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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1951
Page
2
Local page from Elyria Ohio Chronicle Telegram dated May 16 1951 highlights brief notices and community items from Elyria and surrounding area. Includes short summaries of events, meetings, and local developments with names of institutions and residents.
Evening events fill Columbia VLF OW town hall with 8 pm service. Many clubs meet across Olmsted and Ridgeville including WSCS CotH, Ruth Circle, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and 4-H. A city bowling champion, Dot Barker, posted 1,609 pins across nine games.
National Guard Staff Sgt Henry E Heffner was sentenced to a year and a day in a federal reformatory in Dayton Ohio after confessing to sabotaging three F 51 Mustangs at Dayton Municipal Airport. FBI agents reported Heffner sought personal glory and admitted cutting air noses greasing intakes and placing beer cans in wheel wells last January 3 and 6.
House Ways and Means members weighed a tax on sale of certain used cars to curb flipping of late models and boost revenue. Treasury opposed a universal rate. some backed a narrow levy on cars sold within a year of origin purchase. The committee already approved higher excise and income taxes aiming to raise billions, though President Truman’s targets may fall short.
Edgar L. Boggs was driving when his dog jumped into his lap and licked him. He shoved the dog away, lost control of the car, and it overturned. Boggs crawled out unharmed but angry.
Ithaca N Y A Cornell University professor proposes wider use of beaver and musk rat meat to ease meat shortages. Prof W J Hamilton Jr notes twenty tons of beaver meat and more than a million musk rats are wasted annually and could feed people.
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