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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1961
Page
6
North Ridgeville council tabled discussion of industrial park development until annexation proceedings with Elyria are resolved. A court of appeals ruling favored North Ridgeville on the 1,300 acre annexation, with potential Supreme Court appeal.
Huntington township trustees debated renting the Town Hall at a nominal fee to clubs and groups and sought repairs and heat funding, while discussing a community monument honoring veterans. They considered a $1000 to $1500 budget for monument design, footer, engraving, and materials and asked for bids before reporting back.
Bobby Stewart of the Oxford Hustlers 4H Club was declared winner in a pork chop pig contest announced by Erie County extension agent John Aylsworth. Several entries were sold at 200 pound market weight. Scores considered sap gain live market grade lean cuts and percent of live weight. Bobby’s pig scored 8 of 100. Routh Packing Company in Sandusky KY supplied the award.
Lorain County Commissioners vacated Akins Road south of the Homer Akins property to the Williams Greenhouse, though unused for years. Township officials will survey property lines to determine zoning again after a prosecutor opinion classifies Jack and Mildred Asper West River Rd property as residential despite commercial portions, barring commercial use near Sprague Rd. A 1 mill four year levy for township roads passed 748 to 227. The Master Plan Board holds Nov 30 meeting on park needs. next meeting Dec 4. bills totaling 2346.19 approved. road material and Huth Oil Co bills to be settled after final tax distribution.
The Erie Coul by of the Inter Lake Steamships Line arrived at the Pennsylvania Dock Company to dock for winter becoming the fifth freighter to tip up for the season. Four more ships are expected to reach the fleet of nine as coal shipping remains light this year, port manager David Bogart said.
Two Amherst officers, Police Chief A H Koppenhafer and Lt. Fred Voros, joined 31 officers in a Cincinnati based course on violent death and homicide investigation. The Kettering Laboratory program covered autopsy, self inflicting death, ballistics, firearms, polygraph use, and more. Training funded by the city, with instructors from the Cincinnati Police and experts like Dr Milton Helpern, Charles Wilson, and Frank Cleveland.
Wellington residents on South Prospect St may get a sanitary sewer before winter. The Village Council authorized staking 1,240 feet and ordering eight inch tiles, choosing village workforce to install to save costs. Officials projected $3,400 to $4,000, aiming under $4,000, with Mayor Gray doubtful of the higher estimate. Plans include encouraging connections and removing downspouts during excavation, plus cost checks on manholes. The panel also sought traffic lights at two crossings for school hours, with guard crossings debated. Dedication plans for Wenner lots advance as paving completes. The council approved a first reading to extend Fire Chief and crew in office indefinitely.
The Sheffield Lake School District Board approved a temporary use of Forestlawn Elementary by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, granted weekly meetings on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and discussed longer term occupancy plans as part of a broader agenda. The meeting also approved other facility uses and financial transfers, and authorized a $50,000 advance from the county auditor.
Elyria Democratic Councilwoman-at-large Kay Lysaght will address the Forestlawn PTA at 8 p.m. to discuss controlling obscene reading material sold at area newsstands. Lysaght, mother of five, serves on a state commission on aging. Forestlawn PTA reports 236 members with prize winners named in a recent drive. The fire department plans a new ambulance and the annual Christmas program at Tennyson Junior High is set for Dec 18 at 7:30 p.m.
President Kennedy will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday November 29, according to the White House. The briefing will not be broadcast or televised live.
In North Ridgeville a community Thanksgiving service is planned for tomorrow at 8 pm at the Congregational Church. Sponsored by Congregational and Fields Methodist Churches, the Rev. Richard L. Clark and Rev. Gene Wilson will lead as choirs join in. An offering benefits Share Our Surplus via Church World Service for its Christian Rural Overseas Program, with food-distribution figures cited.
A united Thanksgiving service is planned for the Protestant churches of Milan. It will be held at East Milan Friends Church on Rt. 113 east of Milan starting at 9 a.m. Rev. William Hunt of Milan Presbyterian will preach. Other participants include Rev. Hubert Cobb Edison Memorial Methodist Rev. Billy Chambers Milan Baptist Rev. Bruce Meadows North Milan Friends and Rev. John Brantingham of East Milan Friends. The East Milan Friends Church choir will provide music.
The North Milan Friends Church Missionary Auxiliary met at Mrs. Lewis Enderle Sr. home. Members shared thanks, with Nottke reading a Bible passage and Meadows presenting a poem titled Thanksgiving Feast. Letters read, cake mix and frosting donated for missions in Formosa and India. next meeting December 22 at the parsonage features a white elephant exchange and a Nome project collection. Thanksgiving mass at St Anthony's Church set for 8:30 AM officiated by Rev. James McGowan.
South Amherst churches plan a joint Union Thanksgiving service at First Methodist Church tonight at T-30. Sponsors are First Methodist, First Congregational, and St. John United Church of Christ. Rev. Donald Nichols of First Congregational will deliver the sermon One Returned. All residents are invited.
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