pm to address mass rezonings including land near Lorain County Community College for R-2 and adjacent R-1 zones.
Two men entered Gold berg's Super Market on Oberlin Avenue as closing time approached. The clerk says they selected a nickel item, then grabbed about $300 in twenty dollar bills and loose change from the cash drawer and fled on foot toward a parked car with another man driving. Indentifications were made but no arrests yet.
Elyria PTA surveys why local school tax levies fail as three of five since 1961 failed. The Chronicle Telegram will publish a weekly ballot asking voters for reasons, citing declining support for a 2 mill operating levy and a 7.25 mill package, with confidentiality promised. All registered voters in the Elyria School district are asked to participate.
Lorain County will convene a grand jury Thursday to consider about 12 criminal cases and any new indictments. A Mikus office representative said the vote probe on signatures for Luis Antonia Velez’s Lorain Fifth Ward council candidacy will not be presented. It is expected the April term jury will hear the matter if it recurs.
ICC examiners say no insurmountable obstacles to merging the New York Central and Pennsylvania rail systems. Saunders and Perlman note labor and employment policies ease integration. If approved, 1962 merger would create 19 600 miles of track with assets over 5 billion dollars.
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