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“RICH PEOPLE should con
sider that they are only trus
tees for what they possess and
should show their wealth to
be more in doing good than
merely in having it. They
should not reserve their ben
evolence for purposes after
they are dead, for those who
giro not of their property till,
they die show that they would
not then if they could keep it
any longer.”
This creed set down by Jos
eph Hall, an English Bishop
(1574-1606) sums up Carl R.
Apthorp, sr., the philanthropist.
His Joy at being able to break
ground for the new East Cleve
land Y addition was apparent
as he did more than stick the
silver-plated spade in the
ground. (Fact of the matter is,
he shoved aside the bright new
shiny spade brought especially
for the occasion and started
digging with his own small
shovel).
If the 95-year-old senior
citizen had not been stopped
he probably still would be
digging.
It cannot be denied that Carl
R. Apthorp, sr., is a rich man,
garnering his fortune by wise
investments.
As an expert in this field, he
gave a good tip on how to play
the stock market to a combined
meeting of the various Y man
aging boards when his gift of
$225,000 that made possible the
ground breaking ceremonies was
first announced.
Speaking for himself and his
wife, the Berta Treat Apthorp.
he had this to say:
“Mother and I haie felt
that the best investment in
the world is in boys and girls
and we were so convinced
that this is true that we
invested to a considerable
extent. Indeed we invested in
what are now 10 boys and
girls in our family—and they
are well. too.
“But when people think of
their own family, then they
begin to think of others and it
seems to me that the best in
vestment that anyone can make
is in boVs fend girls. The YMCA
seems to me to be what my
father, said was practical re
ligion, or in other words applied
religion, because he thought
ti at true religion was a way
of living.
“This gift that Mother and
I are making—and my child
ren—speaks for itself. It was
an opportunity for us to do
a little good outside of our
own family, for fortunate aa
I have always been, and 1
have always been exceedingly
fortunate, it seems as if there
has been a divinity watching
o'er me. I want to share that
fortune with others. That is
the reason Mother and 1, and
we had agreed that if I had
gone first then Mother would
have done likew ise, are happy
to give this gift."
This, his own creed, identifies
Carl R. Apthorp, sr., the busin
essman.
Because of his latest of many
shrewd investments, he is richer
in spirit the East Cleveland Y
is richer by an addition of a
gymnasium, swimming pool and
locker rooms, and we are just
richer by knowing this fine
gentleman.
Gene Hersh
Volume No. 20—No. 21
Commissioners
Seek Reduction
In Sewer Rates
Acting speedily after a recent court decision, East
Cleveland Commissioners have asked City Manager
Charles A. Carran and Finance Director G. T. Apthorp
to study the possibilities of a reduction in sewer rates
to local consumers. J. Durant Mix, president of the
governing body, made the re-|
quest today on behalf of the
commissioners.
East Cleveland was one of
several suburbs that protested
a substantial increase in rates
charged by Cleveland for san
itary sewage treatment and dis
posal facilities.
Of some 20 communities in
volved, East Cleveland, as far
as is known, is the first to take
advantage of the court action
and consider passing the savings
on to the residents.
By protesting the Cleveland
proposed rates that were deemed
“unreasonable” by the court,
savings to suburban residents
are estimated at more than
$3.5 million.
Carran and Apthorp are ex
pected fo report to the com
missioners at their meeting,
next Wednesday.
Aside from being set by the
court, the new rates have been
approved by the Cleveland
Board of Control and the big
town’s city council put the new
rates on first reading Monday
night.
An ordinance also is being
drawn up by East Cleveland
Because the next regular
meeting of the East Cleveland
City Commissioners (Tues
day, May 30th) is Memorial
Day, the governing body will
meet Wednesday. May 31st at
City Hall at 7:45 p. m.
officials for approval by the
city commissioners.
If a reduction in rates is ap
proved, it will most likely
appear on the July 15th water
bills for local residents.
