The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1947-06-12

              Read The Merchants' SPECIALS On Page 2 HERST VOL. XXIX, NO. 24 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1947 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD A New Times 11 HE M if St. Joheph's Holds Graduation Rites Sunday evening at 7:30 at St. Joseph's church the pupils of the eighth grade of St. Joseph's parochial school held their commencement exercises. Scholarship awards were pre- ( sented to Camille Henry, John : Luccio and Beatrice Fuhrman. j The religious essay contest prizes , were awarded to Camille Henry, ! Jane Blair, Beatrice Fuhrman. Thomas Finnegan and Jane Blair received prizes for perfect attendance records. Diplomas were presented by Rev. Fr. Smith to James Bert-hold, Lawrence Busher, Edward Diedrick, Thomas Finnegan, David George, John Gormley, James Henry, James Krause, John Luccio, Robert Meyer, Donald Shagie, Leonard and Robert Van Neil, William Wohlever, Jane Blair, Beatrice Fuhrman, Camille Henry, Shirley Krause, Beverly Schabing and Carol Wernert. Rev. James Smith delivered the commencement address. The ser- j vice was closed with the Solemn j Benediction with the Rev. Fr. Theodore Blair, Akron, as cele- brant, the Rev. Fr. Robert Blair,: Oberlin, as deacon and the Rev. Fr. Smith as sub-deacon. I High School Gives Semester, Final Six Weeks' Standings Academic standings for the' Amherst high school pupils, for the semester and last six weeks period have been tabulated and released by the school. Th. iris ,tnrk an approximate 5-to-l lead over the boys in the "A" honors and the number of boys and girls predominate In the three A category for both the six weel and the semester periods. . Following is a list as furnished the News-Times: SIX WEEKS-SENIORS 5 A's Esther Sirk: 4 A's Roberta Diedrick, Veraj Hall, Betty Schroeder; 3 A's Gerald ire Dodson, Chester Gall, Jean Klcpr, Robert Meesig, Jean Mueller, Gladys Wooding-; 2 A's Kathleen Neieen, Non.de Wet-trich; 1 A Fred Klingenmeier, Dolores Osyk. JUNIORS 4 A's Nancy Ka-ser, Dorothy Moebius, Carol Parker; 3 A's David Hearn, Marilyn Oertell, Paul SUiarff, Diane Tab-bert, Julianne Woodings; 2 A's Donna Cahl, Carol Campbell, Margaret Choate, Laura Moody. SOPHOMORES 5 A's Martha Darch, Dale Richmond; 4 A's Lois Buser, Elmer Gall, Jerry Prittie, Joan Simpson; 2 A's Kenneth Bechtel, Don Straus. FRESHMEN 5 A's Joan Gambis: 4 A's Joan Martin, Dorothy Mollison, Moe Roberts; 3 A's Martha Bosse, Lucille Frank, Leila Ott; 1 A Mildred Martin, Kathleen Ryan, Gwen Smith, Bettie Worner. SEMESTER-SENIORS 5 A's Esther Sick, 4 A's Roberta Diedrick; 3 A's Geraldine Dodson, Chester Gall, Vera Hall, Jean Kleps, Robert Meesig, Betty Schroeder, Nancie Wettrich, Gladys Woodings, Barbara Tabbert; 2 A's Joe Gigli-otti, Howard Hogrefe, Jean Mueller, Kathleen Neisen, Shirley Rehman, Beverly Sprague: 1 A Richard Gormley, Fred Klingenmeier, Dolores Osyk. JUNIORS 5 A's Nancy Ka-ser; 4 A's Dorothy Moebius, Marilyn Oertell; 3 A's Margaret : Choate, Carol Parker, Diane Tab- I bert, Paul S c h a r f f, Julianne Woodings; 2 A's Carol Campbell, David Hearn, Jack Jewett, Laura I Moody; 1 A Donna Cahl, Alycei Kappley. I SOPHOMORES 5 A's Martha! Darch: 4 A's Lois Buser, Elmer Gall, Dale Richmond, John Simpson; 3 A's Carol Gilliland, Jerry Prittie; 2 A's Kenneth Bechtel, Eugene Nabors; 1 A Shirley Henry, Harvey Lodge. FRESHMEN 4 A's Joan Gambis, Joan Martin, Dorothy Mollison; 4 A's Martha Bosse, Lucille Frank, Leila Ott, Moe Roberts; 2 A's Sue Durling, Mildred Martin. W.ord has been received that Kathryn Jones, ' Grand Chief of Ohio Pythian Sisters, passed away suddenly at her home in Middle-town, Ohio. Burial will be made in her home town on Tuesday. WOMEN BOWLERS GIVEN AWARDS Prizes for the year were awarded Thursday when the Eagles Women's Bowling League met at the Amherst Eagles' club. Pins were ordered for the winning team, the Bluejays, which rolled up the top score for the year's play. Members of the Blue-jay team include Neota Bennett, captain, Helen Meesig, Margaret Gormley, Delia Bechtel, Rose Richards. Officers were elected for the coming season and are as follows: Mrs. Neota Bennett, president; Mrs. Marjorie Finnegan, vice-president; Miss Betty Mer-tens, secretary; Miss Wilma Haas, treasurer; Miss Helen Meesig, sergeant-at-arms. The Eagles Women's Bowling League will use Michael's Boeing Lanes next season instead of using the Lorain League. Wants Competition The Lorain Mish Cigars soft-ball team is