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The Nome nugget., 1948-05-17
30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
 US. AIRMAIL SERVICE

alrShlp mall route. NO acton was taken.
 During September 1911 an ex- perimental air mail service pouch was dropped by Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock from a plane pi- loted by Captain Beck of the US. Army.
 In 1912 a recommendation was made 70 Congress that $5O,OOO be aapropria ed for an experimental sa.vice.
 n 1916 funds were made ov- ai,aole, but there were no b:d- dars.
 On May IS, 1913 ,ae frs. air. r-al route WAS esaJl5l.d be- tween New Yor's and Wa hing ,,a DC. via Philadelphia. The ri.l 92~vaI to be successful and on Sept 9, 1929 .ha ifs. gaas- continental mail rip was made, t'von. y-two hours ahead of tae train schedules.
 n 1885 the first .rans-Pac.ftc air mail service was in9u2urated be.Ween San Francisco via Ha- wal to the Philippines. Four years later a transatlantic service was established from New York to Narseilles France.
 Dufing 1946, the present five cent rate was established in the United States and the territories. Mexico and Canada were also given the same rate. Today the air mail rate to the countries of Europe is IS cents a half-ounce, twenty-five cents to Afrca and Asia and ten cents a half-ounce 10 Central and South America, except Cuba which is 8 cents per half-Ounce.
 Today it is possible to send air mail packages to 23 foreign countries at the same rate as letters. It is only a matter of few years when the entire globe will be encircled by air mail car riers, shrinking the world to with in a few hours from any given point.
 To us here at Nome, the air mail service means a great deal. Many of us can remember not so many years ago when mail was brought in by dogteam and mail was very seldom less than 2 month old compared with 18 hours from Seattle and four times a week, even regardless of wea- ther. Today, even to the remotest village of the second division the plane delivers and takes out the nal and the dogteam mail Sleds md dogs have become an age in the history of the territory.
 The first mail brought into Nome was by Noel Wien during 1926 and in 1892 Bill Graham and George Laiblin completed the first Star route contract from Unala- kleet to Nome The following ya2r the Pan American Airways bid and obtained the contract to car ry mail from Fairbanks to Nome It was a weekly run which was later increased to three times a week.
 Today Nome is served by four mails a week from Seattle; name ly, Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- day, and two mails on Friday.
 Although parcel post is restrict n
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21
ERIE TWP.

The Eighth Grade will present
a play, Johnny Keeps His Prom
ise". This play has already been
given at Oak Harbor Grange, and
was enjoyed by all there. Come
and enjoy it too. The last meeting
Of the year. Come. Sis, May 10
Wednesday,, Lacarne school.
Mrs. Robert Murray was called
to Billings, Montana, Friday on ac-
count of the death of her father.
Miss Elrean Flick, the daugh-
ter of Mr., and Mrs. John Flick,
was married in Kentucky May IA
to Danna Jeffers from West Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ervon Flick and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. John Flick
visited friends in Monroe, Mich,
Sunday.
Helen and Harry Clausen and
Charles Durham visited in Cleve-
land Sunday.
There is to be pot luck din
ner at the school next weekend
FRIDAY. Parents and children will
participate in the annual picnic.
Mrs. Conrad Hess from Flag
staff, Arizona, is the guest of her
sister and brother-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Kleinhans of Lacarne.
Mrs. Hess was the former Aman-
da Grill of Lacarne.
Mrs. Burton Hambly and Mrs,
Emma Hathaway spent Friday
afternoon in Sandusky.
Mr., and Mrs. Kenneth Sharp
who lived at Lacarne have moved
to 81 South Loop, Erie Gardens.
The w. S. C. S. of the M f,
church, Lacarne, gave shower
last week for Mrs. John Obee at
her home in Genoa.
The Erie Township Mothers
club met at the home of Mrs. Har.
old Lczotte Thursday afternoon.
A miscellaneous bridal shower
was given for Rosemary Groge
| Netherton at the home of hel
mother, Mrs. Frank Moore, Mon.
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Homar
visited relatives in Oak Harbol
over the weekend.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21

