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*1 «#*. yk £V ~|v tlP i£A'& fW "fii i/ K 't i u^t ..jeS"®"* :-,}, »js 1% .f -"J VOLUME 96 $81* WsTif Caldwell Laymen Named Delegate To National Meet Byron Marquis To Represent 40 Churches At Los Angeles, Calif. Rev. Palmer Manson, Clair Tipton and Byron Marquis rep resented the Sharon and Cald well Presbyterian churches Tuesday at Cadiz. At the meeting, Byron Mar quis of the Sharon church, was elected commissioner to the Gen eral Assembly of the Presbyter ian church. The General As sembly is the highest body of the Presbyterian church U. S. A. and meets annually some place in the United States. In 1955 the meeting will convene in Los Angeles on May 19 and will con tinue through the 26th. Marquis will be the lay rep resentative from the St. Clairs ville Presbytery of 40 churches east of Cambridge and Caldwell. Rev. Byron Evans of Barnesville, is the ministerial delegate. The youth program, with Camp Presmont on Piedmont Lake as the center of discussion, was a special point of emphasis. The summer programs, which *wiii include a week for every age group of the church youth, is being planned. The camp pro gram will begin in June. Dr. Albert I. Good of Wooster. formerly a missionary to Africa, emphasized the continued im portance of stewardship in the local church. Dr. Good spoke from 40 years of living with the Africans of the Cameroons his father was the first missionary in the area. It isn't necessary to stay home from church because of small children. The ladies of the church conduct a nursery for pre-school children every Sun day in the church basement dur ing the worship service. Dog Owners Flock To Courthouse Al Deadline Canine owners in Noble county flocked to the coui thouse last Wednesday and Thursday and literally swamped the office of Auditor Gilbert B. Long with requests for dog tags. It was conservatively estimat ed that about 600 tags were is sued on the two days by th^ auditor and his deputies before the deadline at 4:30 p. m. on Thursday. The total sold before the dead line was 1531, which is belov normal for this county. Two days prior to the dead line only 900 tags had been issu ed. A penalty of $1.00 is assessed automatically with each sale after the deadline. Four-H Club Advisors Heeling lo Be Monday A general meeting of the -1-H club advisors council for Noble county will be held at the exten sion office in Caldwell on Mon day evening, Jan. 31. This should be an important meeeting for plans will be dis cussed relative to the 4-H club program in this county during the coming summer months. Plans will also be completed for the annual advisors recogni tion banquet to be held at a later date. Some groundwork has already been laid for the 4-H club acti vities in the county and it is ex pected that some 300 young people will be enrolled. SERIOUSLY ILL Friends in Caldwell have been notified of the serious illness of Mrs. Nettie Wilson Martin, 86, who is a patient in St. Francis hospital, Cambridge. WE NOW HAVE a new supply of sales tax' exemption blank books at 40c a book. The Journal Leader Office. Caldwell,. liliio. •r-u y ESTABLISHED IN 1859 mam erence Sunday Deparlmenlal Presidenl, Beffy Paige, Will Speak To Auxiliary Conference, January 30 Kirk Jewell, of Warren, senior vice commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ohio, will be the principal speaker, Sunday, Jan. 30, when the fifth district mid-winter conference is held in Caldwell. Betty Paige, departmental president of the VFW Auxil iary, will be another distinguished guest and shf will be the principal speaker at the auxiliary conference which is slated to be held in the Amer ican Legion hall, Main street Another departmental guest will be Wendell Edgerly of Co lumbus, who is serving this year as the state adjutant. Although a dance and social is planned for Saturday even ing, Jan. 29, the conference will actually open on Sunday morn ing with registration from 9 to 10 a. m. The VFW members will register at the post hall on West street and the ladies auxiliary to the VFW at the American Legion hall on Main street. John Bennett of Martins Ferry, district commander, will be in charge of the entire con ference. Mrs. Ethel Moore of Caldwell, district president, will be in charge of the meeting for the women. Luncheon for both groups will be served at the VFW hall with the local auxiliary in charge. The afternoon session will be gin at 2 o'clock with the main address by Senior Vice Com mander Kirk Jewell. Betty Paige will address the auxiliary afternoon session at