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Thursday, December 89, 1949
A. P.
4th Quarter Declaration Due January 15, 1950
INCOME TAX SERVICE
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Audited and Prepare For Last
Quarter Declaration
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contract bills which take the joy out of the New Year. It's
so much better to save on our popular Christmas Club plan.
1950 Club Now Open
East Cleveland Savings & Lean Co
1373 Hayden Avenue, East Cleveland 12, Ohio
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May it be rich...
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Hsgkhg'iits Around East
Cleveland In Year 1949
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teaching, were at Shaw High, so it
is with a tug at his heart strings
that C. J. Carter leaves his science
classes for a life of leisure.
John M. Bernier, in the nearest
thing to covered wagon travel of
the day, is off via an old repaired
truck for his new home in Cali
fornia, Following in the family
car are his wife, his mother, Mrs.
Anna M. Bernier, and Mrs. Laura
Averill. The caravan reached its
destination safely in seven days.
‘Til be there” phone 175 as the
Shaw June 1945ers hold their re
union.
Miss Roxie Lodge of Rozell
faculty is off for a summer of
study at the University of Ams
terdam, Holland.
The Rozelle softball team ends
the season as the 1949 Grade
School champs.
The highest honor fn scouting
is awarded to Harry M. Arters,
15719 Hazel rd. as he is awarded
the Silver Beaver decoration by
the Boy Scouts of America,
What is probably the first neigh
borhood operated playspot in the
city gets the Okay of the City
Commission as it approves a
Life- Endewmenl Annuity
INSURANCE
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CALVARY LUTHERAN
CHURCH
13100 Euclid at Lockwood
Rev. John W. Grohne. Minister
Sunday School 9:30 A. M.
Sunday Worship 10:45 A. M.
We've enjoyed serving you
in the past and we hope that
1950 brings you a full mea
sure of happiness and pros
perity.
Fashionette
BEAUTY SALON
154S5 Euclid at Taylor
For an Appt. With
Lillian or Pauline
Call LI. 0362
Open All Day Wednesday
Happy
New
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BAST CLEVELAND LEADEN
Police Remember At Christmastime
year’s lease on the preferred John
Watson lot on Nelacrest.
With June the city’s Protestant
churches resume their union Sun
day morning services for the 23rd
consecutive summer
JULY
The city wins
its battle against
billboards, and
the unsightly dis
plays are on
their way out.
The Court of
Appeals opened the door.
With clear skies, big crowds,
the 19th annual Community Pic
nic hangs up another sign ‘‘Best
Yet”.
Agitation to remove the city’s
Honor Roll from in front of the
City Hall meets stiff opposition.
Result: The board will stand un
til the permanent record is es
tablished in the Music Memorial
P.oom in the new wing proposed
for East Cleveland Public library.
Edwin M. Polk, lieutenant in
charge of the city’s detective
bureau, attends the FBI school in
Washington, D. C.
A sprinkling ban goes into ef
fect as high temperatures and
lack of rain combine to bring the
water supply to an alarming low
in all reservoirs.
Larry Brown, June OSU grad,
is named coach at Kirtland High
School.
When Monsignor Thomas V.
Shannan baptisted i s grand
nephew, John Patrick Worthing
ton, the infant wore the same
christening dress as the priest
himself had worn at his christen
ing. John. Patrick is the son of
the John L. Worthingtons, 1252
East 125th st.
AUGUST
This month
marks a forward
step in the muni
cipality. As
streetcars a e
adieu to Hayden
ave., buses made
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their bow CTS and the city co-op
erated in the street resurfacing
and CEI added modern lighting. A
new Hayden in 1949.
With property owners object
ing, plans to build garden type
apartments in the Forest Hill re
sidential area are abandoned by
the promoters.
Meeting as strangers at Camp
Meade, Lester Harris, East Cleve-
a
Modern Window Decorating Co.
1436 Hayden Avenue UL* 1-0030
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Knowing that a shared Christ
mas is a happier Christmas, mem
bers of the East Cleveland Fra
ternal Order of Police No. 39 re
membered again this Christmas.
Here are the club officers,-with
Chief of Police H. S. Weaver,
ready to deliver baskets to eleven
needy families. There were also
toys and sweets extra for the chil
dren.
Shown from left to right, are:
Sergt. Charles Kastilahn, presi
dent Sergt. Melvin Burkhardt,
secretary-treasurer Chief Weav
er Patrolman Willard Tucker,
yice president. The expenditure
was met w’ith the police ball pro
ceeds.
land, and Don Noben, Cleveland
Heights, learn they have been
music and athletic rivals through
junior and senior high days in
their respective communities. They
are neithei- strangers nor rivals
now.
Mac Kreiger, longtime East
Cleveland merchant, is fatally
stricken while vacationing in
Toronto.
Temple Assembly Rainbow for
Girls drill team, state champions,
give an exhibition drill at the Pen
nsylvania Rainbow convention.
Scouts from throughout the
community join in a successful
Round-Up at Doan field, under
sponsorship of Troop 8 of Mayfail’
School. F. Meredith Tabor, scout
master. 1
New Ohio driver’s license law
brings bargains to all drivers
whose next birthday is prior to
September 30, 1950.
SEPTEMBER ..
Activitiy aplen
ty marks this
month for East
Cleveland, start- WWagSS
ing with an en
rollment of 4,760
pupils in the GO^J
public schools.
Eerney Magneson leaves for
his new duties on the coaching
staff at Steubenville (Ohio) Juni
or High School and Amos Hay
den is the new commander of Fiast
Cleveland Post 163 American
Legion.
Y Merchants win the season’s
A League softball championship
with the Musical Jesters runners
up.
