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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
SLIGHT RIFF. IS
PLANNED AT E0D

A reduction in force in Second
Army personnel at Erie Ordnance
Depot was ordered Wednesday pv
teletype from Headquarters, Sec
ond Army. Ft. George G. Meade,
Md.
This cutback in employees must
be finalized by the middle of Oc-
tober, with a general notice being
handed out Immediately, and indi-
vidual separation notices to be
distributed by Oct. 2.
At this early date, depot Off
cials were unable to state accur-
ately the number to be effected,
but it is estimated that between
As and 60 may have to be laid off.
Second Army employees include
mainly those in the following
functions: depot facilities, trans
portation, hospital, signal, intelli-
gence, public information and mo-
tor pool.
The reduction in force will be
conducted in accordance with the
methods prescribed by the U. S.
Civil Service Commission and the
Department of the Army. These
methods are intended to assure
that all employees will receive
uniform and just treatment. They
are the same rules that are applied
whenever the Department of the
Army has to reduce the number
of its employees in any of its &C
tivities throughout the world.
Briefly, these methods establish
job retention rights for each indi-
vidual based upon the type of ap.
pointment under which he is serv.
ing, veterans status, length of to-
tai creditable government service
(including military service) and an
appraisal of the quality of his per-
formance. The relative ranking Of
individual employees based upon
these factors Identifies the order
in which they will be released.
The personnel office of the de.
pot will make every effort to
make clear to all employees exact.
ly how the decisions with respect
to separation or reassignment are
reached. In addition, positive
effort will be made to assist sepa-
rated employees in obtaining 9TH
er employment.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
COUNTY GRAND
JURY |NDICTS
Nine TUESDAY

Nine indictments, of which five
were secret, were returned by the
Ottawa County grand jury Tues
day as it opened the September
term in Common Pleas Court.
Ten cases were investigated and
nine witnesses examined. Of the
five secret indictments, one person
was indicted on three separate
counts.
Tarry J. Coleman and Clifford
Jones, both of Toledo, arrested in
connection with theft of 109 used
batteries from the local Vita-Plate
plant last week, were indicted on
charge of larceny. =
Clarence Mosley, Bay View, for
merly of this city, was indicted for
auto theft and for driving and op-
Grating a stolen auto, while DON
aid Chambers, Genoa, was indicted
on charge of non-support and neg
lect of minor child.
Coleman and Jones pleaded
guilty to the theft charge and
their request for probation was
continued to Sept. 81 by Judge
Tom Stahl when they appeared
for arraignment Wednesday after
noon
Mosley pleaded not guilty to tht
auto theft and operation charges
and his trial has been set for Sep
tember 80. Chambers also entered
non-guilty plea and Judge Stahl
set his trial for Sept. %.
David P. Shellabarger, who was
secretly indicted on three charges
of petit larceny, was fined $500
and given 90-day Jail sentences on
each count when arraigned Wed
nnesday afternoon before Judge
Stahl. However, $3.50 of the fine
and the Jail sentences were Sus.
pended on each count when Shell.
labarger paid $3.50 and made res,
titution for moneys allegedly TAX
en- from autos at East Harbo1
State Park. He had entered pleas
of guilty.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
FOUR HURT WHEN
AUTOS CRASH

Four men were injured, two SER
iously, when an auto skidded in the
Toussaint River Bridge, Route 2,
during Friday mornings rainstorm
and collided with another car in
front of RED" Neumann's Place,
nine miles west of this city.
Two of the men hurt were hitch
hikers. Deputy Sheriff Myron Het-
rick Unidentified the driver of the
skidding car as Albert Manning,
So, of Indiana Avenue, Toledo, and
the hitchhiker riding with him as
Otis Smith, Nebraska Avenue, To-
ledo.
Charles Schlegel, %, Akron, was
driver of the auto coming east.
Riding with him as hitchhiker
was Cpl. James Griffin, %, who was
enroute to Camp Perry.
Brought to Magruder Hospital
via Neidecker ambulance W e r e
Manning, Smith and Cpl. Griffin.
Schlegel escaped with minor cuts
and bruises.
Manning and Smith were ad-
mitted to the hospital where their
condition was listed as 'fair" Fri
day afternoon. Manning suffered a
possible skull fracture and other
injuries while Smith had severe
head injuries. Cpl. Griffin W a S
treated for bad head cut and re-
leased.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
FOUR MORE HURT
IN AUTO WRECKS

