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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
SUE KILMER TO
HEAD RED CROSS
Will Succeed Mrs. Jessie Han
sen AS Executive Secre-
tary On Sept. l

Miss Susan Kilmer, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Kill
mer, Oak Harbor, has been selec-
ted to replace Mrs. Jessie Han
sen, also of Oak Harbor, as exec
utive secretary of the Ottawa
County American Red Cross Chap
ter.
Although her duties do not begin
until September /, Kiss Kilmer
is now assisting Mrs. Hansen to
become acquainted with office
procedures in the City Hall.
Mrs. Hansen, who has held the
position during the past year, is
rcsigning and will move to Tennes-
see. Miss Kilmer is q graduate
OF. Bowling Green State Univer-
sity and taught school last year.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
BABY CONTEST
TO Be FEATURED
Health and Child Leaders To
Be Judges For Contest On
Sunday, Sept. 4

A kiddies' Matinee during which
all rides are half-priced on Sat-
urday afternoon, Sept. 8, and a
Babies Beauty and Health Con-
test at 3 p. M, Sunday, Septem-
Der 4, are among features PLAN
ned for the annual American
Legion Carnival which opens on
Wednesday evening and continues
through Labor Day at Legion
Field, East Perry Street.
Sponsored by Port Clinton
American Legion Post 1l3, the
carnival will have numerous
rides, concessions, refreshment
stands, bingo and other games.
There will be the Spitfre, Ferris
Wheel, Merry Co Round, Chair
O-Plane and kiddies train rides.
AS usual, the Kiddies' Matinee
will be held Saturday afternoon,
Sept. 3, when the Northwestern
Amusement Company rides will
be sold at half-price to all young
SterS.
Bring Your Babies
Proud mothers are preparing
their children for entry in the
Babies Beauty and Health Con-
test, which will be held at 8 p. M,
Sunday, Sept 4 at the carnival
grounds. Any child, aged one
to three years, is eligible for this
contest,
Ten dollar saving bonds will
be awarded to four youngsters,
the prettiast girl and boy and the
healthiest boy and girl, between
the ages of one and three. Local
Mothers clubs are assisting in
this contest.
There will be gift packages for
all babies who are entered. Jud-
,ges will include Miss Mabel Sc
lin, superintendent at Magruder
Hospital; DR.. Harriet B. Howes,
Mrs. A. w. Chapman of the Child
Conservation League; Mrs. Jack
Shelter Of the Young Mothers
Forum and Mrs. Bennett Woolley
of the Child Guidance League.
Chairmen of committees for the
carnival include Mrs. Celia Car
ter, Fred Meckfessel, Jr., Adair
Wilber, Wayne Petersen, Merlin
Kens, George Bly,, Fred Meek
fessel, ST., Lloyd Marx, Carl
Alamo, Ray Sperber, Austin
Clark, Paul Cochran, Gene Hearn
and Charles Stevenson.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Thomas Knight
Passes Law Exams

Thomas j. "Tink" Knight, JEFF
ferson Street, this week was mott
fed that he had successfully pass
ed bar examinations for Ohio and
the District of Columbia.
Knight, who was graduated in
June from Catholic University
law school in Washington, ID. c.,
was among the 37l persons out of
Sic who took the Ohio exam June
$3.50 to pass.
The P. C. H. S. graduate will
also be eligible to practice law in
the national capital. He has not
decided where he will begin prac-
tice. Knight, who has been work
ing in Washington, d. c., is ex-
pected at his home this weekend.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
SISTERS Home
Goes FOR RIDE
Will Be Used AS Apartments
To House Workers At
Liam Farm

Confronted with a housing
problem in caring for hired help
on his fruit farm in Bay Town
ship, Al Liam found a solution
by purchasing a ready built house
in Port Clinton and having it
moved more than two miles into
the country.
The building acquired was the
former home of the Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception Catholic
church on Madison street, and was
offered for sale after the new
home for the sisters was ready for
occupancy on an adjoining lot. The
building which was one of Port
Clinton's well known pioneer
homes was at one time owned by
the late w. w. Montgomery.
In moving the building Neils
Jensen of Bay township, the con-
tractor, had to cut the building
in two parts SO as to move it
along the Port Clinton streets
and the Fremont road to it's new
location.
When the parts were rejoined
on their new foundation, the out
side stucco finish was said to have
been damaged but very little. The
two-story building will be convert
ed into apartments by Mr.. Liam
to provide living quarters for his
helpers, and is to be completed in
time to care for the extra help
which will be needed during the
apple harvest, of which the Liam
farms produce bumper crop.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Bus Drivers
Body Recovered

