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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
. Deaths
BENJAMIN Fl. Matteson

Benjamin H. Matteson, aged 70,
of near Byhalia, died at his home
at l0:l5 a. m. Thursday after a
long illness.
He was born in Marion County,
the son of Jacob and Lena
-(Temple) Matteson, both deceas-
ed. He was married to Clara Cole
man who preceded him in death
20 years ago. He lived most of
his life in the vicinity of Rich
wood and was a member of the
Union Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Vera Reed at home; four grand
children; three brothers, S. j.
Matteson, of Redwood, and
Charles and Sam, of Marion; and
sister, Mrs. Jacob Schurch of
Redwood
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Winter
Funeral Home in Redwood con-
Quoted by the Rev. Carey. In
terment will be in Claibourne
Cemetery in charge of Marion
Winter, funeral director of Rich
wood.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
Girl. Fl. Suffers
Dislocdted Shoulder.
Cor Skids. Crushes

A Marysville girl was injured
and car badly damaged in an
accident on Route 33, west of
Marysville, at ii p. m. Wednes-
day. The accident was caused by
the icy road conditions.
Dorothy Wallace, 81, of Marys-
vile Rt. 5, suffered a dislocated
shoulder and minor cuts and
bruises when she was thrown
from the car when it went into
the ditch. She was taken to the
office of DR.. Paul Zaugg by the
William H. Faulkner ambulance.
The car was headed west when
it went out of control on the slip
perry pavement and turned COM
pletely around, going into the
ditch and shearing off a tele-
phone pole. It was badly damaged
around the front and right side.
Deputy Sheriff Franklin Simp-
son investigated the accident.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
County May Send
Eight Boy Scouts To
International Meet

Robert Wentz, Union County
member of the 1850 Boy Scout
Janaboree committee, was in Col
umbus last week completing
plans for registering Union
County Scouts who will attend
the international Scout Jamboree
at historic Valley Forge near
Philadelphia, June 28 through
July 8.
The assigned quota of eight
Scouts over IL years of age from
this county will become a part
of the encampment of 10000 boys
from throughout the world parti-
cipating in the greatest world
wide Scout camp in history,
marking the fortieth anniver-
sary of the Scout Movement.
On his return from the jam
boree Committee meeting, Wentz
said, 'This is a once-in-a-life-
time opportunity for a limited
number of Scouts in Union
County and although our quota
has been set at eight, / have re-
quested that it be increased to ac-
commodate the number of boys
who earnestly want to make this
trip"
The deadline for registering
for the Jamboree is Feb. Is.
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County Offices
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Dunbar, Allen.
Democratic Candidates are:
Albert Fensel, Marysville 2; l..
H. Collins, Taylor; Harold Hall,
Darby South; Jay S. Richardson,
Liberty North; Carl Blumen-
schein, Millcreek; Otto E. Rausch,
Darby North; Glenn H Blue,
Jackson; G. Walter Low, Dover;
E. H. Hinderer, Jerome West;
Joe Wasserback, Jackson; Eugene
Rausch, Marysville "A; w. E.
Mercer, Plain City; c. E. Force,
Magnetic Springs; d. John Smith,
Milford Center; Fred Ell, Marys-
vile 4B; John d. McAuliffe,
Marysville 3A; Harry o. Moore,
Redwood 2; William L. Coleman,
Paris South; and Robert M. Cole
man, Paris North.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02

Photo by
Smitty's Studio
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
I" Grange News
L.eesburg Grange

LeeSburg Grange No. 2678 met
in regular session Thursday eve
ming, Jan. 26, with worthy mas
ter Ted Disbennett in charge and
a good attendance of remainder
of Grange officers.
More plans We're made for the
Polio Benefit Jamboree to be
sponsored by the Grange on Feb.
10, at the Magnetic Springs
School Building. Harry Cooper
distributed tickets for the jam
boree to the members present to
be sold to the public.
The Grange voted to buy bas-
ketball jerseys for the team.
There are II boys who are men,
bers of the team, including a al
ternate players. The boys had
purchased their own basketball
shorts.
Juvenile Matron Hazel Styers
had charge of the Juvenile
Grange. Lecturer Eval Hall had
a spell down on the Lecture
Hour.
Home Economics Committee
chairman, Mrs. Basil Dewitt and
her committee served lunch of
fruit salad, cookies and coffee.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
Cor. Truck Damaged
In New Dover Bridge