Mrs. Lester DuBrie. Roll call
will be a garden verse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Frye of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, are announcing
the birth of a son last Saturday.
The young man will be known as
Paul, and has one sister, Julie.
Mrs. Anna Hova and Mrs. Ber-
tha Lambert, who were hospitalized
last week, have returned to their
homes.
Mrs. M. Luedeke attended the
dinner and social evening of the
Child Conservation League in the
Warner Hotel, Oak 'Harbor, last
Thursday evening.
Mrs. f. F. LATER Joined the
group of 80 st. Johns Missionary
Society members who attended the
district meeting in st. Marks
Lutheran church Toledo, Tuesday.
Mrs. V. A. Frye was an over
night guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar,
thur Frye in Akron last Friday.
Mrs. Roscoe Whistler, of Mans
field, spent Sunday with Mr.. anC
Mrs. Homer Stewart.
Mrs. Roy Drickhammer was
Toledo visitor Monday, accompany
ing Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. LATER anc
Mrs. Bernard Armbruster, of Por
Clinton.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21
CATAWBA

p Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hess obser-
we'd their wedding anniversary Sun
day with "open house.. Dinner
guests at noon included Mrs. Leon
Lindsey and William Allen of To-
ledo; Mr.. and Mrs. L. Schulve of
Bucyrus and Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Burkett of Port Clinton.
Burial services for Mrs. Pauline
Knudson, mother of Arthur Knud-
son, of Port Clinton, were held
Sunday afternoon in the local
bcemetery. Rev. j. Braun of St.
Johns Lutheran church officiated
following short services in the
Gerner & Wolf funeral home. Mrs.
knudson was enroute here from
Billings, Montana, to visit her son
and family when her death inter-
cepted. Mrs. Knudson had spent
many months on Catawba and
had many friends in the commun-
ity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Rriglet
and two children of Cleveland took
possession of the home recently
purchased from Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Worse, Saturday. Mr.. Briglet is
production manager at the Stan
dard Products Co. The home and
farm was formerly the Will Rof.
kar homestead on the East Road
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Harrison and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sulfin of Oberlin
e were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
> Mrs. A. l. Sharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Sherer OF
Bucyrus, spent the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Sheerer.
The Cleveland Bird club spent
Saturday here on a nature hike.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Newtor
and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Georg,
Blaine and Mrs. Earl Newton wer,
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
George Clezie in Genoa Sunday
the occasion being the birthday O
. Mrs. Earl Newton.
hl. dliu WI >. IlOlileE SJ6Waf
had as Sunday guests, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Ed. Collins and Harry Stone
of Tiffin, also Mrs. Vern Hoffman
and mother, Mrs. Roscoe Whistler
of Mansfield. Mrs. Whistler re
mained for the week.
Miss Dorothy Pfister of Cleve
land, visited Miss Amanda Bon,
from Thursday until Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Marshall ioine,
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Jr. of pol
Clinton on trip to Toledo Sunda,
when they visited Walbridg
Park.
Mrs. Carl Sorgen, Sr., will pre-
sent a piano recital in her hom
Saturday at 1:30 p m. Mother
of small children are especiall
welcome, in order to see what ca
be done with the very young chill
to start his musical education.
The Garden Club will meet O
/ Tuesday evening, May 25, wit
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21
OUR NEIGhBORS +
DANBURY

Miss Doorthy Hemminger was
the guest of honor at prenuptial
shower Wednesday evening. The
hostesses were Margaret Ann
Brengartner and Pat Buckley in
the home of the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. n. P. Brentgartner,
at Channel Grove.
The home was beautifully decor
ated with spring flowers. An over
turned sprinkling can on the man
tie showered streamers to the
shower of gifts below.
A delicious lunch was served at
table centered with spring flow
ers and pastel candles where plac-
es We're marked by appropriate
shower place cards.
Miss Hemminger's marriage to
Dale Francis will be an event of
May 22nd at the st. Paul's Luth-
eran church, with Rev. E e. Eek
hoff officiating.
Privileged to attend this pre-
nuptial shower were Mrs. Francis
and Doris Francis, Mrs. Oscar
Hemminger, Rose Mary Hemming-
er, Shirley Hemminger, Ann Kihl-
ken, Bernadette Ontko Mrs. Nor,
man Brengartner, Mrs. Dan Bick,
ley, Ruth Monak, Caroline Earls
Lena Francis, Fran Conf and the
hostesses.
! Mrs. Dale Culbertsen has re-
turned to her home in Van
Buren,, Ind, after spending Moth
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21
CATAWBA

