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Evening star., 1952-12-14
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. G.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER IA 1855 +.
Fain Again Champion
As Only Eight Players
Hit 300 or Better

The Indians. whose bid for tht
pennant collapsed in the last
month of the season. captured
most of the 1852 American League
batting honors. according to Of
fetal statistics released yesterday
Ferris Fain, the Athletics
aggressive first baseman. won his
second straight batting champ
pionship with a 1927 average after
pacing the league with a .344 mark
in 1851. 1t marked the fourth
straight year an infielder took
hitting honors. Fain also topped
the league in doubles with 43.
But five Cleveland players
figured prominently in the dis
tribution of laurels. Dale Mitchell
finished second to Fain in the
averages with 1923. Bobby Avila
led in triples with II. Larry Dolby
hit 80 home runs to lead the
league and scored the most runs.
104. ..
Rosen Bats in Most Runs.
AL Rosen's los runs batted in.
one more than Dolby and Eddie
Robinson of the Chicago White
Sox. was tops. Rosen also led in
total bases with 297 six more than
the Yankees Mickey Mantle.
Luke Easter, Cleveland's big first
baseman who made a great come
back late in the season after being
denoted to Indianapolis for light
hitting, finished second to Dolby in
home runs with 81. The Yankees
Yogi Berra was third with 80.
Avila scored 102 runs and Rosen
101 to press Dolby in that depart
ment.
Despite that display of battling
power by Cleveland, the Yankees
won the team batting champion
ship with a collective .267. five
points better than the Indians
club mark.
The number of 300 hitters fell
off for the second successive year.
Only eight players at bat 400 or
more times hit 300 or better, two
under the 1851 total.
Runnels PAGES Feeble Mats.
Washington's feeble hitters were
paced by Pete Runnels at .285.
Jackie Jensen batted .280 and the
only other Nat to top $50 was
Mickey Vernon, who barely made
it at .251. The Mats, who finished
fifth only two games out of third
place, batted only .239 for the
worst team record.
Nelson Fox, White Sox second
baseman. made the most hits. 1872.
and went to bat the most times.
648. Eddie Yost, the Mats third
baseman. played the most games.
157, and the Yankees Phil Riz-
zuto contributed the most. sacri-
fees, %.
Chicago outfielders dominated
the base stealing department.
Orestes Minoso stole % bases to
edge teammate Jim Rivera by one.
Minoso also was caught stealing
the most times, Is.
Third behind Fain and Mitchell
in hitting were Mantle and George
Kell, Boston Red Sox. each with
.311. They were followed by Gene
Woodling, New York. 300; Billy
Goodman. Boston. .306; Rosen.
1902, and Avila, 300.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
Miomi (Ohio) Edges Pitt
In Lost Nine Seconds
BY the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH. Dec. l3.-Ernie
Gresinger, a substitute, dropped
in two free throws with only nine
seconds remaining tonight to give
Miami (Ohio) University a 1854
basketball win over Pitt.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
Browns Sign Dick Kokos

ST. LOUIS. Dec. l3 (P.-Dick
Kokos. 24-year-old outfielder re-
LEASED from the Army last week
today signed a 1858 contract with
the Browns.
Evening star., 1952-12-14
Rosen Bats in Most Runs.

AL Rosen's los runs batted in.
one more than Dolby and Eddie
Robinson of the Chicago White
Sox, was tops. Rosen also led in
total bases with 297. six more than
the Yankees Mickey Mantle.
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-17
Democrats Give Stevenson
Differing Degrees of
Power as Party Leader

WASHINGTON, (P)-Sen. Ke-
fauver D-Tenn), whose bid for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination fell short, said Tuesday
he recognized Gov. Adlai Steven
son as the party's nominal head
but with no authority "to dictate
party policy"
In that view, Kefauver differed
in degree from Sen. Maybank
DISC, who has said he does not
acknowledge Stevenson as the
party leader. Among other rea-
sons, Maybank said he thinks
Democratic members of Congress,
by nature of their jobs, will es-
tablish in day-to-day votes much
of the policy on which the party's
1856 standard bearer will have to
run.
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-17
U.N. Forces Inflict 3,462
Red Casualties Last Week

