Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-06-16

at Joe's Ark before boarding Tom
Gaudern's Rio Rita for q few
hours in Lake Erie. Tom reports
night fishing is getting better
daily, with pickerel and bull
sheephead being taken in good
numbers.
lHARRY "Sandy" Kerr, former
superintendent of Camp Per-
ry, will be honored during the
Ohio Championship Rife Matches
at the local state reservation this
summer as one of the matches
will be known as the Sandy Kerr
Trophy Match. 1t will be fired
August % and will be decided by
aggregate score of the earlier
NRA Experimental and Slow Fire
matches. The Kerr trophy will be
held for one year, with permanent
medals for the winner.
1 - Joi -
THREE members of Port Clin-
= toms American Legion have an
especial interest in Boys State at
Camp Perry as they are alumni
of the Legion-sponsored govern
ment school. DR.. Don Burke,
Bill Mack and John Belknap are
all former "Staters."
-JOT-
THAT bearded young man you've
= noticed in town isn't fugi-
tive from the House of David
baseball team. He's Jerry Beam,
a well-known diver at Yale Uni.
versity. Jerry is spendrng the
summer here, working at the East
Harbor State Park. A journalism
student at Yale, he is native of
Nantucket, Rhode Island. One of
his best buddies at Yale is Akron's
Jimmy McLane, who was on the
Olympic swimming team and holds
the 1900 and 400 meter marks.
-JOT-
DORT CLINTON'S famous seem
ic beauty won some more con-
verts this week-a family from
Lima, Peru. While at the Mon
Ami Champagne Bar Monday eve
ming, we met Mr.. and Mrs. Eman-
uel Hansen and their son, OF
Peru, and their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Muller, now of Green Springs
Mr.. Hansen is Chrysler distribu'
tor for most of the large South
American countries and the family
has travelled widely. They are SC
enthused over this area that they
plan to settle here after Mr.. Han.
sen retires. Mr.. Muller, native
of Switzerland, is a ceramic en-
gineer graduate of Ohio State
University and the Hansen young
sters are Michigan alumni. AL
of which goes to prove that Por,
Clinton is gaining internationa
fame.
| A MOTHER visitor in our midst
this month is Wolfgang Hap
pich, 25, who is spending some
time at the Catawba Cliff House
Happich is from Wuppertal-El
berfeld in the British Zone of Ger
many. His father and uncle owl
the huge Happich auto accessor!
factory in Wuppertal and th'
young man is here to study meth
DDS and equipment at the Stand
ard Products plant. The Happicl
factory was completely guttet
during the war, but has been re
paired and modernized. 1t EN-
ploys $50 workers and includes
five stories and the basement
Happich knew very little English
when he came to Detroit May 19
but he's learning the Language
rapidly.
| JUL
INEILS G. PETERSEN, Catawbs
Island, saw an unusual sigh
the other day. While working il
his boat house, he noticed some
thing moving on the ground ant
couldn't believe his sight. A hui
cap was slowly moving across th'
ground! Closer investigation dis
closed that the moving ability wal
supplied by a turtle which some
how had had the hub cap screwed
into it's shell.
-JOT-
RABY girls have been monopo
- lizing things at Magrude
Hospital. Until Tuesday fore
noon, the stork had brought L
: girls in the last 13 births. Learn