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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 12-In
the last dozen years more than
two dozen slightly varied YER
sions of "Thc Shanghai Gesture"
have been rejected by the Hays
Office-turned down cold be-
cause they were too hot.
There's some question whether
the script now being filmed is
any purer than the previous
ones, or whether the Hays Of
flee just got tired Of saying no,
or whether rensors believed that
Producer Arnold Pressburger,
Director Joseph Won Sternberg,
and Writer James Cain could
make the play into picture
with exceptional delicacy.
Anyway, production is going
ahead at United Artists. The
prominence Of the cast, the ele-
gance of the sets and the fire.
works of the volatile Won Stern
berg make Il the best show in
town to visit. Instead of the big
biothel of john Colton's play, the
main locale now is a glittering
gambling casino with surplus
of Oriental and Eurasian girls
The proprietress, who was called
Madame Goddam when Florence
Reed created the part, now is
Ona Munson with the character
name Of Madame Gin-Sling.
GONE WITH THE PART
She's really something to see.
Roger, the costume designer,
screamed like a panther when
Pressburger told him who'd have
the role. How, he asked, could
anybody create exotic Oriental
outfits tor the plump actress who
was the scarlet Belle Waiting
in Gone With the Wind?
Hollywood laughed at the
selection, and so did Miss Mum
son at first 1t seemed like a
joke that the bedizened No. /
hussy of 1899 should be called
for a similar profession, but a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

S YEARS AGO TODAY -
1886
The Sacred Heart Church in
Roseville plans 18th anniversary
program.
Guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Schanher, Miller
street, Mrs. Roy Browning. Hol-
lywood, Florida.
Albert Lumley lett Friday
for Amherst College where he
holds the position of athletic d.
rector.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Athletic Club is being organ
lied at Pottery.
Fire destroys the Liesecki
Home in New Haven.
IS YEARS AGO II DAY
1905
The county Republican caucus
will be held tomorrow night.
Allen w. Kent announces that
he will be q candidate for re-
election to the office Of prosecu-
tor.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Mrs. DR.. O'Keefe II visiting at
Chantham.
Mrs. George Shelton paid her
mother, Mrs. Wood, q flying visit
last week.
&C YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1881
Pomer & Chick will give
away one big range, q cook stove
end Q heater at the county fair.
The school board INST last
nisht and elected Geo. NJ. Crock
Or, moderator, Andrew Donald
son, director, and Geo. A. Skin
nss, assessor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
DEBT WRITTEN

MINNEAPOLIS - A d o p h
Karkula didn't Just threaten to
post names Of former tenants he
claims owe him rent. He posted
them-and in seven-inch letters.
A five-by-six foot sign on
Karkula's front porch named six
former tenants. Beside one name
was mot Pay Rent 5 Mo-" Other
names simply bore the notation
Not Pay Rent" Karkula, wild
over and father of nine children,
says he's been holding the sack
since 1912 in one instance.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
SAVES SILK. TOO!

SAVES SILK, TOO!
LOS ANGELES-Ladies will
ing to weai sirdles, copper
stockings and batteries need
have no fear Of mice.
A contraption exhibited at the
inventors congress is rugged up
SO the mouse gets shock II he
brushes against the copper-mesh
hose.
Wires run frvm miniature bat
teries in the shoes through
stockings and garters to a coil in
the girdle. No danger to the
wearer, either the inventor
claims.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
America 8 Card Authority

In winning the national mix
ed team-of-four championship,
Sidney Silodor Of Oakmont. Pa,
established a remarkable record.
Last December in Philadelphia,
at the fall session Of the Ma
tional tournament, he and Mrs.
r. c. Young won the National
mixed pair title.
Following his victory in the
mixed team-of-four at Asbury
Park, Silodor turned in good
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12

