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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Exhibition Games
Entertain Fans

The London Little League Phils
won their exhibition game with
the Yanks to the tune of Z to a
Wednesday on the local diamond.
The big show, according to fans,
was the London Prison Farm
Angels contest with the London
All Stars of the Softball League
in which the farm team blanked
London TO. Batteries for the farm
were Talbert and Grimm and for
London, Swyers and Folan.
Slants of Talbert the star pitch
er for the Angels were difficult
for the local players to solve with
exception of Shannon who chalk
ed up two of the four All Star
hits. Both were two baggers.
Outstanding points in the games
were a shoestring-catch by short
stop Fears and the Angels robbing
Kronk of sure hit with run
ming catch by Bill Howard, all
star center fielder The games
were played as benefit for the
softball fund.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Win Handbags
At Local Club

Golfing activities at the London
Country Club recently resulted
in Peg Chooman defeating Reba
Miller for the championship in
the Women's Handicap. In the
mems handicap August 10, Bob
Powers defeated Bob LeBeau.
For the club championship flight
Don Byers will play Bob LeBeau
and Bob Powers will play Bill
Jackson. it was reported at the
club Wednesday.
Other pairings: First flight,
Allen Kulp and Blair Savage for
championship; second flight, Jim
Smith, Jr., plays the winner of
the match between Bill Brokaw
and Jim Powers; third flight win
ners of matches between George
Davis and Claire Wiseman and
Reg Testament and Bob Rigg.
The best ball four man team
tournament will be Sunday, Aug.
II. Team captains: Don Byers,
Paul Coleman, George Dewey, Bill
Jackson, Ron Kulp, Bob LeBeau,
John Miller, John Owsley, Bob
Powers, Jim Wagner, F. E. Sid
ener, Jr., Stan Johnson, Bob Wag-
ner and Bob Thomas.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
INC GIVES PAY
BOOST TO $500

SPRINGFIELD, 0. Up - Wage
and salary increases were granted
today to $500 employees of the
International Harvester Co. here.
L. E. Drum, works manager of
the Sprignfield plant, said produc-
ton and maintenance workers will
get a four-cent an hour pay boost
effective the first full pay period
after Aug. 81, bringing their av-
erage time to S206 an hour. Sew
eral hundred salaried workers will
get comparable increases, he said.
Drum said the increases were
part of wage and salary increases
granted in all international Har-
vester plants totaling S4,200,000
for the year. Altogether $4,000
production and maintenance work
ers and $4,000 salaried employees
are affected.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Farmers Wife Is
Bitten By Snake

Mrs. Emmett Lewis, farm wife
residing near fredericksburg. was
bitten on the leg by a snake re-
Gently when she was walking
across bridge over a ditch at the
back of their farm.
Efforts to obtain anti-snake
venom failed when none could be
located in either Champaign or
Clark counties. After trying CO.
lumbus hospitals with no success
the venom was found at the Wendt
Bristol Drug Co. Mrs. Lewis was
rushed to Columbus hospital
where the treatment was adrninis-
tered. Her condition was said to be
satisfactory.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Dyer To Serve
In Far East

Airman &c Robert Leroy Dyer
has been transferred to the Fifth
Air Force for duty in the Far Eas-
tern Theater.
Dyer recently spent a 30-day
furlough with his mother, Mrs.
Clarence Peters at Madison Lake,
then flew to California where he
reported to Camp Stoneman, for
duty with the Fifth Air Force in
Korea and Japan.
A studen at Enon High School,
he enlisted in the Air Force last
January and took a special Diesel
engineering course at Ft. Belvoir,
Virginia. He also was stationed at
Lakeland Air Force Base near San
Antonio and Sheppard Field, Wich-
ita Falls, Texas. He was assigned
to the Fifth Air Force July %.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Bill Hunter On
AH-Star Squad

London sports enthusiasts were
agog Thursday morning over a
release from Akron that Bill
Hunter, son of Mr.. and Mrs. How
Hunter, East First Street, had
landed berth on the first string
defensive Southern All-Star team
for the North-South All Star
high school football game to be
played in the Rubber Bowl at
Akron Saturday night.
This game will climax the an
nual Coaching School which has
attracted high school coaches to
Akron this week James Bowlus
and Darwin Keye, coaches at
London High were expected to at
tend some of the sessions.
Hunter, 1852 senior at London
High who has played an out
standing game at end for his alma
mater, has been in Akron this
week playing that position in
preparation for Saturdays game.
This is the first time that Lon
don has ever been represented
in the All Star game and it is the
only Class B school to have a
player in either the North or the
South lineup It is also one of the
few times that a Class B. school
has ever had player who war
ranted a place on the teams.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Exchange Student
A+Converse Home

