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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
VFW Post Plans
Uniformed SQUAD

A fish fry for all past and pres
ent county and post commanders
and for present members Of fir
ing squads will be held in the
Port Clinton Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post Hall Sunday afternoon,
following the Ottawa County v. F.
w. Council meeting at two o'clock.
Post 2480 firing squad and color
detail members hope to have ne'Y
uniforms soon. Plans are under
way to secure army officers type
coats and trousers, green's and
pinks, with green v. F. w. caps
for all active squad members.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
cod PLANS BUSY
SOCIAL SEASON

Fall recreational activities fol
employees of Erie Ordnance De
pot include dance and a banquet
both events to be sponsored by
the Post Civilian Welfare Fund
Council.
The dance will be Saturday
night, Sept. 26, in the civilian rec
reation room of the depot, and
the banquet will be held Wednes-
day night, Oct. IA, at St. Johns
Lutheran Church, Port Clinton.
The dance is the initial social
affair to be held in the redecor,
ated and refurnished recreation
room. Advance ticket sale indi-
Gates there will be good crowd on
hand for the round and square
dancing which will begin at 9 p.
m.
Committee chairmen for the
dance include: Ed Huffman, tick.
cts; Fred Wan, decorations; Lois
Cooley, orchestra; and Fred Wolfe,
post restaurant concessionaire,
food and refreshments.
Expected to be one of the out
standing events of the year for
EODers is the recognition banquet
when all champions in all depot
sports will be honored. These in
clude winners in depot Journeys
in table tennis, horseshoes, golf,
bowling, volley ball, and the EOD
softball team
AS feature of the banquet, the
Welfare Council will present de-
pot officials with display trophy
case to be located in the Head
quarters Building.
Large trophies with names of
1858 champions inscribed on them
will be presented for permanent
display in the case. Names of flu.
ture winners will be inscribed
through the years on these tro-
phies.
Individual awards will be made
to individual champions.
All members of the depot will
be invited to attend this recogni-
ton banquet.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
CITY WILL LET
BIDS ON SEWER
Project SOON

Henry A. Cowgirl of the city's
planning commission told council
men Tuesday evening at the reg
ular council meeting in City Hall
that the commission will meet
again Monday evening to consider
proposed changes to the zoning
code.
Cowgirl expressed belief that
some minor changes would be made
before another public meeting on
the zoning code is held.
WORK TO START SOON
Possibility that Port Clinton's
sewage disposal system will be-
come reality next year was seen
when announcement was made
that contracts are to be let before
New Years Day.
Engineers met with the sewer
committee last week but stated
plans are not ready. Estimates are
being prepared to set the rates
for sewer rental and to learn how
much more than the 100000 vo-
ted by the bond issue approval
would be needed.
A resolution was approved by
council for extension of water line
and installation of hydrants in
South Monroe Street. Another res
olution setting rates of budget for
tax levies was postponed until next
council meeting.
Appointment of William Keesor
as regular patrolman was appro-
we'd by council. Kessor has com
pleted his three-month probation
ary period satisfactorily, Safety
Director Cowgirl and Police Jack
Continued to Page 2 col. a
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25

wariing address is Cologne, New
JeI ley, the Peace Pilgrim will di-
vulge no other personal informa-
ton. When we attempted to learn
if she is a college graduate, she
stated: "My personal life is unim-
portant. | do not think of myself
as an individual but rather as an
embodiment of all human hearts
pleading for peace.
This woman is no religious fana-
tic. She appears to be about 43
years of age, slender and attrac-
tive with light brown hair turning
gray. Her ready smile and pleas
ing personality win friends i'm
mediately and she cannot hide the
fact that she is very well educated,
Leaving Toledo early Tuesday
she walked the 40 miles with ease
and finally stopped under an ap-
pie tree in Erie Township to spend
the night. Awakening after mid
night and throughly chilled (she
had no blankets or bed clothing
Continued on page 2, col. 81
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
Another Outfit May Be
Transferred Here From
Cleveland Location

