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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Four Million Dollar Project Is
Planned For State Parks In County

Expenditure of over four million
dollars to further develop state
parks in Ottawa County over a. 10
year period has been proposed in
Columbus by William v. Flicking-
er, chief of the division of parks
of the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources.
Plans for the extensive projects
were announced Thursday to Rep.
Robert w. Reider, Ottawa County,
member of the House Finance Com
mittee; F. o. Kugel, chief of the
erosion division of the Ohio De-
partment of Natural Resources;
and William and John Brown,
Lakeside businessmen.
East Harbor State Park, South
Bass Island State Park and the
Catawba Island State Park would be
greatly improved if the state legis-
lature approves the yearly expendi-
ture.
Biggest expenditure would be
$2,275, 900 for the construction of a
state park at Crane Creek Beach,
which lies in Lucas and Ottawa
Counties east of Bono. The State
already owns 1000 acres in the
former Magee Marsh area, and this
includes four miles of beach.
Mr.. Flickinger said the depart
ment plans to purchase 81 more
acres in 10 years at cost of SIS,
500 and to build roads to the
beach, install sewers and sanitary
equipment and do extensive dredg-
ing at an estimated cost of 81 1885,
400.
Necessary buildings, lifesaving
equipment, rest rooms, 80 lifeguard
towers, a concession pavilion and
other construction work are also
planned.
Popular East Harbor State Park,
which is often visited by 10000
persons on successive Sundays
during the summer, would be i'm
proved through the expenditure of
81, ,409, 500 for roads, water lines
and sewers. Also allocated for this
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
BARBARA PECK
NAMED CHERRY
BAKING QUEEN

Virginia Kaltenbach, II, San
dusky High School senior and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Kaltenbach, was crowned Ohio
cherry pie baking champion Sat-
urday morning, when she defeated
six other contestants in the finals
held at Sandusky. She will repre-
sent Ohio in the national event to
be held in Chicago February 20.
Second place went to Joyce
Kuns, Clyde, while Burdella Gard
ner, representing York Township
High School,, was third.
Sally Ann Witt, 15-year-old
sophomore, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Myron Witt, 116 Broad
Street, represented Oak Harbor in
the contest. Neither Miss Witt nor
Barbara Peck, representing Port
Clinton, placed among the win
nerS.
Barbara Peck won the right to
represent Port Clinton High School
in the Ohio Cherry Pie Baking
contest Thursday afternoon when
Judges Mrs. Richard Rice and Mrs.
Harold Sass selected the 16-year-
old sophomore's pie over 20 other
entries.
The daughter of Mrs. w. j.
Nicholas and Harold Peck used
water-packed cherries supplied by
the contest sponsor, Port Clinton's
Gypsum Canning Company. The
entrants had their choice of frozen
or water-packed cherries and were
not limited to any one recipe. Bar
bara used recipe she had learned
in Miss Frances McFadden's Home
Economics classes
Other winners, announced by
Miss McFadden, included Jacque-
line Swingle, sophomore daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Swingle,
Harbor Road, second; Beverly
Payne, sophomore daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ruel Payne, third; Mar
ion Chiystun, junior daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chlystun, East
Seventh Street, honorable mention;
and Marlene Liptok, senior daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Liptok,
Jefferson Street, honorable men
ton.
Barbara and Miss McFadden
were in Sandusky Saturday morn
ing when the Port Clinton Cherry
Pie Queen competed with other
area victors for the Ohio title.
She was presented check for
$500 by the sponsoring company
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
TRUCKERS HURT
IN GENOA CRASH

Two truck drivers were injured,
one critically, when their semi
truck trailers collided head-On at
the junction of Route 12O and 1853,
east of Geona, early Friday morn
ing.
Ben Phillips, New London, Ohio
was unconscious when taken to
Mercy Hospital in Toledo, where
he is being treated for internal
injuries, a fractured arm and a
conclusion.
George Tien, 50, Holland, Mich.
igan, driver of the other truck,
suffered jaw fracture and head
decorations. He was also admitted
to Mercy Hospital.
State highway patrol said the
accident happened at $3.50 a. m
Friday when Mr.. Tien travelling
south in Route 12O, turned left
into Route 1853, into the path OF
Mr.. Phillips truck. Both trucks
were heavily loaded, one with steel
and were nearly demolished in the
crash.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Or Mohammedan blood.

