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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
COMMITTEE WORKERS ARE NAMED
FOR 1851 BY KlWANIS PRESIDENT

Following the installation of
new officers and directors of the
Port Clinton KiWanis Club We'd
nesday, IL members who have be-
longed to the club for 25 years
or more. were honored at special
places at the speakers table and
presented with certificates and
service buttons by retiring presi-
dent Francis A. Mekus.
Mekus then turned over the
avel to Charles J. Dewitt, in
oming president, who announced
TAT vice president George Schade
Ill serve as general chairman OF
il committees.
Other officers are DorWin d
inns, secretary-treasurer, and j
Heckler, Robert Kyle, Stanley
Talick, Albert Holzhauer, Louis
;mith, Lyle Mayhem and Richard
5emon.
Committees Named
President Dewitt announced
The clubs standing committees
COR the year as comprised of the
following Kiwanians:
Agriculture and Conservation
Werner Jeschke, chairman; Erwin
Johannsen, A. w. Kalb, Robert
Kirk, R. A. Rice, w. ]. Spayd.
John Steager and Lester DuBrie.
Public Affairs-Lyle Mayhem,
chairman; Lester Everett, Albert
Holzhauer, c. H. Stephenson, Oil
yer True, Elmer Webb, James
Peltier and William Zeis.
Support of Churches = Rev.
Lawrence Miller, chairman; Rev
James Bigelow, A. S. Pitman
Lawrence Rupp and Ralph Fors-
ter. Boys and Girls Work-Al.
bert Davids, chairman; Harry
Karshner, DR.. James Rhiel, DR..
Cyrus Wood, Howard Fulton,
Richard Fulton, Richard WEIGH
ell and John Black.
Finance and Auditing-Wilbur
Gill, chairman; John Belknap,
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
ESTIMATED COST
SEWER PLANNING
SET AT S24,O0O
Official Urges Sewer Rental
In Lieu OF More
Costly Bonds

Cost of plans for the proposed
sewage disposal plant here would
be approximately $4,000, Will
liam Crohen, water works super
intendent, estimated this week.
He pointed out that the city
still owes $4,000 for which it
became obligated to federal
commission on public works
planning, when the government
offered to loan funds toward the
planning of municipal public im-
provements, several years ago
Installation of the Maple and
Jackson streets sanitary sewer
system was as far as the city was
able to progress in its sewer pro-
gram 10 years ago, he explained.
He pointed out further that the
city cannot finance the cost Of
sewer maintenance and construc-
ton of sewage treating plant
because of the existing five per-
cent Limitation on the total as
sessed valuation, which raises
only $450,O00 for all purpose
spending. This is the reason
sewer rental is vitally necessary
at this time in order to pave the
way for sewage treating plant, "
Crohen said.
The superintendent added that
under the sewer rental plan resi-
dents can purchase a sewage
treating system with a full value
dollar whereas the dollar unit
value of mortgage revenue bonds
is only 70 cents.
''The sewer rental plan would
be less expensive and burden
some than bonds" he concluded
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Merchants Association
Launches City-Wide
Membership Drive

An intensive membership drive
was plotted at the first winter
dinner meeting of the Merchants
Association held in city hall Mon
day night, under guidance of
Lawrence LudwigSen, president.
Carl Becker was pressed into
service as general chairman of
the special membership drive
committee, which will divide the
business district into four sec
tions for membership solicitation.
The drive was labeled a round
up, from which it is expected to
garner more than 100 members to
give assistance to an extensive
civic program for the current
year.
Lay Minstrel Plans
Ludwigsen announced that Don
E. Sanders had been named gen.
eral chairman of the 1851 mer-
chant-sponsored home talent min
strel, which will be presented
this spring. No dates have been
set as yet.
Chairmen of production commit
tees who were named this week
include Sam Cont, stage proper
Arlene Krohe, Lakeside, will con-
duct the clubs ticket sale.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
MACRUDER HOSPITAL REMAINS
ON COLLEGE OF SURGEONS LIST

Magruder Memorial Hospital
continues on the coveted list of
hospitals approved by the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons, DR.. Paul
r. Hawley, national director, an
nounced this week.
The local hospital, which has
been under the supervision of
Miss Rachel Garlick as acting
superintendent is among 1920
hospitals in the United States
and Canada which carry the Col
lege of Surgeons approval. Miss
Garlick succeeded Miss Margaret
Miller early last December.
The standards for hospitals
upon which approval is based in
clude the following fundament-
al principles:
Modern physical plant, assur-
ing the patient safety, comfort
and efficient care. Clearly defin-
ed organization, duties, respon-
sibilities, and relations. Care
fully selected governing board
with complete and supreme auth
ority.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12

