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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12
Longer Vacation
Planned At Depot

A four-day spring vacation, if
they so choose to consider it, is in
the offing for Erie Ordnance Depot
workers over the Memorial Day
legal holiday.
Workers will be given holiday
leave for Tuesday, May 80, Mem
orial Day, and the preceding
Monday has been declared non
work day at Erie Ordnance De-
pot. These two days with the
Saturday and Sunday before add
up to a four day leave.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12

INORMAN KLOHN, Clyde, is
the new bartender at the P. c..
Yacht Club. He succeeds Lou
Miller, who is spending three
weeks at Toledo Hospital, in dry
dock" Keith Montgomery be-
came quite mixologist during the
emergency but is happy to make
way for Norm. The clubs la
goon has been dredged to a depth
of 10 to II feet so boat owners
will have plenty of water under
them this year.
-JOT-
DALPH KREUTZFELD, Hayes
avenue, leaves next week for
Gaylord, Michigan, where he will
be head accountant for the
Standard Products Company plant
in that city. His family will
move to the northern community
as soon as housing accommoda-
tions can be found. John Scott,
formerly of Port Clinton, is man
ager of the Gaylord plant.
-JOT =
NITA and Mac McGill postcards
from Jacksonville, Florida
The card Nita chose featured Ed
mund Wheatley's poem Dixie
land For Me-" to which Nita post
scripts: Don't believe this card.
They are nuts. like the
North"
QOTARIAN Corwin Hablitzel
~ and his Hablitzel Hardware
, staff have offered to donate ma
terial ard labor to install caves
at the Youth Center Building.
After this work is completed, the
Home and Garden Club will
plant shrubs to beautify the build
ing, and excess rain water won't
ruin the project.
HIGH waters up north evident
ly brought about the in
fux of wild ducks, nesting in the
area this spring. One sees flocks
of Teal and Bluebills everywhere
along the lake and river shore
lines. Wood ducks are also very
numerous, several are nesting in
tall trees in the Herbert Soren-
sen woods, Bay Shore Road.
JOl
TWO girls and two boys from
Ottawa county will spend a
week at the UAW-CIO Summer
Camp at Sand Lake, Michigan,
this summer, as guests of Local
497. Eligible are children aged
eight to IA, who must write let
ters of so to 100 words. stating
their reasons for wanting to at
tend the camp. Entry blank is
published in this issue of the
News.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12
JOTTINGS S....
OFF THE CUFF
By RAY SPERBER

poRT CLINTON's Nu-Form
Battery Corp. is giving world
publicity to our town by shipping
batteries to many foreign coun-
tries. When we visited the Jad
Brothers assembly plant near the
Mystic Isle dock the other day,
battery was Grated and all ready
to be shipped to a customer in
Amman, Trans-Jordan. Nu-Form
batteries have also been shipped
recently to Puerto Rico, Union of
South Africa, Panama and Mex
leo. Production is we'll underway
now and the firm is rushing work
to fill the heavy back log of or
ders. The NuForm Battery Corp.
factory, east of the city, is ship
ping parts to state assembly
plants as fast as the machines
can produce. There is now a port
able Nu-Form battery on the mar
ket, for use by fishermen, camp
ers, farmers, etc., especially in
emergencies. AS there is no rub
ber in the new battery, Nu-Form
should prove popular in the Sa-
hara desert and other areas where
the terrific heat melts rubber al
most as easily as chocolate.
QICHARD SIMS, younger son of
Supt. and Mrs. d. d. Sims,
500 Madison street, was one of 16
students and two university Off
cials taken into the Sphinx, SEN
ior mems campus leadership socie-
ty at Ohio State University, Fri
day, at ceremonies held during
the traditional May Week activi-
ties. Charles Kettering, noted
inventor and member of Ohio
States Board of Trustees, and
Dean Leo Rummell, of the Col
lege of Agriculture, were induct-
ed as honorary members.
7 OCAL Methodists will join with
others throughout the state in
visiting the Elyria Home for the
Aged, BOT West Avenue, Elyria,
from l to 5 p. m. Sunday during
the 10Th annual Mothers Day Pill
grimage and Home Coming. Light
refreshments will be served during
the afternoon by the Ladies Aux
iliary. Remember Elyria is on
daylight saving time.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12

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with fresh. heat-rssissins
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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12
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rsfilied with your choice Of
high quality sohio spring.
grade motor oils.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-05-12

