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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-05
OHIO PUBLIC SERVICE MERGES
INTO The OHIO EDISON COMPANY

Common stockholders of Ohio
Edison Company at specia,
meeting in Akron Thurs
day approved the merger of
The Ohio Public Ser
vice Company into Ohio Edison
Company. A total of 3,163.759
shares or 8o.75ea of the outstand-
ing 3,920,111 shares of common
stock were voted for the merger,
and only 3,091 shares or .08Tc
were voted against the merger
Common stockhol .ers OF The
Ohio Public Service Company had
previouslg approved the merger on
April IL With 2,948,357 shares in
favor of, and 1886 shares against,
the merger. Total number of Ohio
Public Service common shares
outstanding are 100000.
A favorable two-thirds vote of
all common shares outstanding
was necessary in each instance. No
vote of the preferred shareholders
of either company was necessary,
since the merger had been APPROX
ed by The Public Utilities Com
mission of Ohio and the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
The merger agreement will con-
stitute the amended articles of
incorporation of Ohio Edison
Company. But it, Ohio Edison ac-
quires all of the properties and
assumes all of the liabilities Of
Ohio Public Service Company, in
cluding the latter's bonds, serial
notes, and installment notes
amounting to $58,6OO,0OO.
The merger agreement also pro-
vi6cS that the following shall con-
s,itutc the directors and officers
of the enlarged Ohio Edison Com
pany until the annual stockhold-
crs meeting in April 1851.
In order to eliminate complcxi-
tics in its capital securities that
would otherwise result from the
continued existence of Ohio Puolic
Service Company's bonds and
notes and in order to improve its
ability TO finance in the future
by having only one mortgage On
its property, Ohio Edison plans to
eliminate the mortgage, applicable
to the former Ohio Public Service
property, by calling all of the
bonds and serial notes of Public
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-05

Service for redemption and re-
tirement on or before July l, 1880
1t is also planned to call the in
stallment notes. -.
Ohio Edison Company proposes
to provide funds for such purposes
from the sale of $58,000,000 of .3D-
year First Mortgage Bonds and ~
borrowing approximately $780,
600 in short-term bank loans. The
balance of the bank loans not
needed for such purposes will be
used for construction work during
1850.
/ The Ohio Edison system lin
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-05
SPORTS

utes of graphing time had elapsed.
In the third and deciding fail,
Sexton had the naughty Britisher
on the ropes and both rolled onto
the floor. After the referee had
declared it a draw, Blears cou-
tended that it was Sexton who
had tossed him out of the ring and
that he was not allowed to return.
The dispute was carried on in
the dressing room until it was de-
cided that they would meet in the
main event next week in no time
limit affair.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-05
Pasture Rank
Wheat Before
Jointing Stage

Rank growing wheat often
causes poor meadow stands, says
j. l.. Haynes, agronomist at the
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton Fields of wheat make rank
growth should be pastured or
clipped before the jointing stage
10 help the meadow seedlings.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Grocer Shot Near Store;
Police Seek AssaiIanf

Morris Forman, 48. of 65OS
Thirteenth street NV, a grocer,
is in Garfield Hospital today with
a gunshot wound in his right
shoulder. inflicted by a man who
accosted him last night near the
store.
Police said Mr.. Forman. who
has a. market in the 500 block
Irving street NV, was about to
enter his car in the 3100 block
Warder street NV, when q slim,
colored man approached.
Move over or I'll kill you," Mr..
Forman quoted his assailant as
saying.
Mr.. Forman told police that, as
he started to run, the man hit
him on the head, possibly with q
gun. Then Mr. Forman related, he
was shot through the shoulder.
Mr.. Forman's condition is re-
ported not serious. Police are
hunting the assailant.
The manager of the Kilbourne
Liquor Store, at 3174 Mount Pleas
ant street NV. reported BURGERS
entered the place through a sky.
light during the night and took
about $3.50 from q safe.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

Mrs. Gilderoy Scott Of Falls
Church, took time out from hel
profession to launch a grand
mother career.
When I get my certificate after
this 12-hour course really intend
to use it," she said. I've got a
14-month-old grandson to take
care of and I'm 20 years rusty on
the subject. And maybe my cer-
tif1cate will give my daughter an
incentive to have another"
One grandmother feels a cer-
tificate in baby sitting is a must
if she wants to be alone with her
grandchildren at all.
you see, both my daughters
married doctors, SO I've really got
to have the latest methods at my
fingertips if I want to take care
of their four children" she said
These were the already grand
mothers" talking. About IS ,ex-
pectant grandmothers were there
too. and one great-grandmother-
to-be. Mrs. Media Peacock, 10, OF
1927 Nineteenth street NV. :.
Mrs. Peacock already has five
grandchildren. She said she came
to find out the attitude a great
grandmother should have.
II want to know my rights
what I can object to" she ex-
! planned. -.
| One Of the women who signed
! up for the course as an expectanI
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Soldier and Cab Driver
Robbed Of Money, Taxi

