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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
They Come, Easter
Seals In Hand

Those harbingers Of Spring
Easter Seals - are being re-
ceived in hundreds of East
Cleveland homes ss the 25th
annual campaign OF the Society
for Crippled Children swings
into action.
With a goal Of $4,000 for
the entire area, there will De
no sighting of persons not on
the mail list. They will be
visited Sunday. March lAel Sy
a band of volunteer Good Neigh
bors will be ringing doorbells
to assure seals for each person
desiring to aid the crippled
children's program
According TO Robert ID.
Brocket, 145s East 135th ST.,
one of the chairman, evry eff
fort will be made to have Easter
Seals reach all homes either on
Good Neighborhood Sunday or
by mail. 4
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Library Has
1857 Listing
Notable Books

East Cleveland Public Ii
brary. 14101 Euclid ave-. an
nounces that it now has avail
able both the Notable Book List
for 1857 and the Al titles il
contains.
This listing is compiled by
the Notable Books Council
through the Public Library AS
sociation, a division of the
American Library Association
and is chosen to give complete
geographical and numerical
representation across the ma.
ton.
Arthur H. Parsons, jr., direc,
tor of Enoch Pratt Free Library
in Baltimore and Division Presi'
dent, points out that in designa'
ting these as Notable Books,
is not saying that these books
are necessarily the "best" books
of the year, but merely that
they are the books especially
worthy Of note"
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
City Staff
Secretary
.Succunnbs

Secretary Of the Citizens
Manager Plan Committee and
long active in Red Cross volun-
teer work, Mrs. Vera L. Blasse
died Monday, March Bird at hei
home, 14600 Ardenal ave.
Services will be held Friday
at 800 a. IN. in Christ the Kline
Church, Noble at Terrace rd
and burial will be in Calvary
Cemetery.
Mrs. Biasse served many
years as chairman Of Junior
Red Gross in East Cleveland and
as a volunteer at Grille and
Brecksville veteran hospitals.
She was on the executive COM
mittee of the East Cleveland
hospitals. She had also served
on the executive committee of
the East Cleveland Woman 5
Club and Ola Podrida.
Surviving are her husband,
Frank K. Blasse and two sons,
Robert S. Of Monticello blvd.
and Frank Edward, jr. Of 80
East 226th ST., Euclid.
Friends may call at 1902
Euclid ave.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

testant's name, address, age anC
the full name Of his parent OF
guardian.
Entries must be at the East
Cleveland YMCA headquarters
1881 Lee blvd, by March 18th
1858.
All letters become the prop
erty Of the East Cleveland
YMCA and are not returnable
to the writer. These letters will
be judged on their originality
and sincerity and should be neat
and tidy.
The winners Will be an
nounced in the March 9th issd
of the East Cleveland Leader
unless otherwise specified.
So get your pens and pencils
all set and see if you can be the
winner of a summer of fun at
the Y Day Camp.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

Americans have tradition
Of lawlessness. So declared
Judge Stanton Adams to fell
low Kiwanians in talk: "A
Judge Looks At Crime"
Someone in the United States
breaks a law every IA seconds
and one out of five such vio-
lators are arrested, he said,
adding that there are two and
a-half times as many major
crimes committed annually in
the United States as in any
other country. Seventy percent
of all crime offenders come
from broken homes.
After reminding that this
country is more mechanical
and more motorized than any
other, he contrasted the liquor
percentage permitted before a
charge of driving while under
the influence East Cleveland's
being Is and Sweden .05.
sour real attack against
crime" said Adams, must be
made among the very young
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
ATS Students
Are Community
Council Guests

A very special guest will be
the speaker from the March
18th meeting Of the East Cleve-
land Community Council. She is
Miss Eva Muechenberger OF
Germany, the American FielC
Service exchange student al
Shaw High School this year
This will be Miss Muechen.
berger's first official visit tC
the Council.
Sharing the speaking honorS
will be Mary Ellen Maher, Shaw
student who spent last summer
visiting in Germany, also under
the East Cleveland participa
tion in the ATS program.
The names of three Shaw stu.
dents have been forwarded tc
the New York office as can.
didates for the 1858 summer
abroad program, the pupils be-
ing selected by committee
made up of Miss X. Lucille
Provo, Miss Mildred Plamer OF
the Shaw Faculty and
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Banquet Church
Basketball Winners

