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Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-01-15
AZ Editorial
Art and Romance
in Cookery

AOO Gg Ell USE an S~herh
bouquet" in making soup? 1t is made
OF sprlgs of parsley, thyme, CELERY
ana bay leaves tied together and
suspended for an hour in SCUM IN
add flavor-just delicate flavor. 10
be sure, but it added romance tn
vegetable soup you will never for
get, especially if it were made NV
your grandmother when YOU were
very, very young.
Why do some things taste better
cooked by some people than bv
others? 1t is usually the seasoning
Seasonings include, beside salt.
spices, herbs, extracts, vinegars and
other enhancing agents such as COM
mercially bottled sauces. Color also
should be included.
Salt is the basic seasoning. of
course. And it is used more to make
food pa1atable than any other in
gredient.
Probably the most glamorous and
romantic ingredients in cookery are
the herbs and the spices. It was for
these precious articles of commerce
that Europeans first sailed to the
Tar OF and fabulous East Indies. A
certain glamour still clings to the
grand spices which the modern
housewife now buys so CASUALLY IN
the little tin cans. The "Spice t.
lands are still important possessions
OF the Dutch East Indies, as house,
wives were brought to realize dir.
ing the recent war when nnanv snices
We're unprocurable.
Herbs are less romantic in &C no,,ob
as many are grown in our gardens
chlves, dill, parsley, sage, mint. A
sprlg of mint in the tall glass of
iced lemonade makes it a bit more
refreshing. Or small new potatoes
rolled in buttered parsley, or roast
pheasant with chives dressing-httle
extras that add glamour and interest
Vanilla is the one extract pretty
sure to be on any pantry shelf. There
are others which the housewife
should know. For extra delicate
flavor, try both lemon and vanilla
IN plain sponge cake Il teaspoon
vanilla, IL teaspoon lemon extracN.
Fine cooks have long considered both
vanilla and almond important in
angel food-gives a flavor which
neither one alone could achieve.
Natural coloring brought out or
deftly added improves the appear
ance of the food and thereby whets
the appetite. Consider, for example.
how uninteresting is faded out
asparagus or too pale butter.
Someone has said that it is i'm
possible to be good cook without
Knowing and using seasonings. They
are the glamour ingredients. They
can take a commonplace dish and
make it fit for a gourmet.
Cooking is a science up to GER
tam point. Beyond that it becomes
an art. The one who seasons food
delightfully."-, making it appetizing.
with enticing aromas and color is an
artist.-AMY MARTIN.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Sugar Situation
Remains Normal

London's sugar situation still
remains almost normal, but it
could become aggrevating if buy
ers get panicky about supplies and
begin boarding, according to sew
eral local grocers.
Many women at this season are
accustomed to buying in larger
quantities because Of canning
needs, grocers stated. However,
there was a decided increase not
ived in the number of buyers
who purchased 100 pounds in place
of the customary five pounds ut a
time.
One grocer stated that when he
placed an order with a Columbus
wholesale house Monday, he was
refused for the time being.
All were of the opinion that
there is no shortage ard that no
rationing would be required loc-
ally if those who did not need
much extra sugar, would buy in
only slightly larger quantities and
not be scared by the War situat-
ion into boarding large quantities
away for the future.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Receive Bids On
Route 40 July II

The State Highway Department
will accept bids July II, on the
Improvement of some seven miles
of u. S. Route 40 in Madison
County, according to Octave Ann
mon, Deputy Director of Division
Six.
The improvement, extending
from Lafayette to the Clark Coun-
ty line, completes the entire length
of Route 40 which crosses Frank
lin ard Madison Counties and in
cludes grading, draining and paw
ing with concrete in addition to
the construction of new bridges
over Deercreek.
The project will be financed
jointly by the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads and the State of
Ohio. The Highway Department
hopes to start work on the i'm
provement within a few weeks
after a contract is awarded and
approved by the Federal govern
ment.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Rites For Child
Victim Of Auto
Are Held Monday

