Czechs Order NY Consulate Closed After Staff Cut
Prague and Washington moved to reduce diplomatic ties as the United States agreed to halve its staff and order Czechoslovak authorities to shutter the New York consulate general. The U S note justified the move by citing curtailed relations and repeated provocations, while reaffirming friendship with the Czech people.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United States
New York
U.S
Foreign Ministry
A. S
U. S
Bratislavia
Gollmar To Head Elyria Y M C A Drive Fund
Richard J. Gollmar, Elyria Foundry Division production manager, will lead the $110,000 Y M C A drive starting June 13 as general chairman. He has long been active with the Y M C A and Elyria Chamber of Commerce and previously chaired the membership drive and served on the board of trustees. The fund aims to repair and alter the building, with $20,000 already set aside from past gifts for improvements rather than operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard J. Gollmar
Elyria
Industrial Brownhoist Co
Marion Crowder
M.C.A
Gollmar
M.C
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Elyria Community Chest
Jess Pall
Y.M.C.A
Y. M. C. A. Board of Trustees
Summer Bible School to Begin June 12
The First Baptist and United Presbyterian churches sponsor a free day camp from June 12 to June 23, 9 to 11:30 am on weekdays excluding weekends. Chester L. Bristol will oversee as superintendent with a staff to be announced. The program offers Bible lessons, handwork, music, recreation, and uses a Scripture Press course for daily vacation Bible school.
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First Baptist
United Presbyterian Churches
Chester L. Bristol
Bristol
Scripture Press of
Chicago
Truman Speaks At Labor Zionist Group Meeting
President Truman addressed the 27th national convention of the Labor Zionist Organization of America in Boston praising Jewish devotion to democracy and Israel. The message, read at a Histadrut luncheon, stressed support for Israel’s rebuilding on democracy and social justice. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett urged continued rallying to Zionist goals in the same session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Truman
Pxael
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Kimcheon
Moshe Sharett
American Labor Zionist Organization
Zion
Israel
Beryl Frymer
Boy Hurt by Dog Bite Near Home in Elyria
Hubert Neal a 14 year old of 22 Woodford Avenue was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital last evening for a dog bite. The injury occurred as he passed through the yard at the Etta Washington residence near his home. The dog was tied according to the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Neal
Woodford Avenue
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Etta Washington
Street Car Crash Toll Reaches Thirty Two In Chicago
A Chicago street car crash this week killed 32 people after a high speed collision with a truck. Coroner Brodie revised the death toll from 33 to 32 and a single truck driver died. The tragedy tests the Chicago Transit Authority as it faces lawsuits, investigations, and political scrutiny over its public ownership and fare hikes since 1947.
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Chicago
A. L. Brodie
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago Surface Lines
CTA
Walkout Grows Into Strike At Oak Ridge Plants
Oak Ridge Tenn four days after a walkout by 700 workers the action expanded into a wildcat strike by 4500 construction workers halting most expansion work. AEC officials sought settlement as union leaders defied mediation to return to duty. The stoppage disrupted timetable for K-29 and K-31 diffusion plants and halted work on Oak Ridge National Laboratory extension plus nonessential projects including a high school auditorium 450 apartments and 50 houses totaling about 247 million dollars in construction idle. Outside workers expected to be brought in if no settlement over the holiday weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Atomic Energy Center
Atomic Energy Commission
AFL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
AEC
Delinquent Property List Prompts Court Hearing
County Auditor Frank Ayres reports about 1,000 parcels listed as delinquent for three years or more. A June 6 hearing before the common pleas court will determine forfeiture to the state. If forfeited, parcels will be advertised for sale beginning June 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Ayres
Common ‘Pleas Court
Ayres
Playground Season To Open Monday June 19