Senator Robert A. Taft spoke at
an open meeting of the Kiwanis
club.
The city announces a one mill
cut in its taxrate for the year.
Cook Cleland wins his second
Thompson Trophy race with a
speed of 397.71 miles per hour to
surpass his 1947 record of 316.131.
Dr. Dudley Uphoff arrives from
Green Bay, Wis. to be pastor of
the Phillips avenue Presbyterian
church.
Virginia Baldwin leaves from
Windermere Methodist church to
become a missionary in India.
Ten East Clevelanders lose their
lives as the S. S. Noronic burns
at its pier in Toronto.
Maynard Burkhardt, 14616 Do
ver ave. enrolls at Western Re
serve University on a 104-year-old
scholarship which is accepted by
the university as he agrees to
hand it over to them.
East Cleveland Kiwanis spon
sors its fourth new club for the
year, Cuyahoga Falls. Proceeding
this were the clubs in Maple
Heights, Bedford and Northeast
Cleveland.
Shaw students move into the
East stand at Shaw Stadium in
a new seating experiment which
turns that stand over to the stu
dent bodies of home and visiting
schools.
OCTOBER
Hundreds of
citizens attend
City Hall’s open
House to learn
what makes their
local government
“tick”. Every de­
partment was “on parade” for two
days.
Dr. L. L. Myers principal of
W. H. Kirk Jr. High School is
1 elected president of the East
Cleveland Kiwanis Club.
Its the 95th birthday for Joseph
Dory who celebrates the event in
the home of his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. D. T.
Kramer, Nelaview rd.
Shaw High Schoo! holds its
first all in one fund raising cam
paign from which to meet the
several calls which come to it
during every school year. A total
of $780 was received.
A lovely landmark—the white
frame Walworth house at 14523
Euclid ave. is razed in keeping
with the wish of its last resident
to carry the family name, An
toinette Walworth.
Patrolman Harold R. Bode wins
a scholarship to attend the Traffic
Institute at Northwestern and
another police department bit of
news, Lieut. Thomas G. O’Brien
quietly notes a quarter of a cen
tury’ of service.
Mr. and Mrs. Minor B. Gray
observe their 60th wedding anni
versary in the home they have
occupied since the days when Mr.
Gray was one of John D. Rocke
feller sr’s farmers.
NOVEMBER
November was
a busy tnonth in
East Cleveland
and news came
thick and fast.
Fifteen thousand
people turned out
to help the East
ness Association celebrate the new
Hayden ave and the Board
of Education received a windfall
in the sum of $47,000 due to over
anticipated receipts in the normal
tangible tax returns.
Cleveland Busi-
Grant T. Apthorp. Director of
Finance^ was selected by City
Manager Chas. A. Carran to be
the new vice-manager, succeeding
Edward A. Binyon. Mr. Binyon
retained his position of Director
of Law.
Shaw’ High School 1927 to 1930
graduates held their first reunion
since diploma day with 150 spend
ing an evening dancing and re
miniscing.
The City begins using a load
a-meter to check the weight of
trucks traveling the city’s streets.
For the first time in its his
tory, the national convention of
Girl Scouts welcomes delegates
from among the girls and Mari
lyn Groenstein (Troop 166) and
Margaret Hansen (Mariner Ship
12) ara the Greater Cleveland
delegates.
Within a fortnight after ar
riving in'America Dr. and Mrs.
Nagelis and family celebrate their
first American Thanksgiving, giv
ing thanks for the end of DP
days. The family is from Latvia.
Following a survey by the
Safety Division of the Police De
partment, traffic lights are added
to Superior rd. at Edgerton and
Glenmont intersections.
Shaw High School student body
observes Armistice Day by de
dicating their new flag and flag
pole, the gift of East Cleveland
Post 163 American Legion.
Faith Evangelical and Reformed
Church observes its 85th birthday,
a pageant depicting its illustrious
history.
Voters retain Richard S. Horan.
Richard Rice and Walter Sutter
as city commissioners in the first
opposed election for this office in
a decade. The runner-up was Tho
mas (Ollie) Troescher, making his
first bid for an elective municipal
office.
A testimonial dinner is given to
honor Cook Cleland, twice winner
of the Thompson trophy in the
National Air Races. YMCA spon
sored, the affair is attended by
more than 300 friends and admir
ers of the famed aviator.
DECEMBER
Mrs. Zoe Brun
dage, Dean of
Girls at Kirk Jr.
High School is
elected to the ex
ecutive board of
the Ohio Associ
of Women, repre­
ation of Deans
senting the Junior High division.
Rev. James E. Hunton finishes
his first year as pastor of the First
Church of the Nazarene.
Boys of 15 and under who like
basketball are happy. The Ex
change club sponsors a Class
team for them under direction of
the’East Cleveland YMCA
Russell H. Reeves, news editor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer is ap
pointed to the East Cleveland Li
brary Board to fill out the un
expired term of Phil B. Rhoades,
deceased.
For the first time since World
War II Christmas decorations
blaze forth in all their glory at
Nela Park and the familiar
Christmas tree appears in lights
on the north wall of Shaw High
School.
Rev. M. Dean Shaffer celebrates
his silver anniversary as pastor
at St. James Lutheran Church.
Fred Blackburn, 1370 Shawview
ave., is first place winner in the
Kiwanis Club’s first Go To Church
contest.
Office Burglary Insurance
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Studios of Stage Arts
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
We Thank You For Your Loyal Patronage in 1949 and
Hope That 1950 For You Will Be Brimful of Happiness
and Prosperity.
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With full appreciation for your
patronage in the past, we wish
you aU of the best for 1950.
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