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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
SPORTS
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This week marked drastic de-
feat for our beloved Raiders. The
reserves were overcome 4S-31 and
the varsity 66-53. Better luck next
time, boys!
A short teachers meeting was
held Wednesday afternoon. The
main object of this meeting was to
present Miss Alley with a beauti-
full wedding gift. Congratulations
are in line also for Mr.. Cochran,
who is now the proud father of an
eight-pound baby girl, namely
Debbie Lea. Good luck to both of
you!
This week we had some visitors
at dear old London High. The first
was a pair of exchange teachers
from Ohio State University. The
second was a gang of Dayton boys,
who have taken home economics.
That should be hint to you boys
The Christmas spirit has really
hit London High! G.A.A. this week
prepared the treats which Santa
Claus gave away to all the kiddies
on Wednesday. 1t was well worth
the hard work! Also they are
planning another Alumni Night,
January 5. We hope to see lot of
you alums there! Tri-L is doing its
Christmas duty also. The girls are
making dresses for dolls to be dis
tributed by the firemen.
This year we are watching with
interests the plane and solid ge-
ometry classes slowly but surely
decorate a Christmas tree with
plane and solid figures. Also Tri-L
and Hi-Y have put up a tree in the
hallway. 1t looks very Christ
masy' around school!
Tuesday of next week all the
students will take the afternoon
off and enjoy program presented
by the speech class and the music
department. Two plays and sever
al songs by the Glee Club and
Mixed Chorus will be the main
features of the program. Tuesday
night our Raiders will meet Grove
City here in what promises to be a
very interesting game.
Wednesday night the Tri-L will
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
THE WEEKLY MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRAT. LONDON. OHIO

The nations only award which
recognizes the achievements of
women in the field of traffic acci-
dent prevention is administered by
the Council through grant of the
Shell Oil Co.
ANY American woman not gain
fully employed in the promotion of
traffic safety is eligible. In addi-
ton, any women's or parents or
ganization not professionally en-
gagged in the traffic safety field
may enter.
''Now in their third year, the
Carol Lane Awards have revealed
the effectiveness of women in help
ing to reduce the tragic waste of
life on the nations highways" said
Ned II. Dearborn, Council presi-
dent. Women are giving tremen-
dous and invaluable support to Of
ficial agencies, schools and others,
and in some cases have inspired
entire community programs"
Women have improved traffic
conditions in their communities
through such projects as pedes-
trian training, driver training
courses for high school students,
reflectorizing and inspection of BIZ
cycles, improvement of traffic
laws, enforcement of traffic regu-
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22

lations and schools for bus driv-
ers, the Council said.
The achievements of women in
areas, small towns
and rural sections. are of equal inn
portance in the selection of win
ners as long as they represent
worthwhile afet ty accomplish
ments, the Council pointed out.
The awards are named for Carol
Lane, women's travel director of
Shell, and the top award for both
the winning individual and club
consists of 1000 defense bond
and a bronze sculpture by the not
ed American sculptress, Berta
Margoulies. Three additional hon.
orable mention plaques are pre-
sented to winners in each category
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22

hold its. secend- big social event of
the year in the gym. Everyone is
preparing already for the Christ
mas formal, which IS an annual
event around London High. All
Tri-L members and guests are
sure to enjoy themselves.
Well, that's about all for now.
Be sure to follow the basketball
games during vacation, which, by
the way, everyone welcomes heart
lily. See you after vacation!
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
London TO Play
Grove City Here
by Pete Conway

The London Red Raiders will
meet the Grove City Greyhounds
this Tuesday night at the London
high school gym. This will be
London's first Mid-Six League
game.
London has a 2 win and 3
loss record, and they will be out
TO see If they can make it 3
wins and 3 losses. The games
win start at the usual time; the
reserve game at TOO P. M, and
the varsity game at 800 P. M.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
Midway Wins From
Sterling Friday

Midway of Sedalia recorded its
third straight win in the Madison
County League, topping Mt. Ster-
ling here Friday night, 74-52.
Mt. Sterling managed to hold
Midway's Dick Bogenrife to his
seasons lowest total %.
Carol Rittenhouse scored 25
points to lead the undefeated Mt.
Sterling reserves to their sixth
victory, 1885 over the Midway
yearlings.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22

