The Amherst news-times (Amherst, Ohio), 1947-03-06

              Am HERST OTWS- Jl 1MES I VOL XIX, NO. 10 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947 THE SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD n TIE dtf TO NEWS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL by Barbara Tabbert & Jack Ellis Assembly The Junior class sponsored the assembly of February 28. Mr. George Marx, ventriloquist, and his dummy Waldo, gave a very ' ' interesting program, featuring people and events about school. The orchestra played "Salute to the United Nations," under the direction of Mr. Jones and a girls' trio, Jean Kleps, Esther Sick and Beverly Sprague, sang an arrangement of "Managua Nicaragua." Scholarship Award Robert Washka has been given a first-year scholarship for next year at Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio. A.H.S. Participates In Ensemble Four high school students en tered the Lorain County Solo and Ensemble Audition at Clear-view High School last Saturday. ' and received noteworthy ratings. Janet Battenhouse received rat ings of "very good" for her saxa phone and piano selections. Elaine Rubel received a rating of "su perior" for her clarinft solo, and Jean Mueller received "superior" for her violin solo. Walter Hoy received a rating of "excellent" for his clarinet number. Frosh Enter Tournament On Friday, March 7, Mr. Lud-wiga freshman basketball team will travel to Huron to play the first game of the tournament against the Huron freshman team. Jf the boys win their first game, they will play again on Saturday. CouH.tsy Theme rt During the past few weeks the students of Amherst high have been "courtesy-conscious." Mem bers of the English classes have expressed their ideas of manners in A.H.S., as well as manners generally, by writing themes on the subject of courtesy. Attends Convention Superintendent Powers is at tending the National Convention of School Superintendents and Administrators in Atlantic City. He left last Saturday and is ex pected back by Thursday. Intramural Tournament The public is invited to attend the championship game of the Intramural Basketball Tournament on Monday afternoon, at 3:45. The tournament is being played by high school boys chosen by the ten varsity players who represented Amherst in the Sectional tournament. The teams will be known as Bartlome's Warriors, Orosz's Polish club, Prittie's Bombers, Coverdale's Capitols, Bryner's Orioles, Jenkins' Challengers, Mulder's Penguins, Schnaak's Tigers, and Sel-mants Trojans. Opera On Friday afternoon, April 11, 46 members of the girls chorus, Mrs. Ehrman and Mrs. Egeland, will take a Lieb bus to Cleveland to see the Humperdinck opera, "Hansel and Gretel." The role of Hansel will be played by Rise Stevens and the role of Gretel by Nadine Conner. They wiD attend the matinee performance at two o'clock. Alumni Items Don Sahl has received distinction at B-W during the first semester,, hy tejng placed pn the 'Dean's List. ;' Of interest last week was the picture of Don Prittie in his sociology class at Bowling Green. Stan Reicherts Are Chosen To Receive C. of r Civic Award WATER OFF SATURDAY Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Reichert, directors of the Amherst Rec Center since its organization five years ago, were chosen to receive the annual award for outstanding civic performance at the dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Monday evening. The awar(j m the form of an i I IV (HQ AAA inscribed gift, was presented to ilflUlllOnai ?1D,UUV the Reicherts for the Chamber j .by Robert Washka, who reviewed Urailted tO LOCal j history of the founding of the Rec and the time and ser ial AH Al a till ff Plant 'vices devoted by the couple for ijeneraung i lam young people of the commu. nity. In the business meeting follow ing the dinner, President Ralph Prittie presented his reDort of part of the business of village ithe affairg of the chamber dur. council at its regular meeting on' the past year( william Rob. Tuesday evening of this week. 1, secretary-treasurer, gave Mayor H. f. Kane reported an tne treasurer's report, and three additional grant of $13,000 fromnew directors were elected, the federal government, to be ap- Named to serve as directors plied on construction costs of for three years were Ray Ehrlich, the plant, which went into opera- i Arthur Meesig, and Stanley tion last fall. Total grants from j Reichert. the government now total $154,- nuest speaker following the 800. It was also reported that business meeting was Kenneth stand-by service frorn the Ohio ; m. Petrie. Galion, Ohio, who re Reports of operation and finances of the municipal light and power plant formed the major Water will be shut off all over Amherst from 1 to 4 p.m. next Saturday afternoon, according to an announcement from the local water company. At that time the new water main from the lake to Elyria, from whence Amherst gets its water, will be ut in. If It is possible to complete the tie-in in less time, the water will be turned on again sooner, water company officials stated. 