Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-01-11

qlired aid, Myron Bebow suffer
ed abrasions when his car struck
that of another local man, Emery
Whiting. Accidents of a more
serious type befell several per
sons. Five year old Stephen ST.
mon, of Erie Gardens, drank
weed killer which he found III a
woodshed at his home and died
later George Eurenius, of East
Fifth street broke both ankles in
a fall from a ladder at his home.
A pilot was killed when his plane
fell from about $1,000 feet TO
land on farm near Genoa. The
| plane was on maneuverS for the
navy and was one Of a fight.
Three men were rescued from
Lake Erie off Mouse Island when
their outboard motor capsized
while they were fishing State
highway department announced
that a survey had been completed
of State Route 163 from the juno
ton of Route 2 at the Moose to
Route 140 for plans to widen Ri.
l63 to almost boulevard width.
The proposed width would be ~
feet and the project would begin
early in 1852 Lakeside was
host to Northeast Ohio Weeklies
| Association when over d hundred
members spent day there on its
yearly summer holiday and busi-
ness meeting Rev. Jonn
Braun, of st. John Lutheran
Church, was elected president Of
the Ottawa County Ministerial As
sociation Mrs. Eunice Bissell
vas notified that she was one Of
four winners in national CON
test conducted by a manufacture
er. Her prize was a weeks va
cation trip Coach Norman
Willbond resigned his school post
TO go into business Hundreds
of visitors crowded Put-in-Bay as
lnter-lake regatta got under way
for several days Of racing
General apathy marked the close
of the petition filing for public
office as the deadline nealed
The Minderman Marine Manufac-
turing received large order
from the Navy for 1000 propeller
wheels Three East Port Gin
ton offices were entered III a siege
of burglaries The places of bust
ness entered were the Gordon
Cooper Buick Salesroom, the
! Black Machine Shop and the Pen
insular Candy Co. Approximate
ly $500 was taken Various
mishaps were reported, among
them was a strange attack on Fred
crick Brewer, Erie Township,
when an unidentified person en-
tered his home while he slept and
attacked him with a heavy instru-
ment Bernard Armhrustef,
East Third Street was injured
about the head when he fell al
the Matthews Boat Works where
! he was employed John Azok
Erie Gardens, was severely burn-
| ed at the Erie Ordnance Depot,
where he was employed when he
assisted another employee to es-
cape injury from a charged cleo
trio wire . Four Port Clinton
youths escaped serious injury
when an unidentified car crashed
/ into the car driven by Robert
Lorensen Clifford Sebastiano
Route 3, was injured about the
head when his car crashed into
another near Fremont A traf-
fc accident on Route 2 sent Ber.
nice Snyder and Maynard Mos
Icy, both of East Third Street, tc
the Magruder Hospital And {
freak accident caused Canadian
man to break an ankle as he wa:
alighting from a taxi at Putin
Bay In the worlds largest
yachting group, ffty-ninc clubs
entered the Interlake races at Put
Inlay County Supt Edwin
Digby announced the appointmen
of Mrs, Ray Lieser, OF Oak Har
hor, as county school nurse
; County coroner Dir. George A
Poe resigned to accept new posi-
tion Three visitors to Vaca
tionland lost their lives in Lake
Erie by drowning, one man a
{ Put-in-Bay, another man at Mar
1 blehead pier and still another a
s East Harbor State park, all Will,
/ fishing . Lack of a quorum a
the regular meeting of city coUn
0 Gil forced that body to postpon,
S any consideration for action on
a new operational contract for all
: port Port Clinton Board o
2 Education moved to ask for bid
e to remodel temporary building
6 on school property into cafe
d terra Port Clinton Merchant
e Ball Club attained top standin
e in Fnelands League New Put
4 Inlay ferry boat was officiall
Y launched in Cleveland with off
4 cials Of the company present
4 was christened Erie Isle"
h State officials opened new Mort
IS Shore Boulevard to public in tapt
k cutting ceremony attended by i