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Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-08
THOMPSON SCHOOL NEWS
BY Joan HOdel

by Joan HOdel
First Grade
The first grade mothers have
sponsored a bake sale, Satur-
day, Mar. 27, at 100 pm. at
Smiths store.
Cheryl Jedlinsky had a birth
day, March "a.
Second Grade
We took a State reading test
this week. We did better than
the other time. This makes us
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-08

very happy.
In art we are learning to
cut flowers, free hand. 1t takes
quite a bit of practice, b u
it's fun.
One day we played in the
gym. The game we played was
dodge ball" All of us played.
Our bouquet is pussy willows.
We have learned a song about
the pussy willow.
Fourth Grade
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-08
SHERIFF'S SALE
= y = ~ AA<N~
OF REAL ESTATE

General Code, Sec. 11678, 1851
The State of Ohio, G. eauga
County. Common Pleas Court
Lawrence A. Kunar
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-08
Judy Th'asher Reigns as Three Day
Queen of Geanga Maple Festival

Pretty
Chardon
oft
and
A
radio stations Cleveland The surrounding
o vim her
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-04-08
TEN YEARS AGO

ZEN YEARS AGO
Hal J. Thrasher, prominent
attorney, has been named to
succeed Frank Zethmayr as
chairman of the Geauga coun-
ty Price and Rationing Board
Fire from an overheated
chimney ignited the sugar house
OF Cliff Rossiter of West Char
don, and his complete syrup
making equipment and m e
maple syrup were destroyed.
Beginning April 18th the
government support prices on
live hogs again will supply only
to good and choice barrows and
gifts weighing from 200 to 27O
pounds.
Farmers applying at the Ge-
auga Price and Rationing Board
in Chardon for non-highway
gasoline, will be allowed so
percent of their allotment.
Mrs. Wilson w. Smith, War
Fund chairman, has no final
Red Cross War Fund report to
announce. From the returns
now in, the War Fund will &c
over the top.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
LIFE
ABROAD
BY FRED SAITo

HIGASHIDORI VILLAGE, North
Japan R-Japan, though the most
highly industrialized nation in the
Orient, is still a land of poor
farmers.
Farmers total 81 per cent of the
IS million population, compared
with q per cent of industrial
workers and merchants combined.
"Our life is toll, toll, toll every
day-only to eat," said Heizo Abe,
4S, a farmer in this wide, wild
village in northern Honshu,
Japan'S main island.
Abe squatted by a narrow strip
of his paddy of about an acre and
dejectedly looked at rice plants
about to wither without bearing
grain.
Heaven often retards our toll
with this weather - I'm going to
reap no rice at all this year." he
said. The damage was done by
freak cold in summer when rice
needs broiling sunshine to grow"
He pointed at his wife, 24-year-
old son, 22-year-old daughter and
14-year-Old daughter carrying
stacks of rice plants just harvest
ed. Each stack weighs about so
pounds.
"You may think it's foolish to
cut this CROP" he said. actually
these unproductive rice plants
need the same trouble as a rich
crop needs. If we want to sell
them as hay, we must remove
hollow ears, lest they hurt cattle's
StomachS."
Three other children waited at
home. The 10-year-old daughter
carried the youngest papoose-Style
and was playing with her 7-year-
old sister.
Abe'S shack has one room, about
8x6.
Il had still another son, but he
was killed in Malay during the
last war;" he said. Some other
families in this village lost more
than two sons in the war so
I'm better off"
That son you saw in the paddy
thinks of signing up with the new
army National Safety Force)-I
haven't decided yet whether l
should allow him to do 500
Abe is worried about a 19-year-
old daughter who works as maid
in a small restaurant in the nearby
town of Tanabu at 1,5OO yen ($4)
plus board a month. He explained:
"Many wicked woman-brokers
call every other day offering her
unbelievably good pay if she will
work down in the south. Both she
and l know all such jobs are bad
ones, whatever fine things they
may say. But l am worried
whether she some day will get
fooled BY such a wicked man."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Fashion ShOaU
Report Heard
By JayShees

