Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-08

Marsh, now Camp Perry. The IS
land was named by settlers in
memory of the magnificent crops
of turnips raised there by the
Jeremys, wintered in the ground
where they grew and supplied to
other settlers in the spring Nearly
all of the later arrivals purchased
their first cattle, hogs and horses
from Jeremy.
JOT
Paul E. Reinbolt, Assistant Scou
Executive and acting scout execu
tive of this area for the past year
will assume duties with the Ma
tional Council Boy Scouts of Amer
lea on June l. He has been in the
Toledo Council for II years and has
directed Camp Miakonda since
1941. He is we'll known in Ottawa
County and has many friends in
and out of Scouting who wish him
success in his new job.
JOT
A local young matron was IN Q
tickliSh predicament the other eve
ming, and her son is far too young
to help her out. Ann Foster was
trying on new formal in her East
Fourth Street home, when she ex
hailed instead of inhaling and sud
denly discovered that she couldn'
get out of the gown A hurried cal
to her husband, AL, brought little
sympathy. A second call broughi
results-Al hurried home and un
buckled his frau.
JOT
Port Clinton's new city flag ant
it's designer, 11-yearold Rose Marc
Kinney we're given front page spac
in the Ohio Sesquicentennial Com
missions Newsletter April issue
The Junior Women's Club spon
sored the flag contest and it wa
unveiled at the Ottawa County
News Home and Builders Show.
JOT
Miss Marlene Overmyer, OAK
,Harbor was Queen of the Spring
Homecoming formal dance Tiffin
University held at Meadowbroof
Park last week Serving as KinG
was Joe Kindred, Ross Higf
grad Did you notice the un
usual rain clouds over Lake Erit
and it's adjacent marshes Sunday
Water was evaporating so rapidly
that the white clouds reSen.oleC
heavy smoke. Doubtless the un
usual occurrence caused the early
evening rainstorm and its re
sultant rainbow
JOT
Duncan Hines, the famed eatin,
expert who will visit Toledo Ma
IA, kept notes of good places t
eat during his extensive travels a
a business man. One Christmas he
used the list as greeting care
Demand for the list from friend
and acquaintance grew SO rapid,
that Hines eventually gave up -
other business to devote all hi
time to searching for the bette.
places to eat.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Brough FRI
day received a letter from thei
son, 1t. Gerald Brough, that ht
escaped injury early last week ir
boiler explosion aboard the air
craft carrier USS Bennington
Jerry wrote that II were killet
and seven injured, and that thu
casualty list would have been mucl
if the blast had happened
during meal time. The local nav!
dentist assisted with the casualties
He was in his dental clinic wher
the boiler exploded.
JOT
Those "Hol-N-One" oonuts Lylf
Mayhem and Roger Markley sci
at their Whitehouse Drive Inn arc
mighty tasty.The boys make then
own doughnuts and they're sold ir
a variety of frostings. You can bu.
one or a dozen :. Ed "of the Cas-
bah" Boyer is enjoying a two week
vacation at Hotel Algiers, Miam;
Beach. The EOD staffer postcard;
that 'water flows like liquor"
the. Algiers, but l doubt if that
what Ed means!
JOT
For the third year, a poem writ
ten by Albert Rofkar of the Por
Clinton High School faculty has
been accepted for publication il
the 1888 National Poetry An
thology 500-page book. Rofkar's
poem, Lone Poplar" was one OF
those selected from 10000 con
tributors. He is a member of Kap-
pa Phi Kappa and of Phi Kappa
and has contributed to various An
thOlOpieS