The Amherst news-times (Amherst, Ohio), 1941-05-16

              s XT- 111 HERS VOL XXIU, NUMBER 20 FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD Am .Limes T Amherst Girl Receives Award Miss Mildred Gerber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, D. Gerber of 155 Prospect-st, was awarded the Freshman Prize in Home Economics at the annual Achievement Dinner of the Home Economic Department of Mather college, Western Reserve Univer sity in Cleveland; the event took' place Thursday, May 8 at 6 o'clock at tlje Alcazar hotel.1 i The Freshman Prize is award-1 ed annually by the faculty of the , department to the student of good academic rating who show evi-j dence of interest and success in! her chosen field. In addition she ! must have been active in the! Home Economics Student Club J and have shown real ability in r working with her fellow stu-i dents in the interest of Home! Economics in Mather college and in the state and national student clubs. The award is a silver bracelet on which is engraved Home.Ec-j onomics Freshman Award, Flora Stone Mather College, Western. Reserve University. This bracelet is to be worn throughout the sophomore year and given the following year by the recipient j to the outstanding freshman of the class of 1945. The presentation is made annually at the Achievement dinner. The award this year was given to Miss Gerber by Miss Elsie Beerbower of New Salem, Pa., last year's recipient. LEARNING TO OPER TE METAL LATHE ' r 'If 4 - 1 rfi Vii;; f f f U s .71 .,t. Future Builders Receive Early Training In School Schoolliouse Filled For "Open House" Ellsworth Towne. Ludolph Kreeger and E irl Feris are shown above aa they were learning one of the operations of a metal lathe in the sh ap at the school. 1 hey re quite intent on their job. HE'S CABINET MAKER Make May 29th Your Alumni Date All of you alumni of Amherst high school are asked to leave Thursday, May 29th an open evening so that you may attend the annual "get-together" and see your school-day pals! Maybe you haven't seen thtin iwnvtiien, twenty or more years, wouldn't you like to reminisce with them of the good old days you know remember the day you skipped school to go fishing and gosh, was the teacher ever mad at me for chewing gum at the same time I was giving a talk! Yes, those were the good old days and you still love to talk about them and this is your opportunity. Vou can come back to your Alma Mater, see your schoolmates of years gone by. It will be a grand evening figuring just how close the old class prophecy did come. Maybe Joe did become' a lawyer or Dusty a mechanic and Sue an artist. Many of you haven' seen or heard from those school friends for years and years, although you have wondered much about them where, what, and how they're doing. Don't miss this excellent opportunity. This year'scommittee-in-charge Is working very hard to make the banquet a huge success. A representation of every class graduated from Amherst high school is the desire of the committee so if you see or know the address of a few of your classmates be sure to drop them a line telling them and encour-againg them to attend the"get-together" this year. They won't want to miss it. ' So don't forget the date at Amherst high school Thursday, May 29th. Dinner will be served 6:30 p. m. Tickets may be secured at the Lorain County Savings & Trust Co. Bank, from Miss Grayce Purcell at the school and from committee members. I I I To Attend Norwalk District Conference YELLOW LINES SIGN OF CAUTION i When you approach yollow lines, painted across the sidewalk, cross with caution! This Is the newest safoty measure adopted by thH Tillage this week. Yellow linns arc painted across thn sidewalk at all alleys Into which machines drive. The yollow lines are to warn pedcstrlnns to be on the lookout for cars which might be coming out ot the alley at the time the pedestrian Is passing. . Hickory Tree grange will hold its regular meeting this evening (Thursday.) Rev. M. A. Burris, pastor of the Amherst Methodist church, and many of the members will attend the Norwalk District Conference of the Methodist church at Milan, May 22nd. . Dr. Roy L. Smith, the newly elected editor of the Christian Advocate, is to speak in the ev ening session. Dr. Smith resign' ed the pastorate of the great First Methodist church of Los Angeles, said to be the largest Methodist church in the world, on Septenv ber 1st, to take up his duties as editor in chief of the great new church paper which is the suc cessor of stven church organs merged when the three branches of Methodism united one year ago. It is expected that five hundred Methodists and their ministers from all parts of the Distirct,! which includes the counties of Medina, Lorain, Huron, Erie, Ottawa, Seneca