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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
York Girl Wins Way
To Stdte F'inuls In
Prince of Peace Test

Miss Marybelle CornWeu, York
Local High School student, is one
of six Ohio boys and girls re-
naming in the Prince of Peace
Defamation contest, sponsored
by the Ohio Council of Churches,
She will compete, with the 9th
er five, i'm the state finals to be
held Feb. 2 in connection with
the Ohio Pastors Convention, in
Columbus Memorial Hall.
Miss Cornwell and Eddie Whit
more, Greenville, were winners
in the state seni-final contest
held Sunday evening in the Third
Ave. Methodist church, in Col
umbuS.
The other semi-final winners
were Virginia McConnaughy, Gin
cinnati; Arthur Buell., Bartlett,
Washington County; Marvin Cain,
Bradford, and Robert Mayer, To-
ledo
Winner of the state contest will
received a first prize of $500 and
four-year college scholarship. Sec
ond prize is 500 and a two-year
scholarship and third prize is $50
and one-year scholarship. The
other three finalists will receive
S25 each.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

time, and the Greyhound bus sta
tions serve a fine lunch for about
go cents. Every two hours, there
is 10-minute rest" stop.
The itinerary provided by the
Greyhound travel service called
for overnight stops in Tulsa and
Dallas. Instead, I remained on
the bus and came straight through
from st. Louis to San Antonio.
l was not tired when 1 reach San
Antonio, but after sleeping IL
hours, / woke up tired. This short
ly passed off after walking a
round the city.
We passed through one of the
worst ice and sleet storms that
has befallen this country. For a
distance of approximately $50
miles all telephone and power
lines were down. For half-mile,
the wires sagged to the ground,
and then came a total break OF
all wires. All towns and cities in
this territory were in total dark
ness, including Joplin, Mo. An
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

Marysville High School turned
in by far its poorest basketball
game of the season but was still
good enough to exc out a 1926
win over Carey in a Mid-State
League game here, Friday eve
ming. The MarySville Reserves
looked equally bad, but were al
so victorious, 1929.
And that just about tells the
story Of the game. To enlarge up
on it would be a mere recital of
bad passes, sloppy ball handling,
ragged defensive play, poor
shooting and just about every
other kind of error it is possible
to make in a basketball game. AS
assistant coach Bob Lewis SAID
after the game, There are prob
ably lot of teams we couldn't
have beat tonight"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

one occasion from here to Mexico
City.
For long time past, have had
the desire to take a long trip by
Greyhound bus. That sthe way
came. The fare from Columbus,
round trip, was $50, about one
third of the fare by railroad, one
way. Not only that, the Grey
hound bus passes through the CEN
ter of each town and city, where
as on a railroad train the traveller
gets to see the rear ends of resi-
dences, or factories. | have been
fortunate in that l have been able
to make many trips in earlier
years, either by motor or by train,
but l can say that this is the most
satisfactory trip have ever made.
The Greyhound through buses
are a far cry from the ordinary
bus. Air-ventilated and heated
with reclining chair seats and on
good roads as we had all the way
the trip was most comfortable
Buses stop for 80 minutes at meal
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
The Boss on Vacation
Describes Bus Trip from Columbus to Brownsville Texas

occasional candle light could be
seen, and one house was grand
ly lit up with coaloil lamps.
1t seems certain that a week or
more would be needed to restore
power to this territory, but des-
pite the ice on the roads, the
Greyhound bus went through on
schedule.
We saw literally tens of thou
sands of new houses in Texas.
Certainly there has been prosper
ity here. Building cost, | am told,
is about one-half of the cost in
Ohio and there has been a great
influx of people to this great state,
You can expect to see Texas pass
Ohio, Illinois and possibility Cali
fornia in the next Genus. All signs
everywhere point to phenomenal
growth.
From the time / left st. Louis,
and Columbus, too, for that mat
ter, l have met with only one case
of rudenesS and this was from the
driver of the Greyhound bus on
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

the run from Tulsa to Dallas the
night of January 11th. ] am sorry
l did not take the fellows name
as Greyhound prides itself on
Courtesy and helpfulneSs. This
man may be efficient, but he
ought to be driving a freight
truck.
Otherwise l have met with un-
exceptional courtesy from every
one without exception. In
Brownsville, it is remarkable the
friendly spirit of everyone. Many
business men, evidently, speak to
me and the spirit of friendship is
universal.
Meals in restaurants are much
less here than in Ohio. Today /
had for lunch in the Embassy Res
taurant choice of meat loaf or veal
roast, baked beans, cabbage and
carrot slaw, hot corn bread, white
rolls, butter, coffee and desert of
fruit jello, all for so cents, all in
big servings and all good.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
Old Records Sought
For Vets Hospital

