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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11
Attorney Morton Is
Named Bar Secretary

At special meeting Of the Of
tawa County Bar Association, Fri
day, last week, Attorney John
Morton was elected secretary and
treasurer of the Bar Association
succeeding Atty. James Thierry
who rendered his resignation af-
ter having accepted the position
rs legal officer at the Erie Ord
nance.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

ney anu participates IN the man.
agement of two business enter
prises. A friend recently de-
scribed Mr.. Carney as a man who
knows the difficulties OF
stretching weekly wages and the
ardors of meeting regular pay
rolls"
Jim Carney served 46 months
in the Army and now is rounding
out his third consecutive term
in the Ohio Legislature. He dis
tinguished himself by serving as
minority floor leader of the
House of Representatives and
Governor Lausche has personal
ly complimented him on the task
he executed during the last ses-
sion of the legislature.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11
COP Rally Well
Attended Thursday

A number of area Republican
candidates attended the rally
sponsored last week by the Otta-
wa County Republican Women's
Club, which was we'll attended.
The principal speaker was
James Burtsch, of the attorney
generals office. All county can
didates as we'll as several from
the district were introduced at
the meeting held in the Knights
of Pythias hall.
A potluck supper preceded the
meeting which was presided over
by Mrs. Elizabeth Pettibone.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

Seldom has it been our privilege
to hear more interesting talk
tkan that presented at the Rotory
Club luncheon meeting by David J..
Gray, Narcotic Agent for the To-
ledo District, with the United
States Bureau of Narcotics. Grim,
desperate facts brought home to
the Rotarians the horror that we
ali are aware of, but know little
about.
After a lifetime spent in the
battle against the creeping men,
ace of the ''nether-World" Mr.
Gray feels that young yeopie, most
Of them ayers, can be cured
if they are detected III the first
three weeks after they were intro
duced to the dope habit. He is
skeptical of any lasting cure after
they have gotten over the initial
shock which the drug produces in
the system.
Mr.. Gray said, "Ours is the
smallest enforcement group in
America, doing such big job. We
are under paid and over-worked.
Even the laws are not adequate" "
That is. a strong indictment of
the American people, we think,
but after hearing documentary evil
dence, it is a just one. We feel
that if Parent-Teacher groups and
community and civic bodies could
hear Mr.. Gray and his associates
tell their graphic and moving
stories, an aroused public would
give strong support to the
eradication of this evil.
The Port Clinton Easter Parade
should be quite lively and color
full affair this year-if the weather
man will cooperate. The merch-
ants have done their share, for
our stores are full of gay spring
apparel in all styles and sizes and
just to see these refreshing new
colors gives the jaded spirit a
lift. 1t is fun to go from store to
store and see everything that one
needs from head to foot for a
sparkling new personality.
We saw graphic evidence the
other night of our well stocked
stores. It was quite late and a
huge trailer was pulled Up in
front of one of our stores and a
driver was unloading box after
box of merchandise. The sleepy
eyed owner of the store was stand
ing in the doorway running his
hand through his hair, for he had
been summoned from bed to open
the store and receive the goods.
He called happy greeting and
assured us that Port Clinton
should be Well-dressed as far as
he was concerned.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11
5.H CLUB PLANS DANCE

A 5-H meeting was held in the
Extension Office, April l, at 800
p. m. Nine members were pres
ent to discuss plans for the dance.
The All Golden Jubilee Dance
will be held on April 26 at the
Oak Harbor Armory and will
start at 900 p. m. Music will be
furnished by the Melody Makers
Orchestra. Refreshments, fur
nished by Bay Township, will also
be served. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned from the Extension Office,
Ruth Ewersen, Marilyn Bloom,
Don Hoeft or Annette Mylander.
Committees for this dance are
as follows: Arrangements, Gay
lord Markley and Merle Hoffman;
Decorations, Marian Camper and
Rhea Schumacher; Tickets and Pub
licity, Don Hoeft and Annette
Mylander; Cleanup, Carl Hem
minger and Bill Gyde. Reporter,
Annette Mylander.
There were over a half million
cases of measles reported in the
U. S. last year but only Is cases
of smallpox.
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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

Mothers send their little
girls to ballet class, hoping it
will give them grace and
charm even if they don't be-
come famous dancers. Dolores
Van Duzer not only did that.
but painted her daughter in
practice costume, called the
work BALLET Student" and
had it accepted in the 34th
Annual Exhibition of Toledo
Area Artists at the Toledo
Museum of Art April 6
through April "a. The exhibi-
ton is free at all times.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

The first Young Mems Christian
Association was founded in Lon
don in 1874 by George Villains
and a group of associates employ
ed by drapery firm.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

