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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17

by the American Forestry Con-
gress to the Governor, Arbor Day
was first celebrated in Cincinnati
in 1882. The influence of the idea
has spread until Arbor Day is
celebrated in every state and
territory in the Union. While
the schools have been the strong
est factor in this forward move
ment, due credit must be given
to the G.. A. r., the Grange,
Civic Improvement Associations,
Women's Clubs, Forestry Associa-
tions, and Conservation groups.
Until a few years ago, Arbor
Day was set by law by the Cover
nor. At present the naming of
Arbor Day by the Governor is
a voluntary proclamation in con-
nection with the naming of April
as Conservation Month and one
designated week as Conservation
Week in the schools. Governor
Herberts recent proclamation has
named April as Conservation
Month, April 81 to IS as Conser-
vation Week in Ohio schools and
Friday, April 25, as Arbor and
Bird Day.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
: VALLEY ROAD
BY MRs. EFFrE DAVIS

The. Work and Win Sunday
school class of the Claiborne
Methodist church held their April
meeting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Webster, with a good
attendance on Friday evening.
Mrs Bertha Matlack entertain
ed the w. S. c. S, at her home on
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. Lloyd. Burgess, of Worth
ington, called at the home of Ray
Matlack and Jess Ledley Thurs
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Howard
motored to Athens Friday and
spent the day.
Shirley Howard spent Friday
evening with Bonnie Warner, at
the Howard Wurtsbaugh home.
Friends received word Thursday
of the death of Mrs. Lloyd Bur-
CESS, of Worthington. They lived
in and around this community
for a number of years.
Mrs. Bertha Matlack was call
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17

Connie Kent spent Sunday with
Lonella Kay Staley.
The Allen Star Stockman Al
Club will meet Friday evening
at the home of William and
Connie Kent.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Carl Spain
and daughter, Sue Ann of Marys-
vile, Mrs. James Hastings and
Margaret Walker, of Columbus,
spent Sunday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Kent, son, Will
lam. and daughter, Connie.
The Aliens Live Wines and
Aliens Merry Cooks held their
reorganization meeting Monday
evening after school. Sixteen
girls have enrolled for All work
this year. The next meeting will
be Friday, May End, $3.50 p. m.
at the home of Connie. Kent.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
RAYMOND MAN
SUBJECT OF STORY
fContinned trom pase ID

"Its Saturday night when /
open my lip. Say I'm ready to
work. They need a man. I don't
have my glasses, no clothes. bor-
row black tie from a waiter and
they shove me up to a wheel.
The. layout is covered with chips.
spin the ball and | gotta lean
way down to catch the numbah.
Pm on the wheel for three hours.
Did they give me hard way to
CO."
The big money was there,
Charley reported They'd lay, us
$1,000 cold from the shoulder We
had to hold them $500 on the
color. A young dame come in the
joint one night. She kept asking
her father for money to play the
wheel. He was hot about some
thing and kept brushing her off.
Finally she got hot enough at the
old man to use her own money.
She opened her pocketbook and
the money just jumped out. She
had it so full of dough it just
jumped up in the air'-clear up to
here. And nothing under a c.
note. She had bundle.
THAT dame that was gonna
toss tomatoes at Jose Uturbi was
customer of mine. Her name
was Mrs. Francis August Bel
mont, or something. She was So
ciety, and she got hot at Iturbi
for standing her up at a reception
she was giving him. spotted her
clothes first time she came in the
joint. She was elected. best dress
ed society dame right after that
tomato biz.
when two beat-up wheel roll
ers pay attention to a DANES hat
Il said it cost $50, and the other
guy, a beat-up roller from Steu-
benville, said he was getting
ready to say $85, Well, she asked
me if she could establish credit
clapped my hands, and the boss
took one CLAM at her n d
nodded"
Between seasons is Charley's
present status. He looks good
maybe a little graYer. The Flori-
da sun rosed up that night pallor
SO common on his cheeks. He
came back wearing those fancy
glasses-tortoise shell and big
He's spending his liberty at Ray
mond, with his bachelor uncle
Jay Ham, the village blacksmith
II may help him sharpen a few
pillow points. l might pitch some
horseshoes," Charley said.
He's waiting for a call to deal
the wheel at Montauk, L. l. ''The
boss wanted to know my street ir
Raymond" Charley la ughe
Heartily Il told him just wire me
FCharles Ham, Raymond, o. He
Still don't believe there is a place
that SMALL How far would yol
get naming the streets in Ray
Imond?"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
: ALLEN CENTER
BY MRS. HAROLD KENT