Funeral services for Ernest
Hicks, 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Loney Hicks, Rosedale, fat
ally injured when struck by an
auto in front of the Hicks home
last Thursday, were held at 10
a. m. Monday in a Columbus fun
eral home. Interment was at South
Webster.
The child was injured when he
ran in front of an auto driven
by William H. Brickels of Urbana.
Franklin County Coroner Rob-
ert A. Evans said the boy died
of a fractured skull and multiple
internal hemorrhages. He was an
only child.
In addition to his parents. he
is survived by two aunts, Mrs.
Della Hise, 143 Sherman Ave,
and Mrs. Marie Hicks, 756 King
Ave, Columbus; his maternal
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ever
EFT Smith of South Webster and
his paternal grandmother, Mrs.
Vena Scagreves, Lctitia, Ky.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Plain City To
Get Radio For
Police Cruiser

Plain City council has author
lied the purchase of two-way
radio for use of police at cost
of $531. The new radio equipment
will be operated through and in
conjunction with the Plain City
police cruiser on the same frequ-
ency band of the Madison County
sheriff's office ard cars operating
from the sheriff's office. Maids
on County commissioners will pay
$500 and the Union County Com
missioners 5000 on cost of the
equipment. Madison County shares
in the cost because of the service
Plain City police will be able to
provide Madison County law en-
forcement officers.
The radio equipment is expect
ed to be delivered in approximate
ly six weeks.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
couIlchApproves
Water Meter And
Shovel Purchases

London council Friday night
authorized the purchase of SO
water meters to be Installed at
properties of consumers formerly
supplied with water on a flat rate
basis. 1t is expected that the met
ers can be installed within month
or more and that the flat rate
consumers may soon be relieved
of the current high rate.
Council was advised that fin
al preparations have been virtually
completed to advertise for bids on
the 100000 bond issue for pur-
chase of The London Water Works
Company. Progress in current neg
citations indicate the transaction
may be effected by the middle of
August.
Discussions in Friday nights s
meeting occupied councilmen on
the topic of garbage disposal. Con-
tract for the purchase of Bullclam
Shovel, with crawler-type tractor
for use of the city in trench dis
posal of garbage was awarded to
the Mason Tractor and Equipment
Company, Columbus, on a bid OF
81, lag.
Bids which may be received BY
council for the collection of gar.
bage in the city are to be opened
at the regular meeting of council
the night of July 7.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Council To Halt
Sidewalk Parking,
Legalize Signs

London City Council and coun-
Gil committees are looking into
existing measures to prohibit gar
ages and sevice stations using
the sidewalk for parking automo-
biles with the intention of re-
vising the measures and bringing
them up to date to regulate legal
or illegal parking and to make
effective other traffic controls.
The existing ordinance No,
691, enacted in March 1887, for
bids the use of sidewalks for
parking trucks and autos.
Action now contemplated by
council will require the removal
of all existing mo Parking signs
in the future. Such action, it was
pointed out, is necessary before
the signs will be legal
Eighty stop signs have been pur-
chased by council for erection on
London streets in the near future
The signs are to be erected at
numerous intersections, now with
out signs to permit passage OF
through traffic.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Seven Days Of
June Under so

The minimum official tenn
perature In London was un-
der so degrees seven days dur
Ing juno, Leonard McNeai,
weather observer reported to-
day. The lowest for the seven
days was 43 recorded on June
II and the maximum was 90
degrees on June 26.
In June 1945 seven days
were recorded with a minim-
um below SO, the low being
81 degrees on June 3. Rainfall
for the last month was 2.o2
inches or 1.54 inches below
normal, McNeaI reported.
The hottest June recorded
here was in 1914 when 20 days
produced temperatures above
65 and high Of 102 on June
28.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Council 10 Act
On Sidewalk
Parking Here
july Fourth Passes Without
Serious Traffic Accidents
London and Madison County ap.

