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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
CATAWBA
BY Edna Neer Davisson

DR.. and Mrs. T. c. Smith of
Urbana were Saturday evening
guests of the formers parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Thos. F. Smith.
The occasion was Mrs. T. +.
Smiths birthday anniversary.
Weekend guests of Rev. and Mrs.
Smith were Miss Doris Deane
johnson of Dayton and Paul A.
Perry of Port Clinton, Miss Leone
Smith, who had been the guest
of her parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Smith, returned to Port Clinton
where she is employed with Mr..
Perry, Sunday evening.
The Golden Rule Billie class
of the First Methodist Church
was entertained Tuesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Susie
Douglas, Mrs. Bruce Campbell as
sisted. Mrs. Chester Skillman was
devotional leader. In contests ar
ranged by the hostesses, Mrs. L.
c. Momberg and Mrs. Frank
Myers were successful. Refresh
ments were served to Mrs Mom-
berg, Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Skillman,
Mrs. j. G.. Deeds, Mrs. Lincoln
Locke, Mrs. Agnes Poland, Mrs.
Warder Poland and sons, Mrs.
Mae Hall, Mrs. Emas Hall, and
Mrs. H. E. Davisson.
Mrs. George Palmer accompan-
led Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Goodson of
Springfield to Athens, Sunday to
visit the formers granddaughter,
and the latter's daughter, Miss
Joan, who is sophomore at Ohio
University.
Rev. and Mrs. II. II. McPheron
of Millersport were overnight
guests Sunday and Monday of
Rev. and Mrs. j. G. Deeds. Mon
day the four motored to Dixon,
Ohio to visit Rev. and Mrs. Ralph
Young.
Mrs. Florence Locke entertain
ed at dinner Tuesday evening in
honor of her niece, Marylin Wood
man, who will enroll at OSU this
week as a freshman Additional
dinner guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Perm Woodman and daughter,
Shirley, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Co.
berly of Springfield, Mr.. and Mrs.
Malcolm Locke and daughter,
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Support Of Fire
Prevention Urged

Harry j. Callan, State Fire
Marshall and w. T. Holiday,
Chairman of the Board, The
Standard Oil Company (Ohio)
and General Chairman of The
Ohio Fire Safety Committee, call
ed on all the citizens of Ohio to
support Fire Prevention Week this
year with greater enthusiasm
than ever before to halt rapidly
rising fire losses. Fire Prevention
Week will be observed from Oc-
tober 8 to IA this year by procla-
nation of President Truman and
Governor Lausche.
During 1949, fires in the Nation
burned to death 1000 persons
and many times that number suf-
fered incapacitating or painful
burns and injuries The victims of
these fires were mostly women
and children, Holiday said.
During the same year over six
hundred million dollars worth
of property burned. The highest
fire loss in history.
Fire Marhal Callen cited the
seven major causes of fires in call
ing for recognition of the menace
of skyrocketing fire losses:
1. Matches and Smoking
29.2o% 2, Misuse of Electricity
1857; 3. Fires originating off
premises 8.089o; a. Defective
heating apparatus 5000; 5.
Defective chimmeys, flues,
etc. 6.649o; 6. Open lights
6.50@o; Z. Petroleum and its
products 6.34o.
Each person has an opportunity
to exercise considerable control
over these conditions. One of the
principal reasons for holding Fire
Prevention Week each year is to
have an opportunity to concen-
trate and focus public attention on
the simple causes of fires fire.
quently overlooked.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

