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Evening star., 1955-03-06
By Mary McGrory

Which edition of "Lysistrata"
do you read?
The ancient Greek comedy by
Aristophanes. in various stages
of outspokennesS, circulates in
public libraries including the
Districts. But Post Office OFF,
cials plucked from the mails last
August a copy of an English edi-
ton. illustrated by Australian
artist Norman Lindsay and
translated by his son Jack. The
Beverly Hills (Calif.) bookseller
to whom it was addressed wants
it back.
Custom officials once banned
this edition. but in 1880 changed
their minds. At least five large
libraries in the United States
have copies of it in their rare
book collections.
Miss Hamilton Protests.
The Post Office Departments
action, which was appealed in
District Court yesterday, brought
this comment from Edith Hamil-
ton, 87-year-old classical scholar
and author of THE Greek Way
to Western Civilization:
ANY banning of Lysistrata'
is absurd and should not be
done"
Miss Hamilton emphasized
that she had not seen this par
ticular edition, but made it clear
that she feels "as principle, to
ban one of the classics is a
terrible thing to do"
"All banning is extremely ILL
advised and reactionary." she
said.
Said Douglas Black, president
of the publishing firm of Double
day & Co., and chairman of
the anti-censorship committee
of the American Book Publishers
Council:
This is not a case of public
morals. This is case of bureau
cratic shopping.
THE chief problem is the con-
fusion this Post Office action
brings. This is a collectors item
being sent to a private library
from overseas for an individuals
own use"
Clearly nonmailable" was the
post Office verdict on this copy of
the bold farce about determined
women and lovesick men, which
has been performed on the stage
through the ages and circulates
freely in public libraries, the Dis
trict's included.
Attacked In Brief.
Plainly lewd, obscene and las
civious" says the Postmaster
General of this edition. Genera
tions of critics have praised the
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Red Cross Seeks Sc
To Train as Aides

Sixty-eight volunteers are
needed to train for service at st.
Elizabeths Hospital, it was an
nounced last night.
The appeal came from the Dis
trict Red Cross Chapter, along
with statement by DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent of st.
Elizabeths, that trained Red
Cross volunteers play a valuable
role in helping the hospital to
help our patients get we'll"
The chapter will take inter-
ested volunteers on a tour March
IA to acquaint them with the
work. Buses will leave the chap
ter house, POPS E street NV,
at l pm.
Training classes will begin at
10 am. March II at the chapter
house.
Both our patients and our
hospital staff have come to value
such volunteer workers highly"
said DR.. Overholser. ''In a real
sense. volunteer workers such as
you are now recruiting" he told
the Red Cross. perform a unique
function in the operation of our
hospital.
Receiving no salary or other
material reward. such volunteer
workers are highly accepted by
practically all patients" he said.
For reservations for a tour of
st. Elizabeth's and enrolment
as a Red Cross volunteer, the
telephone number to call is Ex-
ecutive 3-7600, branch col, from
am. to 5 pm. Mondays through
Fridays.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Soviet Custer Order
Astounds u. 5. Priest;
Would Like 10 Return

HELSINK1, Finland, Mar. S.
The Rev. Georges Bissonnette
told reporters tonight the order
expelling him from the Soviet
Union came out of a clear sky
and he had no idea what was
behind it. He said he would like
to go back to Moscow some day.
The Roman Catholic priest,
only American clergyman in the
Soviet capital. was told last We'd
nesday' to get out of the Soviet
Union by midnight tonight. He
arrived in Helsinki by plane this
afternoon.
"The sudden expulsion came
after I had my visa renewed last
January" he told reporters. 1.-THE
visa was always granted for a
period of six months at time.
4 was never told why the visa
was revoked.
In Moscow Two Years.
Il had stayed in Moscow for
two years and one month, when
out of clear sky the expulsion
order came. My work was in
teresting and I got along very
well with my parishioners. They
were of many nationalities, most
ly Americans. French, Italians,
British, CZechs and Indonesians,
both diplomats and employees of
the various embassies and lega-
tions in Moscow.
For a church / was granted
the use of house owned by the
Russian state. I was happy with
my work out there. I was the
only Catholic priest in Moscow.
I should like to return.
THE Russians have a deeply
rooted sense of religion and are
faithful churchgoers. There is
also a noticeable increase in
church attendance and religious
interest. 1t comes in waves-it
is difficult to say what causes it,"
Father Bissonnette is booked
to leave Helsinki on Pan Ameri-
can plane which is due in New
York at Sis am. (EST) Mon
day, his hotel said.
The Assumptionist order
already has announced it's inten-
tion to apply for permission to
send the Rev. Louis F. Dion as
Father Bissonnette's replace
ment. Father Dion, registrar at
Assumption College in Worcester,
Mass, previously had been cho-
sen to succeed Father Bisson-
nette in the spring.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
NAM Urges Business
To Donate for Fight
On Guaranteed Wage
By Norman WoIker
Associated Press Stoff Writer