The Jayshees held a business
Meeting on Thursday, March IS,
at the home of Mrs. Sam Collins.
First on the agenda was the
Charity Dance and Fashion Show
to be held at the Casa Marina
Hotel on Friday, March Is, at
800 p. m.
Mrs. Limo Castro and Mrs. Ever
cite Sweeting, co-chairmen of this
affair reported that there is a very
good advance sale of tickets and
large attendance is expected.
Large parties desiring reservations
may call 2-SS9O or 2-6377.
Mrs. Everette Sweeting was
chosen to represent the Jayshees
in the Parade of Easter Fashions
that is being sponsored by the Jr.
Woman'S Club on April IL.
After the meeting, a very en-
pertaining game of charades was
played. Prizes were won by Mrs.
Charles Curry and Mrs. Charles
Pierce.
Delicious refreshments were SER
we'd from lovely table decorated
to carry out the st. Patrick's Day
theme. Mrs. Collins was the hos.
tess for the evening.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Business ability Of American Women
Makes Headlines In French Papers

portance of business transactions
as well as the remarkable finish
of its serial creations, is Adele
Simpson, Inc
" The offices of the firm
are located not far from Times
Square. In contrast to our great
dressmaking houses there is no
pretense here for atmosphere.
They dispense with the expensive
front which impresses and seduces
the clientele, as they do business
with professional buyers only i.
Here, all sales are final. The gar
ment manufacturers buy their
fabrics by placing firm orders in
advance. One point stands out
clearly: while Paris leads the
styles of fashion, the greatest
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Forest PreserU Symbol
Smokey The Bear Is internationally Known

Davis, national director of Coop
erative Forest Fire Prevention
gives Smokey considerable credit
for this.
Federal law protects Smokey
from commercial exploitation and
authorizes the Forest Service TO
license the manufacture and sale
of Smokey the Bear" toys and
appliances to put across fire pre-
vention messages. Royalties 90 for
fire prevention work.
About 100000 Smokey teddy
bears were sold last Christmas.
A song about him is selling in
sheet music form and on five diff
ferent photograph records. His life
story is due to be published soon
In book form.
Some of Smokey's recent accom-
pliShments:
He crashed a Boston pops or.
chestra concert in Constitution
Hall.
He became an honorary assis-
tant chief of the District of Column
bia Fire Department.
He is featured in the Boy Scouts
fire prevention program and his
picture will appear on a half
million scout posters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

risks are taken in New York, so
that the EXCLUSIVELY is followed by
quantity"
Mrs. Simpson is a miniature,
less than five-feet tall, tipping the
scales at less than 100 pounds.
with soft, little-girl voice and
a shy manner.
She could be perfectly cast as
the "clinging vine" in a Victorian
play-the shy, fluttery little wom-
an who doesn't understand the big,
bad world of business.
But her husband, Wesley Simp-
son, a successful financier, lets
''the little woman" run her own
vast corporation with no questions
asked. He knows she is a match
for the toughest banker in Wall
street.
Add to this the fact that her
designing skill has been recognized
by three major awards in the brief
five years since she has headed
her own firm and you'll have some
idea of why a Paris financial pa
per should consider her worthy of
a full page.
Even more amazing to most
Frenchmen is the fact that this
tiny, feminine creature can run
one of the country's biggest bus
inesses with one hand, and with
the other manage two perfectly
appointed homes and an adoring
family of contented husband, teen
age daughter and college son.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
By DOROTHY ROE
APP Women's Editor

The business ability of Ameri-
can women is making headlines in
France.
Most recent subject of French
comment is Adele Simpson, tiny
dynamo who, with her partner,
Eleanor Graham, runs one Of
Americas biggest and most sue
cessful wholesale dresSmaking
firms.
Agence Quotidienne, Paris
equivalent of the Wall Street
Adele'S name. The papers New
York correspondent, Max Dorian,
remarked on the difference be-
tween the custom dressmaking
houses of Paris and the vast
wholesale production of New York.
"In this respect equality mass
production) American houses have
held their own against all COM
petition. The most outstanding
among them, considering the i'm
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

