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Evening star., 1952-11-16
Adder Injects Life
Into TeIevision, Then
ReIoxes in London
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 15.-A puff
adder, poisonous African snake
lost its temper on a television show
tonight. thereby giving Britain's
ivideo audience a mass case of the
Icreeps.
The snake, which has the knack
Iof greatly distending its body when
|angered. was on a program with
London Zoe. Superintendent George
Cansdale. Apparently languid and
bored while Mr.. Cansdale lectures,
the adder resented being moved
about and quickly slithered to the
floor.
Backing away. Mr.. Cansdale said
softly to an assistant: VERY care
full, very careful" The assistant
Slipped up behind the enlarged
snake and put it into a box.
Taking a deep breath of relief,
Mr.. Cansdale told the audience
that the snake probably mis-
took the studio lights for the sun
that made him frisky."
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Judge Fines UNIV
And Ohio Local for
Violating Injunction
BY the Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 15.-
rhe United Mine Workers Union
Ind nine officers, organizers and
members of District 6 were fined a
total of $500 and given sus-
pended Jail sentences ranging
rom 10 to 20 days today for con-
Tempt of court.
Common Pleas Judge Clarence
!. Grassland acted on charges
brought by the Bruins Coal Co
hat the union had violated an
injunction he issued last May %
Judge Grassland had enjoined
members of District 6 of the UNIV
rom mass picketing and violence
Mine Owners Charges.
Ernest Bruins, owner of the COM
eany charged that on October
g he was forced at gunpoint to
suspend operations in the COM
pany's mines. and then was as
saulted by members of the union
He accused the union of violating
the injunction again on Octo-
Der 80.
Judge Grassland said the unions
action showed Calculated and de-
iberate disrespect unparal-
leled in recent court history" The
21-page document stated the con-
tempt ranged from intimidation
oy mere presence of large num-
bers to savage animal brutality"
Union attorneys Immediately
filed an appeal and posted $22 900
bond to stay the executions of the
fines and Jail sentences.
Judge Grassland fined District 6,
with headquarters in Bellaire,
Ohio, and the national Office in
Washington, D. c., $1,000 each.
Walter Kovalesky, George Wa
ters and Steve Kubic, organizers
for District 6, each were fined
Evening star., 1952-11-16
81 900 and sentenced to 20 days in

81 1000 and sentenced to 20 days in
Jail
Five other union members were
fined $500 and given 10 days in
jail.
Adolph Paciflco. president of
District was sentenced to 20 days
in Jail. He was not fined.
Judge Grassland suspended the
jail terms on condition the union
pay the fines by Monday and that
the individual defendants assure
him of their compliance with the
May % Injunction.
Evening star., 1952-11-16
Irish Beef Market

Northern Ireland may supply
London with $50 million worth OF
chilled beef a year, if test ship
ments now under way find mar
ket, Belfast reports.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
VIM. c. Koonce G
Dies Suddenly

The body of William E. Koonce,
Is. will be taken to South Char
lesion for services and burial in
Greenlawn Cemetery.
The youth, a junior at New
Bern, N. c., High School, died
Unexpectedly Saturday night.
William was the son of Col
Alien c. and Elizabeth Koonce
COL Koonce is with the U. S
Marine Corps air arm at Cherry
Point, Marine Base. N. c.
William also was the grandson
of the late DR.. w. E. Koonce,
former pastor of the South Char
lesion Presbyterian Church, and
of William Webb, now superin-
tendent of the Lebanon, O., Hon
or Camp of the London Prison
Farm.
Besides his parents, survivors
include two brothers, Peter and
David Koonce of the u. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md.
In 1949 and 1850 William at
tended high school at Lebanon.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Ground Fighting
Near StandstiII

