The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 9

Iimmc lion I roi jo itiuci i utly In Hands Of Hudson Cra ftsman 4 a I I i JlL My I Si' AiW Pav sell Itiilie 9 1 4 a UK 3 By ROBEKT E. HOYT The Health Commission reversed itself Friday and approved a pay raise for Dr. M. D. Ailes, health director, in a hurriedly-called session to which the press was not invited.

The raise granted Ailes, who retires effective Feb. 15, was approved over the strenuous objection of Atty. L. A. Lombardi who gave as his reasons: There is more dissension in the department today than ever before.

Dr. Ailes has not been on the job during recent months and has not taken care of the department. The pay raise will do no more than give Ailes an Increase in vacation pay. THE DOCTOR went on vacation Jan. IT and will not return to the department.

His vacation time extends through Feb. 15, the date Dr. George James will succeed him. Despite objection, Chairman C. V.

Wise, Dr. Adrian Davis and Mrs. Margaret Stovens votd to support the motion mad by Atty. Evan Rtvd to raise thi salary from $10,000 to $15,000 a year. The raise was granted in emergency legislation so that it could go into effect immediately.

This was another point to which Lombardi objected. 'This cannot in any way be construed as an emergency," he said today. To grant the raise, the Commission had to rescind its action taken Dec. 31 when the same members voted not to give Dr. Ailes the additional stipend during his last days on the job.

The raise is effective Jan. 21 and will give the doctor a "bonus" of a little les than $200. THE OTHER Commission members wanted to give Ailes the raise effective Jan. 1 but. Lombardi pointed out to them that they could not legally grant a retroactive pay raise.

Chairman Wise, could give no reason today why the press was not notified of the meeting, nor could lie explain the fact that the meeting notice was not posted at City Hall as all public meetings are supMiseil to be. "There was nothing important coming up," Wise said. "We hail no intentfon of trying to hide anything." The commission has operated in a haphazard manner for years, at some periods with no taking of minutes, meetings at no set time, and without even a full complement officers. Last week, after the fracas involving Health Department sanitarians, Wise was asked to notify the Beacon Journal when the commission held its next meeting. This he promised to do.

ONLY FRIDAY did the Commission finally get around to naming officers. Wise was elected chairman, Reed vice chairman, and Mrs. Stevens secretary. At Lombardi's request a stenographer was called in Friday to take notes of the proceedings. "I want my comments on the he told the group.

The Commission also considered the problem of dissension among sanitarians in the Food -Dairy-Meat Inspection Division and discussed the possibility of putting one man in charge of each of the three sections who would then be to Dr. Paul Carpenter, head of the division. Personnel Director Charles Basset will bo called to the next Commission session to see if such a plan is feasible. No date was set for the next meeting, but Feb. 4 was discussed as a possibility.

Indictment Lacking In By FRANCES B. MCRPHEY HUDSON A Hudson father and son named Lavelli are famous for what they can do with their hands. For nearly 50 years Italian-born Angelo Lavelli has been a familiar figure in the village. He runs the one-man Hudson Ornamental Iron Works at the same corner where he took over a blacksmith shop in 1906. Lavelli's son, Dante, does his running on a football field.

Before he became famous as a Cleveland Browns end, Hudsonites cheered his football skill at Hudson High School. The elder Lavelli's skill with wrought iron has won its share of praise, too. In his early days here the blacksmith was kept busy shoeing horses and doing heavy work over his forge. When the auto, tractor and trucks began to take over, the smithy turned to wrought iron work to supplement a dwindling income. TODAY HIS weathervanes, brackets, gates, lamps, railings and fireplace equipment decorate homes throughout the country.

Nearing 70, the tall, well-built craftsman can be found working alone in his big shop at Streetsboro and E. Main sts. every day. The blue-eyed, white-haired man dishes out his own brand of philosophy with his handiwork. "Never complain at the state you're in.

There's always someone else in worse shape," he advised. RECALLING the busy days when horseshoeing was his major business, Lavelli said, "Now there aren't any to shoe here. The town where I came from in Italy had 200 or 300 horses when I left. Now there are two horses there." "Times change like anything else," he commented, looking around the benches where metal cutouts are the only horses now in his shop. Lavelli wants to make one more trip to his homeland, "la bella Italia." "If God lets me, I want to go back once more in a couple of years," he said.