Reinheimer pointed out that
Council could have, at any time,
adopted the sewer rental ordi-
nance as an emergency measure,
but did not do so in order to per-
NIT public reaction to the issue,
which has been pending for sew
eral months.
Brovsh Not Present
E. c. Brough, who filed more
than 500 petitions protesting
sewer rental with the city clerk
December 27, was not present,
having been in Columbus on busi-
ness. Council ordered that he be
notified of the delay in council
manic action.
In attendance at the meeting,
presumably as protestant to the
sewer ordinance was A. w. Kalb,
who declared before council that
"a referendum is only a means
of finding out what people want
petitions represent what people
desire in public matters" He ad-
ded that he approved of councils
action and had faith that a plan
could be worked out without the
rental clause, but l am not an ex-
pert in the matter"
There were no delegations
present to protest the sewer rental
ordinance at last Tuesday nights
council meeting.
No Emergency Clause
Reinheimer pointed out that
there was no emergency clause at
tached to the ordinance, but that
this could be done anytime. He
said the public had ample time to
study the question when it was
being processed for the required
three readings, but did not form
ally protest at that time. Boil
ing it down." the solicitor insisted,
1.-The sewer rental ordinance is not
subject to a referendum under
the constitution
Mayor Becker said the city cam
not afford to go into the courts,
because there would be long
delay of a year and maybe more.
He added, 1--WE cannot afford a
long delay because the state is
pushing us hard to complete our
public sanitation program as soon
as possible"
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Richard Farmer Appeals
Life Murder Conviction
Defense Counsel Cites Points
of Error In Lifer'S
Prosecution

Notice of appeal has been fled
in the common pleas court in the
case of Richard Farmer, %, and
transcripts in the case have been
filed by the clerk of courts with
the Sixth District Court of Ap-
peals in Toledo. When tried IN
the local courts, Farmer was char
ged with having caused the un-
lawful death of Mrs. Helen Noble
81, who was shot on September
"a, last year, and died four days
later. The petit jury returned a
verdict of murder in the first de-
gree with recommendation Of
mercy, and Judge Tom D. Stahl
sentenced the defendant to serve
life sentence in the Ohio peni-
tentiary at Columbus. The ap-
peal was filed by Attorney Leslie
E. Meyer who had been appointed
by the court as counsel for the
defendant.
Attorney Meyer indicated that
in the appeal the defense would
rely on several points of error
in law, one being the contention
that the prisoner was taken into
court handicuffed, which counsel
will declare prejudicial in admin
istration Of justice. 1t was also
indicated that errors in instruc.
ton given to the jury by the
court would be cited.
Farmer was found guilty by q
jury of IL men and one woman
last November 20 following a
trial which ran over week.
Seven cases were investigated
by the Ottawa county grand jury
while in session Tuesday, wher
13 witnesses were examined anG
six indictments returned of which
five were secret. The members
of the grand jury made the peri
odical inspection of the county
Jail and recommended that the
porch and outside woodwork o.
the county Jail be painted.
William Crohen was foreman
of the jury which completed its
work in one day.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
CIVIL DEFENSE
0RCAN|zATI0NAL
MEETING CALLED
All Facets OF Emergency
Preparedness To Be Out
lined Tuesday

A first full scale organizational
meeting pointing to the building
of complete civil defense unit
in Port Clinton has been called
by Wayne Petersen, Ottawa coun-
ty director, for next Tuesday.
The meeting will be held in City
Hall at 7:30 p. m.
In order to get the unit started,
city council last Tuesday night
set aside $500 in its budget for
civil defense programming, to
cover stationery supply needs.
Peterson has announced that
one of the first steps, after ap-
pointment of personnel, will be
the setting up of card system
by which every utility, water, gas
and electricity inlet to dwelling
unit will be indicated. The num-
Der of occupants in each unit will
also be shown, so that in an emer
gency, all utilities which might
cause fire or flood, could be cut
off and occupants could be quick;
ly evacuated.
Councilmen expressed the opin
;on that such a record would be
Of considerable value for use by
the fire and police departments
in emergencies which arise ir
line of their routine duties.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12

