The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1951-11-30

              herst News HE VOL. XXX11I, NO. 48 EIGHT PAGES AMHERST, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1951 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD One Hundred Forty -Nine Boys in Wood and Metal Working Classes J Annual Bazaar of PTA Is Set For Dec. 13th r Am IMES lino fi " - 7 - .. . i 11 One hundred and forty-nine boys of Amherst school are en rolled this year in wood or metal working courses under the su pervision of Allen Miker, shop instructor. Of this number, 113 are junior high students and 31 are from the senior high Shop work is a required part of the curriculum for Ihe junior high students. Most of the boys obtain much satisfaction in learning to handle the tools correitly and with increasing adeptne;s, as well as turning out pieces of handicraft which shows great improvement during the three years' work. The 41 boys in the sixth grade are working with wood, learning the use of the scroll or jig saw and small hand tools. The articles made by them are small and include choices of several of the following: napkin holders, tie rack, message or leave-a-note box, trinket box, kitchen knife holder, desk letter holder, letter opener or small wall shelves. In the seventh grade there are 39 boys enrolled. The,ir work provides experience in the use of hand topis, the power scroll saw and band saw. At the present time the 7X is working on a magazine rack and the boys in 7Y are making book racks. Eighth grade boys, numbering 38, are doing both woodwork and sheet metal work this year, with $75,000 To Be Sent In Christmas Club Over $75,000 in checks goes out in this area tomorrow, Dec. 1, as Christmas club savings are mailed out by the Amherst branch of the Lorain County Savings and Trust company. The amount is the largest ever handled by the local bank in Christmas clubs. According to F. J. Berger, assistant manager, it tops last year's total by over $5,000. Savings by the 891 members of the clubs ranged from 25 cents weekly to more than $10 a week. A large portion of the money will remain in town, if past practices hold true, Berger said. A portion of the savings are usually turned back in to regular savings accounts in the bank, and most of the balance is usually spent here in town. v Efforts are being made by the bank to increase the number of members in next year's clubs to 1,000. "The habit of saving regularly is of benefit to any individual and Christmas clubs help get that habit started," Berger said. Clubs for 1952 are being opened now, with the range in weekly savings running from 25 cents to $10. On Dec. 8, faculty members of Amherst school will enjoy a dinner party1 and Christmas gift exchange at the Oberlin Inn. I "4 H S i "4 I ! If one semester for each type of work. The classes are divided so that half of the group is taking one type of project , while the other is working on the second type. Woodworking in the eighth grade becomes more involved with the students first making a study ot the different kinds of wood, where they are grown, and their uses. They learn the types of joints and how to glue and square-up stock. A study of tools and their uses, sizes - of nails and wood-screws, methods of assembling small furniture, good procedure and methods of wood-finishing give the boys a knowledge that will be of value in either home or shop work in the future. Safety and precautionary measures are especially stressed by Mizer in this class as well as all others. The 8X and 8Y classes are at present making end tables in the woodworking groups. Power tools used include the band saw, circular saw, drill press, jointer and wood lathe. Students in the sheet metal work are gaining new experiences in the study of different metals, lay-out work and cutting, drilling and shaping of metal. Also studied are the tools used in this type of work, riveting nnrt snlHerine. Projects being made at the'arc methods, L'VJi fell Out December 1st Savings Checks D. R. Goldthorpe Is Re-Elected to Head Ohio League D. R. Goldthorpe, local attorney, was re-elected president of the League of Ohio Villages, Inc., at the annual meeting held in Columbus recently. Other officers elected include: first vice-president, L. A. Rader, clerk, Vandalia; second vice-president, Ralph Snyder, village manager, Westcrville; third vice-president, Andrew Sliday, mayor, Tiltonsville; secretary - treasurer, Lloyd Spiess, clerk, Liberty Center.Principal business of the annual meeting was approval of plans for affiliation of the League with a new organization, the Ohio Municipal League. The League of Villages will continue to function as spokesman for all villages in the state of Ohio, but will cooperate with the new Municipal League of city officials in matters pertaining to towns of all sizes. The League ot Ohio Villages was formed directly through efforts of Amherst officials and Goldthorpe has been president since its inception. it- n . ' .