Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-08-04
J0TTINGS ....
| OFF the CUFF
By RAY SPERBER


distance operators at the North
ern Ohio Telephone Company eX-
change, have little patience and
give the girls credit for the bang
up job they're doing. Few of us
realize it, but long distance calls
here this summer are setting all
time records. The daily totals
have run two-and three-hundred
higher than top days during the
war years. More operators and
switchboards have been added but
the rush continues unabated. Be
patient and your calls will be
handled with courtesy.
JOT -
IF this traffic situation continues,
= this area will become known as
"Bottleneck" instead of Vacation
land" We drove from Wooster
to Sandusky Sunday afternoon,
fought very little traffic and av-
eraged the limit. After hitting
Sandusky, we inched along for an
hour and a half before getting
home. Making matters worse was
truck accident which held up
traffic on the bay bridge for 40
minutes. Cars were lined up sol
idly across the bridge, bumper to
bumper from the bridge to Venice,
and even more so from the bridge
west to Kinks dairy on Route ,
and east around the curve as far
as the eye could see towards Mar
blehead. When the detours are
changed and repairs completed,
the situation will ease somewhat
but Caution and Common Sense
are needed on local roads this
month and speed can mean only
death or injury for yourself, your
loved ones or careful drivers and
their passengers in another car.
JOT -
CCORES of Port Clinton base
- ball fans were in Cleveland
Friday night for the Red Sox-ln-
dian game. Five chartered buses
took the bulk of the fans, two
buses being chartered by Joe Nor
gan and the others were spon-
scred by the Elks Lodge, c. Y. @.
and Rotary Club. Fred Singer
lost a buck as he bet Luke Eas-
ter wouldn't get hit, but Fred
paid off quickly when Luscious
Luke smacked one of the five
Cleveland home runs. doc"
Miessner shouted himself hoarse
as the Indians massacred the Red
Sox but doc" Ley was so busy
keeping score he missed part OF
the action. Sitting behind us was
an attractive brunei who proved
to be the sister-in-law of Harold
Freid, formerly of this city and
currently studying psychology at
Kent State.
OOKS like Jack Graney and
- the other sports announcers
will have a problem next year
when Bob Lemon, no relative OF
the Cleveland Indians ace hurler,
is brought up to bolster the Ind
ians' slugging attack. Youthful
Bob is currently baseball's leading
home run hitter, topping all the
minors and the majors with a
rousing 81 in half season with
Oklahoma City, the Tribes AA
farm. 1t appears certain that Bob
Lemon will join Bob Lemon, the
Observation-Disclosures star
before too long. Perhaps they'll
change the newcomers name to
Bob Apple, as he murders the
sphere.
THAT mystery" about the trav-
= cling pickerel bearing an Ohio
gill tag which was caught by An
drew Schultz, Youngstown, while
fishing July 4th some 1,500 miles
from home in a Canadian lake, has
been solved. The fish hadn't trav-
eled at all. Jim Thomas, Dayton,
a former employee of the Ohio
Wildlife Division, was fishing at
Kashawakamak Lake near Har-
lowe, Ontario, three years ago.
He had some unused fish tags in
his pocket which had been issued
in 1888. Before releasing several
undersized pickerel he caught that
day, Thomas simply tagged" the
fish. 1t was one of these that
Schultz caught.
JOT =
DUT-IN-BAY, Johnson's Island,
= North Bass, Kelleys Island and
others in the Bass Island group
are being featured this week on
Sohio's sixth television Lets Ex-
plore Ohio" tour of Ohio's scenic
and historic spots. The television
show will start in Cleveland and
travel to the Lake Erie islands
where Perry's victory over the
British in 1913 is commemorated
in towering shaft at Putin Bay,
where Confederate officers who
were prisoners of war were housed
on ,JohnSon'S Island in Sanduskv