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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
Broken Hydrant
Adds To Rainfall

With the rain coming down
in sheets" Tuesday evening. ad-
ditionaI water was poured forth
in the Sand Road area when an
auto being driven N Rudolph
Boots" StarkIoff skidded and
broke a hydrant near the Chris
ty Chapel Road intersection.
Neither StarkIoff or his niece,
Miss Carol Ann Chaplin, IS,
ByrneaI Beach, were injured in
the mishap. Deputy Sheriff VIII
liam Cullen investigated and
called Port Clinton Waterworks
engineers TO shut off the water
until the hydrant could be re.
paired.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
Cooper To Head
Rotary Club

Gordon Cooper, owner of the
Cooper Buick Sales, was elected
president of the Port Clinton Ro-
tary Club at the regular meeting
in st. John Lutheran Churc h
Tuesday noon.
Kenneth Young of Young &
Schade Co., was elected as vice.
president while secretary Tom
Leavy and treasurer Harvey Sni.
der were reelected. The new of,
ficers will be installed July 1.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06

second degree manslaughter
counts. Sheriff Merlan Budd's de-
partment will take Durnell to Co.
lumbus later this week to begin
his imprisonment. He has been
held in the Ottawa County Jail
under $1,000 bond since Friday.
Another manslaughter charge,
also due to traffic accident near
Elmore in which two people were
killed last January, was ignored
by the grand jury.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
Photo By FehIhaber

tries and parks to do their share
in the Keep Ohio Green" pro-
gram. Those attending the Febru-
airy "a meeting included: Mrs. w.
R. Sabin, Mrs. C. L. Fehlhaber,
Geo. Orwig, Jr., Johnson M. Irwin,
Paul M. Molnar, Alfred E. Wendt,
Oak Harbor; Mrs. Lawrence Tank,
Mrs. Marvin Rohloff, Graytown;
August H. Knieriem, John M.
Despones, Laurel Van Camp, Ge-
noa; Earl J. Johnson, Williston;
Bertelle Moore, Port Clinton;
Clarence Damschroder, Charles
Arnold, Elmer Stausmyer, Elmore.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06

dicfed on fwo counts Of second
degree mansIaughter.
Notified of the indictments,
Durnell, through his counsel ap-
pointed by the court, Atty. John
Morton, pleaded guilty to the
charges and placed himself at the
mercy of the court.
A divorced man, Durnell is the
father of one child. When he ap.
peared before Judge Stahl Tues
day afternon he was given the
same sentence on each of the two
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
Need More Tutors
At Luth. Seminary

The Rev. John Braun, pastor of
st. John Lutheran Church, will be
in Columbus Tuesday to attend a
meeting of the Board of Regents
of Capital University.
Due to the growth of Capital
Seminary, it will be necessary to
call three additional professors to
the faculty Rev. Braun. who is be-
ginning his six-year term as a re-
gent at the University, reports the
regents will select both profes-
sor and assistant professor of
Systematic Theology.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
SALES TAX INCREASES

According to the report from
State Treasurer Roger Tracy's Of
flee, sales tax receipts in Ottawa
County continue to show increased
business in this area. Sales for the
week ending February IA were
SIS, 1922 as compared with $4,-
283.09 for the same week last
since July 1, 1852, totaled $297,-
562.78 as compared with $685.
958.48 in the same period the pre-
vi0uS year.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
Truck Driver Gets Prison Term
After Wood Accident Fatalities

Willard v. DUrnelI, Jr., SO, De-
froif truck driver, must serve fwo
sentences of ! to 20 years in Ohio
State Penitentiary for his part in
the traffic accident February n
which brought sudden death TO
Mrs. John Wood II and her young
est SON, Teddy, 7.
At special session of the
grand Jury Tuesday morning, call.
ed by Judge StahI at the request
of Prosecuting Attorney Myron
Rosenfrefer, DurnelI had been in.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
News Awarded
Ballot Contract

Edward Minderman, Clerk of
the Ottawa County Board Of
Elections, announced Tuesday
that the Ottawa County News
has been awarded the contract
for printing 8,100 ballots TO be
used in the May Primaries in
Port Clinton, on its successful
bid of S174.15.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
FlREMEN CALLED

Local firemen were routed out
of their beds at 8 a. m. Monday
when Patrolman Bill Robel dis.
covered fire at the old city
dump, North Jackson Street. Fan
ned by the strong wind, the fire
threatened to become uncontrol.
liable but was eXtinguished short
ly after the firemen's arrival
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
LEGION PLANS INTERNATIONAL
PEACE RITES AT PUT-IN-BAY