booking games withvany tlass A or AA team after June 5. "The team's league playing nights are Tuesday and Thursday all other days are open. James Naples, team manager, states that the team will be available any time during the day, and that interested persons should contact him foi dates they would like to schedule for games. Naples may be contacted at telephone 73-138, Lorain. Bible School To Open On Monday For Two Weeks The Annual Summer Bible School will begin this coming Monday at the public school building and continue for two weeks. It will be held from 9 to 11:30 each msrning. A group of competent teachers and leaders has been secured. The closing service, at which time the parents are invited, will be held Friday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m., at the First Evangelical church Fire Chief Talks At Rotary Club At the regular Rotary luncheon held at the Methodist church parlors Monday noon, the guest speaker, Chief Elmer Stough, of the Lorain fire department, spoke on the causes of fires, nd also the way's of preventing fires. Guests of th group for this meeting were Jack McKeown, Vermilion, Ben Hindman, Elyria, and Don Griswold, Amherst. Route 58 Amherst will be included in approximately 125 miles of highway improvement, several bridges and grade crossing eliminations at the sale of proposals offered by the Ohio Highway department on June 17 at 10 a.m. in the State Office building, Director Murray D. Shaffer announced this week. Heavy Schedule Ajrain Set For Softball League i The Softball diamonds at the U. S. Automatic have seen a great deal of action the past week. Playing every night possible in order to make up the games postponed by the rain, the teams have also seen a lot of action. The schedule for this week is as follows; Thursday (tonight) 7:30 Lorain V.F.W.-Anchorians; 8:45Le-gion-Mischka's; Friday 7:30 Berlin Heights-Legion; 8:45 V.F.W.-Vermilion; Sunday 7:30 American Stove - Sandusky; 8:45 Amherst Legion-Wakeman Legion; Tuesday 7:30 Legion-Vermilion; 8:45 Eagles-Anchorians. Lorain Men Buy Agency, , Garage Joe Strenkofsky and his son, Henry, this week purchased the Warner Motor Ralps. Tindpp gmn. cy and garage on Park avenue. , o . Ial, uu, win-'prize at the 94th Commencement ihes intend to move to Amherst J of Heidelberg college. This prize as soon as residences can be ob- L. given to the two members of I the Senior class receiving the The elder Strenkofsky was for-lhighest throughout the merly in business in Pennsyl-i year vania. Henry married, with a E,aine fllso gwarded fte year-and-a-half-old son, was em- Thomas Fj Reller Prize t the ployedI in Springfield and Lorain' 94th commencement. This prize uci iii uiAciictigc iruiu service. ' mi-umni Ktuw ion received the highest grades thru-Miss MauNiTdTng, librarian out the four years of the ollege at the Amherst Public Library,, was in attendance at the Lorain high school alumni reunion held , inrai".rfently- I Miss Nieding graduated with the class of 1891r which this year celebrated its 50th anniversary. Eight of the original 14 members of the class were present. The most famous member being the lex-Admiral of the United States Navy, Ernest J. King. Former Local Man Believed Drowned In Boating Accident In Lake Erie Andrew Kristancic, 25, former erett Kristancic, a brother also Amherst man is believed to have been drowned in a boating accident in Lake Erie, off the mouth of Rocky River, Sunday evening. A third year student of Architectural engineering at Ohio State university, Kristancic is well known In Amherst thru stories In the Amherst News-Times of his ca reer as a B-17 pilot during the recent war. Holder of the Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross, he had completed 50 missions in the European theatre of war and was discharged as a lieutenant. Kristancic, home for a short vacation, had gone to Cleveland to visit a buddy, Nick Lupson, 20, and was invited by a friend of the two, William Varga. to take a ride in Varga's 17-foot sail boat, Varga Girl. It is believed the trio left Clifton Lagoon about 7:30. At 2 a.m., with no word of the missing trio, Ev- Named In State In Erie, Lorain and Medina counties 13 proposals. .6 mile, USR 6 in Vermilion twp; 4.08 mile, SR 4, in Croton, Margar-etta and Perkins twps.; 1.25 mile USR 6, In Margaretta twp.; 6.23 mile, SR 60 in Vermilion and Florence twps.; 3.76 mile, SR 113 in Berlin and Florence twps.; .44 ' xt in''-, ; n&MSms Jfif:! o TlA: A 4 tk XJ IL - , m. t . 