Possibility that two Ohio Ma
tional Guard companies will soon
become realities in this commun-
ity was seen this week with the
announcement that Company II,
1O7th Armored Cavalry Regiment,
will be activated at nearby Camp
Perry instead of in Port Clinton.
While future plans for Port
Clinton's armory, originally sched-
uled as headquarters for the pro-
posed Company H, 10th Armored
Cavalry, have not been announced
by Major General Albert E. Hen
derson, Ohio's Adjutant General,
it is understood that another Ohio
National Guard company, now To-
Gated in Cleveland, may be trans
ferred to this city.
If the Cleveland company is
transferred here, local men will
also be used in its organization.
A few more men are still need
ed for the cadre of Company H,
107th Armored Cavalry, and
board of officers must select
company commander before this
unit can begin to function.
There will be an opening for an
administrative assistant, which is
a full time job paying $1,000 an
nually. Requirements for this job
are ability to type and some know
ledge of administrative procedures.
Veterans or young men of draft
age, who are interested in becom-
ing members of this unit, can Sc
cure future information at the Port
Clinton armory between 6 and $50
rext Monday evening, Sept. %.
Openings exist for experienced
or unframed men as drivers,
mechanics, tank crew1nen, rifle
men, scouts, gunners, cooks, radio
operators, radio repairmen, supply
and clerical personnel.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
VACATIONLAND
GROUP TO MEET
HERE OCT. 1911

Over $50 visitors from numer-
Gus Ontario, Pennsylvania and
Ohio cities are expected in Port
Clinton October 1857 when the
eighth annual meeting and con-
vention of the Lake Erie Interna-
tional Vacationland Association
will be held in this city.
Mayor Carl Becker, Port Clintoo,
is I-esident of the association, and
Randall M. Ruhlman, Cleveland, is
executive secretary. Final plans
for the convention were to be
made Thursday at conference
here.
Port Clinton's Lake Hotel will
again be convention headquarters
of the tourist promoters. The asso-
citation membership is composed
mainly of Chamber of Commerce
and tourist agency secretaries and
officers, along with hotel, motel
and resort operators and public
officials of communities interested
in catering to the tourist business.
Among the cities to be repre-
sented are Hamilton, London, Port
Colbourne, Blenheim, Port Roam,
bennington, Port Dover, Windsor,
Walkerville and Niagara Falls,
Ontario; Erie, Pa; Geneva-on-the-
Lake, Ashtabula, Conneaut, Yer
million, Huron, Lorain, Sandusky.
Cleveland, Elyria, Marblehead.
Lakeside, Put-in-Bay, Catawba and
Port Clinton.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
Fear For Safety
Of School Pupils

City and school officials will
confer this week to develop an
educational plan to protect our
school children from traffic
injuries.
City Solicitor John Reinheimer
and counciImen Robert Reynolds
and Lee Braeken Tuesday eve
ming expressed alarm over fhe
school students complete lack
Of attention to traffic lights and
traffic rules.
In the blocks surrounding the
public and parochiaI schools,
motorists must travel at snail
PAGES and be constantly alert to
keep from hitting child.
CoUneiImen suggested that the
former school patrol become ac-
tive again to help protect not
only the children but the motor
lists.
Safety Director Henry Cowgirl
is to confer with Svpt. D. D. Sims
to seek solution to the danger
Gus problem. Either Mr.. Cowgirl
or Police Chief Jack Shelter may
give series Of safety talks at
school assembly programs.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
DUMPING GARBAGE

Residents who have been dump
ing garbage along the Sand Road,
and in other locations through
out fhe county. are being warned
they are subject TO prosecution.
A nuisance caused by Dump
ing Of garbage and refuse in San |
Road. about 2h miles east Of
this city, has been corrected by
completely covering the waste
material with ground, County
Sanifarian Lyle Kibbel reports.
This is not an authorized dump
end any dumping of waste in the
future will be subject to prose-
cution by the Portage Township
trustees and the county board Of
health.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
IN IRON LUNG

Mrs. Robert Cover, Danbury,
this areas only polio victim of the
year, remains in an iron lung at
Maumee Valley Hospital in Tole,
do, where she is paralyzed from
the neck down. Her husband and
two and half-year old son have
been given gamma globulin shots.
When he visited his wife Sunday,
Mr.. Cover reported she seemed
slightly improved and more cheer
full. The former Edna Semmel-
hack, Mrs. Cover made many
friends here while an employee of
the Port Clinton National Bank.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
SCHEDULE x:RAYs

Sponsored by the Ottawa
County, tuberculosis and Health
Association, the portable x-ray
unit will be at the Port Clinton
schools Friday, October 2, to take
chest x-rays of high school stu
dents, cafeteria workers, faculty
members and school personnel.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-09-25
At SCHOOL MEET