- . r . ! .0 ; , . -; ; i - - i- On the left, Robert Evanosky, Don Reinhardt and which they are threading on a metal lathe. Above, Starbuck check the width of a groove in present time by students work- , ing with metal are garden trowels, small boxes, dust pans, feed scoops and wall plant holders. Shop work for the high school students is not a required subject but is one chosen by those boys who feel it will be of particular value to them in malting equipment, furnishings, or doing repair work in their homes or to train them for work in the shops following graduation. These classes are also divided into two groups, one doing advanced woodworking and the other machine or metal work. Machine shop experience is varied and includes such things as engine lathe work where the boys learn turning, facing, boring, drilling, cutting threads, taper., turning, knurling and tapping. General shaper work is done as well as milling machine and indexing work. Studies are made of reading precision instruments used in machine shops: fractional, letter and number drills and their classification for use in tapping; reamers and their uses; types of metals and their uses; data from blueprint readings. Students are given experience in grinding tools used in machine work as well as welding by both the oxy-acetylene and electric Left, Ronnie Briggs and Dale Beam; above, John Buser and Charles Fashing, In the woodworking shop. Betty Sliman Is Contest Winner Betty Sliman, sophomore at Amherst high school, was the recent winner from Amherst in the "I Speak for Democracy" contest, sponsored by the local Jaycees as part, of the contest sponsored all over Ohio by the Jaycee organization. Miss Sliman, the daughter of Abraham Sliman, North Lake stceet, was one of three chosen the speech class to give their talks over station WEOL in Elyria. The other two contestants were Nancy Springer and Joyce Meyers. Miss Sliman's talk was judged the best by a group of judges listening to the broadcast from their homes. A recording was then made of her talk, which will be sent to the state contest in connection which those of other winners in the state. For being named the Amherst winner, Miss Sliman was awarded a table radio by the Jaycees, at a recent high school assembly program. Xmas Lights Up Christmas lights are being put up this week by employees of the light plant under the direction of Henry Gordon. The lights will be up and operating by the last of the week, with the evergreen decorations also scheduled to be put up at once. . ,.v ... . . . Woodworking experiences for the high school level consists in the use of any power machinery or tools' necessary in the construction of small furniture such as end tables, book cases, butterfly tables, coffee tables, lawn furniture or general carpenter work. Much new equipment has been added to the shop during the last two years and changes in arrangement and the building of new cabinets to house small hand equipment has added greatly to the appearance of the room, giving more working space and aiding in the preservation of tools. In the hand tool cabinet he new tools include 12 jack planes, four block planes, six bevel gauges, six marking gauges, new auger bits and wood scrapers. In the larger equipment added to the shop this year, one of the most needed was four woodworking tables equipped with four wood vices on each and made with cabinets and lockers beneath which hold extra equipment. A Porter-Cable power sander was installed, a miter box and a new jig saw. A gift to the department from Harry Nicholl recently . was a tool grinder for wood-working ?-.i!rl.aSni0f Peace Contest Jtai was a laigc oiicci iiicicU shears. 