The Amherst news-times (Amherst, Ohio), 1947-09-04

              Am News Read The 4 HERST Merchants SPECIALS On Page 2 VOL. XXIX, NO. 36 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD ff HE IMES Eire ul(i(B Large Crowd Attends Local Eagles' Animal Outins; At Brandt s Park The annual Eagles' picnic was held at Brandt's park Sunday with well over 1,000 enjoying the games and contests'of the afternoon and dancing in the evening. j Races and contests were held for both children and adults with the following winning prizes: 2o-yard dash for boys, b-a, jer- , t rii r p ry Krause; 25-yard dash for girls, I Lander OliarC UI 6-9, Minnie George; 50-yard dash) for boys 9-12 Jerry Thorna-. J)alCS 1 MOllCY Douglas Wilford; 50-yard dash , for girls 9-12, Joan Mudrich, Minnie George; 75-yard dash for Amherst village will receive boys 12-16, Jim Krause, Dave ; $3,591.70 during the last six George; 75-yard dash for girls, ; months of the year from sales 12-16, Jane Schiff, Joan Mudrich;! collections, according to an 75-yard dash for boys over 18, announcement this week by Frank Jack McCann and Jim Korpol. 'Ayres, county auditor. Garden Club Hears Bromfield At "Malabar" Community Gets J.W 4k A To i The last half distribution will be more than half again as much as that received in the first six 1 months of the year when only $2,188.57 was received. I South Amherst village will re- 'flo'-J-'J Peanut race for women, Mrs. t Bertha Uleski, Patsy Wohlever; women's ball throwing, Mrs. Richard Murelle, Wanda Muniga; pop contest for men, Gene Poor, Jim Krause; cigarette contest, Jack McCann and Mrs , ...... ... ..... R19. RP. na nirninst 5:37.148 fnr Vip ' Daiioon coniesi, dim jirause, dim were Kaiser; banana contest, J. Thorn-lirsl S1X m0I"ns- as, S. Smith, and Leonard Har- Amherst township will receive tell Jr., and Ruby Hartsel; three- $2,160.91 for the last half of the legged race for boys, John Sivin-'year, having received $1,316.73 for ski, Richard McKaman; three- the first six months. legged race for girls, Joan Mud- I Ai. S " Soil building, erosion control, and scientific experiments in agriculture as carried on at "Mala- hnr ' hnmp nf T.ntiic RrnmfioM Gene Poor; ' cerve for the last J nautnor and gentlema farmer; explained to members of the Amherst Garden club at a recent trip there. Drivers' Licenses Go On Sale Here rich, Minnie George; sack race, Jim Krause, Corkie Brown. E. W. Lahiff was recognized as the oldest member present, Mrs. Albert Haas and Fred Mu- ancn as uie largest tamiiies pres- Automobile d r i v e r s' licenses ent, and Mr. and Mrs. Russell ' went 0n sale this week at the Slumska as the youngest married office of D. R. Goldthorpe , for couple. - Amherst, and at the home of Mrs. Allgood, of Eerlin Heights, ' Jack Walker for South Amherst, won the grand prize of the elec- j Both of the local deputy regis-tric refrigerator, and Martha trars handle only the operators' Thomas won the pressure cooker licenses and uto license plates, given by the auxiliary. , j Chauffers' licenses and truck and ' trailer licenses can be secured in either Lorain or Elyria. Deadline for obtaining the drivers' licenses is Tuesday, September 30. ' Goldthorpe Named Local Scoutmaster D. R. Goldthorpe, local attor-' MoSOIlS OpCll ney, has been named acting scout-ifiaster of the local Boy Scout J?(lH ScSsioil troop and will take over next j week, following the resignation of Henry Sharp Jr., who has returned to duty with the Air Corps. Goldthorpe is calling a meeting of the group for next Wednesday, September 10, at 7:30 p.m. at which time he will go over with the boys plans for the future as well as plans for building up interest in the troop. Shown above is a general view of the buildings on the estate. seen from a hill where Bromfield took the group to explain how he had built up the land in the rolling country making up his farm. The two pictures at the right are of the club members and weir nusDanas ana mends as they stopped for lunch at a road side park. Tn the bottom photo, Bromfield is 10 wn as he answered ques tions following his talk to the local group. The club made the trip to "Ma labar" in a chartered bus. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ni- chol, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Chonte, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nicholl, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schulz, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kern, Mr. and Mrs. George Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Prittie, Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlert, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Foster, Irs. Frances Adams, Mr. and Stonington Lodge, F. & A. M., lurs- ueorBe amnn mss "elen meets in a regular stated meeting Rlce- Miss Grace Rice. Miss Mar at the lodge rooms next Tuesday Enrollment Up As Public School Gets , St. Joseph 146 727 One of the largest enrollments in recent years was recorded when the public school opened its doors for the fall term on Tuesday of this week. First-day enrollment stood at 727. On the first day last year only 705 were enrolled and on