Gerhart Seibert. II year old
youth from Kleinalmerode No 95,
Hussian. Germany. recently arriv-
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
z. B. Converse in Canaan township
where he will remain as an ex-
change student for one year. The
German youth came to the United
States through the International
High School Youth Exchange and
will enter Canaan High School at
the beginning of the next semester
The young man speaks English
well and his parents are both
school teachers in Germany. They
reside only three miles from the
Russian border. He has two sis
ters and a brother. His main hobby
is sports.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Mrs. WiIIoughby
Dies Wednesday

Mrs. Molly Coberly Willoughby,
80, one of London's Oldest resi-
dents, died Wednesday at her
home 218 South Walnut Street.
She had been in failing health
more than two years, but serious
ly i'll the last two weeks.
Mrs. Willoughby was a lifelong
resident of Madison County. She
was born near Newport, October
%, 1861, the daughter of John and
Nancy Coberly.
Surviving are son, Clark and
a daughter, Mrs. Frank Rockwell,
London; IL grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Friday at two
o'clock in the Lafayette Methodist
Church. Interment in Lafayette
Cemetery.
Friends may call at the resi-
dence on South Walnut Street.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15


Louis Innis, soloist and bass
player with WLW's Pleasant Val
ley Boys, will be with the Mid
western Hayride show at the Mad
ison County Fair Saturday night,
the opening session of the annual
exposition.
A versatile entertainer, Innis
plays such musical instruments as
the rhythm guitar, bass fiddle,
and is well qualified in solos and
emcee work. Composer and record
ing artist, several of his songs
have been waxed by top artists
and he has recorded several of his
tunes for King
Working with Red Foley or
MICS Grand Ole Opry," Innis
came to WLW with the Pleasant
Valley Boys in the middle of 194S
This group is heard on the Sat
urday Night Jamboree," and many
of the Crosley rural programs on
Top O the Morning"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
WORLD News BRIEFS
BY Associated Press

cLEvELAND-An 1syearod apparently
Wednesday pitched into the whiri
bmp She killed instantly The Mrs
Shirley visiting the Of the bmp leased by
small advertis
while being loaded into the
cockpit Authorities guessed Mrs Fuller had stumbled while
chasing the balloon.
COLUMBUS shotgun and suicide country lane
police here Wednesday Sherfs
Beck said the victims identified George 6oyde
painter both Of Columbus Beck said he
Miss Buck the head and then killed
bodies found which had rented at
a Columbus
WARREN masked forced the Of Warren bank
police Foley taking the from the Union
Cos main building its Woodland Ave. Branch
which he Police quoted him saying two Of the
the hoIdup armed with off shotgun
cutting in front Of him with their auto One
smashed his window with the shotgun butt and pair grabbed
held the quoted telling police
COLUMBUS o.-vce squadman orva Longerbone had
evidence He said suspected numbers
tried retrieve them
his trouble The released for
lack evidence.
Wash.-Feen baled out Of B29 bomber
Fachid
supeorts commander called In from
aboard eaped before he left the
craft The plane had developed engine trouble
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
63RD ANNUAL FAIR TO BE
IN FULL SWING SATURDAY
Madison County
Among Top 100
In Soybeans

WASHINGTON - Seven Ohio
counties are among the 100 leading
counties in the country in soybean
acreage, and six Buckeye counties
are among the 100 leaders in sugar
beet paintings. the Bureau of the
Census reported today.
Three counties-Wood, Putnam,
and Hancock-are among the lead
ers in both sugar beet and soybean
paintings.
The bureau announced these
soybean rankings in the nation, for
Ohio counties: Wood, 34th; Pauld-
ing, 36th; Van Vert, 49th; Wyan-
dot. S5th; Putnam, Goth; Madison,
goth, and Hancock, Tooth.
The ranks for sugar beet plant
ings included: Wood, 64th; Henry,
81; Lucas. 80; Sandusky, 81; Han
cock, 81, and Putnam, 100.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
TAG MATCH IN
FAIR SHOW ON
AUGUST 21st

