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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1954
Page
22
Wakeman students now enjoy two playgrounds with 15 swings 10 trapezes five teeter fetters a space ship jungle bars a basketball court and tennis court amid $2200 to $2500 value built for 300 to 400. PTA members led by Mrs Glogore and Frank Glogore surveyed funded raised 300 and organized 25 to 30 men plus women for weekend installation and planning.
The Wakeman Parent Teacher Association, short on funds, raised about 300 dollars and crafted playground equipment from pipe pieces for a rapidly growing school. They erected a jungle gym, fifteen swings, and slides, with another slide planned for upper grades. In warehouse notes, a fire parade delay occurred as a motorcycle caught fire, a fire truck responding. Hyannis Mass reports eighty grade school children volunteering for summer school to train 15 prospective teachers.
Denver dispatch reports a west wing redecorating surge at the White House while President Eisenhower is away in Washington. The Roosevelt era Cabinet Room known as the Fish Room is refurnished with buff and green tones and WPA-era portraits removed. Press aides note a calmer atmosphere as the backers of the project defend design choices and deal with media grumbling over Selznick permission blocks for a film shoot on Edison bulb discovery.
Avon group maps a religious day at Holy Trinity Church on October 19 with Mass at 9 30 am. Rev Leo Worth to lead. breakfast, conference, meditation, lunch, and a 2 pm holy hour. Lorain Deanery NCCW to meet. parish women urged to attend. reservations via Mrs Lous Klingshirn or Mrs Arthur Stauder.
Three Elyria High School Herald staff members and adviser Miss Margaret Mahaley are in Kent for a fall meeting of area school paper editors. Harvey Ardman editor Karla Koehn second page editor and Phyllis Eldridge features editor join a new Northeastern Ohio Scholastic Press Association project. An aerial survey for oil is reported in eastern Peru's monfana.
Federal naturalization officers examined about 30 applicants today for citizenship in preparation for the November 11 hearing. Those whose applications are in order will face final examination on November 21, when roughly 10 alien residents of Lorain County are expected to take the oath. Officers are cooperating with a national plan to hold Armistice Day services for about 50,000 prospective citizens.
Canton Stark county Common Pleas Judge Paul Weber sentenced Bertha Markowitz also known as Ginger King of Alliance to six months in jail and fined her $1,000 for contempt of court. A permanent injunction was issued against her vice house in Sept 1951. Alliance police reported two subsequent arrests for activities at the house but the judge suspended the fine.
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