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Smyrna times., 1953-02-26
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PHONE 1921 SMYRNA. DELAWARE

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may get actual help in building
their exhibits from their instruc-
tors. Even those in senior high
school classes may receive sugges-
tions and advice from their teach
ers. Other sponsors are the Du-
Pont Company, Atlas and Hercules
Powder companies, Allied Kid
Company, University of Delaware,
Joseph Bancroft and Sons, local
chapters of American Chemical
Society and American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, and Della
ware Chamber ct Commerce.
Smyrna times., 1953-02-26
PLANS SET FOR
SCIENCE FAIR
Continued from Page One

Get out that collection of bird
eggs, tree leaves or moss, commit
teemen suggest by example. One
youth, for instance, is submitting
study of the effects of insulin on
rabbits. His exhibit already has
been guided by his earlier observa-
tions of the animals falling into a
state of insulin shock, then reviv-
ing miraculously after glucose in
jections. Students in all but the
top three grades of high school
Smyrna times., 1953-02-26
Leipsic

Mrs. Clarence Rawley and Mr..
William Rawley visited her broth
er and sister-in-law, MIR. and Mrs.
James Lafferty in Wyoming Sum
day.
Mrs. Harry Hall is on the SICK
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Jones of Leip-
sic and Mrs. Norman Short OF
Clayton attended the funeral OF
their sister-in-law, Mrs. Truax, in
Baltimore.
On Saturday evening, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Pepper gave birth
day party in honor of their daugh-
ter Vonnie.
Mrs. William Thomas and Mr.
Robert Thomas visited Mrs. Will
liam C. Thomas at cambridge, Nd.
on Sunday. The Thomas's are the
proud parents of a baby boy. The
name chosen is Robin.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clothier
have returned home from Florida.
Little Cynthia Sipple has been
quite sick, but is out again.
Vonnie Pepper underwent ton
sill operation at the Kent General
Hospital on Tuesday.
Smyrna times., 1953-02-26

family and Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry
Unruh and daughter of Odessa
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Orville Newman.
Smyrna times., 1953-02-26

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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
WILLIAM Cain
new CASHIER
London Man Appointed
To Treasurers Office

Roger w. Tracy-Treasurer of
State of Ohio-f1as appointed VIII
liam Cain as Assistant Cashier in
the State Treasury. Mr.. Cain takes
over the position held by Robert
Duncan of Urbana, Ohio, who
passed the June Bar Examination,
then left for service in the United
States Army.
William Cain, a native of Lon
don, Ohio, is a graduate of the
public school system of that city.
While student in London High,
he was a member of the football
and basketball teams.
After the ccmpIstlon of his high
school career, he qualified as an
Air Force Cadet and received his
Wings at Tuskegee Air Base in
Alabama. He flew with the ATT
Bombardment Group at Goodman
Field, Kentucky.
After his discharge from the
Army, he attended Ohio State and
Daytorf Universities.
Mr. Cain is married, the father
of one son. He plans to complete
his education in the College of
Law at Franklin University. Mr..
Cain is a 32nd degree Mason and
a member of L. D. Easton Consis-
tory, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fratern-
ity and the American Legion.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
OSU Art Festival
Set For Nav 80

COLUMBUS, O.-Plans are well
under way for Ohio State Uni
versity's fourth annual Festival of
the Arts, which will take place on
the campus May 3-6.
Events of the four-day festival
will include an 18th Century inter
mezzo-opera and other vocal and
instrumental music programs, a
choral-dance theater presentation,
a lecture on theater scene design,
and art exhibitions.
Participating will be members
of the faculty, graduate and under
graduate students, the University
Dance Group, Mems and Women's
Glee Clubs, the Symphonic Choir,
University Chorus and the SYM
phonic Band.
All events will be open to the
public without admission charge.
Prof. Eugene j. Weigel, director
of Ohio States School of Music, is
chairman of 10-member faculty
committee which is planning the
festival.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
1900 Trees Are
Distributed BY
Extension Office

