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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Corn Acreage
Reduction Data
Awaited Here
Cochenour Expects
County Quota Jan. Is;
Nation Down 20 Percent

Union County AAA officials
this week were waiting definite
information as to the county's
1850 corn acreage allotment. Will
by Cochenour, AAA chairman,
said the figures are expected
around Jan. Is.
1t was announced in Washing
ton last week that the nations
corn acreage will be cut about 20
percent from 1949 production.
Just what the cut will be for
Union County will not be known
until figures are received from
state headquarters.
The Government will seek to
cut the national corn crop by
!. 650,00O,000 bushels corn acreage
in the corn belt and other major
commercial areas. Farmers must
comply of they wish to qualify
for Government price support.
Farmers in non-commercial
areas can plant as much corn as
they wish, but their price floor
will be 25 percent lower.
Y Since corn grown in these areas
is not included in the allotment
program, the average cutback
nationally will be 1873 percent.
1t was doubtful if the program
will achieve the desired planting
reduction. The only penalty for a
grower in a commercial produc-
, ing area who overplants his al
lotment will be loss of Govern
ment price supports on his 1850
crop.
Even if prices fall below sup
port levels, many farmers who
.everplant might still be able to
Sget bigger return by feeding the
bulk of their corn to hogs and
, marketing them. The Govern
ment is expected to continue to
support hog prices, although the
level may be lowered somewhat
starting next April.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Methodist Men Plon
FomilY Night Party

Mems Brotherhood of the First
Methodist Church will have a
winter festival in the basement
of the church on Wednesday
night, Jan IL. The program will
consist of games, stunts and
lunch. Activities will start at 7:30
p. m. and continue for the eve
ming.
Games are arranged for all
members and their families.
Members of the Brotherhood are
urged to support the committee
in charge of arrangements, and
enjoy an evening of fun and en-
tertainment.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05

volved an expenditure of ap-
proximately $4,000 of which all
but $250O has been paid. The
splendid cooperation of the mem
bership of Trinity and all of its
organizations made these
achievements possible.
Ernst Wenzel, principal of the
Christian Day School, in his an
nual report stated that the school
had an enrolment of 81, with SO
children in the kindergarten and
As in the elementary grades. The
kindergarten is increasing in
popularity and the present en-
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Coroners Check
l8 Deaths In
County Last Year
Three Auto Accidents,
Two Suicides Reported:
IL Natural Causes

There were 18 deaths investi-
gated by County Coroners Albert
M. Johnston and Malcolm Mac
Ivor during 1949. This was one
more than the number investi-
gated last year and considerably
higher than the IL cases in 1947.
There were three deaths result
ing from auto accidents, two sui
cides, one by suffocation, and the
remaining II were from natural
causes. There were four traffic
deaths in the county last year
but one died shortly after arriv-
ing at Jane Case Hospital in
Delaware, so was not called of
ficially to the coroner's attention.
According to the report pre-
pared by Coroner Malcolm Mac
Ivor, the following deaths were
investigated:
Jan. 20 = Winfield r. Shirk,
sc, Marysville, coronary throm-
bosiS.
Feb. - Nimrod Clifford 10y,
81, Arnold, coronary thrombosis.
Feb. II - Frank F. Herriott,
73, Marysville, cerebral hemor-
rhage.
April 6 - Earl w. Heath, so,
Plymouth, found dead in car in
Magnetic Springs. Ruled suicide.
April z - Robert S. Slought,
80, coronary occlusion.
April % - Durward S. Smith,
70, Milford Center, coronary oc-
cluSion.
May 26 - Edmond c. Cody,
86, Marysville, asphyxia by sub
merSion and probable cerebral
hemorrhage.
May % - James 0. Erwin, SO,
Center, auto accident.
June 6 Albert Fritchen, 78,
Peoria. Rt. /, heart attack.
July 81 - Chester w. James,
40, Columbus, crushed and burn
ed in truck accident on Route 81, ]
near Somersville.
Aug, - Mark Hathaway, IL,
Marysville, heart attack.
Sept. 2 - James Dean, 80, Ma
rysville, heart attack.
Sept. 2 - Charles Green, n,
Marysville, heart attack.
Sept. 21-Evelyn Arlene Reed,
%, Plain City, multiple injuries
in auto accident on Route 161.
Sept. "a - Mable Nell Nuna-
maker, SO, Plain City, celebro-
vascular hemorrhage after auto
accident.
Sept. 27 - Harry S. Hessinger,
Columbus, heart attack while
bringing railroad engine into Ma
rysville on New York Central
line.
Oct. Is - Pearl William Walk
err Al, Jerome, suicide by hang
ing.
Dec. "a - Louise Jean Hall, 8
Byhalia, suffication in
blankets.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
rs Words Win New Automobile
For Woman in Unionville Center

