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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05
BUDD SETS HOT PACE
IN SHERIFF ELECTION
Truman and Lausche Gain
Cool Majorities AS County
Goes Democratic

Scoring a smashing Democratic
victory along with voters through
out the nation, Ottawa county's
voters Tuesday cast a near-record
breaking total of 12,140 votes to
give President Harry S. Truman
and Governor Elect Frank Laus-
che good pluralities and to elect
every Democratic candidate on the
ballot.
Of the II special issues voted
on in the county, the voters ap-
proved IL, with the Veterans Me-
mortal park in Salem township
failing to gain the necessary 65
percent majority. Port Clinton's
elementary school building will be
a reality as the voters gave the
bond issue a superb 79 percent ap-
proval.
Budd Leads Ticket
In what some experts" thought
would be a close race, Deputy
Sheriff Merlan Budd overwhelmed
his Republican opponent, Bob
Qualman, and proved without a
doubt that he is one of the most
popular men ever to run for pub
lie office in this county. Budd's
total of 1908 votes led candidates
!, on both tickets.
Most votes were cast in the
race for governor with 12,140 bal
lots being counted. Former Gov
ernor Frank Lausche totaled 6763
to 5377 for the Republican Thom-
as Herbert. President Truman's
winning plurality in this county
was 6157 to 5591.
All Democrats Win
In sweeping avalanche of
Democratic votes which surprised
even the most avid party worker,
every Democratic candidate was
elected in Ottawa county. Thom-
as Burke, Toledo vice-mayor and
| Democratic candidate for con-
gressman from the 9th district,
defeated incumbent Republican
Homer Ramey, 1898 to 5652, in
the only relatively close race.
Burke forged ahead in final re-
turns.
Also defeated was State Repre-
sentative William Fleckner, Oak
Harbor Republican, whose long
tenure in office was ended by
Democrat Robert Reider's big ma
jority 1868 to 4366.
Reelected were Democratic in
cumbents County Recorder Elgin
Winters and County Treasurer D.
L. Dewey" Cullenen, who had
big majorities over their Republi-
can opponents. Winters defeated
Robert Gilleland 7735 to 3672
while Cullenen's margin over Mer-
rill Rudes, Clay Center, was 6943
to 1857.
Velma Sauvey Wins
For the first time in over &c
years, Ottawa County will have
a woman official in the courthouse
next year. Velma McRitchie Sau-
vey, present chief deputy, won a
decisive victory over her Repub-
= lican opponent, E. M. Christensen
= $3.50 to 4474, and is our new Clerk
n Of Courts. The only other WON.
an official was Miss Josephine
Fall, who served as county treas
urer during the early 1920's.
Running without opposition
Democrat Delos Nissen was giver
1852 votes for engineer and Re
z, publican George Poe received
a 5705 votes for coroner. Common
d Pleas Judge William Hunt alst
e had no opposition and was givel
|. big complimentary vote of 1910
e Commissioner Race
G Both Democratic candidates, in
Continued page 2, Col. p
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05
LIBRARY TO CLOSE

Librarian Thelma Montgomery
has announced that the public IL
brary will be closed Thursday, No
vember II, in observance of Ar
mistice Day, but will be open on
Wednesday afternoon and evening,
November 10.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05
TAG RECEIPTS HIGHER

Arrival of check for $50 from
the Standard Products company
and $12 from individuals brought
the 1948 Band Tag Day receipts
total to $586.50, Supt. D. D. Sims
announced this week. Inclement
weather hurt the drive Saturday,
October %.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05
Dewitt Leaves
For Army Duty

Frederick Dewitt, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Dewitt, left Sunday for
Camp Pickett, Virginia, where ne
has started his military career.
Dewitt, a 1948 P. C. H. S. grad
uate, has enlisted in the Army's
Medical corps.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05
Burglars Loot
Williston Inn