The four individual winners and
representatives of the four win
ming clubs will receive expense
paid trips to Chicago for the Ma
tionaI Safety Congress, where they
will be entertained and formally
receive their awards.
Information and nomination
blanks may be obtained from Miss
Alice Catherine Mills, director of
women's activities, National Safety
Council, 425 N. Michigan Ave,
Chicago, Il, III. Nominations can
be made through June 80, 1854.
NEW YEAR
Time, whose tooth gnaWs away
everything else, is powerless
against truth.
Thomas Huxley
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22

Reservations for all Garden
events can be made in Hamilton,
Middletown. Dayton, Springfield,
Xenia, Portsmouth, Waverly and
Chillicothe, Ohio; Richmond, Indi-
ana; Ashland and Lexington, KY;
and Huntington and Charleston,
w. Va.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
Traffic Award
Nominations Now
Open To Women

CTIICAGO-Nominations for the
1854 Carol Lane Awards for Traf-
fic Safety are now open to women
throughout the country, according
to an announcement from the Ma
tional Safety Council.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-12-22
Plain City Wins
By Wide Margin

Madison Rural played basket
ball against Plain City Friday
night at Madison Local School.
In the reserve game Plain City
won 81 to 81. In the varsity
game, Plain City won "a to 43.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Glove Syndicate Formed

The 48 major firms producing
women's quality kid gloves in
Grenoble. France. have formed
the Grenoble Glove Syndicate.
a trade association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Defense in Massacre Trial
BIames Hitler Regime
BY the Associated Press

BORDEAUX. France. Feb. T.
A defense lawyer pleaded today
that the Hitler regime-and not
the SIS (elite guardD troopers on
trial here-was guilty Of the war
time massacre of Oradour- Sur.
Glane.
After the lawyers concluding
plea, hearings on the seven Ger
mans on trial for the crime were
postponed until next Wednesday.
They were escorted out Of the
crowded little courtroom and II
Alsatians. on trial for the same
war crime, were ushered in.
Both Germans and Alsatians
were formerly members Of the
third company Of Der Fuehrer
Regiment of Hitler's elite SIS Das
Reich Division. Although being
handled in separate proceedings.
both groups are being tried by a
French military tribunal on
charges of shooting, beating, or
burning to death 642 men, women
and children at the village Of
Oradour on June 10, 1914.
The prosecution has asked the
death penalty for one of the
Germans and sentences of hard
labor for the other six.
Today's session rounded out
the fourth week of the trial. A
verdict is expected next Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
f. By james Birchfield
Stoy Stoff CORRESPONDENT

HARPERS FERRY, w. Va,
Feb. mot since George Wash
ington succeeded in having Con-
gress establish the national
arsenal here, where the Potomac
River flows through the noun
tains, has Harpers Ferry been
so hopeful of the future.
Harpers Ferry today is a ghost
town. 1t is a town of ruins
ruins of the old Federal Arsenal,
of Halls Rife Works and of once
great houses that overlooked the
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
from the sides of the steep,
rock gorge. But it has now be-
come a national monument,
taken over by the Park Service
to be rebuilt to a semblence Of
its former beauty.
Bypassed by the State high
ways and remaining only a
whistle stop" on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railway. the ferry grad
ually sank into decay. It is true
there is still the old John
Brown Fort on the grounds Of
Storer College. and the founda-
tons of the arsenal. down near
the station, but many of its old
houses are in ruins.
A few tourists find their way
into the town, but little effort
has been made to set out ade-
quately the points CT historic
Importance.
1t was a strange paradox, for
here is one of the most impor-
tant sites, historically. In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Lectures on Education
To Be Held in Falls Church

Three educators will teach
graduate courses in professional
education in Northern Virginia
as part of the University of Vir-
ginia program to offer advanced
training to teachers and school
administrators in the commune
ties where they work.
Vivian T. Thayer, formerly ed
ucational director of New York
City's Ethical Culture Schools,
will teach a course on the role
of the school in society each
Thursday evening.
William F. Bruce, former pro-
fessor of education at the New
York State University Teachers
College at Oneonta, will teach
the theory and practice of guild
ance each Tuesday night.
Samuel Engle Burr, jr., chair
man of the department of edu-
cation of American University,
will hold a doctoral seminar each
Saturday morning. All of the
courses will be given at the
George Mason High School, Falls
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Girl, 4, and 7 Soldiers
Killed in Virginia Collision
BY the A.soeioted Press

