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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
Boysen Sales
Moves One Block

Boysen Refrigerating Sales and
Service, operated by Alvin Boy
sen, has moved from the Clinton
Theatre building, 22O Madison
street, to the space occupied by the
former 2x4 restaurant in the l. o.
o. F. building, Madison street.
Meggitt's music store of San
dusky, will have display Of spin
et pianos for sale in the Clinton
Theatre building south rooms this
week Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
MORE ACTIVITY is EXPECTED AT CAMP PERRY
Knights Lead In
Pinochle League

Knights of Pythias and the
Knights of Columbus were victor
ious in the opening games of the
newly organized Fraternal Pi-
nochle League, which got under
way Tuesday night.
The Pythians defeated the Ma
sons, 81 to 70, in the Masonic
club rooms with 32 players COM
pleting ten games. The Knights
of Columbus won over the Odd
Fellows, &c to 54, in the X. of c..
hall, "a players finishing the 10
games.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
Santa Claus
To Be At Philips

Santa Claus will make his
first preseason visit to Port
Clinton tomorrow, Saturday,
December 4, as he has promised
to be at Philips Jewelry store,
Madison street, from 8 a. m. to
p. m.
Santa will have special gifts
for all the kiddies who visit
him at Philips tomorrow. He
won't be able to use his rein
deers and sleigh due to the In
dian Summer weather in Port
Clinton, but he has his airplane
all tuned up for the trip from
the North Pole.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
IS FIRST DRAFTEE

George M. Mallory, Lakeside,
who was Ottawa county's first
draftee in the peacetime draft, is
now in Fort Knox, Kentucky,
where he is undergoing an eight
week basic training course. NAL
lory was inducted along with 10
other Toledo area men in the Wal
dorf hotel, Friday.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
YOUTH is MISSING

An Adams st. woman notified po-
lice Thursday morning that her IT.
year-old nephew, a high school
student, had been missing for over
IL hours. The youth failed to re-
turn home after finishing his
paper route.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
FLYING HOME

Sgt. Ralph Cover will board an
airplane in Adak, Aleutian Isl
ands, Monday, to start for Port
Clinton where he will begin a 40
day furlough at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Cow
er. 1t will be his first meeting
with his baby sister.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
VACATION SET

Public school students will have
. shorter Christmas-New YeaI va
cation period this yea. School
will be dismissed at 2:45 p. M,
Wednesday, December %, and
classes will be resumed at S:45,
Monday morning, January 3, Supt.
d. D. Sims reports.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
Stores To Remain
Open Evenings

To aid Santa Claus in his
quest for suitable Christmas
gifts, at least two local stores,
Ben Franklin and Young &
Schade's Book store will remain
open this Friday evening.
r. S. Forster of the Ben
Franklin store has announced
that starting Friday evening,
December 10, nearly all local
business places will remain
open evenings until Christmas,
for the convenience of shop
pers.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03
HOLD CARD PARTY

Members of the Music Mothers
are sponsoring a public card par
ty, beginning at p. m. this Thurs
day, December 2, in the high
school auditorium. Proceeds will
60 to the school music fund.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-12-03

THE NEWS is prepared to
do your JOB PRINTING on
a basis of Good Workman
ship and Good Service at
Fair Prices. Phone 5271.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Alexandra Board
To Pare School Costs

With bids for additions to tive
elementary schools exceeding al-
located funds, the Alexandra School
Board yesterday acted to pare costs
of the proposed construction.
The board instructed Architect
Robert Willgoos to confer with the
low bidders on proposed additions
to the Macarthur and Maury ele-
mentary schools to see If changes
can be made to bring the cost with.
in the limit set by the school build
ing program.
Low bidders were Rodgers b
McGrath, Inc. Washington, for the
Macarthur School, $4,000. and
Lee T. Turner, also of Washington.
the Maury School, $226,877. The
bids specify that the Macarthur
School would be completed within
180 working days and the Maury
School within 240 working days.
Plans call for six classrooms, O
home economics room and a cafe
terra at the Macarthur School, and
nine classrooms and cafeteria at
the Maury School.
Both items are included in a 4.
year building program.
The school department was allo-
Gated $2,837 500 of a $3.50, 900 bond
issue sold recently by the City Coun-
Gil, to take care of all school needs.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Strang|er Of Girl Gets
|10-Year Sentence
Dy the Asseeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 11.-Duncar
Livingstone, IS, who strangled hi
girl friend and then attempted sui
eide, was sentenced to 10 years II
the penitentiary yesterday.
The State accepted the young
war veterans plea OF innocent tc
murder and let him plead guilty
to a manslaughter count instead
He got the maximum sentence or
that charge.
Livingstone, the State said, got
mad when 18-year Shirley
Will slapped his face while they
were parked in his automobile, and
strangled her.
But the State acknowledged II
did not have enough evidence tc
press for a first-degree murder con
viction.
Livingstone drove around for sew
eral hours after Miss Wills death
and near Aberdeen shot himself
through the chest. Severely
wounded, he spent months in
hospital before he was tried.
Referring to the face-slapping in
cident, the prosecution noted there
was no suggestion the girl had beel
mistreated or attacked before sh
was slain.
Harry Adelberg, Livingstones at
torney, cited the defendants wal
history to show he had been kickee
in the face by a horse and suf'
fered a jaw injury that remained
tender.
Wrath over the slaps, the prosecu'
ton told the court, seemed thu
only explanation for the killing
from Livingstone's own statement.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Camp Fire Girls 10 Hold
| Christmas Vesper Service