Also at its next meeting. City
Commissioners will conduct two
public hearings one for a con
ditional use permit that would
allow the First United Presby
terian Church, located at 16200
Euclid ave.. to construct an
addition to its existing building.
This area is where some 20
grave markers are being con
sidered for removal to make
room for an enlarged Sunday
School.
Already, the church has ap
proval from the state attorney
general’s office for the com
plicated move and a decision
from the court of appeals is
expected shortly.
There was no opposition when
the East Cleveland Zoning
board recommended Tuesday
that the commission grant this
request.
The other public hearing set
concerns reducing a setback on
Ivanhoe rd., from 10 to 5 feet
to allow an expansion program
by the General Electric Vacuum
Cleaner Division, 1734 Ivanhoe.
According to Carran, the set
back would allow' additional
expansion estimated at $100,000.
The firm has 200 feet of front
age on the East Cleveland
(west) side of Ivanhoe near
Euclid.
The GE project is part of
a large 10-year expansion pro
gram.
Three Days Left
For Chest Exams
Today ... .Euclid and Lee ... .2 p.m. till 8:15 p.m.
Fri., May 26 Euclid and Taylor 1 p. m. till 5:45 p.m.
Sat., May 27 Noble and Terrace 9 a.m. till 12 Noon
Hundreds of East Cleveland
ers have taken advantage of
the free chest x-rays made right
in their own neighborhoods, local
chairman, Mrs. Frank Holzheim
er reports.
Miss Helen Smith, East
Cleveland’s Health Commission
er, urges all senior citizens to
visit the units while they are io
their area. She pointed out that
tuberculosis is much more like
ly to strike older persons and
that by having an x-ray it is
possible to detect the disease
in its early stages, thereby mak
ing recovery much faster and
more certain.
She also said that the use of
the drugs which are now avail­
able makes it possible to cut
the length of hospital stays con
siderably from that of past
eras.
Mrs. Holzheimer .says that the
films which are now being taken
are being read at the County
Tuberculosis Clinic by a staff of
trained physicians and that the
results will be in the mail with
in the next two or three weeks.
Each visitor to the x-ray
unit also is being given a de
tection kit so that he can make
a test in his own home to deter
mine whether he has diabetes.
This service is being rendered
in cooperation with the Diabetes
Association of Greater Cleve
land.
Remember Us,
Early Deadline!
Tuesday, May 30th is Mem
orial Day, which means thia
paper will miss one day of
normal operations.
Any photograph for use in
the Thursday, .lune 1st issue
MUST be in before Monday
noon. May 29th.
All copy should be in Fri
day, May 26th, MUST be in
by Monday, May 29th.
We thank you for remem
bering us for Memorial Day.
Spanish
Fisher Becomes
A Candidate
Don Fisher, a local business
man for the past 32 years,
today announced he is a can
didate for one of the three city
commission seats. He gave his
residence as 1819 Garfield rd.
Fisher joins a field of six
including three incumbents vy
ing for the commission posts.
Summer
School Plans
Completed
The final registration and
payment of tuition for all
elementary students should be
completed by tomorrow (Fri
day) at each elementary
school, according to Phil
Worcester, Summer School
principal. Classes will be
held at Chambers and Pros
pect Schools, and will begin
Monday. June 12th, and will
close Friday, July 21st.
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Junior High students will
complete final registration
Thursday. June 1st, from 9
a.m. to 12 noon in the office
of the Assistant Principal at
Kirk Junior High School.
Senior High students will
complete a final registration
Thursday, June 1st, from 1
p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 10 at
Shaw High School.
“If registration cannot be
completed June 1st, both
Junior and Senior High stu
dents can complete final reg
istration Friday, June 2nd,
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room
10 at Shaw”, Worcester said.
Checks should be made pay
able to The East Cleveland
Board of Education.
Tuition fee is $16 per sub
ject for East Cleveland School
District residents $20 per
subject for non-residents of
the School District.