and Sandusky, will attend the afternoon and evening sessions. The Laymen will sponsor the banquet at six o'clock. Other speakers on the program are Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer of N. York, Rev. Karl P. Meister of Elyria, Rev. Wm, H. Norman, pastor of the Milan church, and Rev. L. A. Crawford of Fields. The boys up at school are add-j ing to their hop chests, even if they don't realize it now, Just as the girls are'. At the present when they have finished a nice radio or bedside table as their project in the high school work shop, they bring it home to "mom" and present it to her with a long speech it's her for keeps. But after several years have passed and they find a girl Just like the dear old gal that is "mon", they start looking all over the house for all "their" furniture. It's true, Isn't It "mom"? Anyway that's what the high school workshops and metal shops are for to teach the young gents to know a bit of furniture making and what goes Into the simple projects of life. In the local school Norwood S. Hearn is the instructor in the metal and wood-work shops and be teaches the boys the fundamentals of hand tools and wood working machine tools. They learn to prepare woods for the different types ot finishes, how to figure bills of material tor the projects they select, the methods ot construction that Is best for a certain type of project and what kind of wood ia best used for furniture. As their projects the students are taught to select those that will be useful to them and while they are In the process of making their projects the teacher tries to instill In them the ability and the desire to do all things well so that when the projects are finished the boys will always be proud to show what they were able to do. So far this year the workshop I Amherst's PTA Open House has accomplished a great deal in 1 program was presented to the the way of furniture making. I j largest attendance of the year daresay if the boys desired to do : Monday night when almost the so, they could open a furniture store in town. Some of the projects that the Iboys are proud possessors of are lawn benches, radio tables, Ibedside tables, pier cabinets, foot stools, coffee table, knee hole desk and chair, clothes press, end tables, magazine rack, kitchen tables, smoking stands, dressing tables, corner shelves, tennis tables and even cedar chests what did I tell you about the hope chests? The metal shop hasn't been in a groove either this year. The boys ot the metal shop are busy learning the fundamental principles of operations performed on various machines which will Iatf er help them when seeking a Job after graduation. They are learning the operations performed on the screw cutting lathe such as turning between centers centering threading knurling boring mandrel work cut off tool exercise taper cutting etc. In the bench metal work the lads are learning the Drill Press operations. The sheet metal work teaches the diffeVent types of fastenings and layout work tor projects such as quart measures funnels cookie ipans letter openers rlght'(and four-part el-boks fancy cookie cutter etc, The metal and wood-shop department at school is one study the boys don't dread they're very seldom late for classes and It doesn't take them over five minutes to settle down for their period of work. entire gym was filled with parents who came to see the entertainment staged by a large percentage of the school's pupil enrollment.The business session, which was short, was presided by Mrs. Pen-ton, the retiring president. The organization voted to sponsor a boy to Boy's State, and also contribute the autograph page in the school annual. The program opened with numbers by the Junior Orchestra under the direction of Floyd Moore, Rhythm Band by the second . grade; Choral Reading by the combined second and third grade; two song numbers by the third . grade; songs and a tap dance by the fifth grade. The commercial department gave demonstrations in shorthand and typewriting, and Harry Hall and James Wilhelm presented several mathematical amusements. Demonstrations and a playlet by the science department were also part of the program.The entertainment was concluded by a style show by the home economics department, with articles of clothing made by the girls modeled before theaudience. Walter Lach has become quite proficient in cabinet making as this picture shows. Ha is sanding the door preparatory to varnishing it. This was his project in the manual training department at the school under the direction of Norwood Hearn. Recording for Posterity Something Of Amherst's Passing Scene! By Mrs. F. R. Powers heads. Somehow somewhere we Most of us are still a little faint ; toe have lost the gentle art of from