He and his wife, Emily, visited abroad last year and earlier in 1926. Mrs. Lavelli, who met her husband in Italy during World War also 1 Desperado Seized By FBI Here Nab Hoosicr Downtown 6 Jinx' Case? IROX ARTISTRY Angelo Lavelli, Hudson's "village blacksmith," checks the wiring in a hand-wrought Iron lamp he made. The ornamental iron craftsman is nearing his 50th year in Hudson. Grand Jurors Not Certain A trial, in which Just about everything possible went wrong.

MAYOR BKKG LOOKS OVKK HIS NKW CAR Mayor Itijor. rrilll Auitt had still another strange twist given it Friday. Mrs. Freda Wilson's lawyers came back to Common Pleas Court with the contention that she never had been indicted for unarmed robbery. In that case, argued Albert I.andi and Robert Konsland, she never should have been tried, let alone convicted, by a Jury before Judge W'alter B.

A FRIEND persuaded him to accept a partnership in a saloon in Hudson. Lavelli came here in September, 1905, leaving his $90-a-month job in Cleveland. Within five months he dissolved the tavern partnership and bought out the blacksmith shop where he is still located. It was in 1915 that Lavelli went back to Italy. He returned here in four years.

Asked if he was a member of any organizations, he replied, "I don't belong to any groups, only the society of my family. When you stay at home, that's best." He does regularly attend St. Mary Cathjlic Church across the street from his shop. "It doesn't matter what church you belong to, you should go," he declared. Lavelli and his wife have two granddaughters and a grandson.

Dante's home is in Rocky River. The daughter lives in Cleveland. went to Italy in 1950 by herself and in 1935 with their son and daughter, now Mrs. Eda Vool. THE LAYELLIS were married in Hudson after he returned from wartime service in Italy.

The blacksmith, born at Manerba in Brescia Province, North Italy, came to the U. S. in 1902. He worked in Boston "amongst the1 Yankees and the big snows" in a shop shoeing horses, making wag-ens and doing a little fanci-work. In 1902 he came to Kent when a contractor offered him a blacksmith job when the Baltimore Ohio's double tracks were being laid between Akron and Youngs-town.

Lavelli later worked in the. Railroad shops at Kent and then went to Cleveland to continue in the blacksmith work he learned as a youth in Italy. Robert Lee Shaffer, 22-year-old Indiana desperado, was to be returned to Indianapolis today after having been captured by lightning-quick Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in downtown Akron. Shaffer was traced to a home here in which lived either friends or relatives, according to II. Hawkins, special agent in charge of the Cleveland FBI office.

HE SAID the home was full of children, so FBI agents hesitated about making the pickup there, because of the possibility of gun fire. Two cars and four agents trailed Shaffer in a car Friday Little. Plain Car Blossoms Wanamakcr. The lawyers based their ap peal on what they said were conversations with various ex-Grand Jurors, and they called to S. Howard st.

by the Quaker The mayor's new "little car" was delivered to him at City Hall Friday, and it turned out to be not as little as he had hoped. He ordered a Buick Special, but Summit Buick Co. delivered at the same price a Century model which usually sells for $223 more, that firm said. The new car cost $2,707.82, considerably higher than the $2,092.32 originally approved by the Board of Control. The lower price was, as the mayor put it, for the "bare car" with no accessories.

The mayor later was prevailed upon by other members of the official family who felt his car should be a little more de luxe. AS DELIVERED, the car has more than $600 in assessories, including power steering and brakes and chrome discs-for the wheels, according to Summit Buick Sales Manager Ed Royer. He said the firm was having trouble getting delivery on Specials and therefore substituted the more expensive model. "We were a little generous, because it was the mayor," he said. The car was bought wlih Waler Department funds, a practice of some years standing, because the Water Department lias enough money to he able to afford the expenditure and because the mayor technically is the head of all departments, which of course Includes the Water Department.

The mayor's 1951 Chrysler will be used by the Water Department up in Geauga County. An older Water Department car was traded in for $150. Oats Co. office where he got out of the car. The agents pounced on him, searched him and snapped on the handcuffs.