Mrs. Beatrice Snider received
word last week that her husband,
Sta: Sgt. William Leo Snider, has
Deen made Platoon Sgt. Sgt. Sni-
der is now in Japan after serving
at the Korean front. He expects
to return to the United States
soon.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11
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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11
AREA FOLKS (
IN The SERVICE

Much Navy tradition is attach
ed to crossing the Equator. Wher
sailors make their first crossone
they are introducted to Kine
Neptune, ruler oil the seas, in AZ
elaborate shipboard ceremony.
The destroyer USS Purdy one
of four destroyers en- route t,
the United States after a tour oi
duty in Korea held initiation
ceremonies for several hundred
''Pollywogs" the uninitiated.
Introduced to the mysteries OF
the Empire of the Seven Seas
was Carroll L. Barnes, radioman
second class USN, husband oil
Mrs. Carol |. Barnes of Route 3
Port Clinton
Initiates were tried by Kins
Neptune's court, sentenced tc
dunking into the royal swimming
pool and emerged full-fledged
"ShellbackS"
Staff Sergeant Richard Hess, q
veteran of the Korean war, who
has been in service more thar
three years, has returned to his
home on Catawba Island. He is
the grandson of Otto Hess, well
known barber in the Bank bar
ber shop.
The new address for Pfc. Nor
man LaCumsky is now given as
Pfc. Norman LaCumsky RIA Is
434370, Hq. Co., 712 I. R. o. B.
Army Post Office 3O1, care post
master, San Francisco, Calf.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-04-11

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The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1952-10-01
N0TICE

Presidents, if you have deceased
members in your LODGE and it will
DC impossible for you q come with
the beneficiaries, please rave some.
body to come and Identify the bene-
ficiaries Of the claimants of your
Lodges. If the secretary does not
know The beneficiaries and they
dom. have some kind OF CT edentials.
it viii be impossible for them to
make collections.
Please look after this matter.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1952-10-01


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The beacon of Dillingham., 1952-03-27
H A R B 0 R L I G H T s
Mr. Jack Dodge. who got his fingers in tho f1ywheel of diesel was at the Hospi- tai on March 24 for treatment.

Mrs. Jane Provence honored by a Birthday Party, eats and gifts, given By a group of fri ends March 22. After the party some Of the folks adjourned to the wi low Tree and poll shed off lovely even inga
 
 Mr. Bob Mins.-oW, repre- sentl ne Odom Cos, was a business visitor in town recently. Bob was Ilsased with the business outlook he:e for this ssasono
 
 Harry Coleman entered the Hospital on March le to undergo Vert'4cose Veins operation.
 
 Nurse Edna Crawford made an official trir vc Togiah, Nhroh l9e She was accom- panied by Mss Jaa Grant, nurEe.
 -'-
 The inevitable has been reachecI The Alaska Salmon Fi shermen's Relief Fund is exhausted Through this Fund, $l2r 900 hae been di distributed omongsS the needy fisher men sinos January l, 1852.
 Sad news was rec cei we'd here early this month that Nary Alice vBahr's si ister pe ssed away March s. Ehs.&Behr went out in Oct to be with her al Ing ing 2ssi ster, whom she knew would not recoverl Your sorrow is shared by your fri ends, here, Mary Alice.
Evening star., 1952-04-27
By ChorIes J. Yorbroueh

maintenance of adequate staffs.
Poverty. even, in diet for the inmates.
The best size for prison, accord
ing to Federal officials, is not over
1000. Leavenworth, the biggest Fed
eral penitentiary, has 2.400 inmates.
State prisons frequently are much
more populous than this. Southern
Michigan, where last weeks riots
occurred. has more than 5000 in
mates. Most penologists believe such
a prison should be broken up into
q number of smaller units. But this
costs money.
Guards in prisons are frequently
paid no more than common laborerS,
yet are expected to maintain disci-
pline and security over thousands Of
unruly men. Often, guards are ooliti-
cal appointees rather than careerists.
who come and go with changes in
State administration. Such people
often have neither interest nor capa-
bility for their jobs.
Men in prison, most SociologistS be-
lieve, are men in need of guidance.
Yet many prisons lack the vocational
facilities to train men in lawful pur-
suits, let alone keep them busy while
in confinement. And psychiatric help
is often actually or virtually nom
existent. The Jackson prison. it is
reported, has one psychiatrist to min
lister to 5000 men.
State prisons. unlike State colleges,
have no alumni to lobby In the State
Legislature or bigger appropriations.
So prison funds frequently are cut to
the point where even the food is in
adequate. When man, embittered
already toward society. begins to
think that he isn't being fed enough,
Evening star., 1952-04-27
The Plan Thot Lost