The annual Christmas vesper
service of the Montgomery County
Camp Fire Girls will be held at 4
pm. tomorrow at st. Johns Episco-
pal Church, Chevy Chase. Md.
The program will include the ira
ditional Blessing of the House" J"
with Barbara Swain of Greenacres
as reader and a verse choir Of Camp
Fire Girls from Leland Junior High
School. The Rev. William F. Creigh-
ton, rector, will tell the Christmas
story.
Camp Fire Girls from Damascus
will light the Christmas candles.
Sue Sinclair of Silver Spring will
relate the custom of carol singing.
Diane Davis, 8, of Bethesda will
play violin accompaniment. Laura
Rowse Of Bethesda will narrate the
story of keeping Christmas. The
Arrangements Committee is COM
posed of Mrs. Reynold A. Lee. Mrs.
Imam Moore, Mrs. Omar yelling,
Mrs. Don r. Cost and Mrs. Theodore
r Sinclair.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
By Horriet Griffiths
Stor Stoff Cosrespondent

CAMP LEE, Va, Dec. 11.-Wom-
ems Army Corps trainees don't have
to do "pushups" any more, for one
thing.
Trivial, perhaps: but less stren-
uous physical training is among
many improvements in the WAC
program now that the corps is part
of the Regular Army. according to
Sergt. Elizabeth Carpenter, %, of
1911 Randolph street NV. who re-
enlisted in September.
Yesterday Ill women comprising
the first class of Regular Army
WAC trainees were graduated from
basic training at the Women's Army
Training Center here. This center,
the first, opened october 4.
Sergt. Carpenter. who signed up
for another three-year hitch after
having served previously with the
corps from April, 1945. to last July,
pointed out also that chances for
promotion are better.
Automatic Promotions.
TIOI1lUtIUllS die dulOllldt1S 4AOW
after you have served the pre-
scribed length of time. if you can
meet the qualifications" she said.
AS re-enlistee, she completed her
processing and refresher training in
about two weeks. New recruits get
an eight-week course, with an ad-
ditional two weeks for processing.
Now she is a platoon sergeant,
training SO women in the proper
care Of clothing, equipment and
barracks. She teaches classes in
physical training, military customs
and courtesies and other subjects
of that type. .. ~..
WAC life is a new experience to
another Washington resident, Miss
Eva L. Anderson, %, of 1918 Kalo-
rama road NV. who will complete
her basic training in few weeks.
Miss Anderson, who formerly
worked as waitress in Washington,
sees "a lot Of advantages in being
in the Army"
THE discipline is very good" she
said. 1--WE gained pounds"
The peacetime objective Of the
WAC training program is to get the
recruits as well trained as possible.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Mellon Fountain
nsApproved
byFineArts
Original Proposal
For Memorial Site
Also Supported

