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Smyrna times., 1959-08-06
Chambers jailed
By Dover Police

William ]. Chambers, 38, of
near Smyrna, was fined 5000 and
costs and given a mandatory
ten-day Jail sentence by Magis-
trate George K. Shockley Friday
on a charge of operating an
automobile while under the in
fluence of liquor. The magistrate
specified that if the fine and
costs were not paid, Chambers
would have to serve an addition
al 60-day Jail term. The man was
arrested by Dover city police on
Thursday.
Smyrna times., 1959-08-06
Eagles Horney
Issues Call For
Grid Candidates

Smyrna High Schools foot
ball eleven will open drills for
the 1859 grid campaign on Aug
ust 25. Coach Bill Horney is
sued a call today to candidates
for this years squad to report
to locker room facilities at 7
pm. for equipment assignment
and physical education check
up forms. Thirty-five boys are
expected to answer the call.
Horney, hopeful for another sue
cessful season, will have sew
eral big gaps to fill in his start
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
Smyrna times., 1959-08-06
MOOr-MOOre Clans Reunite

The thirty-fifth reunion of the
Moor family will be held Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Moore, Bear. Mem
bers from a four state area in
Guiding Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Jersey and Delaware will
attend.
Smyrna times., 1959-08-06

Miss Delaware of 1859 nspects truck cab with Delawares
defending driver champions the Safe Driver Truck Roadeo
be held August 90 FL and % the New Castle County Air
port Miss Delaware Esther Oney of Newark will be the official
roadeo hostess The drivers Melvin Cox left Stanton
tandem axle trailer champion and Ewood Wilmington
CENTER Wilmington single axle tractor trailer tst The roadeo
will bring together topgh drivers all with lengthy safety
cords from Delaware Pennsylvania Maryland and New Jersey
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Initiation Costs

Noble county families have been robbed
of an estimated S393,0OO in purchasing power
in the past year because of the inroads of IN
flation.
That is the amount of goods and services
that they were deprived of in 1858 because
the dollar bought less than it did in 1857.
The figures are based on statistics de-
veloped by the Tax Foundation, the Ameri-
can Institute for Economic Research and
others. They show that the dollar was worth
only 48.1 cents in purchasing power last year,
less than half of what it was worth in 1889.
The erosion has continued without letup dur
ing the past 20 years.
In that period it is stated, the devalua-
ton has cost American people who have put
money into life insurance, y. S. savings bonds,
pension funds and other investments total
of 5000 billion.
For households in Noble county, whose
after-tax incomes averaged $4,330 last year,
according to Sales Management, the loss in
purchasing power was approximately SIG
per family.
Where earnings were above or below
average, the losses were proportionately
higher or lower. In families with $4,000 a year
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Buy AT Home

Once again the merchants in Caldwell
are going all out that every store this year
will be a wonderful source of what to buy
that special member in your family this
Christmas.
Sponsored by the Noble county chamber
of commerce, the arrival of Santa Claus next
Saturday afternoon officially opens the
Yuletide season for this area and a wonderful
time is in store for all, including the mer-
chants, the customers and the recipients of
the many nice gifts which are in the stores
Members Of the city light and water
works maintenance crew are completing the
outside decorations around the public square
and over the business district and the var
ious stores are rapidly taking on the Yule-
tide glitter.
A cordial invitation is extended to every
family in this area to visit Caldwell next Sat-
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

it was $96, in the $4,000 category, $137, and
in the $500 bracket 1924.
For Noble countys $500 families, the cost
of initiation added up to healthy $393,000 in
the year.
Fortunately, the rise in living costs over
the years has been more than balanced by the
rise in incomes. Thus, despite initiation, the
working man has been able to improve his
standard of living.
The threat, however, is to his future, it
is pointed out The effects of initiation are felt
most strongly by the elderly, the pensioners
and the disabled, who are unable to adjust to
a drop in the purchasing power of their
monthly checks.
If the value of the dollar does not become
stabilized, it is feared, the desire of people to
save will be undermined, endangering the
major source of thrift and investment funds
upon which the country's future growth and
progress are dependent.
Unless the rate of spending at Federal,
state and local levels is reduced and the wage
price spiral in industry brought under con-
troll, the dollar will continue to drop, warns
the Tax Foundation.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