There is nothing funny about the
bombino Of cities. The dropping OF
deoth from the skies on innocent wom-
en- and children who have ottenoeo
nobody is grim and oorborous oos'-
ness.
If it we're possible to squeeze
sinoIe drop Of tortured humor out OF
so BLOODY business, it would come
from the German complaints thot the
bombing Of Berlin is "Iout trek,
"cruel ""Iow-down and contemplate
It is enough to moke the gods 'oush-
or cry.
These borbinos took place olmost
exoctly q yeor otter the 0ernnon o''-out
ottocks on England began. For nearly
q veor. Britain has grtted her teeth and
token it as London flored into weird
bonfres. Coventry seethed to ashes.
and many another ancient home ond
BUILDING become raging crypt tor the
innocent. All men could do was to shake
futile fists at the dark skies in sheer
heort-breoking impotence. Ihot. and
orimIy await their turn.
Thot turn seems to have come.
With IGNORANCE bombers at lost at the
disoosoI Of the British, Berlin and other
6ernon cities ore feeling q 1.-THE OF the
wroth they unIeoshed on the cities OF
Britoin.
Aooin innocent ones ore dying, un-
offending women and babies ore dying
in Germany now, as they have died all
this Iona year in Britoin. The homeless
ronoe the streets, distracted and dozed.
II is horrible now, as it was horrible
then.
Once again: no pilot, German or
British. knows what his bomb is going
to hit as he pulls the bomb release TO-
600 feet above sleeping city. he vor-
lotion of fraction Of q hairs breadth
in the adjustment means variation OF
hundreds Of yards in the foil OF the
bomb: the difference between hitting
the miIitoy storehouse on one street
and the hospital in the next block. The
pilot hosn't been born who wouldn't
ruther hit the storehouse if he had any
choice.
There was Boosting enough when
London wos quiverine under the re-
peoted blows. The British cities we're
going to be wiped off the mop, one by
one, until the British cried for mercy.
Now when, otter year Of thot, some
tenth Of the terror is returned to Berlin
there is q cry Of "Borborism!"
Borborism 1t is, indeed. The world
connot call itself civilized until it hos
ceased to be. But the world suddenly
becomes hard of hearing when Frank
enstein cries out against his own Mon-
SfeY
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
GENEROUS

GENEROUS
WINFIELD LA. - Soldiers
here were impressed by the gen.
crosby Of school children who
provided them with showers,
cold drinks, snoe shines and even
let them ride ponies. Finally one
tot explained:
Because you are using our
school for an office until the
maneuvers end we get an extra
months vacation"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
REQUEST GRANTED

LINCOLN. NEb. JOnn
Chambers, %, got his way with
the courts penitentiary SEN
tence instead Of q Jail term.
He pleaded guilty to taking an
automobile without permission
but when the judge meted out z
Jail term, he asked for ID
months in prison. A Jail sen.
tence was al. the municipal
court could give 50 they took
Chambers into District Court
where he pleaded guilty 70
breaking and entering . car ana
got two years In the peniten-
uary.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
HOME, SWEET HOME

PATTONSBURG, MO. -
Ralph Sims, enroute home on
furloush from Asbury, Park, N.
j., drove the 1900 miles without
mishap.
That Is, until he was two
blocks from home. His was one
Of three machines in q three-car
collision.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

SorcoSm o3i0o, tniS SnlPooSIo'
ina program Is something TO
give you q tremendous lift. A.
reody Il hos knocked all World
War shipbuildine records eol-
ley west. At Hog island, lost
war, best record was six months
and five doys from keel laying
to launching. In he eoss Of the
first three Liberty Ships, the
times from keel laying to
launching run from four
months and three days to four
months and twenty.seven dogs.
And when production Of these
ships really gets going, two
ships will 90 sliding down the
woys every single working doy.
which means launching new
bottoms almost as fost as Hit
Ier's submarines con sink
them.
BRAINS AND
RESOURCES DID IT
To achieve this magnificent
production schedule hos re-
CURED the morsholine Of
Americas best technical brains
and resources, and exactly this
hos been done under Admiral
Emory S. Land, choirmonvf
the Maritime Commission, and
}. E. Schneider, director of
the commissions division of
construction.
In 1887, shortly otter the
commission was organized, O
program Of one new ship every
two weeks wos inoueuroted
TO re-estobIish supremacy Of
the American Merchant Mo-
rine. Stepping that up to two
new ships every day, the goal
Of 1912 and l943, gives you
on ideo Of the pace that hos
been set.
In 1895, there were 10 ship
yards in some degree Of octiv-
it, with only as ways big
enough TO toke 400. foot ships.
Today there ore lo yards and
AS ways authorized for the
Maritime Commission pro-
gram, and ships ore actually
being built on over half the
woys.
Todoy's overall program
coils for the con- truction Of
400 non-novol ships by the
end Of lo43, and the totol
cost Of new yords, ways and
ships will be in the neighbour
hood Of So billion.
Of the l4OO merchant or
ooroo vessels in the MortinI
Commission proeron. only BIZ
have so for been designated as
the Liberty Ship type, 20 TO 90
in service by the end Of the
yeor. But still on the books is
q recent authorization for 500
ships, Of types not vet desig-
mated. Surveys ore now being
mode TO see what the shipping
demands will be, and what the
steel and ship fittings eopoci-
ty Of the country will be De-
cision will be made later on
how many Of these 500 will
be Libertys, how many will be
tonkers, and how many will be
the stondord types o. fost cor
90 vessels, C-l, c., or C-3,
which the commission is build
ing for merchant marine ex-
pension.
When they're all built, the
hope is thot the country won't
be dumb enough to scrap 'en.
junk 'em and make 'em into
fIiNvers
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
DOWN THE HATCH
nHOLLIDAYSBURG,