An Air Force sergeant and a
District taxi driver were among
victims of robbers last night.
S/Sergt. Tom Coll of Boiling
Air Force Base, reported he was
walking in the 200 block of Port
land street Sc. last night when
q colored man asked him for a
match. The man then struck him
over the head with some blunt
instrument, knocking Mr.. Coll un-
conscious, police reported.
When Mr.. Coll revived, he found
he had been robbed of $3.50. He
went to the Boiling Infirmary for
treatment.
Roy Perdue of 4051 Ely place
Sc, taxicab driver, was robbed
Of So, his wallet and his taxi by
two colored men who directed him
to go to Forty-fourth and Jay
streets NE. and then held him UP.
Mr.. Perdue told police the men
tied his hands behind him with a
necktie and then pushed him from
the cab. The vehicle was recov-
cred not far from the scene of the
robbery several hours later.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Residents Lost Fight
To Get Argonne Place
Taxi Stand Cancelled

The Public Utilities Commission
has decided that a controversial
taxicab stand on Argonne place
NV. south of Harvard street
should remain there.
An investigation was made after
some "a residents of the area peti-
toned that the permit for the
stand be revoked and the stanc
removed.
The petition was transmitted tc
the commission by Henry r. Lin
foot. 1920 Argonne place NV.
The three-cab stand was estab.
lished last January 20. Mr.. Lin.
foot said the protesting residents
were not given a chance to be
heard before establishment of the
stand.
He complained about the loss
OF parking spaces and the Cheap
ening effect upon the vicinity"
The commission has informed
Mr.. Linfoot that a field survey and
check, as well as letters from
other residents of the area asking
that the stand remain, indicate
that 1t is a convenient location fol
patrons of the service"
The Commission acted on rec
ommendation Of its inspectors and
the co-ordinating committee o1
traffic advisors to the District
Commissioners.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
D. {. Fireman Hurt Fighting
Blaze in His Own Home

BENJAMIN H. Feirtag, fireman at
No. II Truck Co.. was injured
slightly yesterday when he tried
to smother fire in his own home,
3416 Tilden street, near Brent
wood, Md.
James Metznotte, member of the
Mount Rainier Volunteer Fire De-
partment. suffered a hand cut
while fighting the blaze.
Mrs. Feirtag said the ash fire
Started behind a kitchen stove.
When her husband threw a rain
coat over the flames, both his
hands were burned and his hair
was singed.
The fire spread quickly and the
Brentwood fire marshal estimated
$4,000 damage to three rooms on
the first floor and two upstairs.
The injured firemen were treat
ed at the scene by the Brentwood
Rescue SQUAD.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

added. 1t carries two 5-inch guns
three 21-inch torpedo tubes, depth
charge racks, *" guns, hedge
hogs, ten 20-mm and two 40-mm
guns.
Its wartime record includes run
ming interference and screening
operations for carriers and
cruisers in the Philippine Sea, at
Salpan, Two Jima and at Okinawa
where the Navy suffered heavy
losses from Japanese suicide
planes. To her credit are nine
floating mines. several Jap planes
and the rescue of number OF
downed flyers during carrier op-
erations.
Youngest among those bringing
her in yesterday was Seaman Re-
cruit Stanley R. ODay. II, of 212o
Sixteenth street NV. Central
High School student. Edward A.
Wagner. 81, Boilerman First Class
of 529 Bashford Lane, Alexandria
was the oldest.
The ship was named for q
Naval Reserve pilot killed in
action over the Aleutian Islands
in 1912. The pilot was pos
thumously awarded the All
Medal.
Here as the reservists' perman-
ent training ship, it will begin
duty Immediately in a series OF
tWo-Week and 30-day cruises.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Senate Unit 10 Consider
Daylight Time in District