minds of sixth grade students
the notion that the Soviet COM
munist government is very
much like our own!
But how is a teacher, or a
school board member, or par
ent to know which textbooks
are sound and which are un-
sound? Would you not suppose
there would be some expert
authority to which they could
turn? Believe it or not, up to
now there has not been a single
organization or publication to
which puzzled and interested
citizens could go for an objec-
tive and authoritative opinion
on the textbooks used in our
public schools. But now, at
long last, this supremely impor-
tant gap is being filled. 1t is
being filled by the new pro-
ject I just mentioned.
This project is called Opera
ton Textbook, Americas Fu-
ture, Inc, a non-profit educa-
tienal organization has set up
a Textbook Evaluation Com
mittee. 1t is made up of a dozen
distinguished and wi d e y
known educators and writer's.
They are evaluating a number
of textbooks in the social sci
ence field at the high-school
level Gas a beginning), and
Americas Future will make
these expert analyses or re-
views available to all inter
ested parties. Of course, MEAS
entrenched educationists will
attempt to smear this fine pro-
ject as 'book- burning" and
biased" So far as "book- burn
ing" is concerned, you can
ignore their hoWls. Operation
Textbook is no such thing. It
is not trying to tell the schools
what books they should or
should not use. 1t is simply
supplying objective, expert re-
views of textbooks-just as
other books are reviewed in
newspapers and magazines-so
that American parents, teach
ers and school board members
will finally have a basis. on
which to judge the books from
which their youngsters are be-
ing taught.
AS for "bias," the only bias
in the reviews in a bias in
favor of American constitu-
tional government, the God
given freedom Of the individ-
ual, and the American free
enterprise system. 1t seems to
me that is the kind of bias
which the American taxpayer
who supports our schools
would be completely in favor
of.
You can get full details about
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
NlNERI[lN WAY>
| Ia %isssS&~
Good News From Kentucky

Here is most welcome news for
the growing number of Ameri-
cans who are bitterly opposed to
government engaging in business
in competition with or to the ex-
clusion of privately-oWned busi-
nesses. And it should be especi-
ally welcome to those who do
not consider the Tennessee Val
ley Authority to be the yard
stick" its proponents SO vocifer-
ously claim it to be.
At Glasgow, Kentucky, on No
vember 3, 1859, the IVA took a
licking, for the first time in its
26-year history. The voters of
Glasgow were asked to approve
the acquisition of the system OF
the Kentucky Utilities Company
The IVA actively and openly
cooperated toward having the
voters give their approval.
By a vote of 1871 to l,l89 GlaS-
gov turned down the purchase
proposal and the Kentucky Utili-
ties Company will continue tc
serve that community.
On that same day, the voters
in three other Kentucky towns
Princeton, Paducah and Leitch.
field, registered their approval OF
private enterprise production Of
electrical energy over govern
mental production.
It is apparent that, at long last
| the American people are waking
up to the fact that government il
business is bad business.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

urday afternoon and the days that follow dur
ing the Christmas shopping rush.
Each and every merchant has just what
you are looking for and it is so priced that
you will be glad you shopped your home
town first
Buying in Caldwell is important to the
economic wealth of the county and it is par
ticularly true Of the Christmas shopping sea-
son.
Santa Claus will also be in town on Sat
urday, Dec. Il and again on Saturday, Dec
10 when the annual community treat is held
for all the kiddies in the area.
Young and old and especially the smalle,
tots are invited to come to Caldwell next Sat
urday afternoon and warmly greet Santa
Claus when he arrives at l:30 p. m. under the
escort of the Caldwell Marching band.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
OPERATION TEXTBOOK
BY John T. Flynn

