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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1950
Page
4
A broadcast style listing shows a roundup of entertainment and news segments. It notes musical performances, guest bands, and timing slots from early afternoon through late night with hosts and participants such as Frank Edwards and Nancy Dixon.
A reader advises using flat wall paint to blend radiators with walls and outlines a cleaning priming and painting sequence. He notes temperature during painting matters and invites readers to share new repair methods, signed by Mr Cobb for The George Matthew Adams Service in 1950.
Calendar notes events tonight and tomorrow across communities. Grafton Kuwnanis club marks seventh anniversary with speaker S S Cortell of Akron at Grafton school cafeteria. Ridgeville PTA open house with board talks at 8 pm everyone invited. Lagrange PTA with Dr Brosky talk and room mothers refreshments. Columbia Golden Links amateur show at 8 pm at the school. Ridgeville room mothers plan membership drive. Olmsted attic sale shelter house in North Olmsted park. Oberlin junior choir rehearsal 2 30 pm at the church.
Skeptical attendees lingered but merchants spent about three hours giving away prizes, concluding the promotion as onlookers watched.
The U S Air Force develops a midget target plane the OQ 19 that can reach 220 mph and perform difficult maneuvers under ground pilot control ten miles away using a new automatic pilot with radar guidance. The aircraft simulates fighter operations for anti aircraft and gunnery practice and is recovered by a cargo parachute guided by radio and radar.
In Mount Vernon Indiana a merchant posts three window signs promising a household gift to the first reader. Hundreds pass by, many stop to read but few believe the offer, leaving the bet unsettled and the display under scrutiny.
Grover Williams, an Atlanta painter, was injured after a woman tied two dogs to a garbage can. The can dragged as the dogs pulled in opposite directions, causing Williams on a ladder to fall and require hospital treatment for a fractured hip.
A farewell party at the town hall honored the Rev and Mrs Hart with a program of music readings and a gift. Refreshments of doughnuts coffee and cocoa followed. The Harts were moved to Macedonia Minor Local and family moved from the Paul Kruggel farm to a farm in Macedonia.
Guests include Mr and Mrs Stanley Heman of Akron and Mrs George Coulter with son George of Canton visiting Mr and Mrs George Round. A seven and a half pound daughter was born Sunday afternoon to Mr and Mrs Robert Lloyd at Lodi Hospital. Other items note visits by Mr and Mrs George Everiss Mr and Mrs Dan Lloyd and Viviane in Columbus and Dr Frank Schrier recovering at home from polio.
Mr and Mrs Carl Fratz attended the dinner and business meeting of the 14th District Postmasters held Sunday at the Twin Lakes Country Club in Kent.
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