Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-06-30
J0TTINGs ....
OFF THE CUFF
BY RAY SPERBER

w different? You might try one
of the sightseeing flights which
Cormorant Seaplane Charters,
Inc, Fort Lauderdale Florida,
and Port Clinton, Ohio, is now
featuring at Ascher's Beach, one
mile west of the city. Jim Bas-
iley and Bob GenZ, co-owners of
the firm, hold commercial pilot
and flight instructor licenses and
have had plenty of experience.
Their seaplane is moored along
the lake shore, near Basiley's
Mite Club and sightseeing flights
are made daily.
-JOT-
DORT CLINTON'S horse race
= stables, Cardinal Beverage and
Swartz and Cover, have their
hopefuls out on the circuit now
and anticipate a good season.
Fritz Johnson's Cardinal Beverage
Stable got off to a good start
Wednesday night when it's Clever
Eddy came through to win the
first race at Worthwhile Downs,
Michigan, and paid $40. 1t was
a big thrill to Fritz and Marie,
who were in the stands to see the
courageous gelding trotter finish
the mile in PIG. Clever Eddy won
the race, despite the fact he's been
undergoing treatment for lame
ness and this was only his sec
ond start. He figured in the high
est daily double paid off in two
years at the Michigan track, 10
bettors collecting $675.80 each
when they teamed Eddy with Jean
Dexter, which won the second race
and paid $3.50. Nope, the John
sons weren't that lucky. In the
second race, Jean Dexter beat the
favorite by a nose. If the IA
vorite had won, the daily double
would have paid the staggering
sum of $6,758 as only one bettor
had him teamed with Clever Eddy.
Ted Aldrich, of Mooney Farms,
Fremont, is driver-trainer for
Cardinal Beverage Stable. Fritz
and Marie have high hopes for
their youngest starters, Mighty
Gale and Mighty Fritz, which are
being shipped from Worthwhile
Downs to Goshen, New York, this
weekend. Mighty Gale is entered
in a $4,000 stakes race at the
Goshen circuit. These colts are
PAGERS. Swartz and Cover have
Donna Frisco, Norma c and an
unnamed colt in competition at
the Painesville, Ohio, circuit. Their
veteran campaigner, Eddie Hal,
has gone blind and has run his
last race.
HARLAN BRANUM, Dorsey
! i Carr and three other high
school youths are sporting "Don
Eagle" haircuts this summer. The
boys are trying to persuade all
other members Of the Redskin
grid team to wear the abbreviat-
ed butch cuts. They claim they're
mighty cool, but their mothers
must get hot under the collar
when they catch the first glimpse
of their sons badness.
-JOT-
r. B. KIRK'S Skylark of the Port
J Clinton Yacht Club fleet took
third place in Class B cruising
races at Toledo Yacht Club Sun
day. The Skylark was 18th in the
Mills Trophy Race from Toledo to
Detroit to Put-in-Bay and return
CHERIFF Merlan Budd and Dep
- uty Sheriff Bill Cullen had a
hectic afternoon Sunday when
they directed traffic at the Moose
Club intersection Of Routes 2 and
1853 during the bumper-to-bumper
rush hours. The new traffic light
could not cope with the thousands
of cars and the jam up heightened
until the officials unjammed it. Ma
jority of the autos We're headed
to or from the East Harbor State
Park, where the crowd was esri-
mated all the way from $4,000
to 100000. The traffic light at
the park entrance on Route 163
Lakeside Road) was also made
quate to keep traffic moving.
MISS Jean Nelson, daughter OF
A'A Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Nelson
Y East Perry street, has been award
ed the George Eastman Scholar
ship by the faculty of the East
man School of Music of the Uni
versity of Rochester, New York
This scholarship is conferred or
students in recognition of out
standing scholastic achievement
Miss Nelson received a Bachelor
of Music Degree from Eastman in
June, 1949.