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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
kindergarten To
Register Pupils

Parents of children eligible for
kindergarten again are reminded
that registration will be held next
Thursday, May %, from 8 to 11:3O
and from l to $3.50 in the Elemen-
tary School Building.
To be eligible, children must be
five on or before October 1. Par
ents should have their children's
birth certificates with them when
reporting for registration.
Kindergarten students will at
tend their regular classes next
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.
There will be no classes for any
students in the public school Sys-
tenn next Thursday.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
POSTMASTER ELECTED

Mrs. Verdi Won Thron, Port
Clinton's postmaster, was elected
as vice president of the Fremont
Soroptimist Club. Mrs. Isaac Rho
da of Fremont is the president
elect. Next meeting of the club
will be Tuesday, May 26, when
members will be guests of Miss
Mabel Selin, formerly of Port
Clinton, who now is superintend-
ent of Hardin Memorial Hospital
in Kenton.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
Terrace Beach To
Open Next Friday

Terrace Beach dance hall will
open for the summer season Fri
day night, May 20, with a dance
also being scheduled for Satur'
day night, May 30.
Throughout June, dancing will
be featured every Saturday evr
ming with Bob Montgomery and
his orchestra furnishing the mu'
sic. The roller skating rink at
Terrace Beach also will be open
every Wednesday, Friday, Satur
day and Sunday evening with d
Sunday matinee.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
NAMED OUTSTANDING SENIOR

Miss Elizabeth L. Ayers, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Kathryn Ayers, 348
Wilson Avenue, will wear the
Bracelet of Achievement as the
outstanding senior of the Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority at Bowling
Green University until June, 1854.
This signifies her having done the
most for her sorority in service,
cooperation and the spreading of
the Alpha Gamma Delta name on
the campus during the past year.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
100 SENIORS Will BE GRADUATED AT
COMMENCEMENT THURSDAY NIGHT
Stores To Remain
Open Wednesdays

With more and more summer
residents arriving daily, Port
Clinton retail stores are TO go
on their summer schedule next
Wednesday when fhe stores will
remain open throughout the
day. 1t is customary to close
Wednesday afternoons during
the winter.
Stores will remain open Fri
day evenings and will close as
usual Saturday nights.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
Plan Outdoor Band
Concert Supper

To raise funds for the school
music department, members Of
the Port Clinton High School
band will present an outdoor
band concert in the C h o o
grounds Sunday afternoon, May
81, and Music Mothers again will
serve diversified picnic sUppers,
a la carte, from 4:30 until 8.
Mrs. Curtis Steffens will be
general chairman Of the food
committee, which will provide
an opportunity for entire fam
lilies TO enjoy the music concert
and an outdoor supper at the
same time.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
PLAY BALL SUNDAY

Members OF the Marblehead
Merchants baseball team will travel
to Clyde Sunday, where they will
attempt to play the first game of
the season. Last Sundays game
against Vickery was rained out.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
TO GRADUATE TODAY

Three Port Clinton High School
grads will receive their degrees
in business administration this
Friday evening at commencement
exercises in Tiffin University.
They are Jerry Pehrson, John
"Yano" Rosiar and Curt Wepler.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
NAMED ADVISER

Miss Barbara Ingram, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Clay Ingram,
Lakeside, has been chosen as one
of 16 girls to serve as junior adj
visers in the freshman girls dormi-
tories next year at Denison Uni
versity, Granville.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
PLAN STORY HOUR

Librarian Thelma Montgomery
has announced there will be
story hour this Saturday at the
Public Library beginning at 10
o'clock. Youngsters aged three to
twelve are invited to attend.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22