Colleen, Miss Alice Locke, and
IEustace fDavisson. Another cuur-
tesy to Miss Marylin Woodman
was an informal party at the
home of Miss Betty Reisinger.
Miss Woodman was surprised with
a personal shower, receiving many
attractive gifts from the thirty
guests present. Games, contests,
and refreshments featured the
evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Max Lowry and
sons of Terre Haute, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Marlin Palmer were the din
ner guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Caplinger.
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service of the First Methodist
church was entertained Thurs
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Carl Talbot, Mrs. Samuel Wise,
Mrs. Sheldon Campbell, and Mrs
Lynn Wilson assisted. Mrs. Archie
Setty was devotional leader; Mrs
Philip Virts, program leader. Re-
freshments We're served to Mrs
Setty, Mrs. L. C. M o m b G
Mrs. J. G. Deeds, Mrs. Arthur
Tavenner, Miss Mary Ann Taven-
ner, Mrs. Nathan Bumgardner
Mrs. Phares, Mrs Carrie. Alexan
der, Mrs. Lincoln Locke, Mrs
Frank Shockey. Mrs. Art Violet
Mrs. Charles Hall, Mrs. Elma.
Hall. Mrs. Edward Berry, Mrs
Oscar Young, Mrs. Mahlon Neer
Mrs. Myron Runyan, Mrs. Viii
liam Mcknight, Mrs. Eta Talbot
Mrs. Chester Skillman, Mrs. Pau
Remley and daughter, Mrs. Ward
er Poland and sons, Mrs. Agnes
Poland, Mrs. Mae Hail. Mrs. Ear
Mossbarger, Mrs. Anna NcHenry
Mrs. Clayton Bobst and son, Mrs
H. f. Davisson, and the hostesses
Mr.. and Mrs. Walt H. Smith o.
Springfield were the Tuesday
guests of Rev. ard Mrs. T. F
Smith.
Mrand Mrs. Lincoln Locke ant
Robert Locke were the Sunday
guests of Rev. and Mrs. Denver
Crumbaker and family of Flat,
wood, Ky.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Bank Service To
Agriculture Is
RECOGNIZED

NEW YORK, Sept. q - Ser
vices of Ohio banks to the agri-
culture of the state was recognized
here today at the closing general
session of the Diamond Anniver-
sary Convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association, when
the Ohio Bankers Association was
presented with the 1000-point rat
ing award of the ABA. Agricul-
tural Commission.
The award was presented in
recognition of the high quality of
regular banking services provided
to the farmers of the. state as well
as for special activities conducted
by the Associations member
banks in the agricultural field
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
0hio's Share In
WiIdIife Fund Is
To Be S296,113

Ohio's share of federal aid funds
for wildlife restoration and de-
velopment for the fiscal year
1851, will be 1895, 1907, ac-
cording to an announcement by
the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice this week.
The sum, made available for use
by the Wildlife Division under the
terms of the Pittman-Robertson
Act, is somewhat smaller than
was appordoned to Ohio for 1850
The reason being a general over
all drop in the income of the
fund.
The apportionment to the states
by the federal government last
year was made from a total fund
of S9,913.397, while this year
only $8,673,517 was available for
apportionment. Thus making each
states share proportionately
smaller.
This is the fourth consecutive
year that Congress has appro-
priated the entire amount credited
to the Federal, Aid to Wildlife
Restoration Fund through the col
lection of Federal excise taxes on
the manufacture of sporting arms
and ammunition. Ohio has parti-
cipated each year, by adding the
required 25R of the cost of the
projects within the state.
Ohio Federal Aid Co-ordinator
Floyd Chapman, reports that
Ohio now has 848 habitat inn
provement and restoration areas
under the 48-D projects, con-
sisting of approximately 3CO
pheasant areas, with the remand
er set up to benefit rabbits and
other game. This and nine other
projects of the Division are op-
Grated on the funds provided by
the Pittman-Robertson Act.
The formula used in making
the allotments to the states is
based on the land areas of the
state, and the number of hunting
licenses sold in the state. Ohios,
according to the Wildlife Service,
will receive the sixth highest sum
among the participating states in
1851.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Friday, Sept. z9, 1850
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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND
PARAGRAPH CD OF SUB-SEC.
TlON (4) OF SECTION vi OF AN
ORDINANCE ENTITLED IAN Or
D1NANCE TO REGULATE THE
USE AND OPERATION OF We
HICLES UPON THE STREETS OF
THE VILLAGE OF LONDON. Mad
ORDINANCE NO. 691' PASSED by
THE COUNCIL OF SAID VILLAGE
ON THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH.
1887.
Be 1t Ordained by the Council
of the Village Of London, Madison
County, Ohio:
Section 1: That paragraph I'D OF
An Ordinance Entitled "-An Ordi-
nance To Regulate The Use and
Operation of Vehicles Upon The
Streets OF the Village OF London,
Madison County, Ohio. be amended
to read as follows:
THE streets upon which angle
parking shall be permitted are as
follows: Upon North Main Street
ana South Main Street, from Fifth
Street to Center Street: Upon the
north side Of High Street from the
intersection OF s0Ak Street to Union
street; Upon the fspaath side OF
Fourth Street from the intersec-
tion or Foufth hM eeN AMO, & worm
Main Street to the dHfe erEactton Of
Fourth street ana North. Oak Street.
Upon all otherystyeets parking shall
be paraliel With the ciirb. as here
in otherwise provided',e-s.
SECTION q THE sOrdjnance is
hereby declared TO be anSsemergency
ordinance necessary for the public
safety and welfare and shall take
effect upon It's passage by Council
and it's approval by. the Mayor OF
said Village.
Section j. All sother ordinances or
parts or ordinance in conflict with
the provisions Of the within ordin-
ance be and the same hereby are
repealed.
Passed this 18th day OF Septem-
ber, 1850.
f. p. Speasmaker.
Mayor
Evelyn f.. Conlon.
Clerk .
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

