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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1986
Page
2
Harold Long, Lorain resident now 84, recalls becoming a ham at 13 around 1915 with Myron Ross and Ed Swanson. He describes early wireless lessons at the Elyria YMCA and a Cleveland instructor guiding their amateur radio experiments.
Harold recalls learning Continental Morse Code and earning the 8MM call letters for amateur radio. He describes building a backyard antenna shed, making a high voltage transformer, and trading DX with other young hams while facing repeated electric-seal crackdowns and flickering lights. He also recalls hearing KDKA's first experimental broadcast around 1917.
A writer recalls Alphie the Siamese, living with him through 17 or 18 years across seven homes since 1969. The vet warns of failing kidneys and a stomach lump, weighing the cat's quality of life as the owner faces the decision to ease Alphie's pain.
Barbara Bush told a Consumer Product Safety Commission press conference to put themselves in their children's shoes when buying Christmas toys. She urged parents to act as safety experts, stressing age labeling, sturdy construction, avoiding small parts and long strings, and supervising older electric toys.
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