Once again, there were children in the car, said Hawkins. Shaffer was Mop! Suburban Clinlh'iigp Find 'Back-To-City' Trend found to be unarmed. for an investigation by the court. The step was unheard of. With a whole new field of law opened up, Judge Wanamaker took the plea under advisement.

He said he wanted to talk to other Common Pleas Judges here before ruling. MRS. WILSON, 29, of 2091 Copley was convicted of the charge last Saturday in a casa that had attracted considerable attention. First, one of her witnesses, a stepson, took the stand and contradicted virtually all the ninny the defense had offered up to that point. Then Judge Wanamaker erred in sending the jurors to lunch after turning the case over to them.

He got around that by sending them home and bringing them back Saturday, the first such court session in modern history. Friday the attorneys came in ...1. i I ll TliafVi Wm'IuihI I'iHiirr skids," he said. "But because Fined S100 Americans react to crises, the city today is headed in the right direction and proceeding The city of the future will have as much grass and air as today's suburb and will be as desirable a place in which to live. This point was made by Douglas Haskell, one of three speakers at the Friday evening session of a two-day institute on "Creative Community Leadership" in the Mayflower Hotel.

It will conclude today. SHAFFER WAS arraigned before U. S. Commissioner W. J.

Laub who set bond at $15,000. The young Indianan was taken to Cuyahoga County Jail before being returned to the neighboring state. Shaffer was on parole from the Indiana State Reformatory when he and a companion held up a Teno Haute, drug store and postal station. His companion was shot and captured but Shaffer escaped, coming to Akron last December. Although the Indiana charge against Shaffer was simple at a good pace." Walch Your Step-Audi Drunk Wheels It's He said city planning was necessary so those with private capital were not left to their own haphazard devices.

The panel was moderated by Thomas G. MacGowan, head of Marketing Research at the Firestone Tire Rubber Co. He James Patrick Kintz, 30, of 999 Laurel av was fined $100 Slippery side streets and sidewalks will be the order of things, traffic-wise, over the weekend. The temperature is going to stay close to the freezing mark so that treacherous walking and driving conditions, which began Friday night, will continue. The freezing film of snow and costs and given three days burglary, it was compounded by flight avoid prosecution.

When a state requests aid in a case like this, it becomes a federal offense and the FBI can move in, said Hawkins. commented that he had never seen such an interest, such a "ferment" in building a better Akron that he has seen recently. He cited the Area Development Committee as a first rate example. THE INSTITUTE is spon during the night produced 46 accidents about twice the usual number police said. In almost every case, slippery conditions caused the trouble.

Most of those injured were treated and released at Theme of the presentation was the great movement back into the city. Haskell, editor of "Architectural Forum," said no one was talking much about this. But it is a counter movement to the widely-known "flight to the suburbs." Haskell cited a Detroit plan to rebuild a run down area in a balanced way to attract residents back into the central city. The area would include city houses for families, row houses for lower income families and apartments for those with few or no children. Cleveland is at work on three areas, he said, one of which is integrating industry into 'e- built sections containing both public and private housing.

ANOTHER SPEAKER, Fred prick Aschman. accused down-i Li Roily Daily, 51. of R. D. 2, Uniontown.

James Bean, 25, of Alliance was admitted to City Hospital after being injured in a two-car accident on Canton near the County Line in Green twp. Donetta Marshal, 27. and Charles Marshal, 3, of R. 1). 1, in jail for drunken driving.

Police arrested him Thursday night on Manchester rd. He pleaded guilty before Traffic Judge Thomas M. Powers, who suspended bis driver's license a year subject to compliance with the financial responsibility law. Kintz will serve his time in City Jail from 7:30 p. m.

to 1 a. m. so he can continue working. HEAI.L C. STEVENS, 45, of 138') Horiodle a was freed of Fugitive Surrenders A 31-year-old man who told a Beacon Journal reporter he wanted "to turn myself in" is wiui wmu nao.

neen expected as a routine request for a new trial. Instead they presented a surprised Judge and Assistant Prosecutor Bernard Rosen with the statement that they had heard from "six or seven" members of the last Grand Jury. SIX, THEY SAID, were "certain" they had voted a no bill in Mrs. Wilson's case. The seventh former Grand Juror was described as being fairly certain.