Dayligh Saving Time for the
District this summer will be con-
sidered by the Senate District
Committee at IL am. tomorrow
The committee also will take up
the nomination of Kenneth w.
Spencer to be "a member of the
District Public Utilities Commits
sion, succeeding James w. Lauder
dale, who resigned.
A bill to authorize Daylight Saw
ing Time this year again, already
has been reported to the full House
District Committee by a subcom-
mittee.
The so-called fair trade prac-
tice liquor bill, termed a price
raising bill by its opponents, will
be the subject of a public hearing
before another House District
subcommittee at 10 an. March ~.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

Thirty-six grandmothers are
out to get certificates to prove to
daughters and sons they're per-
fectly capable of taking care of
grandchildren.
The gray-haired women have
started a three-day Red Gross
baby care course in Walsh House
2020 Massachusetts, avenue N. W.,
and began learning technical
names for things they did years
ago. The grandmothers are intent
on pitting experience with the
latest wrinkle in diapers and other
baby information. SO they can
delete the phrase, But mother,
that's old = fashioned" from
daughters conversation.
Mrs. Anna Hidnert, GIG Hamil-
ton street NV. who's tired OF
following daughters instructions
in how to care for a 4-year- -old
grandson, signed up for the course
to give my daughter confidence
in me-"
Mrs. Raymond G. Faus, min
lister at the Church of the Heal
ing Christ, is pupil so she can
learn the correct mental approach
to her family.
II have 17-month-old twin
grandsonS and a 2-month-old
granddaughter" she said, "and ]
have a tendency to love them to
DEATH"
A voice teacher and singer
Evening star., 1950-03-15

grandmother had a change OF
status the first day. Her daugh-
ter gave birth to a little girl a
few hours before the course
started.
Il really flew here for a quick
refresher course" Mrs. j. R.
Dwyer. 22l Seaton place NE,
explained.
Even before the course started
Miss Mary De Laskey. registered
nurse with 80 years Red Cross ex-
perience, who is conducting the
classes. was being given questions
on how old methods stack up
with modern ones. Grandmothers
wanted to know if rubber pants
worn all the time were as harm
full to babies as daughter said;
if babies should really be taken
off the bottle after II months or
after 2 years., and should ex-
Ipectant mothers retire." as in by
gone days, or "let every one know
the second day they're pregnant
Miss De Laskey said she would
answer these questions. along with
whether children should be
spanked, at later classes. The
first class covered baby's pre-
natal growth, care OF mothers and
baby clothing. Child behavior and
management comes in the fourth
lesson, Miss De Laskey said
There will be lessons in how to
bathe and care for babies, too.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Neighborhood Concert
Tickets Ready for
Roosevelt High School

Invitations are now ready
for distribution for the next
Neighborhood Concert by the
National Symphony Orchestra
under the sponsorship of The
Evening Star. 1t will be held
at Roosevelt High School at
0 pm. Monday.
The tickets may be had
without cost at Roosevelt High
School, Shepherd, Raymond,
West, Trusdell, Health School,
Bancroft and H. D. Cooke Ele-
mentary Schools, Sacred Heart
Academy, Nativity School, the
Recreation Department, Six
teenth and Lamont streets
NV, and the business counter
In the lobby of The Star Build
Ing.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Ex-PoIish Envoy Cancels
Lecture at Georgetown

A lecture by Jan Ciechanowski
former Polish Ambassador to the
United States, which was sched-
uled for Friday night at George
town University, has been Cancelled
because of his illness, the univer-
sity announced today.
The next lecture in the series
known as the Graduate Forum
Lecture Series, will be held March
81. William c. Bullitt, former
United States Ambassador to rus
sia, will speak.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Epicureon Club Adopts
DESIGN for Emblem

The Epicurean Club of Wash
ington now has an emblem.
The club selected a design for
a lapel emblem from 80 entries
submitted by members last night
at meeting at the Mayf1ower
Hotel.
Winner was Peter Borras, pres
ident and general manager of the
Madrillon Restaurant, whose de-
sign symbolizes epicureanism. The
emblem shows two hands cupping
tureen. The tureen is shaped
like the world and the hands cup
ping it represent people gathering
to improve civilization. Mr.. Borras
explained.
Host to the club last night was
Nicholas Marchitelli,. executive
chef of the Mayfower's kitchens.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Civilians Seized
Al Andrews on
Charges
Narcotics Found;
Others Arrested
In Roid in District

