The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1950-01-19

              he Amherst News mes VOL XXXII, NO. 3 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Committees Named For Annual C. of C. Committeemen for the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce were appointed by president W. A. Schulz at a meeting of the board of directors on Monday evening. Named to the award committee to pick the outstanding personality in the community for the past year were Max Egeland, William Bodman, and Evert Nylen. On the aominating committee were appointed Carl Ehrman, Art Meesig, and Roy Anderson; on' the committee to make arrangements for Ihe annual meeting were named vert Nylen, Eay Ehrlich, and William Bodmann; Max Egeland, fcoy Berrington, John Smythe, and Conrad Zilch were named to Ihe entertainment committee. Date for the annual meeting, lor all members of the Chamber, lias been set for Monday, March I. The place will be announced later. Named Sports Editor Appointment of Anthony (Tony), Meyer 550 Tenney venue, as sport; editor for the News-Times is announced this week. Tony will handle all sports Items and sports news and tips are earnestly solicited. Weave Rugs and Tablemats i t it ? '7- mm ii-riiTiii.n li. hmt.i . ... iy i. ,- . . .. . jl Weaving of rugs and table- mats was explained by Mrs. Clayton Owen, Wellington, and several piojrcts were started when the Homem&kers' Extension club met last week at the Grange Hall. Working on tablemats in the top photo are (left to right) Mrs. C. C. Vandersall, Mrs. Lucy Roe-mer, Mrs. Cora Weichel, Mrs. Carrie Kreger, Mrs. William Heck, and Mrs. Charles Heck. Standing in the rear is Mrs. Owen, ihe in- " structor. Tablemats and rug are being worked on in Jie middle picture. Working on the mat at the left are Mrs. Conrad Adler and Mrs. Lora Young. Mrs. Winifred Haas and Mrs. Cecilia Jones work on a rug in the center of the picture, and Mrs. Christine Haas and Mrs. Alice Wilson work on another mat under the supervl- Aadon of Mrs. Owen, V' In the lower photo Mrs. Charles Heck admires a mat that Mrs. Bleanor Biddlnger Is completing to Make Plans Meeting in March IVeir Member in Local Jaycees The Amherst Junior Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday evening, at 8:00 in the Town Hal for a regular meeting. Jim Schulz, chairman of the committee in charge of the Jay-cee wrestling show, announced plans for the event to be held January 24th, at the Amherst high school gym. It was also an nounced that Bob Walker has been tippointed chairman of the refreshment committee for the wrestling show. Fred Stilgenbau- er, ticket chairman handed out additional tickets to Jaycees desiring same. Jerry Walker announced lhat the Jaycee dance planned for this week has been postponed indefinitely.A new member to Ihe Amherst group, Joe Husar, was introduced to the members. Husar previously was connected with the Lorain chapter of Jaycees. Mrs. Vera Lauver, superintendent of Amherst Hospital left Sunday for a vacation in Florida, near West Palm Beach. V i "US: while Mrs. Owen watches Mrs. Loretta Diedrick and Mrs. Ethel Dumas work. "nt ;. r T'li hi jpwiiwii r I TT r r 1 . ...... : -M Hospital Board Meets Tonight The regular quarterly meeting of the full board of directors of the Amherst Hospital association will be held this (Thursday) evening at the Lorain County Savings and Trust company. Fred J. Berger, secretary for the association, also announced that the regular annual meeting of all members of the association will be held at the high school on Monday, January 30. Berger pointed out that all members who paid their dues in 1949 have automatically been carried over as members for 1950. The executive committee of the board had decided that in view of the drives being made all over town to support the new addition to the hospital, no membership drive would be held, the memberships carrying over for another year. B&PW lo Meet ' Miss Celia Gevelber of the Lorain County Guidance Center, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Business and Professional Women next week. The meeting will be a dinner meeting at 6:30 on Thursday evening at the Lutheran church. lit s i 1 S 1 - J it ? s V 'it . Both crochet cotton and mg yarn are used for the mats with rug yarn being used for the rug. "Block of Dimes" Raises $246 to Open Campaign The 'block cf dimes" project put on last Saturday afternoon on Park avenue by local Jaycees to sfr.rt off the "March of Dimes'' netted the fund $246 according to a report by Elmer Smith, head of the campaign here. Those donating ou or more dimes and thus receiving a cer tificate of appreciation from the Jaycees were: J. J. Smythe, Con rad Zilch, C. J. Ehrman, Lee's Market, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ed wards', Dooley Mischka, Ralph Zilch, Parkway Market, Norman Brucker and Mildred's Ladies' Shop. Working on Ihe project were Bob Walker, Merrill Walker, Tom Heinzerling, Dick Zilch, Bob Mar lowe, Pete Darakis, Ken Can-onge, Tom Cunningham, Dick Ehrman, Elmer Smith, and Jim Schulz. Smith reported that containers had been placed arounil town for contributions to the drive and that workers would start out next week on the house to house canvass. Other money-raisini; pro jects, including a bingo party, are also being1 considered. The goal this year has been set at $1300. an increase of $2,'i0 over the amount raised last year. Breaking down the goal, Smith has figured that an av erase of 51 cents will have to be collected from everyone in Amherst to go over the top. Gives Classification Talk at Rotary Rev. J. W. Parks gave his class-if'cation talk at the regular meeting of Rotary at the Congregational church on Monday noon. Telling