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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
MRS. LAURA KIRK

Funeral services for Mrs. Laura
Virginia Kirk, who died Tuesday
at the Frank McCullough's home
in Erie Township, will be held
this Friday at 300 p. m. from the
Neidecker funeral home, the Rev.
Lawrence Miller officiating. Bur-
ial will be in Lakeview cemetery.
Laura Virginia Kirk was born
in Portage township Dec. 5, 1858,
a daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Johnson) Payne and was 80
years, nine months and 22 days
of age at the time of her death.
She is survived by a sister-in-
law, Mrs. Delpha Payne, niece,
Mrs. Frank Kastor; nephews, Ruel
Payne, here, r. M. Dickson, of
Columbus, and M. E. Dickson, of
Dallas, Texas. Her husband, Win
field Kirk, preceded her in death.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
News To Print
More Ballots

Edward Minderman, clerk Of
the Ottawa County Board of Elec-
tions, has announced that the OF
tawa County News has been
awarded the contract to print
1850 "Questions and Issues"
ballots for the coming election.
Only two bids were received.
The News entered a bid of $19l.5 .55
and the Port Clinton Herald bid
S204,50. The Ottawa County
News is also printing the gener-
nj ballots for the election.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
LAKESIDE

Mrs. Osborne Monnett was a
Toledo visitor on Tuesday.
A new garage is under con-
struction at the Harold Dodge
home on Erie Beach Road.
Mr.. and Mrs. William White
left last Thursday for their home
in New Smyrna, Fla, after hav-
ing spent the summer here. Mr..
White was one of the gate tend
ers.
Mrs. Selma Conner has returned
from a visit in Toledo, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wiechel accompany
ing her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Trnavsky
and her mother, Mrs. Leona Biers,
were Sandusky visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. McElhaney
returned to their home in Marion
Tuesday, after having sold their
Sycamore avenue cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Evans and
children, of Parkman, Ohio, call
ed upon Mrs. Leona Biers Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Gdovicak
returned home Monday, after hav-
ing visited with relatives in Ak
ron. Mrs. Beecher Moke, who
also was visiting with relatives
in that city, accompanied them
home.
Mrs. Agnes Peck, of Toledo,
will be the weekend guest of her
sister, Mrs. Leona Biers.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. F. Bosworth,
who have resided in their East
Third street home here for a great
many years, have moved to Cleve-
land, their former home. Mr..
Bosworth had charge of the rogue
courts in Central Park for a num-
Der of years and was widely
known among summer visitors.
The Library Board gave a tea
in the Woman's Club building on
Wednesday afternoon. The book
"Signature of Time" was review
ed by Miss Thelma Montgomery,
librarian of Port Clinton. The
story has to do with Kelley ISL
and.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
CARL KOCH DIES
DURING VISIT
TO H SPIT AL
Falls Dead While Enroute To
Visit Postmaster kalb
In Toledo

Carl Koch, we'll known Dan
bury fruit grower, dropped dead
in st. Nincent's Hospital, Toledo,
early Wednesday evening as Koch
and Howard Appling were enter
ing the hospital to visit Postmast
er A. w. Kalb, who is recuperat-
ing from an eye operation.
Mr.. Koch had driven to Toledo
and appeared to be in perfect
health, Appling stated. AS the
two men We're walking up the
stairway to the second floor, Koch
suddenly collapsed.
Lucas County Coroner Paul
Holly ordered that an autopsy
be performed to determine cause
of death. Gerner and Wolf will
have charge of funeral services.
Koch was born in Sandusky
April :, 1904, but had lived in
Danbury since 1912. He served
as maintenance man at the Dan
bury Fruit Company, where he
was in charge of the apple stor-
age.
Surviving are two brothers,
Hugo and Edmond Koch, both Of
Sandusky.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday in the st. Paul Lutheran
Church, Danbury, the Rev. 4. E.
Eckhoff officiating. The body is
at the Gerner and Wolf Funeral
Home. Interment will be in the
Danbury Church cemetery.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
Vacationland To
Double Board