gasping at the constant ( finding satisfaction in the simple beauty of the season now passing pleasures. But it distresses us over us. Or because we got into ' when our children prefer "Cops the habit of holding our breath and Robbers" to "Run, Sheep, lest each new day would bring Run." snow or freezing weather to! blight and ruin the lovely mir-! Just about 8 vcar a8 Sammv acles that were unfolding with Truscello, as president of the such amazing swiftness all about,1940 equating class, was inter- u8 viewed by your News-Times re- Despite the fact that Mother j Porter. Nature cut her 1941 Springtime In answer to a question con-from the same piece of Cloth oficerning his magic clarinet, he Gold I seem to remember her said he planned to continue with choosing at frequent intervals ( his musical education, but pre-when I was a child, I missed ( cisely when or how or where he many of the activities that to me wasn't quite sure, were as much a part of a spring-! The beginnings of the realiza-time as violets and new-blown j tlon of this ambition of Sam's maple leaves. I saw not one weren't as far Into the future as game of marbles, no little girls he might have imagined them to playing hop-scotch, or bouncing a hard rubber ball. (Oh the firm, powdery feel of a new rubber ball and the beautiful bounce of it! 51 met no one goinga-flower-ing or coming home with baskets of wild flower plants dug from the dark mysterious floor of the forest. And the only May basket I saw was one I made myself, and it wasn't so good, since I'd all but forgotten the intricacies of the folding process. I have a hunch that children themselves are the same as they always were. It's the grown folks who put ideas into their be when I talked with him In May, 1940, for last Army Day Sam marched down Pennsylvania Avenue with the United States Navy Band! As a preliminary test of his ability, Mr. Truscello tells me that Sam, clarinet in hand, was required to pass along a line of music stands equipped with musical scores that became Increasingly more difficult as one advanced. There were twenty music stands to be dealt with and Sam was stopped only on the Continued on Page 2 CLIFFORD MESSAL ELECTED PRESIDENT Clln'oril .Messal was elected Presi dent of Hit' Concordia club of the Lutheran church when club mem fjeis met Tuesday evening In the church p;rl)rs for their regular meeting. Other officers elected at Tuesday's meeting were Glenn Slumska, vice president; Doris Koepp, sec rntary; and Norma Ileeslng. treasurer. The meeting opened with Scripture reading by Doris Koepp and piwr was led liy Clifford Messal. U was announced during the business meeting that the next meeting will be held My 27. The topic of discussion will be "On Your Friends' and will be led by Ruth Johnson. Following games and contests lunch was. served by the hostess, Miss Tint li Hogrofo to sixteen members and two guests, Gordon Bliss and Norman McConnell. Find Living Conditions Good In Camp Life Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Fleckner and daughter, Miss Ruth traveled to Camp Lee, Virginia, over the week end to visit their son, Robert, who Is stationed there In the Medical Training Battalion. Arriving at Camp at four o'clock Saturday afternoon they made a lour of the tamp and have reported that everything at camp Is in proper order and Is nice and clean. And for amusements there are baseball teams organized, horseshoe courts, readln? centers, theatres and the like. In case of the slightest sl(;n of Illness the men are confined to the hospital for treatment. Young Fleckner was In the hospital live days with a sore throat. Flecknor is stationed at a regular medical corps. None of the men there have carried a -gun as yet. They are learning Important steps in hospitalization. After making a tour of the camp Fleckner accompanied his family on a trip to points of historical Interest In Virginia covering Williamsburg and Norfolk. The party went to Fort Eustace to visit the Amherst lads stationed there. They visited with Frank Kovaeh, Frank Reichert, George Knipp and Ray Zlnk and Johnny Radlek of Lorain, both the latter men are well-known In Amherst circles. All of the men say that camp life will never compare with home life but they are determined to make the best of their year In training, and they are looklns forward to their first leave. Hearing Set For Next Tuesday Hearing in the appellate court at Akron on the Rlckett taxpay-1 er's suit to enjoin work on the municipal electric light plant will be held next Tuesday. The case was Cdrricd up from the decision of Judge Guy B. Findley in common pleas court in Elyria. A temporary injunction w.as asked for, but this was denied by the court last Saturday. CHILDREN'S HOME TO HAVE MAY FESTIVAL The