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Geauga Rainbow Girls Install Officers
Geauga Rainbow Girls recently installed new officers. Pictured above are (from left to right):
Rama Schingle, Worthy Associate Advisor Jeanette Huntoon, Charity Sue Kingston, Installation officer
Gwen Novak, Faith Ann Sharp, Hope.
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Installing officers, pictured above, were (from left to right): Rayetta Robusky, installing mar
shall Charlene Colvin, pro tern for Sue Craxton, installing recorder Pasty Wallis, installing treasurer Ro
berta Hartman, installing officer Sharon Miller, installing marshall.
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Appointed Officers who were installed included in the picture above (from left to right): Pat Long
Nature Margie Sharp, Service Diana Henry, Immortality Carla Novak, Patriotism Donna Tann, Re
ligion Judy Bessai, Love Carolyn Lessick, Chapain Dawn Whitright, Fidelity.
Another Picture on Page 3
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1 he Chardon Chamber of Commerce is planning
its annual Halloween Window Decoration Contest, Par
ade, and Costume Contest.
On Monday afternoon, Oct. 30, Elementary and
Junior high school students will start decorating the
Chardon merchants display windows. The junior artists
are divided into two categories, 5th & 6th graders and
i 7th, 8th, & 9th graders. The merchants are providing
I the funds to purchase the paints and for the three
prizes in each category. Judges for the decorations will
be Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brinkman of Chardon and Mr.
1 Burr Abbott of Chester.
Chester to
Quiz Local
Candidates
CHESTER The Civic As
sociation will hold a “Meet
Your Candidate” night on
Monday, Oct. 23, at the West
Geauga high school.
A panel composed of mem
bers of the West Geauga Kiw
anis club and the C.C.A. will
quiz the candidates for trus
tee and the school board. Mrs.
Wallace Inghram and Tom
Gorman will represent the
C.C.A., and Sam Cullison and
Paul Hopkins will represent
the Kiwanis. Mike Schrems.
president of the C. C. A. will
act as panel moderator.
All four candidates for the
two positions on the Township
Board of Trustees will be pre
sent. They are incumbents
John Richmond and Robert
Lease, and candidates Ted
Lewis and Bill Marx .The four
candidates vieing for two pos
itions on the School Board
will also be present. They are
James Kenealy, Dr. A. John
Rose, Rollie Trayte and Carl
eton Bricker.
Mr. Robert C. Lindsey, sup
erintendent of the West Gea
uga schools will present the
two bond issues that will ap-’
pear on the November ballot.
The public is invited to part
icipate and will be able to
question the candidates after
the panel concludes. Ques
tions will be submitted in
writing from the floor.
Besides the Kiwanis, the
League of Women Voters is
supporting the C.C.A. in this
community project.
Newcomers
Plan Two
Toy Parties
The Chardon Welcome Wag
on club held its regular
monthly meeting on October
11 at the Chardon village hall.
Attending the meeting were
six guests, Mrs. Charles Yen
yo, Mrs. William Shiffler,
Mrs. Chalmer Bennett, Mrs.
Raymond Largent, Mrs.
Charles Lupica, and Mrs. An
thony Mramor.
In charge of refreshments
were Mrs. Richard Donley,
Mrs. Richard Hopkins, and
Mrs. J. Jeffries.
Plans were made for two
toy parties, one to be held on
Thursday, Oct. 19, at the
home of Mrs. Thomas Purs
ley, Henning Drive (Avenue 6
9184). The demonstrator will
be Mrs. Eleanor Stolph. The
next party will be held on
Wednesday, Nov. 1, at the
home of Mrs. L. R. Collins,
Chardon Euclid Road (AV6
5103). The demonstrator will
be Mrs. Ray laniro.
After the business meeting,
there was a talk and question
and answer period conducted
by Mr. A. J. Supik, area dir
ector of civil defense.
It was announced that ap
proximately $35.00 was made
through the club’s card party
last week for the Chardon
Park swimming pool fund. A
pair of bowling shoes from
Ernst Bowling Lanes, Wel
come Wagon’s newest spon
sor, was won as the door prize
by Mrs. Robert DeMuth.
