Ely Park Set For Spectacular Yuletide Display
Elyria officials announce a citywide Christmas celebration in Ely Park on Friday December 1 featuring a new park era of decorations. Santa will visit and a Treasure Hunt with cash prizes will accompany window display unveilings. The display centers on a North Pole theme with a top of the world fountain nine reindeer and a canopy of lights overseen by a merchants and city collaboration.
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Elyria
Free Lohnes
Merchants’ Division
Ely Park
Santa
Rudolph
Broad Street
Park Board
George Innes
Bendix-Westinghouse Advertising Department
D. M. Robertson
C. H. Merthe Co
Huber seeks new election in Ohio's 14th district
Attorney for defeated Democrat Walter Huber requests a new election in the 14th Congressional district. The filing with the Secretary of State cites ballot rotation issues and questions authority, with the case to be reviewed by the attorney general as Congress may handle a remedy.
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Columbus
Walter Huber
Secretary of State
Huber
William Ayres
Leland’ S. Dougan
Dougan
Harper Annant
Attorney General's Office
Merry Sickerman
Supreme Court of Ohio
Congress
Lorain County
Sweeney
Massachusetts
Lst
Growth Of Elyria And Vicinity Gives Council A Variety Of Problems
City council wrestled with growth related issues including annexation of Troxel Manufacturing Co property on Oberlin road for sewer and fire protection. A general sewer charge plan was adopted with a future rate study by Havens and Emerson at 1500 dollars. The Elywood No 4 allotment plat was accepted with over 50000 dollars in improvements guaranteed. Street lights and signage for Roosevelt avenue extension were referred to committee. The Perry Fay Co asked for an eight inch water main in Artemas court to strengthen fire protection.
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Troxel Manufacturing Co
Oberlin Road
Ralph Terry
Richard Baird
Ask City Services
The
Troxel Co
City Sewer Service
Terry
Safety Committee
Havens and Emerson
Cleveland
Elywood No. 4
Washington Avenue
Popular Homes Corp
Roosevelt Avenue
Poplar Street
Corporation
Roosevelt and Poplar
Perry-Fay Co
Artemas Court
Northeast Ohio Weather Forecast Update
The forecast calls for cloudy and continued cold conditions this afternoon. Tonight will be partly cloudy and a bit cooler with a low around 24. Wednesday should be partly cloudy and milder with a high near 32. The five day outlook suggests below normal temperatures with milder midweek followed by colder conditions late week and into Saturday. Occasional snow flurries may affect northern areas with general precipitation likely by Friday and total precipitation near one third inch.
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Ohio
Amherst man sues railroad and quarry company for 25000
Roy Benge 20 of Amherst R D 2 sues Lorain and Southern Railroad and Cleveland Quarries Co for 25000 over injuries from a Nov 29 1949 automobile accident at Quarry road crossing near South Amherst. He says the crossing was poorly protected and the quarry hole lacked a substantial barricade. Noble Neeley 22 of South Amherst was another passenger. James Canada 1 of Quarry road drove the car.
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Amherst R. D
Lorain and Southern Railroad
Cleveland Quarries Co
Quarry Road
South Amherst
Benge
James Canada
Noble Neeley
Deshler Car Crash Claims Wolfe and Wounds Burke
Carlton E. Wolfe 21 of Willard died when his car skidded into a pole in Deshler last night. Kohn Burke 22 of Deshler, a passenger, was critically injured.
Wintry Storms Batter Nation With Rain Wind Snow
Weather across the nation brings heavy gales in the east, floods in Nevada and California, and tornadic winds in Mississippi. At least six deaths from high winds on the Atlantic coast, including electrocution in New York and a drowning near New Jersey, plus damaging winds and cold in multiple states.
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Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Plains
Canada
Nevada
California
Atlantic Seaboard
Walter Roberts
New York
Albert Wedgebury
Irvington
N. J
Raritan Bay
Rudolph Witzel
Washington Club Claims Boudreau
Cleveland mayor manager Lou Boudreau was claimed by the Washington Nationals before the waiver deadline. He may choose to sign or be released. if he accepts, Washington pays Indians $1. if he declines, an unconditional release is granted after five days.
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Cleveland Indians
Lou Boudreau
Washington Nationals
Boudreau
Nats
Washington
Indians
Clark Griffith
Schools Head Kills Wife And Himself
Columbia Kentucky City School Superintendent H R Kirk aged 65 killed his wife with a hammer and then died by taking sulfuric acid. Police reported. Judge FE C Hirdwick ruled murder and death by own action in the double deaths. Kirk, former Rotary president, had recently moved from LaGrange ten years ago amid no sign of trouble.
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H. R. Kirk
FE. C. Hirdwick
LaGrange
Kirk
Rotary Club
Reno Gambles In Flood Near Reno California
The Truckee River flood hits Reno causing casino closures as five bridges submerge and the city is cut in two. Sacramento area alert issued as American River swells. Seven deaths blamed on nine days of rain with estimated 12 million dollars in damage. Power plants fail. Carson City area flood isolation reported. California cities brace for levee risk while major rail traffic is halted.