After three days of searching
by volunteers, officials and coast
guardsmen from Cedar Point and
Marblehead, the body of Ned
Mills, 32-year-old Akron bus
driver was recovered near Whites
Landing in Sandusky Bay late
Thursday.
Mills body was sighted by per-
sons scanning the bay with binoc-
ulars and was pulled ashore by
Perry Poulas, boat concession
aire. Coroner H. w. Pratt of
Erie County returned a verdict
of accidental death due to drown
ing.
Identification of the badly-de-
composed body was made by E. F.
Willgues, Akron, brother-in-law
of the drowned man. Mills was
drowned last Monday when he
was thrown against a railing of
a fishing boat during heavy seas.
The rail broke and he fell into the
water.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
State Patrol Post
Planned Near Here

Local residents are pleased this
week with the announcement BY
1t. s. B. Radcliffe, Findlay, that
a new state highway patrol post
will be established September Is
in the bridgetender's cottage, at
Bay Bridge.
A corporal and FIVE patrolmen
will be stationed there and will
have Erie County and the western
section of Ottawa County under
their jurisdiction.
1t. Radcliffe said highway de-
partment employees are now
making a survey of the building
to complete remodeling. Estab-
hshment of state highway pa
troll post here has been needed
for many months, due to the
greatly increased traffic in this
area.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
LaNier Completes
Army Training

Pvt. Carl LaNier, 19, returned
to the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Lanier, Jefferson
Street, early Tuesday following
his discharge from the army at
Fort Lewis, Washington.
LaNier had completed a year
of service after his enlistment.
He will be in the Reserve Corps
for FIVE years, and reported to
Reserve Headquarters in Colum-
bus Wednesday for training as
sigpments.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
More Burglaries
Reported Here

Two more burglaries and sever
al burglary attempts were report
ed to the police department dur
ing the week.
Lawrence Flynn, 709 "D" Street,
Erie Gardens, reported that some
one had stolen about $75 from his
home while the family was away
Sunday.
Kenneth Black notified police
that a portable radio and fishing
reel, valued at over $50, were miss
ing from his boat at the yacht
club. He reported a screen door
was broken and the burglary COM
mitted sometime Friday evening.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Cont Starts Work
On New Building

Among the many new construc-
ton jobs underway in this area is
the Lake Craft Welding shop in
eastern Erie Township, wnere
Sam Cont is constructing a
building to house his marine con-
struction plant.
The new building will be 45
feet by 70 feet and of concrete
block construction. Cont former
ly had his shop in Route 2, near
the powerhouse, but he sold that
property two months ago to
Blacks Machine shop.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Osburn To Join
Donn-Lee Staff

Sidney w. Osburn, who has
been associated with the Hotel
President in Kansas City for the
past two years, arrived here on
Wednesday with his wife and six
month-old son, to become associ-
ated with his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs, Dom Eek
hoff, in their Donn-Lee Beauty
Shoppe.
Osburn, who served four years
with the Navy during the War,
will enter a hair dressers' school
in Toledo. After graduation, he
will join the Donn-Lee staff. The
Osburns will make their home in
this city.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Would-Be Suicide
Attempts Foiled

Deputy Sheriff William Cullen
was called to Rainbow Inn early
Sunday morning when a Carroll
Township man was reported to
have attempted suicide by drown
ing himself in Lake Erie.
After the local resident had
disrobed and jumped into the
lake, an unidentified Negro res
cued him. Cullen took the would
be suicide to Magruder Hospital
for treatment. After he was re-
leased, the Carroll Twp man at
tempted to jump into the lake
again. He was finally quieted
and his suicidal tendencies We're
forgotten.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Dean Stricken At
Lakeside Banquet

Fred w. Klag, 55, dean of boys
at Toledo Waite High School, suf-
fered a stroke Tuesday when he
was addressing members of the
Lakeside Women's Club at their
annual banquet in Lakeside.
Klag, who has made numerous
speaking engagements here during
the past few years, is reported in
good condition in Magruder Me-
mortal Hospital.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
BASKETS BURNED

Members of the Port Clinton
Fire Department were called to
the Danbury Fruit House We'd
nesday evening when fire of un-
known origin destroyed some
empty baskets in the second floor.
Damage was slight.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
Firenen Purchase
New Resuscitator