OCEai - sohioIube Gear Oil
rsploees fhin. fuiisved winter
gear 'uhrieants in your irons
missio1 srd dGerential d. pods
deicr crs with heavier pro-
teefi. .,'Aa'her driving.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
All Love With
The Wronq Person
THE HILL OF GLASS

BY Catherine Whitcomb IRAN
don, House; s2.75)
Henry Worthington and Clyde
Ford were classmates and are
close friends. Henry is married
to Mariana, Ford to Laura.
Mariana loves Ford. Henry is in
love with a WAC he met in Italy
during the war, and she has just
shown up in New York, where
they all live or at least commute
to. Ford, after a very peculiar
adolescence, married Laura on
some caprice Or other. He appar-
emily is In love with himself. Both
couples have children, who don t
slow them up much. Henry re-
sumes his affair with the ex-WAC,
and Ford in a drunken moment
at a party discloSes the truth to
Mariana. How does it all come
out? I'm sure you'd much rather
find out for yourself. The author
does this sort of story more ably
than most of the current novelists.
She writes with a minimum of
banality, and sometimes she saves
a stock situation with a touch of
humor. Two elderly women,
Marianna's mother and Laura's s
mother, lifelong friends and rivals,
provide some amusing interludes.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
AII-Cerumic Show

The Kiln Club of Washington,
whose members made such an at
tractive contribution to the large
exhibition of decorative arts and
crafts at the National Museum last
August, will hold this August an
all-ceramic show open to any pot
ter in Washington, nearby Mary
land and Virginia. Those inter-
ested have until July 81 to send
entry blanks and fee ($D to the
Kiln Club of Washington, Friend
ship House, 619 D street Sc, from
which blanks and detailed infor-
nation may be obtained by calling
for them, or sending a stamped
envelope. A maximum of FIVE
pieces may be entered in any of
four classes: Decorative ware, util-
ity ware, ceramic sculpture and
tiles. Awards of merit will be
presented by the club and awards
of ceramic materials have been of
fered by leading ceramic firms
some worth $25 each, others more.
The exhibition will be juried by
Claire Fontanini OF Catholic Uni
verSity, Erwin o. Christensen of
the National Gallery of Art and
John Butler. Pennsylvania cera-
mist, whose stoneware is now on
exhibition at Erich Ursell's.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Marriage Problems
In a Mininq Town

FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS
BY Myron BRING. fRinehart;; 49,
This is the leisurely. carefully
developed story of two families in
a Montana mining town which
the author calls Silver Peak and
which Is strangely like Butte. One
family Is Jewish. the other Irish
They are Joined when Anna Joyce
+marries Joseph Benjamin. The
marriage is successful despite the
opposition of both mother%a
prejudice which gradually is worn
down. But Anna and Joseph are
only two of the characters whose
lives are traced. The biographies
of their parents and of their vari-
Gus brothers and sisters are
sketched in considerable detail
against the changing background
of the mining town across half a
century. The most interesting are
Joseph's father, Moses Benjamin
who came from Romania penni-
less in the '70s and later built the
towns big department store, and
John, head of the Joyce clan, q
witty eccentric. Mr.. BRING is dis
cursive and inclined to overwrite
and yet he has suffused his story
with a warmth of humor and
patfos which compensates to q
large extent for its slow pace.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford Pays
Poetic Tribute to Washington

for the symbols Of that Govern
ment. Musing upon the simple
grandeur of the Washington
Monument he sees it
a.. like some eternal tree
With iDorld-embrGcing root"
No thought could be truer or
timelier.
The judges enthusiasm for our
great leaders are concentrated
upon Washington and Lincoln. In
the long years he has spent here
he has seen lesser lights illuminate
the sky. But
And mow and then beneath stheir
silvery light,
A sudden meteor reddenS and is
gone.
And 11oU and then a star orotDs
strangely bright
Dr1tDtftg all eyes, then dtDtndteS
ON the night.
But those eternal Sentinels shine
on"
All these verses are written in a
simple, straightforward style.
meticulously rhymed. There is an
air of sturdy faith in them.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