Mrs. Marie Randall and Mrs,
Mary Gordon were in attendance
at luncheon and meeting of the
Central Buckeye Council for Vo-
lunteer Services of the American
Red Cross, held Wednesday at the
Senaca Hotel, Columbus. At this
meeting reports of the activities
at Lockbourne Air Force Base
Station Hospital and Chillicothe
Veterans Hospital were given and
requests for the next 3 months
taken.
Union County will donate re-
cords for the record players at
Chillicothe hospital. Anyone hav-
ing records they would like to
donate is asked to bring them to
the Red Cross room and from
where they will be taken to the
hospital for distribution.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
Marysville Defeats Carey, 34-26,
Despite Poorly Played Game Friday

Probably, the miserable show
ing by the Monarchs came as {
let-down following their brilliant
game at Plain City last Tuesday
The locals were just as good
against Plain City then as they
they were poor against Carey
Friday. Another factor which
probably contributed to the let
down was the fact that the Mon
archs had already played and de-
feated Carey once before, by l8
points on Carey's own floor.
Locals Lead Throughout
In Fridays game, the Mon
archs held lead of from two to
seven points all the way, but for
while in the fourth stanza
things looked might shaky as the
Carey team came within two
points of tying the score and
two Marysville regulars, Charles
McCracken and Bill Boyd, left
the game with five fouls on them,
But, then two Carey players,
Strahm and Risner, also fouled
out of the game and the locals
finally won going away.
Marysville built up a lead of
8-5 in the first period. McCracken
got two baskets and John Day
ton and Loren Grimes, one each
for the Monarchs, while Det-
weller got a basket and free
throw, and Strahm, two free
throws, for the Carey effort.
In the second stanza, the Mon
archs stayed in the ball game
largely through the shooting OF
Bud Hoffman who connected foI
four baskets. McCracken got one
basket and free throw to give
the locals IL points that stanza
while Carey got seven, two buck
cts by Risner, one by Berardinelli
and a free throw by Longanecker
Second Half Scoring
The third quarter saw Carey
outpoint the MonarchS, l1-6
Mafysville'S points that quarter
were on a basket and two free
throws by McCracken, and two
free throws by Curly Hill. Foi
Carey, Risner got a basker ano
three free throws. Detweiler and
Continued OH Page 2, Col. %
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
Pvt. Andy Overly
Being Returned
Rites to be Wednesday
For War II Victim

Remains of Pvt Andrew j.
Overly, 10, who was killed in
action in Europe during World
War II, will arrive in Marysville
Wednesday morning for re-burial
here.
Pvt. Overly, a paratrooper with
the 82nd Airborne Division, was
killed in Holland Oct. 10, 1914,
and had been inferred in Molen-
hoeck Cemetery in that country
until his repatriation.
He was born June "a, 1925 in
Mansfield, and was son of Dale
and Helen Overly. He was a
member of the First Methodist
Church and was graduated from
Marysville High School. An ex-
tremely popular young man, An
dy was highly regarded by his
classmates and was active in all
young peoples affairs in both the
school and church.
He was a talented singer, and
was especially active in school
musical organizations and in the
church choir.
Surviving besides his parents
are two brothers, George and Ray
Overly.
Memorial services were held
for Pvt Overly at the time of hic
death. For this reason, only brief
rites will be held at this time.
These services will be held at 2
p. m. Wednesday in the Methodist
Church, conducted by the Rev.
Elisha Kneisley, assisted by the
Rev. K. B. Alexander.
Interment will be made in
Oakdale Cemetery in charge of
William H. Faulkner, funeral
director of Marysville.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
Nicol Reelected
Loan Go. President

DR.. II. J. Nicol was reelected
president of the Citizens Federal
members held here last week. The
during the annual meeting of the
Savings and Loan Association
annual report was also made to
the memebrS.
Other officers elected for the
year were: c. A. Hopes, vice
president and attorney; r. b.
Neer, general manager; Fred
johnson, secretary-treasurer; f.
ID. Lorenz, assistant secretary.
Directors of the association for
l949 as elected at the meeting are:
DR.. Nicol; w. c. Moore; Mr.
Hopes; Mr.. Neer; and A. c. Voll-
rath.
Annual report to the members
showed the assets as of Dec. 81,
to be S2,638,O25.86 This is an in
crease Of $4,000 over the 1947
report. Half a million dollars in
loans were made for home con-
struction and repair during l948.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