Members of the Port Clinton
Volunteer Fire Department have
purchased a McKesson resuscita-
tor, which has arrived at the fire
station and is available for any
emergencies in the area.
Two rescue squads will be form
ed, Firemen Secretary Jack Rid
die reports. Wayne Petersen Of
the Gerner and Wolf staff will be
a member of one rescue squad.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
NAMED EXECUTIVE

LACARNE-Lt. Col. Thomas w.
MeGrath, recently assigned to the
staff Of officers at Erie Ordnance
Depot, was appointed executive
officer Monday. Col. McGrath
succeeds 1t. Col. George A. Pace.
who held the executive position
as an additional duty temporari-
ly, pending the arrival of Col.
McGrath.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
SCHOOLS TO OPEN

County Supt. A. o. Dehn has
announced that all schools in the
county system will open on Tues
day, September 6. Port Clinton
Schools ISupt. ID. D. Sims had pre-
viously announced local schools
will also open on that date.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26
HURT IN FALL

Charles Collins, well-known La
carne resident, suffered head, neck
and chest injuries Thursday fore
noon when he fell from a ladder
while painting house in that
village. Collins was brought to
the Magruder Hospital for x-rays
to determine extent of injuries.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-08-26

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., 1949-03-13

are beyond acceptance by q gulle.
less girl in her teens.
Mrs. Gather guides us expertly
into her dramatic and significant
novel about Southern life in the
1850s. In the first chapter we
meet Syke Berry, the untried
lawyer eager to serve the defend
ant and no less eager to establish
a reputation; the McLeans riding
into town for the opening day of
the trial, some veniremen, the
new judge and the defendant is
glimpsed through bars.
Information is fed to us tanta-
lizing bit by bit. never enough to
reveal the whole story until the
last line, but always enough to
keep us hanging on every word.
Mrs. Gather is so cagey you don't
even know for a long time just
who was murdered. I can't decide
which fascinates me most: The
faultless plotting, the murder
mystery itself, the racial setting
or the gradually developing quan-
dairy of the white woman caught
fast in a man-dominated slave
society.
The result is extraordinary
reliability. With so many excel
lencies, it's surprising not that
the Book f-the-M picked it,
but that several more clubs didn't.
by the Associated PressD
Evening star., 1949-03-13

people out of work, shabby, hun
cry. The only persons protesting
effectively we're the Young Com
munist League and its satellite Or
ganizations. So he joined. But he
was a dreamer and an idealist, who
loved books. He also was fight
er, toughened by school athletics
and gang battles. He couldn't
take the discipline and ruthless
ness he found in the party and
he dropped out. But he still be-
lieved in classics society, and he
fought fascism in Spain, losing his
best friend along with his side OF
the war Afterward he got into
the big war and was sent to the
Pacific. When he came back,
married, with no job, he could
tell boyhood Communist friend,
who still spoke the party line
across a Government desk. that
he, Max, was disenchanted. Max
had learned the hard way to ap-
preciate "a mans freedom to do
what he wants to do. not what his
leader forces him to do"
Mr.. Dortort has written a SEN
sitive novel Of a youths struggle
to understand the injustice that
surrounded him and to appraise
the theological warfare that ragged
around distress and despair. The
book runs to long conversations.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
George CreeI's
Timely Support
Of Chang Koi- shek
RUSSIA'S RACE FOR ASIA
BY George Creel. (Bobbs-Mer-
riH; s2.75J
Reviewed by
CRESTON B. MULLINS.

With the issue of continued
American aid to China still hotly
debated. in spite of the recent
Communist conquest, this argu-
ment for Chang Kai-shek and the
Nationalist government appears at
an appropriate moment.
It Is as an intense admirer of
the generalissimo that George
Creel, who has had a notable
career In American journalism,
presents this sometimes super
heated demand for a positive
American policy toward China.
Mr.. Creel makes no pretense Of
being a neutral observer of the
Asiatic-and particularly the
Chinese-theater of East West
conflict. He is convinced. In the
words Of his preface, that "the
future of all Asia hangs on the
outcome of the Communist drive
for China's conquest and utter
subjugation."
His argument centers on two
principal themes: Cd That the
Chinese Communist Party is now
and always has been under the
direct control of Moscow. and
90 that the present condition of
China results from the mistakes
and misguided policies Of the
Roosevelt and Truman admins
trations.
The support of both these argu-
ments is accomplished by COM
pressed narration Of events in
China from the rise Of the Boil
sheviks in Russia in World War I
to the present day.
The villain of the piece is, Of
course, Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell,
with President Roosevelt. Presi-
dent Truman and Gen. Marshall
also falling under the Creel lash.
Generous praise is found for Pat
rick j. Hurley.
Mr.. Creel does an excellent job
within the framework which he
sets for himself, which is to per-
suade Americans that defeat OF
communism in China-and in all
of Asia-depends on our support
of Chang Kai-shek. whose retire
ment from the Chinese political
scene appears now to have been
more temporary and tactical than
permanent and real.
Evening star., 1949-03-13

