Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-05-11
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BY JACK PARK

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Funny thing how television sets
crop up like mushrooms in certain
localities and in others the aerials
scarcely grow at all classic
illustration of this is the block
bounded by Jackson, Harrison,
Fifth and Seth streets =. Believe
it or not, from the 26 houses in
that single square block, Is TV
sets have sprouted But in the
adjoining block between Fifth and
Fourth streets, there are only four
TVS, but approximately the same
number of houses.
A sign that we are getting deep
into spring is the increasing trend
of children to abandon their bikes
and forget where they left them
No reports of stolen bikes
yet, but seat was removed from
one parked on Madison street the
other day.
These mid-morning and after
noon coffee clatches SO popular
with Port Clintonians, amaze
Wolfgang Happich, the German in
duStrial technician, whom we men
toned last week, who is spending
a year at Standard Products on a
courtesy visa from Germany
we mentioned that Wolfgang had
sent friend a can of coffee
month ago, and by doing so he
learned a lesson in international
exchange at her expense The
coffee which he bought in Port
Clinton for 80 cents, cost the re-
cipient eight marks in tax on its
arrival at Wuppertal, Germany
f.. the tax cost her one full days
wage at the factory where she
works Only the comparatively
wealthy can drink coffee in Ger
many . and then they brew the
same grounds four and five times
but the pay off is that Ger
mans know nothing of the coffee
we drink. Theirs is mainly chic
ory, blended with roots and very
small proportion of the cheapest
grade coffee Had Wolfgang
had an American friend send the
coffee, there would have been no
tax on the other end any
thing from the great white father
is welcome, but under peculiar
import rules in Germany, a Ger
man cannot import American
goods free of German excise.
The German government claims
that coffee is luxury. 1t takes
two days wages to buy a pound
of coffee for the average German
and this of course he cannot af
ford. He has to be satisfied with
"Ersatz" Ga substituted which con-
SiStS of roasted rye. A German
in better paid position adds Is
| real" coffee with 2/3 erSatz. On
Sundays the average German
likes good cup of coffee and can
buy coffee beans in small amounts
such as grammS or ounces.
That proposed city ordinance
which calls for penalties when
streets are not restored properly
after utility lines have been in
stalled, is running into technicali-
ties. 1t is now being rewritten
by City Solicitor John Reinheimer
When it becomes an ordinance,
property owners seeking utility
connections under streets, will
have to obtain permit from the
city clerk, if excavations are to be
less than so feet If more, city
council must okey the application.
Failure to comply with the re-
storation of streets clause calls for
fines ranging from $5 to $50, de-
pending upon the extent of excava-
ton undertaken.
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Heard at city hall-if Perry
Street, as we'll as other streets in
town are not repaired, pretty soon,
Port Clinton will be lost city"
City officials, at request of Coun.
Gilman Roland Schaper, are seek
ing state aid for restoration of the
heavily travelled Perry Street sec
tion of State Route 2.
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