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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1961
Page
1
The item highlights a child's kindergarten year as a time of discovery and growth. It invites readers to view pictures of kindergartners on page 12 and points to a feature about Elyria’s first radio station WGBL on page 20.
Feature on Dignified Age residents in Elyria who share activities at the Woman's Club. Includes photos of this group of young oldsters and notes the location on the 1st Page and 2nd Section.
Lorain County welfare officials hear signs of cuts to state aid affecting local child welfare services. The board weighs impact on services and staffing as districts brace for possible funding gaps.
Local 971 of the United Auto Workers voted 607 to 74 with two voided ballots to strike at Bendix Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Co after failed talks. International and local officials pledged to seek more time for negotiations as a production slowdown continues and strike plans advance.
Considerable cloudiness and much cooler today with scattered showers. Highs near 52, tonight low around 38. Sunday looks mostly fair and cool. Friday temperatures range from 52 to 30, with a year ago Friday at 47 to 49.
Ford Motor Co workers at Lorain Assembly Plant resume work after a national strike begun Oct. 3. About 110 maintenance staff report Monday at 7 a.m. and the remaining 4,100 production workers to follow on their regular shifts Tuesday. Local 425 UAW plans a ratification meeting to review the local agreement and seek national contract details.
West Berlin reports mass eviction of residents from four to five story blocks along routes into the border zone. Moving vans and about 100 Communist police guard the streets near Brauer, Schwedter, Swinemuender and Wolliner. East German security fired on escaping youths and a jeep with American MPs as Maj. Gen. Watson protested to Soviet commanders.
A gasoline station attendant Adkins was killed when his car failed to stop at a stop sign on 10th Street. His car struck Mrs. Fennel’s vehicle and another car, killing Adkins and injuring Mrs. Fennel and a third occupant, Charles Stilmer. The crash occurred near West Avenue and involved two trucks. autopsy planned, no brakes indicated. Adkins, 26, from Elyria, was a mechanic at Gulf Service Garage.
A Kipton man, Paul Woodrum 21, clung to life after a traffic crash on West Ridge Road when sheriff deputy Parker Miller and EMTs performed external heart massage. Despite multiple stoppages, Woodrum’s heartbeat briefly returned, but he remained critical at Elyria Memorial Hospital. His estranged wife, Minne Woodrum, was listed as fair from injuries in the same incident.
Milton Glaser called the predicament undignified as Peter Hill sold the antique Zuber wallpaper for 12,300 to the National Society of Interior Designers which donated and installed it in the White House reception room after a Thurmont wrecking incident.
Canton McKinley High School is suspended from interscholastic football for the 1962 season by the Ohio High School Athletic Association for using undue influence in recruiting two players.
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