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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Modison Countions
Study Operation OF
Well-BobY Clinics

Eleven ladies of the Madison
Home and Community Committee
visited the well baby conference
held in the Redwood High School
building on July 20 They wanted
to see one of Union County'S
well baby conferences in action
and study the mechanics and pro-
ceedure followed.
Fired by the enthusiasm of the
women in the Union County
Farm Bureau Home and Com
munity Committee over the con-
ferences, the Madison County
group is exploring the possibility
of making them one of their pro-
jects in the near future.
More than 20 children were ex-
amined at the Redwood Con-
ference with DR.. E. j. Marsh as
consulting physician. Nurses
Esther Gerlach, Evelyn Braun
and Ellen Rea, of Madison Coin
ty, were in attendance. Mrs. Mae
Fish, Mrs. Frank Pacha and Mrs.
Paul Speyer were the ladies from
the Union County Farm Bureau
Home and Community Commit
tee who assisted with the confer
ence.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Boy, 3, Injured In
Truck, Auto Crash

The small son of Mr.. and Mrs
Raymond Heron, Milford Center
was severely cut about the head
when the automobile in which he
was riding collided with a truck
in the bridge over Buck Run on
the Marysville- Milford Center rd.,
about 545 p. m. Saturday.
Driving the passenger car was
Mr. Heron, who was unhurt. The
truck was a tractor and semi
trailer outfit driven by Clarence
Fellenstein, 81, of Cleveland. 1t
was owned by w. H. Fay & Co.,
Cleveland, under lease to Mod
ern Motor Express.
The collision occurred as Heron
tried to enter the one.lane bridge
before the truck had cleared it.
The front end of Herron's Hud-
son struck the guard rail at the
approach to the bridge and the
rear end of the machine then
swung around into the front end
of the truck.
Both truck and car ended up in
the ditch on the west side of the
road, north of the bridge. The
truck was headed toward MaryS-
vile with IL tons of automobile
parts, while Heron was attempt
ing to enter the bridge going to-
ward Milford Center.
Front end of Herron's machine
was demolished, and the frame
badly twisted. 1t and the truck
were removed by the H. l. Huff
man & Co. garage. Sheriff Wal
ter T. Galloway and State High
way Patrolmen investigated the
crash,
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Milford Boy, 8,
browns in Lake

Search was still under way at
/ p. m. today for tht body of
Jimmy While, aged 3, who was
drowned when a motor boat up
set in Indian Lake Sunday eve
ming.
The boys father, John While,
Milford Center, Rt. /, was operat-
ing the boat in about seven feet
of water near Hermit's Island
when it suddenly capsized. Mr..
Wible's sister, Marian, was also
in the craft along with the boy
and his sister, six year old Mary
Ann While.
Marian caught the little girl
and managed to save her while
Mr.. While attempted to rescue
the boy. He was unable to find
him, however, and although the
State authorities were carrying
on an intensive search the child'S
body had not been recovered as
the paper went to press.
Mrs. While had remained in the
car and had not accompanied
them on the boat;ride. The motor
boat was factory built and no
good reason could be given why
it capsized.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Plan to Organize
Commerce Group

Dissolution of the Marysville
Business Mems Association and
affiliatiOn with the Chamber of
Commerce will be discussed at a
general meeting of all businesses
and professional men, to be held
in the Dinner Bell restaurant
Aug. II.
The move has been hanging
fire for several weeks, as a re-
suit of inactivity this year by
the old Business Mems Associa-
ton. The old organization has
had no officers or directors this
year, and consequently has not
been able to function properly.
Several of the business men
here have felt that completely
new organization would create
more interest among the COM
munity's potential members.
The dinner meeting of Aug. IL
is for the purpose of acquainting
all business and professional men
in the community with the pro-
posed new organization, and to
determine if there is sufficient
interest to organize a Chamber
of Commerce here.
Speaker for the banquet will
be c. l.. VanDerau, a former
MarySville man who is now works
manager of the huge Westing-
house Electric plant in Mans
field Mr.. VanDerau is a vice
president of the Ohio Chamber
of Commerce and active in its
work.
He is a grandson of the late
Philip VanDerau, who formerly
resided on S. Oak st. His father
was John VanDerau, and the fam
lily moved from Marysville when
c. L. VanDerau was eight years
|, old.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01

