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business, minimum wage extension.
Taft-Hartley Act amendments,
postal rates and home rule for the
District of Columbia not only have
not been passed, but have not even
been reported out Of committee in
both houses
The Eisenhower administrations
fiscal and monetary policies will
get a going-over soon by some of
the bitterest Democratic critics of
those policies. The Senate Finance
Committee. headed by Virginia S
Harry F. Byrd. has voted unani-
mously to hold an exhaustive tax
credit budget study.
Such an investigation was re-
quested by Mr. Eisenhower. but he
wanted it TO be held by a commits
sion Of his own choosing or a
bipartisan group. The decision of
the Byrd committee in effect pi-
geonholes Mr.. Eisenhower's request.
A move by the House Democratic
leadership for a similar investiga-
ton under the auspices Of
Representative Wright Patman of
Texas failed on March 81.
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RICHES ARE WAITING 4an
DesoIote Negev Is Key to IsroeIs Future

fringed waterfront have become a
quay capable of berthing ships of
up to 5000 tons with plenty Of deep
water anchorage for vessels and
tankers of 10000 tons or more.
Transport Is Busy
Until November, the town was
reachable only once week by plane
or bus. Arkia Airlines now runs
four DC-3 flights daily into Eilat
and the bus comes and goes once
a day. making part Of the run over
the highway that hugs the Jor-
danian frontier for at least SO of
the 1875 miles back to Beersheba
under military escort. Trucks come
and 60 in steady stream.
Eilat swelters in summertime
temperatures Of 100 degrees F. (the
year-round average is 100 degrees)
with only 10 or is days a year of
rainfall. Water is piped to Eilat
Is miles from Yotvata and is so
heavily laced with magnesium salts
that to drink it straight is to in
vite chronic diarrhea. Most people
drink expensive bottled water i'm
ported from Tel Aviv and Haifa,
but a distillation plant is being
installed.
Water and heat" admitted
Akiva Azmon, deputy director of
the Ministry of Development, ARE
the big problems. We think we've
solved the water problem, though.
Up at Yotvata we've found enough
sweet water to supply town of
5000 and take care of our industries
as well. The heat is something else.
1t gets so hot sometimes that peo-
pie lose their equilibrium. :"
There is not enough power yet
for large-scale air-conditioning, but
the inhabitants have contrived their
own. They hang desert grasses on
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wood that sweeten Virginia breezes.
In another Fairfax County case
last June some 20 residents Of the
Fairlee subdivision asked the court
to silence some loudspeakers at a
church in their community. They
said the noise greatly interfered
with the use and enjoyment of the
neighborhood and surrounding
homes" and could be heard for
about a mile. The grand jury needed
the protest and three trustees of
the church were called before the
Circuit Court Judge. Where dis
cussions had failed, court action
was successful and the noise was
abated.
A few weeks ago several residents
Of a Prince William County area
near Quantico claimed a. county
sewage treatment plant was OBJ
noxious and a health menace be-
cause Of improper maintenance and
an open ditch leading to 1t. A grand
jury inspected the plant and issued
presentment naming the Board
Of County Supervisors as creators
Of the nuisance claimed. The case
is pending in Circuit Court.
Persons cited by the grand jury
are entitled to trial. IN the cases
so far the nuisances have been
abated before a full-dress hearing
was held. If found guilty OF creat-
ing or maintaining a common nui-
sance or health menace under the
proceedings, the owner Of the prop
erty can be fined up to $1,000 and
ordered to remove the nuisance.
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the windward side of the houses
and trickle water over them. The
steady north to south wind blows
through the dampened weeds and
cools the houses little.
Attracting and keeping labor is
one Of Eilat's big problems. Workers
get double wages and tax exemp-
ton for one year but must agree
to remain for two years. They re-
ceive free roundtrip air TRANSPORT
tation to Tel Aviv for one member
of their family every three months.
In Solomon's Steps
In Timna. also in the Negev,
where Solomon's slaves dug from
the hot earth the copper ore which
they then laboriously roasted into
metal to be exchanged for the
gold and jewels Of tabled Ophir.
the Israelis are building an So
million plant to do more quickly
but not necessarily more econom-
ically exactly what the wise old
King did 5000 years ago.
The copper from the Timna
mines will bring an estimated an.
nual $5,250,000 in hard money"
with which to reduce Israel's de-
tendency on foreign aid, private
or governmental. The sum will not
be net profit. of course. Labor is
lot more expensive in Israel today
than it was in Solomon's time.
How profitable the operation will
be depends on whether Israeli
ships can reach the refining country
via nearby Eilat and Suez. The
Israelis calculate that to haul the
Timna output overland to Haifa
and ship it from there would cost
an additional $40 a ton. cutting
into the profits to the extent Of
$4,000 a year.
(worldwide Press servics)
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VIRGINIA MANEUVER 3@1N9H
Old Law Copes With Nuisonces

