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tn East Cleveland
Have you noticed that the steeple
on East Cleveland Congregational
Church is now lighted during the
evening hours? The beams shed a
soft glow and quietly remind the
passerby of the light that never
fails.
Red Cross volunteers who serve
h» the Fund Campaign may want
to jot down this date: 1957 Fund
Drive March 8rd through die 18th.
Dr. Lawrence H. Hall’s red face
last week was not due, he said, to
Now Orleans sun. The recor of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church flew to
the southern city to address the
Chamber of Commerce, was
“grounded” for his return trip,
having to return by train, missing
his morning service. Curate Rev.
Robert E. Sehraek conducted the
oerviee and very ably.
Ths East Cleveland Safety Coun
cil says: If on the road New Year’s
ere, don’t drive if you have been
drinking if you plan to drink have
someone else behind the wheel. Be
aHve in 1957. Resolve: Drive and
walk with ears in 1957.
With state after state enacting
stiff legislation to meet the litter
problem, it is suggested that
everyone resolve to make it a habit
to refrain from littering sidewalk,
street or highway during 1957. It
can bo done.
Parents and friends of Shaw and
Kirk pupils enjoyed to the full the
Christmas musicals presented last
week by the respective music de
partments. Christmas began with a
heavenly chorus, and music belongs
to its every observance.
Euclid ave. is definitely taking
on a new look with three new
motels. Shades of the coach stage
days marvel at the comfort being
offered the traveler in this day.
That telephone call* which A If
Kolbenstvedt made to his home in
Norway on Christmas Eve was the
gift of East Cleveland Kiwanis.
Alf is in the United States through
America Field Service with Ki
wanis as his local sponsor.
As the old year dies, we wish
to express our sincere appreciation
to all of our readers who have helped
make possible our 52 issues for
1956.
Without your co-operation send
ing in items, or answering our
questions when we heard about a
happening, we could not have car
ried the news we did. For such as
we missed, please accept our regrets.
Looking to 1957 we pledge to do
our best to bring a community news
paper.
A happy New Year to everyone.
—ECB
Officials Warn In
Carbon Tet Use
Many articles are currently ap
pearing in periodicals and news
papers pointing out the dangers
oY using carbon tetrachloride, a
poison found in some cleaning
fluids, paint thinners, etc.
The warnings recall to East
(’leveland city officials, one carbon
tet death here. It happened in 1942.
A resident was cleaning machinery
in a rather small room. He became
ill. His physician took him to the
hospital where he died three days
later. An investigation into the
cause of his death revealed that
the victim had been using a cleaner
containing the deadly carbon tet.
It is pointed out by those in
authority, that one of the dangers
of this poison' is the fact that it
is odorless. It gives no warning
of its presence. It is breathed in
through lungs and skin. It damages
the brain, the liver and the kidneys.
The safest way is to avoid using
anything that contains carbon
Tetrachloride.
Golden Wedding
Party Saturday
In observance of their fiftieth
wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs.
A. W. Ogle will entertain some 25
guests on Saturday, December
29th. They will first have a dinner
at Karl Brown’s Colonial Inn, after
which the guests will go to the
Ogle home for in evening of
reminiscing.
The couple were married in
Chillicothe, Ohio, and prior to his
retirement, Mr. Ogle had been
employed for 25 years with the
East Ohio Gas Co. They have
resided in East Cleveland for three
years.
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"Let's Finish
The Job" Is
Polio Theme
The 1957 March of Dimes will
open its month-long drive in Cuy
ahoga County on Wednesday, Jan.
2nd, Frank C. Lewman, campaign
director announced.
Starting with many community
activities, and highlighted by a big
Teens Against Polio drive, the
March of Dimes drive will be
climaxed by the Mothers March on
Polio on January 31st.
The Teens Against Polio pro
gram makes its debut in big style
this year. Representatives from
high schools throughout Cuyahoga
County will band together to fight
polio. Special fund raising events
including athletic events, will be
run whereby teen-agers participate
in, and support their own cam
paign. A special day will be set
aside to be known as TAPS Day.