one and one-sixteenth miles in
that time despite the fact that
Sc carried the back-breaking inn
post of 126 pounds and that he
was only three-year old COM
peting against older horses.
Since that memorable occasion
the Ohio Championship has been
taken by Thor (twice), Beau
Nash and Hook UP.
This year, the Championship
will be contested for $500
purse, representing an increase
of so per cent in the monetary
value of the race in past seasons.
The tentative lineup for the
renewal of the Championship in
cludes: J. A. Chambers Mister
Morgan and Big Road, Mrs. Leo
Wagner,s Mickey w and Jimpin,
oiu,.ey Crewt's Concrete, Charles
Graham's Fancy Flyed, Mrs A.
NJ. Creech's Kosadus, Mrs. John
Zitnik's Dusty Days and Jacoboy,
the latter, three-year-old, being
the ace of Lucian Knights stable.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Saturday Final
Day Of Racing
At BeuIah Park

A top-flight field of reuters
will aim for South Dakotas track
record in the sixth running of
the Ohio Championship Handicap
at Beulah Park Saturday, Sept.
30 the final day of the Ohio
thoroughbred racing season.
In danger of tumbling is South
Dakota's record of LAB 3-5, which
has stood since the first running
of the Ohio Championship Oct.
20, 1945. The gray son of the
Omaha-New Pin sped over the
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

Creel census reports reaching
the Division of Wildlife head
quarters here this week indicated
that September fishing, generally
throughout the state, has been
with the outlook described for the
final few days of the month.
Of the 81 lakes and streams in
cluded in the census report, eight
reported fishermen averaging over
one fish per hour the past week,
which is considered fairly good
fishing.
Lake Alma in Vinton county
was the anglers best spot last
week, reporting an average of
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
County Teams In
League Contests

Games in the newly formed
Mid-Six, the Mid-State and Coun-
ty Leagues are scheduled to get
under way at 8 p. m. Friday.
The Mid-Six card includes
Grove City at Westerville, Lon
don at billiards, and Marysville
at Worthington.
In the Mid-State Columbus
Academy is at West Jefferson,
University at Mechanicsburg, Mt.
Sterling at Bremen, and Frank
fort at Liberty Union.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
One OF 81 In
u. S. Injured

One out of 80 persons in the
United States was disabled one or
more days by injuries received in
home accidents during 1949.
Home injuries totaled 1850, 900,
according to the 1850 edition of
Accident Facts" the statistical
yearbook of the National Safety
Council, and these included 120,-
600 permanent impairments.
The home death toll was $1,000,
of which about half resulted from
falls.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Sexton Showing
His Old Form

Frank Sexton, former heavy
weight wrestling champion show
ed signs of his old form in dis
posing of Jack Kennedy in
straight falls in the main event
of the weekly mat show at Mem
orial Hall Springfield Monday
night.
The Sedaia farm boy seemed
to have lost some of the speed
since his return from Europe in
previous matches, but appeared
to have regained it and eliminated
Kennedy with ease.
Sexton won the first fall with
rolling arm lock and the Sec
ond with a top smother.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Central District
Voted Another
Glass B Tourney

Another Class B High School
Basketball tournament will be in
the Central District in February,
it was voted by the Central Dis
trict Board of Control at its
first meeting of the year Tuesday
in Columbus.
The new tournament, devised to
reduce the exceptionally large
field in the annual Class B tourna-
ment at Westerville' and in direct
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

