The Amherst news-times (Amherst, Ohio), 1950-11-03

              4 he Amherst News imes VOL XXXII, NO 44 TEN PAGES AMHERST, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE W02LD Large Crowds Attend Annual Halloween Parade Special Levies Up at Election Next Tuesday k -:4V V: i i : X itP- 1 A I :- Pi ? - ,r 4 . ; ".VX; .''sV"Vy ' x , .'7., -"'- J Shown above Is part of the usual large crowd attending the annual Halloween Parade held on Monday evening. On the right, top picture, are the judges picking out winners I In the different divisions. Standing on the truck, left to right, are Joe Husar, Miss Hulda Ber-ger, and Harold Krause. At the mike is Bud Jenne acting as master of ceremonies. Op the 'left of the picture are Max Ege-land and John Hohla, members of the C. of C, who assisted In getting winners out of line. One of the major attractions following the parade ivi the free cider and donuts, presided over by Bill Bodmann and C. L. Goodspeed. Over 100 gallons of cider and 75 dozen donuts were given away to those attending the affair. Beautiful summerlike weather combined with the Halloween parade, free cider and donuts, and street dancing to bring out the usual throngs of spectators for the annual Fall Festival on Monday evening. Winners named In the costume parade the following winners were selected: Best dressed band boy, David Vandersall; best dressed band girl, Maxine Garthe. Most appropriate adult couple, Mrs. Hugh Tomkins and Lena Worthington; most comical adult couple, Jacob Bunt and Virginia Goodwin, first, and Mrs. Carl Blond and Mrs. Myrtle Wohle-ver, second. Most comical child couple: Barbara and Denny Hutton, first, and Lena Carwell and Lloyd Barres, second. Most appropriate child couple Nancy Haas and Alice Jones, first, and tie for second between Thomas Mattey and Diane Mis-chka and Gary Coe and Philip Felts. Most comical man: Bob Reese, first; Bob Hasenflue, second. Most comical woman: Felicia Pozniak, first; Mrs. Sophia Szabo, second. Most appropriate boy: Charles DcBracy, first; Jack Henry, second.Most comical boy: John Mu-niga, first; Gregory Coven, second.Most appropriate girl: Sherrill Miller, first; Susanne Albrccht, second. Most comical girl: Margaret Todd, first; Betty Sanders, second.Judges for the parade were Miss Hulda Berger, Joe Husar, and Harold Krause. Bud Jenne acted as mi-sttr of cert-monies. Dt'Mocralic Parly h Well Attended A good attendance was reported at the Amherst Democratic Women's Club card party held last Friday evening at the Pythian Hall. Special prizes for the evening went to Mrs. Earl White and Mrs. Walter -Moebius. Other winners were Mrs. Mae Earhart, Mrs. Arthur Meesig, Harry Coverdale, Alex Culhay and V. W.Schubert. pwwuwummi.mii.innwMiiM i.iiian in ' . -j I Windows Judged. Mary Edwards was awarded first prize for having the best decorated window, with Ralph Prittie being awarded second prize. Plans are to have the prizes given the winners of this contest at the regular Saturday night drawing. Jack O'Lantern contest Mary Ann Berger won first prize in the Jack O'Lantern contest sponsored by C. J. Ehrman. Second prize went to Nancy Pikey Given Permanent Chief Job: Don Cherry Appointed Policeman i Paul Pikey was unofficially given the permanent appointment as police chief and Don L. Cherry unofficially appointed as policeman at a meeting of Mayor I f . 1 Ehlert and third to Judy Schoe-mig.Committees Those serving on committees for the event were Walter Schulz, Walter Mischka, Fred Deiner, John Hohla, Bud Jenne, Roy Harr, Bill Bodmann, Ray Ehr-lich, C. L. Goodspeed, Max Ege-land, Roy Berrington, Ralph Prittie, Jack Koontz, Evert Ny-len, C. J. Ehrman, Roy Anderson, Police Chief Paul Pikey, and Ray Sprague. Hogrefe and the police committee last week. Pikey is continuing the duties which he had assumed under the acting chief appointment and Cherry will commence his duties next Monday. Both appointments are unofficial in that they must be ratified by council in regular session. Such ratification will be a marc formality at the next meeting, councilmcn say. However, the jobs had to be filled at once to protect the village and both men have all official powers of policemen for the village.Cherry, who is 30, lias been a life-long resident of Lorain county and a resident of Amherst for the past five years. He is married and the father of a daughter, three vears old. He served four years with the navv during the war, three years of which were spent overseas with a fleet air photo squadron. He has been employed at Bonds in Lorain for the past few years. County Workshop Havers to Present WildcPlav at CrangcHall Next Week Jean S( haetfer is diroctor f the Cotintv Workshop PI; vers next oro'uction "The Importance of Drill!; Earnest" to be presentee nt the Hickory Tree Grange Hall nest Wednesday, Thursday, .