NJ e IN b ers of Windermere
Presbyterian Church team in
the 1957-58 Church Basketball
league sponsored by the YMCA
will be honored Friday evening,
March 9th. The affair will be
a banquet to be held in the new
DINING room at East Cleveland
Baptist Church with the
Woman's Society preparing and
serving the meal
Windermere nosed Epworth
Euclid in the six-team finals to
capture the team trophy.
Bill Wells, program director
at the Y will present the honors
and Stanley Webster, law direc-
tor for the city of East Cleve-
land, will be the speaker.
Other churches in the league
are: East Cleveland Baptist
Calvary Lutheran, First Presby.
terian and Windermere Metho.
dist.
Guests of the players will also
be present for the festivities.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Fight Crime Through
Very Young" Addams

in the first five years Of a
child's life through home disci-
pline and example. The pattern
is then set, in either direction.
A second force against crime
is carrying out the same idea,
namely a disciplind neighbor-
hood. And many such neigh
borhoods adding up to a disci-
plined community.
Commenting further, ne said
anyone who has been drinking
is a hazard behind the wheel,
The judge complimented the
East Cleveland Police Depart
ment for it's excellent enforce
ment record.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
WV Gym-Swiim
Series Ready

Schedules have been COM
pleted and application blanks
are ready for juniors and adults
interested in the Spring Gym
Swim program sponsored by the
YWCA and conducted at Shaw
High School. The nine weeks
adult classes start Tuesday
March 18th. The junior classes
start Saturday, March 22nd.
Each series runs for nine weeks.
The customary medical exam
ination is required, and this
may be had from ones own
physician or by appointment at
the Y House, 1881 Lee rd.
The swimming program in
.cludes classes for beginners
through the more advanced
synchronized instruction with a
Family Night Dip the second
and fourth Saturday evenings.
BY way Of exercises and
sports there will be a variety of
instruction including pointers on
improving ones hand at bad
minton. trimming down the
waists, hips and thighs with
gymnastics or getting ready
for the warm weather welcome
to the links or the courts with
instructions in golf and tennis
The intermediate golf will in
clude a few sessions at a driv-
ing range.
Juniors will begin their swim
ming class March 22nd, with
the same step-by-step classes
available. Also to be offered the
Juniors are two divisions each
of tap and ballet and beginners
tennis.
For information as to hours
fees, etc. call GIL. 1-3425.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Vet Sueeumbs
Long Illness

Robert A. Lanese. 81. World
War II veteran died February
25th in the Veterans Hospital
in Coral Gables, Florida, and
requiem mass was conducted by
the Rev. FIR. Peters in. Holy
Redeemer Church, Cleveland or
March 3rd with burial in Lake
View Cemetery.
Mr.. Lanese was the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony ID.
Lanese of 1881 East 143rd ST.,
his father resigning his posi-
ton as sergeant on the East
Cleveland Police Department in
December of 1857 to go to Fort
Lauderdale, where Mr.. Lanese
had been residing for the past
two years.
Following graduation from
Shaw High School, Mr.. Lanese
entered the Army Air Corps,
attaining the rank of corporal
when he was dismissed because
of his health. He later entered
and was graduated from Kent
State University. and was en-
ployed by Parker Appliance
until going south.
He was a member of Kappa
Sigma at Kent State.
In addition to his parents, he
is survived by a brother, Gordon
of Willoughby and sister, Mrs
June A Mcmahon of Euclid.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Its An-SehooI
Party at Shaw
Friday Evening

Hey, cats! Grab your happy
togs and wander on over to the
All-School Party, Friday, March
7th. There'll be volleyball, bas-
ketball, ping pong, and swim
ming for those with extra
en-ger-ny. The less ambitious
folk can have their fun watch
ing d feature film in the audi
torium-"Mississippi Gambler
with Tyrone Power. Be you ac-
tive or not, you'll enjoy the
dancing and refreshments in the
cafeteria.
For lonesome Romeo (ol
Juliet the price of this evening
of fun is 35c, but a couple car
get by the door by paying only
SOC. The time Of the caper is
from s TO IL p. m., Friday
March 7th. Don't be square
see you there!
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Zone Laws
On Pools
Amended