Two local high school students
suffered minor injuries Saturday
evening when a car repeatedly
driven by Clifford Norris, East
Perry Street, went into the ditch
along the Lacarne-Erie Ordnance
Depot road.
Norris and his companion, Rob.
ert Weisend, Route 3, were given
emergency treatment at Magruder
Memorial Hospital. Norris had
chin decorations and Weisend,
chest and shoulder contusions.
No one was reported injured
Saturday night at 11:30 when an
auto being driven by Preston
Jones, East Third Street, side
swiped John Hudec's car as he at
tempted to turn into his farm
driveway in Bay Shore Road, Dep
uty Sheriff Myron Hetrick report
ed.
Albert Manning, Toledo, who
was seriously injured Friday in a
crash west of this city, was trans
ferred Saturday from Magruder
Memorial Hospital to Riverside
Hospital in Toledo. Manning was
still unconscious when Neideck-
er's ambulance took him to the
Toledo hospital. Otis Smith, Tole-
do, a hitchhiker who was riding in
Manning's car, was discharged
from the local hospital Sunday.
Oak Harbor Men Hurt
Two popular young Oak Harbor
men were painfully injured Satur.
day night in an accident near Mud
Creek Bridge in Fremont Road,
just west of the Ottawa County
line.
Taken to Community Hospital in
Fremont were Howard BenSch, ru-
raj Oak Harbor, and Lee Pinson,
Church Street, Oak Harb0r. The
men repeatedly drove their car
into the ditch to avoid a head-on
crash with car which was being
driven without lights. Bensch was
admitted for treatment of severe
head cuts and PinSon was re-
leased after emergency attention.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
MOUNTED ROUTE MAIL SERVICE FOR
234 FAMILIES TO BEGIN MONDAY
To Offer College
Courses Here

An organizational meeting fol-
extension classes to be offered in
Port Clinton by Bowling Green
State University this fall is plann
ed for 7 pm, Wednesday, Sept. 80,
in the Port Clinton High School.
All persons who are interested
in enrolling in an evening college
class are invited to attend tn S
meeting, according to F. E. Beatty
assistant to the president at Bowl
ing Green State University.
The meeting is being held to
determine what courses are de-
sired and the time preferred for
class meetings. Actual classwork
will begin a week after the meet
ing, Mr.. Beatty said.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Kiwanians See
School Movie

Principal B. H. Corthell of the
local high school presented tho
program at the Kiwanis Club
meeting Wednesday noon in E. U.
B. Church when the movie "Skip-
ky and the Three RRRs" was
shown.
Port Clinton received statewide
publicity this week when delegate
Howard Fulton displayed the Port
Clinton club poster at the conven-
tion in Cincinnati, advertising the
Kiwanis Barbecue to be held at
East Harbor State Park, Sunday,
Sept. 27.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Cold Weather
Hits P-I-B Festival

Though curbed by high, cold
winds and Fridays shower, the
1858 Grape Festival at Put-in-Bay
last weekend was still the largest
in public attendance and displays
ever held at the island, general
chairman Ken Reynolds reported.
Saturday evenings big vaude-
vile show was presented in the
Town Hall when the inclement
weather made the outdoor stage
hazardous for the performers.
Commercial places, usually
closed from noon to midnight dur
ing the Grape Festivals, reopened
early Saturday evening to allow
visitors to escape from the chilly
winds.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Chamber Aided
Rifle Matches

Port Clinton'S Chamber of Com
merce will sponsor a junior rifle
team for competition in next years
National Rifle and Pistol Matches
at Camp Perry, and the Port Clin-
ton Rifle Club members will serve
as coaches.
Ohio'S Adjutant General Albert
Henderson will make building a.
vailable for practice by the junior
team at Camp Perry.
For its outstanding work before
and during the matches, the cnam-
ber has received letters of thanks
from the National Rifle Associa-
ton, the Ohio Rifle and Pistol
Assn. and numerous individuals
Ralph Forster was committee
chairman with Lee Davis, Del De-
Lore and George Schade assisting.
Individual trophies for match
competitors were contributed by
the Chamber and the following
merchants: Kelly Dunn Motor
Sales, Ben Franklin Store, Ameri-
can Bank, Island House, National
Bank, Lake Erie Sports Store,
Young and Schade, Lake Shore
Dairy, Ohio Edison, Lake Motor
Freight Co., and Lakeland Motel.
Numerous entertainments { o r
visiting NRA and national match
officials were sponsored by t h e
Chamber or its Individual mem.
berS.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
County Schools
Have More Pupils