Deputy Sheriffs Merlan Budd
and Myron Hetrick were called
to Williston early Monday to in
vestigate the burglary of the Will
liston Implement company build
ing.
Entrance had been gained thru
a window. Missing articles in
cluded auto spot lights, fog lights,
hydraulic jacks, anti-freeze and
others.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05

Hundreds of party workers and
interested persons jammed the
second floor Of the courthouse to
watch the up-to-the-minute re-
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1948-11-05

THE NEWS is prepared to
do your JOB PRINTING on
a basis of Good Workman
ship and Good Service at
Fair Prices. Phone 5271.
The Valley settler., 1948-03-26
NEWS ITEMS

A,nabe1 sche ibl LEFT for the Seward Sana-
torium last Friday. Mrs. Scheibl accompan
led her on the trip.
Mrs. Betty Stephan visited in the Valley
over the week end. She spent few days
in Anchorage on bus mess previously.
MIS-. Gertrude Kenser re cei lived letter
from the Henni ing Bensons this week. Mrs.
Benson wrote that Eenning had had to have
the cast put back on his knee and that it
would not DO removed until April Is. Ben
sons had planned on starting the ir trek
back to Alaska via the Hi ghvay about the
first Of April.
Mrs. Stanl ey Balloun has returned from her
visit in the States.
Hrs. I'd Barrett has had another letter fro
her husband in VII ch he Informed her he
had had another operat ion, minor one.
He S doing very we'll.
There has been quite a bit Of illness in
the Valley the last couple Of ueeks, due
to a flu ep idemic. Several teachers have
been unable to assume their duties in the
c1assrooms.
RENEr lAGAZnIE SUBSCRIPTIONS through PTA.
The Valley settler., 1948-03-26
SIGNS OF SFRI!-G
Bel ieVe it or not !

Green grass may be seen growing in Civic
Center, in front Of the Post office, for
instance. Seed and fert il izer has arrived.
Garden seeds and tools are for sale. Dsve
7rvont and George Small are out with the ir
bull dozers. Bicycles are be ing seen on
the roads again. New spring clothes are
in the stores. Jet it rain!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

Often we dislike man until we
discover that he has many ideas
like our own.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Employment Found
AT Record High

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Non-
agricultural employment reached
the record level of 46,000,000 in
mid October, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported.
A small seasonal increase, Co.
000,. was reported from September
to October, much less than the in
crease a year ago, but non-farm
employment was 100000 above
the year-ago figure, the bureau
said.
The bureau pointed out that
while the total employment picture
continued strong, there are indica-
tions that readjustments are under
way in several consumer goods in
dustries. Downward adjustments
have appeared in such industries
as cotton, woolen and worsted tex
tiles, shoe manufacture and possi-
bly, mems clothing. In all these in
dustries, there is evidence of fall
ing-off of orders and accumulation
of inventories which are being re-
flected in employment declines and
a shortened work-week at time
when some seasonal expansion of
would normally be expect
ed. Employment in the durable
goods industries continued to rise
during the month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

profits for 1913 averaged l8 per-
cent over the year 1947 which in
itself was bonanza year.
One of the remarkable proofs of
industry's vulnerability to Wash
burns arguments was the presen-
tation of Department of Com
merce figures proving that wages
and salaries Of workers have drop
ped 9 percent since 1889 in relation
to value created by industry. In
other words, in 1889, 77.6 percent
of all value created was going into
wages. and 22.4 percent to profits
and interest. In l947, only 68.5
percent was going into wages and
salaries, while 31.5 percent was be-
ing poured into profits and inter
est. The total "value created" in
billions has meanwhile more than
tripled from 1874 billion in 1889 to
65.1 billion in 1947.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