TIVE NEWS is prepared to do
your JOB PRINTING on q basis
of FINE WORKMANSHIP and
GOOD SERVICE at Fair Prices.
Phone - 5271
Evening star., 1953-11-24

time. The Commissioner Traffic Advisory
Board asserts that "only miracle" will keep
this years total below the 1852 figure of IS.
But miracles do happen. The traffic
director puts it this way: 1--WE can stay on the
sunny side of IS if we help the miracle along.
When the current traffic safety crusade was
started early in September, we already had
registered 48 fatalities, IL more than last year
at the same time. We have narrowed the gap
to four. To avoid the shady side of 65 we
must not exceed eight more traffic deaths
between now and the end of the year. A
miracle, perhaps, but it can be done" To save
lives the remainder of the year, the Police
Department will concentrate on reducing the
number of pedestrian accidents during the
holiday shopping season, now under way. For
more than half of those killed so far this year
have been pedestrians, most of them elderly.
If every driver and every walker would take
VOW not to be included in the potential eight
who, unless miracle happens, will bring this
years death total to IS, Washington's 1858
holiday season would really be an occasion for
rejoicing.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Victory for Orderly Zoning

The Arlington County zoning Committee
and the County Board acted in the interest of
orderly zoning and hence in the public interest
when they vetoed plans for $20-million "lux-
ury apartment" building near the George Wash
ington Memorial Parkway. They merit the ap-
probation of all citizens in Arlington concerned
with maintenance of adequate zoning safe
guards in the growing county.
The proposed apartment project was to
have been placed in the heart OF an area zoned
for individual homes of the more expensive
type, built on large Sites This So-called RIO
residential zone lies north of Lee highway, along
the Potomac River Assured by such protective
zoning, many citizens have built fine homes in
this exclusive section. These property owners
were juStihably aroused by the announcement
that Philadelphia group had applied for
downgrading of the R-2O zoning to permit erec-
tion of 600-apartment building between Spout
Run and the proposed extension of the Federal
parkway. -
Sponsors of the project pictured it as lush
source of additional tax revenue for the county
a prospect that is alluring to any local govern
ment in these times of rising expenditures and
limited revenues. 1t is to the credit of the Ar
lington government that it did not lose sight of
the real issue, which was the right Of property
owners to be protected against "spot" zoning
or other unwiSe relaxations of the restrictions
laid down by the zoning body.
Evening star., 1953-11-24

on the printed page over ones left or
right shoulder, or even from above the
top Of ones head. Whoever thought up
that one about the left shoulder was
no reader, for sure. He was just trying
to say something.
Above all, the neck must be con-
Sidered in reading in bed.
Not the eyes, so much, as the neck.
Young people commonly forget they
have necks, but as one gets older. the
human neck, whether male or female,
has time of it.
Some older persons forget how they
used to sleep comfortably, what they
did with their arms, how the head
should lie. whether on pillow or nat.
and how many pillows
They have time Of it, but their fate
is as nothing compared with that of the
reader who cannot get his head propped
up properly when he reads in bed. He
must find out for himself what is the
best reading position, one that can take
it for hours at stretch.
The chin must not be pushed too far
down on the chest. The book should be
held easily, not jammed downward, not
put too much on a slant. Here every
reader is on his own. No one else can
tell you. They even have spectacles
which aim to let one read with. the book
held fat, page up, but most readers find
such gadgets unnecessary, because the
neck, not the eyes, will give them most
concern.
Get the neck easy. and the lights will
take care of themselves.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Letters to The Star. .
Pen-710n1eS may be used If letters carry
1OriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.

the end of the first quarter of the cur
rent fiscal year of approximately
STA million.
The League of Women Voters of
Prince Georges County believes that it
is not to the best interests of the coun-
ty to reduce all assessments 10 per cent.
The League urges that the reported
surplus be used to provide necessary
services to the county, funds for which
were stricken from this years budget
on the grounds of insufficient revenue.
While it is true that the total as
sessed valuation of the county is ris-
ing, this fact by itself does not tell the
whole story. One must also add that
the population of the county is con-
Stantly growing and that the total cost
of county services these people require
is also rising. We wish to point out
that at least half of the county's reve-
nue. is q product of the total assess
able base multiplied by the tax rate.
One cannot talk about lowering assess
mentS without anticipating a rise in
the tax rate to produce the same
amount of revenue unless the county
is willing to dispense with certain Serv-
ices to it's residents.
Mrs. Haig Dermen,
President, League of Women Voters
of Prince Georges County.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
This and That
BY Charles E. TroceweH