Greatest rainfall during any "a
hour period during 1948 was on
Feb. IA when 2.07 inches fell.
Greatest annual rainfall record
ed during the last 80 years was
54.23 inches and the dryest year
on record was 1884, when only "a.
46 inches of rain were recorded.
Lowest temperature recorded
during l948 was on Feb. 8 when
the mercury hit 10 degrees below
zero. The highest was on Aug. q,
when SO degrees was reached.
The year l94S had 10 days with
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
White President
For Coming Year
S Become Members
Of Group in l948

Achievements of the past year
were reviewed as the Old Timers
club of the H. 2. Salter Mfg. Co.
held its third annual banquet,
Saturday evening. Approximately
20 of the 86 members attended
the affair, held in Trinity Luther
an Parish House.
Ed White, foreman of the as
sembling department at Salters,
was elected president of the Club
for the coming year. He will sue
ceed Walter Stephens in this ca
pacity. Other officers for the COM
ing year are:
Lawrence Mouser, of the pol
ishing department, vice president;
Miss Florence McCann, office,
seer ecretary-treasurer; and Carl
Smith, machine room foreman;
Wilbur Snider, buffer, and How
ard Daniels, polisher, trustees.
Five New Members
Five Salter employees became
eligible for membership in the
club this year, Mr.. Stephens an
nounced. They are Jack Fox,
foundry; Eugene Hurd, machine
room; Fred Scheiderer, office;
and Thelma Gamble and Ruth
Thompson, assembling. Require
ment for membership is five con-
secutive years of employment
with the Salter Co,
Five Salter employees have
been with the company more
thon 80 years, Mr.. Stephens an
nounced. They are himself, Tom
Continued on Page 2. col.'o)
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
Three Arrdigned
Before Snodgrdss

Three persons were brought be-
fore Justice William Snodgrass
over the weekend.
Robert w. Craig of Redwood,
was charged with assault and, bat
terry by his wife, Bessie Craig. He
pleaded not guilty and was re-
leased under $25 bond. The hear
ing was set for 1:30 p. m. Wednes-
day.
Marjorie Boyce and c. I. Nicols
were both arrested by State
Highway >Patrolman Graham on
charges of operating motor We
hicle without a license. They
were each fined $40 and costs and
released.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
First Aid Class Starts

A first aid class consisting OF
the American Legion Emergency
Squad and city fireman held It's
second meeting in the City Hall
Wednesday night under the in
structions of Homer G.. Herd, cert
flied Red Cross instructor. Mr..
Herd conducted classes through
out the County during the war
for which he has received citation
from National Headquarters.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
1913 Rainfall 2 Inches Over Normal
Banks Reports; Hottest Day 90 Above

Total rainfall for 1948 was 2.06
inches above the average for the
last 80 years according to the re-
cords of Russell S. Banks, local
observer for the u S. Weather
Bureau. In all, a total of 1915
inches of rain fell during 1948.
Largest amount of this precipi-
tation was recorded in the first
six, months of the year. On June
30 of last year the rainfall was
1863 inches above the 32-year av-
erage for first six months of the
year.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24
York to Dedicate Its
New Gym Friday Eve.
Pomona, Subordinate Grange Heads
Installed in Joint Ceremony Friday

ing reports from Juanita Lowe,
Irwin Durham and S. B. Par
menter, who were delegates to
the State Grang and Youth
camps. Music was furnished by
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Blake and
Mrs. John Elwood. There was also
a lengthy discussion on the "Oleo
Bill', in charge of Robert Mather,
along with other business.
All Grange members and Off
GERS are urged to be present at
the officers conference to be held
in the Grange Hall at Raymond
at 8 p. m. Wednesday. The next
Pomona meeting will be held in
Milford Center, the date to be
announced later.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

