Cedar Point Seeks Grand Opening On June 8
Cedar Point prepares for its 1940 season opening on June 8 with extensive renovations at Hotel Breakers and new amusements. Ted Weems and his orchestra start the ballroom engagements, joined by stars like Sammy Kaye and Hal Kemp as bands perform for crowds in a 2000-seat ballroom with NBCs WAM broadcasting. Access is easy via U S Route 6 Ohio Route 2 and ferry service from Sandusky downtown.
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Cedar Point
Hotel Breakers
Middle West
Ted Weems
Bana” Orchestra
Rew
Music Towers
Sammy Kaye
George Olsen
Hal Kemp
Jan Savitt
NBC
WAM
Atlantic City
U. S
Grafton Juniors Host Candlelit Prom at High School
The Junior-Senior Prom at Grafton High School featured a candlelight dinner in the cafeteria served by Junior mothers. Memory book place cards, a toast by Dorothy Seidel, and welcomes by Marion Hitchcock preceded a Senior Class response from Francis Bardon. The evening closed with group singing and piano by Helen Tran in a star-decorated auditorium.
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Grafton
Grafton High School
Dorothy Seidel
Marion Hitchcock
Francis Bardon
Helen Tran
Berea
North Ridgeville Girl to Receive Seton Hall Degree
Gertrude Netlan of North Ridgeville will be among 72 women to receive degrees at Seton Hall College commencement on Monday evening June 3. Rev Reeves presides and Rev Kelley will deliver the address. Miss Neilan earned a BA with psychology major and sociology minor and studied as an intern in Morgenza and at the Alabama Training School for Girls near Birmingham.
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Gertrude Netlan
North Ridgeville
Seton Hall College
Moncey
James A. W. Reeves
Francis C. Kelley
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Miss Neilan
Pennsylvenia
Morgenza
Alabama Training School
Birmingham
Students Visit Local Tube Plant in Elyria
Four seventh graders from Garford School visited the Elyria Division of Steel and Tubes, Inc. on Musser Road to study local industry. They observed material sources, rail scrap, furnace heating to 2200 degrees, tube shaping and welding, and noted the plant employs about 350 men since 1902.
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Elyria Division of Steel and Tubes, Inc
Musser Road
Garford School
Wip
In Custwrie
Elyria
Evelyn Rogers
Myrtle Haas
Ronald Chapman
Marvin Hunker
Elizabeth Yoder
BE. Tayior
Ray
Baptiste
United States
Charlies Husted
Unit Reports Highlight School Programs and PTA Efforts
The Elyria and Ely Parent-Teacher Associations summarize a year of meetings and activities. Fifty-plus members contributed through card parties, bazaars, art exhibits, and fundraising to support school needs and student programs.
Parent Teacher groups report active year and gains
The Allen association led by Mrs. Frank Harding and President Mrs. Richard Fichiner held a strong year with 34 subscriptions to the Ohio PT A and 14 to the National magazine. Franklin and Edson associations also posted vigorous programs and high attendance promoting family and school ties.
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Allen Perent-Teacher Association
Ohio
Allen
Frank Harding
Alien
Fficers
Mirs
Richard Fichiner
H.S. Weiss
Bessie Downing
L. E. Wurster
C. BE. Prout
Study course at Ohio PTA attracts interest
The Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers offers its Director of Family Life Education Mrs Richard G Williams of Columbus to conduct six discussions on Family Living. Elvira Cornel brought Williams for a winter series from January to March titled Growing Up in the Family. Each session covered two phases. Red Cross Benefit Bake Sale planned Saturday at The Gas Office seeking patronage.
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Joseph McClune
Edson Parent-Teacher Association
Axel Skjerne
Ohio Congress of Parent and Teachers
Richard G. Willliams
Columbus
Elvira Cornel
Wilhiams
Williams Leads Parents Education Sessions in Elyria
Mrs Williams conducted study groups for mothers focusing on child rearing and children's behavior. Attendees received correlated reading lists and gained insight into general parenting principles. Plans are to bring Mrs Williams to Elyria next fall to train unit leaders for local mother study groups.
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Willams
Elyria
Sponsors School of Instruction Launches New Year Effort
Elyria council hosts a two session meeting on the Parent Teacher Association topics Why What How with state board members including Mrs. Basinger Birrell Emmitt and Carl W. Martin. Attendees from across the city view exhibits and hear talks on movement structure and council relations.
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Elyria Council
W. Basinger
Northcentral
James Birrell
Ohio Congress
Stanley Emmitt
Abs
Carl W. Martin
Ohe
Parent-Teacher
Parent- Teacher Association
Merritt Powell
George Tulk
Basinger
Carl Martin
Mrs Quinn Teaches Parliamentary Procedure Lectures
Mrs Franklin M Quinn a Cleveland expert on parliamentary practice led seven lectures on procedure for meetings in Elyria at the YMCA. Topics included by laws motions officers committees ethics and club conduct with about 100 ticket buyers and an average attendance of six per session.
