The Amherst news-times (Amherst, Ohio), 1949-04-14

              The Amherst Mews-Times VOL. XXXI, NO. 15 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Vandals Rage Through High School; Smash-Tactics Ruin Building Interior Damage Runs Into Hundreds of Dollars Damage estimated by Supt. Fred Powers at $250 to $350 was caused through deliberate vandalism at the high school some time last night (Wednesday).No estimate was available at press time on amount or number of items actually taken, practically all the damage deliberate destruction of doors, windows; books and records. The vandals ranged through practically the entire third floor, smashing windows, door panels, laboratory apparatus, books, pictures, and practically everything in sight. Worst hit were the library and Supt. Powers' office. In the library most of the books were thrown from the shelves to the floor, trampled on, and covered with glue, paste, and ink. Cupboards were forced open and the contents added to the litter on the floor and tables. Floors in Mr. Powers' and Miss Purcell's ffices were entirely covered with records, school forms and other items swept from shelves, closets and desk drawers.. Some damage was done to almost every room on the third floor all very evidently done with the intention of causing as much deliberate and senseless damage as possible. Entry to the building was thought to have been gained through a door from one of! the fire escapes late last night. The damage was discovered by Supt. Powers when he opened up the school this morning. Chief of Police Carl Wenrich is investigating the break-in. He specifically requested that anyone hearing any talk around town pointing to the guilty parties be reported to him at once. The type of damage, he said, rather points toward juvenile vandalism and in such a case school children may hear through their grapevines some clue that would help in apprehension of those responsible. Schulz Named To Head Local C of C Group Elections held Monday by the Amherst Chamber of Commerce resulted in the naming of Walter, Schulz,, .local insurance agent, as new Dresident of the organiza tion. Schulz succeeds Conrad Zilch who held the office the Dreceeding' period. Other men taking office as a result of elections held in the bank offices include Max Ege- land, vice-president; and William Bodmann Jr.,secretary-treasurer. Arthur Meesig, Carl Ehrman and Ray Ehrlich were named to investigate erection of signs to enable motorists to locate Amherst more easily. Amherst Places Fifth In League Quiz Contest In the recently concluded quiz contest participated in by all of the eight schools in the Southwestern conference, Amherst high's six entrants came out in fifth place. Rocky River high took first honors. - Students here who participated included Valter Hoy, Roger Dudley, Sue Durling, Betty Parker, Shirley Henry and Dale Richmond. Questions given to students, c o v ered International affairs, national affairs, science, sports and literature. Scenes From the High School's Operetta B 1. EL..... iJiir'-fi'-'-'rn I I 1 1 i t ,i . l 3 , II i.,.. ...... i,..: i. 'i TTT'ii ""ij ir, l jf . i r-rxv f vrri i h r i n rail 1 T in f49 Red Cross Drive Here Nets $1536 Mrs. Charles Kendeigh announced' yesterday, the official closing of the Reel Cross drive in Amherst and ' vicinity, with a total of $1536.14 collected to date. All collections are not definitely closed, with scattered tuvn-ins still due. Breakdown of collections in Mrs. Kendeigh's district show the following totals: South Amherst $ 319.00 Brownhelm $ 173.14 Vermilion-on-the-Lake $62.50 Sunnyside $26.50 Elberta Beach $53.00 $ 142.00 Amherst 902.00 Total $1536.14 Drive chairman Kendeigh stated there was no actual goal set, although she felt the totals turned in were most satisfactory. She further added to her report, praising the workers who did the collecting, and stated that, "On the behalf of the organization, I want to thank all those who contributed their time as solicit- Harry Earl Heads PTA Again; Two Offices Change it Aj .Vyw . Ap 7 V S jt:K t . ft? I I I i I . I f X 1 I ! i ft . I I r f All V S. 1 ,4. as Successful Two-Night Run Remarks overheard among the 1 400 persons who attended, the was music and general manager showing of the high school