Supt. D. D. Sims, past president
of the Northwestern Ohio School
Administration Association, at
tended meeting or the association
held in Ohio Northern University
at Ada Wednesday.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Appropriations
Continued From First Page. J

tions. It put a $25, 900 limit on
travel expenses and directed
that hereafter copies of all news
releases, radio scripts and other
publications be sent to the COM
mittee.
The Food and Drug Admins
tration was cut from $5,663, 900
to SIS millions.
Labor Requests Trimmed.
Deep cuts in Labor Depart
ment funds included $30.7 mil
lion from requests for grants to
States for unemployment COM
pensation and $6 million for
unemployment compensation for
veterans. For unemployment
grants to States the committee
recommended $187.3 million for
veterans unemployment COM
pensation it allotted II millions.
The bill is the last Of the big
non-military budget measures to
be sent to the House floor.
A $3.4 billion Treasury Post
Office measure was passed by the
House late yesterday.
The Senate, meanwhile. hoped
to take up its first regular 1854
appropriation bill today. That
$461 million measure for 23 in
dependent agencies assured a
floor fight over continuation OF
the Governments public housing
program.
AS passed by the House last
month the bill totaled $451 mil
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Dulles Winds Up Visit
To Jordan and Flies
On 10 Damascus
BY the Assoeiated Press

AMMAN, Jordan, May IS
John Foster Dulles had a busy
morning of sightseeing and con-
ferenceS in the Jordan capital
today. then left by plane for
Damascus for another stop on
his Middle East tour.
The United States Secretary
Of State met with a group rep
resenting Palestine Arab refu-
gees. In a statement just before
his departure, Mr.. Dulles said
the existence of refugee camps
was the most saddening aspect
Of his Jordan visit.
'"The heart-rending plight of
the occupants are tangible evi-
dence a most serious problem is
still unSolved," he declared.
Refugees Big Problem.
The Palestine Arabs are refu-
gees from the 1918 jewish
Arab war. OF the approximately
100000 refugees about one-third
live in Jordan. Mr.. Dulles was
asked to support Arab demands
that they be permitted to return
to their hemes, one of the hot
issues between Israel and the
Arabs.
Mr.. Dulles conferred also with
Prime Minister Fawzi ell Mulki,
Foreign Minister Hussein Kha-
lidy, and other Jordan officials.
He met British diplomats and
the Britisher who commands the
crack Jordan Arab Legion. Brig
John Baggot Glubb.
StasSen Sees OfIlcials.
While Mr.. Dulles was making
his rounds, the United States
foreign aid chief, Harold Stas-
sen, accompanied by Henry By
roade. United States Assistant
Secretary of State who special
ICES in problems of the Middle
East, met Jordan officials re-
sponsible for the country's econ
omy. finance and education. Mr.
Stassen was presented also to
the United States Point -Four
staff in Jordan.
The Arab press continued its
skeptical attitude toward Mr..
Dulles trip. This morning, the
Arab Jerusalem paper Falestin
called the visit "a Sedative being
Evening star., 1953-05-15

lion. The House cut out all funds
for new public housing units
after July /. The expected Sen
ate fight will center on attemps
to provide funds for $4,000 new
starts.
Unusual Procedure.
The bill allotting $2,832, ESQ, 900
to the Post Office Department
and $611 1896, 900 to the Treasury
for the year beginning July l
made unusual, if not unprece-
dented parliamentary marks in
the House yesterday.
It went through on unani-
nous voice vote after only five
hours of debate. It was adopted
not only without change from
committee recommendations, but
without having been subjected to
direct amendment fights.
Carried in the bill is $500, 900
for modernization of the plant at
Fifth and w streets NE, used by
the Post Office Department for
manufacture and repair of mail
bags and padlockS for Nation
wide service
Evening star., 1953-05-15

part in the Virginia resolution
observance and receive a degree
from william and Mary. In 1925,
Calvin Coolidge did likewise.
Due to Return Monday.
The Presidents visit to this
section, where he will be cruis-
ing for the next "a hours or
so, took on new Importance
when he told his news confer
ence yesterday that he would
be doing some work also
on the radio speech he makes
to the Nation Tuesday night,
discussing taxes, budget and de-
fenSe.
Some of his Washington ad-
visers will join the President at
the Norfolk Naval Base early
tomorrow afternoon to work on
the Tuesday speech. From Nor
folk, Gen. Eisenhower moves on
to Annapolis to spend Sunday
with the midshipmen. He will
leave the Naval Academy Sunday
evening, and be back IN WASH
ington Monday morning.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Russia Is Reported
Offering Oil 10 Japan
Below U. 5. Prices
BY The Assoeiated Press