HANOVER, Va. Feb. IA
4-year-old girl and two Fort Lee
soldiers were killed today in a
two-car collision on United
States Route 301, eight miles
north of here in Caroline
County.
The victims were identified as
Meejan zee, 4. of Providence,
r. l.; Pvt. Burton B. Blum, %.
of Baltimore, and Pfc. Joseph G.
HutchinS. 10, of Aberdeen. Md.
The mother of the child, Miss
Mile zee. "a, and Joseph
Walsh, 26, both of Providence.
suffered minor face and hand
decorations.
Mr.. Walsh said he was driv-
ing the car in which Miss zee
and her child by a former mar
riage were passengers. The two
soldiers were in the other car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08

dynamite-laden truck blew up
west of town, residents were
jostled into the opinion that the
road change had been a blessing
Harpers Ferry, best known for
the John Brown incident which
preceded the outbreak of the
Civil War, took its name from
Robert Harper, who settled here
in 1747.
Harper had come from oxford,
England, settling in Philadelphia
in 1735. An architect and mill
wright. he was employed to- con-
struct a Quaker meeting house
at Winchester, Va. Crossing the
Potomac at the Ferry, he was so
impressed with the scenery that
he bought out Peter Stephens,
who had been a "squatter"s at
the Ferry since 1888. Harper
later bought land from Lord
Fairfax and in 1863 the town
was incorporated as Harpers
Ferry by the Virginia General
Assembly. Meanwhile, Mr..
Harper had established a ferry
service for travellers moving
westward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Assembly Extends
Dead|ine on State
Road Plan Hearing

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. Hear
ings on the proposed 12-year
roads program will continue
after the previously announced
February Is deadline. Chairman
Logan of the House Ways and
Means Committee, announced
today.
The Attorney Generals Office
informed Mr.. Logan the General
Assembly could take no action
on the program until the budget
bill had passed.
Mr.. Logan then ordered the
hearings continued, for "you
know it will probably take the
rest of the session to study the
budget BILL"
Toll Report to Be Studied.
Next weeks hearings are ex-
pected to deal with a recent re-
port by the State Roads Com
mission that tolls on four main
segments Of highway would
bring in $40 million over a 28-
year span.
Under existing law. no new
stretch Of highway can be fl
nanced by tolls unless the tolls
pay for the entire project.
But a bill has been introduced
which the commission favors
that would permit toll-backed
bonds to be issued for a part of
new highway and tolls charged
for the entire length of high
way.
Commission Jurisdiction Urged.
Under the proposed change,
tolls on the new Washington
National Pike from Frederick to
the District of Columbia, could
be collected to pay for the
stretch from Frederick to Clarks-
vile. Other construction funds
would pay for the rest.
Commission Chairman Russell
H. Mccain suggested the toll
revenues could be used either
to pay for part of the 12-year
program or to pay for more
highway additions.
He said he believed that de-
cision should be left in the hands
of the commission because mo
one can tell now what condi-
tons are going to be a few years
from now"
The toll roads he suggested
were:
/. Eastern Shore expressway-
from Queenstown to Delaware
line at Warwick, 38.5 miles.
2. Observation-Disclosures ex-
presSway-26 miles.
3. Washington National Pike
from Frederick to the District
of Columbia line, 81 miles.
4. Baltimore National Pike
From Pine Orchard to Hagers-
town, SIS miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Horper's Ferry, Ghost Town,
To Live Again as Monument

Nation. A town that is known
to virtually every school child
throughout the country, left to
sink gradually into decay.
But a new day has begun for
the Ferry. Last month West Vir-
ginia presented approximately
400 acres Of land to the Park
Service to develop national
monument. Additional land is
expected from Maryland, direct
~ across the Potomac River.
Plans are incomplete, but resi-
dents are jubilant over the pros
poets for their town.
Mayor Gilbert E. Perry, a
large, placid man who has done
much toward having Harpers
Ferry added to the national
monuments. believesa4it is the
greatest thing that ever hap
pened to- the community.
A few years ago, when Route
$40 was rebuilt to pass over the
Potomac River south of Harpers
Ferry. and the Shenandoah to
the west, there was opposition
from the towns residents.
But Mayor Perry believed then
that the rerouting of the high
way was a good thing. The
towns main street. which de-
cends steeply from Bolivar
Heights to the banks of the Po-
tomac, was too narrow for the
heavy traffic that flows west
from Frederick. Md, and east
from Charlestown, w. Va. And
the only bridge over the river
was a combination highway and
railway structure.
A few years later, when a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Montgomery Gets Plan
For Auto License Trainees