A classical design for the proposed
Andrew w. Mellon memorial foun-
tain, to be built In front of the
National Gallery Of Art, was ap-
proved yesterday by the Commission
Of Fine Arts.
After examining other proposed
sites, the commission approved the
original suggestion that the foun-
tain be erected at the juncture of
Pennsylvania and Constitution ave-
nues on a small plot Of land east
Of Sixth street NV. Complete de-,
tails of the design were not di-
vulged, but commission members
said its feature Is q marble basin.
"The fountain would more nearly
resemble the one in the south
grounds of the White House and
would lack such statues as decorate
the elaborate Oscar Strauss foun-
tain south of the District Building, +"
1t was explained. The firm Of
Eggers and Higgins, New York
architects, submitted the Mellon de-
sign.
The art gallery was Mr.. Melons
gift to the Nation.
Meanwhile, the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
went exploring" according to Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant III, chairman, and
discussed planning problems with
Maryland officials.
The only decision of the joint
groups was an agreement to seek
Legislation that would permit ex-
penditure of Capper-Cramton Act
funds to repay the Federal COM
mission in acquiring park lands in
nearby small stream valleys. There
are half a dozen of these small
valleys ideal for development pur-
poses in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
The planning commission ap-
proved motion to re-introduce
legislation affecting the parks in
the Metropolitan Area, which failed
Of passage in the last Congress. 1t
is particularly interested in trying
to get the Suitland Parkway trans
ferred to the National Park Service.
This expensive freeway was built by
the War Department few years ago
to connect Boiling and Andrews
Fields. It is being offered for sale
as surplus" property.
Another bill which passed the
Senate but failed in the House will
ho y,reSsed At the coming session
It would authorize a deal with the
Smoot Sand & Gravel Co., by which
that concern would be given GER
tain dredging routes on park prop
erty in return for gift Of Ito acres
of land along the route Of the Mount
Vernon Memorial boulevard. The
property is south of Alexandria.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Infant Death Rate Drops
To New Low in MARYLAND
BY The Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 1O.-The birth
rate in Maryland seems to have
passed its peak, but infant NOR
tality dipped to record low dur
ing the third quarter of 1948, a
State Health Department report
shows.
The department said the birth
rate peak came in 1916 with 28.7
per 1000 poulation. The rate for
the July-September period of this
year is about 25.9.
The infant mortality rate was
1858 per 1000 live births last quar-
ter compared with 26.5 for the cor
responding period in 1947 and 30.5
in 1916.
The department said the tubercu-
losis death rate for the third quar-
ter of 1948-548 per 1000 population
was "a record low for this time
Of the year." The death rate for
the corresponding l947 quarter was
l64.7,
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Hearing Called Jan. n
lon Plan 10 Reroute
Southeast Bus Lines

A public hearing to consider Cap
ital Transit Co. proposals for re-
routing three bus lines and discon-
tinuing two others, all in Southeast
Washington, will be held by the
Public Utilities Commission at 10
am. January "a.
The three lines the transit COM
pany proposes to extend are: Route
WA, Portland street; route ca,
Shipley terrace, and Route w.,
Wheeler road-Trenton place.
The lines that would be discontin-
ued under the proposal are route
CO, Thirty-sixth street and Ala
bama avenue, and V-8, Wheeler road.
These lines would be discontinued
because the extension of the other
lines would cover the routes.
The proposals we're made by the
transit company, following request
by the Garfield-Douglass Heights
Citizens Association for service In
the vicinity of Alabama avenue and
Fifteenth street Sc. The service
requested was for the benefit OF the
residents of the Savannah Heights
and the Camp Simms housing de-
velopments.
The transit company proposals
are as follows:
Route W-4-Extend operation Of
this line from the intersection OF
Eleventh place and Alabama avenue.
east along Alabama avenue to
Thirty sixth street Sc, and thence,
via the loop of the present CO bus
terminal. south on Thirty.Sixth
street, west on Bangor street and
north on Thirty-fourth street.
Route ca, Shipley terrace-Ex-
tend operation of present W. line
from its present terminus near the
intersection of Twenty-f1fth street
and Naylor road north along Naylor
road. Twenty-flfth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue to Barney Circle. The
name would be changed to ca from
WA.
Route ca, Thirty-sixth street and
Alabama avenue-Discontinued.
Route W-2-Extend the route in
such a way that the bus, when
completing its trip along Wheeler
road to Barnaby terrace and then
having returned to the stand on
Raleigh place, would make a trip
from that terminal via Nichols ave-
nue., Portland street, Seventh street
Alabama avenue to Eleventh place
and return over the regular route to
the terminal on Raleigh place. This
line would be named W-2, and the
V-s, Wheeler road line, would be
discontinued.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Tuck Orders Study
Of Mental Hospitals
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. ll.-Gov
Tuck yesterday ordered his reor-
ganization staff to commence i'm
mediately" study of the entire de-
partment of mental hygiene and
hospitals with view toward
achieving greater operational efd-
cheney.
In a letter to DR.. Joseph E. Bar
rett, mental hygiene commissioner
the Governor said he believed a
thorough study should be made be-
fore he approves any emergency ap-
propriations for that agency.
The Governors order for the study
was prompted by a report to the
State Hospital Board that patient
had died of electric shock treat
ment at Southwestern State Hospi-
tai, Marion. on November 26.
The board was advised an atten-
dant who would have been watch
ing the patient had left to pursue
an escaped patient. An attendants
helper was left in charge Of the pa
tient receiving the shock treatment
DR.. Barrett told the board in his
opinion the death had been caused
by inadequate staining"
In his letter to DR.. Barrett, the
Governor reminded the commission
er that as long ago as June II, l947,
he had directed him ito take i'm
mediate steps to employ every
physician, nurse, attendant and
other person needed 9 ="
The Governor wrote DR.. Barrett
there had been mo material in
crease in patient population" in the
mental hospitals for 10 years, but
the number of employees has risen
from 1918 in 1910 to 1882.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Hypothetical Street
Blocking New Store