Twenty well chosen words today had Dodge
automobile Mrs Don Bailey of Unionvile Center
Tuesday that she the
prize winners in the Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund contest over
WLW Mrs Bailey had her contribution to
along with the letter of Is words telling why
she had made her contribution.
Baileys live the Galloway d, Unonvle Center
than $4,000 entrants in the contest Each
contribution the Ruth Lyons fund which adj
mnstered to purchase gifts and payroom equipment for in
/ mates of children's hospitals
The prizes included automobiles eevison bicycles
Approximately $4,000 collected for the Christmas fund
through this contest
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Leach Wins Suit
: Against Village
BULLETIN


y Verdict in favor of the G. II.
Leach Construction Co. was
brought in by a Jury in Com
. mon Pleas Court here this
afternoon. The jury awarded
Mr.. Leach the full amount re-
quested in his action against
the Village of MarYsville -
$60l7 plus interest.
There is possibility that the
suit brought by the G. H. Leach
Company against the Village of
Marysville may be put in the
hands of the jury today, although
that is not a certainty. The suit
is for $6017 claimed due for pay
ment on the Maple st. sewer pro-
ject.
Witnesses in the case to date
have been Herbert r, Krebs and
a Mr.. OLaughlin, of Marion;
Mayor G. L. Kingsmore, of Ma
rysville; Leo Grindel, Redwood
contractor; Weldon Shaw, and
Robert Galloway.
Members of the. jury are
Frances Barry, Plain City; Leona
Jackson, Marysville Rt. /; Charles
Carrel, Prospect; Martha Rogers,
sMarysville Rt. Q; Stella Salisbury,
Redwood; Lille B. Flowers, I'm
ionville Center; Paul Davis, Plain
City; Thurman Skidmore, East
Liberty; Kenneth Evans, Rich
wood; Edward Rupright, Marys-
vile; Tom Nayin, Marysville; and
Olidel Blue, Redwood.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Sources of Food are Important
BY DR.. ALBERT A. VOGEL
Health Commissioner

Wholesome food is of wide
public interest. The housewife is
concerned with foods on sale in
the markets. Commercial restau-
rant operators are. likewise inter
ested in the sources of foods to be
prepared and served in their es-
tablishments.
Before food goes on sale in
markets, much of it has been
forced to meet rather rigid stand
ards as to cleanliness, freedom
from decay or spoilage, and good
packaging.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Festival in Redwood

a Winter festival, sponsored
by the Redwood Senior Glass,
will be presented at the Rich
wood High School building on
Jan. z. There will be an auction,
dance, movie, fish pond, cake
walk, and all other forms of en-
tertainment will be available for
those present.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
7 Tax Help Offered

Two representatives OF the
Bureau of Internal Revenue will
be in the Marysville Post Office
Thursday and Friday to aid in
the filing of income tax. They
will be in the Extension Office
in the basement of the building
and there will be no charge for
their work.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05
Heads Commissioners

Frank White, Jackson Town
ship, was elected chairman of the
county commissioners at their
meeting in the Court House
Tuesday.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-01-05

editors Note: This the sec
ond an as series of 10 articles by
ltitev-T5nion County Health De-
partment discussing eating and
drinking establishments
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Trade Tariff Experts
From East and West
Meet 10 Ease Barriers
BY the Assoeioted Press