SEOUL, tP}-Allied Sabre jet
pilots shot down one Communist
MIG-15 jet and damaged four in
four dogfights over North Korea
today the Fifth Air Force said.
Last night II US. Superforts
Numbered through 100 mile-an-
hour headwinds to bomb Red sup
ply center in western Korea. The
BIOS dropped ITO tons of explo-
sives on the targets.
Short, sharp patrol clashes
spotted the frozen battle front,
but the US. Eighth Army report
ed that only a few troops were
involved.
The Eighth Army announced
that from Dec. 8 through Dec. IA,
United Nations ground forces in
flicted 3,462 casualties on the
Reds-2215 killed, 1910 wounded
and seven captured.
The Nome nugget., 1952-12-17

The percentage of left-handed-
ness among normal individuals
varies from four to eight percent.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Questions China's Right Intervene In Truce Talks

MUNSAN, Korea, (P) - The chief United Nations truce nego- tiator Monday questioned R d China's right to take part in a Korea peace conference and sug- gested that the problem of which nations should negotiate the peace be solved after an armiStice is signed.
 Rear Adm. C. Turner Joy also told the Reds, in effect, to give up any ideas of deciding the fate of Formosa or settling other Asian problems at a Korean peace con- ference.
 The Allies previously have made it clear that unless both sides agree on recommendations, none can be made.
 Joy declared that by the com- muniStS own standards Red China is not eligible to take part in a post-armistice peace conference.
 Joy pointed out that Chinese troops fighting in Korea always have been labeled volunteers, both by Red China and North Korea. He said the communists have ar gued that the appearance of vol unteer units in Korea was "com- pletely unrelated to any official action on the part of their pol itical authorities"
 Clearly" Joy said, "the peo- ple's Republic of China would not qualify under your criterion"
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
George VI's Body
 Returns to London For Burial Service

LONDON, (P) - King George VI returned to his capital Mon day for the last time. His mourn ing subjects paid homeage as his funeral cortege wound through crowded, silent streets.
 His train, bearing Queen Eliza beth II and her family, edged noiselessly into Kings Cross Sta- ton in a downpour of rain and sleet after a private funeral ser vice at the Sandringham estate where he died Wednesday.
 Despite a drenching, thousands lined the three-mile route to his tory steeped Westminster Hall where the body of the late mon- arch will lie in state until the burial at Windsor on Friday.
 The black-veiled young queen, now the head of the royal family at 25, stood by as Grenadier GuardSmen lifted the oak coffin from its black teak hearse coach.
 She was pale and drawn but hiding her grief. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the young queens husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the kings bro- ther, the Duke of Glouster, rode from Sandringham to London with the queen.
 Just before the royal party stepped from the train, a royal at- tendant in top hat climbed into the hearse coach and placed the imperial crown with its 3,094 jewels worth approximately S804,000 on the kings casket.
 The queen and women of her party did not wait to follow the procession in it's slow cadence progress to Westminster, but left at once by limousine for Bucking- ham palace-
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
B-36 Lands Safely After 13 Hours Aloft With Landing Gear Trouble

SAN DIEGO, Calif., (P) - An Air Force B-36 bomber landed safely today after nearly 13 hours aloft with landing gear trouble.
 The huge six-engined plane, worlds biggest bomber normally carrying II to Is men in it's crew, came down at the North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego Bay. It was reported to have been heavily loaded originally and on a delivery flight, destination un- announced.
 The Air Force said that the plane developed landing gear trouble, that the crew repaired it in the air and the ship made a normal landing. The statement added that it stayed aloft as long as it did in order to use up most of its fuel load before the landing.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Spain Has Last Word

WASHINGTON, P)-President Truman's remark about Franco which brought a quick note from the Spanish ambassador apparent ly was closed Monday, with Spain getting in the last word.
 MT. Truman told his news con- ference Thursday that he had never been very fond of the Fran co regime. Saturday, the State Department said it got a memo from the Spanish ambassador.
 Officials said the note was less than a formal diplomatic protest and did not call for a reply. Its contents were kept secret.
 A United States mission is about to negotiate for air and naval bases on Spanish soil to help defend western Europe.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
U.S.S. Burton Island Refutes Theme
 That The First Boat Arrives In June