A car and a truck were dam
aged in an accident at the Dover
bridge on Route 36 at 1:30 p. m.
Tuesday. No one was injured.
The car, a 1912 Ford from the
37th Infantry at Ft. Hayes, driv-
en- by 1t. Don L. Herbst, of Pleas
ant Hill, National Guard offic-
er, stopped upon entering the
bridge when another car entered
from the other end.
Herbst started to back out of
the bridge and was hit from be-
hind by an International semi
truck driven by Afford S. Haenel,
81, of Union City, Pa, who said
that his brakes were wet and did
not hold.
The front end of the truck was
slightly damaged and the rear Of
the car was smashed in.
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% miles are graded earth.
The funds received for road
purposes are not sufficient to
keep up with the increased traf-
fic and loads the roads are re-
quired to carry" Mr.. Llewellyn
said. He added that the County
Engineers most difficult prob
lem is to decide how the funds
received may be spent to best
serve the interest of the public.
Reeapitulation sheet released
by the County Engineers office
showed the following detailed
account of receipts and expendi-
tures.
Receipts:
Townships and villages-Allen,
S275.; Claibourne, S285.43; Jack
son, S368499; Jerome, $1,000
Leesburg, S135.75; Washington,
SlI71.68; York, S773.; Milford
Center, S266.68; Marysville (cem-
etery roads), S985.92.
Gasoline and auto revenue
gasoline excise tax, S95,000; auto
registration fees, S36,850.58; gaso-
line tax, $4,000; auto license re-
venue S7322.97; 5 percent equali-
zation fund, $4,000; second, and
third adv. dist, S31, ,993.12.
Miscellaneous receipts (sale OF
pipe, tile, lumber, salt, etc.)-
S809.27; insurance-S32.79; sale OF
equipment (grader, roller, tractor,
truck, etc.,-S395473.
Use of equipment and man.
power by townships, companies,
and other groups-S366.73; Re-
funds-S82l4; check cancelled
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02

Balance carried over from l948,
S43, 1879; total receipts and bal
ance, S284.470.70.
Expenses: Roads
Employees wages, $62,129.50;
Small tools, S547.03; New equip
ment, $50, ,425.75; Equipment
maintenance, SlO,545,S8; Garage
maintenance, $7O8.47; Utilities,
S549.2l; Petroleum products, Sl0,-
9O6.89; Bituminous products, S45,-
882.50; stone, $48,024.2l.
Concrete, $8O.S4; Lumber, $642..
10; Tile, $636.02; corrugated meta
pipe, $4972.56; miscellaneous
S9580.77; Equipment rental, S25-
00.07.
Expenses: Bridge
Ready mix concrete, $3603.69
Lumber, S3952.74; structural
steel, S610.70; reinforcing steel
$l836. .46; Equipment rental, $575..
miscellaneous, $ll08.5l; total
S239,818.49.
Transfer to work county work.
mans compensation fund, S407 Sc
transfer to county fund, $9867 %
insurance, $23.40. Total expenses
S256, 1869.
The County Engineers bal
ance going into 1860 is $28,992.46
more than $4,000 less than the
1949 figure.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02

Seldom a day goes by but
what the city papers report the
death of at least one person in
traffic, and all too often, speed
is the basic cause.
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Receipts Lower
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School at Lancaster. Two more
were sent to the State Bureau of
Juvenile Research in Columbus.
Five delinquent children were
placed on probation. Ten ne
elected children were sent to the
County Children's Home and sew
en- were returned to Marion
County, their legal place of set
tlement.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02