SEOU, KOREA, JAN. 2-(AP)
Allied warplanes blasted COM
munist rail traffic in north Korea
today as a frigid haze enveloped
ground fighting, now almost at
a standstill.
Except for patrol contacts, the
ground front was in one of its
deepest lulls of the so-called twi-
light war.
II. m. troops on the eastern
front threw back a light probe
by IL Reds in the Satae Valley.
A u. S. Eighth Army communi-
que said there was no significant
activity Wednesday morning on
the central or western fronts.
But in the air, United Nations
fighter-bombers flew 30 sorties
by noon and cut rail tracks at
49 points. Pilots said a number
of railroad cars were damaged.
Fifth Air force said communist
ground fire shot down two u. N.
Planes Wednesday, an F-S4 Thun-
derjet and an F-80 Shooting Star.
There was no announcement as
to the fate of the pilots.
During the night an estimated
1900 enemy supply vehicles were
brought under attack Pilots said
heavy traffic observed in the
eastern sector.
Okinawa- based B-29 Superforts
used radar sighting in dropping
so tons of 500-pound bombs on
the Samdong rail yards.
Communist ground fire shot
down three allied planes Tues
day. Only one pilot was rescued.
the Air Force announced. Two
of the planes were F-51 Mus
tangs and one a Corsair.
On the central front, an allied
patrol fought two hour and IS
minute skirmish with a platoon
of Reds, then withdrew.
All along the battle line temp
eratures were below freezing.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
USINESSMAN
is FOUND DEAD

Roy j. CBud) Slough, SO, a
South Charleston businessman,
was found dead at his home In
South Charleston Saturday.
Death, attributed to a heart
condition. was believed to have
occurred about 2 pm. while ne
was seated in chair in his liv-
ing room, near a front window.
Mr.. Slough, owner and opera
tor of Shell Oil Co. service
station in South Charleston, had
been in failing health for the
past three years.
He was active in the Masonic
lodge and Shrine. including Field
ing Lodge, f. and A. M.
Survivors include his widow,
Marguerite Gossard Slough, one
brother, Harry P. Slough of
Springfield, and two sisters, the
Misses Norma and Helen Shough,
both aof South Charleston.
The body was taken to the
Sprague funeral home for SER
vices at 2 pm. Tuesday. Inter-
ment in Greenlawn Cemetery.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Tonlin Rites
At Dayton

Funeral services for Bessie f.
Tomlin, 40, a former London resi-
dent, who died suddenly of a
heart attack, in Dayton were in
Mowrystown Monday, December
"a. Interment in West Union
Cemetery.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Margaret Lyons, who was called
home from Lake Worth, Florida,
by her sisters death and Mrs.
Goldie Lake of, Lebanon; two
brothers, Carl Tanning of London
and Ernest Tanning of Xenia.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Body OF Missing Woman Is
Found In Cistern SUNDAY

A verdict Of suicide was re-
turned by Madison County Coro-
ner w. E. Lukens in the death
Sunday Of Mrs. Harley CBernice
b. Downing, AZ, at her home on
the Orcutt Road about four miles
west of London.
Her body was discovered in the
eistern by her son Robert, Dep
uty Sheriff Robert Allison and
a son-in-law Sidney Hoyt, a Co
lumbus policeman, about $50
Sunday morning.
Sheriff's deputies stated that
Mrs. Downing was reported miss
ing by her husband Saturday af-
ternoon when he and his son re-
turned from trip to London.
A group of relatives and
friends searched the area around
the farm all night but found no
trace until Sunday morning when
they lifted the cover on the cis-
tern and discovered the body.
Relatives said Mrs. Downing
had been respondent for some
time because of i'll health.
She was a member of a Meth
odist Church in Ross county and
of the Woman's Auxiliary of
London Aerie FOE.
Surviving are the husband;
three sons, Glenn of London,
Robert at home and Howard of
Columbus; two daughters, Mrs.
Robert Evans and Mrs. Sidney
Hoyt, both of Columbus.
Funeral services at the Lukens
Funeral Home at 2 pm. Tues
day, the Rev. A. NJ. Shenefelt
officiating. Interment in Kirk
wood Cementery.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Airman Training
On Night Missions

Participating in a bombing mis-
sion without plane. and being
grounded besides may sound i'm
possible; but through the night
vision course at the Naval Air
Station. San Diego, Calf. Clark
w. Weimer. airman. USN, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond S.
Weimer of London, Route 2, was
able to do just that.
Realizing the Importance of
proper use of night vision to
lookouts and flyers for safety
and defense. the Navy has set up
this short Informative course. Vet
eran pilots, crewmen. and Navy
men. as we'll as recruits attended
the school TO familiarize them
selves with all the various ways
possible to see under reduced
lighting conditions.
AS they sit in blaeked-out
rooms to adjust their eyes TO the
dark, trained instructors explain
the function of the human eye
under light and dark conditions.
Soon the men are able to dis
tinguish silhouettes of model
buildings, towers and other land
marks that should be familiar to
pilots on a night flight. or to
lookouts when their ship is close
10 shore.
Near the end of the course,
students take seats on a high
balcony to undergo a simulated
mission over an enemy" city
lighted to an equal intensity of
a moonlight night. Using their
eyes as instructed earlier in the
course. they soon locate the tar
get area.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
MERCURY HITS
A RECORD HIGH