London and Madison County ap-
parently got by" the July 4th
holiday without traffic accident
causing serious injury or a fatal
ity, it was announced Wednesday
at the office of Sheriff Harold
Bidwell.
Several traffic accidents were
chalked up on the Sheriff's re-
cords, however.
A young woman identified as
Betty Lou Thompson, %, of Chic
ago, a passenger in an auto hit
by another car near London, was
admitted to Springfield City Hos
pital with fractured nose and
ankle and a knee injury.
Driver of the other car fig
uring in the accident, according
to the sheriff's office was C.
William Garrison of Mt. Mitchell,
KY, who was charged with fail
ure to yield the right-of-way and
fined S25 and costs in Mayor E.
P. Speasmaker's court. The crash
occurred at the intersection of
Routes 40 and 38.
Norman J. Butler, 80, of Fair
born, was said to have been driv-
ing west on Route 40, while the
Garrison car was travelling north
on Route 38. Garrisons son, age
Twas treated at Springfield for
for abrasions on the head, legs
and hands.
Auto Hits Pole
Mary Louise Bass, 80, OF 81 f.
Fifth St, escaped serious injury
early Tuesday evening when the
auto she was driving ran off the
road and broke off utility pole
on Route Sc about a quarter mile
south of London near the Disposal
Plant.
County officers, investigating
the accident. said the driver said
another car crowded her car off
the road. She was unable to furn-
ish a description of the car or the
license number.
Driver Cited
5 John W. Binkley, 48, Glendale,
Calf, was cited to appear in
Mayor E. P. Speasmaker's court
Wednesday on a charge of passing
without sufficiently clear distance
ahead, as the result of an auto
accident early Tuesday evening at
at the Route 40 and 38 intersect-
ion, Deputy Sheriff Bob Allison
reported. 49,
Binkley's car sideswiped head
on" the auto driven by Warren l..
Gould. 20 of $50 Miller Ave. Co
lumbus, when he attempted to pass
another car, according to the in
vestigating officer.
Both cars were considerably
damaged.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Auto Strikes
Tree Killing
Local Driver

Killed early Sunday morning
when his auto struck utility pole
on West Center street, was Don
aid F. Baker, 10, of Al South
Madison Road, an employee of
Columbus furnace company. He
had made his home with his aunt,
Mrs Elizabeth Baker Hicks, since
he was three months old. Both
parents are dead.
Young Baker was driving alone
at the time of the accident, in
front of the Neil Ardrey home.
His car struck the telephone pole
with the left front fender, turning
the car sideways. 1t hurtled down
the street ard crashed into
a tree, said to be almost 90 feet
from the pole, where it struck
first.
The accident occurred at 1:20
a. m. according to police who in
vestigated the crash. A nearby
physician pronounced the youth
dead. His death occurred within
few minutes after the auto
struck the tree, inflicting severe
head and chest injuries.
London police officers Daily and
Golden investigated the accident.
They reported that Baker was
still alive by the time the physi-
ciar reached him and administer
ed first aid, but efforts to save
his life was futile.
In addition to his aunt, Baker
is survived by two sisters, Sue
Ellen Baker of London and Mrs.
Nancy Henry, Newport; a brother.
John of London; three haIf-sisters:
one half brother and his grand
mother, Mrs. Mamie Pcndletoa,
!. London.
! The body has been taken to the
j residence of the aunt, Al 5. Mad
ison Rd., until time for the funeral
services at the Schlechty-F Fichrcr
Funeral Home Tuesday at 2 p. IA.
lntermcnt will be in Oak Hid
Cemetery.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Outing Planned
For rHomemakers

An outing for rural homemakers
and another for young men and
women from an eight county
area will be this week at Camp
Clifton, in northern Greene
County. =
The district camp for rural
women will begin with supper
Wednesday and will be concluded
Saturday morning. Theme of the
outing is Art In Everyday Life. "
Program plans call for a nature
study by Waldo Zerkel, Urbana,
Route 2; history of Clifton George
by Elwood Stroup, xenia; poetry
hour conducted by Mrs. Orville
Shaw, Springfield, Route a; crafts
Including water color painting
nylon balls, block printing and
stencling. hobby demonstrations
and hobby display by campers;
music and group singing; play
parties, swimming and campfire
ard vesper programs.
Registration for the youth out.
ing will be at 2 p. m. Saturday
The program will continue unit
late Sunday afternoon. Roger
Conklin, Greene County, and Sus
anne Peele, Clinton, will be pro
gram directors and Albert Cobb
associate agent in Fayette Count!
will be director of the camp.
The Agricultural Extension ser
vice and the rural organization.
of young men and women in the
Camp Clifton district are sponsor
ing the event.
The dictrict, from which botf
the rural homemakers and youths
will come, includes Clark, Cham
paign, Clinton and Madison
Counties. y
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
PROPERTY OWNERS APPEAL TO
GOVERNOR ON ,LIMITED ACCESS