the first day in 1945 only 675 pupils enrolled. Not included in the school-age Melvin Reichert Dies Of Injuries Received In Fall evening, September 9, in the first meeting of the fall season. Mrs. Harry Earl and son, Jack, visited friends in LaGrange, Illinois the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Berrington spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday attending a gift show in Detroit. While there they viewed new items being brought out for the Christmas season. Comets Open 1947 Football Season At Berea Tomorrow , ""t s 1 l :m i a f -a A n nin i'""ti '"'nmr I jl i i ""I'm iiti -' """ ' i "''' ' ;': ion Steele, Mrs. J. H. Gilman, V'i,-'.;'''.'' Mrs. Lucy Roemer, and Mrs. Jo- I ''v.,-s. . . seph Wesbecher. I ''V2v' ' ii i in i i i 'r Tu.kii enrollment was a registration of 43 pupils in the kindergarten. About five more pupils are ex pected to register for the kindergarten which holds sessions forv one group in the morning and for another group in the afternoon. Of the 727 pupils enrolled, 456 are in the grades, in the various classes as follows: first grade, 65; third, 43; fourth, 61; fifth, 51; sixth, 51; seventh, 61; and eighth, 59. ft Of the 271 pupils in high school, Pi are in the ninth grade, 74 in the tenth, 65 in the eleventh, and 64 in the twelfth. School was held only until noon on Tuesday, with the regular full- day sessions starting on Wednes- Melvin Reichert, 32, of North Ridge road, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday evening from injuries he received in fall earlier in the afternoon at his home He was putting shingles on the roof of his home when the ladders slipped and he fell to the ground. He was taken to the Amherst hospital where he died in the evening. Born in Amherst, he had SDent his entire life in this community, j day. He was a member of the St. Pe- At. St. Joseph's parochial school ter's Evangelical and Reformed .which opened Wednesday morn- church and Stonington Lodge, F. & A. M. Survivors in elude his wife, , Martha; a son. Dale, 9; a daugh ter, Jane Ellen, 2; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Reichert, of Amherst; four brothers, Stanley, Elmer, Frank, and Louis, all of Amherst; and one sister, Mrs. E. Wavrick, also of Amherst. The body was taken to the Walter A. Frey funeral home, Lorain, where it will remain until 9 a.m. Saturday morning, when it will be taken to the St. Peter's Evangelical-Reformed church, in Amherst. Funeral services will be conducted at the church at 2 p.m. Siturday, under the Rev. Ernst Irion, of Elyria. Burial will be made in Elm-wood cemetery, Lorain. Masonic services will be conducted. ing. a total of 146 pupils enrolled for the eight grades. Registered in the ( first grade were 27. :n th y-Hf. 22 third ' 18, fourth 15, fifth" 17, sixth 24; seventh 9, and in the eighth 14. Sister Agnelle is teaching the seventh and eighth grades this year. Amherst's Comets open their ten-game football schedule tomorrow (Friday) evening when they tangle with some other member of the Cleveland Southwestern League in a 12-minute quarter at the Baldwin-Wallace stadium at Berea. Put on as a benefit game to obtain funds to be used in case of injury to players in the league, the game this week will see all eight teams of the league in action. Each of the eight will play one quarter, the opponents to be chosen by drawing immediately , preceding the game. Although Amherst is now a member of the league, having been admitted last spring, football schedules were already arranged so that the Comets will not meet all the other teams in the league in regular games this season. However, Wellington, Medina, and Clearview (all members) will be on the list for the Comets. The first regular game will be against Norwalk here on Friday, September 12. All Comet home games will be played under the lights and all except one home game will be on Friday, evening. 1947 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Sept. 12 Norwalk Sept. 19 Wellington Sept. 22 Brunswick Oct. 3 Lorain Reserves Oct. 10 North Olmsted Oct 17 New London Oct. 24 Medina Oct. 30 Clearview Nov. 7 Copley Home Games Tentative date Registration Is A 'Must' For Those Wishing To Vote $12,009 Terminal Leave Bonds Are Cashed In Here Over $12,000 in veterans' ter minal leave bonds were cashed at the Amherst branch of the Lorain County Savings and Trust company on Monday of this week, the first day the bonds could be cashed. Fifty-one bonds were cashed, practically all by veterans from this community. n O F. J. Berger, assistant manager iTaClICe 3CSSI0n or the bank, stated this week that he was advising veterans to hold on to their bonds if H was at all possible. He said, however, that any who needed to cash their bonds now would be taken care of at the bank. Public Invited To Of Football Team Members of the Amherst Ministerial association and their families will meet Monday evening at 5 p.m. at the Vandersall cottage at Linwood park for a pot luck dinner. Following the dinner the ministers will hold their first meeting of the fall under the direction of the president, J. H. Bollens. Registration for all