The East Cleveland Zoning
Board Of Appeals on Tuesday,
March 4th amended the Zoning
Ordinance, spelling out require
ments and adding restrictions
on the matter of private SWIM
ming pools. Heretofore the
only mention Of private pools
carried in the zoning ordinance
classified them as Conditional
Use, requiring approval Of both
the Zoning Board of Appeals
and the City Commission.
The amendments:
/. Prohibit all private swim
ming pools in a U-1 (Residen-
tial) and U-2 (Apartment)
district except the pool be so
feet from a property line and
40 feet from any set back; in
a Us (RetaiD or any other
district all swimming pools will
be conditional use.
z. All private swimming
pools must be strictly a one
family pool, primarily for the
sole use Of the household and
guests.
The board also approved the
appeal Of Roger A. Sack and
Arthur W. Gergely to operate
? self-service laundry at 1342
Hayden ave. on 24-hour day
basis and under partial super
vision of a person residing in
the budding which has apart
ments on the second floor. The
store will conform to Sunday
closing hours, being closed
from Saturday to Sunday mid
night. The Board also stipu-
lated that, if at any time the
operation should become an
noying, it reserves the right to
reconsider it's action.
Granted the appeal Of Mrs.
Patrick Ryan to care for three
pre-school-age children days.
On December 4th, 1851 the
board approved permit to
Sam Siskin and Hart Swat to
construct a l6-suite apartment
on Allandale ave-, depending
on the setback. The appellants
came before the Board Tues
day, a 80 ft. setback agreement
was met and they may now
proceed to construct the build
ing.
ing which will cost an estimat-
I'd 100000.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

During the past month fif-
teen hundred of your friends in
and around East Cleveland have
just purchased "Y" member
ships amounting to $4,000 sc
that you may enjoy the many
privileges of the YMCA and
YWCA during the coming year
In order for this to happen
two hundred and seventy work
ars have travelled an estimated
600 miles to make twenty-five
hundred contacts with these
friends of yours. This repre-
sents q great deal of time anG
effort and sacrifice in your
behalf.
So that you may have an op-
portunity Of expressing your
thanks to both of these groups,
arrangements have been made
to give a prize 10 the boy and
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
CALL NEWS
to
PO. 1873
Vandalism Is Biggest
Percentage Increase
In 81 Police Report

557,029 miles. Two Of the fatals
were jaywalking pedestrians.
The Department has a per-
sonnel of "a men and women:
The chief Of police. two cap
tains, six lieutenants Zone Of
whom is detailed to the detec-
tive bureauD, six detectives. 80
patrolmen. 7 sergeants, two Of
whom are detailed to detective
bureau, one each, secretary.
record clerk, mechanic, parking
meter maintenance man, park
ing m e ter collector. sign
painter, firearms instructor,
watchman, Is traffic guards,
five park guards, and three
matrons.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

A seemingly lesser infringe
ment Of the law-vandalism-
was the cause Of the highest
percent increase in crime in
East Cleveland in 1857, accord
ing to Chief Of Police H. S.
Weaver in his annual report
# the Police Department.
In this category are the
major incidents of thefts of
spare tires, hubcaps, etc.
However, the Police Depart
ment is confident that when the
word gets around that a third
time apprehended offender faces
the probability of a year in jail,
the would-be auto tamperers
won't risk a year against, say,
a hubcap.
Total offences for the year
were 1.00s, an increase over 1888
in 1856. There were 6,163 ar
rests of which 5,173 were for
traffic violations.
The 293 liquor cases recorded
are the 269 brought into the de-
partment by state officers, with
only "a of the total being actual
local violations Of the liquor
laws.
Major crimes, lesser crimes,
and misdemeanors covered by
city ordinances totaled 746
against 525 in the year pre-
vious. Majors included "A stolen
automobiles, 95 various larceny
cases and 81 robberies. Among
the lone" listing was one not
often noticed, arson. There were
ga stolen cars recovered.
Lesser crimes hit their nigh
in the 343 petit larceny cases
and here again, Chief Weaver
points to the thefts from auto
mobiles. which is increasing
rapidly despite all department
precautions.
During the year 604 cases
were heard involving juveniles.
During 1857, 23,5S5 parking
violations were listed.
S217,f30.75 was collected for
parking fines and costs, and
S26,047 in parking waivers paid
East Cleveland maintains 699
street parking meters, 81 in
Hawley Park and 20 at the
Cleveland Transit Windermere
station Euclid ave. parking lot.
Police received 1882 COM
plants during the year, made
1884 radio calls, 695 emer-
gency ambulance runs. not
counting those in the class of
accidents.
During the year, l44 women
were among the 2.55S prisoners
in the city Jail.
The year chalked up four
fatal accidents. As pedestrian in
iuries, 81 accidents with damage
and injury and $40 with
damages only. The departments
rs units Of rolling stock travelled
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Easter CoIori'ng
Contest Open Ia
School Children