way from the west corporation
line of West jefferson to the
Clark Madison County line and
bad called the meeting as hear
ing on the proposal.
Abutting property owners on
Route 40 will be unable to have
any new access to the route, other
than the accesses existing at the
time the measure is declared eff
fective, without first obtaining
permission from the highway de-
partment, the Madison County OBJ
jectors pointed out.
Other property owners on Route
40, they indicated, were unaware
of the significance of the propos-
ed action and what it will mean
to their properties once it is in
effect.
Representatives of the High
way Department, indicated that
completion of the four-lane high
way improvement project in this
Madison County stretch, might
be suspended in the eveEt the
property owners resorted to court
action in opposition 10 the limited
access proposal.
In the appeal to Cover
nor Lausche, concerning the
second public hearing, Attor-.
ncy Baynes noted: ~ have no
means Of knowing that such
second hearing is contemp-
lated and must assume that il
will not be except by your
Intervention"
Attorney Baynes also indicated
that the feeling is strong in this
community that there is no pra-
ctical necessity for restricting the
economic utility of the various
properties and consequent dis
elimination. for example, between
property rights of persons in Mad
ison and Franklin counties. He
contended the traffic load is
lighter and as practical matter
there is less necessity for Limit
ed Access" in a four-lane divided
highway than where the highway
is otherwise.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04

Also cited in connection wit
the appeal to Governor Lausch
were the limited access easement
understood to have been granite,
by certain property owners be
tween Lafayette and the Madison
Clark County line, without bein,
advised fully of the disabilitie
incurred.
Easements GRANTEES
Terms of the easements
were quoted thus: In con-
sideration of the sum
Dollars IS J, hereinbefore
mentioned 8. do hereby
specifically waive and re-
lease any and all right or
rights of direct access, or
claims thereof, to the pre-
sent highway improvement
to be constructed, or to the
ultimate highway improve
ment to be constructed, in the
future, as called for by the
plans referred to, and the ex-
ecution of this conveyance
shall act automatically as
waiver to the State of Ohio
in the elimination of any dir
ect access to said highway
either for present or future
construction.
IT is further understood
and agreed that the consider
alton for, Parcel No :,
in addition to the limitation
of access as, provided above,
includes compensation for
land taken and all damages
accruing from the taking
of said parcel No. ."
The Madison County objector
to the proposal, also pointed OH
that the knowledge of the represe
tatives of the State Highway De
partment at the meeting on Jun
% there is no similar restriction
on L. S. Route 40 anywhere in tn
State of Ohio with the possibl
exception of a relocation stretc
rear Old Washington in Guernse
County, which is in the hill an
dale country"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
LONDON YOUTH KILLED IN
CENTER STREET ACCIDENT
GENE Mckenzie, ONCE PRISONER
OF GERMANS RINGS LIBERTY BELL

The honor of ringing Ohio's Lib
erty Bell in London Friday after
noon was given to Gene Mckenzie,
London postman and veteran of
World War II who was held a
prisoner of the Germans 851 days.
He was also presented with a
Liberty Bell ribbon in commem-
oration of the occasion.
Mckenzie, captured in Africa
during the days the Americans
fought General Rommels invaders,
was flown into Europe and tran
sported by rail to a German pris-
on. He is believed to have been
held a prisoner longer than any
Madison County veteran of World
War II.
On conclusion CT an address by
Judge James F. Bell, setting forth
historical data on Americas faln-
oils Liberty Bell, of which the
ohio bell is an exact replica, NJ
kcnzle stepped up to the red,
white and blue truck on which the
Eell was mounted and sounded
the first tones.
The note sounded by the bell
is the exact tone of the original
Liberty Bell.
Weight of the big bell, 2080 lbs,
rocked the truck forward and
backward, as it was rung by the
attendant in charge, just after Nc
Kenzie had sounded the first torres.
Participating in the brief pro-
gfam offered for exhibition il
the bell in London, from $50 tt
3:45 +. m. Friday were members
cf the Madison Legion Post 1C5
who serTed as color guards.
LONDON police and firemen, es.
corted the bell to the courthouse
/ square for the program. Legior
/ Commander Don Farquhar presi
ded as master of ceremonies, pre-.
senting Mayor E. P. Speasmaker
who delivered his proclamation
designating Friday, June 80, In
dependence Drive Day and Judge
Bell, who addressed the Grove
on significance of the Liberty Bell
| The Ohio Bell was brought tr
London on its tour of all 99 OIie
counties as part of the Treasury
Department Savings Bond Drive
directed in Madison County BY
Chairman Paul Dwyef.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Cowling Funeral
Conducted Sunday