shoulder, or pull sympathy get
ting gag, but did you ever notice
how trouble seems to come in
punches?
Take our own shop last week,
for instance.
1t started Monday morning
when Nancy Howell, who oper-
ates one of our Linotype ma
chimes, mashed the thumb and
two fingers on her right hand.
She had 'em where they should
have been at the wrong time, and
will be off for another week,
anyhow.
Then, Tuesday morning, they
had to take the daughter Of Mrs.
Virgil Graham, another of our
Linotype operators, to the hos
pital. The girl, Harriet Ann
Kitchen, underwent an abdom-
inal operation Wednesday, SO
Mrs. Graham was out for two
days.
Wednesday, Johnny Rausch,
who operates a buffing machine
at Salter's came home from the
hospital after an operation sever
al days previous. Johnny's at
tractive wife, Mae, is our book
keeper and office girl, and it
was only natural that she wanted
to help bring him home, SO she
was gone part of Wednesday and
part of Thursday.
And so it goes. We're keeping
our fingers crossed, wondering
what comes next!
The automobile may be one of
the Twentieth Century's mira
cles of progress, but what a ter
rible implement of death it can
become!
Last Saturdays fatal accident
on the Marion rd. is an example.
There was a fine family of
three, happily returning home
after a visit with relatives, pos
sibly talking about what the fu-
ture held or what the morrow
might bring.
Then, SUDDENLY, quicker than
you can tell or read about it, it's
it's all over.
The pretty, l9-year-old daught-
er is lying on the road dead.
Her parents, both horribly in
jured, on their way to the hos
pital where the mother was to
die a few hours later. 1t is not
certain even yet, if the father
will live or die.
Apparently, from what wit
nesses told the Sheriff, they Were
more victims sacrificed on the
altar of speed. DRIVER of the
second car, it was reported, had
passed other cars at a terrific
speed only a few moments before
the collision.)
More and more often, we hear
someone say something like, 1--WE
got a long trip tomorrow, and
gosh, how / dread it. The way
some people drive, it's getting
so I'm almost afraid to get in a
car"
Seldom a day goes by but
what the city papers report the
death of at least one person in
traffic, and all too often, speed
is the basic cause.
The solution?
Traffic and safety engineers
far smarter than this observer
have been concerned over high
way deaths for a long time and
haven't accomplished much to
date, so far be it from us to come
up with an answer.
Seems like the only thing that
will stop it would be for all auto
manufactures to get together and
agree to make their cars so they
will go only so fast, hereafter, and
get all state legislatures to pass
laws requiring governors to be
installed on all outstanding cars.
Quite an ambitious program,
that. But you think of anything
when you see those broken bodies
,,rl,inl, fclInnrr q had annidarf and
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
York Center GRANGE

York Center Grange held its
regular meeting Jan. 26 with
Master Stanley Thomas in charge.
Two officers were installed. The
Youth chairman, Clifford Dill,
gave good report on the basket
ball team, and asked more MEM
bers to attend these games.
Thurman Skidmore explained
the different benefits of Grange
insurance. Applications for four
new members were read. Hen
rietta Jacobs, the lecturer, gave
an interesting program. The
home economics chairman ap-
pointed La Verne McMahan,
Ruth Shultz and Dorothy Wiley
to serve on refreshment commit
tee at next meeting Feb. z. Each
family bring a pie.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
. Courts
PROBATE COURT
Licensed to Wed

Kenneth Moore, 21, farmer of
Redwood Rt. 3, son of Guy
Moore, and Ellen Saunders, 81,
of Redwood Rt. 3, daughter Of
Howard Saunders. Rev. Turner
was expected to solemnize the
Charles Williamson, %, Plain
City, son of John Williamson,
and Helen /. Roop, 81, of Plain
City Rt. 2, daughter Of Martin
Roop.
RECORDERS OFFICE
Discharge Filed
Stanley T. Salisbury has re-
corded his discharge from the
United States Army.
Real Estate Transfers
Andrew c. Taylor to Harry
Graves, 7.80 acres in Paris Town
ship, 81.
w. ]. and Ethel Hamilton to
Paul G. and H. R. Jewell, lot in
Peoria, 81.
Birdie c, Myers to Worley W.
and M. l.. Dooley, lot in Marys-
vile, 81.
Nellie A. and j. w. Rathbun to
Clyde Kunce, lot in Marysville,
81.
Lydia A. Wenger to Raymond
r. Wenger, 72.74 acres in Taylor
Township, 81.
H. B. Brooks to Wayne Teets,
lot in Pharisburg, 81.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-02-02
County Engineer Receipts High

.Sl.42; fines transferred to Road
Fund-S724;
bitches, pipe, materials, and
engineering time-Romine, $780,
40; Berry, $103.O5; Minter, $685.
or; Mitchell, $15l.30; Morris, $52.-
so; Hamilton, $196.l0. Total,
S8OO.52.
Evening star., 1950-01-15

that printing provides the bread
and butter for more than 5000
people here who get paid more
than ss3, 600. 900 a year.
A good many of these people
of course, are Government work
ers. The Government Printing
Office. which got started in 1861,
is the largest complete printing
plant in the world, and the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing
runs it a close second. Together,
they cover some IS acres of down.
town Washington, employ some
$4,000 people and have an an
nual payroll of nearly $47,000, 900.
From the presses of the Gov
eminent Printing Office comes
the product that rates as Wash
ington's principal export, in the
same sense that Pittsburgh has
steel; Chicago, cattle, and Detroit,
automobiles.
Private printing establishments
in Washington grew up at the
time of the Civil War to handle
the overflow from the GPO. The
first firm was Gibson Bros, Inc,
which set up shop in 1852 and is
still ygoing strong.
Through the years, the number
OF commercial houses has grown
Evening star., 1950-01-15