eye drops, prescribed by an oculist, and
not to read.
In health, or semi-health, bed rest
while reading conServes the vital forces.
It is supremely comfortable, for one
thing; being physically comfortable
helps one read. Not that real reader
cannot read when i'll at ease. He may
be cold or too hot, he may be irked by
something or somebody, these make no
difference. But he reads best, undoubt-
edly, when he is free from strain and
discomfort.
To hear some wight, then, state posi-
lively that reading in bed is harmful to
the eyes" will give the avid reader a
pain.
He has found, from long experience,
that there is no place better. Some
highly placed workers use their day of
for lying in bed, reading.
The light need not be too bright.
The too-large electric bulb is a handi-
cap, since it makes one close the eyelids
partly, when they should be kept open.
1t is best if no larger bulb than SO
watts be used, and this must be shaded.
The old type of bed lamp that clamped
on the top of the headboard was best.
When the bed has no headboard, then
a bridge lamp Of some sort may be
utilized. The little lamp on the table
between narrow beds is good, but it
must be brighter than the lamp right
behind ones head.
If the lamp is right, it does not make
any difference whether the light arrives
Evening star., 1953-11-24

There is reprinted belo1D a part OF
the three-judge decision, earlier this
month, npholding the constitution
GIity of the District of Columbia Re
Development Act. The decision 1DGS
1Uritten by Judge E. Barrett Pretty
man f,the U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia, tUith Judges
EdDGrd NJ. CarrGn and Richmond B.
Keech OF District Court sitting Nth
him. (See editorial: "Redevelopment
in Donbt.'')
This brings us to consider the re-
Il development plan b eff ore us. 1t
covers about fifteen square city blocks.
1t lies within census tract in which
slum conditions are said to exist, and
it contains properties upon which Slum
conditions are said to exist. Its western
boundary is an irregular line which
runs around lots, encompasses some
establishments along street and ex-
cludes others on the same side Of the
same street, moves from east to west as
it runs north. It excludes certain prop
critics, and under it certain other prop
critics would be sold back to the pres
ent owners or be retained by them.
The key to the plan, apart from, Slum
clearance, is the opinion of the Govern
ment authorities that residential
neighborhoods should be "well-bal-
anced" and that the area should con-
tain housing for all income groups. The
plan points out that "redevelopment"
will inevitably raise the average in
come level and make. it possible to in
troduce housing for higher-income
families at later stage in the program.
1t says that generally the Southwest
area SHOULD be predominantly a mod
crate to lower income area" The rec
concentrations as to the percentages
of the types of accommodations to be
built in the area are said to be "based
upon a conservative analysis Of the
present local real estate market" The
plan says: "The purpose of redevelop-
ment is to clear the slums and replace
them with that pattern Of land use
most appropriate to the overall de-
velopment of the community"
No acute housing shortage is to be
met. In fact the plan provides for no
more residents than presently occupy
the area No pressing economic condi-
ton, apart from the slurns, is sought
to be dealt with by this plan. No pur-
pose of housing for the needy-low-
rent housings the motivation. No
Encouragement of streets is contem-
plated or provided. The streets through
out Project Area B are exactly the same
as are the streets in all parts of the
District of Columbia, lettered streets
running east and west and numbered
SfrnatS rI1nnino north and Snuth in
continuous lines across the entire
District. The plan provides that GER
tain streets shall be Widened somewhat
Evening star., 1953-11-24
RedeveIopment in Doubt

The Star is reprinting elsewhere on this
page today part of the recent decision up
holding conStitutionality of the District Re-
development Act Most of the emphasis, in
newspaper reports and public comment on the
decision, has been placed on the finding that
the act itself is valid under the Constitution
But it may well be that the portions Of the deci-
sion reprinted on this page are even more
important, in so far as redevelopment plans in
Washington are concerned, than the dismissal
of the first suit
Redevelopment, as the term has been
applied here to the Southwest section of the
city, is far more than slum clearance. AS the
court opinion points out, the broad purpose
of redevelopment is to create "a pleasant
neighborhood" according to the Government
agency's concept of what constitutes that sort
of neighborhood, and what the agency decides
is best for the city as whole 1t is the validity
of this concept that becomes the target of the
opinion-in the section reprinted today-and
if that concept is found, in some specific in
stance, to be invalid then ''redevelopment" is
knocked into cooked hat.
One suit testing this concept was filed
yesterday. Others it is understood, are in
preparation. These suits, there is reason to
believe, will constitute the real legal test of
redevelopment as planned for Southwest
Washington.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Let's Hope for a Miracle

