Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-12-30
Civic Progress
Marked Past Year
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firemen come here for 74th an
nual Northwestern Ohio Volun'
teer Firemen's Assn convention
Emery Qualman, resort own
er, passes away .. CLAIR Nau
purchases gasoline station of Eu-
gene Hearn Arthur Black,
leding sports enthusiast, passes
away Mr.. and Mrs. Gabriel,
Fremont, drown in Sandusky Bay,
and William Stephenson, Toledo,
browns in Portage River -. John
Ropers, well l-known Danbury trus-
tee and farmer, passes away IN
home.
JULY-Rev. Lawrence Miller,
ShaGyside, succeeds Rev. William
Miller, as pastor at Trinity Meth
odist Church . Chamber Of Com
merce sponsors fireworks display
at lakefront 1900 Anti-Air-
craft troops arrive to begin train
ing at Camp Perry Smith
Automotive opens in Pulschen'
Block, Fulton Street . Vacation
lists crowd into. area as summer
business booms Body of S/Sgt.
Johnnie Whiting is returned home
from Europe Tommy Hilz,
10, Middletown, is killed in acci-
dent near Grodi's Corners
1000 more AA troops arrive at
Camp Perry Newton Over
meyer, Elmore, is killed in dyna-
mite blast in Erie Township.
AUGUST - Nu-F Form Battery
Corporation is formed with Elton
Clemons as president Second
Army Commander General Charles
Mullens visits Camp Perry
Inter-Lake Yachting Assn regat-
ia opens at Put-in-Bay Rob
ert Eaton, local veteran, is fatal
ly injured in motorcycle accident
i'm California Jack Smith leas
es Mobil Gas Station Rose
ann Ballreich browns in Lake Erie
near Yacht Club Walter Twyn-
ham is killed in motor bike ac-
cident Elmore man becomes
county's first polio victim of sum-
mer Miss Susan Kilmer is
named executive Red Cross secre-
tary August Westergaard,
2S-year-old Whiting, Iowa, far
mer, wins Ohio Small-bore rifle
at Camp Perry.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Fruit
Company packing house is raw
aged by $4,000 nocturnal fire,
Robert Hauser announces plans
for opening of new Vacation Lanes
bowling alley in former Ford Gar
age building Mrs. Julia Noll
and Carl Michnay open new can
chor Inn" restaurant in Lakeside
Road James Thierry joins
George Slaughter in law firm
Curt Steffens and Dan RENO open
Clinton Cleaners Judge Will
liam Hunt passes away suddenly
. Rev. l.. ID. Reynolds leaves for
parish and is sue
ceeded by Rev. J. V. Bigelow, To-
ledo Mysterious fire destroys
Catawba- Peninsula Fruit Company
packing house at Gypsum i
Atty. Tom Stahl is named as
Common Pleas Judge to succeed
Judge Hunt Willett Petit
bone, nationally prominent Knight
of Pythias, passes away in hos
pital Frederick Meckfessel,
Jr. is elected as commander of
Port Clinton American Legion
post -. Arson is expected after
third mysterious fire in Oak Har-
Dor.
OCTOBER - Mrs. Jay Wood
ward, Marblehead, is killed in
train-auto crash in Danbury !
Camp Perry is selected as site
for Buckeye State camp . Pro-
duction begins in Nu-Form Bat.
terry Corp. plant . Steel strike
hits employment at Standard
Products plant Kenneth Wahl
is named to investigate Sandusky
Bay fishing practices County
Recorder Elgin Winters passes
away in Magruder Hospital. Mrs.
Winters is named as his success
Sor Prosecutor Myron Rosen-
treter is named District Deputy
Grand Master of Ohio Masons
Ground is broken for proposed
First Baptist Church in Beech
Street.
NOVEMBER - Mayor Carl
Becker is reelected as mayor.
Councilmen William Goebel and
Harold Nielsen are reelected,
with Torvald Hostup, r. C. Scha-
per, Charles Ruddock and Jack
Riddle completing the six-man
beard John Applegate, %,
admits guilt in starting II disas-
rous fires in neighhoring Oak
Harbor Clarmont kastor,
Clyde duck hunter, browns in
Sandusky Bay Tom Hambly,
veteran Camp Perry worker, dies
in Magruder Hospital ten DAYS