'Elyrian Speaks To Rotarians Dave Daly, Elyria, of the Lorain County Industrial Council, spoke to Amherst Rotarians this week on governmental controls. John Smythe presided at the meeting in the absence of the president, Dan Buser, and vice-president, Robert Hubbard. Guests of the club were Al Joyce, Amherst and a member of the Lorain Rotary club; Frank Ayres, Lorain; Bob Elzey and J. A. Hewitt, Elyria, and Paul Remy, Nova. Family night at the Congregational church will be held on the evening of Dec. 5, beginning with a turkey dinner. Election of church officers will be held after the dinner. 9TZHOPPWG OH wtiKSLSFT Richard Gerber check a bolt Instructor Mizer watches Don a small bench vise. Will Open Bids For New School Next Tuesday New bids for building the proposed grade school will be opened in the office of the school at noon on Dec. 4. A special meeting of the school board has been called lor 6 p.m. of the same day to consider the bids submitted. At the regular meeting of the board this week Stanley Reichert was employed as a part-time bus driver for the present. He was employed with the understanding that he will be a full-time driver of the fourth school bus which the board hopes will be in Amherst and in operation in December.Mrs. William Heck was also employed as assistant to Mrs. Brucker in the cafeteria of the school. Winners Named In Local Prince Winners in the Amherst Prince of Peace declamation contest who will compete in the county contest Sunday will be Margie Glowenski, Sue Simpson and Ted Rogers. Alternates will be Anona Mathes, Sally Guiselman and Doris Rosenbusch. The contest was held Wednesday afternoon at the school auditorium, with 17 high school students competing in three different classifications. Others in the first -group included Joy Hoffncr, Lucile Zus-pan, Jane Thomas and Ena Ger-rese; second group, Joanne Ryan, Frank Clary and Kathleen Fin-negan; third group, Louise Gerber, Gerry Reese, Norma Busser and Al Easterwood. . The contest, held annually, is sponsored by the Ohio Council of Churches. Local winners receive bronze medals, county winner receives a silver medal. At the close of the declamations, each contestant was given a pink carnation by the speech supervisor, Mrs. Margaret Ege-land.Dr. Elsie Snell Heads Hospital Doctors Staff Announcement of a doctors' staff for the Amherst hospital was made at a dinner meeting ef the hospital board of direc tors Wednesday evening. Set up to conform to state codes, the staff will include all doctors in Amherst. Dr. Elsie Snell has been named president of the staff, with Dr. G. R. Wise man as vice-president and Dr. R. J. Mulford as secretary-treas urer. Under new state regulations, all hospitals must be under the direction of a doctors' staff in order to qualify for state licenses as a hospital. Had the staff not been formed here, the Amherst hospital would have been per mitted to operate only as a rest home. Husbands and wives of direc tors were guests at the dinner meeting which was held at the Airport tavern. Short talks were made by John Smythe, president of the board, and by Mayor Fred Hogrefe, Conrad Zilch and Fred Berger. Plans for the fourth annual carnival sponsored by Amherst Parent-Teachers association are being thrown into high gear, as the all-important date of Dec. 13 draws nearer. Mrs. Harold Mathes, chairman in charge, has announced the various projects which each grade will sponsor, from kindergarten through high shool. The affair will be similar to last year's event, with some improvements.For one thing, the record-making booth, sponsored by the juniors, will be stationed away from the other booths, eliminating "interference." An accompanist will be on hand at all times, to encourage recordings of vocal solos or instrumental numbers by the very young, or thenot-so-young. An accommodation service, a check room, will be conducted by the GAA in the ag room. There, children's snow suits, coats and other paraphernalia can be left and forgotten about until time to go home. The seniors are sponsoring a pet show, with a parakeet, hamster and a small puppy to be given away to some lucky youngsters or adults. Sophomores will have a variety of fancy work suitable for Christmas gifts, and freshmen will conduct a white elephant sale, together with used books and comics. Hi-Y boys wil add their bit by conducting a basketball toss, baseball throw, dart games, etc. Project of the kindergarten mothers will be plants, balloon animals and gas-filled balloons. The first grade booth will be a variety of Christmas articles, such as ornaments, decorations, etc. Representing the second grade will be a hot dog stand, with potato chips, coffee and pop; this will be located in the home ec room. A fish pond will keep third-graders