ways remarks WQen MS W1e
suddenly discovers what's been
going on: "I'm glad you found out,
Pamela. It's just as well you
know This has saved me the
pain Of telling you. Indeed, she's
not a hussy!"
If it's the wife who has stumbled
on the perfect love, and her hus-
band, having just found out,
views the situation with a profane
lack of understanding, she always
retorts: "You wouldn't hate him,
Basil, il you could know him as
I do"
The mate (either one) who has
just learned of the others du-
plicity. after being fooled quite a
while, exclaims: 1--WE known this
all along. I could tell-the way
you've acted"
The wife who has been carry
ing on invariably spins her spouse
back on his heels with this one:
why, Godfrey, you don't know
what love isl"
The outraged husband saves
this for a lull in the discussion:
You always were a little tramp.
And I've always known 1t >. You
Evening star., 1950-07-09
New Books
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JERUSALEM. BY Trude weiss Rosma-
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THE HUMAN USE OF HUMAN BEINGS.
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PHILANTHROPY IN AMERICA. By Ed
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An introduction to the practices and
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1878. July 6.
THE PROVINCE AND FUNCTION OF
Law. BY Julius Stone; Harvard
Uniysrsity Press. A study in iuris-
REPRIEyE FROM WAR, By Lionel
Of relations between East and West
and Of current conditions in the West
ern bloc--and what to do about them.
SO. July %.
RISE UP AND WALK. BY TURNKEY
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YOUR CHILD AND YOU. By sidonie
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the Fawcett Publications guide
for solving childhood problems.
THE sPEARHEAD. By Howard M. Con-
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The World War II history Of the
6th Marine Division. $3.50.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

can reach me at my club. you ol
your lawyer"
The errant husband is sure tc
confide in his paramour: II real
ize now. dear little Elvira, that
I've never been in love before"
The novel of love and marriage,
which rarely are merged in con-
temporary fiction, seems to remain
the publishers best bet for a fair
sale. Some of these stories are
of the lighter, more whimsical
species. others are solemn if not
tragic.
Books which the publishers
have saved for summer, tradi-
tionally those taxing the mind
least-readers are supposed to
avoid thought on their vacations
are occupied largely with the
sophisticated romance of today.
OF course, there are other themes
adventure, family sagas, post
war Europe. .....
A few on the current list are
considered briefly herewith. Only
two are concerned with domestic
crackups.
X
divorce. They settled on his es-
tate at Lake Huron. But some
how Henri didn't turn out so well.
He wasn't quite faithful. and there
were dark secrets in his busi-
ness. Beth longed for Bill, the
magazine editor she'd always
loved, but who had always SHE'D
away from neutrality-suspicious.
for good reason. You'll have to en-
dure 252 pages if you want to
learn how all this came out.
CLOUD of Arrows" is written at
a furious, staccato pace. It brings
in virtually everybody in western
Michigan and a good many per-
sons in New York. 1t touches on
the problems of the sugar beet in
dustry, the peonage of it's Mexi-
can labor, World War II, almost
everything else within reach ex-
cept reality.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Art Book Reviews
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
HENRY MONNIER

HENRY MONNIER
BY Edith Melcher. (HarDard
University Press; $4.25.)
Henry Monnier has secure
place in the history of romantic
art. not on the heights with Della
croix and Gericault, but in a
humber position. and more truly
representative of his era. Mon
nier was an actor, writer, humor-
ist and artist photographer and
Illustrator who created IN. Jo-
seph Prudhomme," the French
Babbitt.
Miss Melcher, associate profess
sor of French at Wellesley College,
spent many years of research to
make Monnier live again, in this
vivid glimpse of 10th century
Paris. 1t is colorful account
not only of the man but of his
times. He enjoyed the friendship
of some of his most important
contemporaries, among them Bal
zac, who described Monnier in
his character BiXiou, "a young
man in whom every talent was in
complete" and Gavarni, whose
portrait of the handsome Monnier
leads the little gallery of the
latter's prints and illustrations in
this volume.
Monnier's lifelong struggle
against poverty, and the fact that
he missed greatness in every field
of his activity makes his person.
Iality rather pathetic and frus-
trated, albeit attractive, one.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
A French Orphan
OF the Resistance
THE COMPANY OF MEN


BY Roman Gary. fSimon &
Schuster; So
A sensitive French novelist tells
the story of a 14-year-old boy, an
orphan of the resistance, who has
emerged from the war not vicious.
but apathetic to right and wrong,
Indifferent to the law. He has
never been inside a church, and
morality is only a term he has
heard. His father died fighting for
the resistance, and so Luc goes to
Paris to be educated by the gov
ernmept. But he quickly slides
away from stufflneSs that
threatens to smother him, and he
follows when an old man beckons.
Luc's new friend is in the black
market, and the boy goes to live
with him and work for him. The
old mans other helpers are a girl
and a boy, brother and sister.
Luc helps them peddle food, mira
Gle drugs, narcotics - whatever
they can get. The boy meets some
strange characters in the under
world and its contacts in respect
able business and bribed officials.
The Company of Men is a pene-
trating psychological study. Mr..
Gary has fair for drawing char
acters in a few words, though he
sometimes takes too many words
to develop his situations. The
translation by Joseph Barnes is
effective except when he turns a
French exclamation into such a
phrase as goodness gracious, +"
which in English looks slightly
ridiculous.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