who wish to vote in the November or sub- aequtm cuxuuib, wm oe Heia in twenty-eight days' residence in all polling places in Amherst, the precinct; citien of the United a o u i n Amnersi, ana Amnerst states. lownsmp on uctooer t, iu, ana u. According to the Lorain County Since there has been no previ- Board of Elections, citizenship t.'' i l 'r: ..T j r.d here, every- is acouired in the followins wavs - vwu Aiouui vo vote in the fu- Born in the United States; born 1 rc r -s' ir;ir er. Past voting outside the United States of par- - c. .s :.u or.,..:., as a regis-jents who are U. S. citizens; thru (ration. I father who became a citizen prior Polls will be open on Thursday, to the children becoming 21 years October 2, Friday, October 10, 1 of age; thru husband, if married and Saturday, October 11, from prior to September 22, 1922; if 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 an alien and married at a lntpr p.m. to 9 p.m. Qualifications of those desiring to register are the following time limitations, all computed to election day: Twenty-one years of age; one year's residence in Ohio; thirty days' residence in Lorain county; date, the wife must have a na turalization certificate; through naturalization by the court na turalization certificate must be presented at the time of registra' tion. In registering there Is no de claration of party affiliation. Followers of the Amherst foot ball team are invited to meet the members of the team at a public practice session under the lights at the Harris street athletic lield next Wednesday evening, September 10. Sponsored through the coopera tion of the athletics department of the high school and the Boos ter club, the public practice session has been planned to give followers a preview of this year's team and let them get a close-up glimpse of the team in action. Tentative plans call for the cheerleaders and possibly the band to be in attendance also. Gather Data For County Directory Heber Page, of the Page-Bald win company, this week opened offices in Elyria to take charge of the house-to-house and busi ness canvass to secure information for a Lorain countydirectory. Preliminary work on thecounty-wide directory has been under way since April. Plans call for every resident of the county, with the exception of Lorain and Elyria cities, to be listed in the directory. All towns in the county having separate post offices will have separate complete sections in the directory. Conducting the business survey in Amherst now are Mr. and Mrs. George Black and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kerns. Hunting Dogs To Have Field Trials At Sports Show Every dog will have his day, every hunting dog that is, at the Cleveland Outdoor sports Show at the Stadium, September 10 through 19, according to an announcement this week by Pat Patterson, show manager, who lists genuine field trials for cocker spaniels, coon hounds, beagles, and springer spaniels as part of the entertainment program at the first annual outdoor sportsexposition. These field trials will be under the direction of sportsman's clubs of this area that are noted for their work in this feld of sports. The cocker and springer field trials will be handled by the South Cuyahoga Sportsmen's Association with Harry F. Lowther, 161 5 Tread way avenue, Cleveland, handling entries which are coming in from as far away as Detroit. The coon field trials will be in charge of the Chagrin Valley Fish and Game association with William Kreieroff, of Solon, handling the entries. The Chagrin Valley Beagle club will offer the beagule field trials with Lee S. Wade. 11143 Kinsman road, Cleveland, in charge of entries. Mr. Charles Smith, Park avenue, is spending three weeks in Pittsburgh, Pa. on business. Mrs. Dorothy Cahoon spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Raesler. Committee To Plan Membership Drive Members of the Amherst Hos pital membership drive committee will meet Monday evening at 7:15 at the A. Nabakowski company office on Milan avenue under the direction of the chairman, Robert Hubbard. Assisting on the committee are Harry Earl, R. J. Ehrlich, Conrad Zilch, R. R. Wasem, Jake Wil- helm, Louis Kilmer, Mrs. Ray Bechtel, Mrs. Parker Baird, Mrs. Neal Ludwig, Mrs. Carl Deeds, Joe Ignat, J. J. Smythe, W. G. Nord, Clarence Kern, and Fred Berger. Plans will be discussed for the drive for members which will be conducted during September. Attend Air Races Over Week-End Among those attending the Air Races in Cleveland over the week end and holiday from Amherst and South Amherst were: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Menz and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Scroeder, Miss Jane Beaver, Miss Margot Opfer, Gerald and Bob Schroeder, Bob and Bud Coverdale, Dick Fulmer, Mr. and Mrs. Mervlrt Schubert, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hart, Elaine Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coverdale, Mr. and Mrs. John Smythe Jr., Mr. and Mrs, H. J. Smythe, Mary Anne Klimosew-skl, Ervin Wragg, Wanda Winson, Paul Palco, Mrs. Alta Winson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Poyak.