busy collecting small items suitable to be caught on a hook. Fourth-graders will have a grab-bag booth, and fifth graders decided on home-made fudge, stick apples and popcorn balls. No carnival is complete with- Jaycees Seeking Toys to Repair Members of Amherst Jaycees are seeking donations of used toys which they can repair and repaint for Christmas presents for deserving children. As a community service members of the local group will collect all toys given them and repair them and then see to it that the toys are given to chil dren who would not otherwise get many toys for Christmas. Anyone having toys for this pur pose is requested to call 8208 and Jaycees will call. John Ruth, president of the lo cal Jaycees, has announced that Paul Moore, state president, will meet with the local group next Tuesday evening in a dinner meeting. Ruth also announced that the coupon books which the Jaycees will put out will be negotiable j until March 30 and asked that merchants return to the organization the contracts for pages in the books. Comets Travel To Medina for Game Tonight y Amherst opens its Southwest ern conference basketball season tonight with a game at Medina. In a game next Tuesday eve ning on the South Amherst floor, the Comets and the Cavaliers play in a series that started back in 1924. The Comets have a decided edge over the Medina Bees in basketball. The local squad has won 36 games and lost only four in the unbroken series that began in 1928. The Comets took both o last year's games, 54-47 and 51-35. In games over the years with South Amherst, the Comets hold a two-to-one advantage. Amherst has won 34 games and lost 18 to the Cavaliers. out a bake sale, the project sponsored by the sixth grade. Seventh graders will sell ice cream bars and cups, candy and gum. Eighth graders will help manage the parcel post booth which proved unusually successful last year. Anyone wishing to donate, whether they have children in school or not, may bring items either to school or get in touch with the room mother handling that particular project. All proceeds from the event will go to the PTA treasury. Room mothers of individual grades are as follows: Kindergarten, Mrs. W 1 k o t f, teacher; Mrs. John Pinkney, Mrs. Richard Schneider, Mrs. George Hollstein, Mrs. Walter Mischka, Mrs. Elmer Reichert, Jr., and Mrs. N. A. Tillman. First grade: Miss Schneider's room, Mrs. Kenneth Alexander; Mrs. Sahl's, Mrs. Seth Stevens and Mrs. George Vollmer, Jr.; Mrs. Korka's Mrs. Clem Rice and Mrs. William Bauer. Second grade: Mrs. Smith's room, Mrs. Waldimar Henes and Mrs. Norman Rickard; Mrs. Gul-selman's, Mrs. George Gates and Mrs. Robert Bring; Mrs. 'Zilch's, Mrs. Albert Werner and Mrs. Elmer Holle. Third grade: Miss Berger1! room, Mrs. C. L. Goodspeed and Mrs. George Ullman; Mrs. Re-fenning's, Mrs. Howard Nalley and Mrs. James Balas; Mrs. Bauer's, Mrs. L. Trifoletti and Mrs. Elmer Cook. Fourth grade: Mrs. Maxwell' room, Mrs. George Bruce and Mrs. Richard Gildenmeister; Mrs. Baker's, Mrs. Robert Hubbard and Mrs. Robert Mulford. t Fifth grade: Mrs. Foster's room, Mrs. Carl Plott and Mrs. Albert Goohs; Miss Ehrman's, Mrs. C. " Palmer and Mrs. Norman Wil-ker.Sixt rade (Mrs. SmithV Mrs. Ralph Siark, Mrs. Stanley Stark, Mrs. George Daniels and Mrs. Raymond Clotz. . 7X (Mrs. Wellman): Mrs. Clar-' ence Jones and Mrs. Dwight Buell. 7Y (Mr. Grills): Mrs. John Corts and Mrs. Clarence Traster. . Eighth (Mrs. Eppley): Mrs. Louis Briggs, Mrs. George Gar-the, Mrs. William Schoemig, Mrs. Ray Hollingsworth and Mrs. Robert Knapp. Freshman class: Mrs. waiter Knispel and Mrs. Elmer Reichert, Sr.; sophomore class, Mrs. Robert Wohlever and Mrs. G. Howells; junior class, Mrs. Flem ing Brainerd and Mrs. Henry Raeslcr; senior class, Mrs. John Gerrese and Mrs. Carl Grendow. Mrs. William Wheatley is Mrs. Mathes' assistant. Evangelist at Methodist Church f Rev. M. Ray Smith, minister from the Pennsylvania Avenue Methodist church, East Liverpool, Ohio, is the speaker for evangelistic services at the Amherst Methodist church this week and next. Mrs. Smith is In charge ol the special music which Includes gospel singing by the congregation, duets, solos and other spe-ial numbers. h - U -i Special services with Rev. Smith preaching will be held tonight (Friday), Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week, starting at 7:30 eaca night. Tomorrow night (Saturday) there will be a special youth service at the church with Rev. Dale Riggs in charge.