Catawba Island Parent Teacher
club carried motion to sponsor
an old-fashioned barn dance
at Terrace Beach on June 18.
Everyone is privileged to attend.
The following are on the COM
mittee, Frank Woodman, Charles
Steens, R. C. Noblitt, Roy Ling
er, Eugene Wahlers, Fred Pluck
horn and H. Franklin Ballard.
Music will be furnished by "Tiny"
Pluckhorn and his Melody Mast
ers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Lorenzen,
of Detroit, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack McGill, Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin, spent the weekend as guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Eric Staaf, Plat
eau Beach.
Plans are in the fnaking to i'm
prove the public bathing beach on
the east road, between Emerich's
Point and Plateau Beach. The
property belongs to both township
and state, and plans for improv-
ing this beach consist of laying a
20 foot wide concrete platform
for the bathers.
A new club is to be formed by
mothers of the community in the
interest Of Sunday school at Union
Chapel. The first meeting will be
held in the Union Chapel at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon, May 21.
Mothers with children are invited
to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Harrison
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Sutfin and
son, of Oberlin, called on Mr.. and
Mrs. M. F. Luedeke and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. l. Sharp, Sunday after
ndon.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21

er's Day with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. .Wahlers, and other rela-
tives, including her new nephew.
Mrs. Gordon Wahlers and son
have returned from Good Sa-
maritan hospital, Sandusky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Bredehoft
attended the meeting of the OF
tawa Co. Agricultural Planning
committee which was held in the
Extension office at Oak Harbor.
Wednesday evening. Its purpose
was to interview candidate to
succeed Vernon Patterson as
County Agent. Mr.. Patterson has
been promoted to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Frank
Beach, an expert Horticulturist at
the Wooster Experimen. cation.
Fruit growers regret losing Mr..
Patterson but feel fortunate in
having him heading the horticul-
aure program. Mr.. Croy introduc-
ed Fred Grimm of Wyandot county
whose appointment by the state ex-
tension department is acceptable
to the committee.
Miss Irma Dayton visited Cleve-
land friends last week.
The Daughters of st. Paul were
entertained by Miss Mary Behr-
man Thursday afternoon. Re-
sponsored roll call was "a Tribute
to Mothers. Mrs. Elmer Meter
had charge of the program which
included a reading, Ma Joins the
Club" and drawing contest which
was won by Mrs. Edward Behr-
man. AS a service to the .commu-
nifty, the club will sponsor a dem
onstration of the preparation of
vegetables and fruits for freezer
or locker storage, at the St. Pauls
church parlors on Wednesday af-
ternoon, May Goth, at 2 o'clock
Miss Betty Lou Spaulding, County
Home Demonstration Agent, will
be in charge, and the meeting is
open to all women of the commune
ty. All club members are request
{ ed to bring or send two dozer
: cookies for the lunch which viii
=. conclude the meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jarvis of Toledo
spent the weekend with Mr.. ant
: Mrs. Harold Ahrens.
The following members repre-
sented st. Paul's L. A. S
at the Women's Federation
conference in Toledo, Tuesday
Mrs. Jay Schmidt, Mrs. Louis
e Riedmaier, Mrs. Edwin Bredehoft
I Mrs. Will Sass, Mrs. Harvey Fill
linger, Mrs. Edwin Wohlers, Mrs
e Ferd Going, Mrs. Elmer Borman
Y Mrs. Robert Bandelean and Mrs
e Edward Behrman.
Charles Sass of Ohio Northern
U. at Ada spent the weekend wit
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VII
Sass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheato
i enjoyed the opera in Cleveland o
Thursday evening.
o Miss Bea Haas is spending tn
week with her sister and family
4 in Huron,
It Mrs. John Schultz entered Ma
gruder Hospital Monday evenin
and underwent surgery Tuesday.
A Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bloc
6 were called to Oak Harbor Sur
= day by the serious illness of he
l. father. Mrs. Glenn Turner an
r Mrs. Clarence Bandelean also al
y daughters and have been at hi
It bedside.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sass a.
: tended Farm Bureau meeting {
I Oak Harbor Monday evening.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Kihlken, M
l and Mrs. Rex Jordan, Mr.. an
! Mrs. George Meek, Mr.. and Mr.
| Melvin Gulau, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralp
/ Bredbeck joined Mr.. and Mr.
/ George Wiechel in Toledo Saturda
4 afternoon and together the part
\ drove to Detroit, Mich, to sper
| the weekend with Mr.. and Mr.
l Albee Gulau as a belated obser,
/ ance Of his birthday anniversar,
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21

MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 80. A
complete selection of Towering
and novelty plants. Bouquets, cor
sages, wedding flowers and fu-
neral designs. WONER'S, Your
Port Clinton Florist For Nearly
Half a. Century, 525 Monroe St
Phone 4571. 14-1t
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21

MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 80. A
complete selection of Towering
and novelty plants. Bouquets, cor
sages, wedding flowers and fu-
neral designs. WONER'S, Your
Port Clinton Florist For Nearly
Half "a Century, 525 Monroe ST..
Phone 4571. 14-1t
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-05-21

Rummage sale at City Hall,
Thurs. and Fri, May 27-28. Spon-
sored by Music Mothers. Alt
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Symphony Playing Twice
For Students This Week

Two students concerts will be
given by the National Symphony
Orchestra this week, one In Alex.
andria and the other In Constitu-
ton Hall.
The Alexandria concert will be at
2:15 pm. Friday at George Wash
ington High School. Tickets, in
cluding limited number for adults,
will be available starting tomorrow
at the Chequire House, 2o2 King
street, and Michelbach's, S14 King
street, Alexandria.
At the annual Constitution Hall
students program at II am. Satur-
day the featured number will be
Serge Prokofieff's Peter and the
Wolf" Narrator will be Holly
Wright, of Station WRC, who mar
rated this composition at the Water
Gate last summer.
Tickets for the Constitution Hall
concert are available at the Ma
tional Symphony box office in Kits.
1880 G street NV. Associate Con-
ductor Howard Mitchell will lead
both concerts.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Easter Purchases Increasing
Here as Spring Approaches

With spring due next week end,
Washington's anticipation is max
ing itself felt in increasing raids on
the Easter flnery counters and spec
ulation on the cherry blossom front.
. Some warmer weather was in
prospect, too. the Weather Bureau
reported. Today will be sunny for
the most part, the forecaster pre-
dicted, with high temperature in
the middle SOS.
The thermometer was scheduled
to drop to about IS degrees with
some cloudiness, according 10 the
forecast.
Two Degrees Below Normal.
It is little early to predict an
end to cold snaps like that of last
week, the forecaster said March
so far has run about two degrees
below the normal temperature for
the month, he reported.
Spring is to arrive at 11:57 am.
next Saturday in the Northern
Hemisphere, when the sun crosses
the Equator.
AS for the annual question of
when the cherry blossoms will bloom
about the Tidal Basin, Harry T.
Thompson, acting superintendent of
National Capital Parks, has ear
marked April 10, II and IL as the
most likely week end for the dis
play to be at its best.
Park police, however. are on the
lookout for the first sign of blossom
ing and, if the breaks in the
weather are favorable, the blossoms
might appear at the end of this
week or next week.
Swarm Of Tourists Expected. f.
An indication Of the swarm OF
tourists waiting to descend on
Washington is evident in approxi-
mately 100 letters a day coming into
the National Capital Parks Office.
The inquiries come from New Eng
land, the deep South and from as
far as California.
Candidates for the Easter Parade
are going in heavily for navy blue
this year, department store observers
note. The popularity of wide, swirl
ing skirts and taffeta petticoats,
fitted waists and frivolous sailor
hats promise a definite Gibson
Girl" note in the procession.
The feminine Easter bonnet, with
many flowers and ribbons, also is
bidding high for the favor of femi-
nine spring shoppers
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Home Accidents
Kill TO-; Heaters
Overcome ;

Three persons overcome by fumes
from faulty gas heaters were among
"a District residents hospitalized
last week for home accidents, the
Red Gross Accident Prevention Ser
vice reported.
Ten persons died from home ac-
cidents, four from falls, four from
burns and two. both infants, from
suffocation.
The large number OF injuries
raised to 976 the persons hurt in
homes this year, 1876 more than were
injured over a comparable period
last year.
In one of the accidents. a man
lost an eye in a backyard explosion.
One adult suffered burns when
gas stove exploded. A fishbone
lodged in the throat Of an 1s-
month-old baby and two other
youngsters swallowed camphorated
oil and a quarter.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Montgomery Builder
Says Mud Is County, S

1t is up to the Montgomery
County Commissioners to repair
Dennis avenue in Silver Spring,
which nearby residents complained
yesterday was impossible, according
to a spokesman for builders of new
homes along the street.
Two Silver Spring housewives,
Mrs. Victor Jacquot and Mrs. Mil
ton Tolson, declared they have
found themselves marooned in their
homes because of a two-foot-deep
sea of mud which they said resulted
from construction of new homes in
their neighborhood.
"The Commissioners are trying to
pass the buck-it's their road and
we have no intention of doing any
thing with it," declared Hulst Glenn,
manager of construction for the
Chapman and Killian Development
Co., Inc, which is one of two firms
engaged in building the new houses.
Mr.. Glenn said his firm had not
yet heard from Irving G. McNayr,
county supervisor, who has been
instructed to ask the builders to
clean off the road.
I'VE can't clean a road that isn't
there" Mr.. Glenn stated. He
said when his firm began construc-
ton the road was about IL feet wide
with a very light base.
Then it was cut for water, sewer
and gas MAINS" he said after the
winter freeze and subsequent thaw
the road almost completely dissolved
in the mud.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Residential Solicitors Income Tax Payers
Rush 10 Meet Quota in Reminded Dead|ine Is
Red Cross Fund Drive Midniqht Tomorrow