Although the impulse to sneer is
often almost irresistible, | prefer
to be cheerful
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
NLRB Official Dissents
From Mass Picketing BON

| Washington (LPA) - At leas
one NLRB official, Trial Examiner
Charles w. Schneider, has the gut.
to stand up against General Coun
sci Robert Denham's attempt tt
ban all large-scale picketing. In ,
ruling issued last week Schneider
also said that even under Taft.
Hartley a union can't be accused Of
enforcing secondary boycott
simply because it publicizes its
grievances.
Schneider's opinion is directly
contrary to that of trial examiner
Irving Rogosin in the Cory Corp.
case, which held that unquestion-
ably peaceful mass picketing is
illegal. The union involved in both
cases is the United Electrical
Workers.
When UE struck the Bucyrus-
Erie Co. plant in Evansville, Ind,
last June it set up a well-manned
picket line. No violence, threats,
or blocking of the plant gates oc-
Cured. Therefore, Schneider ruled,
the picketing was a perfectly pro-
per exercise of the right of free
speech.
At the time of the strike AFL
building trades workers, on a con-
tractors payroll, were erecting an
addition to the Bucyrus-Erie works.
Responding to the UE picket line
they too walked out. This Denham
called a secondary boycott by UE.
But, as Schneider pointed out,
UE had no disciplinary powers
over the AF'L men, and used no
improper tactics to get them to
quit. 1t merely informed them of
the issue in the strike. Therefore,
UE did not institute a secondary
boycott.
At the time Taft-Hartley was
being considered in Congress even
Sen. Robert A. Taft Or. Ohio) in
sisted that the law was not design
ed to interfere in any way with
free speech, Schneider reminded
Denham. The decision provides the
five-man NLRB with ample legal
grounds for overruling the anti
union Cory Corp. decision, which is
1ow pending final board action.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Propaganda Drive
Exposed By FTC
And Rep. Patnan

Washington (LPA)-Champions
of the antitrust laws continued
their efforts last week to break
t hru the propaganda barrage
against the Federal Trade Com
mission which the special subcom-
mittee headed by Sen. Homer Cape
hart (R., Ind.) has thrown up.
Corwin Edwards, director of the
FTC's Bureau of Industrial Econ
omics, told a committee of the Con-
ference of American Small Bust
ness Organizations that the ETC
has been misrepresented.
The Commission, he pointed out,
has never decreed that rigid fob.
pricing must replace all zonal pric-
ing or basing point systems. 1t has
merely said, as in the cement in
dustry case, that it will not sane
tion "price-fixing conspiracies and
determinations in price which in
jure competition"
AIIdChS Uil lIlc " nave lOI
been based on its actual rulings in
specific cases but on language used
in the rulings to which the Com
mission doesn't intend to give uni
versal application, Edward declar-
ed.
Last week the Capehart commit
tee, with its staff drawn largely
from industries which have felt the
force of ETC decisions, continued
to hear witnesses who, as Edwards
said, lamented rulings never hand
ed down.
Meanwhile, Rep. Wright Patman
3D., Tex.) has repeated his re-
solve to counteract Capehart's at
tack on FTCs powers under the
antitrust laws with an investiga-
ton of his own, when he resumes
chairmanship of the House Small
Business Committee in the new
Congress.
Patman is convinced that the Re-
publican Senator's inquiry is no.
thing but "a propaganda drive
against the antitrust laws"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Lobbying Probe
Assured With
Truman Approval

Washington (LPA)-Key mem
bers of Congress are preparing to
initiate a full-dress investigation
pf lobbying activities in the nations
law making bodies. The move is
the successful climax of cam
paign by the Int'l Association of
Machinists, which in November is
sued call for such an investiga-
ton.
The IAM's proposal was lauded
oy President Truman last week, in
4 letter to Secretary-treas Eric
Peterson of lam, in which he
said: 81 think your organization
has rendered a distinct public SER
vice in taking a stand on this matt
er.
"While it is up to the Congress
TO determine the subjects it will
investigate, | feel sure that a
thorough investigation of lobbying
activities would have very salu-
tary effect, and | would be glad to
see such an investigation under
taken"
Peterson explained that the lam
wants the richly financed lobbies,
that substituted dollars for popular
support, to be brought out in the
light of day by such Congress
ional investigation.
I "We believe that these lobbies
confused the old Congress as to
what the majority of the people
want" the LAM official explained.
''We think that the voters are en-
titled to know who is trying to in
fluenee their elected representa-
lives in Washington. They ought
to know who is paying for these
how much and why"
Earlier, the lam had listed as
The wealthy lobbies that should be
looked into: the Natl Association
of Manufacturers; the ASSN of
American Railroads, the real
estate lobby, the Natl Physicians
Committee, the Natl Association
Of Electric Companies; the Com
nittee for Constitutional Govt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Labor Men Praise
European Workers