or Mohammedan blood.
Laboratory scientists have made
meticulous checks. All human be-
ings have the same blood types.
You may find type "a" in a Poly
nesian whose ancestors happily
peopled Pacific islands, and also
the same type may trickle from a
pin prick in the finger of a White
housewife in Jackson, Michigan.
The Army, the Navy, the Ma
rines and the Air Force know this.
They don't quarrel about ances-
try or creed. If you've ever been
in that huge American cemetery
near Cambridge, England, or the
great World War / burying ground
at Chateau Thierry, France, here
and there among the stone crosses
which mark the graves of Chris
tians you have seen the stars OF
David designating the sacrifices
of Jewish lads. They fought and
died and now sleep together.
This country of ours was found
ed on the one basic concept that
all men are equal before God and
the law.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
SCHOOL LEADERS DISCUSS
TOLERANCE IN TEACHING

Supt. D. D. Sims, president of
the Northwestern Ohio Superin-
tendents Association, presided at
an all-day meeting of the organi-
zation Thursday in the new
81, 100000 Washington Township
Junior High School, northwest of
Toledo.
Teaching Tolerance in the Pub
lie Schools" was the theme for the
program which included panel
discussion by four area high school
students. Leading the panel were
Dean Hickerson of Toledo Uni
versity and Woodward High School
Principal Frank Duvendack.
Atty, James Slater Gibson, form
er Assistant Law Director in To-
ledo and q graduate Of Tuskegee
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Asks State Aid
To Mark Channel

William Brown, operator of
Browns Marina at Lakeside, has
asked the State to place lights and
buoys at the channel entrance to
state-owned East Harbor Sta e
Park.
Brown told state officials in Col.
umbus late last week that the U.
S. Government had refused to place
the lights and buoys due to the
narrow channel which is not re.
commended as navigable on feder.
al charts.
Despite the public-owned shore
line, government officials claim
that the channel markings are a
local responsibility, Brown declar.
ed.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13

University, spoke on tolerance dur.
ing the morning session. Following
dinner in the spacious cafeteria,
the school officials were taken on
a guided tour Of the new building.
Music was furnished by the Whit
mer High School choir and the
Washington Township Junior High
band.
Clyde Hissong, Ohio, Director OF
Education, and Edward Hoon
Field Secretary of the Ohio Edu.
cation Assn, Columbus, were
among the speakers at the confer
ence. Also attending were Ottawa
County Supt. of Schools Edwin
Digby; Port Clinton Principal B.
H. Corthell and Genoa's Supt. John
Roberts.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
BROTHERHOOD week OPENS
MONDAY THROUGHOUT nation

National Brotherhood Week will
be observed in over 1000 COM
munities from coast to coast Feb
ruary Is through %. 1t gives all
of us a real opportunity to restate
our faith in principle the world
so desperately needs to grasp
the brotherhood of man.
Following is an editorial writ
ten by Carl M. Saunders, editor OF
the Jackson, Michigan, Citizen Pa
triot, entitled There's No White
Blood:
A colored lad, coming home
from an Army camp, was carried
from the wreckage of the sleigh
ride" plane in which he was a
hitchhiker. At the hospital the
doctors ordered immediate blood
transfusions. The nurses didn't go
to a special refrigerated cabinet
marked Negro blood" They just
gave that boy type 80" blood in a
big hurry, and no questions asked.
And down at the Red Cross
blood collecting station a Negro
woman waits in line between two
white men. Her blood, freely con-
tributed to a common cause, goes
in the blood bank along with the
white blood. And some day it may
save the life of white man or
woman somewhere in the world
There is no White blood or
Black blood, no Protestant blood
or Jewish blood, no Catholic blood
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Home And Builders Show Attracts
Capacity Crowd For Opening Night
0HI0'S "SESQUI" QUEEN TO BE
AMONG star ATTRACTIONS;
SHOW WILL CLOSE SUNDAY

Despite rainy weather, hundreds of people from all
parts of the county jammed into Port Cintons Arory
Wednesday the opening of Ottawa Counys first annual
Home and Builders Show and from their enthusiastic in
terest it is foregone conclusion that attendance will be
great through Sunday the closing night of the big event
While the scheduled appearance of TV stars Barbara
Kra and Lloyd Thaxton attracted many people, everyone
highly interested in the diversified home, builders
marine autoove and other products attractvey display
ed advertised demonstrated in the booth both
in the basement and the main floor.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Fire Chief Breaks
Toe In Mishap,