Over 1900 shade and Towering
trees were distributed to 90 homes
in Madison County, Thursday,
April 2, through the cooperation of
the County Tree Planting Com
mittee and Perm Woodman of the
Oliver Implement Co.
The trees ordered were placed
by March 25 by individuals. The
London Rotary Club ordered 100
maple trees. $500 pine seedlings
and 1000 multiflora roses were dis
tributed through the Extension Of
flee. Over 5000 pines seedlings
were placed through the Soil Con-
servation Service.
The members of the County
Tree Planting Committee were
Charles Worthington, Fish and
Game; Bob Dillingham;, Lions
Club; Rollo Webster, County
Schools; Delbert Dorm, County
Oranges; Bob Lukens, Chamber of
Com cree; Ned Speasmaker,
Mayor; Otis Gambill. National
Guard and John Moore. County
Agricultural Agent.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
James Denison Ia
Serve On College
Governing Board
Mt. Sterling Man On
Michigan State Staff

When John A. Hannah was
granted sabbatical year from his
duties as president of Michigan
State College, Lansing, to take up
his new duties as assistant Secre-
tary of Defense in Washington, d.
c., former Madison county man
was named one of a five man
board to administer the college in
President Hannah's absence.
James H. Denison, formerly of
near Mt. Sterling, son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. George Denison, of
that address and a brother of Mrs.
Floyd Williams, Washington Aven-
ue, London, who was administra-
tive assistant to President Hannah
when he received his national hon.
or, has stepped up to that import
ant post.
Before gonig to his position in
Lansing about 1947, he had been
Immediately associated with the
office of Michigan's governor,
Harry Kelly as administrative as
sistant. Previous to that, starting
back in 1928, he had been on the
editorial staff of the Toledo Times.
In 1881 he moved to Detroit as
the telegraph editor for the Free
Press; from 1934-36, he was cor
respondent from the paper to
Washington; was later advanced to
assistant news editor, became news
editor of the Free-Press in 1888
and in 1910 became Michigan cor
respondent for Business Week. He
went to Lansing in 1941 as director
of information for the Michigan
Council of Defense.
Starting a hitch in the U. S.
Army in 1943, he went on active
duty and was sent overseas, land
ing in Normandy only short
while after D-Day. He was trans
ferred to Paris the day after it
was liberated and received his dis
charge in 1945.
Mr.. Denison was with the office
of Governor Harry Kelly of Michi-
gan, for a year before taking up
his present work in 1947.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Potts Will lake Stand In
Own Defense Wednesday
JURY MAY GET
CASE FRIDAY

Louis Potts, accused of the first
degree murder of Mrs. Bertha
Russell in trailer last January,
will probably take the stand in
Madison County Common Pleas
Court here Wednesday, it was re-
vealed today. 1t is expected that
Potts will testify during the We'd
nesday session in Judge James F.
Bells courtroom and that the case
will be handed to the jury some
time on Friday.
Defense witnesses continued to
be heard all day Tuesday and over
35 have been heard within the
past two days. A brain specialist
and a psychiatrist were heard
Tuesday.
Character witnesses continued to
be heard all day Tuesday in
Potts defense which was prepared
by Harvey Crow, Urbana attorney.
Crow has based his case, it was
believed, on the assumption that
Mrs. Bertha Russell was killed ac-
cidentally or that Potts was tenn
porarily insane at the time of the
shooting which took place in a
house trailer here last January.
The prosecution claims that
Potts did shoot and kill Mrs. Rus
sell with premeditation which, if
SO found by the jury and without
recommendation of mercy, carries
an automatic death penalty. Prose-
cutor Sidener has attempted to
show that Potts left the trailer fol-
lowing an argument, and went to
a nearby shed and procured the
gun with which Mrs. Russell is
said to have been killed. There
were no eye witnesses to the
shooting which took place in the
early morning hours on Fairview
Avenue, London.
Crow well known here for his
unusual court behavior, had receiv-
ed several reprimands from Judge
Bell and frequent outbursts be-
tween both defense and the prose-
ction had marked the trial thus
far.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Madison Seniors
Present Play At
School April 10
Three Act Comedy Of
Family Life Shown