Treasury narcotics agents last
night seized two men at Andrews
Air Force Base and charged them
with peddling drugs. Two more
were arrested in Washington
shortly afterward.
Led by Thomas w. Andrew,
chief of the enforcement office
here. the agents were waiting
outside the enlisted mems service
club at Andrews when the men
appeared. Both suspects were
said to operate out of Washing
ton.
The two were identified as Clin-
ton johnson and Judson Broadus,
both colored. They were taken
to the Marlboro Jail and charged
with violation of the narcotics
act
Arrests Made on Warrants.
Broadus, Mr.. Andrew said, had
In his possession a quantity of
marijuana rolled into cigarettes
and 3 ounces of the drug in bulk.
johnson had some heroin and a
few marijuana cigarettes in his
possession, Mr.. Andrew said.
The arrests, Mr.. Andrew said,
were made on warrants issued on
the basis of previous buys" from
the peddlers. Five Federal agents
worked in cooperation with mill
tary investigators at the field.
After booking the pair at Marl-
boro, the agents came to Washing
ton and arrested two men de-
scribed as peddlers to regular Gus
toners here.
Hearings Set Today.
Armed with warrants sworn to
by investigators who had made
buys" the agents arrested An
derson Griffin, "a, colored, of the
400 block of Massachusetts, avenue
NV, near taproom at Seventh
and T streets NV.
Shortly later they picked up
William T. Harris, %, colored,
near his home in Freedmens court
NV. Neither man had narcotics
on him at the time, the agents
said. Both were charged with vio-
lation of the Harrison Narcotics
Act, and were to have hearings at
pm. today before the United
States commissioner.
Mr.. Andrew said his agents in
vestigated the local cases in CO.
operation with Washington police.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Thieves Get $500 Cash
From Arlington Pharmacy

Nearly $500 in cash was stolen
from an Arlington pharmacy last
night. police said today.
Harry L,amm, owner of Lee-Lex-
ington Pharmacy at 5719 Lee high
way, reported the theft after he
opened the store at 8 o'clock this
morning.
There were no signs of forced
entry, police said. They believe
the thief or thieves may have hid
den in the store before closing
time last night.
Also missing are approximately
100 cartons of cigarette; and other
items.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Daughter Fights Will,
Says Temple u. Held
DR.. Chase Prisoner

A Silver Spring woman is con-
testing the will of her father, DR..
Theodore Chase, noted Philadel-
phia surgeon, with a charge that
Temple University kept him a
virtual prisoner in the latter years
of his life.
Mrs. Janice Chase King, 1000
Shorefield road, Silver Spring
filed the suit in Reno, New. Her
husband. Rufus G. King, is a
Washington lawyer.
DR.. Chase. who died February IL
at the age of "a, had given the
Temple School of Medicine
4 million since 1945. His will be-
queathed all of hts estate to the
university except $1,000 left to an
old friend, Mrs. Helen Seamans
Yonkers, N. Y.
Attorneys estimated. however
that the remaining estate
amounted to only about $3,400.
Mr.. King said the will contest
is intended as the first step to
recovering part of the money
given Temple. If the will can be
broken, he said, Mrs. King then
will claim a right to the most
recent gift, 100000 for the Tenn
pie building fund. She is the sole
surviving member of DR.. Chase's
family.
Mr.. King said it was not planned
to claim 81 million the surgeon
donated in three gifts for cancer
research.
In the Reno suit, the Associated
Press reported, Mrs. King charges:
That Temple University and
the Temple University Medical
School embarked upon a
concerted effort to dominate, in
f1uence, prejudice and control him
CDR. Chase - to the end that
he would give or bequeath all of
his estate to the hospital and
medical school"
That the university and It's
medical school acted "particu-
larly through one William Par
kinson. director Of the hospital
and dean of the school,"
That her father was kept in a
special room adjoining Dean Park
inson's Office at the UNIVERSITY
Hospital. where DR.. Chase could
be given. consistently exaggerated
personal attentions, was awarded
various honorary degrees, was sub.
jected to elaborate manifestations
OF veneration on the part of the
staff members for himself and TO,
the memory Of Agnes Barr Chase
his wife"
That a university employe &C.
companied the doctor at all times
and would not leave his presence
even when he was visited by his
doctor.
That her fathers will excluded
her because he had given her
$250,000. However, he failed to re-
call that he had taken back more
than half of that amount, the suit
said.
A Temple spokesman said at
Philadelphia: Temple University
will deny categorically all the
charges in court" He refused to
say ANYTHING more.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Board Ba|ks Wender
On BiraciaI Policy at
Park View Playground