The Montgomery County Safety
Board has recommended that the
States 16-year-olds be eligible
for driver licenses on successful
completion of high school driver
training courses.
The board further urged that
IS years be retained as the elig-
ible age for driver tarining in
high schools.
A bill now in the Maryland
Assembly would raise the age for
license applicants from Is to 10
regardless of high school train
ing. The bill also would require
students enrolled in high school
driver training courses to be at
least II years old.
The present minimum age for
Maryland driver license appli-
cants is Is years, with or without
high school training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08

UGCUIllIOI WdY NdH
Union Drive for Pay
Denied by WSB
BY the Associated Press

The death Of Government
wage controls seems sure to
touch OF union, drives to re-
capture pay increases denied
under Federal curbs.
The 8-milion-member AL
already has signalled for such
attempts, but many employers
are expected to resist the move,
at least until their present labor
contracts run out.
President Eisenhower's order
Friday ending wage controls
gave an official okay to all en-
ployer-union agreements still
waiting for Government app.
prevail. There were nearly 10000
such contracts involving an
estimated million workers, who
will now get the contemplated
pay raises.
WSB Denied Many Raises.
But during the two-year
period when controls were in eff
feet many proposed boosts in
pay and other benefits were
denied or partly disapproved by
the Wage Sterilization Board.
Out of $4,000 cases handled,
the WSB shaved down the terms
of more than 10000 employer
union agreements. It is these
vetoed benefits the unions row
will want to get back.
In many cases the labor groups
will be stuck with the reductions
unless their employers volun-
tarily agree to waive them, as
can be done now that the wage
lid has been taken off.
MostA of the contracts were
negotiated for time periods, with
Stipulations that the gains were
subject to Government approval.
WSB Chairman Charles C. Kill
ingsworth said in a farewell
news conference that WSB's
lawyers view the stipulations as
meaning reductions can be made
to last legally for the life of the
contracts.
Will Increase New Requests.
But if baked for the time
being at recapturing the gains
once forbidden by the wage
stabilizers. unions can be de-
pended on to increase their pay
demands by that amount when
present contracts expire.
There is no total estimate
available of the cuts in pay and
other benefits ordered by the
WSB. Some labor contracts.
however, allow pay rates to be
renegotiated now that controls
are off.
First effects from lifting wage
controls may turn up in the big
construction industry which is
now entering its period of nego-
tiating new pay rates with unions
representing about two million
workers.
Pay demands are likely to de-
pend to some extent on what
happens to prices. Price controls
also are being gradually lifted,
but the forecasts of merchants
generally is that there won't be
much immediate change in con-
sumner costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Defense Production
Aides Move 10 Keep
Essential Controls
By Froncis P. DouoIos