to leave in large numbers.
1t was in February, l948 that
the State Department of Educa-
ton requested that the high
school at Allen be discontinued
because of the very small enroll
ment. The small enrolment of
course meant that the school
could offer only a limited pro-
gram TO its students The limits of
the building and the equipment
were also considered in making
the decision.
Enrolment Dropped
The high school pupils were
divided among four schools. The
parents on the North Lewisburg
side of the district purchased a
school bus and used it to haul
both high school and grade stu
dents to Bewisburg. Buses from
both Raymond and Union picked
up pupils on their sides of the
district and as a result the grade
enrolment at Allen dropped from
l30 to SO pupils at the close of
the year.
Recently the county board re-
ceived petitions, maps, and YER
bal requests for the transfer of
parts of the district to the four
neighboring schools. 1t was
very difficult job for the county
board to divide the district. The
board received most of the blame
for any thing that went wrong
with the project and, as is the
case in most things of this kind,
it was not possible to please
everyone.
Provision of Law
The state school laws provide
that the county board may trans
fer, by resolution, any territory
as it deems best, as long as it is
not an exempted village or school
district of another county.
The Union County board has
always believed that no such
move should be made without an
expression from the local area if
such is possible. Although the
Continued on Page 2. Col. ID
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Church Will Meet

A special meeting of the Vot-
ers' Assembly will be held at 9
p. m. Thursday.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Chef Baker Receives Picture OF
Camp in Which He was Held Prisoner

When Chester Baker, now
owner of Bakers Grocery on S.
Court ST., was captive of the Ger
mans, Dutchman also impris-
oned in the same camp took or
ders from prisoners who thought
they would like a picture Of the
camp after their liberation.
Although he never forgot the
incident, Mr.. Baker was rather
surprised when he received let
ter from his fellow eX-captive
telling him that his picture was
ready and would be sent upon re-
ceipt of $500.
On July 26 Mr.. Baker received
the picture, a II x "a full color
print of the prison camp. The
drawing is minute in every de-
tail and is the result of constant
observing and sketching by the
Dutch artist while he was con-
fined within the limits of the
camp.
Everyone Ordered Picture
almost everyone in the camp
ordered one of the pictures" Mr..
Baker recalled. "The artist put
it on display in each of the diff
ferent huts and left a list by it
for those who wanted copies to
write their names and addresses" "
The artists name is N. Ucht-
, mann and he lives in Harskamp,
Holland. He and his father are
in the printing, engraving, and
Photographic business there.
Mr.. Baker was able to recall
many experiences of his nine
months as a German captive. He
said that there were as many as
10000 men in the camp at ont
time and the Americans and
British were in very small
minority.
Had Own Head Man"
The British operated the camp
hospital without interference
from the German commander.
Prisoners of each of the % coun-
tries represented in the prison
elected their own head man and
these men wre consulted by the
German Commander before any
important decision was made. The
opinions of these men were re-
spected by the guards. On the
whole the men governed them
selves, Mr.. Baker said.
In regard to his treatment
Mr.. Baker declared, During my
entire stay at the prison not one
of the guards ever laid a hand
on me-" He was imprisoned from
July %, 1914 to Apr. %, 1945 and
seven of these months were
spent in this camp, M-Slamnla-
ger-Ivb, on the Elbe River al
Muhlberg.
The camp also had numerous
recreation facilities including q
swimming pool, a soccer field, and
others.
The only work the prisoners
had to do, besides keeping their
own buildings clean, was haul
ing in wagonloads of potatoes.
"At first they made the Rus
Continued on Page 2. Col. %
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Bishop Holstein
Completes Testing

BRATTLEBORO, VT, July %
Bishoprian Segis Ormsby Hello
Sd, a registered Holstein-Friesian
COW owned by Rowland Bishop,
Milford Center, has completed a
283-day production test of APT
pounds of butterfat and 1896
pounds of 3.9 percent milk in
Herd Improvement Registry test
Testing was supervised by Ohio
State University in cooperation
with The Holstein-Friesia As
sociation of America. This COW
was MIXED 2 times daily and was
3 years 5 months of age when
she began her test period.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
. Deaths
Jack Edwin Sparks

