Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-01-08
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BY RAY SPERBER
Observation-Disclosures

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foot top of Pixies Peak. Our broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lowell Schmitt, write from Pueblo,
Colorado. that the spectacle can be
seen for hundreds of miles. Nine
teen members of the Adaman Club,
packing flares and bombs on their
backs, started the climb two days
before New Years Eve and
reached the peak several hours
early. Evelyn writes that all dur
ing the trip up the huge mountain,
the climbers flash mirrors at GER
tain points and people from as far
away as Denver return the flashes.
At midnight, the spectacular fire
works display is set off. Its out
of this world" is her description.
This years climb and display were
televised. Sis writes: 'The televised
show was something to behold,
with the wind blowing the snow
around the men and the fireworks
bursting into a million lights, to
hang suspended miles in the sky
until they finally faded away. All
during the teleshow, the men were
playing 'Auld Lang Syne' and de-
scribing the beauty about them.
The climbers took movies as they
progressed up the mountain. They
told how the wind had blown snow
into the Summit House and how
even with fire blazing, they could
not get the temperature over 13
degrees and the snow would not
melt"
Mrs. Lloyd Andrews is a firm
believer in results gained from
advertising in The Ottawa County
News. She had over a dozen calls
from a recent ad and now has a
three-room house trailer and two
room cottage, both furnished. for
rent at their Hickory Grove Beach
property, Bay Shore Road.
JOT
Thanks to the Northern Ohio
Toll Operators for their Thank
YOU card and to Mrs. Paul Seitz,
Fort Wayne, Indiana, for her re.
marks in renewing her subscrip-
ton to The Ottawa County News,
you sure get out a swell home
town newspaper. I'm constantly
quoting it or clipping from it."
Mrs. Seitz is a native of Elmore
who graduated from Tiffin Univer-
sity.
JOT
Two former Redskins have
moved to new locations. Bruce
Hostrup and his family have
moved from Lansing, Illinois, to
542 West Rolling Road, Spring
field, Delaware County, Pa. Har-
old Perrott and his family have
moved from Whittier Street in To
ledo to 1928 Strauss Road, also in
the neighboring Lucas County me-
tropolis.
Lucky Fred and Virginia Gug
gisberg, East Perry Street. They've
been in sunny Mexico for the past
month really livin' it up. The To-
cal couple postcards from South
of the Border: "Just came from a
bull fight. Having fun seeing all
major sights and driving all over
this country"
JOT
Captain Harold Sperber, Port
Clinton, who is stationed al
Wright-Patterson Field again after
completing another lengthy COM
bat tour in Korea, has been invited
to report to the School of Avia.
ton Medicine at Randolph Air
Force Base in Texas, to put on
demonstration of his latest inven-
ton. It's an exercising machine
which top Air Corps medics be-
lieve may be Of value in treating
paraplegics and polio victims.
Sperber will fly to Randolph
early this month.
JOT
While attending the National
Spaniel Show in New York City
last week, we were among the
million persons jammed in Times
Square on New Years Eve. AS
soon as that huge silver ball
dropped and 1854" flashed atop
The Times Building, we fought
our way back to the hotel to es-
cape from the mob. Anyone who
is foolish enough to get caught in
the middle of Times Square on
New Years Eve should carry a
picnic lunch. We took time out to
see a couple excellent plays, Jose
phine Hull in ''The Solid Gold
Cadillac" and Hermione Gingold
and Billy DeWolf in John Murray
Anderson's Almanac" Don't miss
either if you like top comedy.
JOT
Perhaps you received a new ba-
rometer from Santa Claus. If so,
you'll need to know the elevation
of Port Clinton. We have had sew
oral calls m thic n1ection In re-