Perhaps never before in our
history has there been so much
interest in our public schools.
In the last few years, Ameri-
cans have suddenly walked up
to the fact that, despite all the
money they spend on educa-
ton, too many Of our schools
have fallen down on their job.
One evidence of this new inter
est is the growing revolt
against so-called progressive"
or modern" education. This is
the kind of education which
has produced high school grad
uates who can hardly read,
write, spell, or add and sub
tract. There are indications that
the battle is getting some
where, but it still has a long
way to go against the en-
trenched modern educationists.
AS Admiral H. c.. Rickover has
pointed out, instead of mending
their own ways, they smear
everyone who tries to improve
our schools as an enemy of
public education.
Much the same treatment
can be expected from the Ma
tional Education Association
lobby. and their cohorts, of an
extremely valuable and essen
tial project which is now under
way. But it seems to me that
the American people ought to
be pretty we'll Injured to NEA
smears by now. After all, they
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
~ The American Way Y X

have before their eyes evil
dence of what the modern edu-
cationists in and out of the
NEA have done to several
generations of American chill
dren. | assume most Americans
expect their children to come
out of high school as educated
and thinking American citizens
citizens who will appreciate
the blessings of living under
our constitutional form of gov
ernment, and working in our
free-enterprise economy. But
why is it so many of these
youngsters come out of school
with contempt for these
things-With the notion that
the best thing in the world is
Big Government, which will do
all their thinking for them?
There is no longer any doubt
that much of this is due to the
textbooks from which our
youngsters are taught. The
modern educationists and their
"liberal leftist collaborators,
for the past IS or 80 years,
have had an almost free hand
in filling the schools with text
books Especially in the social
sciences) which instill in
youngsters contempt for
capitalism and a love for some
form of socialism; which ignore
the essentials of the American
Republic and the traditions of
American history. A single ex-
ample, among many, is that of
textbook which leaves in the
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
| Your
| El ection
| Laws . . z.
BY Ted w. Brown
Secretary of Stoss Of Ohio

Coins have been flying in the
air in most of Ohio's boards of
elections since the November
election.
The Move ber election
brought many close races, a num-
Der OF recountS, and innumerable
cases of tie votes. This always
happens in the years when
municipal, township, and boards
of education posts are filled.
Without any accurate records to
refer to, however, it would ap-
pear that the number of ties this
year exceeded any previous
record.
Ohio law provides that when
a tie vote is the result of the
official count, the winner is
determined by the board of ciec-
tions by lot.
Considering the fact that Ohio
now has more than $4,000 polling
places and that there were $4,000
or more candidates., as we'll as
1000 special issues involved in
the 1859 balloting, this years
election may be rated as COM
paratively free from irregulari-
ties.
AS might be expected in cleo
tions where close races develop
there are always charges OF
irregularity. Some of these are
real and others are the result OF
the heat of the campaign. But in
every instance, it is the policy
of the Secretary of State to urge
boards of elections to check into
each case to ascertain if there
has been any willful infractior
of the law, irregular act, o.
laxity in the conduct of cleo
tionS.
Such vigilance over the las
few years has brought Ohio:
election administration to a high
! standard. The voter has a righ
to expect his vote to be treated
with honesty and complete reg
ularity!
|
See The Journal for >.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

Red Jacks0n's seven-year-
old, Junior, was passing by the
local beauty parlOr the other
day. He looked in the window
and saw a lady with one of
those mud packs on her face.
Busting with curiosity, he
walked in and asked her why
she had all that stuff on. The
lady was taken back for a mo-
ment but politely answered,
ITS to make me look pretty"
When the beautician re-
moved the mud pack, Junior
took a close look at the lady
and commented, "It didn't
really work, did it?"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Custer Threatened

alive which make our community
distinctively different from many
others.
To accomplish this, it is i'm
portant that we establish some
form of regulation or control
over this general practice. There
should be a good reason for
cutting down any tree.
We are of the opinion that on
occasions cutting down trees
creates more disastrous results
than existed previously.
"A tree that looks at God all
day and lifts her leafy arms to
pray'-What better object could
we choose to represent us? What
better article could we choose
to pay homage to by including
it in our communities?
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
!, : 4
.$.%5Sss s=3 '1'-" For y 81
/: REFLE cTIoN 1sss a
LUCKY AMERICA!