OHOLLlDAYSBURG, PA. -
Eight-year-old Kenneth Snyder,
admin ing some gold fish, scooped
up one in his hand and puckered
his lips in a Kiss of affection for
mis- finny friend.
There was a sudden Jump by
the fish, gulp and Kenny was
unintentionally--a fish swallow
er.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12

The left leg Is injured about
twice as often as the right in ski
ing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-12
~ PgrtR goSoN
Dolly Msnites Washington
Coyvosoon&onf

WASHINGTON, Sept. u
Hereafter. will you pleose re-
froin from speaking Of the BIZ
emergency coreo vessels which
the Maritime Commission is
building as ugly OuekIinos. :"
Call them Liberty Ships" in
steod. and thank you.
This Ugly Ducklins oppello-
ton seems to have been the
conception Of q mere newspo-
permon who thought II UP just
like that when the President
first made announcement Of
the emergency shipbuiIding
program. While the name fits
these freiehters perfectly-if
you remember your fobIe Of
how the ugly duckIins turned
into q beautiful swan and flew
off to Hollywood to become q
stor in moving pictures-stiII
the name offends some Of the
effete and aesthetic old seq
dogs in Washington and SO
they must become Liberty
Ships, each one nomed otter
q great American who made q
considerable contribution to
the country's Iiberty-Potriek
Henry, John c. Fremont and
the like.
Whatever you coll these b.
bies, the first three Of them
will be sliding down the ways
il, q mass launching on Sept.
II, which the new publicity
conscious Maritime Commits
sion, With q hieh-powered New
York advertising man In
charge Of its public relations,
is going to coll Liberty Fleet
Day"
IT'S GONNA BE
A GREAT DAY
In addition to the three Ue
-pordon-LibertN Ships, nine
other merchant ships will be
Simultaneously launched al
yards on the Atlantic. Poetic
and Gulf coasts, in what prom.
ises to be quite q day. Tht
President or other competen'
Iiterote will probably soy q few
words into the mikes, and there
will be champagne bottle:
sheltered all the way from
Quincy, Moss., ground thu
coast line to Portland, Ore, BY
way Of PoscoeouIo, Miss. Tht
bands will pIoy. the crowd
will shout and rodio spieIer
turn inside out in approved
form.
September Saturday mor'
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Relief Office Has
Many Jobs

Believing the public may have
been wondering what is occupying
the county welfare office now that
relief is at a minimum, Mrs. Bonnie
Corns director of the coordinated
Putnam county welfare agency, has
compiled an extensive report.
While her office is generally
known as the county relief head
quarters, Mrs. Corns explained the
coordinated agency actually en-
bodies 16 types of public aid.
The 16 types of aid are listed as
follows:
Aid to dependent children; aid to
blind; general relief; WPA certifica-
tions; National Youth administration
certifcation and supervision; CCC
certifcation and service; federal sur
plus commodities; free school lunches !;
crippled children; social service ex-
change; selective service investiga-
tions; foster home placements; ju-
venile court reporting; distribution
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Three Hurt In Auto
Mishap

Harry White, Jr., 81, of Lima, ].
F. REM and Sons bakery salesman,
was one of three persons injured
Wednesday in truck-auto accident,
three miles north of Pandora. White
was reported convalescing Thursday
in Memorial hospital from back and
head decorations.
Others injured were: Edward
Glassco, "a, colored, of Findlay, who
received a knee injury, and Samuel
Miller, 81, a transient, a compound
fracture of the left leg. Both are
in Findlay hospital.
Sheriff Arnold Potts, of Putnam
county, said the mishap involved a
REM truck operated by White, which
was travelling north in the Crawfis-
College road, and the car driven by
Glasso going west in the Baseline
road.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
HANCOCK COUNTY
Train Kills Two At
RaWSOn