Mr.. and Mrs. Worley Luh and
son, Marion, and Mr.. and Mrs.
| Harold Kent spent Monday OF
last week in Cincinnati.
The Progressive Literary club
held their April meeting last
"wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Ruby Staley with the president,
, Mrs. Glenna Pyers, presiding.
Sixteen members were present
to answer to the roll-call with
their favorite song and the COM
poser. In the absence of Louise
Gabriel, the paper she prepared
on Child Prodigies in Music"
was read by Bertha Bennett and
the paper prepared by Ercil
Brake, Changing Tastes in Am
erican Music," was read by Helen
Smith. After the business part of
the meeting, Glenna Pyers gave
a very. interesting review of their
trip to Florida and Washington,
d. c.
The April meeting of the Allen
Home and School Union was well
attended. Helen Smith was in
charge of the program, which
consisted of music and ricita-
tions from the grade rooms and
Rev. Dittmar as speaker AT the
close of the program L. w.
Thomas showed film on Safety,
with Mrs. Thomas as reader.
Refreshments was served by
Mary Polling, Jessie LeMaster
and Susie Brighter.
The play Constable Jerry from
!Tilton's Terry" will be presented
Ithis Thursday night for the bene-
fit of the Home and School Union.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Robin
son called on Glen Cline at Mt.
Carmel hospital Sunday. Mr.
Cline is recovering from his acci-
ldent.
Mrs. Amy Carey of near Foun-
tain Park is staying with her
sister Mrs. Glen Cline while Mr.
Cline is in the hospital.
Robert Polling of Marysville
spent the weekend with his
, grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. R
Polling.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
THE UNION COUNTY JOURNAL. MARYsvMLE. OHIO

ed to the home of her sister, Mrs
May Allmadinger, of Johnstown
Saturday evening on account of
the sickness of her sister. She was
taken to White Cross hospital on
Sunday.
Those who called at the fun
eral home at Worthington Sun
day and attended the funeral of
Mrs. Lloyd Burgess at Westerville
in the afternoon, were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Matlack, Mr.. and Mrs.
Glenn Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Webster, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Davis, Jess Ledley and Junior
Matlack and others.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Davis spent
Sunday afternoon, at the home o.
his brother in-laW and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Paugh, of Gahana
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Davis and
children, of New Dover, called or
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
Davis, Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ridge
and son moved to their farm the
past week. We welcome them to
the neighborhood.
A group of farmers gathered
at the home of Mr.. Adrian Potts
Tuesday evening for a soil con-
servation meeting.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
FARM SAFETY

April showers bring May
flowers" April is also the month
when many farm people are kill
ed in accidents. Records at the
Bureau of Vital Statistics show
that 25 farm people in Ohio lost
their life in accidents during the
month of April in l945. Fourteen
of these deaths occurred on the
farm, 5 in the farm home, and
Is were off the farm. The farm
deaths resulted from runaway
teams, tractors over turning, and
being run over by the tractor.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
COUNCIL NO. l3

Farm Bureau Council 13 met
on April 9 at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Easton Eighteen
members were present. The ladies
answered the roll call by reciting
poem or telling of some un-
forgetable character, and the men
telling the kind of fertilizer they
liked best to. use and its contents.
Mrs. Vera Black gave the
health report and then Homer
Reed had charge of discussion
period. A recreational period was
enjoyed, after which the hostess
served refreshments. The May
meeting will be held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Guy on
May /.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
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day evening. Mrs. Spain is inn
proving nicely from q minor OPP
Grafton, performed Tuesday OF
last week.
Hugh Hildreth visited Sunday
afternoon at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Opphile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Clevenger
have returned home from Florida.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
: WEST LEESBURC
BY MRS. L. E. DeGooD

