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Nancy Peoples Is Contender
In Diving Match
local contender in the Wo
men’s National Diving Cham
pionships at Shaw pool next
week-end will be 17-year
Nancy Peoples.
PEOPLES
NANCY
Shows Her Form
Sgt. Graduates
Sgt. Richard J. Hrovat, 1116
East 145th st., was one of 37
police officers recently gradu
ated from an intensive three
week course in essentials of
traffice at the Traffic Institute
of Northwestern University.
4®!
by Gene Hersh
Thirty-six years ago, four
East Cleveland firemen grew
mustaches with the condition
that the first one who shaved
his off would pay each of the
other three five dollars.
Now being at a time, when
five bucks was worth much
more than it is now and a fire
man’s pay was somewhat slim,
none of the four ever shaved
off his lip fur.
The four partners in crime
were Albert Kaska, now work
ing for the government in Pan
ama James Millsop, retired
Deputy Chief Otto E. Swancar
and Chief Fred Lange.
Still Plans Mustache
Swancar, even though he will
retire in June and move to
Riverside, Calif., says he is still
going to keep his mustache.
at Shaw
Patsy is a member of the
which has entered s?”en
netit-rs in th*
are Pat C’ark,
Pacific A.A.U.
WHAT THE .!” might be the thoughts of Shaw Principal Wayne C.
CLEVELAND LIBRAMB
Ml 01 BUCLW AVCftUft
EAST CUWtXAMX th
and Mrs. Frederick C. Peoples,
2145 Buena Vista dr., Wickliffe,
but her roots are deeply imbed
ded in East Cleveland. Her
mother, formerly Peggy Nuna
maker, graduated from Shaw in
1935. And, her grandfather,
N. P. (Knute) Nunamaker
served for 34 years as a teach
er and coach at Shaw High
School until his retirement in
1950. He coached both football
and track, but is remembered
particularly for his great light
weight grid teams, which year
efter year dominated the Lake
Erie League.
old
She’s the daughter of
Mr.
Nancy is a senior at Wick
liffe High School, No. 1 in her
class with a four-point average
going into the final semester.
Besides diving as a member
of the Cleveland Swim Club,
she is head cheerleader at
Wickliffe, and solo flutist with
the orchestra. She has already
been accepted at University of
Michigan, where she expects to
get an opportunity to really
develop her diving interests as
a member of their five women'.
swim team.
Next week’s meet will be
Nancy’s first experience in Na
tional competition, but she has
won many honors in this area
of the country. In 1961, she was
Junior Olympic 1-mcter cham
Lake Erie A.A.U., District 3
meter tit’e. Last year, she was
Lake Erie 1-meter chamnion
and again finished second
the high board.
■t. T',H”ded
tve Swt’’"™
three
ch- mr’on and a mATn1'cr the
1961 All-Am?ric' diring team:
and Pp.^hafa jnco
oudonr thr?e-met°r t’x,e
and 1961 10-meter tower cham
ipion.
and East Cleveland School Superintendent Harold L. Nichols as they watch two
of the stars of the Black *N Red review rehearse a scene from "Bye Bye
Going through the gyrations is Roger Horvath who plays the lead role of
Birdie. Swooning is Edith Gower who portrays his girl friend, Kim. The
comedy will be presented April 4th, Sth and 6th at Shaw Auditorium.
Volume No. 22—No. 1 East Cleveland. Ohio
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VIEW
on
na
fnr
She will be facing the
tion’s best next week-end.
among the first official entries
to come in are the names of
Joel Lenzi O’Connell, deferd’ner
three meter chamnion
Santa Clara and Patsy
lard, one-meter titlist
Phoenix, Ariz.
from
Wil
from
Otto Swancar, Fireman 37 Years, to Retire
When he goes, the city will lose
one of its most popular public
servants.
Swancar is calling it quits
after 37 years on the depart
ment in which time he rose
through the ranks to be a top
official and expert on the game
of firefighting.
Aside from moving west, he
has no other plans except to
take it easy with lots of fishing,
golfing and stargazing.
The stargazing bit is quite a
hobby with the deputy chief and
he belongs to the Cleveland
Astronomical Society. He has
constructed his own six-inch
telescope and even ground his
own lens.
Swancar lived until recently
2056 Taylor rd. He now re
sides with his wife of 33 years,
Edith, at 14103 Baldwin.
readers
are us
family
dam in-
Now before our
get the impression we
ing words not fit for
rending, there is a
volved and it will save consid
rc.ble flooding of basements
in the Forest Hills section.