HIGASHIDORI VILLAGE, North
Japan R-Japan, though the most
highly induStrialized nation in the
Orient, is still a land of poor
farmers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Forest Preservation Symbol
sy JOHN RAMPS

WASHINGTON R-Smokey the
bear, with his jaunty forest ran
gers hal and blue jeans, is fast
becoming an international symbol
of forest preservation.
The real Smokey was snatched
as a cub from a flaming New
Mexico forest nearly four years
ago and brought to new home
in the federally-run ZOO here.
Ever since, the Forest Service
has used his picture-an logged
out in rangers gear-to drive
home its fire prevention message
on highway billboards and trolley
advertisements. Smokey has been
in the movies, on radio and on
television.
Now his fame has spread to
other lands. Youngsters in South
America, Canada and even France
have joined with a million or so
American kids in a corps of
Junior Rangers, pledged to
save and faithfully defend from
waste the natural resources of my
country"
Smokey will spearhead a big six
million dollar campaign planned
by federal and state forestry Off
Gals and private advertising
groups to plug for protection of
the nations woodlands from the
ravages of fire. The campaign
opens April l. The governments
share is $15O,OOO.
Fires annually destroy about
billion dollars worth of timber in
the United States, put some prog
ress has been made and Clint
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Sixth Divorce Is
Easy On Spreckels

VENTURA, Calf. R-Sugar heir
Adolph Spreckels II has a divorce
from his sixth wife that cost him
only $500 Ia cash.
Spreckels, AZ, was granted a de-
cree yesterday from 22-year-old
Judith Powell of Beverly Hills,
Calf. He testified she refused to
maintain a home, failed in her
household duties and was unac-
countably absent from their Ojai
ranch. The marriage lasted "a
days.
The young wife gets 5000, plus
$500 attorney fees, and is allowed
to keep her wedding gifts from
SpTeckels, including a mink coat
and a diamond ring.
Spreckels has an appeal from a
30-day sentence for beating his
fifth wife, actress Kay Williams,
who divorced him last August.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

President Eisenhower posed with
a Smokey doll and urged "everv
man, woman and child to join"
in the drive against forest fires.
What better tribute could there
be to Smokey'S influence with the
younger set than a letter from a
woman who wrote that her chill
dren have stopped watching their
favorite Spaceman since Smokey
went on TV.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20
Oscar OrOpesa Elected
To Fraternity Office

Oscar Oropeza was recently cleo
ted pledge trainer of The Sigma
Phi Epsilon social fraternity at
Florida State University in Tai
lahassee.
A graduate Of Key West High
School, Oropeza will be remem-
bered by sports enthusiasts as one
OF the best basketball players
ever developed at the local high
school. He was also a standout
baseball player.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

Store your vacuum cleaner, when
you are not using it, in a place
that is cool and dry. Never put it
near a register or radiator. Give it
ample room: if you crowd it into
a small space you may damage
some part of it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

Drop cream-puff batter in tiny
mounds and bake until golden
brown. Fill with cream cheese mix
al with Roquefort and little
m vonnaise. Serve as snack in
The evening, or as a first course
before supper with well-seasOned
chilled tomato juice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

Mix a half cup of powdered SUI
gar and a teaspoon of cinnamon
together; sift over the top of a
sponge cake.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-20

A 10-inch narrow ham" slicer is
most useful. 1t may be used for
Slicing other cold meats besides
ham, as well as for cutting cheese.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-13
Q CT BILL BENEFITS TO VETS
OVER 10 YEAR PERIOD TOLD