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Schmelt-
ger and children, Bobby and Jo-
Neill, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. DeGood
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. ANGEL Laroomb,
of near Ostrander, were callers
Sunday afternoon at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. Tommy DeGood
and daughter, Charlotte, called
at the Lloyd Owens home Fri
day evening.
Vern Candy was business Wis
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
SWISS ORIGINATE
ARBOR DAY
GContinued from page IL

Italy and Turkey. In Europe, he
found the forests regarded as the
most valuable crop which the
ground could produce and every
effort was being made to stimu-
late their growth. In 1864, he
called the attention of the Amer
ican people to the ruthless de
struction of their forests, the re-
suItant effects on streams, eli
mate. commerce and wildlife and
advocated systematic measures
for curtailing their waste and con-
sumption. Through suggestion
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17

itor in Marysville Saturday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Norris, of
Marysville. were Sunday dinner
guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Clevenger.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. F. DeGood Wis
tied their daughter, Mrs. Marie
Spain, at Grant hospital, Satur-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-04-17
Thursday. May /

John Bandy, II miles northeast
of Marysville, Is cattle, poultry,
corn, implements, miscellaneous,
household goods. Simpson & Son,
auctioneerS.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Bunch Inquest Witness Lis1
To Be CompIete Monday

The list of witnesses for the second
inquest into the death of John Forest
Bunch will be made public Monday
after John r. Fitzpatrick, attorney
for the Bunch family, submits the
names of two or three persons he
wishes to testify, Deputy Coroner
Christopher ]. Murphy said today.
DR.. Murphy said he received from
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay a list of witnesses for
the inquest next week. He was in
formed, he said, that Mr.. Fitzpatrick
also had a list. The complete list,
he said, will be made public as soon
as he receives the names from Mr..
Fitzpatrick, probably Monday.
Mr.. Fay refused to disclose his list
and referred inquiries to DR.. Murphy.
The United States Attorney said also
that he has received the FBI report
on the case, but that he had no
comment at this time.
Mr.. Bunch, 64-year-old carpenter,
died August in Gallinger Hospital,
six days after he was arrested on a
charge of intoxication. A coroner's
| jury held his death to be accidental
due to skull fracture. The Bunch
family requested further investiga-
tion.
Evening star., 1947-11-01

fAnother OF a series answering
the questions people are asking
about the Community Chest Fed
erdtion.)
Do any Community Chest agen-
cies give "relief" and, if SO, under
what circumstances?
Yes, family service agencies such
as the Family Service Association,
Catholic Charities, Jewish Social
Service Agency and Travellers Aid
do give relief" when necessary.
They refer people who are unem-
ployed, unemployable and wholly
dependent to the Public Assistance
Division of the Board of Public Wei
fare, a public unsupported organi
zation.
People not eligible for public
help, such as those unemployed
temporarily because of illness OF
another emergency, those who have
not received their first pay, those
who have had money lost or stolen
and many others are helped for
necessary short periods.
Disasters of various kinds that
have drained small incomes beyond
their limit, sudden death, desertion
by a wage-earner also raise a neeo
for emergency cash relief.
Despite increased employment
emergencies occur and must b
Evening star., 1947-11-01
You and the Chest Campaign

met to keep homes together, main
tain morale and prevent workers
from becoming too much discour-
aged to carry on their jobs.
Only a portion of those who come
to family service agencies need
relief" however. Many of them
are entirely self-supporting, but
are facing problems threatening
their normal life which demano
prompt and skillful help.
4 4
why are recreationaI agencies i'm
portant?
They provide opportunities, free
where necessary. for children anc
adults to find constructive leisure.
time outlets outside of the home
streets-or commercial amusements
and to develop leadership, overcome
shyness and learn the "give ane
take of group activity.
Recreation is an antidote for Ion.
illness or overwork. Everyone needs
| it but many people can't afford tt
join clubs and similar self-support.
ing organizations.
The city provides many recrea'
ton facilities at low cost-swim'
ming pools, Fairgrounds, tennis
courts and others. Social agencie
supplement those facilities to NEE
needs that otherwise would not b.
met.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Eisenhower TO Open
ID. T.. Area Chest Drive
With Talk al Treasury