One-tenth complete in For-
Blough, left,
Birdie."
Conrad
musical
FROM THE DAM. Assistant City Engineer Walter Webb, left, and City
Manager G. T. Apthorp pose on the partially completed dam in Forest Hills Park
that will keep rainwater at bay. The reservoir which will hold some 21,000,000
gallons of water when filled
in the background.
Dam is Darn Good for
If sudden storms prevail in
East Cleveland this summ.r as
they did last year, the city will
a ke r. ?r -.a
thanks to some far-lighted
thinking on the part of he en
gineering department.
est
dam, scheduled for finish in
August that will hold 21.000,
000 gallons cf water if filled
to the brim.
considerab’y
in the buck
assistant en
rain storm
hit th.- area
WTrile this is
mere than a drop
et, Walter Webb,
gineer says, “A
like the one that
last June could fill the reser
voir in a half hour.
However, i was pointed
out that last year's ram was a
“maximum condition”
and shouldn't happen
for another 50 years.
City Manager G. T. Apthorp
was not so optimistic as he
exck wed that “we are get-
Kirk Band
In Concert
Tonight
The 70-piece Kirk Junior
High School concert band
will perform in a short, in
formal concert tonight at
Kirk Auditorium.
Included on the program,
and starting it off at 8 p.m.
will be the Kirk “B” Band
of forty-three players which
has appeared mostly as a
“pep” band at athletic
events, and will be making
its only concert appearance
of the year.
Kenneth Williams, instru
mental music director
Kirk, urges interested
mentary school children
their parents to attend,
admission will be charged.
Sons Successful retires) and seven pieces oi
The two sons the Swancars, equipment,
raised are highly successful in
their respective fields.
Swancar’s most dramatic mo
ments came when assisting the
Dr. James R. is doing re- Cleveland Fire Department in
search in oral pathology at the battling the Cleveland Clinic
Western Reserve School of fire and his own department’s
Denistry while Allen is a bank- fight of the Windermere Meth
er in Anehiem, Calif.
He was promoted to
tenant in 1942 captain in
and assumed his present
in 1957.
odist Church blaze.
Besides fighting fires, Swan-
Like many others, Swancar
switched to city work in the car has served East Cleveland
late twenties because all other for the past eight years as
type of work was slow. Prior officer in charge of the depart
to being appointed to the de- ment’s clean-up committee and
partment Dec. 10th, 1925 he'also by his many hours in lec
was a sheet metal worker.
turing to citizens on fire*pre
vention.
He leaves officially June 30th,
lieu
1947
rank!but his last day as a firemen
will be the end of May.
He wants all his friends in
When he joined the force,1,
there were 33 men and three the area to note his new address
pieces of equipment. Now there which is 225 Knox Court, River
are 43 men (46 by the time he! side, California.
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to the brim and will be 26 feet deep is shown
Hills Park is a retaining
ting weather that shculd only
happen every 50 years--every
10 years.”
The reservoir is to be con
structed a. a small cost to the
-ky because the dirt to build
se 26-foot dam is being pro
vided and 1'
on Suneri-'-r
If you get absorbed with
mor? figures, here is another
one to soak .m:
The torrent that fell last
June amounted to 11.000 gallons
a s'cord in this are?..
.Actually, the reservoir
not catch all tKe water
falls in the park, but
cent. The rest is
run through the
is being built ir
the man-made r?
will take care of
about 25 per
expected to
t’’e ar^a and
taining basin
the overflow.
Shaw Campus
Blueprint
Discussed
at
ele
and
The program will be taped
by Delta Records of Ohio,
who produced a long playing
record of last year’s Kirk
musical organizations.
The Kirk Orchestra, which
participates in the annual
Christmas and Spring Con
certs, will be recorded during
the afternoon preceding to
night’s concert and will be
included on the record.
The blueprint campus of
Shaw High will be revealed as
a reality of the immediate fu
ture at a Shaw PTA meeting
tonight at 8 p. m. in Korb Stu
dent Center by guest speaker,
Dr. Harold L.
intendent of
Schools.
By Mail $6.00 Per Year
-::x «-y:
the City
anhd to the site
rd.
doesn’t contem
the deluge that
Apthorp
n’ate quite
hkr the city -last yesr but said
the rc'ainirg basin will help
to a lesser degree three or frur
times during t’e year.
event
again
ITc’f is moving 40.000 yard
n 5.000 truck loads of dirt
into the sre.