It was announced that the
next club meeting will be on
Wednesday, Nov. 8, and the
speaker will be Miss Mary
Ann Strava who will give a
cosmetics demonstration. All
women who have been called
on at any time by Welcome
Wagon hostesses as either
newcomers or new mothers
are invited to attend these
meetings. The club president,
Mrs. L. R. Collins, may be
contacted for information.
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CHARDON, OHIO THUSDAY OCTOBER 19, 1961 OUR 113th YEAR NUMBER 42
Chardon Plans Halloween Party
On Holloween evening. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 7:15 p. Holloween Program Chairman Robert Van Vliet
40 Geauga Volunteers
to A id Cancer Study
Volunteer researchers of the
American Cancer Society’s
Geauga County Unit will be
gin today to take up their dut
ies once again for the second
follow-up of the Cancer Pre
vention Study, a six year nat
ionwide project to learn why
some people are more likely
to get cancer than others.
Geauga county researchers
-forty of them, housewives
and business men are among
the nearly 70,000 trained vol
unteers in 1121 counties
throughout the country who
are checking on more than 1,
100,000 Americans. The
study, begun in October, 1959,
will continue for another four
years.
In the first follow-up, con
pleted last year, volunteers
succeeded in tracing all but
six tenths of one percent of
all the men and women en
rolled in the study. Approxi
mately 8,200 deaths were re
ported.
This year, in addition to re
porting whether the enrollees
are alive or dead, the volun
teers will be asked to submit
to subjects in the study, a
short supplementary ques­
Hire Industrial Arts
Teacher at Chester
CHESTER At the regul’
ar meeting of the West Gea
uga Board of Education held
Tuesday, October 10, at the
high school the following bus
iness was transacted.
HIRED Mr. Thomas Milli
gan, East Cleveland, Ohio, as
high school Industrial Arts
teacher. Mr. Milligan has a
B.S. degree from Miami Un
iversity. He has no previous
Womens’ Federation Meets
at Chester Next Thursday
CHESTER —. The fall meet
ing of the Geauga County
Federation of Womens Clubs
which will be held at the
Chesterland Baptist Church.
1015 Chillicothe Road, on
Thursday, Oct. 26, promises
a fine program.
Three outstanding speakers
are scheduled also music and
other features.
The guest speaker is Mrs.
Grizella P. Shepherd of
Cleveland. Her topic is,
“What a Woman Can do for
Peace.” Mrs. Shepherd was
former director of Living
Room Learning developed
through the cooperation of
the Women’s Association of
Cleveland College and the
Division of General Educa
tion Western Reserve Univer
sity. Mrs. Shepherd will sp’
eak in the afternoon.
Lloyd Carlson of Carlson's
hardware today announced
an opportunity for boys and
girls of Geauga County to get
in some free shooting and at
the same time prepare to be
come safe and sane hunters.
Vaughn Carmean, Geauga’s
game protector for the state
of Ohio will be the instructor.
The Weslaco Gun club has
donated the use of their fac
ilities. The discussion and
teaching part of the session
will be in their clubhouse.
Afterwards the youngsters
will use either the trap or
riftle range.
“It is vitally important that
m., the youth of the Chardon area will parade around
the square, led by the Chardon high band. Following
the parade the window decoration winners will be an
nounced, cider and donuts served, and the costume
judging started.
The costume contest will be divided into four age
groups with prizes for the Funniest, Most Original and
Most Grotest in each age group awarded.
Judges for the costume contest will be State Rep
resentative B. A. Broughton, County Commissioner
Wayne Parsons, and Chamber of Commerce President
Bob Barnum.
tionnaire relating to sickness
ess, if any, since October 1,1
1959, and air pollution in ar
eas where they live or work.
This year and for the next
four years, the volunteers will
continue to report if each
participating member is still
living. If the volunteer re
ports a death, the statistic
ians will seek its cause from
the death certificate, medical
records and supplemental in
formation from the attending
physician.
The study is the largest
medical statistical survey ev
er conducted in the United
States, according to Mrs. Leo
nard Miller, Co-ordinator of
Cancer Prevention Study for
Geauga County Cancer Unit,
Mrs. Miller added, that this
study, if done without volun
teers, would cost the Amer
ican Cancer Society a pro
hibitively large amount of
money.
“Volunteers who make this
saving of dollars possible are
in effect saving lives,” Mrs.