George Koch, Robert Kyle and
Harry Stensen.
UnderpriviIesed Children
Underprivileged children -
Frank Quisno, chairman; DR.. Le-
roy Belt, DR.. E. E. Braithwaite,
William Mack, Stensen Petersen
and Robert Goodall. Achieve
ment Reports-George Schade,
chairman, and James Wolf and
LeGrand Tuttle. Attendance
]. G.. Hitchcock, chairman; Tom
Hollingsworth, Bert Klein, ]. 6.
Kolesar, Donald Sanders. Mem
bership-A. T. Emmett, chairman,
John Faris, Tom Semon, William
Smith, Albert Holzhauer. Recep-
tion-Stanley Halick, chairman,
Carl Quisno, Earl Carpenter, Dr.
E. E. Ingram, Phillip Wasser-
strom, Robert Gardner.
Public Relations-Louis Warn
er, chairman; Robert Reider, Will
lis Misch, Louis Smith, Harley
Clausen, Edward Morris, c. f.
Williamson. Inter-club Relations
William Timblin, chairman:
Carl Biro, Harry Knorr, Sam Lich-
Stenstein William Wolf. Music
Lee Bracken, chairman; DR.. Rick-
ard Semon, John Black, Rev. Law
renee Miller.
Program Committee
Program William Brown,
chairman; J. C. Heckler, Louis
Hetrick, DR.. James Merrick, Ken
meth Miller, D. D. Sims, Earl Will
son. New Club Building-Olaf
Rasmussen, chairman; Sam ANA
to, o. F. Gardner, Robert Carroll,
Ray HoWerth. KiWanis Education
and Fellowship-Raymond Boiler,
chairman; Henry Cowgirl, Francis
Mekus, Ralph Wedekind and
Adair WILDER.
The officers and directors were
installed by past lieutenant gov
ernor Earl Wilson at the Wed.
nesday luncheon held in the E
U. B. Church hall.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Chief Shelters Fall
Hospitalizes Him

Police Chief Jack Shelter was
still patient in Magruder Me-
mortal Hospital yesterday, recov-
ering from painful injuries to his
face when he fell on ice in the
Bay early this week.
Shelter was enroute to see a
man engaged in ice fishing when
he lost his footing on the ice a
short distance from the shore.
X-ray examination disclosed that
no bones we're fractured, his de-
partment reported. He suffered
severe bruises on the face and
head, it was said.
Hospital attaches said his con-
dition was not serious. His re-
lease from the hospital was cx-
pected today.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Put-in-Bay Mail
Schedule Changed

Early morning outgoing ma
service which maintained a IA
o'clock schedule was discontinued
in Put-in-Bay Monday.
Under the new schedule, nov
in operation, the first plane leave
Put-in-Bay airport at $3.50 a. m
and $50 p. m.
Mail planes leave the Peninsu
lar airport at $50 a. m. and 4:3t
p. m. daily. Sunday the plane
leaves at 9 a. m.
Additional plane trips will be
arranged daily during the ice-fish
ing season, to accommodate sports
men, officials at the airports an
nounced.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
-JU D c { c UL A u
R E c 0 We R | N G
FRO NJ M!SH AP

P. w. Gulau, judge of Ottawa
County Probate Court, is recov-
ering from head injuries suffer
ed when he was struck by an
automobile early Tuesday evening
as he was crossing the intersec-
ton of Locust and Park streets.
Judge Gulau had left the
American Legion hall and had
started to cross the street as a
car driven by Leland Brindley
struck him.
Brindley removed the miShap
victim to Offices of DR.. George
Boon who treated him for Sc
we're head laceration and bruises
about the face.
Judge Gulau is confined to his
home on Water street.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
RITES HELD FOR
T u G v | c 7 | M
HERE TUESDAY
Body OF Daniel j. Ryan
Found Locked In Ice
Near Evans

Services were held Tuesday in
the Gerner & Wolf funeral home
here for Daniel J. Ryan, 54, cook
on the ill-fated tug Sachem,
which sunk in Lake Erie Decem-
ber 18 near Dunkirk, N. Y.
Ryan was a member of a 12-
man crew on the tug, which had
left Buffalo for Dunkirk in mid
December. His body was one of
two which were found last week
frozen in ice along the Lake Erie
shore near Evans, halfway be-
tween Dunkirk and Buffalo. The
other victim was George Burns, at
River Rouge, Mich. To date the
other 10 members of the crew
have not been located. Coast
Guard officials, who gave long
and intensive search for the
Sachem, abandoned hope for the
crewmen two weeks ago. 1t is be-
lieved that all aboard perished.
Ryan, who lived on Route 2,
Erie township, had been a sailor
on the ocean as we'll as the Great
Lakes, serving in various capaci-
ties. He shipped on the Sachem
for the final trip of the season.
Surviving here are the widow
Mrs. Bena Ryan; two stepdaugh-
ters, Mrs. Glenn Ellithorpe and
Mrs. Robert Qualman, and two
stepsons, John Sorensen and Earl
Sorensen, both of Curtice, Ohio.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
SOLICITOR SAYS ORDINANCE
NOT SUBJECT To Referendum

Acting swiftly Mayor Carl Becker's suggestion to
delay action the pending rental ordinance, City
Council Tuesday suddenly voted to table the hoy contested
issue until its next meeting, January 80.
Earlier in the meeting City Solicitor John Reinheimer
told councmen that the ordinance enacted last mcnth
hozg flat charge of so per cent of water charges
sewer rental lis not subject to referendum under the law
He quoted similar issue in Fostoria which upheld in
court decision.
After Becker asked for the delay in order to have
hearing from official of the State Health Board at the
next meeting of council Councilman r. c. Shaper moved for
tabng of the question for weeks The vote supporting
his motion unanimous.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Oak Harbor Man Is
Heading West Meet

