Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-12-24
STATE CAPITAL NEWS LETTER


The spectacular National Dairy
Show, said to be by far the largest
and most important event Of IFS
kind in the world, for 1887. will be
staged in Columbus at the state fair
grounds, according to word received
by Director Earl H. Hanefeld of the
state department OF agriculture An
attendance of 100000 is expected
since Ohio is virtually he center Of
the gigantic national dairy industry,
Director Hanefeld asserted In ad-
dition TO prize dairy herds. educa-
tional exhibits representing federal
and state governments as we'll as
commercial organizations will be
featured, and the stage viii be set
for twenty-five champion state All
club Judging teams as well as for
more than a. score of college judg-
ing teams from the United States
and Canada. The event returns to
Ohio after an absence of twenty
years. 1t will be the twenty-eighth
annual show. The state fair ground
site was selected after careful sur
vey disclosed adequate buildings and
space to properly stage the big affair
which will have the greatest aggre-
cation of dairy cattle ever gathered
together, Director Hanefeld said.
AS the result of big increase in
game law violations throughout the
state, Conservation Commissioner
Lawrence Wooddell said the next
step in enforcement would be to
seize the automobiles of persons
hunting pheasants out of season
from motor cars. Commissioner
Wooddell said the statutes give
game wardens the authority to con-
fiscate automobiles used in game
law violations the same as they give
them permission to seize guns. He
reported that more than 500 arrests
were made in November, and that
convictions were obtained in ninety
nine percent of the cases. The
previous high mark in arrests was
in November, 1885, with total of
480.
Under the new program of the
Ohio commission for the blind
whereby sightless persons are being
set up in the concession business in
public buildings, fifteen men and
women, once dependent upon the
state, are now making their own
living, it was reported by William
E. Bartram, executive secretary of
the commission. They are averag-
ing a profit of SIS weekly Efforts
will be made to expand the work to
include more than $50 other blind
persons in twenty cities Of $4,000
population or more. Permission Of
the United States government to
permit concession stands i'll federal
buildings has been granted At the
present time only municipal and
county buildings are used for the
stands. Funds with which to equip
and stock the concessions We're pro-
vided by the Legislature, but they
have been exhausted and an addi.
tional appropriation will be needed
to carry on the program.
Superintendent Thomas p Kearns
of the division of safety and hygiene
for the industrial commission Of
Ohio, in a report just compiled, re-
lated that with improved business
and industrial conditions and the re-
sulting increase in employment acct
dent frequency continued to mount
in Ohio during October The 90
942 claims for the month were l.
220 more than in September. Sc
verify of accidents was lessened,
however, with eighty fatalities, q
decrease of eight in comparison with
the previous month superintendent
kearns said Machinery led all acci-
dent causes with 1874 cases and
two fatalities.