United Fund in Elyria Achieves Record Campaign Total
The United Fund of Greater Elyria reports its 1966 campaign reached $447,237 pledged, 106.7 percent of a $419,160 goal. L. R. Barr, campaign chair, thanks over 200 leaders and credits all community segments for the achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund of
Greater Elyria
United
L. R. Barr
Barr
Ternstedt
GMC
John B. Findling
Uaw-Cio
United Cooperation of Management
Kenny King’s
Lowell St
H. C. Richards
Elyria
United Fund
United Community Services of
Ohio mourns longtime coach Herman Rearick
The Ohio sports world mourns the loss of Herman Rearick, longtime Canton McKinley head coach, who died of leukemia. Rearick had Elyria ties and helped organize local booster clubs, with strong community support noted by officials and business leaders in connection with United Fund efforts and local civic clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Herman
Bup) Rearick
Canton McKinley
Rearick
C-T
Second Street
Warren
Pete) Cogan
Ed Williams Lumber Co
Stark County
Cogan
Yale
Western Automatic Machine Screw Co
Massillon
Elyria
Elyria Booster Club
Elyria High Athleticen
Pioneer Club
Bulldog Club
Canton
Restlessness Among Negroes Noted By Newsman
Cleveland television writer George Moore told a Catholie Interracial Council of Lorain County dinner crowd that a new wind of impatience sweeps the Negro population. He urged action from the ballot box alongside changes in housing education and employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Moore
Cleveland
Lotain County
St. Martin de Porres
St. John Church
Lorain
Moore
Cleveland Area
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Jesus Christ
United States
Wellington tavern raid nets owner and four patrons
State liquor agents arrested Wellington tavern owner Evelyn Posar and four patrons at Town Tavern on North Main Street for selling liquor to a 17 year old. Also charged were Donnie Birchfield for unlawful consumption and Cora Sue Martin for furnishing liquor to a minor.
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Wellington
Town Tavern
North Main St
Evelyn Posar
Schweller
East Herrick Ave
Oberlin Municipal Court
Donnie Birchfield
Smith Trailer Park
Oberlin Court
Cora Sue Martin
Maurice Baker
Fred Hughes
State Liquor Department
Adams
Walter Schum
Central Office
Cleveland
American Ship completes jumbo conversion of Passumpsic
Lorain Ohio. American Ship Building Co. completes the jumboizing of the Passumpsic tanker, lengthening it to 644 feet at a cost of about 16 million dollars. The vessel, captained by A Bowen, will sail to Boston under its own power with 114 yard crew aboard for the delivery. The Navy expects the refueling ship to aid sea operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
American Ship Building Co
Passumpsic
Loraine
W. Ward
U.S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Great Lakes
Lorrain
Port Colborne
Jan. H. Rickey
John Dyson
Navy
Boston
Area man gets life sentence for murder
Joseph Netzel, 38, of Columbia Station, pleaded guilty to second degree murder this morning and was sentenced to life in the Ohio Penitentiary. Netzel waived a jury trial before Common Pleas Judge LeRoy F. Kelly. He is the father of six and was indicted Sept. 21 for the hammer and knife slaying of his wife Betty, 37, who died Sept. 13 after the Sept. 10 attack at their home in Berea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Netzel
Columbia Station
Ohio
Netzel
Common Pleas
LeRoy F. Kelly
Betty
Southwest Community Hospital
Berea
Lorain Bridge Hearing On Lift Span Redesign
A Lorain mayoral hearing on December 1 will decide whether a proposed Black River lift bridge is altered from 100 feet to 120 feet. Col Neff of the US Army Corps of Engineers will attend. The Lorain Port Authority seeks the change, with Norfolk and Western agreeing if federal funding covers the extra cost for a $4 million structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Woodrow W. Mathna
Black River
Col
R. Wilson Neff
Buffalo
Army Corps of Engineers
Mathna
Neff
iThe Norfolk and Western Railroad
Back-breaking labor gets whirlybird at Ford Lorain plant
A helicopter lifts 28 exhaust stacks from the Ford Motor Co. Lorain assembly plant roof as part of a 340,000 project to install a new roof and fire-prevention spray system. Nabakowski Roofing and Sheet Metal Co. of Amherst was general contractor, and Helicopter Minit Men, Inc., of Columbus supplied the whirlybird. Jakmas Plumbing and Heating, Inc., of Lorain handles the fire-prevention work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Motor Co
Lorain
Nabakowski
Ford
Jakmas Plumbing and Heating, Inc
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General Motors
United Giving
Center For the Sightless
R. S. Gollmar
Carl Cross
Ira Iraison
Kenneth 8. Adams
Harry C. Richards
Center
Arthur Hudnutt
UF Campaign
Roberta Ealy
Cal
H. H. Metter
Meister
CIC
John Huston
Lorain First
Tom Peters
John Golowenski
Dan H. Bragg
Larry Ganobesik
Rosemary Ivancic
Booker Moore
Randy Crabbe
Ganobesik
Joseph Warner
Blake Wagner
Peters
Alfred Head
Dave Herrick
Pitts Rd
Herrick
Rudy Neuman
A. Bowen
Lorain Bridge
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