Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-12-28
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was seriously hurt in an automc-
bile accident when the car in
which they were returning to Oak
Harbor skidded on Route 1853 :. i.
Fred Kreager, retired farmer
of Oak Harbor was killed when
struck by a train Port Clin-
ton revived a former popular di-
version with the reactivating Of
the in d epen d ant Basketball
League Ralph Forster, vice
chairman of the American Red
Cross, attended a meeting setting
Up blood donor program for OF
ava County . Oak Harbor and
Salem township signed contract
for fire protection in township !.
Atty. J. G. Hitchcock was re-elect-
ed president of Ottawa County
Bar Association Standard
Products Co. announced a con-
ract to rebuild carbines for the
government which would increase
employment in the local plant by
500 Atty. Leslie Meyer was
reelected president of the Port
Clinton Board of Education and
ltty. William Moon was re-elect-
d vice president. Leo Darr was
renamed clerk of the board
George Schade became president
of the Port Clinton Chamber Of
Commerce F. A. Mekus, vice
president, and Tom Finefrock
was reelected as secretary-treas-
urer. Stanley Larsen was named
to the board of directors, as was
William Smith, Kelly Dunn, K.
c. Schaper and R. S. Forster
City council waived sewer rental
issue for referendum in Novem-
Der elections James Pennell
and c. l. Wallin, both of Marble
head, narrowly escaped drowning
when their car Skidded into a
deep ditch along the Bayshore
Road, pinning the men in the
wreckage for half an hour
Deaths for the month of January
included Raymond Searles, Lake
side; Mrs. John Wiley, Elmore;
Mrs. Mary Hermes, Oak Harbor;
Fray D. Stone, Lakeside; Phillip
]. Kleinman, Port Clinton; Carl
P. Roose, Oak Harbor; Henry W.
| Hoelzle, Oak Harbor; Mrs Kath-
crime M. Tucker, Ottawa County;
| Mrs. Ella Garn, Elmore; Joseph
L. Barker, Ottawa County; Mrs
Anna Roth, Erie Beach; Mrs. Car.
! oline Brodersen, Put-in-Bay; John
]. Langerman, Elmore; Michael
Yurista, Bay Township; Mrs. Lii
liam Mccullough, Port Clinton;
Lake E. Owens, former resident
of Catawba; DR.. w. A. Siefkes
former pastor of st. Johns Luth
eran Church.
| February-The worst airpiant
accident in the history Of Ottaw;
County occurred in the bitter
murky dawn of Sunday, Jan. 23
when two engine Beechcraf
plane, carrying military and nava
personnel crashed on a farm neal
Rymer Road killing the entire
complement of the plane. AL
we're dead on the arrival of neigh
boring residents and local author
tiles, but were identified later il
the day and the remains wer
shipped to their respective home
by the Gerner and Wolf Mortuar,
At special called meetin
plans were laid by council for tn
conversion of Port Clinton to th
status of city from that of vii
lage. For seventy-fve years Por
Clinton had been a village, br
the 1850 census pushed the pt
pulation figures above the 500
mark, making new problems to b
met before the Feb. Z deadlin
for filing of candidates for city O.
fees =. Miss Florence A. Speech
coming from Waynesboro, Va
assumed the duties of superir
tendent of Magruder Memoir;
Hospital Most of the mercl
ants of Port Clinton agreed O
Wednesday afternoon closing /
, places of business after DO
; had been taken by the local Chan
: ber of Commerce and the Mercl
ants Association Under I'll
sponsorship of Oak Harhor an
Port Clinton Rotarians the Ott
wa County Society for Cripple
Children undertook a speech the