Businessmen are being asked to
contribute to a hard hitting"
public relations campaign spon-
sored by the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers against
the guaranteed annual wage and
other labor union aims.
Letters soliciting funds for the
campaign say business condi-
tions look good for 1855 "but we
will have to fight to make it So"
The guaranteed annual wage is
described as disturbing threat
to 1855 prospects"
Your past support" business
leaders are told, "has been of
great help in creating the i'm
proved economic climate in
which we now operate. We must
not let it disappear"
An account of the fund-rais-
ing letter appears in the current
issue of the railroad union news
paper Labor" The NAM, que
ried about it. made a copy avail
abel to reporter. Labor" said
the letter revealed formation of
"a gigantic propaganda fund" to
defeat union labor's chief 1855
goals.
Signed by Ira Mosher. a Mas
sachusettS manufacturer who is
former president of the NAM
and chairman of the United
Business Committee, allied with
NAM, the letter says:
Presently the most disturb
ing threat to 1855 prospects are
CIO President Walter Reuther's
announced intentions to I'd
press for repeal of the Taft
Hartley waiver which specifically
leaves to the States the author
ity to outlaw compulsory union
ism; and co win a guaranteed
annual wage for his members"
Mr.. Mosher said Mr.. Reuther
is raising a $25 million strike
fund in the CIO Auto Workers
Union to back up the wage de-
mand. He said his business
group can't match the budget
which the opposition plans for
the fight, but we will make every
dollar we do have count"
Contribution cards inclosed
with the letter say 1.-The size of
your gift is optional" They sug-
gest that many firms are sub
scribing at the rate of so cents
per $1,000 of gross annual pay
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Milling Arab Bands
And Troop Rumors
Fan Tension in GAIA
BY the ASsocioted Press

GAIA, Palestine, Mar. S.
New demonstrations by Arab
refugees and unconfirmed reports
of Israeli troop movements
heightened tension in this Pal
estinian coastal plains city to-
day.
AS a safety precaution. 16
wives and children of U. N. truce
observers were taken by automo-
bile through Israeli territory to
Arab Jerusalem.
Francois Gicomaggi, French
chairman of the U. N. truce team,
said the situation was becoming
extremely difficult. and said he
believed the women and children
would be safer out of GAIA.
Again Demand Arms.
Demonstrators among Arab
refugees from the Holy Land war
of 1948 marched this morning to
government house and again de-
manded arms for use against
the Israelis.
Aroused by the clash between
Israeli and Egyptian troops Mon
day night that left 38 Egyptian
and 8 Israel dead, the refugees
rioted on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. They burned U. N. food
depots. stoned U. N. truce team
headquarters and looted homes
of two U N. truce officials.
An Egyptian military spokes
man said he had received uncon-
f1rmed reports the Israeli Army
was moving armored car units
to points near the GAIA Israeli
border.
In Cairo the newspaper Akhbar
ell Yom's military correspondent
reported that David Ben-Gurion,
former premier who returned to
the government recently as de-
fenSe minister, had set up tenn
porary headquarters at Majdal
near the border.
Burns Report Expected.
!. Mai. Gen. Edison M. L. Burns,
Canadian chief of staff for the
U: N. Truce Commission in Pal
estine. is awaiting a meeting of
the Egyptian-ISraeli Mixed
Armistice Commission tomorrow
before deciding whether to fly
to U. N. headquarters in New
York, U. N. spokesman in the
Jordan sector OF Jerusalem said.
The U. N. Security Council
sent Gen. Burns an invitation
yesterday to report in person on
his investigation of Mondays
fighting.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
lis 'Lysistrutu' Losciyious?
Post Office Says One Edition Is

