Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-02-02

Judge Tom D. Stahl of the COM
mon pleas court has approved
the reappointment of Atty James
E. Thierry, Port Clinton, as Ii
brarian for the Ottawa County
Law Library Association. The
law library is located on the third
floor of the court house.
William Fleckner, Oak Harbor,
an examiner from the Depart
ment of Taxation of Ohio, who
has been at the court house for a
number of days concluded his
work Wednesday, assisting vend-
ors in preparing their semi-an-
nual sales tax reports. A large
number of vendors called at the
court house for assistance or in
structions in filing their returns.
Treasurer D. l.. Cullenen re-
ports collections of real estate
taxes for the January period have
been good, with a large number
of property owners having visit
ed the court house during the
past week. February 1st was the
last day for paying before the
penalty became effective, and
many persons unable to visit the
court house made their payments
through the mails and it will re-
quire a couple of days to COM
plete checking the returns.
The sheriff's department re-
ports the number of prisoners in
the county Jail had been reduced
from six to four over the week
end.
The deadline for filing nomina-
ton petitions with the Ottawa
county board of elections is We'd
nesday evening, February 7th at
six-thirty o'clock. Port Clinton
is the only village in the county
where primary elections are held
for nominating village offices.
The case of Julius Naft, Por
Clinton against the Mau-Sherwood
Supply Company of Cleveland
was tried in common pleas court
before Judge Tom D. Stahl an6
the petit jury, opening Monda.
was to be brought to a close las
Wednesday. In this action the
plaintiff was seeking judgemen
for $4,000 for injuries and dam
3 ages alleged tc have resulted
from a traffic accident which o.
Cured in Port Clinton, Octobe
30, 1912. The jury returned
verdict for $4,000 for the plaintiff
Sheriff Merlan Budd and Depu
ty Myron Hetrick were called t
Erie township early Sunda.
morning when an Army airplan
crashed on the bonneville Farm
and five service men were report
ed killed. Several hours wer
spent helping at the scene of til
accident.
Ottawa county is reported a
being one of the 80 counties i
Ohio, as having no bonded il
debtedness, but while the count
is free of bonded debts, tn
schools and villages according
reports in the auditors depar
ment, have bonded indebtedness
amounting to S1,373, 100. The il
debtedness of the schools is give
at $1,O83,8O0 and ! villages j.;
S289,30O. The Port Clinton vi
lage and schools top the lis
totaling $595,000.
In the annual report by job
Hensler, superintendent of tn
Ottawa County home, it is show
that Al inmates were regfstere
on January l. Of this number ;
were made and IL female, wit
% being over IS years old. To
al expense for operation for tt
past year, 1850, was given at $21
096.93 and the income includir
donations and other sources w:
given at 1855. .666, which i
cluded $2,937.64 of produce co
sumed at the home.
Auditor E. A. Guth reports tt
receipt of the following vouche
from Columbus during the wee
$8O002 and $726.48 from feder
funds for aid for dependent CHI
. dren; $225.29 and S324.24 fro
federal funds for county blind r