200,000 Seals Are Mailed Here To Aid Crippled Children S. Amherst in Kent Tourney Tonight; 'Beat Cornets, 47-22 South Amherst's Cavaliers return to the basketball wars tc night (Thursday) when they meet Brecksville in the sreond round of district play at Kent. Public Service company had been discontinued. Some discussion was also given to the plan of abandoning the present light building on Park-av and moving Jthe offices to rooms In th tow h&L ' ' lated his experiences motoring through. South America. He told of the difficulties of driving a car in some South American countries and spent some time discussing his opinions ofArgentina. Fathers' Night To Be Held By P.T.A. Plans for Fathers' Night of the Amherst Parent-Teacher Association have been announced by Mrs. Earl Rockwood, program chairman. The March meeting will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30, instead of Monday evening, because of a basketball game sched uled for Monday. An old-time Minstrel Show will be presented by a group of Eastern Star members. Included in the cast are Mrs. John Ehlert, Mrs. Raymond Sprague, Mrs. Clayton Scheide, Mrs. Ray Well- mes, Mrs. Tom Bruce, Mrs. Al bert King, Mrs. Clarence Dean, Mrs. Edna Mae Mengel, and Mrs. Walter Schulz. Mrs. W. E. Wheatley will be the accompanist. Another feature of the enter tainment will be readings : by Mrs. William Baris. . find tha see themselves then, too, Vlll for that star will be a reality , SfcC Globe Trotters Here In Return Game Monday Night Wallopir." the Amherst Comets, 47-22, on Thursday evening of Mast week in Sectional play in Lorain, the South Amherst cagers went on to defeat Chatham from Medina county, 51-39, in the Sectional finals on Friday evening to gain the post as one of three representatives to the Kent district tourney. ..The Cavaliers drew a bye for Jhe first round at Kent and consequently need to win only two games to go into the regional tournament. Brecksville win its first game at Kent on" Tuesday evening of this week by defeating a favored Doylestown squad. Oberlin and Ridgeville, other Lorain county teams in play at Kent, have already seen action. Oberlin lost to Norton in the second game on Tuesday evening and Ridgeville defeated New Lyme, 76-28, last night. SOUTH AMHERST EASILY DEFEAT8 COMETS IN SECTIONAL PLAY South Amherst's Cavaliers found the Amherst Comets no opposition in the Clearview Sectional tournament last Thursday and easily won the third game between the two schools this year, 47 to 22. The defeat ended ; the season for the Comets with a record of 17 wins and 8 losses. Playing before a crowd of over 2,000, the Cavaliers turned what was supposed to be a close and hard-fought game into a complete out by playing an inspired game dll the way. Always aggressive, and actually "hot" when it came to shooting goals, South Amherst overcame an early two-point deficit to assume a 15-7 lead at the first quarter and 25-12 at half-time. Holding the Comets to one point in the third quarter, the Cavaliers took a 37-13 third quarter lead and won going away. The Comets failed to display any of the fight or accuracy in shooting that led them to victories over the 23-game regular season schedule. Apparently glued to the floor and lacking all aggressiveness, the Comets permitted Julius Paller and the Carsten-sen twins to dribble around them and in for easy lay-up shots. The fact that South Amherst got such elementary efforts at the basket made it possible for them to maintain a 75 shooting accuracy for the entire game. The Comets failed to work the ball in for close shots and were unable to make any of their set shots from the side. A strong and well-played 1-3-1 zone defense throttled all attempts of the Comets to score. The front line play of Steve Vilagi was outstanding. Julius Paller led the Cavalier scoring, with. 17 points and was ably assisted by the Carstensen twins and Vilagi. Jerry Prittie represented the entire offense for Amherst with 10 points. Ed Bry ner followed with 4, Bartlome, Selmants and Mulder with 2 each