brilliant wit and stinging satire
of ancient Athens greatest comic
playwright.
In a brief filed in District
Court yesterday in behalf Of
Harry Levinson. the bookseller
who ordered the book. Attorney
Edward de Grazia asked these
questions:
by what right then does our
prurient postoffice think to CEN
sor the magnificent Aristo-
phanes, poet, political reformer,
social uplifter. philosophical
thinker with a dozen titles to
immortality? -.
by what right would our
postmaster censor the Ages?
by what authority does he
translate sex into sin, light into
darkness. literature into obscen-
ity, Lysistrata into pornog-
raphy?"
The Postoffice Department.
through a public information"
officer. refused to comment on
the matter.
Mr.. DeGrazia's motion asks
the court to release "Lysistrata"
to bookseller Levinson and to
declare unconstitutional the
Postoffice's power to censor art
and literature.
The illustrator, Norman Lind
say, chief cartoonist for the sgd
ney Bulletin, has been called the
high priest of aestheticism in
Australia"
According to the Postoffice De-
partment. the "lascivious char
acter" of certain passages is 'in-
tensified and heightened" by Mr..
Lindsay's indecent" illustrations.
Evening star., 1955-03-06

roll or $3.50 per employe, includ-
ing executives"
The paper Labor" said that
with payrolls running about $64
billion a year, if all manufac-
turers contributed the suggested
amount the total would be as
high as S32 million.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Hussein Visits Pukiston

KARACHI, Pakistan, Mar. 5
P).-King HuSsein of Jordan,
accompanied by his mother
Queen zein, arrived here today
on an eight-day State visit. The
royal party was received at the
airport by Gov.-Gen. Ghulam
Mahommad. Premier Moham-
mad Ali and other officials.
Evening star., 1955-03-06
Exchange Club Lists Topic

DR.. Paul E. CARRIER, curator Of
the National Air Museum, will
discuss THE History of Avia-
ton" at a meeting of the Ex-
change Club of Washington at a
luncheon at 1910 pm. Tuesday
in the Washington Hotel.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
pOsIoiiiee kt MI.
EpIlrairll To Close
Fourth Class Service
Viii Be Discontinued

Mrs. Jane Bates, postmaster
at the Mt. Ephraim postoffice,
has received directions from the
Postmaster Generals office in
Washington, D. c., that this
office would be discontinued as
of April 80.
The fourth class Postoffice has
been in existence for a number
of years and is the latest in the
governments plan to discon-
tinue all postal offices where
receipts do not justify keeping
them in operation.
The first postoffice closed
under this setup was down at
Dudley and then followed closely
by the one at Carlisle and now
Mt Ephraim.
Postoffice patrons of the Mt.
Ephraim office will receive their
mail eventually on a rural route
out of Sarahsville.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Business Places May
Close One Hour On
April s, Good Friday

Business places in Caldwell
are being requested to close from
loo to 200 o'clock for the annual
Good Friday services at the First
Presbyterian church on April g..
The Noble County Chamber OF
Commerce is making this request
at the wish of the Noble County
Ministerial association.
The stores were originally
asked to close for the entire
three hours but this was in error
and should have been only for
the one hour.
c. of c. officials pointed out
that they are requesting that
the stores cooperate on this date
and for this time only and they
will not be forced to comply.
Services will be held beginning
at high noon on Good Friday
and continuing until 800 o'clock.
The local ministers will cooper
ate in bringing the last seven
words of Christ as he hung on
the cross.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Easier Lilly Parade
Sci For Saturday

The annual Lily Parade for
the Noble County Society for
Crippled Children is scheduled
for Saturday, April End. The
members of Caldwell Jr. SOS.
All club have volunteered to
conduct the Lily Parade. The
energetic members of this club
did an excellent job of collect
ing money for the crippled chill
drens program in 1854.
Harold Morgareidge, treasurer
of the Crippled Children's
Society, reports good returns
from the 2800 Easter Seal letters
that were distributed in Noble
county, but more contributions
are needed to reach the amount
donated last year
If you have not mailed in your
donations do it now before you
forget. All contributions should
be returned to Harold Morgan
edge, treasurer.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Lyons To Appear Al
Lions Convention
High School Piorist
On Doyton Program