“The final registration card
must be signed by the parent
and the home-school principal
or authorized person. Regis
tration cards may be secured
before final registration dates
at Kirk and Shaw,” the princi
pal reported.
CASH, CASH, CASH.
Cal Coates, chairman of the
Prize Committee for the 31st
Annual East Cleveland Com
munity Picnic Committee, an
nounces that there will be
plenty of good hard cash as
prizes for this annual event at
Euclid Beach Park Wednesday,
July 12th.
“This is a radical departure
from recent years in the picnic,”
according to Coates, “but it was
the consensus of the whole
Committee that a change would
be good and now we are offer
ing a total of $1,350 in Grand
East Cleveland Leader
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FLY A FLAG. Here are four good reasons why members of American Legion Post
163 are selling 50-star American flags. Posing with a bundle of them ready
for sale are left to right Mark Minichelle, 14605 Alder Dottie Frelich, 13505
Beaumont Marie Weniger, 14615 Shaw and Dean Hugebeck, 14619 Shaw.
In quoting an old adage, Post Commander Steve Haverlack says, “The greatest
glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." He
feels the best way to transmit is to let the youngsters raise the flags on their
homes next Tuesday, Memorial Day. Post 163 will take orders for flags ($4.50)
and will deliver them direct to the homes. The flags come equipped with hanger
and pole. Besides the Post home, the flags can be ordered by calling the
following numbers: PO. 1-2562 GL. 1-5173 GL. 1-8317 or 531-6368. Proceeds
from the flag sale go to charitable purposes.
War Vet Leads Parade
EWHS
J. DURANT MIX, East Cleveland City Commission presi
dent, leads the way by buying the first Buddy Poppy
from VFW Post 1500 Poppy Girl Darlene Heser.
VFW Poppy Sale Starts
VFW Post 1500 began its
veterans Buddy Poppy campaign
today and East Cleveland City
Commission President J. Durant
Mix purchased the first symbol
ic memorial to the fallen heroes
of this country’s wars for free
dom.
The Buddy Poppies are made
by disabled veterans of Crile
Hospital.
Proceeds from the sale go to
Grandmas Meet
The East Cleveland Grand
mothers Social Club will meet
tomorrow (Friday) at 1 p.m. in
the East Cleveland Library, for
an afternoon of cards and re
laxation.
Prizes. This is in the form of
cash and merchandise certifi
cates and more people will bene
fit in the Grand Prjze.”
The first Grand Prize will be
$500, second and third prizes of
$100 each, and fourth prize of
$50 cash. The last is being do
nated by Don Fisher wrho is
Ticket Chairman of the picnic
this year. The balance of the
prizes are merchandise certifi
cates including four $50, four
$35, eight $25 and four $15
Certificates.
These latter prizes are good
in any store in East Cleveland
to the winners.
This list of Grand Prizes is
families of needy veterans and
also to aid orphans and widows
of deceased veterans.
Poppy Day chairman is Ed
mund Heser and his co-chair
man is O. E. Smith. Chairman
for the VFW Auxiliary is Bea
trice Trombetta. Her co-chair
man is Lenore Smith.
’60 Building
Tops $5 Million
Final building department
operations for I960, just re
leased, show $5,705,006 worth
of construction last year with
246 building permits being
issued.
Cash Prizes Are Picnic Feature
in addition to the regular list
of Major Prizes which is drawn
from the ride ticket stubs. The
committee is still rounding out
this list and according to Coates
it looks as though this list will
be one of the largest in the pic
nic’s history.
The job of securing the hun
dreds of minor prizes- that make
up the backbone of the picnic
goes to the committee members
who include Ray Campbell, Fish
er, Charlies Hamilton, Sam Les
lie, Bob Henderson, Bill Nelson,
Merle Owen, jr., Hy Tobin, Tony
Tomsic and Dick Pearce.
These men will be out seeing)
the many merchants in town who.[of
By Mail $5.00 Per Year
'Ar
’4’
Stephen R. McKearney. a
Spanish-American War veteran,
will once again lead the East
Cleveland Memorial day parade.