Jack Edwin Sparks, aged z
years, died at his home near
Irwin at a. m. Saturday. He was
born April 18, 1947 near Irwin,
the son of Willie and Geneva
(Rigsby) Sparks, both of whom
survive. Also surviving are two
sisters and a brother.
Funeral services were held at
2 D. m. Sunday at the Ferguson
Funeral Home in Plain City con-
Quoted by the Rev. Jasper Prince
Interment was in Wesley Chaple
in charge of Jay Ferguson, fun
eral director of Plain City.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Gas Go. Offers
Revised Rate
Schedule Here
Council Gets Proposal
At Meeting Thursday;
Other Business Heard

New contract, calling for a
slight increase in the gas rates
affecting only the larger con-
sumers, was presented to the
Village Council at their meeting
Thursday by the Ohio Fuel Gas
Co.
Delmer Smith and Russell Cald-
well, representing the Gas Com
pany here, presented the new
rate schedule to Council. The
present contract has been in eff
feet since l945 and will expire on
Aug. 8.
The present contract provides
for certain rates for a four-year
perio, which expires this year,
and an increase for the next two
years. The new contract would
offset the two-year part of the old
one.
The new contract proposed by
the Gas Co. officials would be
for seven years duration, with
established rates for the first five
years and an increase for the re-
naming two.
The new contract calls for an
increase in heating gas to the ex-
tent of 5 cents per 1000 cubic
feet for all used over 10000 cubic
feet.
Most Rates Same
This means that the average
consumer will not be affected by
the change in rates and his rate
will be approximately the same
as it was during the last four
years and somewhat lower than
during pre-war years." the Gas
Co. men said. Even these who
use gas for heating will benefit
by the new rates since they are
lower than those called for in the
last two-year section of the pres
ent contract.
The rates for the first five
years under the proposed con-
tract will be 20 cents per 100
cubic feet for the first 500, 6 cents
for the next $500, and 51a cents
per 100 cubic feet in excess of
5000.
Rates for the last two years
under the present contract would
have been 20 cents per 100 cubic
feet for the first 500, seven for
the next 1900, six for the next
5000, five and one half for the
next 10000, and five cents for all
in excess of $4,000 cubic feet.
Must Cut Weeds
Councilman Rich h ard Hrvey,
chairman of the street commit
tee, reported that he had received
complaints that some property
owners have neglected to cut the
weeds on their lots. 1t was de-
cided that the weeds will be cut
by city employees and the bill
sent to the owner of the lot. If
the owner neglects to pay, the bill
will be added to the tax dupli-
cate.
1t was also decided that the
trees at the park should be trim
med. A sum of 500 was allotted
for this purpose from the general
] and swimming pool funds.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
B & C Co. to Move
Into New Location

B. g. G.. Service Co. will move
in the near future from its pres
ent location to a room on W.
Fifth st. now occupied by ROLAND
Mills Sales g. Service store.
At present time, B. & c., owned
by John S. (Scud) Butler, is 10
Gated in the old Cities Service
Station at E. Fifth and Plum SITS
His new site is in the former
Houston Block. now owned by
Nelson Weiss.
Mr.. Buffers firm is local dis
tributor for the complete line OF
General Electric appliances.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
MdrYsville Soldier
Serving in Jdpon

WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY,
SAPPORO, JAPAN P. F. c.
Robert j. Hamilton, of Company
M, 31st Infantry Regiment of the
7th Division, recently left Camp
Crawford on a week-long patrol
to the northern part of Hokkaido
Island.
Pfc. Hamilton, who fulfills the
duties of cook in the company, ex-
poets to prepare the meals for the
members of the patrol during the
trip. Pfc. Hamilton is resident of
Marysville. Since being assigned
to the 7th Division he has spent
approximately IL months in
Korea, and seven months in
Japan.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Allen School Split
Among 4 Districts
BY Own Request
High School Dropped Year
Ago, Grades to Follow;
Lack Of Facilities Cause

The $50 pupils in the Allen Local School district
will be divided among four adjoining school districts
cording to County Superintendent Gale w. Baldwin A
large majority of the school patrons requested the
weeks.
For time the pupils in the Allen district have
been sent to other schools but not until the high
school removed last year that the students began
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Comp Union Services
Slated Aug. Ali