The District Recreation Board
has decided not to make the Park
View playground biracial as
recommended by the board
chairman, Harry s. Wender.
The board yesterday heard q
special committee appointed by MIR
Wender make a recommendation
against the move at this time. Park
View playground now is designated
colored.
Mrs. o. G. Hankins, chairman of
the special committee, said the
committee felt the playground
should remain colored for the
present because the neighborhood
is becoming almost completely
colored. A change to a biracial
status would be a futile gesture
she added.
Mr.. Wender said he felt the
board should make the play
ground biracial as another step
in it's policy to eliminate segre-
CATION in recreation as fast as
possible. A number of white chill
dren enter into the program there
on occasion anyway, he pointed
out. and the board should make il
official.
Only Irving c. Root, superin-
tendent of National Capital Parks
and the Interior Department rep
resentative on the board, voted
against letting the playground re-
main colored. Mr.. Wender did not
vote.
In another action. the boarc
voted to set up special commit.
tee to make a study of what
should be done at Central High
School next fall.
Central will be transferred fol
use by colored students of Cardozc
High School by August /. At pres.
ent, an extensive recreation pro.
gram for white residents is con-
Quoted at Central at nights.
Milo Christensen, recreation
superintendent, said his staff has
worked out plan which he viii.
present to the special committee
He did not offer any details.
The board also voted to establish
a special committee to make 9
study of the swimming pool sit.
uation.
Only two pools are controlled by
the board. both for white citi-
zens. Five other public pools are
operated by Government Services
Inc, for the Interior Department
The Interior Department already
has announced they will be oper-
ated on a biracial basis this
summer. A major part of the
special pool committees study
however, will be to plan locations
of new pools the board hopes tc
construct some day.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

Comdr. Gilbert L. Rodier, U. S.
N. R., of 1904 Ryland drive, Be-
thesda. had nothing but praise
for his small crew.
"We were short handed" the
wartime submarine officer said,
but just like our boys were then
you take them out green and they
do the most amazing things"
AS large as an old four stacker
destroyer, the DE 419 will accom-
modate larger groups of trainees,
Comdr. Rodier said. It's additional
armament and maneuverability
will afford better training, he
Evening star., 1950-03-15
80 More Bottle Clubs
Being Investigated by
Police, BIick Reveals

Police are gathering evidence
which may label the operations of
80 or 40 additional after-hours
bottle clubs as illegal, Vice Squad
1t. Roy Blick said today.
Eleven clubs were charged
Monday by United States Attor-
ney George Morris Fay with op-
Grating in bad faith as a sham
and subterfuge to violate liquor
laws.
District Judge Richmond B.
Keech was expected today to order
these IL to show cause within
20 days why their charters as
scientific, charitable, missionary,
educational or art improvement"
organizations should not be dis
solved.
Calls 30% "Out of Line"
1t. Blick said from 80 to 40 per
cent of 103 chartered after-hours
places were operating "out of line. -
His squad also is gathering evi-
dence on various other night spots,
some of which are operating as
social clubs without charters, he
said.
Mr.. Fay said action will be taken
against any of the clubs on which
the police pass along sufficient
evidence to his Office.
Indications were that incorpora-
tors of the after-hours spots cited
Monday will fight the civil action
in court.
Ford Attacks Campaign.
Attorney Charles E. Ford, who
expects to represent some of the
clubs, called the campaign one of
intellectual dishonesty" on the
part of officials.
IF these places are bad and
harmful, let Congress pass a law"
Mr.. Ford said.
AS matters now stand, there is
nothing to prevent a club from OBJ
tanning another charter to operate
as an incorporated social club as
soon as one charter is dissolved,
Mr.. Ford suggested.
This could be accomplished in
a matter of hours, while the legal
dissolution procedure might take
weeks, he said.
Managers of the bottle clubs will
take the attitude that they are
operating legally, and that aff1-
davits cited in the show cause
petition are mere generalities, y
the attorney added.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Webster Takes Oath
As Research Board Chiei

William Webster today was
sworn in as chairman of the Re-
search and Development Board by
Defense Secretary johnson in a
ceremony at the Pentagon.
Mr.. Webster. executive vice
president of the New England
Electric System of Boston since
1912, succeeds DR.. Karl T. Comp
ton who resigned several mpnths
ago.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Church Lecture Tonioht

The Rev. George J.. cleveland,
canon librarian of the Washington
National Cathedral, will deliver
the third of a series of five lectures
on the history, and development
of the Book of Common Prayer
at 8 o'clock tonight at st. Georges s
Episcopal Church in Arlington.