1.9 per hour. Seneca Lake in
Guernsey and Noble counties also
reported high take of II per
hour. Other good fishing spots
were Charles Mill Reservoir, Ash
land and Richland counties, IL;
Leesville Reservoir, Carroll coun-
ty, 10; North Reservoir, Summit
county, 10; Pleasant Hill Re-
servoir, Ashland and Richland
counties. IL; Turkeyfoot Lake,
Summit county, and Riley Creek
10.
Fishing has been reported ex-
cellent in most of the lakes of
the Muskingum Watershed Con-
servancy District.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

during The past year. 1Hhis is the
ninth consecutive year that the
Ohio banks have received the
award.
Points toward the award are
given by the Agricultural Com
mission for such activities as pro-
motion of soil conservation and
land management; encourage
ment of farmers to cooperate
with the extension service of their
state agricultural college; spon-
sorship of All Club, F.F'. A., and
other farm-youth group activities;
and special activities such as
farm credit schools, educational
projects and tours.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29
Tough Needles

Tough Needles
Needles for sewing extra tough
fabrics are being made with poiM
tip of carboloy cemented carbide.
made by converting powdered tung-
stem and lampblack into ultra-hsrd
tungsten carbide. One such needle
has been used to sew the bead ~
600 mattresses without sharpening.
q Job that would wear out 90 reSu-
lar needles even after 1910 shArD.
! enings. %
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

URANl-YUM, YUMA fear
less Texan, ten-month-old Dy-
ann Schonenberg Of Houston.
discovered a strange looking
something in a nut bowl. She
swallowed 1t and. grew increas-
ingly uncomfortable. Doctors
rushed her to- hospital and
pumped out her stomach. Their
report, delivered to q startled
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schonen-
berg, diagnosed the tasty tidbit
as a nugget Of uranium ore.
Legal blanks OF all kinds. Mad
ison Press. Co. | y
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-09-29

Classir.es Ads cost ntrle but
bring big results.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
BY Charles E. TroceweN

The woodcock sometimes comes right
into the heart of the city to look for
worms in lawns.
Several years ago this column told
Of one seen in yard in Chevy Chase.
1t is a beautiful, interesting bird, one
far too fine to be eaten in pie, fate
often reserved for it. Those who have
eaten woodcock say 1t is delicious. Since
it is practically all transmitted angle
worm, this seems odd. Few persons, no
matter how hungry, would even dream
of eating mess of worms, but when
transformed by nature into the delicate
flesh of the woodcock it comes out very
tender.
The woodcock is an odd one. In ad-
dition to his peculiar gait, he puts on .
sort Of dance around his mate In the
springtime. and flies straight up into
the air, circles. and flies down again,
uttering series of cheeps.
The mother woodcock sometimes puts
on a broken wing" stunt to lure enc
mics away from the ground nest. At
other times she seizes baby between
iaer feet and flies of with it.
No bird has been hunted in a more
outrageous fashion. At one time it was
the thing to fire hunt" them, by way-
ing torch over the sleeping ground, to
confuse them, and then to shoot them
as they crouched in q huddle. Hitler
would have enjoyed it.
The woodcock lays three or four eggs.
grayish white, with reddish-b brown spots.
Usually only one or two babies survive.
They are Matched with down on them,
and are what is called precocial. that is.
not cared for by the parents In the nest.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
A Law Unto Themselves

During the recent set-to with Federal Judge
Richmond Keech, the soft coal miners demon
strated that they can defy the courts and get
away with it. Now it appears that they are bent
upon demonstrating that they can punish any
miner who might try to obey court order.
Lloyd H. Sidener of Canton, Illinois, has
filed complaint with the National Labor Rela-
tions Board. He was president of UNIV Local
7455, and he says that after Judge Keech's order
was issued he and some one hundred and thirty
other miners tried to go back to work. They were
stopped by pickets. On March 7, after the strike
had ended Sidener says he was fined $4,000 by
the union. He also says he has been notified
that he will be fined $25 day for each day that
he may work. Since his pay is $2l.67 4 day, he
would have to work at loss.
II this story is true, it reveals not only an
apparent violation of the Taft-Hartley Act, but
q aprm of absolute tyranny within the UNIV.
Evening star., 1950-03-18
This and That