Sponsored jointly by the Amer
lean Legion Department of Ohio
and the Canadian Legion of On
tario, the International Peace Me
mortal ceremonies will be re-
turned to Put-in-6ay this sum-
mer after two-year absence.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
League Plans
Scrap Drive

Members of the newly organized
Luther League of st Paul's Luth-
eran Church, Danbury, will con-
duct drive for scrap metal this
Saturday, March 7.
Members of the congregation
or anyone in the community who
have scrap metal to offer are ask.
ed to telephone John Rasmussen,
Luther League president, phone
Ills Port Clinton.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06

ket, where construction of a new
so X 61' concrete block building
is to begin next month.
Besides the Clinton steel boat
manufacturing, Perseley and
Riehl will do grinding, milling,
and machine job shop work at
their plant. They hope to add
more workers to their staff later
this week.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06
COMPLETES IN SHOOT

Elmer Clemons E Perry Street,
was in Reading, Pa, last week to
compete in the annual Pennsyl-
vania State Live Bird Shoot. He
went first to Philadelphia to pick
up an invalid friend, Hardy Will
banks, who accompanied Clemons
to the shoot.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-03-06

Nelson A. Kruse, Clay Center,
enlisted in the U. S. Army Mon
day at the Toledo Induction Cen.
ter.
Evening star., 1953-01-04

my family returned all their
estates to the throne in the last
century. and disposed of most Of
their other interests when we were
called upon to pay property taxes
after the allied occupation" Mr..
Ikeda said.
II like this business for I have
loved birds and animals since my
childhood, and I want to be a sue
|cessful businessman" he added
while his wife smiled.
He said he is not interested In
politics, and has no plans to visit
foreign countries. His father
former Marquis Nobumasa Ikeda,
At, and his mother, Fukiko, As,
visited France, England, The
Netherlands and other F oean
countries q years ago { Cheir
honeymoon.
Couldn't Afford Honeymoon.
Their son and his wife could
not afford a honeymoon trip and
settled down here Immediately
after the wedding.
The engagement of the junior
Ikedas was not entirely a par
|ents' affair" as many still are in
Japan. Early last year senior
Ikeda, who lives in Tokyo, asked
"a friend to recommend suitable
bride-to-be for his son. The
Evening star., 1953-01-04
Old Dominion Turnpike Corp.
Discdss Finances This Week

RICHMOND, Jan. 3.-Old Do
minion Turnpike Corp. officials
will meet in New York next Friday
and Saturday to discuss financial
arrangements for a proposed 700
mile long toll super-highway in
southwest Virginia.
The corporation president, John
J. Wicker, jr. of Richmond, said
today the turnpike groups execu-
tive committee will discuss revenue
bonds by which the multi-million
dollar project would be financed.
The project is part of a giant
turnpike from the Great Lakes re-
gion to Florida. Virginia's share
alone would cost $50 to $40 million,
according to the corporation's cur
rent estimates.
The four-lane divided superhigh-
way would be privately financed
by the revenue bonds, and retired
exclusively from toll revenue.
When the road is paid for. the
corporation would be dissolved and
the highway would become a part
of the State highway system. There
are no toll roads in Virginia at
present.
The next step in the Old Domin-
ion project, Mr.. Wicker said, is an
aerial survey of the route, from
Bluefield, w. Va, through Bland,
Evening star., 1953-01-04

Wythe and Carroll Counties. to a
point near MT. Airy. N. G..
This means taking detailed
photographs Of ''eyefy inch" Of a
milewide strip, so engineers can
determine the best path for the
proposed turnpike.
Mr.. Wicker said the survey alone
would cost about $4,000. He de-
clined to estimate how long it
would be before a suitable route
is established.
While in operation as a turnpike
corporation, Old Dominion will be
under the authority of the State
Corporation Commission, which
also has the power to approve
reasonable" rates.
Construction of the West Vir-
ginia link in the chain already has
begun.
Evening star., 1953-01-04