Services at Camp Union will
be conducted at 10 a. m, 2 p. m.
and 8 p. m. daily, Aug. 4 through
IA. The engaged workers are
Evangelists, Heber Burge, of
Salem, Ill.,; and Morton Dorsey,
of Winchester, o.
Loren Brecheisen and wife, of
Binghamton, N. Y, will have
charge of children's services and
will provide special instrumental
and vocal music. Neil V. Keaton,
of Columbus, will be song lead
er of the camp. Camp Union is
located on Route 739 between
York Center and Byhalia.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01

Don't look now, but summer is
rapidly dropping behind us.
In just three weeks, football
practice will begin!
Ohio High School Athletic
Association rules permit schools
which do not hold spring practice
to start workouts on Aug. 20
Since that date falls on Saturday
this year, Coach Paul Wenzel
says he will probably" wait un-
til the following Monday to gel
started.
Out of nine games this fall, the
Monarchs will play away from
home only three times, and the
longest of these trips will be tc
London.
The others will be to Mechan'
icsburg, where they will oper
the season on Sept. Is, and tc
Redwood.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Milford Center Grange

Due to the Grange softball
tournament conflicting with the
regular meeting, there will be a
special business session for one
hour in the Milford Center
Grange Hall Saturday, Aug. 6.
Members please be promptly at
$3.50 D. m.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
About Town

Did you ever notice how fan
away the traffic light at New
California can be seen?
After night, it's visible for
more than three miles when one
is headed toward Columbus. II
you don think so, check it your
self next time you go to the
Capital City,.
Watch for it as you approach
New Cally, then check your
speedometer when you first rec
ognize it.
Another long distance" vista
may be seen from the road
leading north out of Middle
burg. toward GAINESVILLE. which
seems to run along on the crest
of ridge.
There is one place. a mile or
so north of Middleburq. where
one can family see MarYsville
on a clear day, more than IL
miles away! The Court House
tower is discernable and smoke
from the milk plant can also be
spotted.
Even if it is too hazY to see
all the way to MarYsville. the
view from that spot is always
magnificent. rem inisc C n of
some of the scenic grandeur of
the Appalachian Mountains.
It's always interesting to study
the reactions of people as they
drive past automobile wrecks on
the highway.
Had occasion to do so Saturday
night at the collision in the Buck
Run bridge on the Milford I'd
Most people drive as slowly as
possible to see as much of the
damage as possible. Others shud-
der and look away. Some attempt
to inquire, as they drive past,
what happened and how many
were hurt.
One woman, driving alone, in
formed the crowd at Saturdays
accident that ,'This is the second
one I've seen today"
incidentally, you'd be surprised
how many drivers, regardless OF
how congested the road is and
how many people are standing
around, whiz right on through
just like they were on the way to
another wreck-their own!
Sigh of a wreck seems to be a
SOLDERING influence on most driv-
ers, at least for a block, or two,
but there are some who act like
they think their own guardian
angel will protect them, regard
less of how they drive.
Never like to use the word
accident" in connection with
an automobile collision. Once
in a while they are actually
caused by circumstances be-
Yond anyone's control. but in
the vast majority of them, the
fault lies with one or the other
of the drivers involved. Gener-
ally it's someone going too fast
or failing to yield the right of
way.
Don't look now, but summer is
rapidly dropping behind us.
In just three weeks, football
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-08-01
Ice Cream Social

The Magnetic Service Mothers
Club will have an ice cream social,
Friday, Aug. S in Magnetic
Springs. Proceeds will go to the
Veterans Hospital in Chillicothe.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23
The Story Of
judah P. Benjamin
CONTINUED from PAGE 100