Grapplers who will provide the
tag match of the wrestling show
at the Madison County Fair
Thursday night, August 81, are
reputed to be more than capable
of putting on a top-flight show.
The participants are Farmer
Brown and Joe Wolfe VS. Speedy
Larance and Tommy Sinatra. The
match will be Commute affair.
Brown started wrestling or
"Scufflin" as he and his neigh
bors call it, down in the hills of
Kentucky.
A carnival came through his
section of Kentucky-and of course
he showed up with his Pals.
There was a professional
wrestler on the show who was
meeting all comers-and paying 81
per minute to all who could stay
with him.
Brown was interested because
back in the hills the dollars were
not too plentyful.
A few minutes later he was in
the ring-with all of the home
folk cheering him on.
He not only stayed five min
utes, but made the professional
guit-and from that time on he
was in business.
Brown, who weighs 220, started
out to be a Baptist minister be-
fore he turned wrestling profess
sional two years ago.
Wolfe started pro wrestling Sc
riously in 1895 after he decided he
catlld go farther in wrestling than
he could in football. He held the
Ohio Junior heavyweight title for
a number of years and has beaten
nearly all of the top men in the
heavyweight division.
Wrestling has taken Joe to all
the corners of the globe, meeting
all comers in Europe, Canada,
Mexico and South America, where
he is great star.
Joe comes from a family of IL
boys and two girls, most of them
are well known as bowlers in
Columbus and Ohio.
Sinatra has a fine record on
the mat with many victories. He
has met many of the greats of
wrestling, including Lou Thesz,
Wild Bill Longson, Buddy Rogers,
Zebra Kid, Billy Darnell and
many others and whether he
won or lost, Tony always left the
ring with the knowledge that he
had given his best.
Fans will see finely built
athlete, weighing 220 pounds and
standing just a shade under six
feet.
Larance was born in Montreal,
Canada, where he went to school
and compiled as great a record
in atheletics as the school had
ever known before or since.
Jules was not an ordinary
athlete but one that stood head
and shoulder above all the rest.
He was SO fast in all sports that
he had a nickname tabled to him
which has stuck all these years
and it was SPEEDY. He starred
in football. hockey, boxing and
wrestling.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Ohio Leads In
Gas Storage

Already leading the nation in the
amount of natural gas held in "un-
derground storage Ohio this year
will have even more of it's gas
fields turned into storage spaces
for gas shipped in from the south
western United States.
Conversion sof those fields to
storage purposes will give Ohio
Fuel Gas Company customers here
a considerable amount of gas
which otherwise would not be
available next winter, according to
F. E. Kidwell, local manager.
Kidwell announced today that
Ohio Fuel is increasing its under
ground storage system some 13 per
cent this year The company will
spend $5, ,400,0 900 doing the job.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
HAYRIDE OPENS
ENTERT AINmENT
RACES MONDAY

Saturday night marks the open
ing of the 63rd annual Madison
county fair, featuring as special
entertainment the presentation of
WINS Midwestern Hayride.
Patrons will be treated to var
iety show of musical features.
Included in the show will be
Ernie Lee, the well-known WLW
star, the Pine Mountain Boys,
Bonnie Lou, Matte and Salty,
Lazy Jim Day. Louis Innis and
possibly others. They are all
artists in their own particular
speciality.
Sunday will bring another big
entertainment feature to the fair
when the international Contest
Auto DAREDEVIL Show is presented.
They perform many hair-raising
stunts.
This contest, billed as some
thing new and different. will
feature Dick Rogers, All Ameri-
can Motor Maniac, Billy Green's
Canadian Champion Auto Dare
devils.
Harness racing on the fair
ground track gets under way
Monday afternoon. The speed pro-
gram continues the balance of the
fair.
All the well known midway at
fractions will be ballyhooed to
fair patrons from the opening
night until the curtains rings
down Thursday, August 81.
Rides interesting both young
and old will be provided by the
F. E. Gooding Amusement Com
pany of Columbus. They will in
clude the old standbys, like the
Merry go Round and Ferris Wheel
and many others.
Numerous refreshment stands,
including the eating places of the
county oranges, will be available
10 patrons ana visitors to the
Madison county fairgrounds can
enjoy all those delicacies which
also contribute to gaiety of the
county fair, cotton candy and
popcorn, foot-long hot dogs and
taffy.
Later in the week the fair
patrons will be treated to perfor-
mances by Staples Rodeo, the all
star wrestling show, and the All
Clubs on Parade.
While the fair is under way
number of the public offices of
the city and county will be closed.
Among the offices which will
be closed in the afternoon during
fair week will be the Health De-
partment, the local banks and all
offices of the Madison county
courthouse.
The London postoffice will close
for the afternoon beginning Tues
day.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Harry Thompson
Dies Suddenly