Grange members from all over
Union County attended a joint
installation of subordinate and
Pomona Grange officers held in
Pharisburg, recently. A team from
Shelby county put on the degree
work
New masters installed tor the
eight subordinate Oranges are as
follows;
Milford Center, Fay Stillings;
Liberty, Ernest Wilson; Byhalia,
Dallas Heenan; Millcreek, Eugene
Bouic; Dover, Dwight Lowry;
Jackson, Chester Robertson; Clal-
borne, Herbert Simmons; and
Leesburg, Dorrance Rockenbaugh.
Pomona officers installed are;
Kenneth Blake, master; S. B,
Parmenter, overseer; Valeta Will
son, lecturer; Clyde Parrish,
chaplain; Fay Stillings, steward;
Ray Matlack, gate keeper; Dallas
Heenan, assistant steward; Mrs,
Dallas Heenan, lady assistant
steward; Dorothy Gilbert, Pomon-
a; Fleta Anthony, Ceres; Eva Hall,
Flora; Christa Randall, secretary;
Zane Randall, treasurer; and Mrs.
Thurman Skidmore, home econo-
mics chairman.
Byhalia was host to the other
Oranges at a Pomona meeting
held in the Byhalia School build
ing Thursday evening. A lecture
hour program was given includ-
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-01-24

a minimum temperature of zero
or below, and Ia days on which
the thermometer reached 90 de
grees or higher.
The all-time low for the past
30 years was % degrees below
zero, which was recored in Feb.
1918. The all-time high was in
July, 1886, when the mercury hit
100 above. That was also the most
heat wave on record,
with 10 straight days being over
100 degrees.
Evening star., 1949-03-24

major reverses are being accom-
panied by the kind Of petty har-
assment regularly engaged in by
the Republicans of the 8Oth.
The case of Reclamation Com
missioner Michael Straus and one
Of his chief aides. Richard L. Boke.
is a prize example. For two and
q half years these two officials
have been fought by powerful
Confessional C enemies who do not
like the way they do their Job.
Their foes have tried everything.
Failed in Firing Attempts.
They tried-and failed-to get
President Truman to discharge
the two men. They tried-and
failed-to induce Congress to re-
peal or alter the reclamation law
that Straus and Boke were ad-
ministering with strict legality.
Last year they tried through the
medium of the Appropriations
Committee to legislate them out
of office. An attempt was made
to camoufiage this maneuver with
a pious requirement that no SAL
ary payments could be made to
top bureau officials without flve
years engineering experience.
Neither Straus nor Boke Is an
engineer.
Since then Straus and Boke had
Evening star., 1949-03-24

latest report of the Hoover Com
mission. These are the persistent
advocates of a Missouri Valley
Authority. They believe the
Hoover Commission report on re-
organization of the Interior De-
partment has aided their cause
by blasting the present alterna-
tive to a valley authority.
The alternative. known as the
Pick-Sloan Plan, is compromise
arrangement between the Army
Engineers and the Reclamation
Bureau. Advocates of a regional
authority for the Missouri Valley
modelled on IVA have regarded
the Pick-Sloan Plan as the great
est obstruction they have to over
come. The engineers and the
bureau, long mortal enemies in
these matters, now are teamed up
in opposition to the extension OF
the IVA idea into the West. Each
carrying considerable weight. they
have made a formidable team.
No Direct Support.
The MVA advocates got no di-
rect support from the Hoover
Commission. In fact, 1t expressed
opposition to any more valley
authorities, although it did say
they might become necessary If
the commissions principal rec
ommendation were disregarded.
This is the recommendation for a
new Public Works Department to
take over the work of the Army
Engineers and handle water de-
velopment on a watershed basis.
A minority report filed by three
members of the commission,
Secretary of State Acheson, James
H. Rowe, jr., and DR.. James K.
Pollock, likewise refrained from
indorsing the authority plan, al
though proposing a Department
Evening star., 1949-03-24
On the Record
Free Speech Plea Gets Visas for Reds
To Attend Propaganda Farley Here

Iologist. former president Of both
the American Association for the
Advance OF Science and the Amer
lean Association of University
Professors.
The upholders of free. speech
and free scientific inquiry are
kicked out by the prosecutors of
both.
Alexander Fadeyev, general sec
retary OF the Soviet Writer'S
Union, heads the Moscow delega-
ton. He got this job for Cooper
ating in purging the cultural life
of Russia ,of all "cosmopolitans
and antipatriots." and sending
his most distinguished colleagues
to the doghouse. Why didn't we
invite DR.. Goebbels to a cultural
conference?
Purge Leader Invited.
This conference begins with a
purge.
Prof. H. ]. Muller, American
Nobel Prize winner. one Of the
worlds greatest geneticists. for
mer honorary member of the Rus
sian Academy Of Science. who re-
signed when distinguished Rus
sian geneticists were purged, is
barred from the conference; but
Alexander Oparin, who took the
lead in the purge which sent some
Of his colleagues (Prof. Vavilov,
for instance) to death. is invited.
Nor can understand the dis
tinguished American musicians
who welcome Dmitri Shostakovich,
after the repeated mea culpas he
has sworn before Soviet gestapos.
Shostakovich probably would
like TO escape the Soviets. but they
hold his wife and children as
hostages.
Gieseking merely came here to
play, but the State Department
put him on a plane-after giving
him a visa-while Shostakovich is
here on a political (totalitarian)
and anti-American mission.
Toscanini has refused to join
the Shostakovich claque, though
he made the Russians war SYM
phony famous In this country. But
Toscanini knows how to keep his
categories clear.
Now that the department has
issued the visas, it owes something
to American upholders Of free
speech, namely, insistence that all
sides should be heard-not in a
rival conference but in this one.
(Relessed BY the Bell Syndicate, Ine.)
Evening star., 1949-03-24