This ear-1954-marks the 10th
anniversary of the Servicemen's
REIMBURSEMENT Act of 1914 plus the
amendments strengthening this i'm
portant piece of legislation.
Ten years ago. the Congress E.
nacted legislation designed to ease
the rocky road back to civilian life
for World War II veterans, and sur
veys show that the far-reaching le-
gislation have made it an important
factor in the economic life, not on
" of the veterans but OF the nation
itself
Nearly eight million veterans re-
ceived vocational rehabilitation and
educational training under the Gil
Bill On the basis of a study made
by the United States Census Blu
reau Veterans Administration re-
ports that the average income of
veterans increased by 40 per cent
during the last five years The av-
erage income of non-veterans. dur
ing the same period advanced only
by 10 per cent the figures show.
The Census Bureau attributes the
increase largely to CT Bill training
for the trained veteran labor force
was distributed throughout the en-
tire economy of the nation, reach
ing every part of the professional
industrial and business life
The survey shows that eight OF
every ten veteran-farmers in the
q. S. took training under the Gil
Bill or a total of $4,000 farm train
ees Nearly a million veterans took
training in the field OF business ad-
ministration and many have NOV
ed high up in business circles
Engineering has expanded by
leaps and bounds since World Wal
II thanks in part to approximately
40, 900 veterans who took CT Bill
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-13

PTYAILUP-Mrs Arthur famsAa
P. O. Box III. Milton Wash.
p0RTIAND-Tom OksEski
74e4 y Denver Portland. Ores
ykCOMA-YaSuko Hashirnoto
Isis Faveett Ave Tacoma Wash
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-13
Q PURELY PERSONAL PIFFLEs:
in the last two weeks. we

PURELY PERSONAL PIFFLEs in the last weeks we
participated raid drill voted in the
primary nothing felt quite patriotic after had
performed large segment OF japanese American
population drifting Inland Empire for the seventh
postwar weekendtFeo le-2 no
okuda and Gen Mhara were de-
oa,e by japanese government their contribution to the vel
fare Of he japanese the Senate has not yet
confirmed the recess appnen, Of Of Ca
ufons % the United states Supreme appears FBI
rt On him s being asked b. when advised Hiro-
ai ya-ua he from Gallup Nm that we
intended to cnv moral support Of the JAcI he urged US
Keep I'D and his encouragement mighty lift some
Nse. have the peculiar have japanese heritage is dis
s.a,etu thing re japanese much to the world in the
fed q arts ana science should pointed part Of Japans
2n,enal progress International trade may be viewed no"
. e international Trade will be until Wednesday Feb
:. i Re Csytc Auditorium
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-13
The Vets
Mailbag
engineering COURSES

engineering courses
With competent teachers always
a. a premium. 237 900 veterans have
helped fill the demand, and l6S. 900
veterans were assisted in reaching
medical or dental degrees by the Gil
Bill
Also an important contribution
has been made by the 400 veterans
who trained in nuclear physics and
now are engaged in furthering ato-
mic research and application. In the
field of trades some 46l 900 trained
n some field of mechanics and
100 900 obtained training as metal
workers. all adding to the nations
trained labor force and strengthen
ing the general economy of the
country
Q Question of the Week
@ am training to be a lawyer
under the Korean CT Bill After I
complete my schooling, will be al
lowed 10 take Gil Bill on-the- job
training as a law clerk?
A. Under the Korean CT Bill. you
are permitted to take job training
as a law clerk only if it's required
in your state in order to be admit
j ted TO the bar examination and to
practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-03
Why Grow Old?
By Josephine Lowmon

A change of pace is one Of the
most refreshing experiences! We
all need it. We would not want
to be glamour girls all of the
time even if We could be. Often
after high-powered fun and a
glamorous atmosphere it seems
good to walk about barefooted
and clean out the closets.
On the other hand, if you are
at home much of the time and
do your own work and maybe
take care of your children, too,
it is a sad mistake to wander
about in sloppy house shoes and
in ill-fitting and homely gar
mentS. This does something to
a woman if carried on as habit.
Few people today have full
time help at home and there
fore this idea becomes especially
important. You can be comfort
able and still look we'll groomed
as you do your work. You will
be much better looking and also
much more comfortable If you
wear a pair of well-fitted and
supporting shoes.
It is absolutely true that we
react to our surroundings and
that we women react to the
clothes we are wearing. You will
feel more successful at your
homemaking and will enjoy your
work more if you follow up this
notion / am promoting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-03
Why Grow Old?
Spruce Up While at Home
ToHeIp Enjoy Your Work