Membership in the Lake Erie
Islands and Peninsula Vacation
land board of directors is to be
doubled as result Of action taken
at the directors meeting held
Tuesday night at the Island Ho-
tel.
To permit greater participation
by persons interested in Vaca-
tlonland, each of the six partici-
pating areas will be allowed to
name four directors instead of two,
the present limit.
AS a result of this impending
change, the annual election of
officers was tabled until the next
meeting. The nominating COM
mittee's slate as presented was:
Robert Kyle for president, Allen
Clemons for vice president, Carl
Heckler (incumbent president)
for treasurer, and Tom Finefrock
for secretary.
Members Of the organization
are planning to attend the an
nual meeting of Vacationland In
ternational which is to be held at
Hotel Secor, Toledo, on October
13-14-15. AS William Brown of
the local organization is presi-
dent of Vacationland Information
al, the local group in a sense will
be host to the convention. To pro-
mote the area, the group plans to
stage cocktail party for the dele
gates at which only native cham
pagne and wine will be served.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
DOCHERTYS LEAVE

The new address of the Henry
Docherty family, who have been
EOD members since 1910, is 1928
Kensington Avenue, Youngstown.
Mr.. Docherty was superintendent
of buildings, grounds and utih-
ties at Erie. He is leaving to
continue his education at Ioungs-
town University. The DochertyS
Were honor guests at party
given by the Officers Club Mon
day night. He is a member of
the Port Clinton Rotary Club.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
Jones Named For
Tournament Post

Howard Jones, Junior High
School coach here, has again been
selected as manager for the 1850
Ottawa County basketball tourna-
ment.
A meeting of county school Off
Gals and coaches was held Mon
day afternoon in County Supt. A.
Q. Dehn's offices, at which time
the dates for the tourney were
tentatively set for Feb. 24-25.
There is a possibility that reserve
games will be played in another
county school, with the finals to
be played in Port Clinton audi
torium.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
County Plans
Bridge Projects

Bids for the construction of a
bridge and two culverts at an es-
timated cost of $7,77l.60 will be
received Monday afternoon at two
o'clock by the county commits
sioners.
One multi-plate arch bridge on
the Schultz Road in Harris Twp.
has been estimated to cost Sl,33S;
a culvert on kempke Road No. 60
in Harris Twp. is estimated to
cost $2,465.35, and a concrete
pipe culvert on Hessville-Portagc
Road No. 45 in Harris Twp. is cs-
timated to cost $793.25.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
NOTES FIRE WEEK

Plans for the observance of
Fire Prevention Week October 9
at Erie Ordnance Depot were be-
ing made this week by the posts
fire chief, Lennis Valance, and
fire inspector, H. V. Revennaugh.
There will be fire apparatus dis
plays and demonstrations and lee
lures on the use of fire equipment
during the week.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
ELEGATES NAMED

Mrs. Avila Carter and G. V.
Knepper were chosen as dele
gates for the n. w. Ohio Teach
ers Association convention TO be
held in Toledo October 2S. Local
faculty members also named Miss
es Gwendolyn Battiste and Kath-
ryn Barber as alternates.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
CARD OF THANKS

The solicitude, sympathy and
many acts of kindness of our
neighbors and friends have been a
source Of great comfort and help
to us in our recent bereavement
and for which we extend our pro-
found and sincere thanks.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Meek, Mr..
and Mrs. Clifton Meek.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30
WELCOME TO
new RESIDENTS

Among the new permanent
residents of Port Clinton are
those listed in the next para
graphs. Mrs. X. r. Miller, Port
Clinton's Welcome Lady" call
ed at their residence during the
week to extend a welcoming
hand and to offer gift certiti-
Gates from stores participating
in the plan sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce and OF
tawa County News.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-09-30

Noah's Ark was built of gopher
wood.
Evening star., 1949-02-03

the group checked out" for Cleve-
land. Tenn, 80 miles away.
At 2:30 a. m. on January Is they
were busily plying their trade in
the Office of motor company. when
Policemen Leroy Pippe,fger and
Clyde Snyder ran across them
Sheetz had just knocked of the
combination, Detective Wells said
Pulls Away From Policeman.
Led outside the place, Brady
pulled away from Mr.. Snyder, out
sped him in footrace, jumped into
a cab, and was off for Chattanooga.
He told the cabbie his mother was
on her death bed. and gave him $40
to make it fast
Meanwhile, Sheetz, left alone with
Mr.. Pippenger, was not long idle. He
whipped out a As automatic, forced
the policeman into the police car,
and demanded to be driven to his
own car. There he took the police
mans gun from him, told him tc
drive his car off in another direc-
ton, and headed for Chattanooga
Detective Wells said the con-
tessed burglaries included one in
Culpeper, Va, but that the pair had
not been linked with any District
crimes.
He said Brady, who had served a
sentence for forgery, probably will
be tried first in North Carolina on
the possession of buglar tools charge
After his broken parole is finished
Sheetz will face a long string OF
charges which should keep him in
prison for life," the detective chief
said.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
AuchincIoss Bits
Chances Discounted