The Elyria Recreation Board will start an eight week playground season Monday June 19 at eight centers including Cascade Park Roosevelt Hamilton McKinley Edison Allen Gates and Franklin. Center operations will run mornings 10 to 1 and afternoons 1 30 to 4 30 with Franklin morning and Gates afternoon sessions only. New supervisors Sotherden Keller Woodin join the staff. Ely and Valley View are cut due to construction and requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Franklin
Ely
Valley View
Ralph Bauer
Cliff Stubblefield
Alan McMan
Warren Sotherden
Tony Curcillo
Vera Brubaker
Marge Cochrane
Carol Double
Resar Florist
Ann Gates
Irene Keller
Mary Meady
Clerg
Marilyn Laver
Natalie Woodin
Abel Playground
Sotherden
Keller
Woodin
Hamilton School
Don McGinley Jr
John Cabas
Bob Hengartner
Laver
Franklin and Gates
Gates
Block
Cascade Park
Thet Board
City Hall
Bid For Highway Project Rejected
Columbus Ohio State Highway Director T J Kaver said that a bid by Great Lakes Construction Co for a Lorain County highway improvement project was eight percent above the state estimate. The firm bid 177780 to improve 0.388 mile of State Route 82 in Columbia Township, Lorain County, while the state estimate was 164500. The project will likely be re advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
T. J. Kaver
The
Great Lakes Construction Co
Lorain County
Columia Township
Kauer
British Official Disagrees With Lie's Cold War View
Hector McNeil a British cabinet minister and former adviser on foreign affairs told the Church of Scotland assembly in Edinburgh that the cold war would continue and intensify not end quickly. He contrasted UN secretary general Lie's Moscow trip and his year of decision with broader government views on postwar peace.
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London
Trygve Lie
Hector McNeil
Scotland
Ernest Bevin
McNeil
General Assembly
The
Church of Scotland
Edinburgh
Lie
United Nations
Lake Success
Moscow
Kenneth Younger
Foreign Office
House Commons
Darek Florist
Ph. Oe
Stranahan Wins British Amateur Golf Title Again
ST ANDREWS Scotland Frank Stranahan of Toledo Ohio captured the British amateur golf championship for the second time by crushing Dick Chapman of Pinehurst North Carolina 8 and 6 at the Royal and Ancient Club course. Stranahan led 7 up after 27 holes and finished the 30th in windy rain cooled by 54 degree weather.
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St, Andrews
Scotland
Frank _Stranahan
Toledo
Dick Chapman
Pinehurst
N. C
Royal and Ancient ‘Club
Stranahan
Chapman
U. S
Senate probes visit Miami in gambling study
Senate crime probers led by Kefauver and Hunt arrived unannounced in Miami to subpoena records and witnesses over the city’s role in the nation’s gambling economy. They pressed local links to Frank Costello and associates as officials and track operators were unaware of the inquiry.
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Senate
Miami
4IAMI
Fla
Estes Kefauver
Tenn
Lester C. Hunt
D. Wye
Senate Committee Investigating
Frank Costello
Frank Erickson
Joe Adonis
Costello
Realtors Board Meets Monday Memorial Day Program
The Elyria Board of Realtors will hold a Memorial Day program at its meeting on Monday at noon in the Elks Club Marine Room. Members will view official Marine Corps and Army documentary films.
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Elyria Board of Realtors
Elks Club
Marine Room
Marine Corps
Toledo University President Resigns
Dr. Wilbur White, president of the University of Toledo since May 11, 1948, has resigned effective Sept 1 due to poor health. The 47 year old plans lecturing and to publish a new textbook.
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Toledo
Wilbur White
University of Toledo
White
Putting Up Television Aerial Costs Two Lives
James Ryan Fairborn, 29, touched a 12 000 volt power line while installing a television aerial and was killed. His wife Lois, 27, died trying to free him. The accident occurred at Vinca. </s>
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Fairborn
James Ryan
Lois
Mother And Two Daughters Hurt In Traffic Crash
Mrs Maggie Flowers 54 of Orville and her daughters Katharine 18 and Olive 16 were seriously injured when their car was forced into a ditch on Route 1a south of Belden by a passing truck. They were en route to Elyria Memorial Hospital for another daughter Lois 26. Katharine was admitted for observation and a fore head laceration. Linda Wagner 2 1/2 rode with them and was not injured. A neighbor, Mrs Jennie Gaughen 58 of Chicago, received head lacerations and shock in a collision on Route 82. Robert Rugg 320 Sixth Street escaped injury in a motorcycle crash with Earl Sponseler Jr of 134 Homercourt.