in the removal of several old houses
which had become dilapidated and
rat-infested and were hangouts for
DRINKS.
The case which got the most
publicity. and probably set of the
current furry of proceedings. was
in Alexandria in May. 1855. Frus-
trated in other attempts to have
something done about an old house
which had become an eyesore in the
fine residential neighborhood of
Rosemont. residents in the neigh
borhood asked Commonwealth At
torney Earl F. Wagner about using
the 1919 law. Mr.. Wagner told
them to get petitions signed. When
they did he called for a special
grand jury provided for in the law.
The four-story frame house had
been vacant since fire many years
ago. The grand jury decided that
it was a fire hazard, gathering
place for DRINKS" and a common
nuisance" affecting the general well
fare of the area. The owner was
an out-of-State resident, so the
grand jury. in effect, indicted the
house.
A Solution for Other Cities
Press wire services picked up the
story from local newspapers and
1t appeared in papers over the
country. Mr.. Wagner received let
tiers about the case from all over.
The city attorney of New Orleans
wanted to know about the proceed
ing because I'VE are having a great
deal Of trouble with dilapidated
houses in this CITY," A Norfolk
attorney wanted to know under
what section Of the Virginia Code
the proceeding was brought. A New
Yorker said he would give 5000 fol
the house and would clean 1t up for
a residence for his family.
Eventually the owner was con.
tacted in Florida and had the
building torn down. The court
could have ordered the house RACED
and billed the owner, or sold the
property to pay for the razing.
Since then Mr.. Wagner, at the
request Of five or more citizens
signing petitions, has called -four
special grand juries.
One case involved a piece Of
river front property partly owned
by the city. which residents said
had become menace to the Old
Town area because of the charac-
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declared common nuisances" and
a case is pending on another prop
erty Mr., Wagner said another
grand jury is expected to be called
soon and that he would continue
to use the law" when the citizens
request it.
The grand jury in the last Alex
andria case asked for administra-
tive action by city officials to clean
up such conditions. City Manager
E. c. Heatwole said the city does
not have sufficient powers to do
much about conditions on pri-
vate property. A new law now
under consideration would greatly
strengthen the city's hand in clean
ing up health hazards.
No More Hogs
Last September a resident Of
Baileys Crossroads in Fairfax
County was indicted, at the request
Of about so of his neighbors. for
raising hogs on a small subdivision
lot.
The owner was cooking garbage
to feed about 40 animals. Hailed
into court. the owner said he would
get rid of the animals. He did and
the neighborhood settled down to
enjoying the honeysuckle and dog
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BY FRED THEROUx

In cluttered, shabby camps of
huts and tents, growing like some
ugly fungus in the barren deserts
of the Middle East, almost a mil
lion Palestinian Arab refugees to-
day exist on a United Nations dole.
Until their future has been deter
mined. their seemingly hopeless
plight resolved, there can be no
lasting peace in the Middle East.
Vice President Nixon, on his re-
turn from his recent trip through
the Middle East and the nations
of Africa, reported his conviction
that the No. problem was that Of
the refugees. So long as it exists,
a fostering sore whose throbbing
has been only ameiiorated by the
good Offices of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency, there
is little hope that the Arab ma
tons can come to terms with their
chief adversary-the Jewish state
of Israel
The Palestine refugees are the
nearly one million Arab displaced
persons whose homes and liveli-
hoods were destroyed by the Arab
Israel War of 194S-49. They fed
Palestine. mostly to Jordan and
the GAIA Strip. when the war
erupted on their doorsteps.
AS of early this year the United
Nations. overseer of, the precarious
armistice arranged between the
Arabs and the Israelis in 1919, was
caring for 1922 of these unfor-
tunates. That the UNRWA has
done magnificent work in caring
for them is a matter of no contro-
versy. Without the coed Offices
of UNRWA, their plight would be
insupportable. But even the most
compassionate relief program can
do no more than keep the spark of
life glowing in the despairing lives
of its beneficiaries.
Little Bosis for Hope
If the refugees still cling to hope.
1t is perhaps because humanity
survives on hope. for the only flu
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RICHES ARE WAITING