A special Easter coloring con
test for school children is being
sponsored by the East Cleveland
Savings & Loan Association,
1873 Hayden ave. Announce
ment of the contest was made
by the Company's Executive
Vice President, Robert c. Knox.
The contest will be divided
into three age groups, with a
$500 savings account to be
awarded to the winner Of each
group. According to Knox, Class
| is open to children aged five
and six; Class II is for seven
and eight-year-olds; and Class
Ill will be open to children aged
nine through eleven inclusive.
Judging of the contest will be
conducted by a panel of local
educators TO be announced later.
Next weeks issue of this
newspaper will carry official
entry blanks with Easter scene
sketches which are to be colored
by the young contestants.
A total Of four sketches will
be printed during the contest
but only one sketch need be
completed by child to be
eligible for the award. There
is no limit to the number of
entries a child may make. Addi-
tional sketches may be obtained
from the Hayden office of East
Cleveland Savings, Knox said.
Coloring in the contest may
be done with crayons, paints or
colored pencils. Deadline for all
entries is March oath. To be
eligible for the awards, entries
must be turned in at the East
Cleveland Savings & Loan of
flee by the child, accompanied
by a parent.
Entries will be judged on
general appearance, neatness
and color.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Choir Concert
Sunday: Other
lenten Hours

Musical hIghlight Of the
Lenten season at the First
Presbyterian Church Of East
Cleveland will be a perform
ance by the choire of the Easter
portion of HandePs Messiah"
Sunday, March 9th at 4:30 pm.
Soloists will be Ruby Hel-
frich, soprano; Anne F. r. Rae,
contralto; W. Carl Wehn, tenor:
and Peter J. Spetseris, bari
tone.
The choir, under the direc-
ton of Frank Helfrich. will be
accompanied by Charlotte Tan
no at the organ; Wayne Miller.
Donald Hothepberg and Bruce
johnson, trumpets; and Vim
cent Bilardo, tympany.
The public is cordially IN
vited to the service and TO the
tea following the program.
Members of the Sixth United
Presbyterian Church will have
charge of the Wednesday eve
ming Lenten services a. First
Presbyterian Church, Euclid a.
NeIa aves.. March 18th. Their
pastor is the Rev. Ernest Fol-
roster. The hour is 1880 pm.
The president of Ohio North
ern University, DR.. F. Bringie
Mcintosh, will be the speaker
at Windermere VI e ID 5 t
Church at o'clock.
Continuing their pulpit ex-
change programs involving east
side United Lutheran Church of
America congregations, ST
James, 1424 Hayden and Ca
vary, Euclid at Lockwood will
have guest pastors. At ST.
James at 7:45 p. m. the Oliver
Rajala Of Messiah Church will
speak on THE Steps OF Cour-
age" AT Calvary, the Rev
David Witwer in charge OF the
new Reformation Mission in
Eastlake, will be the speaker.
The vesper ritual will be used.
A Meet the Press" formal
will prevail for the East Cleve-
land Congregational service
with Mr.. Clarence Sharp, vice
counsel Of Haiti as the central
/ figure. These Lenten hours.
opening at $40 with dessert
and coffee are being devoted to
a study of their own congrega-
ton programs here and abroad.
The Mems Club will conduct the
devotions.
/ As their Lenten series, the
five East Side Evangelical
United Brethren Churches are
united for a 7:45 p. m. vesper
hour and the March 9Th service
will be held at Trinity, Hayden
and Alder aves., this city. The
speaker will be the Rev. James
Schorr, pastor of Church Of Our
Lord. East Cleveland's Trim
ity's own lenten hours are on
. Thursdays at 7;50 with Rev
A. c. Zagray Of Lorain, father
of the pastor, the Rev, Allan
lagray, preaching.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
.YMCA Swim Meet
This Saturday

The East Cleveland YMCA is
in charge of the District YM
meet to be staged Saturday
March sth at Central Y pool,
Bill Wells, local program direc-
tor heading the annual event.
Boys from the Prep, Junior
and Senior High divisions of
the local Y swimming program
will compete against similarly
aged swimmers from other vs.,
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
.Wttenberg
In Film At
World Fair