paradoxical structures to the con-
templative may sometimes prove
too lofty. But those In the world
who wish lenten reading which
will provide the basis for contem-
plation will find ample inspiration
here. While they cannot hope to
follow the difficult steps through
darkness and dryness" to the in
expressible communion with God
which is the goal of the mystic.
they will find much advice that is
relevant to daily living and more
over the same combination Of
exultation and humor, of fervor
and common sense which stamped
the authors autobiography.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
.ANightmorishNo
OF Postwar PIunder
THE FREEBOOTERS
BY Robert Wernick. (Charle
Scribner's Sons; S3.)
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

Task Force Sisyphus was a
weird oddment of the Army ere
ated for the ostensible purpose of
searching out and destroying
Nazi bitter-enders missed in the
forward sweep of the line troops.
1t comprised a strange assort-
msnt of battle-fatigued cases.
military misfits and scheming.
self seeking officers. 1t was ap-
propriately commanded by an un-
.principled smoothie who spent
much time politicking among
higher ups to prevent the oft
threatened liquidation Of his little
empire.
This book is mainly recital Of
the mad odyssey of this predatory
detachment as it plundered its
way through Europe. The princi-
pal protagonists are three enlisted
men, linked together by some in
def1nable bond, who careen wildly
into one misadventure after an
other. There is.the frenetic Dib-
by, battle-craZed veteran of the
Italian front; John Black, a gi-
gantic Negro who had determined
to become an intellectual, and the
anonymous narrator who appears
to be the only one with any de-
gree Of emotional balance.
Few Are Normal.
Much of the nightmarishness of
this novel seems to have been
deliberately contrived by the au-
thor by rushing his caricature-
like characters from one improb-
able incident to another. Hardly
any one is ever whole or normal.
People are frog-faced, monkey
like, or otherwise less than COM
pletely human. They are too big
or too little, or they talk too much
or too little. and what they say is
strange to the ears. After awhile
the reader begins to feel q bit like
Alice in Wonderland.
Nor is the situation helped any
by some tortured, often misty
metaphor, and frequent bursts Of
murky philosophizing. Despite
the shortcomings Of this novel,
one feels this young writer has
ability and should try again.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
Crime and
Mystery
BY Miriom Gutenberg
The Case Of the Redoubled- Cross,
by Rufus King; Doubleday &
Co.; $2.25.)


The Case Of the Redoubled- Cross,
by Rufus King; doubleday &
Co.; $2.25.)
Crime Club.
A body sucking quagmire, q
menagerie Of wild animals, q touch
of voodoo>and some tinkering with
the lady-or -the-tiger tale all fig
ure in this wildly imaginative item
about a girl mysteriously sum-
moned to a lonely spot on the
Florida keys to learn something
about her missing father. Plot
ters and counter-plotters include
an evil behemoth of a woman, her
two fatally fascinating sons, and
a subrosa dealer in international
exchange. There's probably a Sc
cret agent or two lurking in the
swamps, too. Never was a dam
sci more distressed, nor a readers
credulity more strained.
Dark Echo, by Hugh Lawrence
Nelson; CRinehart & Co., Inc;
$2.50)
Murray Hill.
Blond, hard boiled Natalie
Hestwood. whose past is full of
question marks, is found dead by
a mountain stream. Every one in
the fishing camp seems to have
an alibi, from the quartet of
nurses Natalie brought with her
to the pious lady who runs the
camp. Capt. johnson is con-
fronted with a necktie wearing
deer, a wealthy hermit, honey
incoming detective and his alco-
holic mother-in-law, a vote-seek-
ing sheriff and lot of back-talk
before he dredges the answer out
of Natalie's dubious past.
And Then Came Fear, by Marten
Cumberland. doubleday g. Co.,
Inc; $2.)
Crime Club.
A colony Of French artists, try
ing to get away from it all in an
old house they called the Ark,
found themselves playing host to
an unlimited guest-murder. The
first victim was their leader, Ar
mand Mace. the poet. Then a
Venus-type named Coralie went up
in flames and Noel Colmar, the
composer, was sandbagged. Com
missaire Saturnin Dax found mo-
tives a-plenty ranging from the
husband betrayed to the genius
And Rafael Soudy,
devotee of the late Mace, was sure
the guilty party was the man who
tried to take all the credit for a
play on which Mace had collabo-
rated. It's up to the willy French
sleuth to decide whether love,
ambition or simply a mad
mans desire to wipe out the art
world is strong enough to inspire
wholesale homicide. The fragment
of a tune helps him find the
answer.
Evening star., 1949-03-13

