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The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 27

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This rulauii) plane will allow public (0 oe construction of jet. Jets like this wilt go through paces at the show, 'HAMS'1 MILL HE OS ILLS I) Radio rrt lo Messages eaiure Akron Air Show SPECTATORS WILL get a ehanr to fill the air, too, at tba big military air show from 1 to 5 p. m. Sunday at Akron Municipal Alrpoit. Members of the Biu keye Short ave Radio Association will be on band In the administration building to send free messages to nay person anywhere In the world.

Special priority will be given lo servicemen and Kervic women. Messages will be transmitted on regular "ham" networks and can be relayed overseas. There will be a limit of 25 words per message. 1 sy V-. 1 1 si THE A IK SHOW it's all tree-will feature the largest anay of military aircraft ever seen here In peacetime.

Flights of jets from Wright Patterson Field and Youngs-tnuu Air Rase will put on military formation exhibitions at I. mid p. in. Resides Air Force planes, (here will be flights of planes fiom local Navy and Air National Guards units. Oiher military planes will fly overhead during the afternoon In addition to the flights, the public can inspect special exhibits.

Among planes on the ground will be special cutaway exhibits of a 2fi bomler and an F-81 Jet. The public can go over (be construction of these famed war planes In detail. minmiiii ii iff ii' F-8!) liglitcrs will demonstrate precision formation flying. A flight of F91C "Starfires" like this also will he liere. nor.uonmms, trade hoards show win Ringling Circus Loses Bid For Airport Date The air show is sponsored by the local Ground Observer Corps (GOO, Air Defense Command and the Akron Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Mayor Berg has proclaimed Ground Observer Week last-Ing through next Wednesday. Sunday is national Ground Observer Da v. GROUND Observers tak part in Operation Skywatch. Skywatchers atop the YMCA building keep an eye on aircraft and report findings to a filter center in Canton. Xo Itoom For Itol It Invents Decision Made By Waller After Hearing TltK BIG RINGLING BROS.

CIRCUS was turned down by the city today. on Its bid to play an Aug. 8 date at Municipal Airport. City Service Director Leo with the hot rod group (or Aug. 1 There, planes are tracked on.

radar. Unidentified planes may be intercepted by military planes based in the area. Spotters also report fires and other eniergencies seen from their high perch. Lt. Col.

B. E. "Shorty" Fulton, manager of the airport, Is marshal of the air show. Winding up GOC Week next Wednesday will be a banquet in the Mayflower Hotel honoring 330 GOC members here. Walter made the ruling after ,7 and 8.

a hearing and in a move that! The hotrod racers, members was considered surprising. 'of a local organization known In no doing; Walter ruled In as the Cam-Jammers Club, favor of a. locally-sponsored had scheduled use of the racing event which port parking lot months ago, had been scheduled for thejFuJton said, grounds some months ao. Meantime, officials of the Indirectly, the Walter action various trade groups went on as regarded as a help to the appearance Aug. 8 circus the various Boards ofjwould hurt thrjr sponsorship Tiade of the city will sponsor, of the Tom Packs show Aug.

2, in the Rubber Bowl on Aug. 2, Gen. Benjamin W. Chldlaw. director of Air Defense for the entire U.

will be the main speaker. A NATIONWIDE radio hookup will carry the talk which Is expected to be a major statement of administration policy on air defense plans. GOC members here say the Idea behind the entire program is to draw attention to defense. "The public must be reminded of what can happen and what we can do to defend ourselves," one member said. Before announcing his decision, Walter attempted unsuccessfully to arrange a Ring-ling booking after Aug.

lii, the date of the AU Arnerican Soap Box Derby. THK WHOLE thing came to a head today when Walter met with Ringling's contract agent, William J. Lester. Lester made the point that the more amusements in an area, the better it Is for the city. 1 1 Vi Walter, Law Director Edward WHEN that plan fell through 0.

Erickson and the service de- a circus representative called ipartment chief clerk, Dan "utterly impossible" the jpelll, agreed they would like to Palrolinan Asks service director said he would; see the Ringling show play here. $25,000 In Crash have to deny a permit okaying use of the lot. The conflict developed when Kinglings requested the Aug. 8 date. Airport Manager B.

E. "Shorty" Fulton pointed promptly his arrangement DEATH DEI I Ell She's Miss Rietta who'll be here Aug. 'I with Tacks Circus. AT ONE POINT the talk shifted to the possibility of a date for next: year, but Lester ended that. He said it was "too early" for such discussion.

Walter's ruling seemed to settle the discussion which had revolved largely around the point of how much money the A LONG AY DOWN The I ire De-artment has a new fire truck with a 100-foot aerial ladder. Firemen took it to Central High School for a tryoot Thursday. The truck, ordered last year from Pe(er Pirsch Son Kenosha, arrived this week. The price: It's (be longest aerial lad-der In the Fire Department. Lawrence R.

Smith of 166 Grace Barherton, who allegedly drove his ruto in the path of a police motorcycle has been sued for $25,000 by the policeman who was astride the bike. Patrolman Richard E. Obney, 633 Hael says the mishap occurred last Aug. 31 on Case iouvt II.mIvs Aid I'lav It mis Thro null 2U av. and caused injury to his neck, leg and back.

He filed in Common Pleas Court. Refuses To Obey Bailiff, lids Jailed Ringling show would put in or jtake out of Akron. I Walter and Fulton had argu-jed that considerable cash would I be taken out by the show and the same line had been followed Supporting Cast Helps 'Harvey Steal The Show At Wealhervane by the men of the trade boards. ED BARNETT, 33, of 176 Pearl rt will have more respect WANT AD CLEANS CHERRY TREE Every day Ihe want ads aie called upon to perform what might be termed feats of magic. Mr, Ralph S.