the same time in the Legion hall. According to the advance registration, a large number of VFW members from the entire district will be in Caldwell on Sunday for the mid-winter 1 1 N»n i" V I Exchange Student To Speak At Conference School Principals From Four Counties To Meet The school principals of Noble, Washington, Morgan and Mon roe counties will meet on Wed nesday, Feb. 2 in the Caldwell grade school building for the third regular meeting of tihe year. The business meeting will begin at 5:00 o'clock with a din ner in the cafeteria at 6 o'clock. Music will be furnished by the Caldwell high school. The special guest speaker will be Charles Grimes, international farm youth exchange student of Brown county, recently returned from Denmark. Mr. Grimes will give an illus trated talk of his experiences while in Denmark. He was spon sored by the agricultural exten sion service of Ohio State uni versity and the department of agriculture. Senior Scholarship Tests Given Friday The annual Senior scholarship tests for all first grade high schools in Noble county will be given Friday, Jan. 28 at the Cald well high school building. The top ranking Seniors only in the schools will be taking the tests. They will be of a general nature, including all subjects covered in high school work. H. C. Secrest of the county schools, is chairman of the com mittee. Assisting him will be Harry E. Fast of Belle Valley, Joseph Fields of Sarahsville and Supt. George Webb of the Cald well schools. The tests will be given at 9 o'clock in the morning and they will require about three hours. LEG AMPUTATED Charles Stottsberry, 81, form er well known resident of the Sarahsville community, had his right leg amputated above the knee this week at Good Samari tan hospital, Zanesville. He is a brother of Mrs. Olive Moore and Edna Gilchrist of Caldwell. CLEARANCE SALE now enters its finai week. Reductions on rings, diamonds, jewelry, and costume jewelry. We must make room for our already-arriving: Spring merchandise. Buy Now! Jay's Jewelry, Cumberland St., Caldwell, ,Ohio 29-30 SEE US FOR your Bottle Gas needs. D. D. Nichols, Caldwell. OliK mf r- r,*''vv 1 K. i -i Plant' Will Generate Million Kilowatts Noble county will be sending only one to the draft in February according to the call issued from ColUmbus by the Selective Ser vice board. District Grange Meeting Is Scheduled For Jan. 29 I he Oiiio Diaie grange district conference, for all grange mem bers in southeastern Ohio, will be held at the Little Theatre building, Marietta college, Sat urday, Jan. 29. Clifford Parrish, deputy mas ter for Noble county, said that representatives from Noble. Athens, Morgan, Monroe and Washington counties would at tend. Th£ conference will begin at 9:00 a. m. and continue thru-out the day until 4:30 p. m. A school of instruction per taining to grange work will be held and all grangers are invit ed. FRACTURES ARM The .small son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wheeler of Caldwell route, fell Tuesday at the Belle Valley school and fractured his right arm. He was taken to Thomp son's hospital where the fracture was reduced. if The County Extension Office announces that it will hold meetings thru-out the county in the next two months for the purpose of bringing to the farmer and his family the latest facts on Farm and Home Development. The meetings will be of the "Town Meeting" type with all three agents participating in a general discussion of the pro gram and a period set aside for questions. County Agent, Floyd Hend erson, will discuss facturs of y l3M S- will have a generating capability of 1,000,000 kilowatts and will be one of the world's largest steam power stations. It is one of two plants being built by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation to supply electric power to the Atomic Energy Commission's new $1.25-billion Pike county (Waverly) diffusion plant. Two Of World's Largest Provide Energy For Hew Atomic Operation I ..iujoi piOWCi' wiutii will be tne largest ever built by private industry when completed, are now officially in operation. The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation announced today that its Clifty Creek plant at Madison. Ind., and Kyger Creek plant at Cheshire, are delivering kilowatts to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's gigantic new uranium diffusion plant near Waverly, Pike county—and, most importantly, they are on time. oble County Will end Three in Draft Two Are Voluntary Group Leaves Jan. 31 Nobl county will send three men to the service this