“Let’s Finish the Job” is the
theme selected for the 1957 March
of Dimes drive, Lewman disclosed.
The county chapter of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis supports 1348 active
cases of polio, 63 of whom are
1956 victims. National figures
show that at the end of 1956, re
cent polio victims, along with those
from former years, number 84,000
requiring aid. There were 16,000
new victims stricken in 1956. Thou
sands of polio patients are depend
ing from minute to minute on
March of Dimes breathing devices
to stay alive.
Development and demonstration
of techniques in the treatment of
patients with impaired breathing,
are provided by the National Foun
dation in Cleveland and 13 other
other respiratory centers.
Through grants supported by
the March of Dimes, the Salk
vaccine has been extended to cover
every American. To date more
than 43 million children and adults
have received at least one shot of
vaccine. Of these 26 million have
two shots and 7 million had three
shots. The effectiveness of vac
cination to date is at least 80'
against paralytic polio.
The March of Dimes head urged
all citizens in the country to get
their Salk vaccine shots during the
month to guard against the more
dangerous pqjio season in July and
Angust.
Coffee parties, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Nancy Taylor of
Berea, will be held throughout the
month. Mrs. Taylor recently met
with Mrs. C. William O'Neill, wife
of the Ohio governor-elect, to kick
off the program in Ohio. In the
county neighborhood coffee parties
will be held for March of Dimes
support.
Volunteers are still needed for
the Mothers March in every com
munity. Those wishing to join the
Mothers March for one hour in
one evening, may contact their
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Dick West, a Freshman at Yale
University is spending the holi
days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Myron West of Carlyon rd.
He Can Drive
For Three Years
I said to the man who
stood at the gate of the year:
Give me a light that I may
tread safely into the unknown.
And he replied:
Go out into the darkness
and put thine hand into the
hand of God,
hat shall be to thee better
than light and safer than a
known way,
Charles Woods uf 37225 Euclid
ave., Willoughby won't be driv
ing for the next three years. He
forfeited the privilege when
arrested for driving while intoxi
cated and tor resisting arre.-u
Woods was spotted on Noble rd.
by Patrolman McDonald who
radioed for help when Woods re
sisted the officer. Patrolmen Ohls
and DeForde responded.
By the time Woods was in the
city jail, Ohls had a damaged
wrist watch. De Forde h:ul been
bitten in a finger and McDonald
had received a punch in the
stomach.
Judge Stanton Addains sus
pended Woods’ license for three
years, fined him $250 and costs
and two days on the drunk driv
ing charge. The sentence of $500
and costs and six months was sus
pended when Woods made resti
tution for the damaged watch,
damaged clothing and other harm
to the officers.
For hindering an inspection,
Leonard E. Brickman. jr. was
fined $500 and costs. A motion on
mitigation is slated for December
29th. Brickman is said to have re
fused entrance to police officers
attempting to enter the Forest
Hill Tabern for an inspection.
New Piano For Hospital
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Mrs. Guy T. Rockwell, president of the Woman’s Board of Huron
Road Hospital, trys out the new spinet piano which the board has pre
sented to the hospital. E. W. Miller, Administrative Director, accepts
the beautiful instrument which has been placed in the new auditorium
for the use of all hospital groups meeting there.
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East Cleveland Leader
Published in Conjunction with The SCOOP in Northeast Cleveland and The News-Journal In Euclid
Volume No. 17—Issue No. 52 East Cleveland Ohio 14,100 Circulation Guaranteed Thursday, December 27, 1956
1957
Nancy Magnusson
To Compete For
Fullbright Award
Honors continue to come to East
Cleveland’s young soprano, Nancy
Magnusson. Miss Magnusson will
be in Bloomington, Ind., on Janu
ary 7th, with 150 other young music
students, competing for a Fullbright
scholarship. The finalists were se
lected from a list of more than
7,000 students.
Miss Magnusson has also been
honored with membership in the
national honorary music fraternity,
Phi Beta.