Foggy weather conditions were
held partly responsible for two traf-
fic accidents in Hancock county in
which three men were killed.
Russell Wentworth, so, marshal of
Rawson, and his son-in-law, Charles
Grow, "a, also of Rawson, were
killed when a Nickel Plate passeng-
er train struck their automobile at
the Main street grade crossing in
Rawson. They were enroute to Lima
where they were employed.
Injured fatally was Garland Leo
Hensley, FL, Delaware, Ind, a driver
for the Interstate Trucking Co. of
Indianapolis. The truck which he
was driving crashed against the rear
of another truck which was making
safety stop at the intersection of
Routes II and 224 at the edge of
Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04

they will attend a Farm Manage
ment group meeting and the Fat
Stock show.
Miss Mary Jane Mayberry and
guest Miss Arrant, both of Bluffton
college spent the weekend with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Mayberry.
The Light Bearers of the Presbv-
terian church will meet Saturday
afternoon in the home of Rose Leigh
Mayberry, with their advisor Mrs.
William Reichenbach in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Marshall and
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo Marshall attended
a covered dish dinner and program
for Past Matrons and Past Patrons,
their husbands and wives, at the
Masonic hall in Bluffton last Tues
day evening.
Rev. Charles Armentrout who has
served the Presbyterian congrega-
ton, here and in Bluffton the past
six years, rendered his resignation
Sunday morning and win accept
church in Indianapolis, Ind. Rev.
Armentrout will hold his last SER
vice, with communion, Sunday morn
ing, December IA. Rev. and Mrs.
Armentrout have made many friends
during their pastorate here, who are
sorry to see them leave, but con-
gratulate them upon the promotion
they are receiving and wish them
the best of success in their new
location.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Huber and
family were Sunday dinner guests of
Edward and Ella Reichenbach near
Pandora.
Miss Rita Hankish, teacher of
Public School Music in Beaverdam
and her mixed chorus of fifty voices
will present cantata, 'The Song of
Glad Tidings" at the Presbyterian
church Sunday evening, December
21. Preceding the cantata, a short
program will be given by the pri-
mary department of the Sunday
school. Anyone interested is cor
daily invited.
The Presbyterian missionary So
ciety will meet Wednesday afternoon
of next week and the following pro-
gram will be given: Spiritual Life,
Il Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"-Glen
Frank by Mrs. Edgar Begg; Christ
in Art, Mrs. J. o. Cupp; Year Book
of Prayer, Mrs. Glen Mayberry.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
R0ckpOrt

Miss Beatrice Cupp and Mr.. How
ard Winchester of Toledo were
weekend guests in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Cupp and family.
Following another stroke of pa
ralysis, Mr.. A. H. Marshall is SER
iously i'll at his home here, with
little hope being entertained for his
recovery, Miss Ruth Myers is as
sisting in his care.
Mr.. w. E. Marshall and other
members from the Bluffton district
attended an Allen County Farm
Bureau meeting in Lima last Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Helen Wells and Mrs. SybiI
Mollet of Bluffton were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Wells
and attended services at the Pres
byterian church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall in
company with friends from Colum-
bus left Sunday for Chicago where
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Controversy Over
Lights At Delphos

Delphos City Council, after five
months of negotiations, voted a 10
year contract for street lights to the
Ohio Power Co. and passed a sec
ond ordinance allowing the utility a
10-year franchise.
Charles Price, Canton, counsel for
the power company, announced i'm
mediately after the passage that the
utility would not accept the fran
chise. 1t had repeatedly asked for
franchise for 25 years and warned
that it would accept no less a period.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Win At Livestock
Show

Putnam county youths, showing
stock at the Cleveland Stock Show
last weekend, brought home some
awards, it was announced Friday.
In the Aberdeen-Angus class, ami
mails owned by Evan Suter, 10, cap
tured sixth and 18th places, and an
animal owned by William Hunt, cap
tured 18th place honors.
In the Hereford class, an animal
owned by George Sabosly, garnered
fourth place honors; an animal
owned by Doris Benroth, Putnam
county, received ninth place honors,
and Bob Griffith's animal of Put
nam county carried away 14th place
award.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Curtail NYA Training
Program