Chances for passage of the Auch-
tncloss bill in its present detailed
for are practically nil" Clarence M
Pierce, former staff member of the
Auchincloss Home Rule Subcom-
mittee, told meeting of the Wash
tngton Highlands Citizens Associa-
ton last night.
Mr.. Pierce based his opinion on
the fact that Representative Auchin-
Gloss is Republican and the belief
that majority of the members of
the House District Judiciary SUBJ
committee, to whom the bill would
be referred, are hostile to it.
Mr.. Pierce added. however, that
the Senate District Committee prob
ably will introduce a shorter bill
containing fewer controversial ele-
ments. This bill could get through
the Senate if the Southern Senators
do not oppose it too vigorously, he
stated.
In fact home rule bill could be
passed in both houses if it could be
brought to the floors, he said. But
''key positions in committees" he
asserted can defeat any such bill
During the business meeting the
association decided to circulate q
petition prepared by a committee
of the Southeast Council of Citi-
zens' Associations, requesting the
Commissioners to alleviate the traf-
fic problem at Barney Circle S.E
by changing the position of the
streetcar and bus terminal ano
constructing a "clover leaf"
The meeting, conducted by Joseph
v. Moran, president, was held in
the Patterson School, South Capitol
and Darlington streets.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Young Heads Unit
In Boys Club Drive

Commissioner John Russell YOUNG
yesterday was named chairman oil
the District government division OF
the Metropolitan Police Boys Clubs
fund campaign.
The drive for $250,OOO for opera
ton and expansion of the youth
program got under way Tuesday
under the general Craftsmanship OF
Wash B. Williams. 1t is scheduled
to end March /.
Mr.. Young, president of the Board
Of Commissioners, said Commits
sioners Guy Mason and Brig. Gen
Gordon r. Younng would be vice
chairmen of his committee. Charles
Stofberg, special assistant to Mr.
Young, will head special CO.
ordinating committee.
Our District government will as
sist in every way" said Mr.. Young
as he called on all District workers
to support the fund.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Williams an.
nounced the following appointments
to the Campaign Committee:
Inspector Floyd A. Truscott, as.
sistant superintendent of police
Edmund o. Carl, Carter Barron
Jack Blank, James A. Councillor, jr.
Erig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, Charles
3. Dulcan, ST.; Milton Kronheim
Gordon Leech, Fire Chief Clement
Murphy, Police Inspector Robert c
Pearce, Ralph D. Pittman, John A
Remon, William c. Shelton anc
Dave Herman.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Gl Amputee Testifies
Against Wo|ford on
Wurzburg Conditions
BY stoff Correspondent Of The Sior


FORT MEADE, Md, Feb. 3.-Pvt.
Joseph Suggs, %, colored, today sat
in wheel chair and told a court of
eight colonels how he lost his legs
He was testifying in the court
martial trial of Capt. Samuel H.
Wolford. former commander of the
prisoners stockade at the Wurzburg
Disciplinary Camp in Germany
Capt. Wolford is charged with i'm
posing cruel and inhuman treatment
on Pvt. Suggs and two other prison.
ers in the extremely cold weather of
January, 1947, by putting them into
a prison building with insufficient
clothing. Pvt. Suggs suffered such
severe frostbite that both his legs
were amputated below the knee.
1t was the second time he told
the story. He testified last week at
the trial of Capt. Joel c. Holmes,
jr., prison surgeon, charged with
neglect. Capt. Holmes was ac-
quilted.
Sentenced in Driving Case.
Pvt. Suggs told how he was given
q special court-martial trial and
sentenced to six months at hard
labor and fined s35 a month for the
period as result of an accident in
driving truck.
At the request of the prosecutor,
1t. Col. William Fitzhugh, the wit
ness produced a letter from the
Judge Advocate General of the
Army. 1t stated that the findings
in the court martial "are illegal and
void and hereby vacated"
Pvt. Suggs said he was sent into
solitary confinement in Compound
16. building where the furnace oc-
casionally broke down, according to
testimony, because he was sick and
had missed formations.
Col. Fitzhugh asked him how cold
it was in the building. !
"It was cold enough for my feet
to freeze" Pvt. Suggs said.
Weather Records Offered.
Previously Col. Fitzhugh intro
duced Army weather records of tenn
peratures in the vicinity of Wurz-
burg. In the first week of January,
1947, the high was "a, the mean
was 1913 and the low was degree.
The first witness of the day,
Robert Nelson, military prisoner
at Lewisburg, Pa. serving time for
housebreaking, testified that he was
in solitary confinement at Wurz-
burg early in January, l947 He
said he had his that blocked in
a prison barracks before being sent
to solitary. Asked by the court to
explain the term, he said, he had
been beaten about the head "by a
bunch of colored boys"
He said it was so cold in solitary
that drinking water froze. Asked
by Capt. Connie v. Southern, de-
fense counsel, if Capt. Wolford had
given him cruel and inhumane
treat, he answered:
Eyes, sir
Asked how, he answered. The
solitary confinement conditions
Evening star., 1949-02-03