The busiest thoroughfare in Nome over the weekend was Boring Sea where continual stream of pedestrians, dog teams, skiers and some motor vehicles visited the U.S.S. Burton Island which anchored" in the road stead Saturday. The ship is com- manded by Commander E. H.. Maher.
 The trail was not a boulevard and those on foot had to take watchful care for crevasses in the ice which were hidden by snow.
 This is the second time the Bur- ton Island has visited Nome in three winters, having made it's initial winter, visit three years ago this month, forever changing a 50-year-old theme that the first boat arrives in June"
 The Burton Island is one of seven icebreakers operated by the Navy and the US. Coast Guard and including the two which were recently returned by Russia. The Burton Island, however, is the only one operating in the Pacific and Arctic at this time.
 The vessel carries two helicop- ters which scout out the leads in the pack ice. Helicopter service to and from the ship gave a few Nomeites quite a thrill as it
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
DOG Crashes Into Elizabeth, N.J.
 Third Air Disaster I'm Two Months

est in the east.
 A few moment before the four engined airliner crashed, it's pilot messaged that two engines had failed. Told to return to the field, he radioed last frantic Cant make it."
 Then, the big plane plunged downward like a meteor, stream ing gasoline behind it. It knifed through the top floor of the four story apartment house, wiping out one whole family of three. An other resident died on the second floor, screaming behind a wall of flames.
 The plane caromed off the building, flinging wreckage for hundreds of yards around. The front of the fuselage catapulted into the playground of a chil- dren'S home, burning flercely, while the rear section lit in a treetop.
 Unlike the other two crashes in which all passengers and crew were killed, 38 of those aboard, most of them in the rear section, miraculously escaped death.
 On Dec. 16, a non-sked C-46 dropped in flames into the Eliza beth River, killing all 56 aboard. On Jan. p, an American AirlineS Convair hurled into a residential district, killing all g aboard and seven residents.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Maj. Davis, Top US.
 Jet Ace In Korea, Shot Down and Presumed Lost

} SEOUL, Korea, (P)-America's No. l jet ace Maj. George A. Davis, Jr., of Lubbock, Tex. - was shot down over North Korea Sunday. But the Air Force said he blasted two communist MICS out of the sky before he crashed.
 Those raised Davis bag to II MICS and three Red bombers in 59 combat missions over Korea.
 He was listed as missing, but the Air Force said there was vir- tually no chance that he survived.
 B-29 Superforts Sunday night bombed the Sinhung rail bridge spanning he Chongchon River in northwest Korea, and the rail. yards at Hamhung on the east cnact
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
By GEORGE ORWELL and BERNARD BROWN

ELIZABETH, N. J., (P) - A crippled airliner r0ared down into this frightened, crash-plagued city Monday, sliced into a big apartment house and blew up the third major air disaster with in the city in less than two months.
 There were 29 known dead, and three persons unaccounted for, making a possible death toll of 32. At least 115 have perished in the three, successive residential dis triCt crackupS.
 The National Airlines pcs, disabled by engine trouble at a thousand feet in a clear midnight sky, nosed over-and like two others before it-plunged into the city, as residents cringed before the familiar, oncoming scream.
 The plane rammed into the 52- family dwelling, and exploded into flying fragments and fire.
 Twenty eight of the 63 persons aboard the Miami-bOund plane, including three of the four-mem- Der crew, were dead or missing, at least four apartment house resi- dents were killed. Forty persons, most of them the planes surviv- Ors, were injured.
 The new tragedy forced a hasty shutdown Of air traffic at nearby Newark airport, one of the ouSi-
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Party of Scientists To Study Ice Cap

PATUXENO, Md, (P(-A party of Is scientists, including a blonde attractive 22-year-old woman, left here Sunday aboard two Navy planes on a three-month expedi- ton to study the polar ice cap.
 The party, which will operate out of Point Barrow, Alaska, hopes to land for the first time in history on the polar ice pack.
 The woman aboard is Mrs. John Holmes, a chemist. She and her husband are members of the staff of the Woods Hole, Mass, Ocean ographic Institute.
 Sixteen other members of the party plan to go north later this month to take part in the survey, which the Navy calls operation "Skijump IT." It is a followup of the smaller "Skijump I" held last winter.
 The purpose of the mission is to study ice characteristics, ocean conditions, and to test the endur- ance of equipment and people in the extreme cold.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
John McNees Tells Of Being Forced
 Down and Rescue

John McNees returned home Saturday after quite an adventure with Art Johnson when they made a forced landing about 210 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Mulchatna River.
 Pilot Johnson and passenger McNees were enroute to Anchor age when high winds and poor radio reception got them off course. They landed on small lake and spent two night and three days before they were picked up.
 McNees stated that the Alaska Airlines plane was well-equipped with rations and a gun as well as sleeping bags and that they could have gotten by for some time.
 The two men were located by 10th Rescue B-17 and the pick
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The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Pan Am Constellation,
 I'm Trouble, Lands Okay