He will have a snappy group of
local policemen serving escort
duty,.
The parade forms at the city
hall with American Legion Post
163 and Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 1500 leading flag
raising ceremonies at 9 a. m. A
new 50-star flag will be pre
sented by the VFW group.
Then with massed American
Flags and the Shaw High Band
following the Grand Marshall,
the parade will move out at cad
ence of 120
Next in formation will be
acting police chief Robert Troy
an, parade marshall, followed by
Division Commander Irving Ful
lard of Post 1500 and his aid
Dick Donald of Canadian Legion
Post 21.
Parade adjutants are Post
1500 Commander Bill Irwin. Post
163 vice Commander Lou Frelich
and Post 21 Past Commander
J. A. McDonald.
Third Division Commander
will be Charles Pate of Post 163
with Augie Trombetta of the
VFW serving as his aide.
Participating in the parade
will be Auxiliary Police and
Firemen. Spanish-American War
Veterans in cars. Sea Scouts,
Ship No. 26, Honor Guard,
Daughters of ’98 Auxiliary,
D. A.V. in cars. American Legion
Post No. 163 and Women’s Aux
iliary, Canadian Legion Post No.
21 and Women’s Auxiliary,
V.P.W. Post Nd. 1500. Women’s
Auxiliary, and Girls Jr. Unit,
Jan Ben Jan Patrol 27-D.O.K.K..
Gold Star Mothers in cars. Blue
Star Mothers in cars. Red Cross
Station Wagon. Civilian De
fense Unit, E. Cleveland Com
mission, DeMolay Boys and Col
or Guard, Kirk Jr. High Band,
Kenneth Williams, Director Lit
tle League. Boy Scouts, Cub
Scouts, Girl Scouts. Brownies,
E. C. Business Men’s Associa
tion, Campfire Girls, Rainbow
Girls, Knights of Columbus,
Calvary Lutheran Church Float,
Hi-Y Bus. Exchange Club, Ki
wanis Club, Hayden Ave. Bap
tist Church, Red Cross Disaster
Wagon. E. C. Fire Dept, and
Equipment. E. C. Police Ambu
lance
The program at the East
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support the picnic to make it
what it is year after year.
After the prizes are brought
in, the work fails to Harry “Pep
per” Martin who has been the
Prize Recorder for the past few
years. Martin’s job is to record
the prizes and set them up for
the actual drawing that takes
place the night of the picnic at
Euclid Beach.
Don Trimboli, this year's Gen
eral Chairman, reported after
the last committee meeting that
things are really rounding into
good shape. The tickets will be
'ready for distribution to the
i merchants right after the 1st
June.
Students in art classes at
Shaw High School are prepar
ing a city flag which will be
suitable for official use in civ
ic functions during the Golden
Anniversary Year observance
and on other future occasions.
More than 100 students are ex
pected to submit entries in the
design contest.
The contest is under the di
rection of Bryce C. Browning,
head of the art department at
Shaw High School. Serving
as a panel of judges to select
a winning design and two hon
orable mentions are City
Manager Charles A. Carran
Louis Schweizer, of 15740
Glynn rd., an advertising
agency executive and Bruce
Holderbaum, pupil personnel
director for East Cleveland
schools.
The winner of the contest,
as well as the two honorable
mention awardees, will receive
suitable honors and prizes.
Along with the top prize, the
winner will have the pride in
future years of knowing that
his design will fly over City
Hall and at other appropriate
functions as the official insig
nia of the city.
James E. Bateman, chair
man of the Golden Anniver
sary Committee, said that the
design would be presented to
the City Administration and
Commissioners for acceptance
as the official flag of East
Cleveland. He added that the
winner of the design would
be honored during one of the
anniversarv events.
“It will be an extremely
proud person who will see the
product of his or her imagi
nation accepted and used as
the official flag of our citv,”
Bateman added.
Paul Vogel.