An increase of nearly 300 pupils
has been reported for the school
enrolment in Ottawa County.
In the Port Clinton exempted
district, Supt. D. D. Sims reported
enrolment of 1,410 as compared
with 1878 last year.
In schools under county supervi.
sion, County Supt. Edwin Digby
reported enrolment of 1885, an
increase of 253 over Last year when
4,283 was reported.
Slight decreases were reported
in three schools. Rocky Ridge has
IL less students, Middle Bass
Island, two less, and North Bass
Island, one less.
Supt. Digby is still seeking a mu-
sic teacher for the Allen and Ben
ton Township schools.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
TOLEDOAN DIES
after CAR HITS
BRIDGE RAILS

Route 2 added another fatality
to its growing list Sunday night
when William Tipping, Al, of 42a
Knower Street, Toledo, was killed
instantly at the curve near the
Rushaw Creek bridge in Erie
Township, eight miles west of the
city.
Cause of the accident perhaps
never will be known but it is be-
lieved that Tipping may have fal-
len asleep just before his car
crashed into the guard rail on the
south side of the road as he was
driving towards Toledo.
Deputy Sheriff Myron Hetrick
Investigated the fatality, and said
that Tipping was thrown from his
car as it was ripped wide open.
The car smashed into the guard
rail and abutment and travelled
about so feet further west before
coming to stop.
Another auto, IN which friends
of Tipping's were riding, was close
behind him when he was killed.
The group had been at the Port
Clinton Moose Club and was en-
route back to Toledo when the
accident happened.
Tipping, who was alone in his
car, evidently was killed instantly.
His body was brought to the Nei-
decker Funeral Home and taken
to the Will Birkenkamp Funeral
Home in Toledo Monday, where
services were to be held.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Toledoans Held
In Battery Theft

Two Toledoans are being held
in Ottawa County Jail facing grand
larceny charges, and a third man
is being sought, in connection
with the theft of 100 batteries
from Port Clinton's Vita-Plate Bat
terry plant last Wednesday night.
Facing grand jury action are
Clifford Jones, 81, and Terry Cole
man, %, both of Toledo. Jones
was apprehended Saturday and
Coleman, Sunday, Deputy Sheriff
Myron Hetrick reported. They
were arrested after they had sold
the batteries to junk dealer in
the neighboring city.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Farmers To Meet
At Gypsum School

A tri-township meeting for resi-
dents of Danbury, Catawba, and
Portage townships will be held
Tuesday evening, September %, in
the Portage Township school build
ing at Gypsum.
Sponsored by the Ohio Farm
Bureau, the meeting is being called
to learn opinion of farmers on
the National Farm Program for
1854. All farmers are urged to at.
tend, and similar meetings will be
conducted elsewhere throughout
the country.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Councillors Open
Fall Meetings

Home Councillors of Ottawa
County held their first meeting of
the fall Monday afternoon in the
County Extension Office, Oak Har-
Dor, with IA members present.
Home Demonstration Agent
Rosemary McBeth discussed this
years program, which include rug
making, lighting and tailoring.
Committees were assigned for the
year and leaders chosen for rug
making.
Plans also were discussed for the
Friday, November 3, with the
place to be announced later.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Reider Named To
Service Group

Ottawa County's State Repre-
sentative Robert Reider, publisher
of the Ottawa County News, has
been named as a member of the
new Ohio Legislative Service Com
mission.
Organization meeting of the new
group was held in Columbus this
Thursday.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
How's This For
Solid Comfort?

Three Ottawa County school
boys travel TO and from their
classes daily via airpIane.taxi
and little realize they are fhe
envy of many other students
who walk to school.
The lucky lads are the three
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Lasch, who reside on Rattle
Snake Island, and attend school
at Put-in.Bay. Henry, 9, is in the
third grade; Lawrence, II, is
seventh grade student, while
James, IS, is freshman.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
PLAN G, O. p. MEET

Republican candidates for city
offices in the November election
will meet tonight Thursday in
the council chambers in city hall.
The session is scheduled for 7:30
p. m. and has been called by Har-
old Jeremy, candidate for mayor
and G. o. P. committeeman for
Portage Township
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
Dirnberg Will
Preside Sept. y

Franklin Dirnberg, Rt. 3, Port
Clinton, will preside Sunday, Sep
tember 81, when the 5th District
Disabled American Veterans fall
conference is held in Akron.
Dirnberg is district president o.
the D. A. ", which includes Ia
chapters in 13 Northwestern Ohio
counties. The conference will be a
joint meeting with the 9th district.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
CARNIVAL is HERE