If you nrnak this down into
gallons, th? earth being moved
would me to 8,000,000 gal-
Nichols, super
East Cleveland
Euclid ave. no-
A proposed
parking, drop-off lane for par
ents driving students to Shaw
or Prospect a parking lot, pos
sibly two, facing Euclid in the
‘front yard’ of both schools,
and many other new innova
tions wil be presented to the
audience.
Two Seriously Injured
After Car Rams Garage
Four juveniles who decided to play hookey to go
joyriding are more than likely now wishing they had
gone to school instead. As a matter of fact, several
automobile owners and a few insurance com
panies also at this moment are wishing the lads
had gone to school.
The four youngsters, flee
ing from a Cleveland detective
cruiser and East Cleveland
Police Sgt. Dave Biddleman.
cut an estimated $13,000 swath
of property damage Tuesday
through east side traffic.
Two of the joyriders are in
serious
Road
facial
condition at Huron
Hospital suffering from
and internal injuries,
driver of the automobile
wound up in a garage
The
which
that was already occupied at
1393 Hayden ave., had “bor
rowed” his father’s car. He was
turned over to juvenile authori
ties by East Cleveland Police
for careless driving and op
erating a motor vehicle under
a suspended license.
The two who were able to
walk away from the accident
were turned over to their
parents and school authorities.
Chase Starts in Cleveland
The chase began in Cleveland
near Patrick Henry School
when two alert detectives
questioned the reason
teenagers were out riding
ing school hours.
Upon noticing that he was
being trailed, the driver of the
borrowed car apparently pan
icked and tried to fiee. Then the
mile long chase began.
The fleeing car glanced off
a small truck on St. Clair ave.
It onto Shaw ave..
where it side-swiped a taxi
cab wirnov* injury to two eld
erly passengers.
Next victim was a rasrerger
ear near Shaw and Hayden in
tersection where Sgt. Biddle
man joned the chase.
Loses Control
The near-tragic end came
when -the driver lost contro1
and sped into the opcls^oors
of a bri^k \garage owned by
Louolla Faubel, pushing her
1962 Oldsmobile through the
wall for a total loss to car and
garage. The other half was oc
cupied by the 1963 Chevroie*
owned by Abbey Simmons.
13906 Shaw. This car also was
badly damaged.
will
that
only
Police said that the fleeing
auto went through the Shaw
Hayden intersection over 70
miles an hour but fortun
ately the driver had the light
in his favor.
Minutes after the dramatic
conclusion to the chase, the in
tersection was alive with
youngsters trotting home from
lunch from Chambers
tary school.
Elemen-
incident
worse.
All agree that the
could have been a lot
Valuation Here
Up $392,192
According to the Builder’s
Exchange, Inc. East Cleveland
reported an increase of valuation
for February of $392,192 due
to the issuing of 13 building per
mits.
This is considerably more than
February of last year when the
increase in building (8 per
mits) totaled $36,600.
Otto Swancar
He Still Ha Hie Mustache
Damage Done By Juvenile
Joyriders Set at $13,000
Health Fund
Drive Report
Is Due Today
A report on how Health
Fund Campaign workers in
East Cleveland and Bratenahl
are doing will be given today.
Occasion is the first report
meeting of the Residential Div
ision at the Halle Bros.
Some 1,000 women in these
communities will be making
door-to-door solicitations for
the Health Fund until March
26th. They are trying to raise
2'1.283, the area's mare of
the 1963 Health Fund goal of
$625,000.
According to Miss Sue
Leachko. 13777 Euclid ave..
funds collected so far exceed
the 1962 totals to date. Tirit
she explained, is because thi:
year’s goal is 7 per cent great
er than it was in 19J2.
four
dur-
In charge of the walkers it:
Bratenahl is Mrs. George
Poore, 292 Corning dr.
Cleveland
Cleveland
Co.
Recently installed
rd., by the Nickel Plate bridv
was a first for CE!—an 87
foot, eight and a half- ton
auxiliary pole that officials
say .will improve electric ser-
Little League Meeting Tonite
An important meeting of the
East Cleveland Little Leagues.
Inc. will be held tonight at the
East Cleveland City Hall at
7:30 p. m. Plans for the 1963
season will be discussed and
election of officers will be held.