industrial expansion. It is a bridge
between the Mediterranean and the
Red Sea via the Gulf of Aqaba. It
is. as Ben Gurion himself has said,
IAN Israeli Suez Canal" Hence his
preoccupation with freedom of pas
sage through the Tran Straits, his
willingness to risk sanctions and
worse to clear the enemy from
Sharm ell Sheikh and dramatic
to the world the meaning of Eilat
and free transit through the Gulf
of Aqaba.
If the Negev and Israel are to
prosper and the nation to achieve
that independence from foreign aid
1t so earnestly desires, the Jews
must be free to trade with the
West via the Mediterranean and
with Africa and the Orient via the
Gulf Of Aqaba.
How Do You Spell II?
Eilat. Israel's Gulf of Aqaba port
at the foot of the Negev, is growing
SO fast that its builders have not
yet decided just how to spell its
name. 1t is Elath on the welcome
sign at the airport, Eilath in some
tourist booklets and Eilat on official
Israeli maps.
In 1949 Eilat was little more than
an arbitrary pinpoint on map,
a British military outpost opposite
Aqaba at the head of the increas-
ingly blue gulf Of that name. 1t
has since become town of length
ening rows Of white, blue. gray,
cerise and green little one and two
family. one and two storied houses.
Most of its growth has occurred
in the five months since the Israelis
invaded Egypt's Sinai. In that time
its 40 houses have become 1000
built or building, its 200 inhabi-
tantS have grown to 1000 and
nearly 2 miles Of It's ia mile coral
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By PAUL HOPE

A 38-year-old law has been un-
covered by residents Of Northern
Virginia, who are using it success
fully in the constant battle to keep
suburbia a better place in which to
live. 1t is a 1919 act allowing five or
more persons to petition the courts
for relief from public nuisance.
1t is of special value in neighbor-
hoods where property is not covered
by coming or restrictive covenants
The nuisances have ranged so
far from a hog raising operation
on subdivision lot to the use of
loudspeakers by a church group.
Action by residents has resulted
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tiers who hung out in the old shacks
on the property. Before the case
got to court, a boat repairman and
a policeman got clearances and
leases from the city and other
owners involved. cleaned UP the
property and now are building
marina.
Three other vacant houses have
been torn down after they were
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NEARBY VOTES

Votes Of the nearby Maryland and
Virginia legislators on major roll
calls in Congress last week:
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BY GEORGE w. CAKES

By GEORGE w. CAKES
LONDON.-British trade unions
representating 80 per cent Of the
8.5 million organized workers reg
lister with the government and pub
lish, for the benefit of their own
members and the public, a complete
accounting of their finances.
Anyone can inspect the financial
statement of any registered union
at the Offices of the Chief Regis
trar Of Friendly Societies Ca gov
eminent body on payment OF a
35-cent fee. Or summary of this
financial data as shown in the
Registrars annual trade union re-
port can be obtained for AZ cents
from Her Majesty's Stationery
Office, the British equivalent of
the United States Government
Printing Office.
The Trade Union Act Of 1871
gave unions the right to register.
and no subsequent legislation has
made this provision obligatory.
But the attractions Of public reg
istration. including the right to
sue or to be sued and certain tax
and trustee advantages are so i'm
portant that registration has be-
come almost universal. Once a
union is registered, 1t must file
copy Of its audited annual financial
statement as public record. In
submitting its accounts to the Reg
istrar OF Friendly Societies, the
union as a normal procedure calls
attention to defalcations or mis-
use Of funds. which occur frequently
In small amounts. The Registrar
then decides what corrective action
should be taken.
Dues Average IS Cents q Week
In 1855, trade union members,
who contribute an average OF is
cents a week each TO their unions,
subscribed some $56 million to
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HOUSE