The critical season is here on the traffic
accident front. Traffic Director George Keneipp
says that the killer months on the casualty
chart are November and December. These two
months, marked by national holiday periods
of feasting and good cheer, usually bring more
tragedy Of traff1c origin than any other months
of the year. The greatest number Of traffic
deaths ever recorded for two-month period,
80, occurred in November and December Of
1884. Last year the toll was kept relatively
low, apparently because of intensive campaign
ing and police work on the shopper-filled down.
town streets. But the death list this year
already is higher than that Of last year at this
Evening star., 1953-11-24
BETHESDA.

BETHESDA.
Dear Sir:
Il would like to ask you about lights
for reading. I have heard the light
should come over the left shoulder, and
should be very bright, but have tried
it, and find it hurts my eyes.
II wonder if there is any way to have
the light that would be better; hasten
to say that there is nothing particular
wrong with my eyes, as had doctor
look at them, and he says they are all
right.
when begin to read, my eyes begin
to water. Since reading is the joy of my
life, this I find very disturbing, and
hope there is some suggestion you can
make.
''Yours truly. K. L. D."
The best way to read is in bed.
The best light is one that comes from
the head of the bed.
The joys Of reading in bed have been
told many times, but occasionally one
hears of some eminent specialist who
says it is very bad.
What he means is that it is wrong if
one is i'll, since the eyes are closely con-
nected with the nervous system, and
every part of the body. in illness, should
be rested.
Reading in bed, then, is a healthy
sport for the healthy or Semi-healthy;
it is not something to be done when
suffering from a cold. The average
respirational disease takes its toll Of the
eyes. The proper procedure is to use
Evening star., 1953-11-24
Courtesy As Sofety Factor

When will this slaughter on our
roads and highways end? When will
we stop manning and killing each other
in traffic accidents?
The more disilluSioned say: "Some
day -. when cars that run 100 miles
an hour are ruled off the main arteries
of traffic when all cars are in
spected for mechanical defects II times
year instead of once year
when every driver is compelled to
show financial responsibility every
time he buys gasoline when all
the roads are four-lane, divided, fully
patrolled thoroughfares . when the
penalty for minor infractions of traffic
safety is fixed at a minimum of 500
and 80 days in Jail, instead of mere
$40 or $40 fine F.. and when liquor
drinking drivers and other headstrong,
Indifferent, get-out-o anyway drivers
are looked upon in court as potential
killers
Others ask: Must we wait for
such time? Is that the only way we
will ever reduce the terrible toll of
death. injury and economic waste in
traffic accidents?"
There must be a simpler, quicker,
and less drastic solution. And I think
we all know what it is:
Let automobile drivers exercise the
common courtesies exemplified at the
family hearthstone."
1t took us 400 years to learn how to
use firearms safely. We can't afford
to wait that long to learn how to drive
safely!
The use of public streets and high
ways is supreme test of mans recog-
milton of his social responsibility
When we have been educated to
know that driving is matter Of in
dividual conscience, we will have solved
one Of our greatest problems.
Anthony L. Ellison,
Traffic Safety Education Officer
District Government
Evening star., 1953-11-24

and that an expressway and a green
way shall be built. The only restric-
tions as to future use are the require
ments as to the type Of houses to be
built crow, apartment, etc. and as to
the percentage of rentals for the low
income group.
In sum, the purpose of the plan, in
addition to the elimination of Slum
conditions, is to create a pleasant
neighborhood, in which people in we'll
balanced proportions as to income may
live. The Government is to determine
what conditions are pleasant, what con-
stitutes the most appropriate" pattern
Of land use, what is good balance Of
income groups for neighborhood, how
many poor people. how many mod
erately well-to-do people, how many
families of two, how many of four, etc.,
should be provided for in this neighbor-
hood, and what the proper development
Of a community should be.
Of course the plan as pictured in the
prospectus is attractive. In all prob
ability it would enhance the beauty and
the INABILITY of the area. If under
taken by private persons the project
would be most laudable. It would
be difficult to think of village, town
or city in the United States which
group Of artists, architects and build
ers could not improve vastly if they
could tear down the whole community
Evening star., 1953-11-24
The Real Issue in 'RedeveIopment'