Commissioner Roy Wisecup
has announced that there will
again be eight teams in the
Little League for boys 10-12 and
that the Senior League will be
an eight-team circuit for boys
in the 13-15 age bracket. Cur
rently, there are a few open
ings for coaches and managers
in both leagues and any quali
fied men are asked to attend the
meeting or contact Mr. Wise
cup at EV. 2-7554.
Registration blanks will soon
be available at all East Cleve
land schools for boys who are
interested in playing baseball
this summer.
Youngsters are reminded that
it will be necessary to register
Knox is Named
To Legislature
Advisory Group
Robert C. Knox, president of
East Cleveland Savings & Loan
Co., has been appointed to the
1963 Advisory Committee on
State Legislation of the United
States Savings & Loan League.
The appointment was an
nounced today by Frank B.
Yeilding of Birmingham, Ala.,
president of the League, which
is the nationwide trade organ
ization of the savings and loan
business and represents more
than 4,900 savings associations
and co-operative banks.
The Advisory Committee on
State Legislation consists of
managers of state chartered
associations and is primarily
concerned with recommenda
tions for improvements of state
statutes under which these in
stitutions operate.
There will alto be openings
for umpires and scorers this
summer, both of whom will be
paid for their services. AT
would-be umpires should con
tact Mr. Wisecup and those who
are interested in scoring are
asked to call Bob Keefer at
EV. 1-7743.
Series EE
Tags Now
On Sale
OFFICIAL FLAG
GOING IP’ The Tinol seC'C' in on S’ (oo» steel pole.
I!is firsl in Illuminating Company history, is shown going
up. It will be attached by the two men perched on
Ine portion already installed.
CEITries Hew Poles in Our Town
beeri
Something new i
added to the Ea-t
scene thanks to the
Electric Illuminating
1:
aku de­
nan. t?c pule
igned to make
The puki are imbedded in
a concrete cakson. five feet
in diameter and nearly 35 feet
deep. The number of poles.
plates
week.
Series EE license
are being sold this
Deputy Registrar Don
announces. When th?cc
sold, the FF series wifi be
next.
“All EC numbers are now
ready for pickup,” Fisher re
ported.
License plates are sold at
the East Cleveland City Hal,
in Room 8 every day except
Sunday from 8:30 a. m., until
7 p. m. The final day for
purchasing licenses locally is
Saturday, March 30th.
Announce Two
Major Sewer
Projects Here
City Manager G. T. Apthorp
has announced that bids would
be sought around the first of
April for two large sewer
projects.
One on Glynn rd., from Lee
blvd., to the city limits is ex
pected to cost around $120,000
and the other on Woodworth
rd., east from Hayden ave., to
East 140th st., is expected to
run approximately $40,000.
piauned fur tue line which i.i
run six ’.-’ilei frum the Ivy
iub-.tatiun in Cleveland to the
East Cleveland '.ub-Etauci!.
16321 Euclid
sac., it 90 and
30 of these will be located in
the city.
They v, ill be iiix-taiied a
line following the railroad and
the CTS rapid
entire distance.
transit for the
the project is
Sl.SC‘6.000 and
the project is
late summer of
The eoit of
et trm sled at
completion of
expected in
this year.
a
in order to be aligned t
team even though they m:
have played on a team last year.
The '63 season is scheduled to
open in early June.
Bakery
Seeks
Rezoning
A public hearing v ill be held
next lueiuay by the City Com
missioners on Hough Bakery’s
hopes to build a $209,000 addi
tion to its shipping facilities
on Auburndale, near Lakeview
Uw oruputed build-
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i‘i i/’c •!,/ had. ■p:e.:d zt
he at.i.-.i-.'cd by
cr.’/ re? cox
ie. jl
late 3 first rcaulnr wb1’ final
action bc:ng taken at the '-.xt
regular meeting of f’e L.
inkt’oncrs*
However, the hearing ■Cd be
ttill he'd next week with all
adjoining properly owners re
quested to attend.
Objecting to t'.ic change
zoning in front of the Zoning
Board was Mr?. Eugene Law
son, 1675 Auburndale. She
feared undue noise that would
be caused by heavy truck traf
fic.
Another resident appearing
at the hearing, Donald Robert
son, 1687 Auburndale, assorted
the proposed building would be
good for the neighborhood.
The members of the Zonmg
Appeals Board, Police Chief
H. S. Weaver, Fire Chief Fred
Lange, Law Director Stanley
Webster and City Manager
G. T. Apthorp all cited the
building as “an improvement
to the area.”
It was further pointed out
the trucks would not be of the
semi type and wouldn’t be any
louder than regular passenger
cars.