Washington LPA) - Two ex-
Iperienced US labor leaders return
ed from Europe last week optim-
listic about the Old Worlds recov-
cry chances, and full of praise for
Europe's workers.
President Harvey Brown of the
Int1 Association of Machinists-un-
affiliated, a member of the Joint
Anglo lo-American Production Coun-
ell, said that British union leaders
are alert to the necessity of in
creasing productive efficiency.
He predicted that if the know
how Of the newer British plants,
plus American production improve
ment, are adopted generally thru
out England, there will be sharp
increase in British output.
Brown, and Jack Tanner, presi-
dent Of the British Amalgamated
Engineering Union are members of
subcommittee of the Joint Coun
ell to report on the adaptability to
Great Britain of American indus
trial specialization techniques.
Back from Paris, where he at
tended a meeting of the executive
committee of the lnt'l Transport
Workers Federation is A. h. Lyons,
of the Railway Labor
Executives Assn. He reported that
thruout the western European un-
ion movement "the Communists
are losing ground and the demo-
cratic forces are coming out on
,op."
Lyon visited the Low Countries
as well as France. He was parti-
,ularly impressed with the pro-
yress towards recovery that has
)een made in war-devastated Hol-
and. Good work has been done in
Belgium too, the railroad labor
;pokesmen said, but, he pointed
,ut, the too early lifting Of econ
mic controls there has unfairly
benefited the wealthier people.
Everywhere Lyon went he found
rade unioniSts hard at work to
lelp put across" the Marshall
,lan recovery program, and advis-
ng their governments of the best
Ways to utilize the American aid. |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
White Reports
Truman Firm On
Civil Rights

Washington (LPA)-A leader in
the fight for a national civil rights
program came out of the White
House last week with a report that
he saw "no sign of any compro-
mise" in President Truman's views
on civil rights.
Walter White, secretary of the
Natl Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, told re-
porters outside Truman's office
that the President had expressed
his determination to go straight
thru with his civil rights program. +"
Included are an anti-lynching law,
and antipoll-tax law, fair en-
ployment practice law, and other
legislation which may be fought
by some members of Truman's own
party in Congress.
However, the filibuster may be
a thing of the past. The device by
which southern Senators have eff
fectively blocked distasteful legis-
lation in previous sessions of Con-
gress will probably be eliminated
by ruling from the new presid-
ing office Of the Senate, Vice pre-
sident Alben w. Barkley. Exactly
how this will be done, in the tang
led maze of parliamentary preced-
ents of the Senate, is still not GER
tain. Liberal Republicans and Dem
ocrats, however, are actively dis
cussing frst-day action to elimin-
ate the filibuster.
Meanwhile, the southerners who
aren't "die-hards' on questions of
racial justice are proposing an in
into the economic
roots Of discrimination, before any
Congressional action is taken. Pro-
civil rights Senators have indicat-
ed they won't wait for such an in
vestigation, which they term un-
necessary, but do welcome the pro-
posal by Sen. John Sparkman 3D.,
Ala.) as an indication that there
won't be a solid bloc of southern
ers on the issues.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Georgia Unions
To Build Coffoqe
At Boys Es+ofe

Albany, Ga. (LPA) - Building
trades union locals in this area are
taking part in a program to con-
struct cottage at Boys Estate
near Brunswick, a Georgia coun-
terpart of Boys Town in Nebraska.
Plumbers and carpenters were in
the first delegation to spend a
weekend at Boys Estate working
on the cottage, and delegations will
continue to make the trip each
weekend until the cottage is COM
pleted.
Civic groups and businesses in
Albany are contributing cash and
materials to be used in construct
ing the cottage, which will house
"a boys, and is complete with kitch-
en-, bath, and matron quarters.
Boys Estate is located on land
donated by the state, and provide
homes for delinquent boys up to
the age of 18.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Victorious After Two Years