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Elyria
Franklin M. Quinn
Cleveland
Council
Y M.C. A
George Waller
Ely School
Charles Evans
Franklin
Howard Gollmar
Jefferal
Oberlin Librarians To Attend ALA Conference
Nine members of the Oberlin College library staff will attend the American Library Association conference in Cincinnati this week. Representing all departments, the group includes Julian S. Fowler librarian Miss Helen Arnet head of the catalogue department Miss Helen Cowles cataloguer Miss Dorothy Daub librarian of the open shelf room and Miss Ellen Johnson art museum library director.
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Oberlin
American Library Association
Cincinnati
Julian S. Fowler
Helen Arnet
Helen Cowles
Dorothy Daub
Ellen Johnson
Art
Hbrari
Sleep Lock Product Sold by Mail in Ohio
An advertisement states lock your open windows with two self locking devices marketed as Noises 2 Locks, Self-Locking 25, sold only by mail order to Sleep Lock in Grafton Ohio, with payment by coin.
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Grafton
Ohio
Missing Names Highlight Local Library Staff
A list identifies key library personnel including Miss Winifred Johnson as cataloguer, Robert Lang as reference assistant, Mrs. Helen G Senour heading the order department, and Herbert M. Sewell as order librarian.
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Winifred Johnson
Robert Lang
Helen G Senour
Order
Herbert M. Sewell
Engagement Announced for Phyllis Ann Bartter Pontius
Mr and Mrs John Howard Bartter of Columbia announce the engagement of their daughter Phyllis Ann to Mr Ralph Emerson Pontius son of Sir and Mrs Alton A Pontius of Uniontown Ohio The couple both taught at Greentown High School for three years Miss Bartter a Baldwin Wallace graduate with sorority Alpha Kappa Sigma and graduate work at Miami University and Mr Pontius a Kent State and Wooster alum with Ohio State graduate study Wedding planned for late summer
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John Howard Bartter
Columbia
Phyllis Ann
Ralph Emerson Pontius
Alton A Pontius
Uniontown
Ohio
Miss Bartter
Baldwin-Wallace College
Alpha Kappa Sigma Sorority
Miam University
Oxford
Pontius
Wooster College
Kent State University
Ohio State University
Mr. Pontius
Greentown
Eaton News Notes Visitors and Local Arrivals
Sunday callers at the Cowley home included Alger Bourne from North Olmsted and L Aitchell from Avon Lake. W Kerruish of Beechwood also visited. Miss Charlotte Cowley, teaching at Monroeville, is home for summer vacation. Bernard Cowley hosts John Mayer and Herman Mayer of Cleveland among others.
Evangelist Smeltzer Headlines Prayer Message at Nazarene
Evangelist Smeltzer spoke last night at the Church of the Nazarene on prayer from James. He outlined four references, stressing the final practice of the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man with Elijab as an illustration. Services at 7 45 p m at 14 Harwood street invite public attendance. India seeks to boost its rice production to feed millions.
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Evangelist Smeltzer
Church of the Nazarene
Smeltzer
Elijaa
Harwood Street
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S.A
Clarion Sooy
Victor Burton
Mallet Creek
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Russell Tran
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Dorothy Messal
Minnie Vincent
Ira Harrison
Fred Messal
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LaPorte
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Ridgevile
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Carter
Clifford McGill
Alma Brme
George Lawson
Gleaners
Vancil Miers
Flord Zacharias
Delbert Dunlan
Lioyd Bartlett
Lorain County
Rural Organizations Meeting
la Grange High School
ED. Bath
Farm Bureau Co-Op
Ass'n
Elyzia
Hamilton
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Parent-Teacher Association
John Odgers
Association
Baird C. Rodgers
Clifford Warren
Harry Frankfather
J P. Rodgers
Henry Inger Soll
Kenneth Sovian
Elyria High School Parent Teacher Association
Leck
A. Caswell Elis
Cclese
Meek Sauer
Leesburg
Carl Witke
Oberlin College
F. E Eastman
Wakeman
N. W. Acers
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Everybay
Iot
Kenneth Borlen
Paul Cochrane
Earl Lautecschleger
Wires. Willis Chandler
E. W. Wright
Albert McMan
James McClements
Olive Cheney
Jack Rick
F P. Biskeslee
Ely
J. C. Struthers
Ely Parent-Teacher Association
O F. Forsyth
Melbourne Green
Lester Burr
Harry Vogler
J. R. Collier
Arthur Radde
Edison
Chas. B. Evans
Franklin Parent - Teacher Association
National Congress of Parent- Teacher
J. Clare George
Chronicle-Telegram
Richard Stevens
Richard Williams
Frankin
Franklin Parent- Teacher Association
Pierre Smith
Kenneth Boylan
Karl Williams
William Hawk
Red Cross
Priae Tires
G. M. Marsh & Son
Broad Street
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School of Instruction
Mrs. Quinn
Andrew Rawson
Phyllis Ann Bartter
Evangelist
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Belden
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Greyhound Travel Bureauc
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Hankscraft
Ae Noxzema
Shin Crea
Atc Jergens Lotion
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Tanor
SKOL
Merck
BAKER
Fletcher
Gerber
HAND
Eliair Ise Horlicak
Ise
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Rubber Baby
Mennen
Castile
Monroe
Johnson & Johnson
Hobson’s Worm Syrupmead
Scc.c. Vial
MEAD
Mead’s Pablum
Keapsit
Eastman
Verichrome Film
the Standard Drug CO
Col. Broad & Washington
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