TORQUAY, England, Sept. %.
delegates from both sides of the
Iron Curtain sat down together
today for a new attack on the
worlds tariff barriers to trade.
The representative from the
Russian orbit was Czechoslovakia.
The other 38 delegations. in
cluding one from battered
South Korea, were all from the
other side.
They are members of the Cen
eral Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade, meeting here to negotiate
as many general tariff reductions
as possible.
ThOrp Addresses Opening.
The conference, American AS
sistant Secretary of State Willard
L. Thorp told the opening session,
provides a positive demonstration
of way for peace.
"We are finding ways and means
lof working together and solving
our common problems in terms of
reasoned principles and negotia-
tions rather than by threat, pres
sure and retaliation" the head of
the United States delegation said.
Unfortunately at this moment
much of the concern and activity
of our governments must focus
on the problem of international
aggression. Unfortunately, aggres-
sion still exists.
Peace First Objectives.
"The maintenance of peace is
the first objective of the United
Nations and the responsibility for
so doing falls on all of us. This
condition does not detract, but
rather gives even greater i'm
.portance to. our meeting, for we
who meet here are a symbol of
and a demonstration of the way
of peace" Mr.. Thorp said.
Mr.. Thorp almost missed the
conference because of shipboard
appendicitis attack. He was still
taking it easy" today.
Nearly TOO delegates and as
many more advisers and staff
members received their formal
welcome from Mayor T. F. Adams
of Torquay.
The American and British dele
cations top the conference list in
number. each having more than
100 representatives. The West
German group of about so was in
third place. Korea was the
smallest.
Elections Tomorrow.
Tomorrow the conference ma
chinery actually starts turning
with the election of officers, estab-
lishment- of negotiations commit
tees and the submission of lists
for concessions.
Each participating country will
submit a list of tariff items on
which it is prepared to grant
concessions and a second list of
items on which it seeks conces- !
sionS.
AS these are sifted through the
conference machinery as many as
400 bilateral-two- -sided-negotia-
tions may go on at one time
Under the Geneva agreement they
will all be fitted into a multi
lateral pattern, extending any
concessions granted to all inter-
ested members of the agreement 8
Both the lists and subsequent
negotiations are to remain secret
until results are announced, be-
cause of the possible financial
effect of a premature leak on fu-
ture tariff reductions.
Evening star., 1950-09-28

WE'D so YEARS-Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew r. Gill, 4O16 Thirty
third street, Mount Rainier,
celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary recently at
their home. Mr.. Gill, a retired
Government Printing Office
employe, and his wife have
been residents of the Capital
area for 46 years. They have
sons, 1 daughter, IL grand
children and 2 reat-grand-
children.-Harris Ewing Photo.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

Below is big ad sent to the Toledo Union
Journal by the Toledo Blade.
We are printing it, Well get more than $l7O
of Paul Blocks dough out of it-and we intend
to use that amount, and more, convincing all
who will listen to us that the Blade has done foul
and unwholesome job of smearing Dick Cosser
and the Local II union.
We do not endorse the contents of the Blades
advertisement.
Some of it may be true, and some of it may
be matter of opinion.
But wouldn't want anyone to run off with
the notion that the Blades pension plan is any.
thing we'd negotiate for our own membership.
No one at the Blade who receives less than 500
week gets pension; and there enough gm.
micks i'm it, if our information is correct, to drive
hearse through. A hearse with You-Know-Who
sleeping peacefully inside.
The Blade has been carrying UAW.CIO adj
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

vertising right along now, for several weeks on a
regular basis. There'n be another full page ad on
Sunday.
1t has been taking our advertisements, and
our money, and reserving the right to kick the
stuffing out of us i'm the editorial columns and in
the news pages well.
1t reserves the right not to like this union or
most of its elected officers.
That's fine.
We don't like the Blade, either-and If any.
one has any doubt about it, this edition of the To.
ledo Union Journal will set him straight.
But we will refuse no Blade advertising unless
it tries to use our columns to interfere with our
affairs. Then we'll dump the ad.
Meanwhile, nothing could give more satis-
faction than to use the Blades $1,000 to start
bonfire under the outfit that openly appropri.
ated $1,000 to finance Bolman's suit, and may
have been spending more.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