San Francisco UPA)-After two
years and three court decisions,
140 Intl Association of Machinists
auto mechanics finally won $780,
600 back pay due them. The fight
has a long background, in which
San Francisco city father refused
to obey a referendum adopted
which called for the same wage
scales for city employees as were
received in private industry. In
down the decision, Judge
M. ID. Sapiro said that the money
must be paid within "a hours or
the Civil Service Commission would
be held in contempt of court. They
paid.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Fat Industrial Profits Cited

Other salient features of Wash
burns attack on industry's profit
spIurge was a display of figures
which revealed that corporation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
Labor Seen Forced To Ask For More Pay
Unless Action Is Taken To Cut Prices

Chicago (ILNS).-A union ex-
ecutive's assertion that a labor
drive for increased wages is in
evitable unless industry or govern
ment acts to bring lower prices
featured a spirited radio forum
beamed over the Mutual Broad
casting System Nov. %.
international President Lester
Washburn of the AFL United
Automobile Workers and Alfred
Haake, well-known industrial econ
omist and consultant staged a re-
peat performance in the forum, on
the Northwestern Reviewing Stand
program. The subject was Can
our economy stand a fourth round
of wage increase" r. E. Buchan-
an was moderator in the discus
sion.
Both Haake and Washburn parti-
cipated in a Labor Day broadcast
on the Reviewing Stand, which is
aired over 200 stations from coast
to coast. Some measure of the in
terest shown was reflected in the
numerous telephone calls and let
ters received after the broadcast.
Price Cut Held Feasible
Armed with an arsenal of econ
omic facts and figures, President
Washburn opened the discussion
by flatly stating, "Our economy
can stand another wage increase
at this time, and unless business
and industry institute an immedi-
ate reduction in prices of from 20
to 25 percent, the federal govern
ment will have to roll back prices,
or labor will be forced to seek cor
responding wage increases" Wash
burn then pointed out that big bus
mess could grant an immediate 20
percent wage increase out Of its
current profits and still maintain a
greater corporation profit return
than in 1889
Countering a question as to the
extension of controls over wages,
should they be applied to prices,
Washburn noted that wages do not
need to be controlled because they
are already controlled by collec-
tive bargaining.
Also on the subject of controls,
Washburn ironically quoted the
now-notorious NAM advertisement
of July 3, 1916, in which it was
stated that if OPA were perman-
emily discontinued, the production
of goods would mount rapidly, and
through free competition, prices
would quickly adjust themselves to
levels that consumers are willing
to pay.
Fat Industrial Profits Cited
Other salient features of Wash
burns attack on industry's profit
spIurge was a display of figures
which revealed that corporation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
WAGNER WON'T RESIGN

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Robert
F. Wagner 3D., N.Y. of Wagner
act and other liberal legislation
fame, will not retire from office
despite his long illness. This an
nouncement was made last by his
son Robert Jr. Although the Demo-
Gratis have a majority of IL in the
Senate, Governor Dewey has the
power to appoint a Republican,,
which he would undoubtedly do if
Wagner were to resign, thereby
endangering the Democratic maj
ority if southern Democrats should
bolt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-09
TEACHERS PAY is
BELOW US AVERAGE

Washington (LPA) - Unionized
teachers-of whom there are still
too few-were chuckling last week
over the discovery by the Natl
Education Association that teach
ers' salaries haven't followed the
upward path taken by salaries for
other workers.
The average teachers pay in
1910 was nearly $3.50 higher than
the average earnings of all en-
ployed persons in the US, but by
'1947 the teachers pay averaged
nearly $3.50 lower than the aver
age for all employed persons.
] have deep sympathy for wo-
men because they need men like