1, ''.Si.l. t1. , -b' i" '? v. mJj I 'LUCKY DOGWfierf eoveTglrl Barbara Ann Creg turned on the t charm for Swap, he ipanlc),' while vltiting Dogi, Incorporated, a New (York kennel) she met, with thireool, reception. Although Swap'i sex i (not Hated. We're belting that it'inot'male. No guy could be that bored. F. Iln ""' "7"" tnprsi. was nwarnpn mp wp inp- jton 8nd Anna Miller Memorial is given to the three members of the graduating class , who have DIPN. C DHCTDnMCn r V-IN V- r VJj I rUINCL Sorosis clubptenic scheduled fnr this pvpninff ,,, hoDn M(. oned to June 1Bi dt the home of Mrs. George Smith in Elyria. Don Prittie is evpected home Friday from his studies at Bowl ing Green university for the sum mer months. visiting at the Lupson home, called police. A crash boat was immediately dispatched and cruised the lake for several hours. Seven planes from the Cleveland Army Air Base and Sel-fridge Field, Michigan, took part in the search Monday for the missing craft. The overturned boat was sigmea l Mt mues west of Rocky River, with one sur- vivor, Nick Lupson, clinging to it. The bodies of Kristancic and Varga have not yet been found. Kristancic, who had changed his name to Kris, attended Amherst schools and returned to complete his credits for a diploma after his discharge from ser- vice. He is survived by one sister, stor(J for the past nineteen years Emma Lewicki, Elyria, and oneland now plans lo take an ex- brother, Edward Kris, of Cleve land. Kristancic was to have attended the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Benedict, as 'a pallbearer on Tuesday, at the Zilch funeral home. ! Mrs. William Baker is spending j an indefinite time at the home of Mrs. John Hamann. Repairs mile, SR 61 in Berlin twp.; 1.3V mile, SR 10, in Russia twp.; 11.05 mile, SR 58 in Russia, Amherst and Black River twps.; 6.39 mile, SR 303, in Carnden and Pitts-field' twps.; 2.38 mile, SR 253, in Medina twp.; 2.59 mile, SR 76 in Harrisville twp.; 1.97 mile, SR 162, in Spencer twp. WHCgc a,M,,ua mm v jlaynar(l jChTUlCr Named To Head Bowlers' Assn. Maynard (Tiny) Schriner was named president of the Amherst Bowling Association at its organization meeting last Sunday afternoon. Other officers elected were Emery Schulz, first vice president; Richard Ehrman, second vice president; Doyle Hutton, third vice president; Earl Haas, fourth vice president; Howard P. Nalley, secretary - treasurer: and Bob Berk, Al Waldron, Clyde Donnally, and Don Fulmer, executive committee. A boarci of directors for the association will be named later with a representative of one man from each team. The local association will affiliate with the American Bowling Congress and will handle all jurisdictional affairs for local men bowlers as well as stage a city handicap tournament next spring. All league bowling, to start around Labor Day, will be under the supervision of the association. Webster Drugs Sold This Week To Euclid Man Sale ot tne Webster drug store j t0 Max KIine of Euclidi was an nounced this week by Lloyd Web- ster, owner of the store. Kline has been in the drug business in Cleveland for the past 25 years. He is married and has three children aged 17, 12, and 10. He plans to take up his residence here. Webster has operated the drug tended trip to the west coast. Miss Florence Laluk, Cleveland, is spending the week with Mrs. George Bans and Mrs. Dexter INcwkirk at their residence on Cleveland avenue. Hold Annual Picnic Sunday The annual picnic of St. Jo seph's church will be held at Brandt's park on Sunday after noon, June 15. Arrangements for the picnic are under the auspices of the Holy Name Society of the church. It is announced that there will be a program of games and con tests. There will also be a refreshment stand where light re freshments may be bought. Annual Affair Is Tentatively Set For Week Of June 23rd Tentative plans for the annual strawberry festival of the Chamber of Commerce were discussed at a meeting of the Chamber's board of directors on Monday evening of this week. C-B-I Veterans Plan For Annual Reunion Sunday Veterans from all sections of the state, who served in the China Burma India Theatre, are ex- peeled at their first annual re- i union and picnic, Sunday, June , id, at iamea ueauga aKe rant, on State Highway 43, between Cleveland and Akron. opiuvui ui me LnamDers spon-Sponsored by the Cleveland ! sorship here of a Senior Boy CBI club, the affair will be a Scout troop. The Chamber now basket picnic, with all facilities sponsors the local Scout troop of the park, including dancing