month, and they will leave Monday, Jan. 31. for inchretioiT at Fftrf Hayes,. According to records of the 16cal draft board. The group will include James F. Wilson, son of Mrs. Lela Wil son of South Olive Ronald Dean Finley, son of Mrs. Hazel Finley of Senecaville, voluntary induc tion and Herbert Daryl Carpen ter, son of Alva Carpenter, Sum merfield route 2, voluntary in duction. There will be three young men in Columbus this Thursday from Noble county for their pre induetion physical examination. They are Richard Jimmy Minyo, Ava route 1, James Edgar Bates, Caldwell route 6, and Dwight Vernon Hill, Summerfield route 2. COV£GS NOB'L* BOUNTY UKC. RUTS^"" CALDWELL, OHIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955 The first 200.000 kilowatt turbo-generating unit at each of the two plants has been placed in service after several weeks of test, and their power is being delivered to the Pike county project via OVEC's new 330,000 volt transmission system. Clifty Creek Unit 1 went into opera tion approximately on schedule while Unit 1 at Kyger Creek was ahead of schedule by more than a month. These two uijjts will be followed Jay nine additional and similar machines, bringing OVEC's total generating cap ability to 2,200,000 kw when the final unit of the series of 11 is completed in early 1956. Philip Sporn, president of OVEC, in commenting on the beginning of operation of these two plants, said, "For size, scope and speed, this accomplishment has been without precedent OVEC actually made the transi tion from drawing board to operation in a little more than two years a comparatively brief interim for any major pow er project." He continued, "We are very proud that this achievement has (Continued on Page Two) Sarahsville Seniors To Present Class Play T1 s•• S i)j"i ciax- of Sarahsville high school will present a mystery comedy, "Spooks Alive!", February 9th at 8:00 p. m. in the school auditorium. The play is under the direction of Joseph Field and the assistant director is Marlene Seevers. The cast includes: Jim Stotts berry, Martha Stevens, Betty Rossiter, James Williams, Bonnie Rich, Gerald Snode, Carol Law, Jewell Guiler, June Kirkbride, Larry Seevers, Roy Ginn, Patricia Roehus, Lewis Warner, Marlene Sholtis and Countess Henry. FRACTURES ARM Philipina Sluga of Belle Val ley, slipped and fell on the ice near her home Friday resulting in a fractured left arm. She was treated at the office of Dr. D. E. Imhoff and removed to her home in the McVay ambulance. RETIRED DIRECTOR ILL B. B. Wheeelr, 87, prominent retired funeral director, was admitted Monday to St. Francis hospital, Cambridge, for treat ment. He has been in failing health for several months. fA V«r4# efficient production, labor management, and practices that will lead to higher ferti lity and soil and water con servation. He will also stress the importance of farm ac count rceords and their value in determining what phases of the farm enterprise need to be changed or improved upon. Miss Mabel Sarbaugh, the Home Demonstration Agent, will relate the home .to the farm enterprise and illustrate the importance of efficient home management, including I sit ,,(• fx1", upuii imuj cumpicuon in i956, -V. ia ''ft \, i'j:.,,1 v- —i. nancial Resources olal $9,377,783.90 At Close Of Year Amount Is Slightly Less In Comparison With Previous Year Total assets in the three fin ancial institutions in Caldwell amounted to $9,377,783.90, when the books closed Dec. 31, 1954. It can safely be said that 1954 was a near record-breaking year for the Farmers & Merchants Bank, The First National Bank and The Caldwell Building and Loan Company, according to their recently published finan cial statements. In any case, it reveals that Noble county residents have kept up with and sometimes went ahead of the average sav ings in the United States last year. Assets at the close of busi ness Dec. 31, 1953, totalled $9,499,996.00 for the three banks. In comparison, the ye^r 1952 totalled $8,306,853.97 for the three banks. Following is the list of total assets of each of the financial institutions at the close of busi ness for the year 1954: The Far mers & Merchants bank, $3,795, 16G.0"i: The First National bank.. $o.