-nd Friday, November 8, !. and 10. The starting time is 8:15 for each performance. . The former Jean Stewart of Pontiac, Michigan, Mr.-, Schaetler has a colorful background of training and experience in the dramatic field. She is a graduate of Ward Belmont dromatir school of Nashville, Tennessee, and prior to her marriage to Dr. Roy Schaeffer she was a member of the Islander Players of Grosse Isle, Michigan, taking the lead in "Private Lives" and "Yes My Darling Daughter." She also taught dramatics in Detroit, and had experience in radio productions, stock work and dramatic presentations in and around Detroit.In connection with radio work, she was instrumental in helping a Pontiac station to receive approval from the FCC by interviewing talent and arranging programs to testify at the commission's hearing. She was one of the first women to be given that responsibility. Valerie Jenkins, who has directed other plays by the group, is also assisting with some of the details. She too has had considerable training in little theatre work, was organizer of the Workshop Players two years ago. She is dramatics coach at Clearview High School, was assistant director atBaldwin-Wallace for two years, and was also connected with little theatre work at Western Reserve. Costumes for the play will arrive this week from Ives of New York. -They are authentic English costumes, worn by professional groups who have presented this same play in New York and other larger cities as well as suburban areas. The arena style of presentation will again be used, enabling the audience to sit around the "stage" and hear and see everything without difficulty. The Workshop Players are the only group outside the Cleveland area using this style of presentation at present, although it is grow ing in popularity throughout the country. A further note of informality will be the serving o( tea and biscuits at intermission, with Mary Rowers Miller in charge. Tickets can be purchased at the door, although a reserved section will be set up for holders of the subscription ticket books being handled by Lee Wiseman. Advance ticket sales from members of the cast or Miss I Pamela Wavrick will also have ' Precedence over general admis sion. The subscription books contain six tickets each, sold for the price of four; theycan be used by any member of the fam- Over 1500 residents of Amherst will be eligible to east their votes in the general elections next Tuesday, the highest registration on record for the village. National and state offices hold 'lie spotlight in this election only wo county offices being filled 'his year, and no local offices open at this time. Special levies However, local voters will have for their consideration three special levies. Two of these levies are renewals of existing levies and the third is a new one, the only one that will increase taxes at all. The two-tenths mill levy for recreational purposes was first approved five years a:;o. Funds from the levy are used to support the Rec Center and the summer playground and to help develop recreational activities in town. The cost to the taxpayer ! is small, only 80 cents a year on i. 54000 valuaiion. Tlie other renewal, a three-mill operating levy for the schools, has been in force for a number of years. Having been in force, it adds nothing extra Jean Schaeffer ily or friends, and can be used for this play or for either of the other two to be presented later this season. They also enable the holder to purchase additional tickets at the subscription rate. Room Mothers to Meet A called meeting of all room mothers will be held in the Agriculture room Monday evening at 7:15, to make plans for the annual school carnival, accord- Ling to Beverly King, chairman. Window Display For Girl Scouts In observance of Girl Scout Week the window of the News-Times has been decorated by Rosemary Drendel, one of the tronp leaders. She has pronged two tvpes of I'lii'orms. and a variety of pamphlets and bocks used by the girls-, along with insi.