the first imperial princess in
Japanese history to be married to
a man living so far-43O miles
away from the seat Of the throne.
But I have never been bored
I have many friends here" said
she. She meant the many birds
and animals.
These friends, however. are not
pets. Mr.. Ikeda raises them for
business purposes. He sells milk,
eggs, chickens and puppies to
support his princess wife.
She took me to a narrow field to
feed hay to the cattle. On the
way she entered chicken coop
and caressed her little friends.
The couples home is a Western
style flat-roofed house. only IS
feet square divided into four
rooms. The kitchen is so small
that big Japan made refrigera-
tor is installed in the center of the
sitting room.
House ON Low Hill.
The house, built on low hill,
commands view of Okayama city
and it's surrounding farms. This
province had been ruled for 270
years by the Ikeda family until
1858 when Emperor Meiji, great
grandfather of the Princess, uni
fled all this feudal country.
Evening star., 1953-01-04
Hirohito' S Daughter
Is Farm Wife With
Four-Room House
By Fred Soito

ASsocIoted Press Stoft correspondent
OKAYAMA, Japan, Jan. SITS
only a home of four rooms, but
the 100000 people Of this western
Japan town consider it a palace
because this is where their prin-
cess lives.
Petite Princess Yori, Emper-
or Hirothito's 21-year-old third
daughter, married a commoner.
Takamasa Ikeda, 26, a citizen Of
this town, last october 10.
She lives quietly with her hus-
band. On their three-acre estate
are 1000 chickens, 800 canaries.
SO dogs. ten pairs of pigeons, nine
Dutch Holstein COWS, 40 pigs, ten
turkeys and nine goats housed in
20 wooden shacks.
Mrs. Ikeda does not live like a
princess. When I visited her at
her home, she was knitting a
sweater for her husband.
She was dressed in a tailored,
blue worsted suit with a snow
white linen blouse and beige
colored nylon stockings.
Busy Throughout Day.
II usually get up at $50 am.
cook breakfast and have a pretty
busy time all through the day do
ing things housewife is supposed
to do" Mrs. Ikeda said with a
smile.
maids. One has been looking after
her since her childhood at the
Tokyo palace. The other has been
with her husband for just as long.
When the couple arrived here
two days after the wedding, more
than half of the townfolk thronged
to the station and lined the streets,
shouting welcome home"
Since then, Mrs. Ikeda has be-
come the first lady of western
Japan. She and her husband are
guests of honor at any special
township occasion. Nearby port
towns like Kure and Kobe make it
a rule to invite the Princess to
chriSten new ship.
Otherwise, she said, she has not
stepped out of her home into the
streets of Okayama.
Townspeople Curious.
"ThiS is a provincial town and
many people are curious" her
husband explained. 1--WE went to
Tokyo early in November when
Crown Prince Akihito was pro-
claimed heir to the throne, and we
walked freely in the streets. Here
we cannot do So."
The curiosity of the townfolk
cannot be blamed. Mrs. Ikeda is
Evening star., 1953-01-04
40 Killed in RepuIse
Of Colombia Raiders
BY the Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 3.-A
New Years day attack on the
Palanquero air base cost the raid
.ers 33 known dead, the army said
today. Seven soldiers were killed
in repulsing the raiders. who ap-
parently were seeking arms. am
munition and food. =s
The base is on the Magdalena
River 100 miles northwest of Bo-
gotta.
The conservative government
called the attackers bandits, a
term generally applied to armed
opposition political groups in Co.
lombia. To the opposition liberal
party, such guerrillas are patriotic
irregulars fighting an unconstitu-
tional government.
Evening star., 1953-01-04

friend, Marquis Yasumasa Mat
sudair, works in the imperial
household Office and thought Of
Princess Yori.
The emperor found young Ikeda
was an enterprising businessman.
He sent the princess down to
Okayama in April, 1851. She
stayed at a downtown hotel. Mr..
Ikeda drove his old truck down
to the hotel and fell in love at
first sight. The engagement was
Evening star., 1953-01-04

announced in July, 1851.
AS I left the estate I saw a
couple of elderly farmers and
about q dozen grandchildren. They
stood at attention and bowed re-
verently to Mrs. 1keda. They had
Evening star., 1953-01-04
Woodmont PTA to Meet

The Woodmont School Parent
Teacher Association will meet at
g pm. tomorrow at the school,
I2422 North Fillmore street, Ar
Ilington. Mrs. Dicie Woodson,
elementary school supervisor, will
speak on "The Three RS in the
Arlington County Schools"
Evening star., 1953-01-04

|trekked many miles from their
home to pay respects to their lord
and lady.
To them, Mrs. Ikeda is still
Princess Yori, daughter Of Japan's
ldemi-god.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Doris FIeeson-