When it comes to bad breaks
Fire Chief Walt Miller seems to
get them aIl-in his right leg.
Five years ago he slipped on the
ice near Schwab's drug store
and broke the leg. Late Mon
day afternoon . heavy iron bar
fell on his. foot and fractured
his foes.
The fire chief had returned to
the fire station after having an
swered call to Erie Township
when the accidenf happened.
Other firemen returned to their
Jobs or homes but Miller tarried
to make report to Mayor Carl
Beacker. As he started to leave,
he recalled his wife earlier in
fhe day had remarked that coat
racks were needed in fhe fire.
mems clubrooms Of the City Hall
where the Firenen's Auxiliary
was to hold a card party the
same evening.
Miller went to The basement
of the building and decided to
carry heavy coat rack to the
second floor club rooms. As he
started up the stairway. Miss
Jane Miller. clerk in the Or
fawa County Soldiers Relief of
flee, noticed he was having diff
ficUlfy with the fall and awk-
ward rack so she offered her as
sisfance.
Halfway up the stairs. the
! coat rack hit fhe wall and heavy
iron bars at the top Of the struc-
fure started slipping. Before
Miller could duck. the iron bar
fell six feet and landed on his
foes. He was taken TO Magruder
Memorial Hospital where walk
ing cast was applied after the
fractures were reduced.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13

park would be 100000 for pur-
chase of additional land, $4,000
for new buildings and $126, 900 for
boats and beach equipment.
South Bass State Park would re-
ceive $4,000 for land acquisition,
$500 for buildings, $1,000 for e.
quipment and $20,750 for roads,
parking areas and other items.
Proposed expenditures to i'm
prove Catawba Islands State Park
at Moore's Dock include $276, 500
for sewers, parking areas, power
lines and other necessities; 81, 800
for land acquisition, $4,000 for
equipment and $4,000 for build
ings.
The four Ottawa County pro-
posals are part of a statewide
program prepared by the division
of parks. Total cost would be over
$25 million not including main
tenance costs.
Mr.. Flickinger said that 7,500,-
000 people visited the state parks
during the past year. His expan-
sion program will be submitted to
the Ohio General Assembly in the
budget. He explained that the
amount to be appropriated in this
session and by succeeding legis-
latures during the 10-year period
would be left to the General AS
sembly.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
Photos by Misch

Photos by Misch
In this composite picture,
Photographer Willis Misch has
captured the spirit of Ievity
which prevailed Saturday eve
ming as the EIks Ladies Bowl
ing League presented their third
annual variety show Zone Night
Stand" in the EIks Home. In the
upper left hand picture. Dolores
Petersen, Grace ElIithorpe, Bet
fy Gaydos. Alice koIlman and
Agnes Schmitt appear as men,
bers Of +he Hokey Pokey band.
Members Of the opening ensem-
BILE are shown in the upper
right hand photo. Left to right
they are: Betty Reimenschnei-
der, Betty Gaydos, Alice Kohl
man, Grace Ellithorpe. Bea Jad-
wisiak, Dolores Petersen, Betty
Marsden, Ethel Underwood, Mae
Ludwigsen, Helen Shelter. Mary
Mulcahy and Vida Morgan.
Wearing fvrs from Jasiove. the
seven young ladies who brought
down the house in their Take
Back Your Mink" number are:
Mae LUdwigsen. Ethel Under
wood, Helen Shelter who sang
the title song, Evelyn Misch,
Mary Mulcahy. Betty Marsden
and Bea Jadwisiak. Evelyn
Miseh and Mary Stephens are
pictured in fhe lower right hand
photo as they pantomimed TOO
Old to Cut the Mustard" Marie
Callahan was mistress Of cere-
monies, Betty Riemensehneider
served as ehoreographer and
Harold RED" Reifz was musical
director. Cecil braves. electric
guitarist. and Harold Reitz, pi-
anist, also aided in the produe-
fion.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13