To Indict, 12 of the Grand lury's 15 members must voto to return a true bill. Landi and Konstand formally requested that the ex-Jurors be called before Judge Wanamaker and told to repeat their stories in open court. Mrs. Wilson was charced WEATHER outlook is Uniontown, were treated and THE sored by the Akron Adult Education Foundation with a special grant from the Adult Education Test City Project, established by the Ford Foundation. This morning's program was centered around "what Akron needs," with group discussions 1 by Mrs.

Noah Miller, Robert S. Crawford, R. Russell being held in jail here for! released at City. Others treated and released were John Sophis, 31, of 119 S. Raich Peoples hospital, and Jesse Gulledge, 21, of DOUGLAS HASKELL for partly cloudy conditions with snow flurries most of today and Sunday.

High today will be about 35; Sunday 30. Among the accident victims, Minnie Singley, 79, of 500 Floyd is reported in fair condition at City Hospital. She was injured in a three-car crash at George and Tallmadge av. One of the drivers, Paul Munn, Ray Brown, Clint Miller, a drunken driving charge dating from last Nov. 21.

Municipal Judge C. B. M( Rae ntt wasningion l'eoples: hospital. Valadimar J. Saiben.

31, of 328 Fernwood was cited withdrew the oMTating under for failure to have his car un Swissvale, police. Det. Capt. Boyd Bulk Jr. said a query sent to Harold Van Gorder's hometown revealed he was wanted there on bad check charges.

Van Gorder called the Beacon Journal from an E. Market st. cafe with a story about everyone accusing him of being the "Blue Cap Bandit." He claimed he wanted to turn himself in to prove his innocence. Detectives picked him up at the cafe after the reporter called them. the Influence affidavit acting as a "human lure" Stevens at the request of Police i 1,1 $12 robbery of James der control.

Dagrnas, 7, of 1181 E. Market Prosecutor Paul Lombardi be-j town businessmen of having adding that growth has Robert Lorenz, Carl Warming-two-point minds parking and been rapid. ton and Richard Creighton. expressways. "The Negro is in our cities' At the noon luncheon in the "They miss the point," he to help man production forces," hotel Mayor Berg spoke on said.

"Their establishments said Aschman. "He replaces the; "Akron, Let's Go!" The after-must be modernized and down-1 old immigrant. There is no noon session was to be a panel town locations renewed to who is not better off be-: meeting with James S. Jackson, tract shoppers." cause the Negro is here." ID. R.

Mackenroth, Robert Aschman, director of the Chi- Vhef iT- RObert Pia rnmmiinn pmnha. ASCHMAN ITED two basic Leo Molinaro, executive director Karper, 31, of 1125 W. Main I Kent, was cited by police forlO KitlOfl Q9H0 crashing a red light. 1HUI JtdJf cause of lack of evidence. Stevens pleaded guilty, however, to going through a red light at High and Chestnut sts.

and was fined $25 and costs. Joe Z. (iarner, 2, or Wi i -t i Julian had tough luck. HeTOl 1 111111 miners sized that planning must exist -Problems in cities today-obso-jof the Adult Education Foun- skidded into another car on h. to pave the way for the city of the future.

Concerning the first, he Glenwood and while he was sitting in a police cruiser helping to fill but an accident re A numbers man and his al leged chauffeur were fined $200 apiece Friday by Municipal Jndge Abner D. JCook. Aaron Jordan. of 219 Ike Honored PARIS One of France's The primary function cities today is production, port, another car skidded into ofinamed the following types: he I PHYSICAL-Rundown, old DU VtlCIKi 'homes and narrow streets. I STYLE Residents like to fYlll erPlH0.

the military his automobile. highest honors, I Berry also was sentenced to hway salt; 15 days in the City Workhouse a skidding Wth time off at night to work. medal, will be conferred on President Eisenhower. A COUNTY hi Remy Neris, president of the truck was hit by I live in style which is one rea-ison for the flight to the last July. The jury accepted the state's version that she enticed Dag-mas onto a N.

