Seventy years ago today, this was the front page of the Lorain Journal. I posted it because of the great photo of the Arthur M. Anderson being launched at the Lorain yards of the American Shipbuilding Co. that day.
As usual, there’s plenty of news packed onto the front page of the Journal back then. Dominating the page is the sad story of two Vermilion youths who died in an accident at Elberta Beach, just a half-mile east of the Lorain-Erie County border.
National news stories included the fighting in Korea, as well as British retaliation against Egypt for the mining of a British oil train.
Locally, the applicants with the top scores for the civil service exams for Lorain police force were listed. On the other side of the law, there’s a report of a raid of the Lorain Elks Club on Sixth Street by state liquor agents.
Gee, I wonder if my grandfather was there that day?
