Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-02-22


to be here, because everybody in
my whole neighborhood is here
couldn't be the only one
staying home today"
--o-O-0-
When we mentioned the rumor-
cd special anniversary model plan
ned by Studebaker last week, we
left out one important delail, and
that is the fact that the new
car will be just another model
added to the Studebaker line ard
will come out late this year, actual
ly as a 1853 presentation Engine
ers hope to speed up production,
if and when they can re tool for
it, in order to bring a commemo-
rative model out before Studebak-
er's 100 anniversary year passes.
incidentally Studebakcr is the
only automobile company which
operated continuously for a cent
ury, under the same policy even
though it spent its first fifty years
making wagons. This explanation
is for the benefit of Bill Smiths
friends who think he's holding
back information on the new stu
debaker. He's not, because the
car itself will be a long time
coming and nobody yet knows the
type or the price range.
-o-O-o-
We were particularly interested
in Ken Miller's news that the
Lakeside Lawn and Garden Club,
in cooperation with the Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce, is going
to conduct campaign to save
the Lakeside daisy from extinc-
ton.
The beautiful bright god flower
is to be found only in the Lake.
side area, where it has flourished
for many years in the INN lime
stone soil, but the mighty jaws of
the limestone crushers have taken
q heavy toll of these gay little
flowers. When we lived near
Lakeside, the great clusters oil
Lakeside daisies were a constant
source of inspiration because of
their vivid color against the dull
grey limestone terrain.
-O-O-O-
Bill Carsen, route 3 farmer and
trapper, caught an albino musk
rat Monday, his eleventh SO far,
he says. An albino rat occCrs
about once in 10000, which would
indicate that Bill has caught
lot of rats in his day. To his
knowledge only one other albino
has been caught in this area in
the last dozen or SO years, max
ing a total of IL, representing a
crop of close to a million rats
trapped since the late 30's. These
statistics are rough, and not guar
anted by Bill or us.
What's the biggest greeting
card day in the year? Most peo-
pie will say Christmas? Contrary
10 belief, the volume of Christmas
,rds purchased in Port Clinton
cannot be compared to the sale OF
valentines, according to Ralph
Forster, of the Ben Franklin
Store, which alone sold from rs
to 10000 of the greetings last
week. They ranged from the
cheap penny newsprint comics in
saudy colors to lacy creations
costing up to dollar and more.
The terrific business in valen
ines is not felt at the Post Office,
however, because hundreds, yes,
several thousands of the tradition
Al romantic bits of paper are ey-
changed in the schools via class
'oom "post offices"
This year Dan Cupid had one of
1is finest days, because h is is
cap year, and girls could uu-
abashedly ask their boy friends to
be their valentines.
Last Thursday was the tradi-
.ional zero hour w lie n the leap
year manhunt began.
Valentine Day, it sh o u d be
noted, began in 240 A. D. when a
young priest named Valentine was
jailed in Rome because Of his be-
lief in Christianity. He was later
beheaded after he had restored
The sight of a>litle blind girl. He
then became saint.
But the real custom of the day
we observed Thursday actually be
gan many centuries before Valen-
tines time. The Romans lavishly
celebrated February IA as the pa
gan feast of the Lupercalia, in
which it was firmly believed that
on this day all the birds of Italy
began mating
-O-O-O-
One of our city hall friends re-
,,orfc thot hn and hic wife had ..