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Maggie Flowers
Orville
Katherine
Olive
Elyria
Belden
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Lois
Linda Wagner
Jennie Gaughen
Chicago
Berea
Frank Gaughen
Dean R. Ramsey
Columbia Station
Ramsey
Boone Toad
Sheriff Department iI
Robert Rugg
Sixth Street
East Avenue
Second Street
Earl Sponseler, Jr
Homercourt
Blanchard Sells Poppies For 26th Year
Today marks the 26th time Paul Blanchard has sold Legion poppies in front of the Ely tia Savings and Trust Co. building. He holds a record for selling and money received, being a long time top fundraiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Blanchard
Legion
Elytia Savings and Trust Co
Blanchard
Berlin Braces as Red Youth Rally Sparks Border Fire
In Berlin the Soviet zone rallies 462000 delegates as West police rescue a kidnapped teacher from the American sector. Soviet zone police cross into the American area. one teacher's fate sparks clashes. Allied forces tighten alerts and stage preparations for a mass parade amid tense cold war clashes.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Soviet Zone
West Sector
U.S
Georg Muenz
Lichtenrade
Germany
Erich Honecker
Honecker
West Germany
Free
U. S
Brandenburg Gate
Four Elyria High Cheerleaders Elected For Term
Elyria High students chose four varsity cheerleaders for the upcoming term, two boys and two girls. Julia Cross, Joan Fowl, John Eldcott, and Jerry Stephen were selected by balloting after a school assembly held yesterday morning. Nine candidates competed, including three boys and six girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Cross
Joan Fowl
John Elldcott
Jerry Stephen
Elyria High School
McCarthy Claims Senate Probers Suppressed Data
Senator Joseph McCarthy charged Senate investigators hid material that could expose Communists in the government. He cited partial release of testimony by Robert Hitchcock in the Amerasia case and accused the panel of whitewash while FBI and Justice Department records show some evidence was illegally obtained. A weekend feature lists a lobster dinner at Carey's Villa, and an assorted cemetery memorial day ad appears at the end.
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Washington
Joseph K McCarthy
Wis
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations
Robert M. Hitchcock
Buffalo
N. Y
Amerasia
McCarthy
Hitchcock
State Department
Carey's Villa
1906
Ave
FBI
Amerasia Magazine
Philip Jaffe
Mark Gayn
John Stewart Service
Kate Mitchell
Navy
Andrew Roth
Emanuel Larsen
Jaffe
Larsen
Roth
Subcommittee
Justice Department
Important House Committee Head Dies Suddenly
Detroit Congressman John A. Lesinski of Michigan dies in his sleep at 65 from a heart attack. Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Lesinski returned from Washington for a holiday weekend with his wife Estelle and appeared in good health before midnight when he reported breathing trouble. The death ends a career backing pro labor legislation and a planned tenth term.
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Detroit
John A. Lesinski
Mich
Labor
Dearborn
Shome
Lesinski
Estelle
Thaddeus Stoktfisz
House
Education and Labor
Comenc
Edwin Geisinger
Lessinski
Washington
Geisinger
Andrew Jacobs
Ind
Jacob
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Coal
Michigan Democrat
Jacobs
Memorial Dedicated for Lorain County Veterans Tuesday
Plans are complete for a memorial dedication in Lorain County with a 2 p.m. Tuesday ceremony in the courthouse courtyard. Speaker is Robert M. Fitzgerald, manager of the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Robert M. Fitzgerald
Veterans’ Administration
Cincinnati
Rural Schools Close for Summer in Lorain County
Lorain County rural schools end term as students begin a three month Summer vacation. Superintendent C A Gibbons notes most schools close with East Carlisle remaining in session until Saturday June 3 due to a building program delay last Fall.
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Lorain County
Supt. C. A. Gibbons
East Carlisle
Fire Damages Virginia Carolina Plant in St Bernard
Four buildings were wrecked when a fire swept the Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp plant in St Bernard early today causing damage estimated at 300000 dollars. Cause of the blaze was not immediately determined. Opening Thursday Willie's Diner on Route 20 two miles east of Elyria under new management offering home cooking homemade pies chicken steak and chops with car hop service.
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Cincinnati
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corps
St. Bernard
Willie's
Elyria
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