Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-06-20
Left Overs

BY JACK PARK

A 10-year-old Peninsula girl
was made very unhappy this week
when she discovered that vase
which was lovingly placed on her
grandfather's grave recently was
gone. She had gone to refill the
vase with fresh flowers in tribute
to her old friend, to whom she
had been quite attached in her
short lifetime, and was shocked
and shaken over the missing vase.
1t is possible that a neighbor or
friend took the vase for refilling,
but the bewilderment of this little
girl over the. tragedy of possible
theft from sanctuary of the dead
was to us, a touching demonstra-
ton of the love of which children
are capable.
-O-O o.
The golf tournament sponsored
this month by the Junior Women's
Club brought out large number
of good golfers. In fact, it caused
some surprise that Port Clinton
should have so many better-than-
average players-to say nothing
of the many fair-to-middling en-
thusiasts. Of course, there were
the usual freak shots. One was
the drive off number one tee that
Harvey Snider made when the
ball landed with a great splash in
the water-and after hitting some
submerged stone-jumped twen-
ty feet in the air and came to
rest on the fairway-in a very
good lie, indeed. No pun intend
ed.A
Then there was another shot
we heard about. On a long ap-
proach shot to the green, the
player overshot the green and the
ball seemed to land in a sand
trap. But that ball. also, hit some
hard object and bounced back
ward onto the green within foot
of the cup.
There were the usual post-mor-
tems-and the usua eXcuses-so
ell in all, it was a most success
ful tournament.
-O-O-0-
We have been talking to the Gin
nocent by-stander", lady who
to be waiting in
friends car, which was parked at
Hospital Sunday after
noon, while the friend was visiting
a hospitalized relative. AS the lady
sat in the car looking into the
peaceful park surrounding the
hospital she heard the screaming
siren of an approaching ambul-
ance and turned in time see the
ambulance pull to a quick stop at
The emergency entrance. The doors
we're swiftly opened and the at
tendants pulled one stretcher from
he vehicle bearing a silent, blar-
Set covered figure, and disappear
I'd with it. into the corridor oof the
hospital.
But protruding from the am
oulance was a pair of white shoes
to a woman who was
in a voice blurred by
pain, "Oh, no., over and over
again. Again the attendants pull
ed a stretcher from the ambul-
ance, but this victim had thrown
he blanket aside and the bloody
mass was hardly recognizable as
/ woman. The innocent bystan-
ler" followed with her eyes the
5ruesome procession and sat in
'till horror hearing the woman
scream in pain at the necessary
notion of the stretcher.
Talking later to the lady she
laid that photograph, in color,
If that scene and a sound track
.ecording of the agonized cries
If the woman would certainly be
IN unforgetable lesson to motor
sts-for both the man and the wom-
IN were victims of an automobile
accident.
It is indeed one of almost daily
essons in the need for safety. The
,ar in which these two persons
we're riding skidded sideways for
rs feet before it crashed with a
,ickening thud, literally wrapping
he car body around the trunk of
| large tree.
The car was a mass OF twisted
teel. How anybody could live; is
/ miracle.
-O-O-O--
1t was hearlening to us when
George Heise, who used to live
in Elm Street, related that the
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