R. C. "Chick" Linker is serving
as general manager of the Homs
and Builders Show and entertain
ment is being booked through the
Paul Spor Agency, Toledo. Mr.
Spor acted as master of ceremonies
for opening night programs.
Beauty Queen Coming
Ohio's Sesquicentennial Queen
Miss jeanette Bailey of Akron ha:
agreed to come to Port Clinton
Sunday night when she will ap
pear on the closing nights pro
gram in the armory.
Port Clinton's newly selected Of
ficial flag will have its first public
showing at the Home & Builders
Show Sunday evening. Rose Marie
Kinney, 11-year-old parochial
schoolstudent, who submitted the
winning design in the flag confess
sponsored by the Port Clinton
Junior Women's Club, will be pre-
sented a $500 defense bond al
the show Sunday.
Mrs. Melvin Arft, president OF
the Junior Women's Club, will un
veil the new city flag and present
it to the Sesquicentennial Queen
who in turn will present the flat
to Mayor Carl Becker, who viii
accept in behalf of Port Clinton.
Entertainment Nightly
Special entertainment has beer
planned nightly. 'The Marksmen"
famed comedy quartet made 9
guest appearance opening night
and The Glenn Trio, popular stroll
lers, will be at the show Thurs
day and Friday evenings.
Style Show Friday
Eleven attractive young ladies
will serve as models, beginning at
$50 Friday evening, when Anr
Bolte and Eunice Bissell will pre-
sent Style Show featuring --latest
teen,age sports and afternoon
dresses, accessories, and beautiful
fur coats.
Dresses will be furnished by the
Fashion Shoppe, furs by Jaslove
and accessories by Eunice Bissel
Accessory Shoppe. Mrs. Morton
Everett will furnish piano accom-
paniment for the models and Mrs
Bissell will act as commentator.
Mrs. Allen Satterfield, Mrs. Pau
Clemons, Mrs. Tom McRitche, ane
the Misses Sharon Brown and Nan
cy Sessler will model fur coats
while dress models include JoaI
Vargo, Beverly Hoshal, Patrici'
Sullivan, Gail Boss, Martha Fine
frock and Mario Snyder. Mrs
Satterfield will model a 5000
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
AT PRE-LENTEN RETREAT

Local members of the North.
western Ohio Lutheran Ministers
Association were in Fremont Tues.
day to attend the Pre-Lenten Re.
treat held in Grace Lutheran
Church. Attending from here were
the Rev. John Braun and Intern
Robert Yeomans of st. John Luth.
eran and Rev. Hartwig Pruess
Peace Lutheran Church, Port Clin.
ton, and the Rev. George Reinke
of St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Danbury.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
World Prayer Day
Set For Friday

All churches and faiths will be
represented Friday afternoon, Feb.
20, when the annual World Day of
Prayer services are held in the
Evangelical Unite Brethren
Church.
Mrs. Jack Rider of the host
church is serving as general chair
man. Missionary society leaders
from different churches of the city
will lead the meditative prayer
services.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
CHILD BREAKS ARM

Seven-year-old Donald Lochotz-
XII, Ottawa Street, Oak Harbor, was
given emergency treatment in Ma
gruder Hospital Sunday after he
had suffered a fracture of his up
per left arm when he fell from a
chair in his home.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
PLAN CUB SCOUT DINNER

Scoutmaster Bill Phipps has an
nounced that the annual banquet
for Port Clinton Cub Scouts will
be held next Tuesday evening, Feb.
nth, in st. John Lutheran Church
basement.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
AT CONFERENCE

Ottawa County fruit growers
who are attending the annual
meeting of the Ohio State Horti.
cultural Association in Columbus
this week are S. N Liam and
Vincent Nugent, Bay Township,
A. w. Kalb of the Danbury Fruit
Company; William Rofkar, Cataw
ba Island, Walter Miller, Oak Har
Dor, and Lester Luchsinger, Dan
bury.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13
LOCAL SPEAKER
PLACES SECOND

Martha Finefrock, local high
school senior, placed second in the
dramatic division of the speech
tournament held at Delaware Will
lis High School Saturday. Martha,
giving an Interpretation called
"The Wallpaper" was competing
with about seventy other students
from high schools all over the
state.
Fourteen other local students
also competed in the tournament.
Joan Vargo placed 5th and Sandra
Miller 7th in the Oratorical Divi-
sion. Paul Moon won 5th and Carol
Quisno 9th in the Numerous Divi-
sion, and Shirley Riddle placed 5th
in Original Oratory.
Thirty eight debate teams were
entered in this phase of the tourn-
ament. Port Clinton's first team
competed in the "a" division
where they lost to Newark, Spring
field and Middletown and defeated
Delaware Willis and Urbana for
its poorest record Of the year.
Port Clinton's second team com
peting in the ''B" division defeated
Marysville, Chaminaxe and South
Eastern and lost to Louisville and
Middletown. Those debating on
the 'sA'' team were Fred Schneid-
er, Harry Chaffin, Ruth Rofkar
and Max Fischer. The members Of
the ''B" squad were Sharon Ander-
son, Esther Hansen, Sally Dewitt
and Maxine Routh.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-02-13