Harry Thompson, AZ, well known
resident of Plain City, who resided
at SIS Gray ST., died suddenly at
am. Tuesday at University Hos
pital in Columbus.
Mr.. Thompson became ill at 2
pm. while at work at the Ohio
Malable Iron Works in Columbus.
He was rushed to the hospital
where he succumbed without re-
gaining consciousness. Death was
caused by a blood clot on the
brain.
He is survived by his wife, Ida
Mae Thompson, and a brother,
Homer Thompson, of Columbus.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at Q pm. at the Fergu-
son Funeral Home with Rev. E. l..
Lawson officiating. Interment will
be in the Oak Hill Cemetery near
Marysville, by Jay D. Ferguson of
Plain City.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Ally Khan Uses
GaIbreath Plane

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. UP,
Ally Khan boarded private
plane today for New York, enroute
to Hollywood to visit his estranged
wife, film star Rita Hayworth.
The prince left the Ballston Spa
Airport in a plane owned by John
W. Galbreath of Columbus, o., a
wealthy horse-breeder with stock
farms at Columbus and Lexington,
KY.
Ally repeatedly planned to leave
Laguardia Field at noon for Cali
fornia by commercial airliner.
The Moslem prince came here
Saturday to take in the races and
sell 20 of his fathers thorough
breds at Saratoga's yearling sales.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Induct 4 From
County Thursday

Madison County men who were
to be sent by the Madison County
Selective Service Commission to
Fort. Hayes, Columbus, for physi-
cal examination Wednesday were:
David Bell, Norman Lowery, AL
bert Rogers, Truman Schrock, and
Nose Justice.
The four men who were to re-
port for induction Thursday in
clude: Rodney c. Dhume, George
William Stanley, George Carol
Smith and Herbert Austin Shoe
maker, Jr.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Driver Fined
And Sentenced

Robert Williams, London, arrest
ed by Police Officer Eugene Rus
sell on a charge of reckless opera
ton of an auto was fined SIS and
costs by Acting Mayor Harold
Sparkling Monday. He was also as
sessed $45.20 and costs and given
80 days suspended Jail sentence or
a charge of obstructing an officer
Chief German Clark said Williams
was stopped by the officer, but
took off, instead of reporting tc
the police station.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
AMvET LODGE Ar
LAKE IS LOOTED

@s@sa--, - -rH5-~r : y -'ri>@ - ~s @'sf~sy
Deputies Bob Allison and III. c.
Markley Thursday were investi-
eating another burglary at the
AMVET Lodge at Madison Lake
The lodge was entered by break
ing window.
The cash drawer containing
about six dollars was missing.
Further check of the premises
failed to show any other property
missing.
According to members of the
organization, this is the fourth
time the lodge has been burglar
lied
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Two Reunions Set
For Sum-, August II

Dates have been announced for
two annual reunions, which will be
held on Sunday, August II.
The Converse reunion will be
held at the home of Julia Walker.
Plain City, Ohio. 1t is one of the
Oldest Reunion organizations in the
community, this years meeting
will mark the 80th annual get
together.
The 50th annual Latham reunion
will be held at the basement of
the grade school in billiards.
Large crowds are expected to at
tend both meetings.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Minister Resigns

The Rev. Paul Durfey, minister
of the Big Darby Baptist Church
for the last year resigned Monday
and announced that he will de-
vote full time to teaching in the
Columbus schools. His resignation
will be effective as of Sept. l.
The Rev. Richard Bowser will
occupy the pulpit of the Darby
church Sunday. August II.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Government Buys Land For
0hio's New Atomic Plant