and agreed to act as sponsor for and bathing, at the disposal of the the new organization which will former soldiers and their fam- Unk in Wc .. u i ilies. All ex-servicemen and wo- men, ana xneir irienas, are in - vited. A registration desk at the park will enable persons to lo - cate former buddies. It is hoped to have Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Pick as guest. Pick won fame as builder of the "Stilwell Highway." Indian Uudents in Ohio universities and the staff Ui , wu.roc vuama wmcc, are aiso oeing inviiea. The CBI Veterans' group is headed by James C. McCoy, of Cleveland, who spent almost 3 years on the Burma road. Attorney Robert M. Wurzman is general chairman of the picnic committee. Secretary is Malcolm R. Mc-Bride, ex-Special Service officer in Bombay. Dr. M. L. Whittle, overseas member of the medical corps, is treasurer. Miss Mary Ellen Byron, former Red Cross worker, is in charge of women's activities. The organization includes com- visual center located in the Lead-batmen from "Merrill's Maraud- er Building, Cleveland, ers", air corps flyers of the The Contact Lens Center will treacherous "Hump"; men who function to provide professional saw liaison service with the Chi- care for contact lens cases, and ncse armies; engineers who carv- to give those qualified, the spec-ed toads and landing strips in ial instrumentation, visual train-the Burma jungles, and army ing and allied treatments for sub nurses. normal vision. No case will be Club and picnic headquarters accepted without recommenda- are at 515 Williamson Building, tion by the individual's personal Cleveland. doctor. Children's Day At First Evangelical Graduates Of St. Joseph's Receive Treat The students of St. Joseph's parochial school reported back to school for their report cards on Monday and found a treat waiting for them. After receiving their cards they went in a group to the Amherst Thettrc and saw "The Five Little Peppers." They then returned to the school for ice cream and cake. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams and Mrs. Harold Mathes and children, Anona, Carol, Kathleen and Harold, Jr., spent Sunday in Cleveland. Mr. Frank Mischka, who has been in Crile hospital for the past six weeks, returned home Tuesday. He is improving satis factorily. Mrs. James Leitch of California and Mrs. Charles Miller of Cleve land, were recent guests of Mrs. James Miller, Beaver court. Present plans call for the dinner to be held, as usual, in Brownhelm during the week of June 23. A limit of 100 was put on the number of tickets to be available. Conrad Zilch was requested by the board to arrange for a speaker for the program.. 4 The affair has been held an-- nually for a number of years, ;havi been started b the Busi. neSs Men's Association. It has . bp. D0Dula. evet and wen.attended. ,1 Qth hlIRn. . , , . . . ... .. . , , , the koard at its meeting included , .. , . i scout age. 1 It was reported also that the ' application for a 3-inch gun, to 'be moUnted on the lawn of the town hall has been forwarded to Washington. The Chamber has agreed t0 urnish lhe funds nec. eSsary for de-militarizing the war surplus gun and brrhgil' it ' to Amherst. The village council nas agreed to mount the gun at the town hall. Name C. E. Baker On Clinic Staff The newly formed Cleveland Contact Lens Center has just announced the acceptance of Dr. Charles E. Baker, prominent local optometrist, as a staff member of the center. This announcement closely follows the establishment of the new The following program will be given at the First Evangelical United Brethren church this com ing Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in ob servance of Children's Day. Mrs. Kathryn Schmitkons, superintend ent of the Primary department, will be in charge. Hymn, "Christ For the World We Sing"; Scripture reading by Bradley Tabbert; Song, "I Think When I Read That Sweet Story"; prayer by Donald Zuspan; Greeting by June Zuspan; "Children's Day is Here" by Donna Northeim, Patsy Hume and Barbara Capp; "Blossom Time," song by Miss Ruth Hermann's class; Sowing Seeds by the Beginners; A For gotten Child by Doreen Lange; For This He Came by Beth Stevens; A Child on His Knee by Jacqueline Buell; Song, "He Lovingly Cares" a group of girls; Instrumental duet by Tommie Dute and David Vandersall; We're a Sunday School Class, a class of boys; song, Leona Burton and Nancy Springer; We Spend So Much, Anita Sprague; Offering; Anthem by the choir; Remarks by the Supt. C. J. Sprin ger.