Shaw Graduates To Hear
Oberlin College Prexy
Commencement Is June 4
Two-hundred and sixty-four candidates for gradu
ation will hear a local boy w’ho made good speak at
Shaw commencement exercises on “Perspective and
Open-Mindedness.” Highlighting the ceremonies at
7:30 p. m., Sunday, June 4th at Severance Hall will
City Flag
Contest Is
Underway
A flag design contest is un
derway in East Cleveland as
part of the city’s Golden An
niversary Year activities.
be Robert Kenneth Carr, ninth
president of Oberlin College and
a recognized authority on civil
liberties as well as being a noted
author on this subject.
A college teacher for 28
years, Carr has held national
offices in the American Associ
ation of University Professors.
He is a native of East Cleve
land, having graduated from
Shaw in June of 1925.
In 1959-60, President Carr
was on leave from the faculty
of Dartmouth College to serve
as general secretary of the
AAUP. In 1955, he w’as awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship for
the study of civil liberties in
England.
He became executive secre
tary of President Truman’?
Committee on Civil Rights in
1947, and. as head of the Com
mittee’s staff, made important
contributions to its report, “To
Secure These Rights.” This doc
ument has since been considered
the most important study of
civil liberties in recent years.
Dartmouth Grad
He was graduated from Dart
mouth College with the AB de
gree in 1929, earned a Master
of Arts degree at Harvard Uni
versity in 1930 and a Ph.D at
Harvard in 1935. While working
on his doctorate, he became a
member of the faculty at the
University of Oklahoma, and
taught government there from
1931 to 1937.
He joined the Dartmouth
faculty in 1937, became Joel
Parker Professor of Law and
Political Science in 1948, and
director of Dartmouth’s Great
Issues cqurse in 1958.
He has received the honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from
Dartmouth, from Concord Col
lege, Athens, West Virginia,
and from Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity.
President Carr served as
vice-president of the American
Association of University Pro
fessors from 1952 to 1954. He
is a member of the American
Political Science Association,
the national committee of the
American Civil Liberties Union
and Phi Beta Kappa, and a fel
low of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
In August, 1933, he married
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BARBER SHOP QUARTET SHOW TO BE HELD Friday, June 2nd, the East Cleveland
Ys Men will present a program of Barber Shop Quartet music at Kirk Junior
High School. The program, which will begin at 8 30 p. m. will consist of four
quartets who are members of the Cleveland Chapter of the Society for the Preser
vation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Tickets
are available from any member of the East Cleveland Y's Men's Club or by con
tacting the East Cleveland YMCA, 1831 Lee blvd. Warming up for the show are
'The Dandies," one of the groups which will entertain. The program will include
chorus numbers featuring the combined quartets, separate renditions by each
quartet, and some "sing-along" songs of old time favorites starring the audience.
Prepairing to give a close shave to Joe Shekleton is Don lammarino the other
members of the quartet are, from left to right, Ed Sterle, Carey Swan, and
EAST
fit/ CLEVELAND
Robert Kenneth Carr
Ursuline
Songfest
Is Sunday
An entirely student-super
vised “Sing Away” performance
will be on stage at Ursuline
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Sunday at 8:15 p. m.
The senior class is presenting
■a “Showboat Summer” with all
the variety and humor that it
found in the Mississippi river
boat life.
“America” is the theme of the
junior class production.- the
sophomore arrangement of
“Around the World” presents
scenes'from South Pacific, Paris
and the United States the
freshman class presents its
prize-winning “Time Machine.”
a review of all the popular
music and dances since the “Gay
Nineties.” Ninety minutes of
good old-fashioned entertain
yy.ent.
In the first performance of
the “Sing Away” at a student
assembly, the freshman act was
awarded first place for its
originality and musical appeal.
Ratings in the Sunday “Sing
Away” will depend upon the
enthusiastic applause of the au
dience. Tickets may be pur
chased through students. Pro
ceeds will be used for new stage
furnishings.