For a short while, driving back
from a speaking engagement in
Arizona, and because l had never
done it before, / dropped over
the border into a town in Old
Mexico
Where at once the visibly low
er standard of living stalked like
a reproach to my comfortably
middle-class suit and white COL
lar;
Where l felt myself a total
stranger, an ignorant alien, a
babe in the woods, tolerated be-
cause | must have looked like a
rich Americana" with money to
spend;
Where, in exchange for two
American dollars, a native who
knew some English cheerfully
showered me with paper pesos
and his apologies for not having
enough in his pocket to be worth
my two dollars;
Where, in post office, buying
stamps for my daughters album,
L Was OTOlnpIly skinned 4 Dy d
government employee who took
twice as many pesos as the
stamps were worth, and I was
helpless to protest because we
didn't talk each others language;
Where l saw men lined up to
squeeze into an old bus for en-
ployment on American farms
where even low wages and de-
valued dollars must have looked
like a bonanza
Back in the States, I saw a bill
board advertising a product l do
not endorse but expressing a SEN
timent that had sudden new
meaning: ITS lucky when you
live in America"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

Under the new plan approved by the
Ohio Insurance Department, the careful fel-
low will shell out less in the future for his in
surance and that is as it should be-
1t will be interesting to see how the sy-
stem of reductions for careful drivers will af-
feet the county's traffic safety record. To be
sure, every motorist will be even more an
xous to avoid any accidents that put strain
on their pocketbooks.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Safety Pays

Noble county drivers who practice safety
behind the wheel stand to get reduction in
insurance rates, starting Dec. IS.
The discount is expected to amount to an
average of about IS percent
Drivers who haven't gotten a single tic
ket or who haven't been involved in single
fender-bender have watched with pain as
their premiums have climbed, largely due to
the crash-bang chronic offenders.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Trees
Are
Creatures OF God
By GERRY NEFF

AS Joyce Kilmer so aptly
stated in his poem, "Only God
can make a tree" Have you ever
thought just what this old world
of ours might look like if there
wasn't one tree on it? Not only
would it put our poets and
artists out of business, it would
make our lands barren and
bleak. 1t would leave the view
of our homes and towns empty
and awkward.
Trees play a very important
part in the world. They are i'm
portant in our towns and COM
munities. First of all they stop
land erosion, without them our
hills would be washed away and
it would be an impoSsibility TO
nave a home on the side or on
top of an elevation.
How about the birds? Where
would they build their nests?
Soon the bird family would be-
| come eXtinct--for they certainly
could never survive close to the
ground. The children and animals
would soon take care Of that
How very sad and lonely the
land would appear without the
happy chirping of the birds
| plus the fact of the loss of beauty
that they provide with their
colorful appearances. 49,.
What would Christmas be
without the traditional Christ,
mas tree and the branches that
are used tor decorations? There
could be no artificial trees be
cause if we never had any trees
we would never know what they
looked like SO how could we
make one?
Trees provide more to ou
lives than we really realize. They
are a creation that we take fol
granted and tend to ignore. We
think of them selfishly. We think
of them as an article which vii
provide ''me" with shade. A thing
which will make my" home
more attractive. An object tC
protect the land of mine. The
thinking is always in what the
tree can do for the human. i
should be reVersed-What the
human can do for the tree.
| Trees are much like people
In order to reproduce there mus
be two species--a male and {
female. In the spring the tree
comes to life, it blossoms anc
grows, this is parellel to human
birth and childhood. The tree
prepares and bears leaves anc
fruit in the summer. This re
sembles the human adult age.
In the fall the leaves burs
into beautiful filming colors ant
then slowly lose their graceful
ness and becomes Withered. Thi
reflects old age and the beauty
of growing old. Then when TIT
winter comes, the tree appear
to die and this too is parallel t.
our death.
All in all, we must nave trees
we must learn to appreciate then
more; use them more in ou
| towns and within our yards.
| Before destroying a tree, it
usefulness and Wonderfulness a
a natural resource should b
fully studied. The Woodsman
axe can readily eliminate in fiv
minutes what nature has deve
loped in 80 years.
Often we are concerned owe
the lack of appreciation given
common tree" True, like we hu
mans, trees grow old and event
ually die; there are SubStantia
reasons why some must be des
troyed.
However, before permittin
wholesale slaughter of our tree
|. ones that. provide creativ
beauty to our town it woul
be well if we extended ourselv,
simply by giving serious though
to possibly keeping those tre,
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
NyFovorite
Prayer
Submitted to the Laymen's
National Committee bv
LIEUTENANT-GENER
GARRISON III. DAVIDSON