TOKYO, May 15.-RuSSia has
offered to sell 100000 to 100000
tons Of crude oil to Japan at a
price well below that of Ameri-
can and British oil. the economic
daily, Nihop Keizai, reported to-
day.
The offer came as the Japa-
neSe and British are disputing
over a recent japanese purchase
Of Iranian oil at a price just
under that reported offered by
Russia.
The newspaper said several
leading importers received the
offer from the Soviet diplomatic
mission in Tokyo. The japanese
government does not recognize
the mission. but never has tried
to oust its staff.
Firm Buys 10000 Tons.
The Idemitsu KoSan Co. Of
Tokyo recently bought about
10000 tons Of gasoline refined at
the Abadan refinery at about
one-half of the international
price.
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
sought an injunction to block
delivery of what it called "stolen
property" Before the Tokyo
district court reached a decision,
Idemitsu Kosan's 18,774 = o n
tanker Nissho Maru departed for
Iran yesterday to take a second
load.
Britain's Shell Petroleum, close
ly related with the Anglo-Iranian
Oil Co., has cut it's price of Mid
die East crude oil by 20 per cent
in its offer to japanese ref1neries
800 Below u. s. Prices.
The Russian price at Sakha-
lin port, according to Nihon Kei-
zai, is about 30 per cent lower
than British or American prices
Since it is only about 30 miles
from Sakhalin to Japanese Hok-
kaido, the delivered price would
be drastically low. the paper said
For payment the Soviet Union
wants japanese fishing nets and
boats, motors and wire, the paper
said.
Nihon Keizai added that the
Soviet Union also continues to
offer coal at about $40 'per ton
fob. Sakhalin-or about one
third of the price Japan is pay
ing for American coal.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
By Crosby S. Moves

In five months of free Wheel
ing action, Secretary of State
Dulles has succeeded in giving
American diplomacy new look.
For want of a better name, it
might be called the Blunt Look.
AS far as any one can tell, the
blunt look is an important part
of the administrations quest for
a new kind of foreign policy
one that will be as different as
possible from what was con-
sidered fashionable in the days
Of Mr.. Dulles predecessor. How
different the policy itself will be,
remains to be seen. But recent
events have left no doubt that.
externally at least. the change
will be startling.
The inspiration for the blunt
look seems to be an extension
of the Republican war on striped
pants and Harvard accents with
in the State Department. At
this point a number of other
diplomatic frills. such as tact,
urbanity. and the art of saying
the right thing at the right time.
are apparently on their way to
the scrap heap.
In theory, what has been sub
stituted is a grim and bare-bones
honesty in the dealings of the
State Department with the out
side world. A realistic, "lay-it-
on-the-line" exposition of Amer
ican aims is the order of the day.
Unfortunately. the effect has ap-
peared as an almost conscious
effort to rub as many people as
possible the wrong way. In his
performance so far. Mr.. Dulles
has given the impression of a
man trying hard to dish up the
least palatable truth on any
given occasion.
Wherever he happens to be,
the Secretary seems to go out of
his way to avoid ingratiating
himself with his immediate au-
dience Even when the essential
problem is the same, the empha-
sis Is changed with the locale to
cast the bleakest light possible.
There has been no clearer illus
tration of this technique than in
the contrast between Mr.. Dulles
public statements on the Amer
ican foreign-aid program.
Blunt Talk in Paris.
When he went to Paris for the
NATO council meeting last
month, Mr.. Dulles went with the
obvious determination to "lay-
it-on-the-line" to America s
European allies. From here on,
he said, Europeans themselves,
rather than the United States,
would "be the pacemakers of
the western defense effort" And
If the pace were not brisk enough
particularly in the matter of
ratification Of the European De-
fenSe Treaty and the rearma-
ment of Germany - Congress
would undoubtedly be looking
for some other way of defending
Europe and the United States.
This, so far as Mr.. Dulles was
concerned, was undoubtedly no
more than the simple, unvarn-
ished truth. The fact that it was
Evening star., 1953-05-15
Eisenhower
Continued From First Page.)