Monthly costs of the National
Youth Administration in the IT.
county Lima area will be reduced
from $1,000 to about S2,400 when a
curtailment program becomes eff
fective Dec. l.
Non-defense projects will be ter
minated, and a girls residence center
will be closed. About 40 girls have
been living in large dwelling in
exclusive Lakewood avenue in Lima,
receiving training as domestics.
District offices will be closed, and
the supervision transferred to the
Toledo NYA offices.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Welty's Herd Has High
Production

The registered Guernsey herd OF
five cows owned by Levi E. Welty,
of Union township, topped the but
terfat production of all herds in the
Observation-Disclosures cow testing as
sociation during the month of Octo-
Der.
Welty's animals averaged Al
pounds of butterfat, almost three
pounds better than the second place
herd of Joseph Ault, of Wood coun-
ty. Ault's four registered Holsteins
averaged 1876 pounds.
Welty's cows averaged 785 pounds
of milk for the month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
news NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

him committed to the institution for
observation.
Hile is able to distinguish right
from wrong, and his actions can be
explained only mental subnormal-
ity and an uncontrolled sex drive,
DR.. Bushong's report said.
The man allegedly struck Miss
Joan Singer with hammer and was
attempting to drag her to an auto
mobile when her screams attracted
attendants from a nearby filling sta
ton who held him until police ar
rived.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
ALLEN COUNTY
565 Ton Locomotive
Tested

Tests were completed last week
for the largest locomotive ever built
at the Lima Locomotive Works, Inc.
1t is the first of 20 ordered by the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, has
18 driving wheels, and an overall
weight of 1,031, 900 pounds.
Chesapeake and Ohio officials were
in Lima to witness the tests, headed
by E. S. Ellis of Cleveland, chief Of
the mechanical division.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
PUTNAM COUNTY
$50 Get Free Lunches

On December l approximately $50
children were receiving free or part
pay lunches in the Putnam county
schools through a program of the
county welfare agency.
County Relief Director Bonnie
Corrs reported 65 children are be-
ing fed in the Ottawa public schools;
80 in Belmore school,; seven in New
England school, and 10 in the Con-
tinental-P Palmer schools. To this to-
tai will be added between 80 and so
at Columbus Grove.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Purse-Snatching Dog
Reported

A playful dog Wednesday after
noon snached the purse of Mrs. Val
Kallarik, of Lima, but she retrieved
the purse later in the day.
She told police she was walking
in the 900 block of w High street
when the dog grabbed the purse.
Name of the owner of the dog was
not learned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Prisoner Released To
Help Family

His child and wife i'll of scarlet
fever, execution of sentence in a
petit larceny case brought before
Mayor c. H. Duttweiler was defer
red, and the defendant, Richard Mar
vim, 80, was ordered into quarantine
to assist caring for his family.
after the quarantine has been
lifted, we viii see about your sem
tence and fne", the Mayor coun-
seled. Marvin pleaded guilty to the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Hammer Wielder Not
Insane

Edward Hile, Sc, accused of a
hammer attack on a 17-year-old girl
on a downtown Lima street, was re-
turned to the Allen county Jail last
week from the Lima State Hospital,
legally sane in the opinion of hos
pital psychiatrists.
Hile pleaded not guilty by reason
of insanity to charges of assault.
Judge Neal Lora of the Allen Coun-
ty court of common pleas ordered
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
HARDIN COUNTY
White Sparrow Found
In KentOn

A white sparrow, said by bird
fanciers to be quite rarity, has
been feeding with a flock of birds
about the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Weatherholt in Kenton. The
Weatherholts said the bird had been
seen on several occasions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Oldest Doctor In COun.
ty Is 85

The oldest physician in Hancock
county is DR.. Theron S. Wilson, of
Findlay, who on Dec. 6 will be IS,
and he came by his profession hon
estly. His great uncle, Dr. VIM. H.
Baldwin, was a practitioner who To-
Gated in the village of Findlay in
1882. He ranked high in the medical
profession and his reputation took
him well over northwestern Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
Church Organist
81 Years

Many are the causes that men
serve faithfully. But Clint Rich
mond has set some kind of record in
serving as church organist for 81
years. When fall services began at
Calvary Evangelical and Reformed
church in Lima. Richmond, now "a,
had missed only three Sundays at
an organ. :
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-12-04
"MeSsiah" At Ada,
Dec IA

The annual presentation of Han
dels oratorio "The Messiah" is
scheduled for Sunday evening, De-
cember ID, in Lehr auditorium, it has
been announced by Haydn Owens,
director of music at Ohio Northern
university in Ada.