and Bruce and Orosz with 1. South Amherst, along with Ridgeville and Oberlin, qualified (Continued on P(e Four) mSSWm&m 7r.: i'Mw "Help Crippled Children" is' the message contained in more than 200,000 Easter Seals that were mailed' to " Amherst residents this week as the start of the annual Easter Seal drive under the direction of Ray Wasem, James Nabakowski, and Harry Earl. Sponsored by the local Rotary club, the Seals are sold during the month preceding Easter with the funds derived from the sales used to aid crippled children. Two-thirds of the money received remains in the separate fund maintained locally, with the balance going to state and national funds. Explains Work Of Group Assisting -f War Amputees Robert Disbrow, Cleveland, who lost his right arm while serving with the armed forces in Germany, talked to local Rotarians at their regular luncheon meeting Monday on "Possibilities Unlimited," an organization devoted to aiding amputees. He told how the organization, a non-profit association for amputees of World War II, aided men who had lost arms or legs to train themselves for normal living. As well as assisting the amputees to re-learn all the usual chores of daily life, "Possibilities Unlimited" carries on a rather complete sports program, teaching swimming, golf, tennis, bowling and dancing. Disbrow demonstrated how he had learned to tie his necktie, using only his left hand, as an example of the aid received in the group. Following his talk members of the club recommended that the board of directors investigate New York's Globe Trotters, the famous colored basketball team that entertained a capacity crowd at the Amherst high school gym several weeks ago, will appear again next Monday evening in a return engagement with the local Rockets. In the preliminary game at 7:30 the Amherst Legion team will tickle the Vermilion Martin Pon- tiacs. Monday night's game will be the last of the season for the Rockets who have been playing under the managership of Jerry Gormley. The Rockets will have back in the lineup for this game Jim Montgomery, who has been out for some time with injuries. However, Bo Braun will be missing. The colored stars, as well as being 'good basketball players, are good showmen and past masters in ball handling and trick plays. Another capacity crowd is expected and Gormley has reserved certain sections of the gym for adults and certain chairs for the children. the matter of assisting "Possibilities Unlimited" in whatever manner the organization .recommends. Entries In Poster Contest Displayed Eight posters, composed by art students at Amherst high school as entries in the local Rotary sponsored contest for Easter Seals, will be on display in the News-Times windows Saturday, following the judging tomorrow (Friday). Part of a state and nation-wide contest, the winning poster here will be sent directly to the state contest which closes March 15. The winning poster in the state contest will be entered in the national contest where the winning poster will be used as the model for the 1949 Easter Seals. The ,local Rotary club is .giving prizes of $15, $10, and $5. Prizes in the state contest are $100, $75, and $50, and in the national contest are $500, $200, and $100. Judges of the local posters are Mrs. Max Egeland, Amherst; Miss Harmon, art Instructor, Elyria high school; and Lloyd Lemon, Cleveland. The Judges were se cured for the Rotary club by J. A. Ignat. These Easter Seals are being distributed to provide opportunity for public support on behalf of crippled and handicapped persons of Amherst and vicinity. The Amherst Rotary club is cooperating with more than 2,000 state and locsl member societies of the j National Society for Crippled Children and Adults in thenation-wide distribution of Easter Seals to provide funds for many needed services for the hundreds of thousands of crippled children in the nation. Funds raised during 1947 will help to give many crippled chil dren the services which they need such as individual instruction in the home and in special schools, speech correction, hospital care, surgery and physical and occupational therapy. "Our Crippled Children work of the Amherst Rotary club does not duplicate the work of other agencies, public or private, but is concerned with the needs of crippled children and handicapped adults," according to Wasem. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Menz arrived home Tuesday afternoon from a month's vacation in Florida. 1947 RED CROSS FUND ALL OVER 1'' the , itiinrU y Let's Hang This Up for Keeps!