WAVERLY, O.fLR-Army engi-
neers today started buying $500
acres of farm and wood land for
a billion-dollar atomic energy
plant in Pike County.
The government rolled into high
gear getting the vast project under
way, Surveyors from the Tennes-
see Valley Authority climbed hills,
mapping the site where half-mile
long buildings will be erected over
four years by 10000 workers.
About 1,500 workers are expected
to be employed by winter.
Officials said about so farm fam
lilies would have to be moved. In
Columbus federal clerks prepared
notices of property condemnation
for 110 landowners in Pike County.
The government hopes to buy the
land by negotiation but can get it
by condemnation suit if necessary.
Atomic Energy Commission Off
cials told groups of civic leaders
in Portsmouth, Waverly and Chilli
cothe Wednesday the government
could help ease the transformation
of the peaceful farming valley into
the center of a vast industrial COM
plex, but they'd have to do much
of the work themselves.
A delegation of officials from
Pike and Scioto Counties plan to
visit Paducah, KY, where a SINH
lar plant for the "gaseous-diffu-
sion" production of uranium-235
for the atom bomb is operating.
They hope to find out how Padu-
cab met the transformation prob
lem.
The Stupendous size of the Pike
County plant became little clear
er Wednesday. AFC officials dis
closed they plan to build two gen.
Grating plants which will make
enough electricity to run New
York City. They'll produce 2,200,-
600 kilewatts- "a little more than
the 100000 kilowatts needed to
run the atomic plant.
Other figures on the sieze of the
project were revealed at a press
conference in Portsmouth by S. r.
Sapirie, manager of the atomic
energy plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
about 100000 square feet of
floor space, enough engineering
drawings to cover 81 acres, $1,000
instruments, $4,000 cubic yards of
concrete, 25,00O tons of steel, 565
miles of pipe, 1,605 miles of cop
per tubing, and so forth.
The AFC men told local officials
they should start surveying for
trailer camps to house the first
construction workers. They said
the two counties probably will be
declared a critical housing area
SO it can get federal housing aid.
Just temporary construction
headquarters will need 25,00Q to
10000 square feet of office space
and 400 to 500 office workers. The
Acc is looking for temporary
headquarters site in Portsmouth or
Chillicothe.
The Portsmouth office of the
state employment service has
started getting a flood of applica-
tions from people who want to
work at the plant, but nobody will
be hired for about 60 days.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Guardian To Use
News On PAGE One

LONDON R-The Manchester
Guardian, founded 131 years ago,
disclosed Thursday it has finally
decided to start printing news on
its front page.
In common with many other
British newspapers, the influential,
Liberal Guardian now carries
nothing on page one but pure ad-
vertising matter.
A spokesman said the Guardian
hasn't yet decided where it will
put the displaced aGs.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Local Attorneys
On Committees

Two London attorneys have been
selected to serve on committees of
the Ohio State Bar Association.
The appointments were made by
President Harry S. Wonnell of
Hamilton upon the recommended
ton of Executive Committeeman
George A. Schwer of Springfield.
Attorney D. Harland Jackman
will serve as a member of the
Judicial Administration and Legal
Reform Committee and Attorney
Frank j. Murray will serve as a
member of the Banking and Conn.,
mercial Law Committee.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Believe Trucks
Hauling Lungs"

Three trucks, sounding sirens
and flashing emergency lights,
raced through London Tuesday
night travelling from the west east
wardly. They were believed to be
transporting iron lungs for polio
victims. Local officials received no
advance information that they
would pass through London.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Girl Hurt When
Thrown BY Horse

Nola Jean Crandall, II, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon Gran
dali, Plain City, suffered Slight
concussion when thrown from the
horse she was riding in a field at
her home Saturday morning. Le-
Roy Leach, watchman at the
Rance plant, witnessed the acci-
dent. Miss Crandall was tossed
high in the air and landed on
her head and shoulders when the
horse jumped and kicked. She was
unconscious when taken to her
home. but revived soon afterward
and was treated by a Plain City
physician.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
ANNOUNCE BIRTH

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph D. Shoaf
Lockbourne, Ohio, Route |, an
nounce the birth of a son, Ricky
Allen, at Mt. Carmel Hospital,
Sunday, August 10.
Mr.. Shoaf is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Shoaf of Lockbourne.
The mother is the former Ruth
Ann Gilbert, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Gilbert, Orleton Farms,
London, r. r. 3.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Chuck Ferguson Is
Confined To Home

Charles Ferguson, popular ath-
lete at Otterbein University and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jay B. Fergu-
son of Plain City has been con-
fined to his bed for the past two
weeks. Chuck is suffering from an
attack of summer flu and yellow
jaundice. =
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
ANNOUNCE BIRTH

Mr.. and Mrs. Ned Junk, Nor
walk. announce the birth of a
daughter at the Norwalk Hospital,
Monday. August d.
Mrs. Junk is the former Anita
Sullivan, daughter of Mrs. Jerry
Sullivan, South Union Street.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-08-15
Madison Press To
Close Fair Week

Offices and plant Of
The Madison Press Company
will be closed during Fair
Week, Monday August Is.
through Saturday, August q.
for vacations for the entire
staff.