-'ni is :ini! badges. Mrs. Erendcl's troop No 4 i:-planning an investiture seivie; next week, and a b:'ko smIo on Sat.irday, Armistice Day, to held at the Kuss drug turo. The Brownie Scout Tronp, with Ellen Ber"i:r a:, leader, is also plannim' special peric's with the next fc v wot ks. This hst Tuesday the" hail a Halloween parlv. flinging their favorite si-ni;:-. iik' enjoying a popular ghost story. The ghost story was also d .'si-. r.e': as an initiation for the ejrls, with all of their passing the "ci-.icia:" tests. St. joejd?s PTA Meets Tuesday St. Joseph's P.T.A. will meet next Tuesday evening, November 7, instead of Wednesday as originally planned. Mothers of seventh graders will serve refreshments, with Mrs. J. Ewalt as chairman. to the taxpayers' 'bills. The new levy proposed this year is a two-mill levy for operating expenses for the schools. Funds from this will be used in general operating expenses for the schools, all of which have increased greatly in the general upswing of prices. This levy will cost $8.00 per year on a $4000 valuation. Candidates All offices to be filled Tuesday call for the election of one candidate with the exception of the office of stale senator. Ordinarily having but one state senator, the four-county district of which Lorain county is a pa'-t this year can elect two state senators. Four candidates are running for the office, Mos-hcr and Winter as Republicans, Hastings as a Democrat, and CnrvlivirwY..A(J T nrl oOpilOInOrCS LCafl In Honor Roll for First Six Weeks 5 A's Mary Durling, Nancy Springer, Nancy Winter, Edna Vol liner. 4 A's Lois Heesing. Judy Brown, Sonia Nylen, Camille Henry, Nadinc Higgins, Anona Mathes, Norma Richmond, Nancy Mollison, Dagny Nylen, Sara Oeitell. 3 A's Bea Fuhrman, Sally Guiselman, Sue Simpson Myr-na Raesler, David Vandersall, Jerry Reese, Carolyn Washka. 2 A's Mary Lou Taylor, Ruth Slack, Richard Slack, Lucile Zuspan, Audrey Barck, Martha Kinlock, Paul Pritchelt, Betty Sliman, Gary Wykoff, Edward Frye, Donna Jacopin, Bob Jenkins.1 A Marjorie Bremke, Gail Comstock, Loretta Price, Betty Slack, Laura Whitman. TP Officers' Named New officers recently to head the board of directors of the Lorain County T. B. & Health Association, are a sfollcws: Wal ter G. Nord, president; Ernie Hencs, vice-president; Fred Berger, reelected treasurer; Jeanne Moore of Lorain, secretary; and Frank Ayres, representativedirector. Parking Meters Come to Amherst '' i f if'- j ! . 4 . ' .'!,.: " 4 I jivV'f $ . : , it i I. : ::1 "K : t (if 1-4 ; i .A Shirley Grayson of the Amherst Kiddie Shop, receives Instructions from Howard Werner, street commissioner, on how to use the new parking meters. Parking meter regulations go into effect in Amherst tomorrow (Saturday) morning. Installation of ' meters was completed this week and enforcement of the ordinance will start with the business hours tomorrow morning. Enforcement will be strict, village officials say, and Thomas as an independent. Of the four two may be selected. In the county offices Henry Kane, Amherst, Democrat is opposing Oscar Dunn, Republican incumbent, for county commissioner. Frank Ayres, Republican incumbent, is being opposed for county auditor by Patrick Radican, Democrat. Evangelistic Services To Start Wednesday Rev. O. D. Lovell, a professor at Cleveland Bible College, will be guest speaker alt the series of evangelistic services starting next week at the Methodist church. On Sunday a girls' trio from Cleveland Bible College will present special music at both morning and evening services, with the Rev. Dale Riggs, pastor of the church delivering the sermon. . On Monday and Tuesday evenings, visitation evangelism will be conducted by members of the local congregation. On Wednesday evening will start the evangelistic series with the Rev. Lovell delivering the message each evening through Sunday, November 12. Special music has been prepared for each service. The congregation of the Evangelical U. B. church and its pastor, the Rev. C. C. Vandersall, will attend the Wednesday evening services. no excuses will be accepted for failure to use the meters. The meters are of the "manual" type and provide for parking time up to two hours. Twalve minutes will be allowed for each penny used and two hours can be accumulated on the meter by the use of pennies, nickles, or a dime. The time does not register automatically, but must be moved up after the insertion of each coin by means of a handle on the meter. 1 V I ' ,' ' i - , , , ; I