The Senior Class at Madison
Local School has selected the COM
edy, Parents Are Like That" for
presentation at the school on April
10.
The three act comedy concerns
a fathers nomination to school
board, his older daughters secret
affairs and the pranks of two
younger children.
The play will be directed by
Miss kathleen Kelley and includ-
es: Jean Kellys David Wooten, Jim
Fellows, Doris Buers, Margaret
Brown, Ronald Clark, Shirley
Fout, Nora Fout, Talmadge Young
and Barbara French.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Lamb Committee
Will Meet Apr. 10

The Madison County Sheep and
Lamb Improvement Committee
will hold their organization and
yearly planning meeting Friday
evening, April 10, at 8 pm., in the
Extension Office, according to Ira
Hunter, Chairman.
Following are the phases of the
sheep program to be planned:
schedule for the lamb pools, para
site control program, junior West
ern eve project and ram distribu-
ton.
Following is a list of the sheep
committee members: Ira Hunter,
Roy Tope, v. Y. Overturf, Eldon
Harsh Kenneth Dorm, Robert
Hunter, Arthur Meeker, Jack DON
ahue, Howard Dorm, Winfrei
Truitt, William Folsom, Paul
Overturf, Charles Gregg, Lloyd
Roby, Lowell Snyder, c. E. Lip
pencott George Clemmons and
Richard Harbage.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Brown of
Melbourne. Florida, announce the
birth of daughter, Cynthia Sue,
Tuesday, March 81.
Mrs. Brown is the former Lou
Elkins of London, sister of Mrs.
Robert Allison. Lafayette Road.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Careers Day Set
At Ohio State

COLUMBUS, 0. - Ohio high
school students interested in med
icine, nursing and allied health
fields have been invited to attend
Careers Day Saturday, April IL.
on the Ohio State University
campus.
The University's School of Nurs-
ing is planning the daylong event,
which will open at 8 am. in Room
M-lOO, Startling Loving Hall, the
former University Hospital Build
ing.
There will be conducted tours of
Ohio States new Health Center
and exhibits will be shown to de-
pict the various health fields.
After noon luncheon at the
Ohio Union, University students
will present a program, Your
Place in the Health Team" outlin-
ing activities in nursing, medicine.
physical medicine, occupational
therapy, dietetics, medical tech
nology and dental hygiene. The
program will open at 1:3o pm. at
Hagerty Hall Auditorium.
Final event of the day will be
tea in the Franklin Room of the
Ohio Union.
Frances Dry, instructor in the
School of Nursing, is chairman of
the committee planning the Ca
reerS DaV
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
MI. Sterling Girl
Wins Scholarship
Homestead Group Has
Annual Meet March rs

Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Sells and
their daughter, Martha, Rt. 2, Mt.
Sterling, Ohio, were honored at
the annual meeting of the Buckeye
Homestead Association held at the
Ohio State University on March
25.
Martha Sells was the second
place winner in a Statewide Es-
say Contest sponsored by the
Buckeye Homestead Association
this past year. The first place win
ner failed to qualify which en-
titled Martha to receive the schol-
arsllip to the College of Agricul-
ture at Ohio State University. She
will enter College this fall, major
ing in Home Economics. The es,
says were written on "The I'M
portance of the Family-Type Farm
in our National Economy"
Miss Sells is a Senior in the Mt.
Sterling School. She is active in
the School Band, Girls Glee Club
and Mixed Chorus. She has been a
All Club member for seven years,
carrying a total of % projects =
has acted as a Jr. All Club leader
for two years - has been men,
Der of the All Camp faculty for
two years has attended All
Club Camp for six years - was
awarded Camp Spirit, the highest
Camp honor and has also at
tended State All Club Camp.
During the past year, the Buck
eye Homestead Association spon-
sored the Farmers Home Admins
tration Garden and Food Preserva-
ton program in conjunction with
the National Garden Institute. ALI
FILA. borrower families were
eligible to enter their gardens in
this Statewide Contest. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sells were awarded a certifi-
cate for having the best garden en-
tered in the Central Ohio District,
Alvin Barr said.
The garden of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Wood, Rt. l, Williams
port, Ohio, placed second, and that
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hollar,
Rt. l, Mt. Sterling, placed third,
and each received certificate and
recognition at the Buckeye Home
stead meeting.
The Buckeye Homestead Asso-
citation is a Statewide organization
of farm families who purchased
and have paid for a family-sized
farm through the Farm Ownership
program of the Farmers Home Ad-
ministration. This organization is
primarily interested in the farm
family on the family-sized farm
and is promoting the garden and
food preservation program again ir
1853 in conjunction with the Ma
tional Garden Institute.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Parents Asked To
State Views On
Recognition Day
Questionaires Sent
To London Parents