Tomorrow midnight is the dead
line for paying the Federal income
tax and any one needing help in
figuring out his returns is advised
to appear early. The Revenue
Bureau Office here will be open from
$50 am. to $50 pm.
The line probably will be long,
according to Jackson w. Maslin
assistant chief field deputy. Fri
days line measured nearly two
city blocks. with no one turned
away. The estimate of persons
helped that day was 10000
More than $4,000 taxpayers have
sought advice at the bureau since
January 2, Mr.. Maslin said.
The field deputy said there are
very few variations in tax problems
with most questioners being salts
fled within 10 minu>7. In some
cases, however, more time is needed.
Mr.. Maslin said that in his IL
years at the bureau the most un-
usual situation concerned an elderly
woman who few days ago wrote
out a check for $4,000 to veteran
and his wife whom she heard dis
cussing the housing problem.
The couple came in to fill out
their tax return. The woman in
terrupted the conversations to say
she heard the veteran talking about
renting a house
Why don't you buy one?" she
asked.
The veteran replied he didn't have
the money. The woman wrote a
check for $4,000.
Evening star., 1948-03-14

we would have a friend who would
help us financially no matter what
the outcome. His words of comfort
and kindness makes me swell with
joy to think that I found that in
this world there are courteous people
who will help an unfortunate per-
SON."
Allen Funt and his Candid MI
crophone" will be. In Washington
during the week to test the courte-
BUSINESS of the Washington public.
The Microphone eavesdrops on
street situations and conversations
and records them. The best of
his gleanings will be played when
Mr.. Funt and his radio show appear
at the Courtesy rally at pm. on
March % in Constitution Hall. The
rally is sponsored by the Greater
National Capital Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade.
Evening star., 1948-03-14
Bethesda Banker Nominated
For Courtesy Contest Award
Tides Housewife Over
When Husband Needs
All Their Gosh for Trip

A banker has been nominated for
the courtesy award.
Outstanding among the letters
about courteous acts on the part
of sales persons, bus drivers, police
men, street beggars, children and
neighbors of the writer's was Mrs.
Erwin j. Snyder's testimonial on
the courteouSness of Walter S. Bog
ley of the Ban kof Bethesda.
Mrs. Snyder, who is the wife of a
War Department employe, and who
lives at 55111 Lambeth road, Be-
thesda, writes:
Saturday night, February %, at
8 o'clock, We received a long dis
tance call from Chicago stating
that my husbands mother had a
stroke that afternoon and was not
expected to live. through the night,
necessitating my husband going to
Chicago Immediately.
Being two days before pay day
our flnanceS were rather scarce.
However MIR. Snyder thought ne
could CASH check at the depot.
We went down to the Baltimore &
Ohio station at Silver Spring at
1870 o'clock only to find that his
train would leave at 1854 and the
clerk refused to accept his check
for the round trip ticket. From
both our resources we scraped to-
gether just enough to get him A
one-way ticket leaving him So for
pocket money with which to travel
to Chicago and me with two chill
dren to return home to Bethesda
with Is cents in my pocket. 1 ma
turally drove back with fear in my
heart. I felt blue and lonesome
However, on Monday called the
War Department and they informed
me they would send Mr.. Snyder
salary check to me. This being a
Government check, I could not in
dorse it.
"On Tuesday morning I went to
the Bank of Bethesda and the clerk
informed me he could not accept
the check for deposit without Mr.
Snyder's Endorsement. I then ap-
preached Mr.. Bogley.
Il told him my tale of woe, only
to be informed that he could not
accept the check either. Realizing
my lack of funds, two children, ETC.,
I was stunned when he called the
bookkeeper and instructed him to
advance 500 to my account and if
that was not enough to tide us over
until Mr.. Snyder returned to come
back to see him. He did not ask
me for my signature. He helped me
out of feeling of despair.
ut was wonderful for me with
the two children to learn that, at
least until their daddy came home