pro- oi the operetta, with a staff ducttcn "The Buccaneers" indi- including: Miss Sarah Miner, mu-cated that the two-night produc- sic director, Miss Ann Cutler, tion had been a success. stage setting and design, Mrs. The musical operetta staged Eceland, liberetto coach, Mrs. L. aboard ship featured Carol Gilr Kubuske, dances, and Mrs. liland and Jack Pippert as leads Haines, costumes, in a play of intrigue, romance, Students in the cast were Carol and comedy. nillrland, Jack Pippert, James Over 77 persons made up the Council, Claude Miller, Edward cast of the affair and dYedit Moebius, Howard Washka, Rhea to each for their work in the Rosenkranz, Clarence Brown, music, casting, acting, singing, Jennie Lach, Robert Wohlcver, dancing, costumes and settings Ardith Kuhn, Maria Bramwell, should be given. Richard Sharp, Dale Richmond Floyd Moore, vocal director and John Mlinarik. B-W Track Head Talks On Sports Here Monday a ':tf.cto midience of stu dents and guests were present at he high school aionaay iuei".' vAcUp Finneean, Baldwin- uroiin.o trark coach speak on . , 1 o track as a sport, ana on .c nivmnic eames. Finnegan was accompanied by Bob Meesig, Bob Mihuta and Gun-ther Katzmar, all B-W track men. Meesig and Mihuta are ooin Amherst hish school graduates. Finnegan stressed attention to what he termed a common fallacy; belief that track and running burred out young boys. He stated that only those who ran without training and condition-ine endangered themselves. Track men who trained and worked at the sport actually bettered their physical condition, heart included according to Finnegan. He pointed out the great health and sta mina of the Scandinavians who ran from the time they were small boys. Interesting sidelights on the Olympic games were given by Finnegan, whe during his talk mentioned that sports enthusiasts in the British Isles all stand in their stadiams, ratlur than all seated as in this country. Clevelander Talks To Rotarians On European Trip Kenneth Thompson, Cleveland Rotarian, was guest speaker when the Rotary club met at the Ctngrepational church Monday noon. Thompson spoke on "VnynrtA Ac T Rau Tf ffivinc stage setting and design, Mrs. I ciMs 0f ,-ecent trip taken Dale McLoda To A Premium for Decorated Eggs - y A concerted drive for local art was initiated this week with the announcement that small fry from the. first through the sixth grades in both the public and parochial schools would have their chance to do their stuff with Easter eggs. The News-Times It sponsoring an Easter egg decorating contest, which closes tomorrow (Friday) noon, with prizes going to winners for either the prettiest egg, or the most original. Children from the first through the third grade will be in Classification I, while children in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades will be in classification II. Each child can make only one entry, and must specify whether it Is for the prettiest or the original classification. The contestant's name should be attached to each egg in a place where it cannot be seen by judges. All entrants should be certain their name is safely attached. Judging will be accomplished on Monday evening, with prize winners announced. In next week's News-Times. Eggs will be displayed In the News-Times window until the next Friday, April 22. Owners must claim their eggs on that date or they will be thrown away. , Each child MUST do HI8 OWN work. Let's go to It, kldsl through the British Isles, and on the continent. Nominations for the , Rotary board of directors were made from the floor with the following fourteen nominated: Dan Buser, Lloyd Bahler, Fred Ber-ger, W. J. D irling, Irving Emmerich, Robert Hubbard, Joseph Ignat, . Rnbct Mulford, Mike Nabakowski. lioy Schaeffer, John Smythe, C. C. Vandersall, Ray Wascm, Dkk Zilch. High sehcoi guests present included Del'"'-s Youngless, Ann Virant, Marine Amenhauser, and Dolores Br;nnu'cu. Clvde McVillan, Elyria, and Walter Mvn of Huron were out- of-town nin'sts, President 0. C. Vandersall an nounced tint the Rotary would beein nren;intions for the Band banquet and named the following members to '.lie committee: Fred Powers, Orlando Petrillo, Conrad Zilch, John Smythe, Roy Stevens and Lee Menz. Lead 4-H Organization The Amherst S.W.P. 4-H