ambitious specimen could not walk
around any time 1t chose.
General characteristics are good only
under general conditions.
When some one says q wood thrush,
for instance, does not sing from the
ground, he only means that, by and
large, they sing so much more from
the branch Of tree.
We have seen and listened to scores
OF these beauties-due here in late April,
but probably will be ahead of time this
year-singing as they went over the
earth.
Yet several years ago reader was
quite indignant because We made this
statement. He had read somewhere
that "thrushes never sing while on
the ground" That settled 1t, as far as
he was concerned. He could neither be-
lieve his ears nor eyes, after that.
The woodcock, being a short, chunky
bird, with its head carried way back in
its neck, as the expression has it, must
bob along as he walks.
He is looking for angleworms. and a
good job he makes of it.
Often he seems singularly unafraid
Of humanity, an attitude in which he
is rather mistaken, as two terrible wars
have shown even the most optimistic.
(And now we are threatened with 4
third. Oh, happy woodcock! You and
the other birds. and the beasts Of the
fields and forests, viii never know,
thank heaven, just what terror man
Is, though you and your children have
often felt his wrathD
Evening star., 1950-03-18
Dirk Striker, Europe's Dutch Uncle
By Peter Lisoqor

TINTED STATES officials have just
~ had their first good chance to take
the measure of a man said to hold the
most important job in Europe today.
He is Dirk U. Striker, 53-year-old
Netherlands Foreign Minister, who was
visiting here in his role as political CO.
ordinator of Marshall Plan countries.
He headed back home last week.
Formally. Mr.. Striker is "conciliator"
of the Organization for European Co.
operation. His job is to knock heads
together in achieving the integration
which ECA officials deem vital to lasting
European recovery.
Few Americans knew much about Mr..
Striker before he was named unani-
mously to the post that United States
officials had believed would 90 to Paul
Henri Spaak, the Belgian.
What manner of man is he? Well,
he could be safely called a European
counterpart of Paul G. Hoffman, the
American major domo Of ECA.
Like Mr.. Hoffman, he got into govern
ment late-after successful career AZ
a banker and director Of brewery and
newspaper in Amsterdam. Unlike Hoff-
man. he ran for public Office. He was
elected and enjoyed a meteoric rise, even
by American political standards.
Mr.. Striker has the f1orid appearance
of typical Dutchman. and associates
have called him "a firm-minded man of
sweet reasonableness."
His name itself means "sticker" or
"joiner- together" in Dutch happy
augury to some in view of his CO.
ordinator's job.
A middle e-of-the-roader, politically,
Mr. Striker went into politics after
wartime alliance with underground labor
groups in Holland. Under Nazi noses, he
helped raise funds for the clandestine
operations.
In 1896 he ran for the Senate with
party of his own making. consisting of
elements of both the Liberal right-wing
party and the Labor party on the left.
This was the outgrowth of q Labor
Evening star., 1950-03-18
"sT. ELIzABETHs HOSPITAL.

ST. ELlZABEIdS HOSPIlAL.
Dear Sir:
Having been an interested reader Of
your column for some time, I am joining
the ranks of information seekers to re-
quest the name of bird saw in Prince
Georges County near the Potomac on
the 4th of March It was chunky, low
slung bird about 10 or II inches long in
cluding 21a or inches Of black bill. The
head was sunk in the shoulders. The
color was mottled brown and gray. It
was walking slowly across the road, TAX
ing two or three steps, then going
through peculiar series OF motions best
described as combination OF bobbing
and contracting and expanding its body.
It walked and bobbed. and walked and
bobbed until 1t was startled by the ap-
proach Of the car and few few feet
off the road, settling again into Its walk
ing and bobbing routine. It made no
sound and allowed the car to approach
within 10 or IL feet before it few. It
resembled the bird book picture of
woodcock but I understand woodcocks
do not come out in the daytime and
this bird was seen in the early after
noon.
ANY information you can give me
concerning this bird and its extraordi-
nary behavior would be appreciated.
VERY truly yours, L. D. H., M. D."
Must be woodcock.
No other bird has such carriage Of
It's head back in its shoulders.
Woodcocks sometimes come out on
cloudy days before their usual time.
There is no reason. Of course, why. IA