I Gen. Eisenhower will open the
District areas Community Chest
drive at 4 PM Friday with an ad-
dress from the south steps of the
Treasury, it was announced today
by Edward H. Foley, jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and chair
man of the Chest campaign.
It is expected that the appearance
of the Army Chief of Staff will draw
crowd of several thousand in addi-
ton to the volunteer workers who
will hear the keynote talk.
Commissioner John Russell Young
will speak for Washington. Daniel
w. Bell, president of the Chest Fed
Grafton, will greet the guests OF
honor who will include cabinet OFF,
GERS and public officials Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder also will
speak.
The meeting will inaugurate the
drives of six community chests
Washington, Alexandria, Arlington,
Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince
Georges-and will be attended by
volunteer workers of each.
The Air Force Band, led by Maj
George S. Howard, will play.
The campaigns first report meet
ing is scheduled for 1915 pm, No
vember IL, in the United States
Chamber of Commerce, 1915 H street
NV. w. John Kenney, chairman
of the Government Unit is en-
deavoring to have its entire quota
81 1897 300, in the first report.
Mr.. Foley is asking all units to
do their best to report so per cent
of their quotas on that date. The
drive ends November Is.
Attention to the Community Chest
campaign will be called tomorrow in
600 churches.
On Thursday at a special cam
paign workers rally at the May
flower Hotel, the volunteers will meet
with representatives of the 125
Chest-supported agencies.
Evening star., 1947-11-01

BY telling 13 diseased sycamore
trees on the Palisades Playground
pathologists of National Capital
Parks are seeking to prevent the
spread in Washington OF ceratosto-
mella, botanical term for the No. ]
scourge of sycamores everywhere.
Ironically, these experts said, in
nocent children scuffing the outer
bark with bacteria-infected shoes OF
sticks are frequently the carriers OF
this disease, which seven years age
devastated sycamores in many pub
lie parks.
For the London plant disease or
the canker stain disease as the
scourge is commonly called in this
country, is spread from sycamore
to sycamore by human carriers
once a tree has become infected
George Harding, chief of horticul-
ture and maintenance, explained
the method as he viewed with dis
may the destruction wrought by
germs and axes.
Touch Spreads Disease.
The disease is said to be related
to the Dutch elm disease, but its
symptoms are different. 1t is con-
fined to sycamores. The bacteria OF
fungi, which produces dark blem-
ish, can be transmitted by the sur
geon's pruning knife, AK or safety
belt or rope.
The trees on the Palisades Play
ground, Mr.. Harding believes, were
infected by children climbing into
the lower branches or romping
about the trunk. A stick from q
diseased tree, he explained. is a
dangerous carrier when whacked
against the side of healthy syca-
more. a+.
Unfortunately, there is no meth
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Capital Transit 10 Weigh
Policy Based on Pay Raise

Capital Transit Co. officers will
meet with company directors Mon
day to discuss the company's policy
in view of the 15-cent wage raise
awarded employees by an arbitration
board.
The officers met yesterday for
three hours, but no statement on
the possibility of request to in
crease fares or the withdrawal OF
the sale of the weekly pass was
forthcoming. Yesterdays meeting
went into questions concerning the
Interpretation of the arbitration
award.
Asked whether company opera
tions would be frightened up to
avoid overtime, E. c. Giddings, vice
president, said, "the company will
do everything it can to exercise
every economy possible"
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Hybrid $20-2 Bill
|Couses Arrest
|Of 7rumpeter