Tuesday to suspend for four months
to make way for q new military
campaign to crush the Communist
guerrillas. The proposal was con-
tanned in an outline of economic
and military policies Of the FIVE
party cabinet.
The opposition was led by the
National Liberal Party of Stylianos
Gonatas and the National Party led
by Gen. Napoleon Zervas. The two
parties are operating jointly in Par
lament to argue that the cabinet
is unable to guarantee that it will
be able to carry out the program
offered by Mr.. Sophoulis.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
SIS, 900 Fire Routs 16
At Ohio Northern u.
BY the Assoeiofed Press

ADA, Ohio, Feb. 3 R).-Fire today
destroyed Turner Hall. of Ohio
Northern University, routing 16 CO.
eds and causing damage estimated
at $25,000. There were no injuries.
The blaze was discovered by Miss
Cattle Lou Craft, the dormitory
house mother of Columbia, S. c.,
who is also teacher of elementary
education at Ohio Northern.
Prof. A. r. Webb, dean of the
engineering college, estimated the
damage.
Evening star., 1949-02-03
Vote Of Confidence Barred
By FiIibuster in Greece
BY the Assoeiafed Press

ATHENS, Feb. 3.-An all-night
filibuster by members of two oppo-
sition parties today prevented a
vote on a motion of confidence in
the new coalition government of
Premier Themistokles Sophoulis.
After more than IA hours of de-
bate Parliament adjourned until to-
night. The fruitless all-night ses-
sion was unprecedented in modern
Greek history.
Mr.. Sophoulis asked Parliament
Evening star., 1949-01-02

u ECENTLY the American musical comedy
IL has become 50 high-class that promi-
nent New York critic said he wished some
body would produce show that you didn't
have to have college education to enjoy
Producer Mike Todd has done just that in
'.As the Girls Co." an exhibit that can safely
be recommended to anyone who has gone
through fifth grade and has s7-2O for ticket.
1t has set musical comedy back 20 years,
which may be good thing.
Gone is the ballet of social significance.
Gone is the allegoricd plot Back comes
the one-two- three-kick chorus line. plus
Comedian Bobby Clark, whose raffish an
''Heilzapoppin"
But most notable, from sociological stand
point Producer Todd has brought back the
old fashioned show girls, those gorgeous. sky
scraper Junos who decorated every musical
comedy in the 1905. In those days they just
stood around the stage, smiling haughtily
their six-foot statmes topped by huge head
dresses supposed to symbolic anything from
the fertility of spring to the market crash.
These goddesses were known in the trade
as elephants" " possibly to distinguish them
from dancing girls, called ponies" They
were credited with barely enough intelligence
to extend their long. graceful arms to the
manager and grasp their pay envelopes.
Csssznss Wsse xisAs
BROADWAY was less decorous in. the '2Os
than it is today. and the show girls costumes
consisted chiefly of material known as
elephants breath" gauzy stuff that posed
no problem for male patrons with 40 vision.
Today. Broadway is highly moral street,
and Mr. Todd's eight Elephants wear sturdier
costumes - though no one would accuse them
of being overdressed. Happily. they no longer
have to haul 25-potmd headdesses around on
their pretty noggins. And. as one Elephant
proudly says. I'VE have lines to speakr' Flo
Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll would have gasped
at 50 dangerous an innovation.
But although Elephants have finally won
place of dignity in show business. they still
have the same problems that all tall girls have
Evening star., 1949-01-02