Making hei first recital appear
ance in Cleveland since she began
her musical studies at North
western University four years
ago, Miss Magnusson is appearing
touay before the Fortnightly Musi
cal Club at the Cleveland Museum
of Art. Mis Magnusson is a four
time winner of the club’s annual
Pauline Hilker Yost scholarship
award.
Nancy is the holiday guest of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Magnusson of 14709 Ardenal ave.
Wanted: Address
Of Girl Triplets
There’s a Christmas gift await
ing each of three girl triplets born
in December 1955 to Mr. and Mrs.
James Austin ... if Mrs. Samuel
Goda of 14609 Potomac ave. can
get their address. She writes she
sent them bibs when they were
born, and received a “Thank You.”
This year she received a Christmas
card from the Austins, but no ad
dress. She can’t locate them
through the telephone directory,
and she does so want to send them
a Christmas remembrance.
Anyone reading this appeal and
who knows the Austin address will
make Mrs. Goda happy if they will
call her.
Shaw Graduate In
New Hotel Position I
Named to the newly created post
of sales manager of the Tudor
Arms Hotel, is Roger Lais, who has
been formerly associated with the
Manger and Statler hotels. In this
new position Mr. Lais will be in
charge of industrial groups and
convention business. He is a grad
uate of Shaw High School and
Denver University.
Open Offices Here
Another group has taken up its
business home in East Cleveland.
The Parents Volunteer Association
for Retarded Children is now lo
cated at 15453 Euclid ave. George
H. Smith is PVARC president. The
business meetings are held at di
Newton D. Baker Health Center.
Miss Eileen Sauer, associate edi
tor of the G. E. Lamp Division’s
LIGHT Magazine, was saluted, as
one of the company’s outstanding
employees, December 23rd, on the
’‘General Electric Theater.”
Miss Sauer was -one of five
pictured in a “Christmas Honor
Roll” of G-E employees who have
rendered signal service to their
communities.
“G. E. Theater” host Ronald
Reagen described Miss Sauer’s
work as a volunteer “friend, coun
selor, and ‘favorite aunt’ to the
teen-age girls at Cleveland’s Cath
erine Horstmann Home. For this
work she was recently named
Cleveland”s “Volunteer of the
Year, 1955.” This honor was con
ferred by the Cleveland Welfare
Federation’s Central Volunteer
Bureau.
She spends many hours weekly
at the Home, helping the girls
with problems of appearance and
social adjustment, developing their
interest in the cultural and social
advantages the community offers,
and providing information on
careers that might be opened to
them.
She has also been a Red Cross
Volunteer Hospital aide, a member
uf Civil Defense, and publicist foi
several fund drives. She is presi
dent of the Electrical Women’s
Round Table. Cleveland chapter,
and a associate member of the Il
luminating Engineering Society.
Her home is at 2360 Noble rd.
Leagues Join In
U.S. Discussions:
Meeting Is Open
Five Leagues of Women Voters
east of the Cuyaliuga River are
combining their efforts in a day of
Workshops and discussion on the
Lnited Nations. Leagues in East
Cleveland, Cleveland, South Euclid
and Euclid will meet with Cleve
land Heights at St, haul’s Church,
Fairmount blvd. and Coventry rd..
Friday, January 4th at 10:30 a. m.
Six discuscion groups are slated
to begin the long day and partici
pants are urged to choose the
group which interests them most.
In seeking to understand the
underlying causes of international
dissension, an effort will be made
to relate the critical headlines of
the past months with (1) “Ex
treme Nationalism.” (2) “Imper
ialism,” (3) “Expanding World
Trade” (4) “Social and Economic
Development,” 5 “Human
Rights” (6) “Aggressive Com
munism.”
Dr. John C. Baker. President of
Ohio University. Athens, Ohio and
Permanent Representative to the
Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations will speak on the
day’s theme, “Focus on the
Future.’’