The plan that stirred up this
tempest in the usually placid civic
waters was described in general
outline by Budget Director Lawton
an press release last Sunday. It
was in that press release that the
Commissioners first learned about
some-but not all-of the details of
the Budget Bureaus proposal. They
read the release in the newspapers,
not having been supplied with a
copy in advance.
"At the request of the President"
the statement said, "the Bureau of
the Budget has made study to de-
termine what can be done under
the Reorganization Act of 1949 to
improve the government of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. On the basis of
that study a tentative plan for the
reorganization of the District gov
ernment has been prepared for the
consideration of the President. This
plan is generally modelled on the
council-manager form of organiza-
tion now used in many of the bet
ter-governed cities of the country"
The bureau explained that the
1949 act could not be used to effect
a transfer of legislative authority
from Congress to the District gov
ernment or to provide for election
of officials here. The act does pro-
vide, it was said, IAN ample. basis
for a thorough overhauling and
Evening star., 1952-04-27
Outlook

Not even its sponsors claim that
the Commissioners plan is perfect.
1t is, however, long step toward
bringing the District government
up to date, without risking the
hazards of completely new sys-
tenn of government. And it now has
overwhelming support of the citi-
ZenS.
Congress, preoccupied as it is
with international and national
problems, including the forthcom-
ing election, may be expected to
let the plan become law by opera
tion of the Reorganization Act
process. 1t can do this construc-
tive act merely by doing nothing.
Unless the House or Senate mus
ters a constitutional majority
against the plan within so days
of its submission, the legislation
goes into effect.
If that happens as in all prob
ability it will, the final chapter will
have been written in the story of
Washington'S own springtime flood
"a remarkable upsurging of public
opinion that reached to the White
House, bringing good instead Of
peril to the Nations Capital.
Evening star., 1952-04-27

be "a member of society, is man
sent to prison to learn how to get
along within the framework of civil
lized rules?
Pencil Porodoxes
In an effort to arrive at logical
answer to this question, penologists
have run up against paradoxes like
these:
Prison discipline is designed to
make man do as he is told, there
by making prison life smoother. But
at the same time, prisons are sup
posed to instill self-reliance in con-
victS.
Prisons are built to operate imper-
sonally. Yet convicts, on release. are
expected to lead normal. intensely
personal, lives in their community.
Most prisons give inmates no voice
whatever in self-government. But
they are supposed to transform con-
victs from anti-social beings to think
ing members of democratic society.
If prisons are supposed to protect
society from its traducers. penology
apparently is doing good job. The
prisons are full-many of them be-
yond capacity. But if prisons are
designed to rehabilitate, they seem
to be falling down on the job. on the
basis of statistics. Sixty per cent of
the Nations convicts are repeaters
men who have been in once, and
have not learned their lesson.
What Is the answer?
The Answer Is Neglect
The penologists' best explanation
of this is neglect. BY neglect, they
mean institutional poverty. Poverty
in providing physical plant. Poverty
In the pay Of guards. Poverty in the
Evening star., 1952-04-27

cessfully in any city the size Of
Washington.
But Gen. Robinson was not
trained to fight for no good purpose.
At the suggestion of several civic
leaders, he called strategy meet
ing" at his home. Attending were
some of Washington's outstanding
citizens, representative of number
of diverse civic and business in
terests and organizations. From
this long and earnest conference
came the motivating force which
soon was to swell the wave of
popular opposition into veritable
riptide of protest.
Stroteey
The strategy was many-sided.
There would be demands for full
details of the Budget Bureaus plan.
There would be critical analysis
of the bureaus own brief statement
of it's plan. There would be pub
ncity in the press and on the air.
There would be action by civic Or
ganizations. A special citizens
committee would be created to
make a direct appeal to the Presi-
dent.
The special committee was formed
at an emergency meeting called by
the Washington Board of Trade in
the Star Building. It was COM
posed of representatives Of most of
the city's civic, trade and other
public-spirited community groups.
An open letter to the President was
published in full-page newspaper
advertisements, opposing the Bud
get Bureau program and indorsing
the Commissioners plan for pres
ervation of the commission form of
government here.
Evening star., 1952-04-27

modernization Of the governmental
machinery of the District" The
bureau briefly reviewed various
studies of the local government,
with suggested reforms, that had
been made in recent years. These
included the studies made by the
Brookings Institution in 1929, the
Citizens Efficiency Committee in
1887, Griffenhagen and Associates
in 1899, the Auchincloss Committee
on Home Rule in 1948 and District
Budget Officer Fowler in 1851. =,
Bureau Plan Provisions
The Budget Bureau patterned its
plan after that of the Auchincloss
Committee, but without the elec-
tive, home-rule features Of the
Auchincloss bill. It provided for
creation of 'part-time council of
from five to nine local citizens ap-
pointed by the President and to be
paid from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
One would be designated as Mayor
of Washington. He would be the
presiding officer and ceremonial
head" of the District government.
The Mayor would receive $1,000.
The commission would serve as the
policy-making body-responsible to
the President and to Congress.
The council would appoint city
manager, who would be the chief
executive and as such would ap-
point the heads of all departments
and supervise and direct them. He
would prepare the hhdget, control
expenditures and handle all per-
Sonnel matters. District activities
now performed by 65 agencies
would be grouped into 10 admins
trativs departments. A few agencies
Evening star., 1952-04-27
Star stan Photos.