Burgesses chamber, Gen. Eisen-
hover drove through the streets
of Williamsburg to the college.
A crowd Of several thousand,
in which children predominated,
greeted him.
Documents on Exhibition.
The original Jefferson draft
Of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Burgesses' copy OF
the Virginia resolution were on
exhibition for the Presidents
visit. The former was brought
from the New York Public Lii
brary, and the latter from Ma
tional Archives.
Gov. Battle is conferring the
degree on President Eisenhower
who donned cap and gown fol
the ceremony.
Gen. Eisenhower is the second
PreSident-and the second Re-
publican, incidentally, to take
Evening star., 1953-05-15
u. S. Fears Rift With Britain
May Hatch Some Real Trouble

Britain and the United States
hold together as allies.
Complicating Factor.
One thing complicating the
situation is that. while the bitter
words are being spoken by men
not responsible for policy max
ing in either Washington or Lon
don, it, is hard for their posi-
tions to be understood outside
their own capitals.
In his speech Tuesday touch
ing on the verbal fireworks, Mr..
Attlee remarked that it was
sometimes hard to tell whether
President Eisenhower or Senator
Mccarthy welded the greater
power.
For many Americans. it is Just
as hard to tell whether Prime
Minister Churchill or Mr.. Attlee
speaks with the voice of author
ity. Actually, of course, MIR.
Attlee is leader of the po-
litical opposition to Mr.. Church
i'll. But the fact that he once
spoke for England just as Mr.
Churchill does now gives his
words great weight here.
Neither the Prime Minister
nor President Eisenhower has
seen fit to try to smooth things
out by directly disavowing the
words of Senator Mccarthy or
Mr.. Attlee. Both Government
leaders would get into hot water
in domestic politics by doing so.
The President apparently went
as far as he thought it politically
wise to go when he set this exam
pie at his news conference yes
terday: He does not want to
criticize individuals as such, and
their opinions, and so try to set
himself up as all-wise.
AS for Mr.. Attlee's statement
that some elements here do not
want peace, the President said,
Il have never met any one in the
United States who does not want
peace"
And he was very polite in
turning a cold shoulder to Mr..
Churchill proposal for an early
high-level conference with the
Russians. Gen. Eisenhower said
he did not object to the Prime
Minister'S proposal, but would
want to see some evidence of
good faith in Russia's peace talk
before committing the United
States to participate in such a
conference. He said he has not
seen such definite evidence yet.
Evening star., 1953-05-15
New Look at u S. Diplomacy
Dulles Discords Acheson Tact,
Lays Facts BIuntIy on Line

a Slngularly unnelp1uI truth
that it immeasurably strength
ened the political opposition to
NATO both in Europe and in
Washington-were plainly Sec
ondary considerations. The idea
that such down-to-earth realism
might better be voiced in private
than in public declarations ap-
parently never occurred to the
Secretary.
Speaks for Congress.
In Paris, it seemed clear
enough that Mr.. Dulles conSid-
cred himself as a spokesman,
not for NATO. nor for the ad-
ministration, but for what he
considered the prevailing polit-
ical sentiment in the United
States Congress. 1t isn't Surpris-
ing that his audience, at least in
Europe, should have found the
experience painful and more
than a little alarming.
Once back in Washington,
however, the Secretary's mood
changed radically. To economy
minded members of Congress
who had gobbled up the Paris
line. Mr.. Dulles served up a new
menu of unpalatable truth.
Any cuts in the foreign aid
program. he warned grimly,
would only result in having to
make an even greater addition
to Americas own defense bud
get. With all its limitations.
Congress was told NATO rep
resents the best and cheapest
hope of security that exists for
the United States. From several
high State Department sources
came denials that any political
strings had been attached to
the aid program by anything
Mr.. Dulles had said during the
conference.
1t is too early, of course, to
predict the effect of this Curl
Gus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that
seems to be a characteristic of
the new State Department tech
nique. Its success or failure
Of which the outcome of the
foreign aid battle will be an
important first test-cannot be
measured by the amount of con-
fusion and ruffled feelings that
it has caused so far.
Possible Merits.
Certainly. if it enables Mr..
Dulles to steer clear of the politi-
cal shoals that plagued Secretary
Acheson, it will be worth it. The
reasoning behind the Republican
line seems to be that Mr.. Ache
sons unquestioned popularity
abroad turned out to be more of
a hindrance than a help when
it came to the business of de-
Tending specific administration
programs before Congress. Un-
doubtedly. Mr.. Dulles believes
that by talking tougher and
promising less when he is out of
the country. he is strengthening
his political hand at home.
If this turns out to be the
case, no one would argue that
Mr.. Dulles course has not been
the right one. AS long as it
works, there is no reason to sup
pose that American foreign pol
icy has to delight all Of the
people all of the time. Mean
while, however. a certain amount
of shocked reaction to the State
Departments new look is only to
be expected.