This is an open meeting. East
Clevelanders are cordially invited
to become aware of the long-range
solutions of problems that make
the headlines in today’s news. The
only charge is for the lunch, at
12:15. If you can share a ride or
need transporation from East
Cleveland, Mrs. John Wachter,
(YE. 2-6178) will arrange it.
Please make your luncheon reser
vations at the same time.
William Giblin New
Cayomaw President
William Giblin, 14504 Scioto, is
the new president of the Cayomaw
Club, a Catholic group of 450
single adults 21 or over. Mr. Giblin
is completing his chairmanship of
the club’s Choral Committee which
produced two successful musical
shows this year, “Hats Off” and
“An Evening of Music.”
Edward J. Jonke, 14609 Alder
ave., was elected trustee and will
serve a three year term.
The club will hold its annual
Christmas party Friday, Decem
ber 28th for the veterans at Crile
Hospital. Group transportation will
leave the CYO office, 1027 Super
ior at 6:15 p. m. George Drda and
Miss Marita Link are in charge.
NYCOLL Credit
Union To Meet
The Nycoll Union of the New
York Central Railroad Company,
located at 577 East 152nd st., will
have their Annual Meeting at
Croation Home on Waterloo Rd.,
Wednesday, January 16th at 7:30.
This credit union is the fourth
largest in this section of the state,
with assets exceeding $1,600,000.00
and consisting of over 3000
members.
Due to the volume of business
he doors will be open from 8 a. m.
o 3 p. m. daily except Saturdays
Sundays, and legal holidays, ef
fective January 2nd.
GE Salutes Retiring Police Captain To Begin
55 Volunteer Career As Fire Arms Instructor
Retirement from the East Cleve
land Police Department after 32
years of merited service is not going
to mean retirement from all phases
of police work for Capt. Edwin M.
Polk. Turning in his badge to
Chief of Police H. S. Weaver, will
be a signal for a new career.
Capt. Polk will become the Fire
Arms Instructor for the depart
ment with which he has worked
so long as patrolman and detec
tive. He will serve in a similar
capacity for the Cleveland Heights
and other suburban police depart
ments, and for the plant protec
tion departments in several lead
ing industrial firms. And, as a
further duty in his busy retire
ment schedule, he will be in
charge of the East Cleveland
Pistol Range. Capt. Polk is con
sidered an expert in firearms and
their uses.
Edwin Polk became a patrolman
in East Cleveland in September,
1925. He was transferred to the
detective bureau in 1947 and rn
1954 was promoted to captain.
In addition to the knowledge
gained from actual experience.
Capt. Polk has furthered his po
lice knowledge with courses at the
FBI National Academy in Wash
ington. the Keeler Polygraph
School in Chicago, and in criminal
investigation, stressing homicide
work, at Western Reserve Uni
versity.
Capt. Polk has enjoyed his years
in the police department and says
that if he were to choose a career
over again, it would be the same
one he is now closing. As for
cases, the captain believes folks
aren’t any worse today, there are
just more of them.”
The first days following his
retirement, the Polks plan to
spend with their daughter. Mrs.
Robert Chapman and family in
Parkersburg, W. Va. Other chil-
Annual Sno-Ball
At Shaw Friday
There’s ui^ .important date that
should not be lost in the Christmas
rush. Of course, that date is Fri
day, December 28th, the night of
the Friendship-Lettermen’s Dance,
“The Sno-Ball.” The place is the
Shaw High School Gymnasium
the time is 9:00 to 12:00 .m.
This dressy dance is open to all
Shaw students and alumni are also
most welcome.
Bids can be obtained from any
member of the Friendship or Let
termen's Clubs or at the door.
Music by the Cavaliers. Beauti
ful Holiday decorations, and re
freshments will all add up to an
extra-special evening.
Heights Kiwanis
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David J. Heil for the past six
years an active member of the
Cleveland Heights Kiwanis Club
will be installed tonight as presi
dent for the year of 1957. He suc
ceeds Edwin F. Ross, Assistant
Director of University Hospitals.