With Robert F. Wagner, jr.,
elected Mayor by a very large
majority in all five borougks,
liberal Democrats have reoccu-
pied their ancient stronghold,
New York City. Mr.. Wagner de-
feated Republican Harold
Riegelman who had President
Eisenhower's informal indorse-
ment and the active support of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
This will be the cue for
Representative Franklin D.
Roosevelt, jr., to enter down.
stage as Democratic candidate
for Governor next year. The
general expectation is that
Gov. Dewey will not run again
and that Republicans will
draft Senator Irving Ives in
his place. The Eisenhower At
torney General, Herbert
Brownell, is next in line should
Mr.. Ives bow out.
Whatever Republicans de-
eide, the namesake of the late
President is in the race to
win.
Both he and the Mayor elect
are conscious that they have
much to live up to and more
will be expected of them than
of most people. The size of
the Wagner victory is helpful
IN that it makes it possible
Evening star., 1953-11-04

are arduous, but in no other
way would I ever have visited
every State, and except for
this invitation ! would hardly
have seen Milledgeville.
I marvel at the corneliness of
this country, especially in it's
smaller towns and cities.
Milledgeville is exquisite, with
its fine trees, pleasant modern
homes, and beautiful pre-
Civil War mansions, most of
them still standing despite
Gen. Sherman, originator of
the modern concept of total
war. The college buildings of
rosy brick are in beautiful
harmony with the towns style.
On such trips I try to pick
up political information
from knowledgeable citizens,
neWSpapermen, and news
papers gathered at every air.
port or train stop.
My impression, cleaned from
these sources, is that the Re-
publican Party has done little
to widen the split in the solid
South, which showed itself in
the last national elections.
A year ago the prospects of
a real tWo-party South ap-
peared, I heard, much roster
than today. The Republicans
had won the presidency, car
ried four Southern States,
gained control of Congress and
elected one North Carolina
Representative and three from
Virginia. New life was STIR
ring in some of the Southern
G. O. P. organizations.
But a Gallup poll released
last week reported 70 per cent
of Southern voters favoring a
Democratic victory were con-
gressional elections held now
within l per cent of the
Democratic percentage in the
last three congressional cleo
tionS.
Sout ern Republicans,
though they continue to ad-
mire the President, regret "his
unconcern with party politics.
They say: It's all very we'll for
him to think of himself as the
President of all the people. But
Evening star., 1953-11-04

the only way a man can be-
come President of all the
people is via a party. The Presi-
dent has repeatedly called on
every one to vote Republican,
but it takes more than that to
persuade them to do so, espe-
cially against long-ingrained
habit and Democratic monop-
oily of local political forces.
They complain that Repub-
licans are not established in
Southern patronage positions
and that party factionalism in
Washington is discouraging
and confusing. Neither the
farm nor the Eisenhower civil
rights program are popular.
Southern farmers, they report,
prefer such champions of their
interests as Senator Russell
and Representative Cooley, to
Mr.. Benson. If the ad-
ministration argues before the
Supreme Court against seq
regation next month, the Re-
( publicans will inherit the ire
against Truman.
The Southern Republican
, Party is up against enormous
handicaps: The convention
system for nominating State
and local COP. candidates
instead of direct primaries;
the caution of outstanding
ci tizens to run for office
against powerful local ma
chimes; many Democratic legal
devices - gerrymanders, elec-
ton laws, and control Of elec-
ton machinery.
Against these the Republi-
cans need crusading fervor,
locally and from Washington.
Southern Republicans note
that although the Democrats
closed their ranks with many
reconciliations during their
meeting in Chicago, faction
alism is still rampant in Re-
publican ranks. with the Presi-
dent depending on Demo-
cratic support for many of his
policies.
Apparently, the South,
whether Democratic or Repub-
lican, feels itself isolated.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

