Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-07-07

base in Rhode Island late Friday,
and drove all night to return his
car to Port Clinton. He had only
a short rest in his jefferson street
home before his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. w. Chapman, took him to
Cleveland airport where he board
ed a plane for the return trip east.
During the war years, Bill served
in the Pacific Area, and since
then has been stationed in Alaska,
as this areas naval recruiter, has
made several trips overseas and
is now bound for the Mediter-
ranean.
DUT-IN-BAY was jammed with
tourists and vacationists over
the July the Fourth weekend, ac-
cording to all reports. 1t was
almost an impossibility to secure
hotel or motel rooms or cottages
in Port Clinton. To relieve the
strain, some residents opened
their homes to paying guests for
the first time since the war years.
AT least four members of. the
1850 Redskin grid team have
been awarded scholarships for col
lege courses, beginning this fall.
Bob Owen has been awarded a
four-year scholarship to Hobart
College, Geneva, New York. Dale
Taylor, Curt Wepler and Bill Bel
shaw have good offers from Kent
State, Kent, Ohio, and probably
will matriculate at that college.
| A RI BARRIE, who has CON
Quoted radio programs via
WFRO, Fremont, since last Octo-
ber, has resigned from the staff.
According to present plans, the
popular Barrie will do free-lance
radio work in Toledo where his
MAN in the Street" program first
gained prominence.
| -JOT-
MIR. and Mrs. Ray Wight
40 drove up to northern Mich
igan last weekend for planned
vacation. They were back home
late Sunday, convinced that Port
Clinton has more to offer than The
entire state further north. For
tunately they had their own apart
ment here or else they would have
been forced to sleep in autos as
many vacationists did over The
weekend.
| Joyce KIRK, p. C. H. S. Homo
y Economics student who gave :
cooking demonstration at the N
| o. Maytag Company during it
recent open house, has been in
vited to appear on a CLEVELAND
television program. Joyce worked
with Alice Weston, VIEWS tele
vision star during the Maytal
open house here, and has accepted
Miss Weston's invitation to ap
pear on her program over VIEWS
this Friday.
pOBERT Bob" Ernst, one o
the city's leading lobbyists
has a superb display of Revolu
tionary War guns in the Cit.
Loan windows this week Prin
cipal B. Fl. Corthell once again j
) at Kelleys Island where he is il
charge of the All Camp for tw
weeks.
|DON BREDEHOFT is sporting
a gold belt buckle, an Awar
of Merit from the American
Bowling Congress for the 27
game he bowled in Clinton Recre
alton Alleys last December l.
The award goes to the highes
score in the North Central Obi
Travelling League.
DOWN in Catawba Island, Mrs
, ~ George Hartwig has mad
some individualistic scarecro,
models which are most helpful i
keeping brids out of the Hartwi
cherry orchards. The scarecrow
are most unusual and would eve
,, scare a two-legged bird, wearin
pants.
JENNIE RADLOFF, who an
} swers the telephone in tn
shipping department at Standar
Products, has a telephone voic
) which rates Al. She'd be excel
lent as newscaster on televi
sion or radio.
PRELIMINARY plans are III
derway to bring Red Cros
Aquatic School to Port Clinton
Red Cross officials would conduc
the school for two weeks in tn
spring and two weeks in the fal
and over $50 youths would be sen
here for swimming, lifeguard an
; water safety courses. We can
think of more ideal place fo
such a school and hope it become
| an eventuality next year.
-JOT-
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