HR 6306-Amend 1916 law au-
thorizing bridges over the Potomac
to provide sos million for draw
span bridge TO replace southbound
Fourteenth Street Bridge. Passed,
l90-l31, April 8.
For: Broyhill tR Of va, Harrison and
Smith ID. OF Va and Landlord IN of
Md and Hyde Or. Of Md.
S J Res. TITO allow postpone
ment until December 81, POOL, OF
any Of the seven annual British pay
ments toward principal and interest
on loans. Adopted, 21s-167, April 10.
Fcri Broyhill r.. OF va and Harrison and
smith ~. of Va and Landlord 10. Of
Mo- and Hyde R OF Md.
Congressional Quarterly
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SENATE

S l77l-Establish a 51-million-
acre national base acreage for the
1857 commercial corn crop and re-
quire that the equivalent Of IS per
cent OF producers base corn acreage
be deposited in soil bank. Rejected,
35-45, April 10.
AGAINST; Byrd and Robertson I'd. Of Val and
Bean and Butler tR. OF Md
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PUBLICITY AND PARSIMONY
British Labor Reports Finances

The recent Senate disclosures
OF the financial operations in
the TeGmSters Union has stirred
public interest in the possibility
OF Federal regulation OF the
handling OF union funds. Here Is
a report on how union labor
finances are publicised and spent
In Great Britain.
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SILVER SPRING 31l3 l4th Q 448a CONN. Q CLARENDON
SEVEN CORNERS . OPEN TIL TOMORROW NIGHT
OPEN seDAY en- M0DERN MAnN REVOLVING
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ENGAGED


Mr.. and Mrs. Uel Harlan
Sledd of Arlington announce
the engagement of their
daughter Carolyn to Mr..
Henry Oliver Thomas. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe ]. Thomas
of Rockville, Ind. A Deem
Der wedding is planned.
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Culluhun-McClure

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel j.
Callahan. jr., Of this city and
Poolesville. Md. announce
the engagement Of their
daughter jeanne Scott to DR..
William West Mcclure of
this city and Richmond. Va.
son Of Mrs. Grover B. Nc
Clure and the late Mr.. Nc
Clure.
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Krompf- Weiss

Mrs. Dorothy Gardner
Krampf of Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. formerly of Springfield.
Pa. and Mr.. Charles Edward
Krampf of Washington and
Myrtle Beach. S. c., an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Mary Priscilla
to Ensign Ethan George
Weiss, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George William Weiss of
Havertown, Pa. A June we'd
ding is planned.
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Leogue-KYqer

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F..
League of Simpsonville. S. c..
announce the engagement of
their daughter Elizabeth Ann
to DR.. Minor Ellsworth Kyger.
tr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kyger Of Port Republic, Va.
A December wedding is
planned.
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Bromlitt-Gluntzbero

Air Force Col. and Mrs.
Charles Henry Bramlitt of
Falls Church announce the
engagement Of their daugh-
ter Mariana Handy to Mr..
Frederic Ernst Glantzberg,
Jr., son of Mai. Gen. and Mrs.
Glantzberg of this city. A De-
cember wedding is planned.
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Schnuer-Covermon

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Schnuer
Of New York announce the
engagement of their daugh-
ter Judith to Mr.. Sam Gov
erman Of this city, son Of
Mrs. Esther Goverman and
the late Mr.. Abe Goverman,
formerly of Baltimore, Md.
A spring wedding is planned.
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Potterson-Hein

Mrs. Frank Henry Patter-
son Of Crosse Pointe. Mich,
announces the engagement of
her daughter Rebecca Ann to
Ensign Gerhardt Alois Helm,
USNR. son of Mr.. Alois Helm
and the late Mrs. Helm Of
New York City. Miss Patter-
son is also the daughter of
the late Mr.. Patterson. A
spring wedding is planned.
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Freqien-Johnstone

Mrs. Olga Dorothy Fregien
announces the engagement of
her daughter Carol Leontine
to Mr.. James Bruce john
stone. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth w. tombstone, of
Coldwater, Mich. A June
wedding Is planned.
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Yuffe-CisseH

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Yaffe
announce the engagement Of
their daughter Gloria Ann to
Mr.. Stanley Sheldon Cissell.
son Of Mrs. Bessie Cissell of
Baltimore. Md. A 1858 fall
wedding is planned.
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Ashton-Reed

Mrs. William S. Ashton Of
Overlook, Pa. announces
the engagement of her daugh-
ter Elizabeth Briscoe to Mr..
Hugh McHale Reed, son of
DR.. and Mrs. Walter j. Reed
of this city.
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Wlkes-Blomgren

Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mont
gomery Wilkes of Silver
Spring announce the engage
ment Of their daughter Bar
bara Jean to Mr.. Stephen
Emanuel Blomgren, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Blomgren,
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Wehousie-Soxe

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Wehousie Of Charleroi, Pa,
announce the engagement of
their daughter JUL Irene to
Mr.. Jon Sheldon SAKE. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold SAKE
of Crestwood, Westchester
County, N. j. A spring we'd
ding is planned.
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Cooper-Lustine

Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph e.
Cooper of Marlinton. w. Va.
announce the engagement
of their daughter Doris Ella
to Mr.. Norbert M. Justine,
son Of Mrs. Sara Justine and
the late Mr.. Harry Justine.
A June wedding is planned.
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1907 9TH * *3ll3 18th, *4483 CONN.
*SILvER SPRING, MD. *Open $50 to 9 Daily
ALEXANDRIA, VA Open $50 to 9 Thurs, Fri.
CLARENDON, VA. Open $50 to Mon, Thurs Fri
CORNERS, VA. Open $50 to $50 Mon, Thurs, Fri
For All Stores Phone d. 76363 Free Customer Parking
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Salem, Pa, were Saturday evening
guests and Mrs. Margaret Rush
and daughter Carole, were week
end guests of the Friends.
Nancy Brenneman, of Grants
vile, spent several days with Mr.
and Mrs Hubert Friend and daugh-
tiers.
Miss Laura Coddington of Pitts
burgh, was a weekend guest of
her sister. Mrs. Milton Dewitt and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Wilburn,
Eddie and Jimmy, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Haenftling and family,
at their cottage along Deep Greek
Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Wilburn
visited Mr.. and Mrs Orval Glot.
felty Monday evening
Some of the folks attended the
Friend reunion, at Sang Run, on
Sunday.
Visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clark Schlossnagle and fami-
ly on Sunday were Rev. and Mrs.
Herbert Alfred, of Frostburg; Rev.
and Mrs. Cornell CLANCY, Wiley
Ford; Don Griffin and Bob Platter,
Rochester, Pa; Jeanne Camp, Rich
ard, Ronnie, David and Mary
BrOadWater. Accident
Guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Sanner, Jr., on Satur-
day afternoon was Nancy Skies,
of New Salem, Pa. Sunday picnic
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guests were Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
COddington and daughters. Acct
dent. Monday evening guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Sanner. Sr..
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Fike. Friends
vile and Carl Miller, of Cleveland,
Ohio.
Eva Bishoff, Catherine McCrobie
and Vera Dewitt met at the home
of Mrs. Dewitt Monday evening
and made plans for two suppers
the WSCS is planning to serve in
the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs Hobart Bishoff had
Mrs T. E. Bishoff, of Miami, Fla,
as dinner guest on Monday eve
ming.
Nancy Skiles and Carol Rush Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Custer,
Saturday.
Martin Wotring visited his sister,
Mrs. Jacob Jones and family. re-
Gently.
There is to be homecoming at
the Elder Hill church. Sunday,
September / Everyone welcome.
Bring your lunch and enjoy it with
all.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Savage Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hauser
and family. Other recent visitors
of the Hausers were Mr.. and Mrs.
O. B. Lowdermilk and Mr.. and
Mrs Bill EnlOw.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. LoWdermilk
were Tuesday evening dinner
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs Milton De
Witt.
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known that Benjamin Harmon
G711-1795), Elias Harmon G741-
1889. Israel Harmon G753-183D
and John Harmon O7G2-1S45), all
Of whom were born in Sufficld,
served in the Connecticut troops
during the Revolutionary War The
first two were sergeants and the
latter two were privates.
The first census Of the United
States, taken in 1890, shows only
one person by the name of Harmon
who was a resident Of Maryland
and head Of a family at that time.
He was Caleb Harmon of Balti-
more County.
THE Ancestry of Lydia Harmon
C755-1836), VINO was born in Scar
borough, Maine, was compiled by
Walter Goodwin Davis of Portland
Maine and published in 1924.
Judson Harmon q846-1927l
served as attorney general of the
United States in the cabinet of
President Grover Cleveland and
also as governor of Ohio.
Willard Fillmore Harmon (1S8S-
1945) was major general, U. S
Army.
George Dewey Harmon is pro-