Thus, in the period from
1896 to 1912, the Democrats
were in the political doghouse
because of the panic Of
1898. Every Republican stump
speaker year after year re-
minded the voters about it on
every occasion. 1t was a long
time before the Democrats got
back into power - and then
only when an economic issue
arose in 1910 as the high -Ost
of living became acute and
was blamed on tariff policies
of the Republicans.
The same thing happened
to the Republicans in 1882
when the depression struck
hard, and the voters there
after only remembered that
times got bad under a Repub-
lican administration. In The
next 20 years there we're minor
recesSions but a war boom kept
the Democrats in power. Only
in 1916, when Government
controls upset the housewife
and caused a meat shortage,
did the Republicans win Con-
gress. The prosperity of the
country in 1948 gave Truman
and the Democratic Congress
another lease on life. Then
in 1850 the outbreak of the
Korean war, with it's conse-
quent imitation and soaring
wage levels, developed a politi-
cal boon for the Democrats.
Economic issue' are con-
trolling, however, only if there
are no countervailing factors.
In 1852, with the Nation still
in its most prosperous condi-
ton. there were emotional is
sues which superseded all else.
Thus. the resentment about
the Korean war, communism
in Government, and corruption
in Government operations, es-
pecially with respect to tax
fixing, all added up to the
negative verdict which was
rendered against the party in
power-the Democrats.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
rab-AsianD Delegates
Revamping Demands
u. n. Act on Tunisia
By the Associoted Press

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. A.
Still smarting from defeat in
their attempts to have the U. N.
intervene in Morocco, Arab and
Asian delegates went into a
hurried council of war today to
try to make more palatable
their demands for U. N. action
on another French protectorate
-TuniSia.
The colonial powers, aided by
the United States, won a clear
victory yesterday over Arab
Asian efforts to have the CO.
nation General Assembly tell the
French to ease tension in
Morocco and insure free elec-
tions in that troubled North
African protectorate.
France boycotted debate on
the Moroccan Question-as she
is certain to do on the Tunisiau
issue-on the grounds the U. N.
has no jurisdiction over the
issue.
Arabs Revamping Resolution.
An informant close to the
Arab-Asian group said it was
trying to frame amendments to
the Tunisian resolution-which
would win it the two-thirds ma
jority needed for Assembly pas
sage.
Facing almost certain defeat
Evening star., 1953-11-04

agricultural policies. Later in
the same statement the CIO
leader pledged the organiza-
tion's intention "to do all in
our power to back the farmers
in their fight for economic
equity"
With obvious political slant,
he expressed the main and
valid argument thus:
Already, the 13 per cent
drop in farm prices since the
last election has forced farm
erS drastically to curtail pur-
chase of farm implements
made by city workers. In some
States, employment of CIO
members in farm equipment
plants has been cut in half. In
Iowa alone, layoffs and short
work weeks have cost workers
more than a million dollars
a week. Corresponding cut
backs have followed in steel
and fabricating plants and
throughout the economy.
"AS city workers incomes
fall, they must-due to in
adequate savings and unem-
ployment compensation re
duce their purchase of farm
products. Farm 'surpluses'-
often the result of inadequate
purchasing power rather than
a reduced need for food-de-
velop. These unsold farm
products tend to depress farm
prices further and an eco
nomic cycle is started that,
unless checked. only leads to
general economic collapse"
Mr.. Reuther suggested a
common legislative program to
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Dorothy Thompson
Southern Political Synnpothies
Is Still the Solid Democratic South; Eisenhower
Could Give More Help to Republicans in Dixie

Milledgeville, a town of
about 1000. some SO miles from
Macon. was the capital of
Georgia before the War Be-
tween the States, and is now
the seat of the Georgia State
College for Women. Georgia
is one of the few States whose
State university is not CO.
educational, but divided into
separate colleges for men and
women. The women's college
inaugurated a new president,
DR.. Henry King Stanhope, last
week, and this columnist was
invited to make the address
on the role of women in mod
ern society.
These college inaugurations
have an impressive dignity.
The Importance of higher edu-
cation in American life was
attested by the presence in this
relatively small college of more
than 200 representatives of
American schools of higher
learning from institutions as
separated, geographically, as
Harvard and California.
For a writer bound by date
lines. speaking engagements
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Fletcher KnebeI-
Potomac Fever

Virginia and New Jersey Governors. modern
Governor has to be great strength-there
many big problems to be handed to Washington.
The elections provided clues President
hower popularity Democrats that rpped
only once-the day fell Republican Party
Defense Secretary Wilson he and the military
within SIS billion of other spent
year. still considerable argument however-nobodys
willing to trust the other to flip the coin.
Sir Winston Churchill says the dangers third world
have diminished lot of countries
distant eneme-there many neghbors fight with
Navy Secretary Anderson he's looking
for the Navy businessmen have time to
things themselves-theyre busy learning
become politicians
South Caronas Gov Byrnes says Ike has job
You know things be going pretty smoothly only
thing the city folks get excited