Elyria Halloween Parade Closes Year With Spooky Frolics
Parade footage shows Elyria youths in costumes marching down Broad Street led by Elyria High School band and police volunteers. Children like 12 year old Billy Jezewski pause from frightful duties at home on West Avenue as more local residents, including 14 year old Ann Marie Firment, hand out treats to visiting monsters. The scene captures a festive downtown celebration marked by colorful outfits and playful frights.
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Elyria
Billy Jezewski
John Jezewski
West Ave
Elyria High School
Broad Street
Ann Marie Firment
Mike Firment
W. 11Th St
Rob Thomas
Golden Age center opens in Amherst for elderly housing
Amherst dedicates its first public housing for the elderly named after Rev. Ralph E. Albright. Fifty apartments with three opening today, then one per day until all 20 efficiencies and 30 remaining one-bedroom units filled. About 500 viewed the open house. Officials present included Ronald Ashley and U.S. Representative Charles Mosher. Applications still accepted by the Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority.
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Amherst
Ralph E. Albright
Marvin Davis
U. S
Charles Mosher
Donald J. Pease
Robert J. Corts
LMHA
Vandals Cut Down Two Telephone Poles in Penfield Township
Deputies report two Northern Ohio Telephone Co poles were felled about four feet above ground on Whitehead Road near Route 18 in Penfield Township Lorain County. No wires stolen and service remained intact as lines were not broken. Redden calls it malicious destruction. rural line serves six or seven farms.
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Penfield
Lorain County
Whitehead Road
Rt. 18
Redden
Dear Russ readers thank you from Elyria and Texas
Russ Davies expresses gratitude to Elyria friends for support during a hospitalization and recovery of his father Dave Robertson. He notes Dick Thompson has finished obstetrics gynecology residency at University of Colorado and practices in El Paso Texas.
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Elyria
Stanford University Hospital
Dave Robertson
Bea Remertoon
University of Colorado
Bade Posten
Texas
Ray
Neva) Thompson
Wooster St
Osnelle Rob
Ran
Sherts
Thompson
Fisher plant chief named Heusel to head Fisher Body Elyria plant
Robert J. Heusel is named general manager at Fisher Body Elyria, succeeding John B. Findling who moves to Fisher's Columbus plant. Heusel, former Syracuse plant head, joins Fisher in 1939 as a patent engineer and will oversee a facility with about 2,300 workers. Findling led Elyria before transfer to Columbus.
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General Motors Corp
Fisher Body
Robert J. Heusel
Fisher
Syracuse
N.Y
Heusel
John B. Findling
Columbus
Heuser
University of Michigan
Alexander Hamilton Institute
New York City
Columbia University
Fort Street
Detroit
Findling and Heuser
Elyria
Findling
Sheffield sick call averted over back pay for volunteers
Sheffield Township Fire Department volunteers faced a sick call today to demand back wages of about 6000 pounds. Trustee Eugene Balogh said the threat was resolved and firemen remained on duty as liquor license funds were expected soon to cover the wages.
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Sheffield
Eugene Balogh
Balogh
Chronicle-Telegram
Paul J. Slavik
Slavik
Truck strikes pole cuts power in LaGrange area
A pickup hit a utility pole in LaGrange Township severing a 69,000 volt line. Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Coop service for Wellington and most of Lorain County ended from 8:10 to 9:04 p.m. Utilities restored by night, with Grafton and LaGrange areas dark for about 20 minutes. Driver Joseph Linden, 16, Wellington, charged with reckless operation. Damage to the truck estimated at $2,000. Other items note unrelated local notices and an alleged medical bag theft at Allen Memorial Hospital.
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Lorain County
LaGrange Township
Wellington
Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative
Ohio Edison Co
Grafton
LaGrange
Indian Hollow Road
Webster Road
Electric Company
Linden
Elyria school levy eyed as vital 6.5 mills urged
Voters will consider a 6.5 mill operating levy in Elyria School District. Officials call it urgent and vital to fund kindergarten openers, wage benefits, new schools and transportation for grades nine through twelve. If it fails, pay raises and benefits may be cut and a new levy could not be placed until 1971.
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Elyria Board of Education
Board of Education
Ere Elemema
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Morgan St
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