December temperature went
from one extreme to the other,
Leonard McNeal, weather OBJ
server reported. On the last day
of the month the mercury hit
an official record high of sc de-
grees. The minimum for Decem-
Der was 13 degrees below zero
on Dec. Is.
McNeal stated that the 66 de-
gree temperature recorded Dec.
81 was a record for that date
and the record for December in
the 10 years of London tempera-
ture recordings.
It was rivaled only by the 64
degrees of Dec 9, 1916, and the
65 degree temperature of Dec. 6,
1851.
The 65 degree temperature re-
corded on January l. 1852, was
also 10-year record, according
to McNeal.
Total precipitation for til e
month was 469 inches; 1.91 inch
above normal, making the total
for the year 1874 inches.
Snow, sleet and cold hit wide
areas OF the western half of the
country today but it was more
surnrner-like weather in the
southeast and along the Gulf
Coast.
Road crews opened snow
blocked highways in the noun
tains regions of Utah, Colorado,
Nevada and northern California,
freeing hundreds of stranded
motorists and skiiers. Cold wealth
er continued in the area but no
more snow was predicted for to-
day. Heaviest snowfalls in years
hit parts of Utah, and temper
lures yesterday tumbled to as
low as AZ below in some areas.
The cold weather extended in
to the midwest and headed east
ward. 1t was 22 below zero early
today in Bemidji MINI. No inn
mediate warming was in pros
pect for the midwest
Freezing sleet and rain pelted
areas from the Texas Panhandle
northeastWard across northern
Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas
and the south and central parts of
Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Rain fell from southern Ohio
to eastward to New Jersey. Tenn
peratures were above freezing in
the rain belt. Generally fair
weather was reported III other
parts Of the country.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
3 Boys Held In
$500 Burglary
At Plain City

Three boys from the Bureau
of Juvenile Research were being
held in the Madison County Jail
Monday on charges of breaking
and entering at the Minno Yoder
farm home near the Canaan
School on Route AZ.
The Sheriff's office identified
them as James Jenkins IS of
Covington, Ohio; Bob Reed, IA, of
Russell ST, Columbus and Tom
Mayse, IA, of Marion, Ohio.
All three were slated for a
hearing in the Madison coun-
ty Juvenile Court Friday, the
sheriff announced Wednes-
day.
The boys are accused of TAX
ing clothing and watches valued
at about $500 from the Yoder
home.
They were apprehended by
London police officer Norman
Moore at Lafayette Rd., and
Elm Sts., Sunday night in an
auto, county officers said. was
stolen in Plain City.
Police said the car was the
third, taken by the boys in con-
nection with their departure from
the Research Bureau. Two of the
boys, police said, left the insti-
tuition and took an auto in which
they returned to the institution
grounds and picked up the third
boy who had been confined in
the hospital with sore throat
and cold. This boy, they said, es-
capped out the window in his pa
jamas and left with the other two
in the stolen car. When that car
stalled before they could get out
of Columbus. the trio took the
second car in which they went
to Plain City where they took the
third car.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Charge Strikes
Boy In Thigh In
Hunting Mishap

County Recorder Norman
X. Jones said Wednesday
that there was some dam
ger that his son, Cary
Buddy Jones IS, wounded
in a hunting accident Mon
day, might lose his left leg
in which the shotgun charge
had severed the main artery.
The charge struck his left
thigh. Only a few shot struck
the other leg. The injured
boy lost considerable blood
before he could be treated at
physicians office.
Mr.. Jones also said that
while he seemed TO be getting
along alright at the present
the surgeon had expressed
concern as to whether they
would be able 70 save the
leg in which the artery had
been completely severed.
The boy was shot when his
companions gun was accidentally
discharged about 11:15 am.
Monday while he was hunting
with Rickie Robson, 12-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Robson of North Oak ST.
The two boys We're hunting on
the Foster farm about a quarter
of mile from the Oak Run
bridge. They were said to have
been stalking a bird when the
accident occurred. Both were us
ing 40 gauge shotguns.
The Robisoa boz ran to a
nearby home and called local
police and sheriffss office. An
ambulance took the injured youth
TO a physicians office where he
was given first aid treatment in
preparation for the trip to the
hospital.
Officers, including Deputy
Sheriff Bob Allison. who respond
ed to the call for aid, reported
that while the Jones boy was
painfully injured. ii was believed
that he would be alright once he
had received full medical care.
The Jones and Robson bows
are good friends and their parents
close neighbors. Mr.. and Mrs
Robson live at POT ". Oak St
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jones AT North
Main St. and the Springfield
Rd.
Mr. Robson is a clerk in the
London post office.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Mrs. Chas O'Brien
Dies Monday Noon