Johns av. ball field where he was slugged and robbed by a male accomplice who still is being sought. THIS HAPPENED July 17. Mrs. Wilson, arrested the fol-lowing day, was indicted Oct.

22, according to prosecution records. Arraigned Nov. 5, she pleaded not guilty and went free on bond pending the jury trial which began Jan. 12. Day liy-day Grand Jury records filed in the prosecutor's office showed Mrs.

Wilson had been properly indicted, as the state contended, last Oct. 22. Rosen thought a discussion of the case by former Grand Jurors mJght itself be illegal. Ohio law, he said, forbids such talk except to a judge in a court of record. national society of holders of automobile while spreading Some 50 staff members from centers in a four-state arealthe military medal, will fly to salt at Mayfield and ljna GOVERNMENTAL Inabil jhave gathered at the Akron I Washington soon to present in Green twp.

There were no injuries. The truck driver was ity to cope with city Jewish Center for the annual: the award He pleaded guilty. Corris Allen, 28, of 273 East-land was given 10 days, five suspended. He pleaded not guilty and told Zook he was paid ') a day to drive Jordan on his rounds. Both were arrested Sept.

20, charged with possession of lottery slips. Sells Hardwick Gas Range Gas ranges, gas heaters, gas furnaces and in fact, gas appliances of every description are sold dally through the Beacon Journal want ads. The demand for them is great. Mr. Walter L.

VanNostran of 4241 Minor Road in Copley placed the following ad. AS CriK PC jThere's no point in slum clear-1 conference of the East Central ance if they can't prevent fu- Chapter of the National Asso- ture slums the same time, ciation of Jewish Center Work-1 isaid Aschman. Also, city gov-'ers jernments haven't enough in-j Arth(jr teirr8 executive doctor of the Akron! a tu" Jewish Center and vice presi- should, he added. dent of the chapter, was chair-; "A rational tax structure is needed without state and fed-." -1 eral governments putting their' Among those on the program; hands into our pockets ud to are Aaro" Schreiber of Louis- HARDWICK na table top range. (, 1 condition.

Reasonable. MO-6-38fl2. the elbows," said Aschman. He iVllle' Kv- Rosalind Schickler said latrr a tax rise for cyril Slesnick of Cincin-merce and industry could be' nafi- Robert Morrison of To-sold on the basis that it would Mo. Lester Harris and Sam TEfRE SON'S to as tve TMEV HAST 6R0EE? TO PlAV 1 BcETh'Ov THE provide better facilities and Meiiman of Columbus, Herman Joins Goodyear Hcscarcli Unit Charles L.

Howard, formerly of Cincinnati, has joined the research division of the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. in the Air- foam section. I This was announced by Dr. II. J.

Osterhof, director of re-I search. Howard is from South Dakota, where he majored in chemistry at the state college. He Is a member of the Amer-j lean Chemical Society. He has a wife and four children. iinery School I 'a rents To Meet The Rev.

James M. Lichliter, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, will preach at two services Sunday on the topi "The Shaken Dust." Worship will bo at 9:15 and 11 a. m. Wednesday, St.

Paul's nur sery school parents will hear Dr. Helen Painter of the University of Akron on "Home and School Relations" at 8:30 p. m. tl EEN CANDIDATE Carol liusenlxirg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Earl lluscn-burg, 1113 Sunset View Is a candidate for queen of the Junior Prom at Miami (O.) I'nlversity. The prom will be held Feb. 21. Miss Riisenburg, a junior in the School of Fine Arts, is a Riirhtc.1 High School mean more business. THE FINAL speaker, George Howe, eminent Philadelphia architect, asked: Where is the Mrs.

VanNostran reported a great number of calls and the gas range sold to the first person calling. It is so easy to get money if you know and use Beacon Journal want ads. To place a want ad. Just call EL-3-1111 and ask for an Ad-Writer. tign, bam Sonn and Rose Goldhammer of Cleveland, Mort Goodman and Marion Richardson of Indianapolis, Morton Rosenbaum of Pittsburgh, Matilda Rubin of Detroit and Edward Garrick of American City headed? "Twenty-five years ago we were told the city was on the Youngstown..