the South in that office until
the outbreak of the War Between
the States. So distinguished were
his services to the Southern
cause that President Jefferson
Davis of the Confederate States
immediately named him the first
Attorney General in his cabinet,
and later appointed him success
lively Secretary of War and Sec
rotary of State in his govern
ment. It was as Secretary of
State that Benjamin became
widely known as "the brains of
the Confederacy.''
Benz amin Enthusiastically
(Was) one of the most distin-
guished Jews in all American
history" and 1--WE must surely
rank (him) high in the story of
America" writes DR.. Korn.
Although he did not partici-
pate by word or deed in the af-
fairs of the Jewish community
in 10Th Century America, Ben
jamin's career has a two-fold
significance for the American
Jew, in the opinion of the Hebrew
Union College historian, who
concludes his estimate of Ben
jamin as follows:
I'm the first place, he is a
symbol of American democratic
practice as it functioned in the
life of member of the Jewish
religious minority. w it h u t
abandoning his faith or denying
it, he was elected to high posi-
tons of authority and was Of
fered such diverse appointments
as the AmbassadorShips to Spain
and seat on the Supreme
Court of the United States. The
most serious responsibilities of
the Confederate cause were en-
trusted to him, he was, success
lively, Attorney General, Secre-
tary of War, Secretary of State,
serving in one cabinet or another
during the entire period of the
organized Confederacy. Without
question he achieved greater
political power than any other
Jew in American history.
"On the other hand, as the OBJ
verse of this fact, the express
sions of anti-Jewish prejudice to
which his opponents (both North
and South stopped during his
years of high office were a clear
warning that some Americans
would use any weapon, includ-
ing the appeal to latent blgotry,
to attempt to destroy a political
opponent in a time of severe
social stress.
The countless attacks upon
Benjamin AS A JEW, which have
been duplicated more recently in
the cases of such political figures
as Louis D. Brandeis, Felix
Frankfurter, David Lilienthal,
and the late Sidney Hillman,
served to make him important
in American Jewish history AS
AN OBJECT OF PREJUDICE.
Like every Jew who rises above
the mob to position of prestige,
affluences, or power, Benjamin
had to pay the price of his birth,
and the community to which he
belonged and yet in whose life
he showed no interest had to Suf-
fer intolerance and unjustified
attacks as copcomitant of his
political career.
"Here lies Benjamin's role in
the story of American Jewry:
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-04-30

(This is the third and final
article by Miss Peterka, on the
work of the Public Health Nurses
in the Gastineau Channel Area)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-04-30
JOAN CRAWFORD
STARRED IN BILL
AT 10Th CENTURY

An exhaustive inquiry into the
anguished emotions of a woman
rejected by the man she loves fur
nishes the exciting thematic fabric
o. Warner Bros Possessed" at
The goth Century Theatre tonight.
Joan Crawford and Van Heflin,
in co-stellar roles, head the cast OF
the Jerry Valid production which
follows faithfully in the dis
tinguished tradition of its two illus
trious pre- essors, Mildred
Pierce" and "Humoresque."
Essentially the story of an i'm
passioned devotion that is trans
termed into an overwhelmingly
vengeful hate, the film details the
pathetic progress of Louise Howell
Joan Crawford from the height
of her all-consuming love for David
sutton (Van Heflin) through his
waning interest in, and eventual
lisavowal of her; to a bitter,
oreathtaking climax in which she
discovers that an empty revenge
has brought about her own miser-
able undoing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-04-30
KODIAK SAVIOR SAILS
TO FERN COVE, SALVAGE
ALASKA R. R. BARGE

Sailing Monday evening for Fern
Cove near Cape Spencer, the SAL
wage ship Kodiak Salvor is to sur
vey the Alaska Railroad barge
that sunk there last November
If conditions for salvaging are
suitable, the barge contents are to
be raised and brought to Juneau
for shipment to Seattle. Aboard
the barge is structural steel for
the Alaska Railroad and diesel
motors and generators for the City
of Anchorage. The cargo is to be
repaired in Seattle and shipped
again for Anchorage.
Capt. B. j. Logan, master of the
salvage ship, said that recently the
boom, dipper stick, bucket, and
boom rigging of the dredge barge
Ajax were raised. The material,
weighing CT tons and having an
extreme length of 81 feet, was
raised in one lift in 40 feet of
water. The Ajax salvage was ship
ped by barge to Seattle. The Ajax
barge had sunk on Spike Rock in
Wrangell Narrows.
The Kodiak Salvor is owned by
the Kodiak Salvage and
Construction Co., headed by Robert
0. Fleming, marine broker OF
Seattle. Company headquarters are
in Cordova.