Reviewed by v
Young, marriageable Martha,
an orphan and q poor relation Of
marriageable Cousin Dessie's
family, catches the fancy Of
Widower Kirk Mclean, who had
been regarded as Dessie's beau,
and because he loves the innocent
girl and because, too, he learns
that his formal attentions have
got her into trouble with her rich
relatives, he elopes with her.
But the trouble from which he
freed her is nothing to the new
trouble he gets her into when he
settles her in his Mississippi home.
With slaves in the kitchen and the
cotton fields, with old Aunt Dosie
accused by Overseer Duffy of being
a conjure woman, with light
skinned Lethe on hand and light
skinned Aimee to replace her, and
gossips speeding ugly tales, she
suddenly finds herself a key figure
In a gruesome murder.
Suspicious Of tangled white and
black associations pile up into a
terrific crisis, and just at the
moment when she most needs
support and advice she is left
tragically alone. Her husband is
the last person to whom she can
turn, and Miss Hattie, his first
wife's sister. subscribes to a code,
or, as we say, faces facts which
Evening star., 1949-03-13

Hollow Men" so brilliantly criti-
cized modern society here intones
hollowly his belief in the import
ance of religion, the family, a
carefully graded society and re-
stricted education. Enormously
solemen and crushingly pedantic,
he has a maddening way of almost
making point and just as the
reader leans forward to grasp
Evening star., 1949-03-13

account of the odyssey of a
worldly soul which was led to God.
1t is just that Mr.. Merton. who is
now a Trappist monk, made no
concessions, offered no catchpenny
spiritual comfort. 1t was a beauti-
full, but demanding book and most
best-selling volumes require the
eyes and not the mind.
Seeds of Contemplation" which
is not likely to achieve the fame
of the previous book, since it is
avowedly a guide to the aspiring
mystic who, 'nourished by empti-
ness, endowed by poverty and
liberated from all sorrow by simple
obedience drinks fortitude and joy
from the will of God in all things" p"
For the lay reader, Mr.. Merton'S S
Evening star., 1949-03-13

be released in April. The material
in "Maxims and Reflections" !"
which is analyzed in a masterful
introduction by Colin Coote, is
presented according to subject
matter under the headings: On
Himself His Dislikes, His Likes,
Russia, War, Britain, and so
forth. A clear view of ChurchillS
political and personal philosophy
and actions during the last SO
years, this acid test of RETROSPECT
ton serves to confirm the ever
increasing awareness that this is
indeed the great man of our times.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
In the Gold Camps
OfCojiforniu
THE 49erS

THE 49erS
BY Evelyn Wells and Harry c.
Peterson. Doubleday: 49,
This year is the centennial OF
the year that brought the big rush
to California, though gold actually
was discovered by Jim Marshall
at Suffers mill in January. 1848.
The Tooth anniversary is bring
ing out many books. This collab-
grafton has yielded one Of the
most interesting. Miss Wells and
Mr.. Peterson have told the story
largely from printed accounts and
from extant versions Of spoken
recollections of those who called
themselves forty-niners. The re-
suit is an absorbing and. no doubt,
accurate picture of the gold camps.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1949-03-13
The Male Animal
Way Down South
THE WELCOME

IHE WELCON1E
BY Hubert Creekmore. (Apple-
ton Century, So
These people are right out Of
the "Kinsey Report" Mr.. Creek
more gives us what might be
called the normal male. accord
ing to Kinsey. in a story laid in
small Southern town. 1t tells
of Isabel Lang's love for Don
Mason, a reluctant bridegroom,
because of his possessive affec-
ton for Jim Furlow in addition
to the ties of his neurotic mother,
and of Jim's unhappy marriage to
selfish, empty headed girl. The
male animal is represented by
Gus Traywick, who Is sincerely
fond of them all and endeavors to
straighten out their lives. The
characters are nebulous and
therefore what happens to them
doesn't seem to matter. II. G.