While you may leave the gayer
and brighter lipstick shades for
more formal occasions than a
day in your own home, do wear
some lipstick. Also wash your
face and refresh your makeup
several times during the day. It
will give you a mental and phys
ical pickup.
I think most women need q
comfortable. light girdle while
doing their work. This will help
avoid fatigue because of the sup
port it gives you. You should
have more than one girdle SO
that you can change them often.
Girdles should be washed fire.
quently because perspiration and
body oils and dirt are hard on
fabrics. especially elastic ones.
For your dresses to work in,
choose nylons. cotton lisse or
seersucker. because all Of these
can go right into the soapsuds
and drip dry without giving you
any ironing trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-03
Program Planned
On 1AdoLescentsI

A discussion on adoleScents
and their parents will highlight
a meeting of the Garrett Park
Women's Club to be held at $50
pm. tomorrow in the Garrett
Park Community Center.
A feature of the event will be
the presentation Of play.
High Pressure Areas" by the
Kensington Players. The play,
which is about parents and adj
olescents, is being given under
auspices of the Montgomery
County Mental Hygiene Society.
The clubs Welfare Committee
Is in charge Of the program
which also will include a talk by
DR.. Fern Schneider. a discussion
leader with the Service to
Groups in Family and Commu-
nifty Life Education Agency.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-03

side-saddle with Tommy and me
both in back. On those days, our
tin bucket held fried chicken
and caramel hickory cake, for
teacher ate with us.
I don't remember much about
our report cards although / sup
pose we had them, and wouldn't
know whether we were injured
by the competition for good
marks as the modern anti-grad-
ing group thinks some are now.
But / am sure that when we left
our little one-roon schoolhouSe,
we could read and write, both
printing and script, add, sub
tract. multiply and divide, some
times even in our heads. And I
can't help thinking these still
are important in education. Any
way I'm glad the schools are on
the front pages. Public interest
will help solve the problems.
From AP Newsfeatures)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-03

q
their boys and girls yearn only
to print ana are actually in
capable of deciphering the
script in letters from friends and
relatives. One disgruntled father.
worried also about the new the
cries of discipline. declared
grimly, "the three Rs in our
schools today stand for rest, relax
and receive"
All this makes me feel pretty
good about the one-room. one
teacher schoolhouse to which I
went as a child in Missouri. At
Salem we had all grades from
the primary through the eighth.
Mornings, Miss Verne Holloway.
our teacher, would call up a class
in arithmetic and set it to work
at the blackboard. Then she'd
give a reading group a study
task. And finally she would hear
the fourth grade spell.
I read all the stories in my
primer and soon finished Otha
Hogsett's first reader to boot. My
only other schoolbook was a
speller, but Miss Verne taught
me numbers orally and of course
how to count up as far as hum
dred. I didn't care much for
numbers, but I loved to spell.
and the lessons in penmanship
were best of all. I wrote the
names Of my family over and
over.
When recess came. we all
teacher included-went out and
played dare base. hide-and-go-
seek and Andy-over. In Andy
over one side threw q ball over
the schoolhouse and the other
side stood ready to catch it. The
Schoolhouse was so small that
it was easy to slam the ball right
over the top.
There were no school cafete-
k1dS al OA4OoC Odyos ~ AA0AuA PAt
up our lunch in a tin bucket
what was left Of the breakfast
fried ham thrust between two
slices of lightbread, other slices
spread richly with butter and
grape jelly. If there were any Of
the wonderful raisin- stuffed
cookies, we took those. Always
we had apples-Ben DaviSes dry
and mellow and tasting Of the
earth in which they were buried,
or Jonathans squirting juice
when sharp teeth crunched in.
There were no school buses.
either. My brother Tommy and
I usually rode to school together
on our old horse. Flint, and
quarrelled about who would sit
in front. Sometimes, II Miss
Verne had spent Saturday and
Sunday with us, she'd put on her
long black riding skirt and ride