prof feSSlonal writer's VINO are QrlV-
en- to the wall by unfair COM
petition from big-name amateurs,
1t was introduced while Capitol
circles were still a-buzz with the
news that Senator McCarthy's sole
and spectacular fling into litera-
ture had netted him a cool $40, 900,
a figure only dreamed of by other
authors of first books.
The professionals will doubtless
be grateful to the Representative
for his kind intentions, but may
wish he would broaden the base
of his legislation to include con-
gressional witnesses, who have
risen up in recent years as really
serious best-seller threats. Mr..
Louis Budenz, a familiar figure
in caucus rooms, has written three
books. In the works is Whitaker
C bers' Witness" which
should do very we'll at the box
Office. Latest reports indicate
that Miss Elizabeth Bentley, whose
name would be no household word
were it not for the House Un-
American Activities Committee,
has just signed a contract for her
memoirs.
New Literary Activities.
No action has been taken on
the bill as yet. Meanwhile. at
least two members of the Senate
are forging ahead. with clear con-
sciences, on literary. activities.
Senator Douglas, Democrat, of
Illinois, the Senate's most impress
sive freshman. is giving what time
he can to a book that will bind
together 20 years of academic
work. Quasi-mathematical, the
Senator says, it will deal with the
theory Of production. He fears
no repercussions, since he expects
it will be read only in professional
circles and will be of financial
profit neither to him nor his
publisher.
Senator Flanders, Republican,
of Vermont has a book on the
fall lists, too.
II think would escape criminal
action, though" he says thought
fully. "The book consists of three
lectures made last year as the
Godkin lectures at Harvard under
the general topic. The American
] Century They have become the
Evening star., 1950-07-09
This Is Summer
Reading Worth
|WuitinqFor

THE DOCTORS WIFE COMES
TO STAY
BY Frank Swinnerton. Double
day & Co.. $3)
Frank Swinnerton, an English
novelist of many moods, all of
which are notably easy to take,
Is here musing, with much wit and
benevolence, on the folly of pride
in love. Far too practiced a hand
to clutter up story with homily.
he still manages to make his point
that people who allow vanity and
stubbornness to cloud the mar
riage of true minds deserve the
rue that comes their way.
With pleasant perversity. he
makes the traditionally maligned
figure of mother -in-law his
most attractive character. She
is Rose Anderson, a delightful
woman, both kind and acute.
whose serenity tames even her
gruff, dour, stingy old Scots doc
tor of a husband. When her
daughter Elizabeth leaves her
husband, an exuberant artist
named Rex Tweed, to have one
last fling at acting in America.
Rose steps forward to take over
the household and soothe Rex's
ruff1ed feelings.
Rex allows himself to be con-
soled by this paragon of women
and entertains himself, mean
while, by piecing together bits of
her past which he coaxes out Of
her son, her sister and her long
ago rival in love, a fierce old wom-
an whose portrait Rex Is painting.
Rose tells him gently that she
has vein Of iron, but Rex cannot
believe 1t until the moment in her
last illness when she fatty refuses
to see the husband whom she has
tolerated SO graciously for 40
years. Trying to decipher the COL
lapse of this Darby-and-Joan re-
lationship. Rex comes to learn
some home truths about his own
marriage.
The whole thing is charmingly
done, with glistening dialogue and
beguiling characters effortlessly
portrayed. Mr.. Swinnerton knows
a great deal more about human
nature than he tells. His re-
straint makes "The Doctors Wife
Comes to Stay" just about ideal
for summer readers who are not
content with the merely frothy.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
By Florence S. Berrymon