A street that exists only on a map
appears to be the sole remaining
barrier to the construction in Ar
lington of a branch department
store by Woodward g. Lothrop.
The problem of the hypothetical
street was brought out in Arlington
Circuit Court yesterday. The street
listed on county plats as Lincoln
street-bisects the tract which the
department store seeks as site.
Thomas w. Phillips, attorney for
Vaughn g. Usilton, Inc, which owns
the property. said he had petitioned
the court to eliminate clouds on the
title so the sale can be made. The
only cloud he said. is the dedicated
street running through the property.
More than 100 affected property
owners have agreed to abandon
ment OF the street, Mr.. Phillips said
Attorney William e. Day and several
others, however, object. Mr.. Day
has been fighting in the courts for
about two years to keep the store
from being erected in his neighbor-
hood between South Second and
South Fifth streets. He maintains
it would disrupt the neghborhood's &
residential character. He lost his
fight to have the property rezonec
for the store.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Youth Better After Shooting
|Bv Winchester CIassmate
" the Assoeiotsd Press

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. ia
Handley High School pupil was re-
ported in a satisfactory condition
at Memorial Hospital today after
being shot accidentally by a class
mate.
Chief of Police J. Thomas Boyd
said Dewey Carpenter, jr., II, was
wounded Thursday when .32-caI-
Der revolver discharged in a school,
room. Chief Boyd said classmate.
Jack Bowman, 16, was charged with
carrying a concealed weapon and
firing a weapon in q public school.
Chief Boyd's ONCE said Bowman
told police he was showing the re-
volver to young Carpenter and that
it discharged while he was handling
lit. The bullet pierced the youths
left arm above the elbow. Earlier
police had said the revolver was In
a desk when it went of.
Justice John w. Rice OF Domestic
and Relations Court said Bowman
had been released on his own recog-
nizance and that a hearing would
be held, probably next week.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
BY the Assoeioied Press

SAVAGE, Md, Dec. 11.-As though
a fairy waved a wand, this Howard
County village became a Christmas
wonderland today.
Thousands of youngsters arriving
in special trains and autos will find
a tinseled toy town where there
was once rundown hamlet.
Before the day is over the name
Savage will be changed to Santa
Helm. Harry Helm is the man who
waved the wand and Helm means
home" in German. Hence Santa
home"
Mr.. Helm has been planning this
Santa home since he bought the
Hamlet of Savage a year ago. Pri-
marily he bought a 200-year -old cot
ton mill going out of business to
make his own Christmas tree deco
rations. With it went 900 acres and
ITS company -owned houses and the
village utilities.
The old brick houses have beer
repainted and all have outdoor
Christmas decorations. A com.
munity house holds long shelves oi
toys. The streets are festooned with
$4,000 varicolored lights and on in
tersections are silver trees framing
cutouts of nursery rhyme characters
A huge lighted star tops the fac
tory and at the lane leading into
Savage off the Baltimore boulevard
is a miniature castle.
| Naturally, Santa Claus and hi
eight live reindeer pulling a slec
are there, too. There's also circus
tent with life-sized animals op.
Grated by motors.
Two special Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad trains hired by Mr.. Helm
will bring children from Baltimore
and Washington, equidistant from
here, to Santa Helm. Many others
are expected to come in cars ane
buses.
A tom Thumb" reproduction oi
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Veterans Refund $15O,OOO
On 81 Training Overpuyments