Authorities of the London
Schools have sent out question
aires to parents here concerning
whether or not the annual Rec
ognition Day" program which has
been presented for great many
years will be continued. The ques-
tionaires present the question to
the parents who may indicate their
preference.
In the past the subject has been
o m w h controversial since
many parents believe that the pro-
gram is an incentive toward bet
ter scholastic attainment on the
part of the students. Others have
objected to the program on
grounds that it sets the better stu
dents apart from those who are
unable to attain honor rolf
standing.
Honors have heretofore been
presented for other achievements
in addition to scholarship. Out
standing work in music, attend
ance, athletics, service to the
school, and the various other fields
such as English Business, Agri-
culture, Latin, etc.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
ChiIdren's S Home
To Shrine Circus

Children of the Madison County
Children's Home, all "a of them,
are going to see the Shrine Circus
at matinee performances at the
Coliseum, Columbus. this week.
1t all came about, Mrs. Raymond
Andrews said, when some of the
members of the London Shrine
Club who were not going to use
tickets they had purchased, began
sending them to her.
BY Monday morning, the day of
the opening of the big Top" the
word had gotten around among
club members via the grapevine"
and she had received tickets
enough that every child will get to
see the show.
Were they thrilled; we're all
very grateful to get to CO." said
Mrs. Andrews.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Blueprints Let
On Youth BuiEdino

Specifications were distributed
to contractors Monday on the pro-
posed $150,000 Madison Youth
Building at the Fair Grounds here,
according to the Madison County
Commissioners.
The Youth Building is expected
to be completed prior to Fair
Week which falls late in August.
Bids will be opened April 25th and
construction will proceed immed-
lately if bids are acceptable, it
was said.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Car Rams Trailer Truck On
Route 40 Near Jefferson
Easter Egg Hunt
Is Bio Success

Approximately 1000 children
took part in the Easter Egg
Hunt at Cowling Park here Sat-
urday morning, according to
committee members in charge
of the event which was spon-
sored by the London Retail
Merchants Association.
The 1853 Easter event mark
ed the first time such a pro-
gram has been put on here but
it is hoped that this will be a
regular yearly event henceforth
the committee said. The huge
crowd was well handled and
proper supervision was furnish
ed by association members who
worked long and hard to make
the hunt success.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Mrs. Emma Scott
Dies Thursday

Mrs. Emma Jennett Scott, 81, of
7h Stewart Avenue, died Thurs
day evening in University Hos
pital, Columbus, following a long
illness. Her condition was not con-
sidered critical until Thursday
morning when she was taken to
the hospital.
Survivors include her husband,
Charles; a daughter, Mrs. Louise
Fair of Columbus; a granddaugh-
ter and great-grandson.
Funeral services at o'clock
Saturday afternoon at the Lukens
Funeral Home, the Reverend
David Ramsey, pastor of First
Baptist Church. officiating. Inter-
ment in Lafayette Cemetery.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Walter Florence
Services Monday
Prominent Farmer
Charleston School
Board President