For the second time this year,
the Motor States Shows has open
ed weeks engagement at the
American Legion Field, on East
p ry Street. Rides and conces-
sions opened Tuesday and will
continue through Sunday night.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
POLIO FEARED

Mrs. Robert Cover, Route 1, Port
Clinton, was transferred from Ma
gruder Memorial Hospital to Maui
NEE Valley Hospital in Toledo
Monday where she is under obser.
vation as possible polio victim.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-18
ON ACTIVE DUTY

1t. Gg) Paul A. Meyer, Elmore,
has been called to active duty with
the U. S. Navy.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
By JAMES X. LAWSON

(Accredited UN Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y
iGLOBAL)-The United African
Nationalist Movement, with head
quarters in Harlem's Hotel The
resa, has announced that it has
requested the Asia Arab Africa
bloc to bring the situation in Ken
va, East Africa before the United
Nations.
James League, Secretary of the
groups Advisory Council. in a let
ter to H. E. Professor Ahmed S
Bokhari. Chairman of the Asia
Arab Africa bloc, said the com
plaint could be brought before the
UN on two counts of violation OF
the UN Chapter First, because
there has been undeniable viola
ton of human rights and second
because "there has been, and con-
tinues to be unprovoked aggression
against the Indigenous population
by the British forces and the Euro
pean settlers"
In the meantime, in Kenya, the
"Mau Mau" stepped up their cam
paign for free and independent
Kenya. Rumors in the UN head
quarters in New York are that
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
Asia-Arab-Africa Block Urged To
Bring kenva Situation Before UN

they are being supplied arms by
air. 1t is reported these arms are
being parachuted to the guerillas.
The situation in Kenya is typi-
cal of the general unrest through
out Africa. Just below Kenya. in
Central Africa, the Nyasaland
Branch of the African Nationalist
Movement had called meeting
to protest the creation of central
African Federation. The meeting
was banned by the so-called Nyasa
land Government because it might
provoke public dissatisfaction"
The meeting was to have been ad-
dressed by the Rev. Michael Scott
of South West Africa. The Fedora
ton is being actively opposed by
the natives of Nyasaland who fear
domination by the whites and
would prefer democratic self-gov-
eminent.
The so-called Nyasaland Govern
ment also has suspended para
mount Chief Gomani for issuing a
SIGNED instruction to all Africans
of his authority area to ignore all
of the British laws as a protest
against the so-called Federation.
Chief Comani's orders to his peo-
Continued On Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
MENTALLY SICK NEGRO VETERAN
Indicted ON FOUR COUNTS
BY KINDS COUNTY GRAND JURY
Leo Bailey Seen As One Among
Thousands Of Veterans Not Getting
Treatment Due To Lack Of Facilities
NO NEGRO ON GRAND JURY
WHICH y EvEI IR MID INDICTMENT

JACKSON, Miss, June Ids
MA mentally sick Negro Vet
eran of the South Pacific. who has
been adiudged as being sixty per
cent disabled because of his mental
illness by the Veterans Admins
tration was indicted as an ordinary
criminal here last week by the
Kinds County Grand Jury. The
veteran in the case is Leo "Bill'
Bailey.
The Bailey case grow out of an
incident on a City bus here several
weeks ago when he is alleged to
have hit the white bus driver who
had ordered him to move to back
seat on the bus.
On trial here early this month
in connection with the hus incident
before Judge Luther Manship he
was fined $3.50 and sentenced to
90 days in prison.
When the judge pronounced SEN
tence the veteran was seized with
one of the spells that marks his
mental illness and attempted to
attack several persons in the court
room including the Judge and pros
ecutor before he was subdued and
put in Jail.
The indictment returned against
him by the Kinds County Grand
Jury was as the result Of the court
room incident.
In spite If the previous and more
recent rulings Of the u. s. Supreme
Court in setting aside the verdirts
in such cases there were no Ne
grocs on the Grand Jury which re-
turned the indictment against the
veteran and so far as Is known
there were no Negroes on the panel
from which the jury was drawn.
II convicted on the indictment
returned by the Kinds County
Grand Jury the veteran will be
subject to sentence to prison.
Atty. Hugh Gillespie. Jr., the
CONTINUED on Page Three
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
Atlanta Daily
World Editor On
Harvard Seminar