Funeral services for Miss NN,bel
Eta CowIing, age 73, of LonSon
and Columbus, who died of tl7rort-
bcsis Friday night following a
tive weeks illness in Grant Hos-
pital, were at the Schlechty-F -Ficil-
ner Funeral Home Sunday at 2
o'clock. Rev. A. M. Shenefelt, past
or of the Methodist Church, Of
ticlated. 1nterment in PIeasa,. :
Hill Cemetery, West Jefferson.
Miss CoWling was a member OF
che of Madison county's pioneer
families. She was the daughter of
The late Iarnell and Eta Cow
ing of London and granddaught-
of the late Thomas j. Stutson
OF jefferson township. Her g. a.
uacle, tie late Major William
Cowling OF London, gave the alai1i
Tor the ok which bears his narr,s.
on North Main street and also lie
plot OF ground for Oak Hill. Gene
terry on u. S. Route AZ, east of
LCrdon.
MISS Cowling spent her cab
childhood with her aunt the late
Miss Jennie Cowling of Chicago
and graduated from high school
there. She later returned to Mad
ison County to make her hona
with her grandfather, T. ]. Slut
son, in the old brick homestea
on the S-curve on State Route
142 between London and West
Jefferson.
She graduated from Vassar Col
lege Poughkeepsie, n. Y. and then
went to Calgary, Ontario, Can
ada, where she resided for some
time with her father. For many
years she has made her home with
Mrs. James A. Smith, 112 East
First street, london and, spent
a part of her time at the Seneca
Hotel, columbus.
Surviving are several distant
cousins among whom are, S. E. and
r. H. Robson, Elm street. Lon
don, and Mrs. w. 3. lMargie Rob
ison) Sisson of Columbus.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Pennsylvania
Has New Agent

c. J. Conrad, has been trans
ferred from Anderson, Indiana, as
agent for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at London.
o. w. Taylor, who has been the
local agent for more than seven
years, was transferred to Middle
town, Indiana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor, who had
been residing on East High street,
have moved to Middletown.
Mr.. Conrad and Mrs. Conrad
expect to move to London as soon
as they find living quarters.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Free Swimming
Lessons AT Pool

Free swimming lessons for begin
ners and intermediates, will be
offered patrons of the London
Swimming pool, starting Monday.
July 10, according to Gordon Ok
ley, manager of the pool.
The classes will start at one
o'clock each afternoon and will
continue five days a week for the
next two weeks.
The Class for girls will be in
charge of Miss Marilyn Jones and
David Woosley will instruct the
boys.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
New Principal
At Deercreek

Ralph McCambridge, New Lex
ington, Ohio, has been appointed
Principal of the Deercreek Schools
at Lafayette. it was announced
Monday by w. c. Smith, County
Superintendent of Schools.
Formerly an instructor In the
Lancaster public schools, Mr.. Nc
Cambridge is a graduate of the
New Lexington High School, re-
ceived his Bachelor of Arts De-
gree from Ohio University in 1943
and his Masters Degree from Ohio
State University in 1949. He
served three years in the Army
Air Forces during World War IL;
Is married and has one child.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Superintendent
Leaves For Year

Martin G. Barber, superinten-
dent of the South Charleston
schools, has beer granted a year 5
leave of absence, because of i'll
health, according to announcement
by Walter Florence. president OF
the board of education.
L. II. Chenoweth, high school
principal, was named acting sip
erintendent during Mr. Barber 5
absence.
Speaking further for the board,
President Florence stated that an
other teacher will be hired for
some of the subjects taught hN
Mr.. Barber and Mr.. Chenoweth.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
cHILD,s RITES MONDAY

Burial service Tor the infant
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter Young.
of Elyria, former London resi-
dents. who died in Elyria Sunday,
were at the grave in Somerford
Cemetery, Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Hunter is the former Mar
jorie Traphagan, daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. c. z. Traphagan, Somer-
ford township. Surviving are the
parents and two sisters, at home