NEW YORK, (P - A four engine Pan American World Air ways Constellation made a suc- cessful emergency landing at Idlewild airport Monday after being forced by engine trouble to turn back on a to Puerto Rico.
 The plane, carrying 51 passen- gers and crew members, left Idle wild shortly after midnight. A short time later the pilot radioed he was returning to the field with one of the planes four engines having cylinder trouble.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11

landed on wire netting on the ship.
 It is reported that even the best of sailors get sea-sick when the Burton Island hits rough weather in open water, as the ship has rolled as much as 65 degrees.
 The residents of King Island who have heard they are going to have ship visit them, have been busy wiring local merchants for supplies of food and clothing.
 Saturday morning, before the Burton Island sighted Nome, Ralph Willoya was out seal hunt ing to the southwest. He didn't catch any seals but imagine his surprise when the icebreaker crunched up and asked if they were on the right road to Nome.
 Weighing $500 tons when fully loaded, the odd looking ship car ries a complement of 220 men into the unexplored regions of the world. She escorts vessels into Point Barrow during the annual supply expedition, then, when this task is complete, sets out on a cruise into the uncharted wasteland.
 Whales, seals and giant walrus are a common sight to crewmen of the ship. They are sold on their
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The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Seven Are Killed In Realistic Army and Air Force War Games"

CAMP DRUM, NY, (P)-The big-scale winter war games of the Army and Air Force entered it's third day Monday with death toll of seven, providing grim over tones of realism.
 A paratrooper plane crash, a railroad crossing smashup and ac- cidents in parachute jumps yes terday claimed seven lives. Nine teen other fighting men" were injured in the wartime" phase of Exercise Snowfall"
 The toll since the first practice phase of the exercise started a month ago rose to nine dead and IF injured.
 Four of those who died yester- day were creWmen of a C-46 transport loaded with paratroop- CTS, which crashed in taking off from Wheeler-Sack airfield here. Five others were injured seriously enough to require disqualification.
 The nose of the plane, in which the crew was located, was ripped apart by the impact, but the pas senger section in which g fully equipped soldiers were riding, was damaged only slightly.
 Two men were killed and five were hospitalized when truck participating in the maneuvers was struck by a freight train at a grade crossing.
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
Russians Will Not Bomb
 Washington a la Mccarthy

TULSA, Okla, (P)-Sen. Me Carthy R-Wis) continued his att tacks on communists in govern ment Sunday night at meeting of the Tulsa Women's Republican Club and predicted Russia would n't atom-bomb Washington.
 "Why?" the senator asked. "That would kill too many of their friends ...
The Nome nugget., 1952-02-11
NOVELIST NORMAN DOUGLAS DIES ON ISLE OF CAPRI

ISLE OF CAPRI, P)-NOrman Douglas, 83-year-old British nov elist and essayist, died here Sat urday on the island he loved and helped make famous.
 One of his most noted books was the novel, South Wind" nl,hliched in 1Q27
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27

his wife spent six weeks this
winter, returning two weeks
ago Friday. The following
Monday he entered Woman's
hospital and underwent surgery.
He had been in failing health
for nearly two years.
Mr.. Halstead was a member
of K. of P. Lodge, No. TIC, a
member of the First Methodist
church of Middlefield and had
been a member of the Middle
field Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Halstead is survived by
his wife, Bertha Hofstetter
Halstead, two sons, Phillip E.,
of the U. S. Navy, Thomas c.,
in charge of the Middlefield
Furniture Store, his mother,
Mrs. Earl Halstead of Middle
field and one sister, Mrs. Mil
dred Kerr of UniontoWn.
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
Coop Paid
$4,024.77 IN,
Federal Tax