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Nev
Tuckee
Landoffice
Truckee
Riverside
Mapes
City
California
Sacramento
Sierra Pacific Power Company
Nevada
Carson City
Centerville
Southern Pacific Railroad
Norden
Calif
Sierras
Tulare Lake
Central Valley
Modesto
Stanislaus
Tuolumne
Officials Probe Accident Fatal to Lorain County Girl
County commissioners and child welfare officials met with Prosecutor Paul Mikus regarding legal responsibility in the death of Martha Bodnar a nine year old Lorain ward struck by a car on Graf ton road. The driver Lester Dougherty did not take blame but offered to pay funeral expenses. Funeral services were held today.
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Martha Bodnar
Lorain County
Dougherty
Martha
Catherine
Rauscher
Myles Knechtzes
Grafton
Kneehtges
Marthe
Committee For Ferguson Lists $30,533 Spent
A Senate preparedness subcommittee criticized government agencies for paperwork delays and weak protection against Communist aggression. Led by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, the panel faulted the Munitions Board and GSA in its 37 page report stating agencies have been slow to awaken to the threat and offered flimsy protection.
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Nationalists Claim Peking Regime Crumbling Under Resistance
Lake Success N Y The Peiking Communist regime is disintegrating under mounting Chinese resistance Nationalist China told the United Nations. Dr Tingu F Tsiang Chiang Kai Shek s permanent UN delegate said a 1 667 000 strong resistance army is active in continental Asia and Mao s regime will collapse like Shih Huang s did.
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Moscow
Kremlin
TOA
Manchuria
Siberia
Mao
Shih Huang
Farmers Club To Hear Talk On Test Tube Magic
The Lorain County Farmers and Businessmen's Club will host an illustrated talk titled New Developments in Agriculture Industry and Science next Monday at 8 PM in First Methodist church. Ernest L. Little of Research Associates will show new inventions not yet marketed and a fruit growing panel will feature local growers. County Agent Carl Deeds will moderate and church ladies will serve lunch.
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Lorain County
Robert Grobe
E. C. Cotton
Kenneth Spiegelburg
C. W. Lamvermeyer
Charles Dodd
Carl Deeds
The
First Methodist Church
Northeast Korea front collapses as U.S. 7th Division advances
U S forces report collapse of Communist resistance in NE Korea as the 7th Division seizes Hyesanjin near the Manchurian border and drives toward Chongjin and the Siberian frontier. Fifth Air Force flies missions against massed troops and supply convoys as UN forces push along the Yalu and Cho sin reservoir.
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Korea
Seventh Division
Hyesanjin
Yalu River
Manchuria
Chongjin
Siberian
U. S
Chosin
Douglas MacArthur
Sinuiju
Fifth Air Force
Manchurian
United Nations
St. Paul
Iwon
Winter Weather Returns to Ohio
The new cold wave from Canada pushed temperatures down to sub freezing levels across Ohio. A wind storm toppled trees and power lines as the mercury slid to 21 degrees in Cincinnati and may fall to 17 degrees by tomorrow morning.
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United Press
Ohio
Canada
Lake Ontario
Ohio Valley
Cincinnati
Elyria Lorain County Schools Announce Two Day Thanksgiving Break
All Elyria public schools and Lorain County schools will be closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. City schools will dismiss at three o'clock tomorrow to allow families to travel. Classes resume Monday morning.
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Elyria Public School
Lorain County
Six Billion Cut Urged In Non-Defense Spending
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged Congress to avoid tax hikes by cutting 6 billion dollars from non defense spending. Ellsworth C Alvord proposed this as a substitute for an excess profits tax on corporations to curb inflation and protect industrial growth. The group urged pay as you go for military expansion and warned against broad tax measures.
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Congress
Ellsworth C. Alvord
Chamber Finance
Trusman
House
Ways and Means Committee
Alvord
J. Cameron Thomson
Northwest Bancorporation
Minneapolis
Esman
Committee For Economic Development
Stores Open Tomorrow Afternoon In Elyria
Most of Elyria's downtown stores will remain open tomorrow after Thanksgiving Day. The note follows the practice of keeping shops open on Wednesday afternoons in weeks with a holiday on a regular business day. Elyria Fish Market at 115 East Ave lists seafood offerings and phone number.
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Elvrra
Iroon
Call For 28 Men Reported By Elyria Local Board
Elyria's local draft board received a December call for 28 men with 49 for preinduction tests and 2,890 statewide for December. Ohio's January quota drops to 2,210. all next month’s inductees to be processed before December 19 in Cleveland. Local boards shift examination sites from Toledo to Cleveland.
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Elyria
Catherine McKee
State Selective Service
Chester W. Goble
Ohio
Cleveland
Toledo
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