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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1940
Page
11
The Ohio League of Women Voters presents a digest outlining the duties of county elective officers. It covers County Commissioners, Treasurer, Recorder, Surveyor, Sheriff, Coroner, Clerk of Court, and Prosecuting Attorney detailing budgeting, tax duties, records, inspections, warrants, property transfers, and legal responsibilities.
Dean CaroL Wittke of Oberlin is elected president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association in Omaha Nebraska. He has served on the board of editors of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and was dean at Oberlin College in 1957 before resigning as chairman of Ohio State History. His work includes Canada history used in courses.
Belden residents attend a Wednesday evening Pinoette Club gathering at Belden. Eleven games produced prizes to Mrs AL Wise and Joe Grubenschutter for first and second places. Rose Dowling and A L Wise earned a second honors, with Mrs Joe Grubenschutter and George Graberstets noted among attendees.
Ford service engineers use an X ray diffraction machine to analyze fuel system components and fuel mixtures. The device identifies sediment origin from tanks and lines and can detect chemical reactions in gasoline. It reveals atomic arrangement to distinguish compounds like sodium chloride from related compounds.
Pontiac prepares a large display for the World's Fair featuring the glass carthe a fully transparent car from the Fisher Body exhibit. J H Baxter leads the Pontiac display team as they unveil a three part motor exhibit and a rotating chassis for the cars. General Motors Streets of the Future will include Pontiac sixes and eights. The 2,000,000th Pontiac will roll off the line in May for a prime exhibit slot.
Hudson Motor Car Company engineers describe a hydraulic braking system with a mechanical reserve brake operable from the same foot pedal to prevent delay if hydraulics fail. The feature works automatically when the pedal is pressed, ensuring stopping action.
Kipton presents the senior class play Rolling Off to Reno in the high school auditorium Friday May 10. Special music features an ensemble from the orchestra Haile Smith and Allyn Sigsworth perform Oh Johnny The Woodpecker Song is sung and played by Martha Jane Davidson Denis Waite Ela Blackett and Jane Brumby with selections The Singing Hills and In An Old Dutch Garden.
Students on the past six weeks honor roll are David Sigsworth Wilma Becker and El mer Morgan. The senior class annual will soon be published and available for purchase.
The piece extols deep breathing to refresh the blood and curb yawning, linking oxygen intake to vitality. It cautions about reduced activity from car use, nasal congestion, adenoids, and toxins, urging outdoor breaths and self control to prevent windedness and nervous tension.
The author urges patience after exertion to avoid dangerous heart stress. Recognize possible causes, seek professional advice, and eliminate factors to prevent sudden death. If a gripping heart spasm occurs after exercise, stop and breathe until it passes to avoid danger.
The article discusses enhancing Sunday School worship by integrating class or department programs into the study period and public worship. It stresses planning around a chosen theme with devotion, allowing post study time for teaching worship meaning, scripture memory, and new hymns and prayers.
A church door bears the motto T is the gate of heaven while a smaller notice nearby announces the building closed for the summer vacation period.
Extracts from fifty British Medical Association physicians warn that alcohol dulls intellect, weakens self-control, impedes work, hinders growth in children, and worsens pneumonia and typhoid outcomes. The addresses detail moral decline, poverty, and longer illness durations due to drinking.
A hawk attacking a girl in Liepaja Latvia resulted after she tried to defend a fleeing pigeon that entered an open window. The bird clawed the girl’s face as she swung a broom, causing a scream until her mother intervened and trapped the attacker. Germany is inducing its people to eat still more fish.
Seventeen members of the 1940 class at Amherst High School were inducted into the National Honor Society during a chapel service led by principal Miss Marion Steele. The ceremony included scripts, musical selections, a guest talk by Prof P D Sherman of Oberlin College, and candle lightings as names were read.
The Brownhelm High seniors presented The College Cut-Up in the school auditorium on Thursday and Friday evenings under director Aliss Dora Werner. The production featured a college boarding school setting with a large cast portraying students, faculty, and town figures including Ginger, Lucille Knrispel, Mildred Cummings, Arlene Northeim, Frank Short and others. Special music included piano and clarinet solos with garrulous interludes noted as gutter selections.
Amherst HI school teachers and students traveled by bus to Kent to participate in district scholarship tests. The group listed names and tested subjects including biology chemistry general science algebra geometry history Latin French English and shorthand with several students cited by name.
The Past Chiefs Club of Pythian Sisters will meet Monday evening at the Henry Nicholl home on South Main Street with Mrs Mayme Schaeffer Mrs Edith Hoffner and Mrs A C Kreger as hostesses An invitation is extended to the entire temple of Pythian Sisters to attend. Mrs Emily Dean and Mrs J W Darling will entertain the Mary Martha class of the Congregational church Monday evening at the home of the former on Long Street Amherst Rotary Club will meet Monday noon in the Methodist church pariors.
Members of the Truth Seekers class of the First Evangelical church gathered Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wan gerine on Rice road with hosts Mr. and Mrs. Snyder and Mr. and Mrs. Springer. They discussed church matters and planned a June tureen supper in the church parlors. The entertainment featured a spelling contest spelling words backwards and a quiz bee.
Twenty nine attended the Laymen Fellowship meeting at the Congregational Church Friday in the church parlor. A fish fry started at six. The business session covered church projects and plans for a June 7 gathering at Beav er Park pavilion with a committee on arrangements named Donald Fullmer, Vincent Nalley, Gordon Hoffman, Jack Blackford and Leroy Hoffner.
Observers in Glasgow report birds like snipe redshank Arctic skua and kestrels frequenting near Scottish airfields. Birds show little fear of planes despite wartime noise while anti aircraft gunners note birds adjust quickly. Average US farm income in 1939 rose to 1102 from 717 in 1932.
Mrs Donald Moffat formerly Lois Ketcham, Elyria girl, recovers in Waterloo after a near fatal illness in Brazil caused by B1 deficiency. She and her husband plan to return to the Brazilian jungles with their 14 month old son John Wendell after two more years of recovery and medical care. Her memory is normal again and doctors expect a two year path to full recovery. Dr Ketcham, her father, is pastor in Waterloo while her husband serves as a Baptist missionary deputy near Detroit.
Sydney authorities move to curb horn honking outside windows to attract attention. Traffic Superintendent Hooper orders strict enforcement while Minister Bruxner defends honking as not limited to youths in sports cars, noting many middle aged men with tempers use it to clear pedestrians from safety lines.
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