mink coat being loaned by Jas.
love Furs.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-10-15

of very permeable water bearing
gravel that is capable of yielding ex-
tremely large supplies of good quail
ity water. Because the recharge to
the ground water reservoir in this
and in other intermontane basins in
Montana is great, the serious de-
pletion of these aquifers is unlikely.
Recently 1 have received reports
on wells drilled near Dillon in the
Beaverhead valley which yield more
than 1000 gpm, wells in the Missoula
and Flathead valleys which yield
more than 1900 gym and many other
large-yield wells in these areas.
These reports confirm my belief that
large supplies not only are available
their development is starting.
Bedrock Aquifers
Several bedrock aquifiers that
are potential sources of moderate
supplies of ground water underie
much of Montana east of the divide.
Throughout large areas these aqui-
fers, although present, are so deeply
buried by everything material that
their depth is greater than the pres
ent economic drilling limit for wa
ter. However, in several places,
large to fairly large flows of water
have been obtained from these aqui-
fers by oil test wells. Some of these
test wells have been sold to the
ranchers and the water is being used
for stock watering and irrigation of
hay meadows.
Among the aquifers from which
such flows may be obtained locally
are the Kootenai, Heath and Embar
formations, the Tensleep sandstones
and the Madison limestone. On the
flanks or tops of the Pryor, Bear
tooth, Bridger, Belt, Crazy and Big
Snowy ranges at least some of these
formations are exposed in highlands
where the recharge is potentially
large. Although these bedrock aqui-
fers may prove valuable locally, the
potential development of tn e S e
sources of water is nowhere near as
important as is that of the uncon-
solidated deposits.
What Can Be Done?
Perhaps you wonder what can be
done to bring about wider use OF
ground water. At the last two ses-
sions of the state legislature a bill
was introduced relating to ground
waters and providing for the appro-
priation of ground waters of the
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-10-15
Ground w ater--
One of MOnta7a's Most Valuable but
Least Exploited Natural Resources

sibilities for development of large
supplies are in the west and central
parts of the state, but good possibili-
ties exist also along the Milk, Mussel-
shell and Yellowstone rivers and
along the Missouri river below Fort
Peck.
Milk River Valley
Between Havre and the confluence
of the Milk and Missouri rivers, the
Milk river occupies former course
of the ancestral Missouri river. This
part of the Milk river valley is I'M
derlain by about 100 feet of uncon-
solidated material and, in some
places, wells penetrating this ma
terial are capable of furnishing more
than 1000 gallons per minute.
Because the aquifer is recharged
by the Milk river and also by the
percolation of irrigation water ap-
piled to large acreages of land in the
valley, much greater use of ground
water is possible in this area with
out serious depletion of this ground
water reservoir. The hydrologic con-
ditions are similar along the Missouri
river downstream from the conflu-
ence with the Milk river at least as
far as Poplar and possibly to the
state line.
Musselshell. Yellowstone Valleys
The unconsolidated deposits I'M
DERIVING the valley of the Mussel-
shell river are reported to be as much
as so feet thick and some 500 gpm
wells exist. The unconsolidated fill
underlying the Yellowstone river
valley is as much as 100 feet thick
near the mouth of the river, but is
considerably thinner upstream. Some
arge-capacity wells are present in
the lower valley but the potential
is much greater than the present use.
In the western part of Montana
several Intermediate basins are I'M
derlain by thick and very permeable
unconsolidated deposits. The basins
we know most about are the Gal
latin, Helena and Townsend valleys
but there is reason to believe thai
the Beaverhead, Three Forks, Deel
Lodge, Missoula, Jocko and Bitter.
root valleys and parts of the Flat
. head valley may offer good possibili
ties for the development of large
ground water supplies.
Test drilling in the Gallatin valley
has shown that parts of the valley
are underlain by more than 400 fee