rolled, failed to notify the VA at
the end Of their courses.
Other overpayments were made
deliberately to cushion financial ef-
feots on veterans after Congress put
a ceiling on the amount Of sub
sistence allowances.
Some such overpayments were de-
Quoted from subsequent subsistence
checks, Mr.. Limburg declared.
He added, however, that there
were hundreds of cases in which
the income ceilings eliminated vet
erans from further subsistence pay
ments.
Overpayments still outstanding
are being reduced slowly, Mr.. Linn
burg said, and there has been "in-
creasing cooperation with us on the
matter Of notification when training
Is eliminated"
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Church to Use
Live Animals in
Nativity Scene

A Christmas tableau with live
animals as part Of the scenery will
be presented by the Arlington For
est Methodist Church at Z pm
December 1925 on the church
grounds at Lee boulevard and
North Henderson road, Arlington.
A stable has been erected on the
grounds. In the stable and on the
courtyard surrounding it will be a
donkey, sheep, pigeons and chickens
The tableau, entitled "The Living
Nativity" is being staged by men,
bers of the congregation. About
ga persons will take part, with
|groups of eight rotating during the
three-hour show on each of the
four nights.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Maryland States Fighters
Decide 10 Keep Party Alive
Nv the Assaeiafad Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 11.-Another
party whose bid for the White House
was smothered by the Democratic
election victory has decided to keep
itself alive in Maryland.
States Rights Democrats arrived
at this decision yesterday and at
the same time resplved to educate
Free State citizens on the meaning
of the party.
The States Righters, restricted by
election laws to write-in votes
polled 1927 ballots in Maryland.
Their first step will be-according
to Party State Chairman E. Steuart
Vaughn-a drive for election Law
changes to allow late-forming third
parties a spot on the Maryland
ballot.
Henry A. Wallace's Progressive
Party some time ago decided to
maintain its State organization and
extend its Maryland strength as far
as possible.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
First WAC Regulars Complete
TRAINING Course at Camp Lee

"The primary reason for setting
up the Women's Army Corps in the
Regular Army" explained Col. Mary
A. Hallaren, WAC director, was tc
organize a women's corps that could
expand speedily In case of emer-
gency."
Stress is being laid on the train
ing of noncommissioned officers. The
basic trainees also may go on to a
specialist school or one of the Army
service schools.
Later on, an overseas replacement
depot will prepare women for serv-
ice outside the country. Future OFF,
GERS Of the Regular Army WAC train
here for six months.
In the event of an emergency, 1t.
Gen. Willard S. Paul, director of
the personnel and assignment di-
vision of the General Staff Corps
in Washington, told yesterdays
graduates, ''womenpower of the Ma
ton will have to participate.
TT is only right, proper and just
to them that they have chance
to experiment, test and get a cadre
started on which they can expand
he said.
Recruits Are Younger.
1t. Col. Elizabeth c. Smith, COM
manding officer Of the WAC train
ing center, who executed 222 snappy
salutes in a row handing the basic
graduates their certificates yester-
day, reported proudly that the
group of recruits is younger than
the wartime groups and that their
scores on mental tests have been
exceptionally high.
Many have indicated, she went
on, that they would like to take
technical training before applying
for officer candidate school, In order
to have a background Of experience
The WACs also are much inter.
ested in overseas duty, she said.
Where men are very dismal al
overseas orders, WACs line up ane
have a celebration when some one
gets overseas duty" Col. Smith de.
clared.
The WACs will be sent abroad
however, only If their particular
skills are needed there, and not
merely on their requests to 60, she
added.
Evening star., 1948-12-11
Child Goes 10 Grandmother
Until Custody Is Settled

A 2-year-old boy whose estranged
parents both seek his custody, was
placed temporarily in the custody
of his maternal grandmother by
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court Judge Charles c. Marbury
yesterday.
The grandmother, Mrs. Hettie
Smith Of Miami, was ordered tt
post 81 900 bond to guarantee return
of the child to court when q divorce
pending between the parents Il
settled. Permanent custody of the
child will be determined at thai
time.
The child, Sven Rostad, wa.
brought from Miami last week by
his father, Thor Rostad, SO, of the
1900 block of Emerson street
Hyattsville. Mrs. Rostad, who hae
been staying with her mother II
Miami Immediately took steps tt
have the child returned to her.
Before their estrangement Mr.
and Mrs. Rostad lived at Cheverly.