Gary Lyons, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Lyons and an
accomplished pianist, will be
representing SIS different Lions
clubs of district 13-B when he
appears at their state convention
in Dayton, May 13 and IA.
Young Lyons appeared at the
district meeting of the Lions
club last Thursday in GAINESVILLE
and was such a big hit with his
piano artistry that he was select
ed for repeat performance at
the state convention.
Attending the meeting from
the Caldwell club were district
deputy governor Don McDiffitt
and wife, John K. Shamhart, Mr..
and Mrs. Merle Barnhart, George
w Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Ferrell
and Gary Lyons.
The clubs represented at this
meeting were Caldwell, Frazeys-
burg, Roseville, GAINESVILLE, Lime
stone Valley, Cambridge, Philo,
and New Concord.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Hundreds Attend
Diversion Ditch
pr0ieCt al Lake

The FOE. sponsored project
for Boy Scout swimming pool,
picnic area and camping site, was
bee hive of activity, Wednes-
day, March 80, when several
local implement dealers cooper
ated in the construction of
several new diversion bitches to
aid the drainage of this 10 acre
plot.
Located less than one mile
east of Caldwell on State Route
285, the project was started from
scratch last fall by members Of
Noble Aerie, FOE, and unusual
progress has been made.
The lake area in the accom-
paning photo has capacity of
100000 gallons Of water. 1t has
a sloping depth to ten feet with
about one third the area over
six feet deep.
Soil Conservationist Frank
Calvin said that Wednesday
about four acres of drainage
area was diverted by the trac-
tors in their plan to add
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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Slate Examiner In
Auditors Office
In Advisory Capacity
For Mr.. Atkinson

z. A. Warrington, state
examiner out of the office of
Auditor James A. Rhodes, has
been in the office of Noble
county Auditor, c. R. Atkinson
for the past two weeks.
Examiner Warrington is as
sisting in the collection of the
!. personal property tax and also
giving assistance to the new
official and his staff of new
deputies as they take over the
many duties Of this office.
1t Is customary for a state
examiner to come into a county
when new official takes over,
especially in the auditors office,
and he was sent here by the
state in an advisory capacity.
Examiner Warrington has
been checking many of the
property tax settlement forms as
they are filed to see if they con-
form with the existing laws.
The deadline for filing of per-
sonal property tax returns is
this Thursday, March 81.
All those filed after this date
will carry a penalty, according
to Auditor Atkinson.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Forest Grove Girl
In Welsh Festival
Eleanor Brown Member
Of Ohio Stute Choir

Miss Eleanor Brown, student
at Ohio State University, Colum.
bus, will be one of the members
of the O.S.U. symphonic choir
participating in the international
Eisteddfod Emusic festivaD at
Llangollen, Wales, July $40
They will also visit several other
European countries on an exten-
sive concert schedule now being
arranged.
Their tour will include parts
of Wales, Denmark, Sweden,
Finland, Scotland, England, Ger
many and France.
Miss Brown is a graduate of
Forest Grove high school and
the daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Wilbur Brown of the Forest
Grove community.
Recently this choir was select
ed by the Voice of America as
the university group featured on
program broadcast over radio
stations throughout France.
The choir will be under the
direction of Prof. Louis H.
Diercks.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Appeal Being Made
For Needed Lumber
To Construct New
4-H Stock Building

Do Noble Countians have
$4,000 board feet of lumber that
they are willing to donate to the
construction of the new proposed
All club stock show building?
This question will be answered
in the next few weeks as the
Noble county advisory council
is making plea for just this
amount of lumber.
If you have a 1000 feet of
lumber you are willing to donate
for this cause, just contact the
county extension office in Cald-
we'll.
If you have the logs and no
way to get them to the Glen
King mill, contact the extension
office and the Junior Leadership
boys club will haul out the logs
and take them to the mill to be
sawed.
Glen King has offered to saw
all the lumber for free at his
mill in the Three Forks COM
munity.
Associate Agent Paul Jonard
is anxious to get the ball rolling
toward the new building as soon
as possible and he would
appreciate hearing from any
section of the county.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Lords Acre prOjeti Al
MI. Ephrain Church
Members Bond For
Unique Fund Plan

The Methodist church at Mt.
Ephraim has organized Lords
Acre" project and the committee
will include Dallas Bates, John
Miley, William Rich, Chelsie Me
Connell, Paul Rich, and Dallas
Law
The newly proposed Lords
Acre project is the first of its
kind organized in this county.
1t works something like this.
Some member of the church will
donate an acre of ground, more
or less, for the project; someone
else will donate chicken, cattle,
and others, labor. All the pro-
ceeds from this community
church project will then go into
the Lords Acre fund of that
particular church.
Representatives from the
Sarahsville, and Pleasant Hill
Methodist churches attended the
meeting since they are interested
in similar project. Three men
from the Center Methodist
church in Guernsey county, also
attended the meeting and eX-
planned the project which they
have had the past three years.
The overall purpose of such a
project is to create interest in
the church itself.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Easter Egg Roll
VIII Be Held On
Saturday. April .
James Hill Is Named
Choirmon Of Annual
Event For Riddles