was no engineer, and the expert
ment was a failure until he got
in touch with a former German
matchmaker who lived in Balti-
more. His name was Ottmar Mer-
genthaler.
Working for Clephane's group
and after much experimenting,
Mergenthaler in 1884 turned out
the first machine which would
cast metal slug of type using
keyboard. The invention of the
linotype machine is rated today
as one of the most significant
contributions to the printing in
dustry since the invention OF the
movable type press by Johann
Gutenberg in 1440.
The other important invention
by Washington man was the
monotype machine, which casts
a single piece of type at time.
The first monotype was built in
1885 by Tolbert Lanston, who got
his original idea from watching
the operation of a tabulating ma
chine in the Census Bureau. The
monotype was perfected in 1887.
For the remainder of the week,
many private firms here are in
viting the public to come in and
learn more about them. The Bu-
Evening star., 1950-01-15
Lions Seek Jobs
For Handicapped
At Bethesda

The Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Lions Club has launched a pro-
gram to help an estimated $50
physically handicapped persons in
the community find jobs.
The program will be under the
direction of Carey E. Quinn and
Robert H. Best, who have set up
headquarters at 8118 Wisconsin
avenue.
All physically handicapped per-
sons in the area have been urged
to call the Office, Wisconsin 1888,
or to write If they are unable to
appear.
Mr.. Quinn said the project was
conceived after several club mem
bers heard of the difficulty en-
Ecountered by such persons in OBJ
tanning employment.
He emphasized no charge will
be made for the service and there
will be no request for public con-
tributions.
Evening star., 1950-01-15

has leveled off, and its leaders
hope 1T will remain relatively
stable. -
From the historical viewpoint,
Washington residents can take
pride in the fact that two of the
most important contributions to
modern printing were the brain
children Of local men.
The idea for the machine which
makes today's high speed print
ing possible, the linotype machine,
grew out of the impatience OF
a young group of law reporters
led by James o. Clephane.
Back in 1866 Clephane was
getting started as a law reporter
after serving as a private secre-
tary to Secretary of State Seward
during the Civil War. Law report
ing then was process of tran
scribing shorthand notes into
longhand, and then waiting dur
ing the slow business of hand
composition by the printer. Young
Mr.. Clephane found it tedious.
Taking his cue from the newly
invented typewriter. he started
working out a machine that
would set type automatically. line
by line, with the use Of a type
writer keyboard. But Clephane
Evening star., 1950-01-15

|reau of Engraving and Printing
also is holding "open house" and
the GPO is sponsoring public ex-
hibit at its book store at North
Capitol and H streets.
The Library of Congress starts
things off today with a special dis
play of the printing work turned
out under Benjamin Franklin's
versatile hand. It is interesting
that Franklin thought of himself
first of all as a printer. His will
reads: IT,, Benjamin Franklin, of
Philadelphia, Printer, late minister
plenipotentiary from the United
States Government to the Court
of France -
Tomorrow the industry will hold
it's own main celebration in the
form OF the 1583rd consecutive
meeting of the Graphic Arts AS
sociation at 12:45 pm, at the May
flower Hotel. DR.. Luther H. Evans.
librarian of Congress, will speak
on the subject "a Librarian Looks
at the Printing Industry"
On Tuesday. Deputy Public
Printer Philip L. Cole will be the
speaker at a celebration sponsored
by the Government Printing Office
at 4:45 pm. His subject: "Benja-
min Franklin and the Printing IN
dustry."
Evening star., 1950-01-15

to more than 200, with a principal
source of business still coming
from the Government. About 90
per cent of the business is handled
by the 81 firms forming the
Graphic Arts Association, under
whose leadership the program
for Printing Week was worked out.
One reason why the public is
not aware CT Washington S
printing industry might be that
the many establishments are
small plants, scattered all over
the city. Another is that Wash
ington presses turn out little in
the way OF reading matter for the
general public. The best-known
national magazine published here
is the National Geographic, turned
out by the firm of Judd g. Det-
weller, Inc.
The rest of the work of the
industry comes mostly from trade
associations, many of whom have
their national headquarters in
Washington Unlike most indus
tries, the Washington printing
business has not been much af-
fected by the rapid growth Of
the city within recent years. After
a brief furry of wartime expan-
sion, the growth of the industry
Evening star., 1950-01-15
School Board Votes
To Abolish Mid-Year
Terms in Arlington

