Hi Peggy, I've contacted the library. It was the Akron Beacon Journal itself that I tried and wasn't met with interest in my investigation, because the info I was looking for concerned a family "story" I'd been told and thought something might have been published about an abandoned vehicle and a person being missing. As for the phone/address directories, I'm hunting a specific address for a specific time frame for my g-grandfather Howard E. Bishop so I can do (an expensive) census hunt. But perhaps now with the library being put back together, I will have to ask for research help into articles relating to published disappearances of the 1930s. Do you have the email addie for the research librarian? Thanks for the info. Jacquie Margaret H Foight wrote: > Jacquie - > > I was in Akron at the library's temp quarters last July, and it was still > in upheaval. However, I sent them a letter (twice) requesting obits for > my family and found them to be very helpful. They provided the > information by return mail within 4 weeks. They also now have an e-mail > address for a research librarian. > > You might want to try them again as you probably hit them during their > worst time. > > Peggy Foight > South Carolina > >