Mr. Heil is Vice President of
Windermere Storage Co. where he
is associated with his father J. J.
Heil, one of the founders of the
Company. He was bom in East
Cleveland and comes from a family
who are active in Kiwanis. His
brother Eugene with the East
Cleveland Club and Thomas F.
with the Shoreview Club.
The new president enters his
new duties well qualified. During
his membership in this service or
ganization he has been a director
for four years, vice president this
year, program chairman in 1954,
chairman of the Kid’s Day Peanut
Sale, chairman of Boys and Girls
Committee and has been active on
other committees. He has also been
active in the' Kiwanis Bowling
League, serving as its President
in 1954 and its Secretary in 1955.
Mr. Heil who is a graduate of
Cathedral Latin and John Carroll
University resides at 985 Bruns
wick rd. with his wife Eulalia and
our children. He is a member of
Christ the King Parish.
dren will come in for visits now
and then, the new schedule being
set up as to allow free weeks in
which “to do the many things
which a full time police detective
po.4 does not make possible.”
Churches Plan
Services For
New Year Eve
An 11:00 o’clock New Year's
Day worship service is announced
by the East Cleveland Congrega
tional Church, there being an ob
servance of Holy Communion.
Trinity Evangelical U nited
Brethren Church will be open from
eight to 12 o’clock New Year’s
Eve. and Rfev. W. E. Fulmer will
be present to give Holy Communion
to individuals and family groups
as they come for meditation and
prayer.
A Watch Night Service to inelude
a silent communion will be held in
East Cleveland Baptist Church at
11:00, to be followed by fellowship
hour, during which the season’s
greetings will be exchanged.
A New Year's sermon discuss
ing the question “Are You a
Weather Vane or a Compass?”
will be delivered Sunday at the
10:45 a. m. worship service at the
Phillips Avenue Presbyterian
Church, East 125th st. at Phillips
ave. by Rev. Roscoe J. Varble.
Mr. Ilo Dishong will be soloist,
singing the offertory “O Lovely
Voices of the Sky” by Matthews.
The anthem “Sleep Holy Babe,”
also by Matthews, will be sung by
Miss Nancy Hodge. Miss Eliza
beth Wainey, Mrs. Roscoe J.
Varble. Mr. Wilfred Cheetham
and Mr. Dishong.
Members who. have joined the
Hayden Avenue Baptist Church
will be given a reception during
the Watch Night services from 8
to midnight New Year’s Eve. The
guest speaker will be Rev. Charles
Ohman, pastor of Crawford Road
Gospel Church. Rev. Paul Schenck
will have a Gospel Magic for the
children. There wil lalso bo testi
monies of students home from
college.
Sees Nela Glow
Despite A Cast
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Among the thousands of persuns,
young and old, who are viewing
this year's beautiful outdoor
Christmas lighting display at Nela
Park, perhaps no one was more
surprised at the opportunity of see
ing the story of Christmas at Nela
than Mary Ann Hughes, just 13
years old. Mary Ann is not play
ing around now. She is confined in
a cast as the aftermath of an op
eration for curvature of the spine
at Rainbow Hospital last October.
The happy-to-serve escorts for
the trek through the park were
Patrolmen Richard Kennedy and
Allan J. Pearse of the East Cleve
land Police Department on the be
quest of their Chief, H. S. Weaver.
Mary Ann is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Hughes, 1504
Rydalmount rd., Cleveland Heights.
This year’s auto count to Nela is
78,705 through December 25th.
Local Man Is
Traffic Victim
An East Clevelander, Henry M.
Peetz, 62, of 1774 Wymore st., was
killed December 19th in a traffic
accident on Route 21 near Copley,
Ohio.
State Highway patrolman said
Peetz was driving north when his
car ran into the rear of a panel
truck driven by Michael Seaman,
32, of Meadowlands, Pa. He sus
tained a neck injury.
Mr. Peetz was purchasing agent
for the Ric-Wil Co., a conduit in
stalling firm in Barberton. He was
enroute home at the time of the
accident. He was a member of
Charles T. Raymor 683 Masons and
a World War I army veteran.
