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Memorial Stadium plans topple Amherst boosters drive
Amherst booster committees finalize a Memorial Stadium campaign spanning May through 1949 with a goal of 587,000 to honor World War veterans. plans include floodlights, wire fencing, temporary bleachers, ground-level lighting poles costing 808 each, and a future permanent stadium of stone and steel for 788 to 1,080 capacity. committee members listed include Dick Zilch and Karl Cotton among others.
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Amherst
Memorial Stadium
Dick Zilch
Karl Cotton
Carl Deeds
Clyde Donnelly
Charles Gormley
David Goldthorpe
William Guild
Ray Jewett
George Innes
Doyle Hutton
Kari Mulder
Eric. Nord
F. M. Powers
Elmer Smith
J. J. Gmythe
Stone City
Lorain
Sullivan
Biyria
Ray Wellmes
Clarence Dean
Ruth Schaeffer
Amherst High School
Oberlin
Jane Darting
Beverly Sprague
Barbara Tab‘bart
Berea
Fremont End
Calfornia Ar
Henry Gehroeder
Lincoln Street
California
West
Earl Gweet
Rialto
Alec Mra
Bchromder
L.J. Wheeler
Gan Bernardine
Mesplist
Elisabeth Plato
Elyria Avenue
Sandusky Hospital
Philip Jaeger
George Garthe
Endre Neal Ludwig
Sesalona
Guild of the Piret Evangelical Church
Floyd McIntyre