Boy's club re-organized when they met at the home of John Kingsley. The following oflicers were elect ed: ; -Dale McLoda, president; Chuck Thomr.s, vice president; Dale Spiegelberg, secretary; Ken neth Bechtel, treasurer; Dick Prl vinski and Vincent Howard, re creation leaders; Dale Becker, porter for Lorain Journal; Fritz Dietrich, reporter for A m h e s t Nws-Times. Monday, the 18th, was set for the next meeting night and the group will meet at the home of Chuck Thomas. A social hour followed and refreshments were served by Mrs. Kingsley and John. - Decision On Drowning Held Up For Reports A telephone conversation this morning (Thursday) between assistant county prosecutor Harold Fwing in Elyria and the News-Times revealed that the story told by Max Klein, husband of the Tuesday morning drowning victim. Mrs. Margaret Klein, was fi nally changed. Originally Klein had stated that he had kissed his wife goodbye before leaving for work Tuesday. Later questioning brought to light a story which alleged that Mrs. Klein had not been in tne house during the night preceding.. the morning her body was discov ered. Family members stated she was in the habit of walking the farm during the late evening for air. Ewing gave the News-Times to understand that Mr. Klein and 11-ytar-old son with the family clog had walked in search ot the victim on Monday night, but had not found her. This made the story of Klein seeing his wife before work questionable, Ewing said, and olliciiil questioning indicated wu Klein had actually not seen his wife on Tirsd.iv morning. Investigation of the stomach contents of the victim is being carried on in Cleveland, and pathological reports of this examination arc bting awaited before further statements will be available. This examination is being made on the request ol county coroner Paul A. Tillman. Deputy Sheriff Kosco and As sistant Prosecutor hwing nan car-1 ricd on extensive questioning of the family members, which resulted in the numerous conflicting stories told by the three children and their father. Ewinp hinted that a possibility was that the suicide aspect of the case was being cloaked by the family in view of the religious impact en such actions. Klein is cf the Jewisn laun, wnne me iwo youngest children attend the local Catholic school. Ewing said no definite statement as to the religious faith of the mother had been established, although rumor had it she was originally Episcopalian. Following elections at the Am herst Parent-Teacher Associa tion Monday night, Harry Earl was re-elected to head the group for the coming year. Dr. N. A. Rubel was again chosen for vice-president, Mrs. John McLoda elected to be sec retary and Mrs. Rooert Choate named treasurer. Mrs. McLoda succeeded Mrs. Mary Wheatley while Mrs. Choate took over the duties of Miss Melba Schwed. Rev. J. H. Bollens gave the invocation. A letter was read to the group stating that the local endorsement of the state aid bill to schools had been received but that the bill was temporarily shelved due to lack of funds in the present budget of the state cf Ohio. A vote of assent was given for the donations of ten dollars to each of the Cancer drive and the Heart Associaticii of the .oi'nty TB 'Association. It was also decided that the PTA would purchase a quarter page advertisement in. the band spring concert program. Art Thomas acted as program chairman in the absence of Tom Taylor, and introduced Mrs. Lowell Stone who accompanied on the piano, the students from the Stone Dance Studio, Elyria. Following the dance recital, Walter Hoy's orchestra furnished music for dancing. The evening was closed when refreshments were served by Mrs Harvey Chambers' committee. ors and those whose financial contributions made the campaign a success." In the vicinity of Amherst collections were taken as follows: in South Amherst by the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, chairman, Mrs. Louis Lieb; Brownhelm, chairman, Mrs. Parker Baird, while Mrs. Harold Hahn headed the drive inVermihon-on-the-Lake, Sunnyside and Elberta Beach. In Amherst, collectors who canvassed included the following residents: The Misses Grayce Purcell, Anna Robertson, Ruth Rosen-cranz, Minnie Sabiers, Donna Sanders, Helen Shand, Joan Sharp, Esther Sick, Beverly