Lawrence J. Schiller, of Oak
Harbor, is presiding at three
day convention of the American
DehydratorS' Association in Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo. Approx
mately 500 are in attendance at
the annual meeting which will
close this Friday night.
Schiller is president of Hay
ward, Inc, which operates alfa,-
ia dehydrating mills in OHIO,
California anc Kansas.
The association which he heads
is comprised of member COM
panieS which are engaged in mill
ing and dehydration of alfalfa.
The group was organized in To-
ledo 10 years ago.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12

Both morning and afternoon
sessions were devoted to discus
sionS of payroll withholding tax
deduction from wages of town
ship workers.
A number of trustees complain
ed about steel cargo trucks
pounding up roads going through
townships Noble, discussing this
panel subject, said trustees have
no control over the trucks as
long as they are running on given
routes prescribed by the Public
Utilities Commission. He stress
ed, however, that violations of
routes and load weights can be
determined and prosecuted by
the State Highway Patrol, the
sheriff of any county or any
constable.
Noble informed the trustees
and clerks that volunteer fire.
man cannot be repaid for damage
done to his clothing while fight
ing fire, in response to an in
ouiry on this matter. He also
pointed out that trustees can
not serve as paid volunteer fire.
men and that other volunteers
who receive no pay, lose their
compensation rights.
All IL townships in the coun-
ty were represented at the joint
meeting of township trustees and
clerks.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Catawl1a Youths Sent
To Industrial School

Apprehended while hiding in a
barn near Sylvania, Ohio, two Ca
tawba Island boys are now un-
der indefinite sentences to the
Boys Industrial School at Lam
caster.
The boys, both Is years old,
were charged with theft of two
cars, which authorities said were
badly damaged when recovered.
The vehicles were taken from the
Catawba Ferry warehouse.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Enlistnents From
CITY Accelerated

Two more Ottawa county
youths have joined the lengthen-
ing parade of new enlisteeS in the
services. They are Kenneth Diet
rich, Route 2 and James Hensen,
also of Port Clinton, who were
accepted for Air Corps training
at the Fremont recruiting station.
1t is estimated that some 25 To-
cal boys have entered either the
Army, Navy or Marine service
during the past month.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12

ties; M. G. Edwards, publicity and
program advertising; Carl Becker
casting, and Jack Park, tickets.
Cooperating with this years
project will be SO members of the
Business & Professional Women'S
Club. Mrs. Ann Bolte, of Ca
tawba, will serve as the clubs
minstrel committee chairman, and
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
FACES AWOL CHARGE

County officers turned James
F. Noeltner, II, of Port Clinton,
over to Army authorities, after he
was held by sheriff's deputies who
picked him up Sunday while he
was hitchhiking near HeSSville.
He admitted he was AWOL from
the Army since December 3.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12
Council Briefs

Mayor Carl Becker has threat
cned to close the city dump early
each afternoon, if salvage seekers
don't quit hauling the debris
away and generally messing up
the property. He reported that
Toledo junk dealers are the prin-
cipal nuisances
In the near future some of the
downtown streets will have a new
spring dress. Council is prepar-
ing to have considerable black
topping done.
To guard against possible freez-
ing of heavy equipment, city Of
ficials have agreed this is the
right time to buy street sweep
er, tractor-mower and a new city
automobile.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-01-12

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of Good Workmanship and
Good Service at Fair Prices.
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HOUSES FOR sALE-yA.
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to wind. In 30 years. it had re-
placed both the match and
wheel-locks in the Western
world. It was the gun Of the
Revolutionary War and the
American frontierSman.
It was reliable and surpris-
ingly accurate for as far as 200
yards. But in 1905, a Scottish
Quaker minister. of all people,
revolutionized ammunition and,
subsequently. gun-making. He
was Alexander ForSythe, who
discovered that illuminate Of
mercury. when struck sharply,
exploded. AS result. the most
rapid period Of gun evolution
took place In the next 65-years.
Breech-loading rifles that
fired brass cartridges contain
ing both the explosive and the
bullet appeared. Although many
flint-locks were used in the Civil
War, the cartridge-firing breech-
loader passed its test then and
was perfected during the Indian
wars In the late 1800S.
"As a matter of fact" Mr..
Scofield pointed out. there
haven't been any radical gun
developments since that time.
OF course. there have been great
strides in design. balance. am
munition and mechanical i'm
provements. but the basic prin-
ciple Is the same.
"A possible exception is the
automatic repeating rifle that
came out in World War I. But"
and he pointed to an ancient
rifle on the wall-"there is a
repeating rifle that was made in
the 16O0s."