would remain independent, but the
accompanying chart left full de-
tails of the reshuffling of agencies
and activities up in the air.
The reaction to this outline was
prompt and vigorous.
Quickly challenged was the bur-
eau's implication that the council
manager plan had been adopted in
many .cities comparable to WASH
ington. The Commissioners pointed
out that the council-manager plan
had been tried in only one large
city, Cleveland, whose citizens later
scrapped it by a referendum vote.
Local officials and citizens could see
no merit and probably much dan
ger in making Washington a guinea
pig for another test of an expert
ment that had failed in a big city.
The Commissioners consulted
recognized authorities on munich
pal government and found that
some Of them, while favoring the
council-manager plan for certain
cities, doubted the wisdom of adopt
ing it for Washington. One au-
thority who some years ago recon-
mended the plan for the Capital re-
vealed that he had since changed
his mind. Another feared that
adjustment Of the commission
form would seriously disrupt the
mutually profitable ties that now
exist between Federal and District
authorities. 1t was pointed out
that the Engineer Commissioner
links the District government with
the Federal Government and is an
ex-offcio member of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission.
More Objectionable to the citizens
Evening star., 1952-04-27

CELDOM, If ever, has Washington
- seen such a floodtide of public
sentiment for a common municipal
cause as that which submerged and
eventually, last week, drowned the
Federal Budget Bureaus ill-con-
ceived plan for revolutionizing the
District government.
The surge of popular reaction
began in a small way early this
month when The Star revealed that
the Budget Bureau had it's own
theories as to how the National
Capital should be run and was pre-
pairing to recommend those the
ories to the President and to Con-
gress. The wave of opposition was
accelerated by the fact that the
bureau was so secretive about it's
plan. Only its broad provisions for
a council-manager form of mu-
nicipal government ever were
released.
Squeeze PIoy
Resentment was compounded
when the citizens learned that they
were to be given no chance to study
the plan in advance, or to express
their opinions on it. It was to be
rushed to Congress as a presiden-
tial proposal under the Federal
Reorganization Act of 1949. This
meant 1t would become law within
so days unless a constitutional
majority = of either house voted
against it! And the task of de-
feating the bureaus plan, drastic
and untested as it was, would have
been next to impossible, once it
reached the Capitol.
Forty-nine Senator'S or 218 Rep
resentatives would have had to take
enough interest to fight it. The
interest of most members, of course,
is centered on other things right
now-including the approaching
conventions.
Faced with this situation, District
officials and civic organizations
quickly forgot their differences over
the much-diScuSSed Fowler and
Robinson plans for modernizing the
District government. They joined,
with rare solidarity, in an all-out
fight against the Budget Bureaus
scheme.
In the forefront of the uprising
was an Army officer on temporary
assignment to Washington but with
an intense interest in promoting
the orderly development of the
National Capital. Engineer Com
missioner Bernard L. Robinson, in
this case, succeeded in doing what
had proved too tough job for Gen.
Macarthur. DiSagreeing with his
Commander in Chief, he rallied
public opinion behind him and
carried the day.
Evening star., 1952-04-27

A wave of prison riots-perhaps all
across the face of the Nation-is
grave threat as a result of the COM
promise peace reached between con-
victs and the State government in
Michigan last week. #
Penal authorities point out that
the Southern Michigan prison out
break followed news of mutinies in
New Jersey. In the same way, they
say, the story of the convict victory"
at jackson may inspire trouble else
where. Men in cells, listening to their
radios and reading their newspapers,
will get the idea. "If they can get
away with it in Michigan, why can't
we?" they will ask each other. Final
.ly. thought will be translated into
deed. and the riot win be on.
The Nations top prison official.
James v. Bennett. says that unless
extraordinary precautions are taken,
the same thing will occur again and
again." Mr.. Bennett, head Of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, has kept
q professional eye on the Michigan
and New Jersey mutinies'of the last
month, despite the fact that those
prisons are not under his jurisdiction.
Prison officials generally are in a
quanoary all the time over how to
run their penitentiaries. AS one au-
thority puts it, "Our trouble is that
society as a whole does not know
whether men go to prison for punish
ment or as punishment.
To state it another way, the Ques-
ton that faces society is choice be-
tween these alternatives:
Having committed a crime, is a
man locked up only to pay his debt
to society?
y Or, having shown himself untit to