annual May Day Festival of the Lorain County Children's Home will be at the Children's Home, Oberlln Saturday afternoon, from 2:00 to 4:00. A cordial Invitation Is extended to the many friends of the organization, former employees and any person wno lived at the Children's Home ns a child during the past forty years and to the public as well. Tito program is sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA of Ober lln College. All the children of the Home will participate In the program. St. Joseph's To Hold Baccalaureate Service At the eight o'clock Mass Sun day morning in St. Joseph's church fifteen members of the Amherst high school graduating class will be present at the annual Baccalaureate service held each year In St. Joseph's church. The sermon which is entitled "Prayer," will be preached by Rev. James H. Smith and the students will receive Holy Communion in a body. In the class are Frances Abraham, Mary A. Abraham, Joan M. Brown, Helen Z. Chihay, Reglna Deidrlck, Le-ona Dyblnski, Patricia Ehrllch, John Kapuclnskl, "Annette Kapu-clnski, Betty J. Roth, Mary Sli-man, John P. . Ruth, president of the 1941 class, James Wesbecher, Benjamin J, Kolenda, and Edward Solack. EAGLES TO ERECT NEW FLAG AND POLE At a meeting of the Amherst Aerie of Eagles Monday evening, Members voted to buy a new flag and have a pole erected in the front lawn of the home in time for use on Memorial Day. One candidate was Initiated at the meeting and it was announced that a class will be Initiated May 26 in honor of Henry Raesler, the secretary. The new officers of the aerie and of the auxiliary who were recently elected will be installed at a joint installation Thursday, May 29th. Members of the aerie who are going to Columbus Sunday to attend the state meeting of officers are Hugh McGarvey, president; William Bruce, chairman of the security committee; C. A. Lauer, chairman of the steering committee; and J. B. Avery,auditor. 'Youth Week' Ends With Exhibitions The "windup" of the local "Youth Week" campaign by the Amherst Rotary club occured Monday when prizes to the winners of the various contests held Saturday afternoon were awarded. First prizes consisted of a-loving cup, and second prizes were medals. Both cups and , r medals will be engraved with the name of the winners. Winners of the airplane exhibition contest were John Ruth, first; and Carl Schleferstein, sec-cond. Airplane flying contest: John Ruth, first; John Bruce, second. Kite exhibition:. Clarence Brown, first; Paul Bechtel, second. Kite flying: Clarence Brown, first; Jimmy Henry, second.The winner in the kite' flying contest had about one-third of a mile of string out on his kite, which was barely visible in the distance. Chief Deputy Christ Lewis, and Deputy John Judge of the sheriff's department gave an illustrat- , ed safety lecture. Pictures of county accidents, many of them resulting in fatalities, were shown and the causes of the acci- den explained. Pythians To Attend iMemorial Service Sunday morning, the Amherst Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters will attend the County Memorial Service at the Dela- ware-av Methodist church in Lorain. Grand Chief of Ohio, Mrs. George Carter, and Grand Chancellor, Mr. Petty Bone of Port Clinton will also be present.The invitation was accepted Monday evening when the Knights held their regular meeting In the lodge halls. It was also announced that the organization has formed a baseball team and the team has joined the Amherst League. The first practice was held last evening (Wednesday). Of the 1,077 urban communities with 10,000 or more population in 1940, there were 829- that gained and 248 that lost inInhabitants. Rose Lauer Heads Auxiliary For 3rd Year Rose Lauer was re-elected president of the auxiliary of the Amherst Aerie of Eagles for a third term when election of officers was held one night last week. . Other officers elected were, Betty Fackler, junior past president; Florence Esslg, vice-president; Maude Bahl, chaplain; Bessie Avery, secretary; Luclnda Berger, treasurer; Rose Young-less, inside guard; Margaret I.ap-atkovitch, conductor; C. Gray, trustee; Mildred Ward, pianist; and Kathryn Nalley, captain of the drill team. , Announcement was made that the irstallation, in conjunction with the aerie installation, will be held June 2. , Officers an J the" team are busy practicing i the V ritualistic work for competing at the state convention in Toledo, June 21. J At last week's meeting the Mt Pleasant auxiliary Irom Cleveland put on the work for theInitiation. GRASS FIRE The Are department was called out Wednesday morning at 10:45 for a grabs Are. The fire which was small, took place at the corner ot Middle and Crosse Streets. It Was extinguished In less than seven minutes.