Geauga county Farm Bureau
Coop paid $4024.47 federal in
come tax last year, Leo Valen-
tine, Farm Bureau manager,
reported to shareholders at
their meeting Feb. %.
The Coop also paid a total
of $88,359.OO of state and local
taxes of various types.
INCREASED SALES were
reported for the year. Volume
was $1,131, ,393.64 as compared
with SLOTS, ,7O8.99. This is still
considerable below the co-op's
top year of 1948 when sales
were $1,348, ,946.81.
PROFITS INCREASED from
$14,261.97 to $18,937.27 (the
coop lists their profits as
"savings"). Dividends for the
year were $5,568.23.
The coop reports assets of
1886, ,O26.73 and liabilities of
$97, 7,563.77.
Coop officers elected for
1852 are as follows:
President,Lyle Battles, Ches-
terland.
Vice President, Lynn Plaisted,
Willoughby.
Secretary, Bertha Kimpton,
Burton.
Treasurer, Everett Hale, Bur
ton.
Directors, Howard Messenger,
Burton; Paul Secor, Perry; Au-
DIRE Blair, Newbury; Hubert
Starr, Huntsburg; Charles Giles,
Chagrin Falls; Vaughn Arnold,
Huntsburg.
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0. |. HaIstead
Rites Are
Wednesday

MIDDLEFIELD - Owen L.
Halstead, one of Middlefield's
best known business men,
died at Woman's hospital about
noon Sunday. His body was
brought to the Laraway funeral
home in Middlefield where ser
vices were held Wednesday
at pm. Rev. Albert S. VOL
stencroft, pastor of the First
Methodist church officiated and
interment was made in Middle
field cemetery.
Mr.. Halstead, son of Earl
and Addie Owen Halstead, was
born in Middlefield and Owen
worked as an electrician for
the Johnson Rubber Company
In 1924, he and his father
went into business together,
But two years later, the senior
Mr.. Halstead withdrew from
the business.
During his business career,
he operated a Garage, and The
Middlefield Furniture Store,
for a time a secondhand Fur
niture Store and for about five
years, he had the Chrysler
Agency in Middlefield.
Mr.. Halstead owns several
buildings and homes in Middle
field, an apartment house in
Cleveland and a home at Bra
den Castle. Fla, where he and
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
Hubert Starr
Honored for
Farm Records

CLARIDON - Hubert Starr
was among % Ohio farmers
honored last Wednesday night
for his outstanding record. in
keeping his farm accounts at
a banquet at Ohio State Uni
versity, Columbus.
The event was sponsored by
the Ohio Bankers Association
in cooperation with the extern
sion service.
Farmers honored by the
group are those who have kept
continuous financial records of
their operations for minimum
of Is years. Mr.. Starr has kept
record for over 20 years. Only
eight of the % passed him into
the % and 80 year groups.
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
News from EAST CLARIDON

sailing on the U.S.S. Robinson
and was in Cuba which he en-
joyed very much.
The East Claridon Youth
Group met at the church last
Sunday evening, they discussed
the Easter Sunrise Service and
breakfast.
Mrs. Frank Buskey visited
Mrs. Jesse Inkster, a former
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
Local Teachers
attend O.S.U
Conference

Two teachers from the Ge-
auga County school system,
Mrs. Wilma Henderson of the
Burton school and L. J. SIane
of the Chardon schools, atten-
ded the three day Conference
on Instruction at Ohio State
University March 13, through
March IS.
Approximately six hundred
teachers and administrators
from Ohio attended this con-
ference whose purpose was to
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
THE RECORD, CHARDoN, O., MARCH 27, 1928

promote the improvement of
instruction in our schools. This
was the first state wide con-
ference of this kind ever held
in the United States.
Mrs. Henderson and Mr..
Slane were sent to represent
the Geauga County schools by
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27

resident of East Claridon, one
day last week.
There Will be a church sup
per this Friday, March %. Alice
CottSm and Noreen will be the
hostesses.
The church choir will meet
every Wednesday at 100 pm,
at the church. Will all members
please attend.
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
First Robin Reported Is
Group of Forty Birds

HAMBDEN A rare
sight-robins arriving in a
flock from the south was
witnessed last Thursday at
the Collier farm on Cults
rd. Ordinarily folk see their
first robins singly or in
pairs but Mrs. George Deia
reported that a flock sud-
denly arrived last Thurs
day. She estimated that
there were about 40 birds
in the group.
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27
News by Sally Slagle

Telephone E. ClaridOn $500
The birthday tea that the
Ladies Aid held Wednesday was
a success.
Mrs. Sara Slagle recently
visited in Cleveland her aunt,
Mrs. Laura Roof, who has been
sick.
Word was received from
Wayne Reed recently. He is
The Geauga Republican-record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1922-1952, 1952-03-27

More Middlefield families read
The Geauga Republican-Record
than any other newspaper.