ATLANTA, Ca, June Twill
liam Gordon, managing editor of
The Atlanta Daily World, the ma
tons only Negro daily paper, will
be one of AZ younger leaders from
18 countries of Europe and Asia,
as we'll as three Americans, who
will participate in the third annual
Harvard Summer School Interna-
tional Seminar to be held July 6
to August &c.
These men and women, who were
selected from a group of seven
hundred applicants, include a Brit
ish and a japanese member of
Parliament; an Indian professor of
Political Science; Burmese edu-
Gator; the executive director of a
non-partisan Italian Youth Move
ment, the political editor of large
German newspaper; a French lit
erary critic and junior fellow at
Harvard.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
Alexander High
School Has AZ
Graduates

BROOKHAVEN, June 3-Forty.
one seniors from Alexander High
School for the colored received
diplomas at commencement exer.
-cises held in the auditorium OF
Brookhaven High School Monday
night.
Giving the two valedictorv adj
dresses were Eunice Kaye Trass
and Mae L. Robinson. The topic of
Eunice's address was What Have
We Inherited? Mae spoke on Man
With Cause-and How? Salu-
tatorian was Martha Helen Good
win, who spoke on Some Thing
about Youth.
Other talks included the presi
dents address-The World We
Face-by Charles Walters Hall
Rurnettee Coleman gave an essay,
Preserving Our Moral Heritage.
Musical numbers for the ever
cises included: a selection from
Continued on Page Five
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
HOME BUYING BOOKLET NOW
Available FOR ALL VETERANS

JACKSON, Miss, June 5 = "To
The Home Buying Veterans" n
32-page guide for veterans plan
ming to buy or build homes with
G.. |. lo -. is now available at
all Veterans Administration Of
fices.
William X. Kinds, Manager Of
the Mississippi Veterans Admin
istration Center here, said the
pamphlet is designed to help World
War III and post-Korea veterans
get started on the right foot unde,
the CT home loan program.
The pamphlet discusses what a
veteran should look for in select
ing the neighborhood, the lot and
the house itself.
1t also covers the costs of home
ownership, the contract Of pur.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
Second Annual
Negro Patriotic
Dav A Success

CANTON. Miss, May 28-(Spe-
ciaD-The Second annual Madison
County Negro Patriotic Day held
here last Friday was an outstand-
ing success.
The Principal speakers for the
occasion were Rev. w. L. Jones,
President. Madison County Mis-
sionary Baptist Association. and
DR.. G.. A. Carmichael, widely known
local physician.
Rev. Jones said while endosino
the work of the Madison county
Negro Democratic Association, that
full first class citizenship is not
lust what the Negroes wants but
was intended from the ALMIGHTY
God and was backed up by the Con
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06

NEWTON GROVE, n. c., June
1.-(DSN)-The first open effort
to bring an end TO segregation in
a Southern Catholic Church met
with at least temporary failure
here Sunday when white members
of the Holy Redeemer's Church
baked when the time came to carry
out the Bishops order calling tor
a merger with the Negro congre-
cation of St. Benedict Church.
As the white church opened for
the morning mass Negro worship
ers went in and took seats, hut the
white members of the church, re-
fusing to cross the cOlOred line,
would not 90 into the church hut
contented themselves with milling
around outside its doors.
The order to merge the cOngre-
cations of the white and Negro
churches into the Holy Redeemer's
Church was issued bv Bishop Vim
cent S. Waters in the form of
letter to Father Timothy Sullivan
of the Holy Redeemer's Church
who kept the letter two weeks be-
fore reading it to his congrega-
ton.
Members of the white congrega-
ton Immediately protested the or
der but no action was taken until
the Sunday service.
According to reports the main
force behind the opposition to the
merger is 76-year-old f. A. West,
who has been a member of Holy
Redeemer's Church since he was
two-months old, Who told reporters
last week that he cried when the
letter was read by Father Sullivan.
Continued On Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-06
State Beauticians
Hold Meeting

BILOXI, Miss, June 1.-(Spe-
ciaD-The Mississippi School Own
ers and Instructors Of Beauty Gull
ture met at the Andrews Beauty
School Sunday, May 81, to COM
plete plans concerning Summer
School that will start June goth
through July 4th. The state con-
vention starts July 9Th.
The faculty members are: Mrs
Parthenia Bell, Dean, Sardis; Mrs
Marie Walter, registrar, Jackson;
Mrs. Mary Moore, instructor, Jack
son; Mrs. Clemmie Brown, alter
nate instructor, Clarksdale; Mrs
Catherine Langston, alternate in
structor, Jackson.
All Beauticians are invited tc
attend Summer School.