The traditional and annual
Easter Egg roll, sponsored by
the Noble County Chamber of
Commerce, will be held on the
courthouse lawn in Caldwell,
Saturday afternoon, April g,
beginning promptly at 200
o'clock.
James Hill, of Hills store,
Inc, will be the chairman in
charge of this event, according
to President Charles Patten.
At their luncheon meeting on
Friday, the officers and board of
directors adopted the policy that
this year as many business men
as possible would be contacted
to assist in the c. of c. program
as it unfolds during the coming
months.
In other words, some of this
work of the organization will be
lifted from the board of directors
and delegated to more and more
individual members.
Merchants are again asked to
color at least two or three dozen
eggs for the annual roll and
leave them on Saturday morn
ing, April 8 at the first corridor
of the courthouse. c. of c. men,
bers will assist in laying the
eggs out on the lawn.
The children will again be
classified by age and certain
sections of the courthouse lawn
will be SO designated for them
i'll the egg roll.
The fire siren will blow
promptly at 200 o'clock and this
will signify that the egg roll is
on.
Merchants are being asked to
put their names on as many
eggs as possible and set up their
prizes accordingly.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Personal Property
Tax DeadIine Today

With the deadline this Thurs
day, March 81, for the payment
of personal property tax, a check
Monday, revealed that 100 re-
turns had been made.
This represented $20,497.54 in
personal tax and $1,666.64 in
classified tax.
During a normal year, around
1900 returns are filed each year
which would indicate a busy last
day for the personnel of Auditor
c.. r. Atkinsons office.
The above figures were obtain
ed Monday from the office of
Treasurer A. r. Hicks.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31

projects which makes them
eligible for statewide COM
petition at the Ohio science
day to be held at Ohio Wes-
leyan University, Delaware
Friday, April %. They were
Ernie Varhola, Ivan Mitchell,
Jean Burlingamc, and Gwen
Watson.
Seven others received an ex-
cellent rating, including Mike
Varhola, Aubrey McCune, Bur-
ness Secrest, Stan Grywalski,
James Steed and John Sklenar.
A rating of good was received
by John Gaydos on a construc-
ton project of the "trailside'
museum.
The final count of exhibits
totaled 102, of which 81 were
rated superior by the judges, AZ
excellent, 16 good and two salts
factory. Each exhibitor received
a certificate of membership in
the Ohio Jr. Academy of Science
showing the rating of his prof
ect.
John Wargo is instructor OF
science at Belle Valley and this
represents the first time that
the school has participated in the
competition.
The projects submitted by
the Belle Valley students anc
their rating are as follows:
Jean Burlingame and Gwer
Watson, trailside museum, super.
ior; John Gaydos, construction
of trailside museum, good; Star
Grywalski, and Burness Secrest
science trail parts, excellent.
Deanna Lapp, dynamic mus
(Contiuued on PAGE Two4
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31

he parental request form
which will be returned to the
teacher. The child will not
receive the vaccine unless the
parents approve, according to
officials.
The vaccine program in Noble
county will be administered
entirely by the health depart
ment.
1t is anticipated that several
registered nurses will volunteer
their assistance to aid in this
project. No unframed volunteers,
such as parents, ETC., will be
used in the program on this
level.
Continued on Page Two)
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1955-03-31
Jack BarnIlari To
Head VT. w. Post
installation Planned
For Wed, April l3

Jack Barnhart was elected
commander of Noble Post. No,
4721, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
on Wednesday evening, when
the annual meeting of the post
was held.
Barnhart will succeed Charles
Rice, who has capably served in
this capacity the past year.
Other officers elected at the
business meeting we're as fol
lows.
Senior vice commander,
George Daugherty; junior vice
commander, Eddie Weston:
quartermaster, Robert Vogel;
chaplain, Everett Hill; surgeon,
Henry Simonton, and Judge ad-
vocate, Dwight F. Wiley.
Installation Of the new officers
will be held on Wednesday
evening, April 13.