A system of annual entrance
and promotion for Arlington ele-
mentary school pupils will go
into effect next September. the
County School Board decided
unanimously yesterday.
The system, under which chill
dren will begin in the first grade
only in September, rather than in
September or February, as at
present, was favored by an over
whelming majority at a public
hearing Wednesday. night.
The new plan will not apply in
junior or senior high schools.
Left unsettled by the board was
the date on which children must
be six years old to be admitted in
September. School Board Member
Barnard Joy proposed that two
plans be considered and asked
that parent-teacher associations
and other groups discuss them.
They are:
/. Admit in September all chill
dren who will be six years old by
December /.
2. Admit in September those
who will be six years old by Sep
tember 80, and in addition, admit
all who will be six years old by
the following March ! if they pass
standard tests indicating they are
socially and mentally able to
benefit by first grade work.
Evening star., 1950-01-15
Charter Day CeIebrants
To Hear President Byrd

President H. C. Byrd will give
the only address at the 143rd
Charter Day celebration of the
University of Maryland at a BAN
quet in the dining hall at 7 pm.
Friday. He will speak on THE
University Present and Future"
The program will include Strick-
land Gillian, Washington humor-
ist, the University's Glee Club and
the Gymkana Troupe. A dance
will follow the banquet.
X. v. Koous, president of the
alumni association, will give a
brief greeting and F.. Murray Ben
son, Baltimore lawyer, will be
master of ceremonies. DR.. VIII
liam G. Triplett of Baltimore is
chairman of the Charter Day
Committee.
Evening star., 1950-01-15

of the deaf resulted in the tele-
phone. She said her father was
trying to develop a machine so
the deaf could see the vibration
of sound. He failed in that but
learned so much about sound that
the telephone came from his work.
Deafness Most Isolating."
In discussing her handicaps,
Miss Keller said that she consid-
cred deafness the most "isolating
of the two Affections she suf-
fered.
Deafness still remains iso-
lating. even more so than blind
ness. as I know from my own ex-
periences. but it is gradually re-
treating before scientific methods
of treatment and education" she
declared.
Clarence D. O'Connor. president
of the Volta Speech Association
for the Deaf, presided at the cere-
mony.
1AAoo 1ohl1lS PdIG WcIc LulIl-
ber OF deaf children who were
learning to talk and "communi-
cate One of these who won the
audience with her demonstration
was a pretty little blond Beverly
Greenberg. 312 years old. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Greenberg, ZIG Normandy
drive, Silver Spring.
Beverly and her teacher, Miss
Eleanor Vorce. are from tkesL Lex-
ingt0n School for the Deaf New
York City.
~ Others on Program.
Others on the program included
Dagnlar Hank. Eileen Doherty and
Jeannette Majuk, all O. years old,
and their teacher, Mrs. Margaret
M. Wood, also Of the Lexington
School.
Richard E. Thompson, student
at Harvard who is deaf, also spoke.
Evening star., 1950-01-15
Capitol Hear About Its Maj Manufacturing Industry Printing Week Stoq

Washington this week is in for
something Of an earful on the
subject of the printing industry
a subject on which most people
according to the printers, are woe-
fully ignorant.
The idea Of International Print
ing Week, they explain, is bit
different from most of the other
National Weeks" in that it has
an educational, rather than q
commercial motive. The members
Of Washington's printing fraterni-
ty claim that they represent the
largest manufacturing industry in
Washington, have been established
here for nearly a century, and
that it's high time residents took
notice and pride in these facts.
Printing Week, along with the
more strictly academic Printing
Education Week directed at
school teachers) falls each year
around January 17-birthday of
the patron saint of the Ameri-
can printing industry, Benjamin
Franklin. And this year there is
scheduled an unprecedented num-
ber of programs and special ex-
hibits to celebrate the occasion.
The industry hopes that when
Printing Week is over, the average
person In Washington will realize
Evening star., 1950-01-15
Republicans to Sponsor
Tax Cut LEGISLATION

BALTIMORE. Md, Jan. IA
(SpeciaD Republican members
OF the General Assembly decided
today to sponsor legislation to
reduce taxes and give home rule
to municipalities.
Specifically, the G. o. p. law
makers proposed an increase from
S40o to $500 in the exemption for
dependents and a reduction from
5 to 2 per cent in the tax on I'M
earned income for persons receiv-
ing up to $4,000 year.
In another action. members Of
the group said they would in
troduce legislation providing heav-
Ter penalties for violators of truck
weight laws.
The proposals were submitted
by a committee headed by Senator
Roy Tasco Davis of Montgomery
County.