The Blade this time tells
the truth. Mr.. Gray did not
make accusations, but the
Blade, in reporting his testi-
mony, and commenting on it
editorially, did
An example of the Blades
tactics can be found in another
part of the editorial.
The Blade says "Mr. Gray
couldn't say whether the store
has done 100000 worth of bus
iness with the union since the
summer camp and farms were
purchased, but he did recall
once talking to Mr.. Gosser about
the fact (fact?) that $36, 900 had
been paid to the Colonial Hard
ware store when there were no
itemized bills.
And what are the FACTS?
The facts are that this $780,
900 is number tossed onto the
record by Attorney Ellis. He
asked it, Gray admitted he did
not know and had no way of
knowing and wouldn't try to
guess. Among intelligent people,
that would dispose of that $780,
900 figure. But the Blade has
used it twice.
Furthermore, if you look at
that part about Gray recalling
that he once talked" to Gosser
about the "fact" that $4,000
had been paid to the store with
out itemized bills, you'll see the
gimmick in it.
The "talk" might have been
Gosser saying to Gray, What in
seven kinds of hell did you dol
THAT for?" Mr.. Gray does notl
say. But the Blade leaves thel
impression-and obviously IN-l
TENDS to leave the impression
that something GRO o k e d has
taken place.
Gray didn't say so. He said he |
didn't know.
And there you have 1t - all
summed up in one editorial.
The Blade is after the highest
level UAW-CIO officer in the
city; and if it gets him, 1t will
have hurt the union and divided
the local.
It's after him, and is employ
ing what we consider dirty
journalism to get him. It is
printing hearsay, rumor. insinu-
alton and bare and unanswered
QUESTIONS in such a way as
TO leave the impression that they
are facts--proved and supported
by legal evidence as facts.
Every newspaper in the bust
ness knows that this is not clean
newspaper tactics. And every
newspaperman in the business
who could follow the Blades
tactics since the time Gosser-l
on the LMC--was one of those
rendering a decision not to Paul
Block Juniors liking, would
hold such tactics in contempt
And into this contemplate
Blsde-inspired stencil rushes a
group of anti-Gosser union
members to splash across the
pages of hostile press that a
Clique" at the top of Local IL
is dishonest and unscrupulous"
and Is Fleeing" the members.
Everyone knows that these
leaders didn't fleece the mem
bers.
They-with Gosser-got them
pay increases and benefits so
darned good that they are about
the highest in the nation.
And THAT is what this whole
campaign is about.
Don't forget it,
The Blade, and its supporters,
are TRYING TO SMASH YOUR
UNION,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

Next, the Blade said, "Mr.
Gosser clustered that he
had not been officially charg-
ed with wrong-doing. He
didn't say that if he were he
might want somebody else's
ribs kicked in, too"
Somebody "else"?
"Too?"
The Blade here hands down
a verdict. Randy Gray told
someone GOsser threatened to
have his ribs kicked in. Cos
ser didn't say anything re-
motely resembling his. 1t
simply isn't true.
But the Blade makes it
true in its editorial by assum-
ing it, and thus by giving it
the full weight of trial and
CONJUNCTION. No one h a S
threatened Randy Gray with
violence; it is understandable
that, knowing what he intend
ed to do to his union he would
have some misgivings. But
Gray's ribs are safe, unless
the Blade decides to kick
them in editOrially.
The Blade declares, First
there was the testimony of
Randolph Gray, financial sec
retary of Local IL, about the
way in which Richard G0sser,
an International Vice Presi-
dent of the UAW-CI0, dicta-
tor Of Local IL, and owner of
the Colonial Hardware Store,
controlled the unions fl
nances and may have profit
ed from its slot machines and
certainly from its heavy pur-
chases at his store" )"
Gray said nothing of the kline
- and most of his testimon,
during the day when all thi
baloney was discussed most in
tensively is on Pages 4 and 5 o
this edition of the Journal 81
you can see for yourself wha
he DID say.
He said he BELIEVED Cos
ser controlled Local 12's fl
nances. But his own testimony
shows that G0sser didn't have
enough control to get regular
financial reports out of Gray
himself. The Journal admits,
publicly, that Gosser TRIED
to get these reports from the
membership but dictatOrs
don't try patiently for months
to persuade an official to do
his duty. Gosser tried pa
tiently.
Furthermore, Gray did not
say Gosser may have profit
ed from clot machines. He
said, as a matter OF fact, that
he didn't know, couldn't know,
and was quite miffed because
all he could find out was
rumors. The Blade. however,
prints rumOrs.
Gray did not say that Gossei
certainly profited" from the
Locals heavy purchases at the
Colonial Hardware store.
He said heavy purchases were
made there he said he did no
know how heavy, or how light
or in what amounts. He saio
nothing whatever about PROF
IT'S, and does not know wheth.
er Gosser sold merchandise al
a profit, a loss, or at the break.
even point.
The auditors know about
these alleged "heavy profits,
and what they know would
knock Blocks beret off. But
he Blade doesn't know, ano
Gray didn't say. He couldn't.
The Blade does state, for all
the city to read, that "Mr.
Gray didn't make any specific
accusations"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