Because of the beauty Of its
campus, the virility of its pro-
gram and the significance of
its name, Wittenberg has been
selected for a place in the film
on American education to be
made for presentation at the
Worlds Fair in Brussels, Bel
GUM.
Wittenberg 112 years ago
was named for the German uni
versity in which the Reforma-
tion had it's birth.
The Brussels Worlds Fair,
first since that held in New
York City in 1939-4O, will run
from April 18th to October
10Th, 1858, with an expected
attendance approaching 30 mil
lion. Forty-four nations will
participate in the fair which
will occupy 500 acres four miles
from the city of Brussels.
The film on education will be
one Of 25 scheduled to run con-
tinuously in the United States
pavilion, IL hous a day, seven
days a week, throughout the
fairs six months to give view
ers a better understanding of
the American way of life.
Wittenberg will be shown
through brief sequences from
The Wittenberg Story, which
was adjudged best college film
of the year following its pro-
duction in 1850 by Trident
Films, Inc, New York City.
American participation in the
fair is being directed by a COM
missioner general in the U. S.
State Department.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
College Choir To
Sinq March 2lst

The 65-voice Upsalla College
Choir from East Orange, n. j.
will give a concert in Bethle-
hem Lutheran Church, 3740
Mayfield rd.. Friday. March
21st at 500 o. m. Choir direc-
tor is Mrs. Gladys Grindeland,
who organized the choir in
1910. is associate professor of
fine arts at the college.
Planning the evening are
Mrs. William Groezinger. DR..
Paul A. Nelson and Arvid An
derson.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Happy Birthday

In IS years a fellow can
receive a lot Of birthday greet
ings, but to Edward Kennedy,
1874 Rosemont rd., one re-
ceived on his S5th birthday
March 4th-is the most pre-
cious. It's signed Dwight
Eisenhower"
Mr.. Kennedy formerly re-
sided in Berea. He has been a
dealer in diamonds, but the
Spanish h-American war service
probably prompted the greet
ing from the White House.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Huron Road RN
Receives A Halo

For Outstanding contribu-
tions to the professions and the
community" Miss Clara Helm,
of the Nursing School staff at
Huron Road Hospital was given
one of the eight halos awarded
by the Council and League for
Nursing this week. Miss Helm
is an instructor in Public
Health Nursing at the school.
Names of halo winners are
to be engraved on a silver
serving tray used at Council
social meetings. this being a
new feature in the Council. Ad-
ditional names will be added
as the custom is continued from
year to year.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
Fined on Zone
Ty!ation Count

JIG Miller, jr., proprietor OF
Euclid Rest Haven, Inc, 1324(
Euclid ave., was fined $500 anG
costs for failure to comply with
zoning regulations. The city
charged that patients were be-
ing cared for in the front par
of the building, not planned fol
this service.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06
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In eost Cleveland

"CTS has one Courtesy Day
year and | guess this isn't
it" remarked the woman as the
bus passed on by. To which
another waiting passenger
commented. "You mean Leap
Year"
II prize had been offered
Sunday, March End (prior to
the evening snowfall) for the
best Uttered stretch along Eu-
cid ave. from Superior to Lee
I'd. the north block between
Lakefront and Holyoke would
have won hands down. A walk
revealed it.
These many youths and men
VINO have kept themselves in
the pink this winter playing
basketball, need not worry now
that the, game season is end
ing. The yard awaits.
The current attention to
private pools has splashed over
into amendments to the city'S
coming ordinance. Two suburbs
10 the south are suddenly find
ing themselves with private
pool problems and nary a zon-
ing or building rule to go by.
Shaw High Rhythm Teens
continue to delight audiences.
Monday evening next they play
at Highland View Hospital.
Their dance band will keep
Canteen feet tripping at a spe-
cial party March 18th and two
fraternal order engagements
round out the March calendar.
Judge Stanton Adams, in a
recent talk, said crime preven-
ton starts with the training of
the child in it's first five years.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

Mr.. Edward SCHNEIDER of
1776 Hayden ave. is a patient
at Lakeside Hospital. His con-
dition is reported as satisfac-
tory.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1958-03-06

Judge Stanton Adams, in a
recent talk, said crime preven-
ton starts with the training Of
the child in it's first five years.