Mrs. Charles O'Brien, South
Charleston Pike, died at noon
Monday at University Hospital
after a long illness.
Surviving are the husband, one
daughter, Wilma Jean at home
and her mother, Mrs. Mary Dav-
export, London
Funeral services at the Church
of Christ in Christian Union
Thursday at 2 pm. Interment in
Kirkwood Cemetery.
Friends may call at the resi-
dence,
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
LATE NEWS BRIEFS


LONDON JAN 2sti onens his sorm-cracked and walo-
Atlantic radioed today
until sinks storm
ship
takers.
MESA 2-Preimnary claim
to be held
They
night pending hearing Their husband
with Saints Mormonl Church
the question of poIyaamy, is being sought
WASHINGTON JAN 2Presden Truman plans
CHiNHAE KOREA JAN 1-tDeayedl-South
syngmanRhee said Washington Pres
armstce that Korea divided
n he
oppose which people mercy
CLEVELAND. JAN. 2rhe gambler
gambling
operations Since 10 cent the he paid
10 ..s
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Beef Men To He ar
DR.. Sco++y Sutton

The Executive Committee OF
the Madison County Beef Cattle
Association met Friday evening,
December 2S, in the Extension
Office, according TO Bud Putnam.
Secretary Treasurer of the Or
ganization.
The committee scheduled DR..
Scotty Sutton, Chairman of the
Animal Husbandry Department,
OSU, for their next meeting, on
Wednesday evening, February 13.
This meeting viii be q county
wide beef cattle meeting. DR..
Sutton viii discuss what is in
cluded in a well balanced beef
cattle ration, plus the new de-
veiopments in beef cattle nutri-
ton in the past few years.
The committee discussed the
State dinner meeting of the Ohio
Cattle Feeders Association on
January y. at G:00 pm. at the
Fort Hayes Hotel, Columbus.
inns meeting is being held in
conjunction with their state an
nual meeting all day January %
and %, at this same place. All
members of the Association are
encouraged 10 attend.
Tickets for the dinner meet
ing are available from one of the
executive committee members:
Joe Hook, Bud Putnam, Austin
Harbage and Marion Meats. They
also selected a group Of other
Madison County beef men to help
plan the program for the com
ing year This group viii meet
with the Executive committee on
the second Wednesday evening of
January. the 9th. The beef men
are Ben straley, Jr.. II. W. Ror-
erS, Wilfred Garen. Eldnn Harsh.
Don Mace, II. Gwynne Burr. Ber-
nard Weaver Robert Graham
This committee VIII plan the
spring heel cattle tour plus sev-
eral evening meetings for the
coming year.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Penny Post Card
Ends With 1851

WASHINGTON, (AP) = The
bells which rang in the new year
also tolled the passing of an A
merican institution-the penny
post card.
At 12:01 A. M, JAM l, the
price became two cents. The
boost along with others in pos
tai rates is aimed at producing
100 million dollars year more
for the financially-frail Post Of
flee Department.
This is the second time since
its birth in 1879 that the post
card is being kicked up to two
cents. 1t was that way for 20
months during World War I, re-
turning to penny in 1919.
A similar thing happened to
letter rates-from two to three
and back to two--but it was
three cents again in 1919 ard
ever since. No letter increase is
planned this time
The post office, for the next
60 days, will take it easy on
people who mail penny postals.
Cards postmarked before mid
night go through, of course, but
later ones return to the sender,
if known. If not known or If time
is involved. they are delivered
postage due.
After 60 days, all cards go
back to the sender, if known. or
to the dead letter office, ii not
Nearly four billion penny pos
tails were used this year. COM
pared with so million in 1873.
Other changes effective Tues
day:
Parcel Post reduction in max
imum weight and size of pack
ages handled between any first
class domestic post offices, from
100 inches in combined length
and girth to u, and from 70
pounds TO 30 and 20. depending
on zones: also, a half-cent in
crease for third class books and
catalogs, seeds, cuttings, bulbs,
roots and plants not on special
bulk rate.
Special delivery-higher fees,
from Is and As cents to 20 and
60.
Domestic registered mail-high-
er fees, from IS cents and $50
TO 80 cents and SITS.
Domestic insured mail--higher
fees. from 5 and 80 cents to 5
and 35.
Domestic co lie t-on-delivery
mail-higher fees, from 20 and
SO cents to 30 cents and 81.
Effective april, second class
mail-newspapers, magazines and
other printed matter cost
10 percent more. Additional 10
per cent hikes are scheduled for
tlsass Oh April /, 1853. and Aprii
/, 1864.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Daley Appointed
Court Bailiff