small group of officers with alert,
suspicious faces and an equally
small number of Indians. I felt
that the unpretentious little scene
rings truer.
It is obvious that the Corcoran
Gallery's staff has worked not only
with its usual efficiency, but also
with enthusiasm which is reflected
in the thoroughness and variety
of the presentation.
1t is really surprising that so
many historical documents have
been rounded up in the Corcoran
show. Art writer's receive innu-
merable letters from school teach
ers and students of history in
quiring about paintings of his
torical events. Very few are mas
terpieces of art, such as Velas-
quez' Surrender of Breda" and
George Bellows Last Moments of
Edith Cavell." Actually, the his
torical interest of large number
of works in American Procession
all is heightened by skillful pres
entation. If the many portraits
OF famous people here interspersed
with portraits of places, pictures
OF local customs and events were
segregated. we would have another
show similar to that now at the
National Gallery. If the numer-
GUS genre paintings were shown
by themselves, they would be more
akin to the Metropolitan's IA
nous Life in America" exhibition.
Famous American Artists
The exhibition is not only q
procession of American history
but also Of American artists, in
cluding some of our most famous
from 18th century Benjamin West
to William Glackens and Jonas
Lie, both deceased in the past IL
years.
In their excellent potpourri, the
Corcoran staff combined the pa
rade of portraits and genre "slices
OF life" with flashes of actual
events, and produced show with
its own distinctive virtues. One
hopes that next autumn Wash
ington's history teachers will take
their classes to see American
Professional" which is illustrative
material Of the best sort, and cal
culated to make the events de-
picted come alive"
Evening star., 1950-07-09

man of Oxon Hill Md. also
sculptor, is represented this time
with action sketches based on
the interpretive dancing Of Mar
tina Graham and other modern
dancers. Elinor Schaff1e, who came
to Washington recently from
Asheville, N. c., presents miniature
ceramics. a variety of animals in
a combination Of drawing and
sculpture. Beryl Carrot, a resi-
dent of Washington in the past
decade, is showing oil paintings
and water colors.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
A Lesson in Love
And Sugar Beets
CLOUD OF ARROWS

CLOUD OF ARROWS
BY Mary Frances Doner. Double.
day; $2.75J
Beth was fetching girl who
did very, well as a commercial
artist in New York. Henri, who
was a beet-sugar magnate ir
Michigan, swept her away in 6
tempestuous courtship, and sht
married him as soon as he got hi.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Timothy Jones Tells
A Highly Polished
Arabian Niqhts Tale

THE SMALL HOURS OF THE
NIGHT
BY Timothy Angus Jones.
(Houghton Mif1in Co.; s2.75.)
Timothy Angus Jones, son of
Enid Bagnold of National Velvet"
fame, is newcomer to the Eng
lish novel. and very hammered
one at that. He evidently did not
learn the tricks of the trade at
his mothers knee. His tutors
would seem instead to have. been
Proust and Aldous Huxley. with
perhaps short course in Bemel-
mans.
He does not apparently want to
be taken too seriously in this
highly polished little Arabian
Nights tale of a wide-eyed, 90
year -old Englishman named Bar
naby Surrey, who is caught up
into the train of a fabulous exiled
princess and who thereafter never
sees the dawn except through a
glow of champagne. Young
Barnaby fancies himself in love
with the princess, who is very
vague. and then protests too much
that he is not in love with a pretty
young American who pops off to
London before he can really clear
UP the matter in his mind.
1t is long holiday but when it
is over Barnaby. like a good boy.
goes back to work, pleased enough
to have his memories of these pro-
fessional players who carry their
lavish pursuit of fun and glamour
beyond the license of the Roman
emperors."
In spite of several sententious
passages about love and death,
Barnaby does not seem much the
wiser for his experiences. Neither
will the reader.
MARY McGoRY.
Evening star., 1950-07-09
WELCOME TO THE CASTLE

&&A4ASA 44Ghy i&4~ HCf w
Bros, NeaO York; $780,
Mr.. Hayes has written two ex-
cellent novels. "The Girl on the
Via Flaminia" and "All Thy Con-
quests" He proves himself here a
poet of unusual power. These
poems are of the war and the
homecoming which followed. They
are written in an informal style,
almost conversational, but they
are at all times clear and forth
right. Those describing Rome
after the arrival of the Amer
leans recapture the episode
pathos and humor of a great mo-
ment in history. They are en-
tightening. Notes of bitterness
creep in, but there is always a
note of sincerity.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

NEVER MARRY A RANGER
BY Roberta Mcconnell. Prentice
Hall; S2.75.J
Whats SO 'Ah' about Wilder
ness?" asks Roberta Mcconnell
after six months on Utah noun
taintop with her forest-ranger
husband. She has written a book
Evening star., 1950-07-09

20 years since
Judge Stafford,
then 10, re-
signed from the
bench of Dis
trict court after
27 years of serv-
ice. That the
years between
have not been
spent in idle
ness is testified
in this volume
of h e ar t felt
verse.
The jud g e,