of how he had decided to become a minister, he told something of his boyhood and training and of his philosophies. Gary Mead, Amherst high school student, was a guest at the meeting, . Comets -Meet Lorain St. MaryVand Vermilion in Non-Conference Games Amherst's Comets take a brea ther fr',m league battles in basketball play this week, having finished up the first half of the season with one win and fivr losses in Conference play, and one win against eight losses in all games. In non-conference games this week the Comets play host to Lorain St. Mary's tomorrow (Friday) eveninc and then travel to Vermilion for a game Saturday evening. Lorain St. Marys' sporting a powerhouse in the current campaign, has only one win against Amherst in the records. That came in the 1940-41 season when they topped the local cagers 21-25. In other games, going back to 1935-36, Amherst has taken all of the other 16 games played. The Amherst-Vermilion series dates back as far as any in local records, the first game in the records being a 24-29 loss for Am herst in 1916. Since that time the Comets and Sailors have tangled 37 more times with the Comets winning 27 games and losing 16. Last loss suffered by Amherst in this series was n double loss in the 1940-4 J . season. Auxiliary Plans For Book Hevieiv A book review under the aus pices of the Hospital Auxiliary will be given Friday night, Feb. 3, at the Congregational church. At this time the book, "It Gives Me Great Pleasure" will be ' reviewed by Miss Elizabeth King, Lorain. Committee of arrangements includes Hilda Brown, Lucille Ludwig, L. Roe-mer.Potvers Model Here Feb. 2 A member of the John Robert Powers Model School of New York City will be at the Amherst high school the first week of February, the tentative date being set for Thursday, Feb. 2. A former model pnd now instructor of grooming and posture at the Model School, Miss Han nah will lecture and demonstrate dilferent good and bad points In posture and grooming. Council 181J75.20 for Year Teams Set for March of Dimes Cage Program Teams have been st up for the annual March of Dimes Basketball Program, scheduled for next Wednesday evening, January 25. at the Oberlin College fieldhouse at 7:30 p.m. Two Barnes have been scheduled with all proceeds to go to the March of Dimes fund. No passes being issued for the program, all players and officials paying admission. Although proceeds from admissions at the gate go to the county fund, pre-game sales of tickets here in town will remain here for the local funds. Tickets may be purchased at Kuss drug store and at the bank. The first tf&me will be played between Northern Ohio officials and l o! nin County coaches. Bud Jenne and Doyle Hutton of Amherst will be members of the officials' squad, and Bruce Boehlcr. South Amherst; Wayne White. Henrietta; and William Cox, Brownhelm. will be members of the coaches' squad. The second game will be played by teams made up of boys from all high schools in the county. One boy will be picked hy his fellow players to represent each of the 22 schools and these boys divided into two teams. Local boys chosen to represent their teams were Bill Wohlever, Amherst; and Stan Truszak, So. Amherst, playing on the East team; and Doug Walker, Brown-helm, and Nelson Howe, Henrietta playing on the West team. Get Tickets Here For Vermilion Came Basketball fans planning to attend the game between Amherst and Vermilion next Saturday evening, must purchase their tickets in advance, according to T. C. Simpson, athletic director at Amherst high school. No general admission tickets will ji sold at the game, Simpson said, so that tickets must be bought at the school here before Friday evening. New Shop Opens On Church Street The third of three new shops built last fall on Church street beside the Western Auto store will open on Monday of next week as a floor covering shop. A. W. Haas, Lorain, announced this week that his new stock would be in by Monday so that he could show the new spring lines in floor coverings. With 26 years experience in the laying ol all types of floor covering, Haas will specialize in asphalt and plastic tiles and inlaid and print ed linoleum. Book Reservations to Cost 5c in Future Reservations of current fiction will cost five cents for each book reserved in the futuie, the Amherst Public Library board has decided. Because of the necessury demand and the expense to the board, the fee has been felt necessary. The fee will tako care of tne cost of the caris printed and sent to each paying patron and should eliminate much ?onfu?inn for the librarian and patron. The reserved book will be held by Miss Eleanor Albright, librarian, for two days after the card nas been sent The new system will gc into effect next Monday, January 23. Tomorrow, Friday, January 20, is deadline for the purchase of dog tags without penalty. Li-tenses may be obtained at the of fice of C. J. Ehrman on Park avenue, or from Jack Walker, South Amherst. Appropriates Amherst council paved" the way at their regular meeting on Tuesday evening for the village to spend some $181,775.-50 during the coming year. Emphasizing the "big business" aspect of running a town no larger than Amherst for one year is the appropriation ordinance which councilmen passed, allocating to different classifications the monies received by the village from varioussources. By far the largest portion of the appropriations will be used for operating the municipal generating plant and distributer system with $107,510.51 set aside for this purpose. Salaries account for $39,000, fuel for $28,-000, miscellaneous equipment for $15,000, and bond retirement for $10,452 of the total in this division.Monies set aside in the general fund for safety, service, cemetery, and general expenses total $29,523.94. Other portions of the ordinance (which appears in full in this issue of the News-Times) allot $0,0.37.26 lor road repair from the funds received in the village share of motor vehicle license sales; $11,789.16 for street maintenance from the village share of gasoline taxes; $10,065.