nothing to 90 Doio'nS An'"pSon'
with culture, science or free
speech. Sponsored by the Ma
tional Council Of the Arts. Sci
ences and Professions and called
by Prof. Harlow Shapley of Har-
ward, the conference is intended
as a platform for anti-American
Soviet propaganda. 1t Is Com
inform invasion Of America and
a tactic in the cold war. And its
convocation insults the very idea
of free speech.
There are, in this country, writ
ers, scientists and members Of the
learned professions from Comm
form countries who barely have
escaped with their lives. precisely
for free speech" viii these be
heard? Will the conference in
vite Ferdinand Peroutka, Prague's
most distinguished journalist? He
served six years in Buchenwald
for Nazi hatred Of free speech. He
escaped by hairs breadth from
forced labor, because Of Commu-
mist hatred of free speech.
OF course he will not be per-
mitted to speak. And what can
he, and others like him, think OF
the State Departments reasoning
Message Distorted.
Will two Nobel Prize writer's
Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O'Neill
have the platform?
Sinclair Lewis sent a message
to the Breslau conference. OF
which this Is merely a follow-up
The message was utterly distorted
A letter from Albert Einstein was
read. which was largely forged.
The distinguished philosophical
professor, DR.. Sidney Hook, asked
to be permitted to present q thesis
on three points. precisely peril
nent to the scientific attitude:
/. There are no national
truths" In science.
2. There are no "class truths
or party truths"
2. The cause Of international
Scientific Cooperation and Peace
has been undermined by doctrines
that uphold the notion that there
are national" or class" or par
ty" truths in science.
But DR.. Hook is refused q hear
ing. though supported in Q strong
letter TO Prof. Shapley from DR..
Anton J. Carlson, famous phyA-
Evening star., 1949-03-24
This Changing World
Nations Left Out of Atlantic Pact
Press Washington for Explanation

The State Department Is help
less. It appears that France and
Britain oppose extending their
guarantee to areas which are more
Immediately threatened than
Western Europe. Ever since 1945
Moscow's rulers have been clamor-
ing for the Kars and Ardahan
Provinces. which are situated in
Eastern Turkey. and have not
given up their claims. although
they have moderated their saber-
rattling in the last two years.
The. Turks have been fighting
Russia of and on for more than
two centuries. They knew the
methods of the Czarist regime,
which attempted to conquer Con-
stantinople in the name of Chris
tianity. They also know the meth
DDS Of the Politburo. which has
attempted to create confusion in
Turkey and to take over the East
ern Anatolian provinces in the
name of MoscoW-style democracy.
Methods Understood.
Because the methods of the So
Wet government probably are bet
ter understood by the Turkish
leaders, they are concerned lest
they become one of the U. s..
S. RS victims If the Politburo
decides to change the cold war
into hot war.
The U. S. s. RS answer to the
Atlantic pact may be given within
the next few weeks or months in
the usual way: An unannounced
absorption Of territories still out
side the Iron Curtain.
Ankara diplomats point out that
Moscow's reply to the Truman
Doctrine of 1947 was to take over
Hungary and that the answer to
the Marshall Plan was the coup
in Czechoslovakia. While now it
is expected that Moscow's first
reaction to the Atlantic pact may
be directed toward such easy tar
gets as Finland or Iran. the Tur-
kish government feels that its Sc
curity may be further threatened
because it is not included In the
Atlantic pact.
A Mediterranean pact similar
to the Atlantic Alliance is con-
sidered too cumbersome by Medi-
terranean diplomats. They advo-
cate the inclusion Of all free Eu-
ropean countries into one single
defensive coalition. in which all
will bring their resources together
for a common defensive purpose.