Sprague, Thelma Sprenger, Betty Witt, and Louise Adler. The Mesdames Joseph PoyaK, James Schulz, Rhoda Slack, Carl Smith, Ervin Telzerow, George Walker Jr., Harold Washka, Lawrence Zuspan, Thomas Nugent, A. J. Stiwald, Walter Bar-ris, Robert Berk, George Bruce, James Childress, J. W. Childress. Mesdf Tred Coverdale, Edwin Cullen.'Carl Deeds, Robert Doane, Edith Ehrman, Clarence Frederick, Earl Hanlon, Newton Holzhauer, Ruth Husar, Harry Hutton. Earl Kane, Walter Kiser. Ludolph Kreeger, Vera Lauver, . June Mannion, Iona Maxwell, Gerald Mead, Irving Mollison, Edward Pietch. Township collections were ably handled by the following personnel:Mrs. Margaret Bartish, Mrs. A. C. Berg, Miss Lila Mae Bischoff, Mrs. E. C. Campell, Mrs. Sam Owens, Mrs. Ben Roz-sos, Mrs. Wm. Schaeffer, Mrs. Mervin Schubert, Mrs. George Taylor, Mrs. William Wheatley Jr. Local Needs Make Easter Seal Drive Request Important Necessity for cooperation of residents in the present Easter Seal campaign was brought home this week. Harry Earl, Rotary club secretary, directing the campaign stated that over 20 cases in Amherst and vicinity have been handled through this fund. Some 1700 letters containing Easter "seals were mailed out to residents of Amherst last Thursday. Official closing date for the drive is nationally set for Easter Sunday. Earl stated that seals may be paid for by return mail or can be paid in person at the local branch of the Lorain County Savinns & Trust Company. Contribution cans have been placed in the stores around town for shoppers' convenience. Funds derived have by far been dispersed of locally. Aid has been given from the purchase of a wheelchair ,to treatments in the Cleveland Rehabilitation cen tor for speech, hearing and allied therapy. Epilepsy therapy has also been secured through the use ot these funds. People are urged to return their dollar in return for these seals as soon as possible. Either in person at the bank or through the envelope enclosed in the original mailing. Wellington Band Plays Here Wellington's high school band appeared on an all-school assembly program at Amherst high this week. Miss Roberta Ca'der-wood was director of theorganization. Mrs. William E. Wenzel re ceived an announcement this week of the birth of a baby riniiphter to her brother and wife, Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Hengen of St. Louis, Mo. Jaycees To Hold Paper Drive Here Elmer Smith, Junior Chamber of Commerce president, has announced that the Jaycees will conduct a paper drive in Amherst on or about Saturday, April 23. Residents are being asked to hold their waste waste paper for Javcee collections. Bob Walker, chairman, Norm Kurth, Richard Gormley, and Dick Ehrman are members of the com mittee for collection in the drive, Good Friday Services Set Members of the Amherst Min isterial Association are reminding town residents of the joint Good Friday sedvices tomorrow Good Friday services tomorrow with Rev. J. H. Bollens, host pastor. The program win revoive a- round "Seven Words' of the Cross." Sacred music will be furnished by churchesparticipating. Sneaking will be Rev. van dersall, Rev. Dale Riggs, Rev. J. H. Parks, Rev. Daniel Buser, Rev. Mensendiek, (Lorain St. John Evangelical and Reformed), Rev. Ralph Albright, and- Rev. J. H. Bollens. The program will close at 3 p.m. The portion of the services between 1:30 and 2 p.m. will be broadcast. All business houses in town will close from 1 to 3 to allow employees and proprietors to attend services. Rand Plays To Large Crowd On Palm Sunday Miss Sarah Miner directed the Amherst band's sacred music concert Palm Sunday to a large audience in the school gym. The program featured several church hymns with special selections by a brass sextet and a cornet trio. Band selections included "Holy City" bv Adams; "Nation's Prayer." Franck: "In a Monas tery Garden," Keteliby; bKorn- icka's "Eroico;" "Bells Across the Meadow" by Ketelby and "Eastertide" by Johnson. BUY EA8TER 8EAL8 Scouts Re-Register Registration of scouts for the coming year was accomplished Mondav night when the Amherst troop met at the Rec hall. Sam Wragg and William Naeg-ele were in charge of the meeting. Wragg took over instruction of the various competitive drill teams in preparation for the coming rally.