Miller said. “It is through
such efforts that cancer even
tually will be brought under
control.”
teaching experience.
ADOPTED a resolution pe
titioning the State to change
the charter of the school or
ganization from 6-6 to 8-4.
DECIDED to have a dis
cussion of the English curri
culum in grades 7-12 at a
special board meeting. Meet
ing date is tentatively set at i
November 21.
sioner William Burns will sp’
eak at the morning session.
He will be on the program a
bout 11:00 a.m. Mr. Burns will
explain the proposed Park
System and acquaint those I
present with information and
problems concerning the
County government.
The local speaker, Mrs.
Kenneth Wood, will speak on,
“Art in the Home”. She will
also have on display an exhib
it of picutres. Mrs. Wood
speaks in the morning.
Special music will be fur
nished by Awarana and Noel
Hayashi. Other features are
included on the program.
The Chester Garden Club
and the Chester Study Club
are hostess Clubs.
Registration starts at 10:00
and the program at 10:30.
Luncheon will be served by
Geauga County Commis- the women of the Baptist Mis- terested are invited to attend.
Carlson Offers Free Training
for Young Geauga Hunters
young hunters take part in
this discussion and education
al panel.” Hunting is the old
est sport known to man and
it affords the modern man an
opportunity to get out in the
woods and fields away from
all the pressures and cares
of todays civilization. With
the number of people we have
hunting today it is essential
that more caution be used
and that the hunter be well
versed in the rules of safe
hunting.”
“In some states the attend
ence at these hunter safety
meetings is required and a
certificate must be obtained
before a hunting license is is­
Judge
Plans to
Retire
Common Pleas Judge Har
old J. Richmond said today
he will not be a candidate for
re-election in 1962.
He added that he will serve
out his term which expires
Dec. 31, 1962.
Judge Richmond has serv
ed on the bench since Janu
ary. 1953. He was probate and
juvenile court judge from Ap
ril, 1946, to January, 1953,
when he was appointed Com
mon Pleas Court judge by
Governor Frank Lausche up
on resignation of former
Common Pleas Judge Wil
liam K. Thomas.
“I never had a real vaca
tion in my life, and I want to
I do some traveling, so I want
to retire,” Judge Richmond
said.
A native of Cleveland, Jud
ge Richmond came to Ches
ter when he was eight years
old. He graduated from Ches
ter High in 1915.
A veteran of World War I,
he served as a pilot and was
honorably discharged April
23, 1919. For 16 years, Rich
mond was manager of the
Shepard Bus Co. of Mayfield
Heights. He is a former Ches
ter township trustee, justice
of the peace, and member of
Chester school board.
He resides in Chester with
his wife, the former Miss Flo-
rence Caswell of Cleveland.
Two from Chardon
Study at Marietta
Two Chardon students are
studing this year at Marietta
College, Marietta, Ohio.
Diane K. Pfaff, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Pfaff,
RFD Two. Chardon is enroll
ed as a freshman. She is a re
cent graduate of Chardon
high school and plans to maj
or in social studies.
James Milton Swedenborg
is a senior this year in the
school of business administr
ation. He is the son of Mr. ano
Mrs. Milton Swedenborg of
120 Goodrich Court. Chardon.
He is a member of the Tau
Kappa Epsilon fraternity and
th? Economics club. He serv
ed one term as class treasur
er.
SUBSCRIBE and SAVE
sionary Society at 12:30. price
$1.25 Make luncheon reserva
tions with the secretary Mrs.
Guy Stone, Rt. 1, Thomp
son, by Oct. 23. Chester wo
men may reserve by calling
Mrs. Frank Downer, PA 9
7163. The afternoon session
starts at 1:45. Mrs. George
Binnig, Thompson, president
of the Federation, will be in
charge of the meeting. All in­
sued. When the legislature
gets around to requiring per
iodical tests for a driving lic
ense they should also include
periodical tests for the privil
ige of a hunting license.”
The very personal nature of
this meeting makes it neces
sary to limit the number of
participants to 15. Therefore
the first 15 who register will
be the lucky ones.
You may pick up your re
gistration blank at Carlson
Hardware, 115 Mai n St.,
Chardon, and the first 15 who
return this registration form
filled out and signed by your
parents will be able to get in
some of that free shooting.