Leo r. Daley, Washington Av-
enue. has been appointed con-
stable. criminal baliff. investiga-
tor and probation officer for
Madison County Common Pleas
Court. He was sworn in Janu-
airy 1. 1852 by Judge James F.
Bell.
Mr.. Daley is the first fun time
balliff in common pleas court
since the death in 1914 of J.
Peetrey Clark. who served APP
proximately IS years, succeeding
his father. the late Gideon T.
Clark. Sr., of London.
In the meantime, the deputy
sheriffs OF Madison county have
beer acting as bailiffs for the
court.
Mr. Daley has for almost 20
years been employed at the Lon
don Prison Farm.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
Former Teacher
In County Dies

Mrs. Clarence Carrie Kaderly)
Wallace, died Saturday night in
University Hospital. Columbus.
Mrs. Wallace taught in the
Madison and Franklin county
schools for about 80 years. She
was member of St. Johns Luth-
eran Church, London.
Surviving are the husband.
three sisters, one brother, several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services at the resi-
dence on the Old xenia Road,
Tuesday at ? pm. Pastor Law
renee T. Rugh officiating Inter-
ment in Kirkwood Cemetery.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-01-01
ALLIES OFFER 6-P0lNT PLAN
FOR Releasing PRISONERS

MUNSAN, KOREA, JAN. D.
(AP)-Allied truce negotiators
presented six point plan today
for releasing all prisoners of
war and repatriating civilians in
Korea.
The plan starts out on man.
for man basis and winds up as
an all-for all exchange, said 1t.
Col. Howard S. LeVie, spokes-
man for the United Nations COM
mand
The communists took one look
at the proposal and then said in
effect, 1T stinks,' reported Rear
Adm. r. E. Libby, allied nego-
tiator.
Libby expressed hope north
Korean Maj Gen. Lee Sang Cho,
Red Negotiator, would change his
mind after he studies the COM
plex plan and understands it.
The proposal is intended to
provide a compromise between
the u. N. man-for-man exchange
of prisoners proposal and the
Reds all-for-all demand, and at
the same time provide for re-
patriation of all civilians who
want to go home.
Lee said the plan contained
things I'VE politically cannot a.
gree to-" he did not amplify.
Levie said the exchange of pris-
oners would start on man for
man basis to make sure the Y. n.
would get back its full quota OF
prisoners of war.
when we have finished ex-
changing all prisoners of war left
on either side,' Levie said, then
we will get to the point where
we don't count heads.
Here is how it would work:
l. Prisoners of war who want
to be exchanged would be on a
-for-one basis. The U.N. holds
about 10000 prisoners to 1000
held by the Reds. But all south
Koreans now in communist
armies would be reclassified as
prisoners of war, swelling the
Communist held total.
2. When one side ran out OF
POWS the exchange would be
continued: One pow for one
civilian who wanted to be re-
patriated. Foreign civilians would
come first. POWS released in
this exchange would have to
promise never to fight again
against the side releasing them.
g., Prisoners of war who DO
not want to be exchanged would
be released, but mist promise
not to fight in the Korean war
again.
4 After all POWS had been
exchanged or released, all re-
manning civilians who wished it
would be rep2triated.
s The international Red Cross
would interview all POWS at the
exchange point to determine
whether they did or did not want
to be repatriated; The Red Cross
would also talk TO all civilians.
6. The Nationality OF civilians
would be determined by which
side of the 38th parallel he lived
when the war started.