The editorial Salu:
"What may have come as a
surprise, though, TO those who
don't know that Toledo's most
powerful labor leader has a
woeful reputation as an en-
ployer was the way Mr.. Cos
ser set about to handle a
strike in Local 12's own office.
did he bargain with the
IL women employees w h o
walked out to protest their
working conditions and his
domination? Did he try to
adjust their grievances? Did
he submit the dispute to me-
diation or arbitration? Heck
no, even the Taft-Hartley Act
is too good for Mr.. Gosser's
own employees. When they
walk out on him, they've just
quit; and sea BIS can walk
right in"
This entire quotation from the
Blade editorial is a lie.
Let's take it one at a time:
did he bargain with them?
Heck, no, says the Blade.
He'll, yes, he bargained
with them. They wanted a
refrigerator. Gosser told
Randy Gray to get it for
them. Gray did not. No
one knows why. But Cos
ser DID agree with them;
Gray DID NOT, and the
girls walked out.
2-Did he try to adjust their
grievances? Heck, no, says
the Blade. He'll, yes, he
tried to adjust their griev-
ance. He tried to adjust
their grievance inspite of
the fact that their own
UNION contract requires
them to bargain first with
Gray, and If that fails,
with a committee of the
Local Executive Board.
3-Did he submit the dispute
to mediation or arbitra-
tion? What dispute? The
one about the refrigerator?
He SETTLED that dispute.
There was no other dis
pute until the girls walk
ed out, except the Locals
dispute with the girls
about getting some finan-
ciaI reports FOR the men,
bership. The GIRLS won
that dispute. They flatly
refused TO get up the fig
ures at any time this year.
4--SINCE they walked out
(while Gosser was out of
/ town. they haven't met
with, or agreed to meet
with, or made any effort
to meet with any official
grievance group at Local
LIZ. How do you settle, adj
rust, mediate or arbitrate
that?
5-As for the girls who took
over the dues function at
Local IL when the clerks
walked off the iob--these
solid union gals won't he
pleased TO be called scabs
by the Toledo Blade.
While Plaskon was on strike,
while Chrysler was out, while
Mather is out, while the rail
road firemen were out, the
Blade was able TO conceal its
sympathy for these poor work
ers.
But when twelve girls, two
of them non-members hired by
Gray, walked out with the adj
mitted intention of embarras-
sing their international vice pre-
sident who had worked hard to
adjust their gripes, the Blade
begins to suffer all over page
one for strikers"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19
How The blade Conducts A Smear

which and rushed
the
Toledo doubts the Blade
PagsO of the elneher
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

Good pay and good ,oorking conditions?
Opportunity for promotion and advancement?
job security plus an adequate, dependable pension pa
Steady year-round employment?
Sufficient accident and death benefits?
offers all these. That's why we feel Blade job is
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Brooknnont Club
Earns Its Motto
With Service

Service" is the motto of the
Brookmont Garden Club in near
by Maryland. For years it has
been a sponsor of the Bethesda
Harvest Show and has won awards
in that show and elsewhere.
During National Flower Week
club members distribute bouquets
and flower arrangements to shut
ins, local schools and churches.
Last Thanksgiving the club
made a tray bouquet" for every
patient in Suburban Hospital in
Bethesda, and placed larger bou-
quets in the Office and the halls.
In December, Christmas dish gar
dens and table decorations are
made and given to the Red Cross
for disabled veterans in Forest
Glen.
At present the club is working
for the National Flower and Gar
den Show. A past president of the
club, Mrs. E. B. Perry is general
chairman of the Gardens Clubs
Section of the show.
During the year well-known
speakers address the club on
timely topics. Club members be-
long to the Audubon Society, the
Potomac Rose Society, the Isaac
Walton League and others, and
their hobbies" include orchid
culture, prize winning rose gar
den. color photography of flow
ers. birds and insects, African
violet collections, wild flower gar
dens, flower arrangements and
bird study-even little garden
ing!
Evening star., 1950-03-26
Show Furniture
OF Waste Wood

Woodworking enthusiasts and
conservation minded visitors to
the National Farm and Garden
Show will find novel exhibit of
occasional furniture pieces made
OF native woods usually discarded.
The 2l pieces are the personal
collection of Chief Hugh H. Ben
nett OF the Soil Conservation
Service. The wood came from 10
states and includes willow, box
elder, Kentucky coffee tree, dog
wood, mesquite, river birch and
'possum haw.