Richard A. johnson, trumpet
player charged with trying to stretch
a $40 bill to double it's value by past
ing one side of it to another side of
a 50 bill, today awaited grand jury
action under $4,000 bond
johnson, Is, colored, who listed his
address as the Dunbar Hotel, told
United States Commissioner Need
ham C. Turnage he would plead
guilty in District Court. He is
charged under a section of the Fed
eral counterfeiting statute.
Arrested last week by Secret Serv-
ice agents, johnson was accused of
trying to pass the hybrid bill in a
cafe. Agents said $40 bill and 81
bill had been soaked in water until
both faces of each could be peeled
apart. The separate halves then
were switched and pasted together.
johnson first told agents he hac
won the bill in a crap game.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Maryland Board Urges
It5-Cent Sales Tax Base
BY the Associoted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Nov. Gov
Lanes administration, drafting its
program for the special session OF
the Legislature next Wednesday
considered a sales tax change rec
commended yesterday by the State
Board of Revenue Estimates.
The board suggested that buyers
pay tax only on articles selling for
IS cents or more. Under the law
which went into effect July /, the
tax has been effective at the To-
cent level.
Most of the administration pro-
gram iss due for study Monday by
the Maryland Legislative Council
composed of top-ranking State legis-
latorS
Evening star., 1947-11-01
HiIIonduIe Man Dies
On Bus of Heart Attack

A man tentatively identified as
George Cornwell, about IS, of Hillan-
dale, Md, died of heart attack
late yesterday on Greyhound bus,
miles west of Leesburg Va.
The body was removed from the
bus at Hamilton and was taken to
Halls funeral home at Purcellville
DR.. w. P. Frazer, Loudoun County
coroner, attributed death to the
heart seizure. Mr.. Cornwell was said
to have boarded the bus In Wash
ington en- rpute to Winchester.
Evening star., 1947-11-01

Iod of treatment and the only
remedy is the AK" explained Horace
w. Wester, chief plant pathologist
That is the treatment applied to IL
of the 81 sycamores planted on the
playground decade ago. only
time can tell how many more are
infected" Mr.. Wester said.
Unnoticed by Laymen.
To the eye, there seemed to be
nothing the matter with those Is
sycamores yesterday. A casual OBJ
server would wonder why the ak
was being applied to healthy shade
trees. 1t would take an expert, in
deed, to notice the discloration OF
the bark.
They would continue to look like
they are now for several years" Mr.
Wester explained" 1t takes that
long for the disease to kill them
But it's necessary to take them
down and burn the logs to keep the
bacteria from being carried to other
trees"
In an effort to save other trees
from infection, Mr.. Harding will
have them protected by boxes. 1t
will be necessary to rearrange the
planting on the playground, prob
ably next spring, for young trees
will have to be provided as replace
ments.
So far, only an occasional iso-
lated "case" has been found. But
the Palisades Playground was said
to be the hot spot in the Dis
trict.
Sycamores were planted heavily
in some of the parks during the
big depression" years. Meridian
Hill Park and Rawlings Park, in
front of the Interior Department
Building, are examples These parks
have not yet been affected.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Body Of Woman Is Hooked
In Anacostia by Fisherman

The body of woman was .snagged
by a fisherman this morning as he
ashed from a sand barge in the Ana
costa river at the foot of One-half
street S. E.
Harbor Police said the woman,
colored and about so, was reported
to have been seen in the water front
area Thursday night.
George B. johnson, 485 F street
s. w., was fishing from barge of
the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corp,
when he pulled the body to the
surface.
The woman was about 5 feet 4
inches tall, weighed about 1875
pounds, police said. She was wear
ing dark blue dress, purple
sweater, a black cloth coat and ten
mis- shoes.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Scientist Shot Accidentally
Is in Critical Condition

William Middleton, SO, Agriculture
Department scientist, who was shot
accidentally at his Arlington home
yesterday when his wife handed him
q pistol, was reported in critical con-
dition today at Arlington Hospital.
The shooting occurred at 1906
North Roosevelt street. Police said
Mr.. Middleton, a senior entomol-
ogist at the Agriculture Department
was preparing to investigate noises
presumably caused by a prowler.
Evening star., 1947-11-01
Voting Declarations Filing
Ends in Maryland Today
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE. Nov. To-day is
the last day newcomers to the State
have in which to- comply with Mary
lands declaration of intention" law
if they want to vote in the State
and presidential elections in the fall
of 1948.
Applications must be filed with
clerks of the circuit courts in the
various counties. ~
All those who have reached vot-
ing age before entering the State
must have declared their intention
of becoming a Maryland citizen a
year before they can vote. This
procedure is not the same as regis
tering to vote. That is done sepa-
rately. with the supervisors of elee-
tions in the various counties. To be
eligible to vote next fall, voters must
register before April