His wife, Amelia, and four sis
ters survive.
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Junior Red
Cross Makes
It Merrier
Hundreds of persons of all ages
had a happier Christmas, thanks
to the active Junior Red Cross
members in the East Cleveland
Public Schools. While each unit
has had a more or less busy year
round program, they went all out
for Christmas, as the following
heart-warming report from their
chairman,' Miss Bertha Clenden
ning reveals:
Shaw High School’s “Future
Nurses Club” made one hundred
popcorn balls for Hawthorneden
Hospital’s Christmas party.
At W. H. Kirk Junior High the
Woodworking Department made
cribbage boards to be delivered to
Veterans’ Hospitals. Ninety Red
Cross gift boxes were filled and
seventy-five kit bags were turned
over to the Red Cross for delivery.
Caledonia’s boys and girls joined
the Philanthropy Committee of
the PT A in providing gifts for
more than twenty' people of East
Cleveland who were in need at
Christmas time. The toys supplied
by the kindergarten groups were
sent to the Children’s Service
Bureau. Tray favors were made
by some of the class groups, and
these along with gift boxes were
sent to the Red Cross Headquar
ters for distribution.
Rozelle School made Santa Claus
table favors for the Dorcas Home.
Mayfair pupils played Santa in
various ways. The kindergarten
pupils trimmed a “Friendship
Tree.” Each child brought a card
with his name on to hang on the
tree. This tree plus trimmings
was sent to Huron Road oHspital
Children’s Ward. Pupils in the
other grades made papier mache
animal toys, hammered tin trays,
filled red stocking with toys and
candy, and made a collection of
toys, games, puzzles and books to
add cheer at Christmas time to
less fortunate children. The entire
school made a “Mitten Tree.” The
mittens bright and gay, the May
fair children hope, will keep boys’
and girls’ hands who receive them
as gifts, comfy and warm.
Superior School sent tray mats.
Christmas tree favors, and small
baskets filled with candy to make
the recipients chosen by the Red
Cross Headquarters happy.
Prospect School’s project the
first semester included the mak
ing of place mats, nut cups and
favors.
Chambers School as has been
its custom for many years, filled
the stockings of the boys and
girls at Sunny Acres. The articles
included small toys, stationery,
and toilet articles. Tray favors and
Christmas decorations were also
included in this seasonal remem
brance.
YWCA Swim Class
Starts Jan. 15
Starting Tuesday, January 15th,
The East Cleveland YWCA is offer
ing all levels of Swim classes for
beginners through synchronized, as
well as two recreational dips. The
early dip, 5:30 to 6:30 p. m.. is open
to junior and teen-age girls: the
later dip 8:45 to 9:45, is for women
only. In the gym slymnastics, bad
minton play, tennis (bring own
racquets! and golf (bring golf
clubs) are included in the program.
Starting Saturday. January 12th,
all le els of swim classes for girls
8 years (4 feet, 6 inches tall) to 14
years are offered. In the gym, a
Junior Dance program for girls 6
years and over, is featured. There
will be beginner tap and ballet and
advanced tap and ballet for those
continuing from last fall.
A “Yr” membership is required
of all participants and a medical
for those taking swim or gym
classes. Call the East Cleveland
Center, UL. 1-220 for further in
formation. registration and medical
appointments.
What? In December?
Picking a dandelion from the
sidewalk crack in front of her
apartment at 1836 Forest Hills
blvd.. was an unusual experience
for Miss Ruth Baldwin. Miss Bald
win is from International Falls, a
border community in Minneapolis
where sidewalks are usually under
some 15 feet of snow in December.
But in Cleveland, well most any
thing can happen weatherwise.
Collect Christmas
Trees Next Week
Christmas trees will be picked
up, beginning Monday, January
7th. Harold Green, superintendent
of waste collections for the city
announced today that the pick-up
of the discarded trees would start
January 7th.
The full schedule will be an
nounced next week.