Walter B. Florence, 62, promin-
ent South Charleston farmer and
banker, who died suddenly of
heart attack in Tennessee while re-
turning home from Florida va
cation last Thursday, was buried
at Kirwood Cemetery Monday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Florence, who was vice
president of the First State Bank
of South Charleston, with his wife
and daughter, had spent several
weeks visiting Mrs. Florence's
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Orr, at st. Angus
tine, Fla. He was stri~ 6 near
lockwood, Tenn.
A retired farmer, he was a
member of the Clark County Board
of Education for a number of
years. In 1947 he was elected to
his third consecutive one-year
term as the boards president.
Prior to the consolidation of
school districts in the South
Charleston area, Mr.. Florence had
served as a member of the South
Charleston Local Board of Educa-
ton for 81 years, several years as
president.
He first became active in the
county school system when he was
appointed to the school board in
January of 1941 to fill the unex-
pired term of the late A. E. Wild
man of Selma.
He had made an unsuccessful
bid for a county board seat in the
1899 November elections, and was
elected to his most recent four
year term in 1851.
Also active in the South Charles
ton Lions Club, Mr.. Florence was
its president in 1886. He was a
member of the South Charleston
Methodist Church.
A lifelong resident of Clark
County, Mr.. Florence is survived
by his widow, Leah; a daughter,
Mrs. Marian Valentine of Dayton;
three sons, Jay of South Charles
ton, Route 1; Edwin O. of South
Charleston, Route 1, and James of
South Charleston and seven grand
children.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Soldier Injured
Monday Morning

Frederick ]. Nordenbrock, age
19, of 26th Air Re-Fuelling,
Lockbourne Air Force Base, was
injured early Monday morning,
when his car is said to have run
into the rear of a tractor-trailer
driven by James o. Ends, sos
Henderson Avenue, Washington,
Pa, for the Caplan Motor
Freight.
Nordenbrock was taken to Mt
Carmel Hospital in the RAIDER
ambulance for treatment.
The accident happened about
$40 Monday morning, near the
Town and Country Market at the
west end of West jefferson.
According to the report, Nor
denbrock was driving east on
u. S. Route 40 wien he ran into
the rear of the trailer truck driv-
en- by Ends, when it stalled in
the road. The report also said
that Ends alighted from the cab
to put a flare in the road and
was signalling on-coming traffic
and that Nordenbrock failed to
stop within assured, clear dis
tance.
The accident was investigated
by Highway Patrolman Ralph l..
Sanders, assisted by Henry W..
Thomas, night watchman of the
village of Jefferson.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Annual horsemen's
Banquet April "a

Robert Hines and board MEM
bers, Stewart Anderson and John
Sanford, have announced that the
annual Horsemen's Banquet will
be held at the Methodist Church
here, April "a. The dinner meeting
last year was a highly successful
affair and it is hoped that a re-
peat performance will again take
place,
Tickets for the banquet are
available at Max Cannon's and
may also be procured from any
member OF the board. Hines said.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Sen. Ted Gray To
Visit Saturday
Rep. Elton Kile Also
Here For Conference

Ted Gray, State Senator from
the 18th and 18th districts of
which Madison county is a part,
will visit the Madison County
Court House here, Saturday, April
IL. Senator Gray said that the pur-
pose of his visit was to meet with
anyone interested in state legisla-
ton and would be pleased to dis
cuss any matter which may be of
interest to any resident of this
area.
Gray said that he has asked
State Representative Elton Kile,
to be present so that both can be
on hand for interviews and gen.
eral discussion with constituents
here.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
Rosemary Andrews To
Mayo Clinic AS
Student In Summer

Miss Rosemary Andrews, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond An
drews, Marysville Road, a senior
at Ohio University, Athens, has
been accepted as a student in the
Department of Physical Medicine,
at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota.
Miss Andrews will graduate at
Ohio University in June and will
take up her new duties shortly
thereafter.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-04-07
DAUGHTER ARRIVES

Mr.. and Mrs. James Allison, Jr.
Arbuckle Road, announce the birth
of daughter at Mercycrest Hos
pital, Springfield, Thursday, April
2. The baby weighed nine pounds,
ten and one-half ounces.