Lott of 1105 Steese rd. In I placed the following ad for three days. ineir own aiut. snow wi for Municipal Court bailiffs from now on. 'be a benefit deal with the trade He was fined $10 and costs and given five days in Jail fori boards' Community Welfare resisting an order of the.

court- handed him by Bailiff AdoIphFund and the Beacon Journal Viinl cViarinrr in iha rwmanriu THIS IS BUBBLE A CANDYl 50 CHEW I i DON'T EAT JT i I Hanig. Municipal Judge Thomas M.j "I showed him my badge and Powers to Barrett he would the court order and tola mm vuiu CO to Jail for 10 more days if what I had lo do. He said he he ever repeated the offense, couldn't read and didn't care f.oi.n ind Hanig, 66 years old, went, to anything about the law anyway. nur TV 2K10. Barnett's house to get a tele- Then he took the set out of trie jr i -4 I I in i.mm iiiiikii Club Picnics Courageous Hearts Cluh an nual picnic is to be held at Chestnut Ridge Park at 2 p.

m. Sunday. The organization, made up of persons suffering from multiple sclerosis and progressive muscular dystrophy, is conducting a membership drive and invites any one interested to come to the Sunday affair. Elmer Mei-non, 6H0 Manchester rd is president of the organization. car and went back into his house." Hanig called the cruiser and police arrested Barnett.

The owner reclaimed the TV set. It's time people had more respect for the court and its officers," commented Judge Powers, vision set on which a court execution had been issued. Barnett was behind in his payments. AFTER TROUBLE with Bar-nett's family, Hanig told Judge Powers that "I managed to get the TV set inlo the car when Mr. Barnett arrived.

But he had to rancel lt, the response was so great. Sold out of cherries th first day. Had so many calls he could not keep a record of them. It Is so easy to place a want ad, just call BL-3 1111 and ask for an Ad Writer. By ART I I.

ISO A six foot, one and a-iialf-Inch rabbit that no one ever sees steals the show away from Ihe visible members of the cast in the Weathervane Community Playhouse production of "Harvey," which opened Thursday night. This is not to lake credit away from Jackson Morris, who makes of Edwood P. Dowd a very real chaiaeter; nor from Katie Smith, who provides almost as much humor as his social-climbing sister, Mrs. Simmons. But Mary Chase wrote the comedy with Harvey that's the rabbit's name in mind and he's the doKKonedcst seen-; s('hIt you ever did fail to see.

Morris bungs just the right amount of vagueness to Mr. Dowd, the gentle drinker who finds happiness doing good for others and whose principal Joy is his friendship with a giant rabbit he met one night bringing home a sick friend. His fairy friend, however, Is a trial to his sister, who is even more vague and who sometimes sees the rabbit herself but who is frantically engaged In trying to marry-off her daughter, DESPERATE, SHE tries to have her brother commuted to a sanatorium; retires in atorium director who finally comes to believe in Harvey and wants lo take him to a Shangri La "in Akron, Director Margaret Moore concentrates on her leads and allows her supporting players to become caricatures rather than the real things. Mis, Moore, who directs the Wealhervane Workshop, introduces several newcomers to the stage in this vehicle. Loren Shearer and Dorris Reynolds' play the younger psychiatrist and his nurse, who provide the romantic interest Miss Chase dragged in.

Don Cook is the sanatorium strong-arm guy. MARY II IT Eft portravs Miss Smith's daughter; Eve Auseson, the town's social queen; Florence Hull. Ban-man wife, Lueien Bensinger contributes a pood hit as thp cab driver. Al Butt is a lit Me too stooped and gasping for breath too much as an aged lawyer. The set.

designed by Bob Chieria and constructed under the direction of Jim Elderkin, is one that is shifted from a library in a family mansion to the reception room of a rest home. "Harvey" will continue nightly except Mondays through July 28. This will close the 19th consecutive "season of th Weathervane. yv Mile From tUiHitfaip On E. Marlert St.

Planners Frown On New Shopping Center i HARVEY you see him confusion when circumstances, aidod by Harvey, get her committed instead; and finally faces a decision of whether to let the psychiatrist give her brother a serum guaranteed to make Harvey disappear. Tipoff as to what will happen comes when a philosophic cab driver remarks, "The serum will make him a perfectly normal human be-injf and you know what bastards they are." Special mention should go to Dick Bauman as th san Clara on the west. Tenth Ward Councilman Martin Ryan told the commission the proposal had caused bitter controversy in the neighborhood. Two sets of petitions were filed with the commission by property owners. Permission was granted the Witco Is less than a mile from the Eastgate Shopping Center at Eliet The site now Is zoned for retail business.

Hiebcl said the commission would have to approve plans for a new store center. Members indicated their belief that the site would not be suitable. THE COMMMISSION voted down a request to amend the zoning ordinance by extending the commercial use distric on both sides of S. Arlington frorw Joy to Delos on the cast and The City Planning Commission does not look with favor on the suggested development of a new shopping center In East Akron rear what formerly was known as "Dead Man's Curve." Members expressed their views informally at Thursday's meeting after the commission's engineer, Leonard B. Hiebcl, said preliminary inquiry had been made about such a development The location In question is vn JK.

Market it, Just weit of the curve. It Chemical to establish a testing laboratory for the rubber industry in a building on W. Exchange near Wall- haven. It was formerly occupied by an Acme store. 1.

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