Romance is the most important; it's the main
subject of conversation in the big dressing
room at the Winter Garden.
What this crew needs" says Dorothea
Pinto, surveying her sister Elephants discon-
solately. lis couple of basketball teams to
60 out with"
Actually, most of the girls go around with
fairly short men or maybe they just seem
short One girl bravely keeps company with
young lawyer who just about comes up to
her shoulder The Elephants whisper that it
looks like wedding bells. Another girl kept
Dragging about her New York boy friend all
the time the show was out of town. But now
that it's hit Broadway, she hasn't brought the
fellow around, and her comrades suspect he
must be a real shorty
No Ssepladdex Needed
lHE tallest of the lot is Mildred c'How's the
Weather Up There?'D Hughes. She's tooth
some brunette who stands six-foot- three in
her French heels. According to friend, she
recently repainted her apartment without
benefit of a stepladder Platinum-b blonde
Gregg Sherwood is the midget of the crowd.
Technically speaking she is not true
Elephant. She is a mere five-foot seven in
stocking feet and has to wear special platform
shoes on the stage. But certainly feel like
an elephant" says she. '1ugging those heavy
clod-hoppers around"
Gregg, incidentally has no romantic prob
lem. She's the bride of decently tall execu-
tive of the New York Yankees baseball club.
What's more, she disproves the classic
theory that Elephants are dumb. She
attended the University of Wisconsin and
is halfway through writing book.
When Producer Todd spills all his several
dozen beautiful young women on the stage in
what is known as Greek salad number. the
Elephants stand out head and shoulders above
the dancing girls. The young males in the
audience pop their eyes and dream of after
theater dates
:'But we long gals are never troubled by
stage-door Johns" says Mildred Hughes.
They take one look up at me when come
out and slink of like puppies, The End
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Evening star., 1949-07-17

That leaves the contest between
these two major parties:
The Social Democratic party
(SPD). which advocates socializa.
ton of big industries, banks ano
insurance companies.
The Christian Democratic Union
(CDU), Conservative group COM
mitted to free enterprise, with
private control Of industry.
Thus, the vote will decide
whether Western Germany has a
Socialist regime modelled after
Britains Labor government or a
private enterprise system similar
to that in the United States.
Public Shows Lack of Interest.
So far, the voting public has
shown strange lack of interest
The response to party campaigning
has been apathetic.
German war losses are reflected
in the voting lists. 1t is estimated
100000 persons are eligible to
vote. about IS per cent of these
are women.
The Germans will elect the 400
members of their parliament
(Bundestag). The parliament, in
turn, will name the president and
the prime minister (chancellor)
who will organize the new govern
ment.
OF the II states to be united
in the new government, six are
Evening star., 1949-07-17
GAR Ladies to Meet

The Gen. U. S. Grant Circle
No. /, ladies of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Department of
the Potomac, will meet at 8 pm.
Tuesday at its headquarters in
Room 418, Washington Loan &
Trust, Building, Ninth and F
streets NV.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

dominated by the Christian
Democrats. The other five have
Socialist majorities in the state
parliaments.
Evening star., 1949-07-17
West Germans 10 Vote
Aug. "a for Socialism
Or Free Enterprise
By the kssoeioted Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, July
16-Western Germans will choose
between Socialism and free enter
prise August IA, four weeks from
tomorrow.
The decision will be made in
Germany's first federal election
since 1882, the year before Adolf
Hitler came to power.
The election will set up the new
German federal republic which re-
unites all Western Germany-the
American, British and French oc-
cupation zones. Only Russian oc-
cupied East Germany will be ex-
cluded.
Communism Not Issue.
Despite the fact that this re-
public Is bordered by the Iron
Curtain and despite the Com
munist drive for control of all
Germany, Communism is not a
major issue. The Communist party
in Western Germany is too weak
to hope for controlling powr.
Evening star., 1949-07-17

To Revive Abuco Industry
BY granting crop loans, the
Philippines hopes to revive its
waning abaca industry.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-12-13
Danes Have New
Fishing Method
Of Significance

New fishing techniques that
might increase world production
of behring's, sardidnes and men
haden as much as so per cent
were discussed at an international
conference at the Hague, Neither
lands.
Before his departure, the head
of the U. S. delegation, A. w. An
derson. chief of commercial fish
cries for the Fish and Wildlife
Service spoke of a new Danish
fishing technique.
THE Danes have developed a
new net called floating trawl,"
Mr.. Anderson said.
Normally a trawl net drags
along the ocean bottom. The Dan
ish net can be used at any depth,
and this can scoop up fish most
effectively.
Danish fishermen have been
using it for about a year. 1t could
be used elsewhere without much
trouble.
Its introduction into other
countries could increase produc-
ton 10, 20 or even so per cent,
giving rise to new problems Of
distribution and marketing"