and rebuild the whole of it. But as yet
the courts have not come to call such
pleasant accomplishments public pur-
pose which validates Government Sei-
zure Of private property. The claim Of
Government power for such purposes
runs Squarely into the right Of the in
dividual to own property and to use it
as he pleases. Absent impingement
upon rights of others, and absent public
use or compelling public necessity for
the property, the individuals right is
superior to all rights of the Government
and is impregnable to the efforts Of
Government to seize it. That the in
dividual is in a low-lncome group or in
high-income group or falls in the
middle Of the groups is wholly imma-
terial. One mans land cannot be seized
by the Government and sold to another
man merely in order that the pur-
chaser may build upon it better house
or a house which better meets the
Governments idea Of what is appro-
pirate or well-designed.
We hold that Congress did not in the
redevelopment act confer power to
seize property beyond the reasonable
necessities Of Slum clearance and pre-
vention, the word "Slum" meaning
conditions injurious to the public
health, safety, morals and welfare.
II property is seized for the purpose
OF eliminating or preventing slums
within the limitations and in accord
ance with the rules we have described,
the fact that it may be sold Subse-
quently to private persons does not
vitiate the validity Of the seizure.
The complaints in the two actions at
bar are pitched entirely upon a chal-
lenge Of the conStitutionality Of the
redevelopment act, and, except the
issue as to commercial property, no
other issue as to the application Of the
statute to the property Of plaintiffs is
raised by the pleadings. Therefore,
since the statute, as we conStrue it, is
constitutional, we must grant the mo-
ton to dismiss.
In the argument by plaintiffs coun-
sci in support Of their motions for
summary judgment. reference was
made to arbitrary and capricious action
by the planning commission in fixing
the boundary lines of the Southwest
Redevelopment Project Area "B" to
include the plaintiffs commercial
properties, while excluding other COM
mercial properties on the same street.
This issue, however, is not raised by
the pleadings. Should the pleadings be
amended to include an issue as to
whether or not the administrative
agency has acted beyond the scope of
the statute, as construed in this opin-
ion, in including the plaintiffs prop
critics within the project area, the case
should be heard by one judge for deter
mination of that question.
Evening star., 1953-11-24
These Must Not Perish

The world has need OF beauty! Noio
that days
OF disilIuSion reign, disheartened men
Will more than eDer .DGnt its guiding
rays
To lead them back to heavenly light
again;
And in the blank bewildered search
for God,
Amid the tDorld-Uide chaos, seeking
youth,
Aided by this rare dipinin0 rod
May see through beouty LIES eternal
truth.
Then let us cherish all the arts that
made
The glory that tDns Greece, the fame
of Rome
lind when they perished lett but lands
dec1yed
And grandeur but an empty catGcomb),
KnoaDtng If our culture disappears
We too shall crash in ruins tDith the
years..
Marion n. Addington
Evening star., 1953-11-24
USING FBI Files

Now that Mr.. Brownell has shown
that the Truman administration was
guilty of knowingly harboring traitors,
it might be asked what was the object
of his exposure since the Truman ad-
ministration has been thrown out of
Office; White, the chief culprit, is dead
and the other conspirators associated
with him are not now in the Govern
ment service.
Like many others do not believe
Mr.. Brownel's motive was patriotism
but to injure the Democratic Party in
in the next election. To do this Mr..
Brownell made use of FBI files which
the public has long been led to believe
were inviolate. When Bolen's nomina-
tion as Ambassador to Russia was up
for confirmation serious charges were
made against him by several Senators
and demand was made that the FBI
file pertaining to him be open for the
committee handling his case to in
spect. This Mr.. Brownen refused to
do and Bohlen's nomination would have
been delayed, it not defeated, if a