Superintendent, United States
Military Academy,
West Point, N. Y.
o God, our Father, Thou
Searcher of Mems hearts, help
us to draw near to Thee in sin
cerity and truth. May our reli-
gion be filled with gladness and
may our worship of Thee be
natural.
Strengthen and increase our
admiration for honest dealing
and clean thinking, and suffer
not our hatred of hypocrisy and
pretence ever to diminish. En-
courage us in our endeaVor to
live above the common level of
life. Make us to choose the hard
er right instead of the easier
wrong, and never to be content
with half truth when the whole
can be won.
Endow us with courage that is
born of loyalty to all that is noble
and worthy, that scorns to COM
promise with vice and injustice
and knows no fear when truth
and right are in jeopardy. Guard
us against flippancy and irrever-
ence in the sacred things of life.
Grant us new ties of friendship
and new opportunities of service.
Kindle our hearts in fellow
ship with those of a cheerful
countenance, and soften our
hearts with sympathy for those
who sorrow and suffer. Help us
to maintain the honor of the
Corps untarnished and unsullied
and to show forth in our lives
the ideals of West Point in doing
our duty to Thee and to our
Country. All of which we ask
in the name of the Great Friend
and Master of men.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
Natures Hiqhwoymen

Thousands books written the highway
who have held through the Man does not copy
outlaws boast different
shooter world is the
distance had better good distance he looks
harmless There points that
place him rather good looking class Don't let this fool you for
he that better completely
He quick pulling his He ample warning
He will walk towards slow calculating Even his
when he direct bead do not take the warning
suddenly he whr his battleng around and lets the first oy
deadly He where feels will the most
good and that directly into the face of his
AS enough send the retreat
full speed the He able repeat his shot times
Once he has opened fire smell his powder smoke on
direction binding effect
he finds almost impossible to breath do not think
skunk fail to hit his mark If he has
has taken the time to record its failure.
Skunks make marvellous pets provided they dsamed
when kid without removing his
friendship did not last long and he returned
his hide
you New York City notice skunky smell
drifting the city from the direction of den called
neighborhood might be we'll
to do dsarming thereabouts.
Sam Stille
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03
From where | sit 20. by Joe MAJ
Juniors Name Wus
mud"

From where I sit, count OF
children to tell the truth
sometimes, the embarrassing
truth. Maybe we adults cOulG
use more of that. For instance
maybe we ought to admit tina.
tolerance doesn't really work
until we eliminate all our into!
erances-even to respecting
neighbor's right to enjoy
quiet glass of beer. Goo,
neighborIiness begins when in
tolerance ends . and, in truth
we all ought to work towards
that end @e M"4<
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

OPERATION TEXTBOOK, in
cluding the names of the Text
book exaluation Committee,
the textbooks which have been
reviewed and will be reviewed
in the future, and all other
information, by writing to
Americas Future, Inc, 542
Main Street, New Rochelle,
New York.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-12-03

j. D. (Jake) Settles, SO, Of
GAINESVILLE, was recovering today
in Good Samaritan hospital, after
having been dead" for seven
minutes. The GAINESVILLE man has
DR.. Charles Murrey, formerly of
Caldwell, to thank for his new
lease on life.
Settles, a Pennsylvania rail-
road machinist, was admitted to
the hospital Friday night suffer-
ing from an acute intestinal dis
order which required immediate
surgery.
DR.. Charles Murrey said he
was halfway through the opera
ton when Settles heart stopped.
The surgeon quickly made a
chest incision and took out the
patients heart. He kneaded the
heart vigorously for five minutes
before he detected the first
feeble beat. A few minutes later,
after the patients pulse had
grown considerably stronger, his
heart was placed back in its
proper position. DR.. Murrey is a
graduate from Caldwell high
school.
Fred Fox, son of Ignatz Fox,
formerly of the Fulda COM
munity, received his degree in
law, Sunday, Nov. 20, 1949 at
Ohio Northern University at
Berea.