Government officials are de-
batting the extent to which pro-
duction controls will have to be
continued to assure no interrupt
ton in the defense buildup.
Jobs for hundreds of Govern
ment employees hang on the de-
ciSions. Most of them work for
the National Production Au-
thority. The Defense Production
Administration also Is involved.
Many in NPA look for a de-
ciSion from the White House to-
morrow. It was reported, how
ever. that no final conclusions
may be made known until the
end Of the week.
NPA. which is part of the
Commerce Department. had 1922
employees. DPA. which has been
consolidate with the ONCE of
Defense Mobilization, has 365.
ODM is the top agency in the
emergency Setup and is engaged
in high policy determinations.
DPA is the planning organiza-
ton for production. NPA is the
operating agency.
Contained in Message.
General policy on production
controls was laid down by Presi-
dent Eisenhower in his state-of-
the-Union message last week.
He said:
1 believe that material
and production controls should
be ended, except with respect to
defense prioritieS and scarce and
critical items essential for de-
tense. I shall recommend to the
Congress that legislation be en-
acted to continue authority for
such remaining controls of this
type as will be necessary after
the expiration of the existing
statute on June 30, 1883"
One decision to be made is
whether the Controlled Materials
Plan is to be continued after
June 30. This plan provides for
careful distribution of steel, cop
per and aluminium. First claims
allowed are those for defense and
defense supporting production.
Remaining materials are appor-
toned among civilian producers.
Steel Shortages Remain.
A large staff is required to
handle the volume of detailed
work required by the plan.
An alternate course would be
to issue orders requiring set
aSideS of essential materials for
military output. Either with or
without GIMP the work is ex-
pected to be scaled down.
Controls which have applied to
a large number of commodities
have been revoked in recent
months as supplies have in
creased. 1t is expected that con-
trolls will have to be continued
on steel. copper, aluminium,
nickel and other alloys and pro-
duetion machinery and COM
ponents. Plentiful supplies of
steel have not developed as pre-
dicted, and shortages remain at
least in some steel products.
Dumping is Discussed
Prospective reductions in force
have stimulated discussion of
dumping" This is an arrange
ment under Civil Service where
by the holder of a job which has
been abolished and who has a
stronger claim to employment
than the holder of a comparable
job not abolished, may claim
the other job for himself.
ODM employees are apprehen-
sive Of humping from DPA en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Adults Will Register
For Oxon Hill Glasses

Registration for second semes-
ter adult education classes at
Oxon Hill High School will take
place at Z pm. tomorrow in the
school, 6751 Indian Head road
Sc.
The classes are for self i'm
provement only and no high
school credit will be given. APP
plicants must be at least Is years
of age.
Subjects will depend on re-
quests of applicants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Dulles Sees Damage
From Flood in Flight
Over Dutch Area
BY The Associated Press

AMSTERDAM, Feb. Green
grass shining through salt water
shadows. dreary miles of
flooded farmland dotted by roof
tops. the black lines of broken
bikes leading.
These were some of the things
Secretary of State Dulles saw in
a fight over the Dutch Belgian
flood zone today in his capacity
as chairman of President EiSen-
hower'S relief committee.
Mr.. Dulles 30-minute tour
with Mutual Security Director
Harold Stassen, another mem
Der of the committee, was made
during their flight from Amster-
dam to Brussels.
Before taking off from Hol-
land. Mr.. Dulles indicated that
his impressions on the survey
would help decide how much
and what kind of relief the
United States will extend to this
storm-battered corner Of West
Europe.
New Danger Spots.
Rescue workers fought the
floods in several new danger
spots.D The village of Poortvliet,
on Tholen Island, radioed for
help to save it's 1,7O1 inhabitants,
cut off on all sides by floods.
= August G. Maris of the water
channels section of the trans
port ministry said other main
danger areas are Hellevoetsluis,
on the island of Voorne-Putten
at the southern mouth of the
Voorne Canal; Stavenisse, on
Tholen; and Brouwershaven, on
Schouwen-Duiveland.
Queen Juliana announced
plans today for further visits
to the disaster area next week,
including the island of Texel, a
famed exporter Of sheep until
the floods came.
Flags at Half staff.
AL Holland will lower flags
to half-staf at dawn tomorrow
for a national day of prayer and
mourning for the flood victims.
All church denominations will
unite in marking the day.
Millions of dollars in money,
material and medical supplies
poured into Holland in a steady
stream.
Dutch troops in Korea COL
lected 10000 guilders $2,63O
for flood victims. Pope Plus XII
made a contribution of 10000
guilders ($7,900).
Latest reports indicated that
Operation Windmill by 16 Amer
lean helicopters and other planes
based at Woensdrecht rescued
1000 persons. Thus far, Ameri-
can, Dutch. British and Belgian
planes have dropped 100000
Sandbags to assist dixie repairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Rayburn 70 Be Speaker
AT Dinner for Sasscer

House Minority Leader Ray
burn will be the principal speak
er at a testimonial dinner for
former Representative Sasscer,
Democrat of Maryland, at pm.
Tuesday at the Prince Georges
Country Club.
Mr.. SasScer served seven terms
as Representative from the 5th
District. and was defeated last
year in his bid for the Demo-
cratic senatorial post vacated by
Senator O'Conor.
Former State Senator L. Har-
old Sothoron also will address
the gathering. Sponsor of the
event is the SasScer Club Of
Prince Georges County.