-90 for general bond retirement; $7,131.23 for special assessment bond retirement; and $9,717.50 for mortgage revenue bond retirement.Okay sewer work Other business at the regular meeting included a long discussion on storm water sewers in different parts of town. Tom Laundon, village engineer, reported that he had obtained estimates on labor and materials for installation of 700 feet of storm water sewer on South Main street, one of the Eagles Plan for Monthly Initiic.n On January 30 Plans for the monthly initiation of the Eagles to be held Jan. 30 were announced at this week's meeting by Hugh McGarvey, membership chairman. Harrison Dillard, 1948 Olympic star and at present associated with the public relations department of the Cleveland Indians, will be the guest speaker at a program to follow the initiation. John Gorniley, entertainment committee chairman, reported that a party honoring members with birthdays this month would be held Tuesday, Jan. 31. A report of the district meeting held in Berea Sunday was given li y President Harold Krause. He was accompanied by Ed Delfing, Don Krause, Don Nagle, Robert Thomas and Harold Cooke. The special prizes were lost by Howard P.ccker and Henry Schr-oeder while the attendance prize was claimed by James Wenzel. The next meeting of the Fishermen' club will be held Feb. 10. At this time, election of officers will take place and a fish fry will follow the business session. The January meeting of the teachers and officers of St. Peters' Evangelical and Reformed church school will be held Monday evening at the J. A. Ehlert home, Cleveland avenue. "March of Dimes" Horace lleidt Show Horace Heidt in person will bring his all new musicale variety review "Stars on Parade" and the original youth opportunity program to the Roll-Arena in Elyria on Tuesday, January 31st, for the benefit of the Junior Chamber of Commerce march of Dimes Drive, it was announced today by Milan Bendik, general chairman for the Elyria Junior Chamber's March of DnSies campaign. One of Mr. Heidt's talent scouts, Thomas H. O'Connor, will be in Elyria January 19 and 20 to eonduct the auditions for the local talent to be selected to appear with the show when it ap pears here, and possibly win a place on the coast-to-coast CBS broadcast of the show the fol lowing Sunday from Indianapolis, Indiana. Inasmuch , as the pro gram appears in six or seven most sorely needed sewers at the present time. . Materials neeJed for the job were estimated to cost $534.65 and Laundon had obtained an estimate of $942.50 for labor. Council decided to proceed with the sewer for a distance of 700 feet, the sewer being put in at a depth which will permit extensions at a future date when needed. Appointments made On recommendation of council Mayor Fred Hogrefe appointed Ray Wasem as a third member of the ordinance committee.-Councilmen pointed out that previously the important ordinance committee had been composed of only two members and that frequently it was advisable to have a third member to assist in the work. Hogrefe also appointed Councilmen Lawrence Zuspan and Harold Washka to the police pension fund board. The two men appointed from council will act with two members of the local police force to choose two citizens. The six members will handle all cases coming up pertaining to police pensions or relief. Okay letter Solicitor D. R. Goldthorpe read to council a letter he had prepared which quoted an editorial appearing in the Wellington Enterprise. The editorial complimented Amherst council on its ' stnrjr; in the passage pf tlcopi trovei.-ial police pension ordinance and went on ' to suggest- the value of a state-wide organization of small villages. Council approved the suggestion that copies of the letter be sent (not at village expense) to all villages in the state suggesting work toward the formation of a state-wide organisation.Property Owners Asked to Check Broken Walks Amherst council this week requested that property owners check their sidewalks. Council has received many complaints from time to time regarding broken stones in walks. When a complaint is received, council' members have been accustomed to making a trip to inspect the walk and, it necessary, order the walk repaired. Pointing out that sidewalks are the responsibility of the property owner, council said that periodic inspection on the part of owners will save council a lot of unnecessary work in the inspection trips. The expense of repair is the owner's, whether he finds repair necessary or whether council orders the work done, so walks might as well be checked by the owner first, council said. Campaign Brings to Elyria Jan. 31 cities each week, it is impossible to guarantee anyone that they wm appear on a Sunday broadcast. However, local talent will receive every consideration. Call Elyria 3230 or listen to your local radio station or inquire from the Elyria Junior Chamber of Commerce. Horace Heidt's all new review will feature 60 of America's top entertainers, 1 n c 1 u d lng many heard on his weekly radio show. The program unfolds into a three hour concert and from reports Elyria is in for an evening of entertainment it will long remember.Mr. Heidt will, as part of the evening's festivities, crown the March of Dimes Queen contest. Tickets may be ordered by mail, or they may be purchased at the Bell Co., all seats are reserved. v