(U3.?79.49 and The OaBdwell Building & Loan company, $2,549,038.30. The year just closed fell $122,213.00 short of equalling that for 1953 in the total assets of all three banks. But by the same token, 1954 was $570,929.03 more than for the same period in 1952. This would tend to indicate a sharp increase over the three year period with a definite leveling off for 1954 as compared to 1953. The assets of the three insti tutions in 1953 were as follows: The Farmers & Merchants bank, $4,139,565.89 The First National bank, $3,256,053.95 and the Cald well Building & Loan Company, $2.104,376. Hi. James Merry To Furnish 1.000 Tons of Limestone James Merry, local contractor, received an order for 1,000 tons of crushed limestone at $1.60 per ton, Monday, when regular meeting of the commissioners was held. Franz McNult was unable to attend this meeting, due to ill ness. Stock township trustees were also given permission by the commissioners to purchase a motor grader, not to exceed $7,000 in pricc. The trustees are asking for sealed bids on this purchase. Twenty thousand dollars was transferred from the auto lic ense fund to the road and bridge fund in the final action of the afternoon. DIVORCE GRANTED Roxie Normagene Baker of Caldwell route 1, has been grant ed a divorce in Noble county Common Pleas court from Nor man H. Baker. Judge W. Vernon Archer occupied the bench. The plaintiff, represented by L. C. Young, charged extreme cruelty. They were married Dec. 25, 1951 at Woodsfield. the keeping of home records. She will show why it is as nec essary to plan for future im provements and goals in the home as it is on the farm. The associate agent, Paul Jonard, will combine the farm and the home in his discus sion of 4-H. He will show the relationship between 4-H and the farm and home and ways in which the farm can be made more interesting through 4-H projects. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday. February 1, £$7 •a^r S' -Jfc SssS® fesr •IP®!, Mothers To Stage Porch light March On Polio, Thursday Chapter Chairman Mrs. Wil liam Fleming and Mrs. Moore will be at the patriotic rooms in the courthouse where all re ceipts will be turned in as quick ly as possible. The volunteer workers for Caldwell who will aid in this march include: Pauline Robey, Bernice Mills. Grace Hender son, Thelma Estadt, Louise Lewis, Ruth McDonald, Nelda Lahue, Dorothy Lee Shaw, Caro lyn Wycoff, Lois Ziler, Marilyn Ziler for Florence Ad.. Bea Har kins, Violet Landaker, Vera Long, Ruth Johnson, Hope Web ster, Helen James, Helen Ehler mann, Carol McCaulev, Susa belle McVay, Etta Davis, Helen Spence, Mary Richcreek, Flor ence Archer. Dorothy Jackson, Garnet Blake, Martha Buckey, Mary Scherr, Edna Wiley, Jean Hazard, Virginia Ramsey, Dee Slay and Jer.sio Elliott for Maple (Continued on Page Two) Gas Ordinance To Get Final Reading Council Must Act On Proposal, Feb. 1st. The third and final reading of the proposed new ordinance by the Ohio Fuel Gas compan for consumers in Caldwell will be read Tuesday evening, Feb 1, when regular meeting of the council is held at City Hall. Definite action must be taker by the council on this ordinance at the February meeting. The proposed ordinance will be an increase over the prevailing rates but still less than that now paid by rural consumers outside the corporation limits. The Permian Oil & Gas com pany has also filed a similiar ordinance to that of the Ohio Fuel Gas company with exactly the same rates. A survey would indicate that council will probably be in favor of the new ordinance. It is also expected that a new council member will be selected at this meeting to fill the vac ancy created when Emil Barnett moved to Middleburg. Belle Valley legion Holds Block 01 Dimes The Belle Valley America Legion Post, No. 641 collected $50.00 Saturday and Sunday in their block of dimes campaign for the cause of polio. Legion members also sold polio baloons during the two days. The money has been turned over to the fund. This post has changed their regular meeting nights to Friday in the future. This week they plan a hamburger and fish fry and all members are urged to attend. 1955 at 7:30 in the Carlisle Grange. The residents of this community are cordially in vited to come and discuss this new program, and any other problems that they might have, with the agents. The second meeeting will be held at the Summerfield Grange on Thursday, February 3, 1955. Additional announcements of all these meetings will be carried from week to week in this publication. i 91 i I*® w w ii COUNTY AUDITOR CITY RT. 1 ALLWELL OHIO TWELVE PAGES THIS WEEK NUMBER 30 1* Mrs. Robert (. Moore Perfects Organization Fire Siren Will Signify Beginning Of March Mayor Homer Johnson said tociay that the lire siren would blow promptly at 6:30 p. m. this Thursday to signih the beginning of the mothers' march against polio in their annual porchlight parade. Headed by Mrs. Robert C. Moore for Caldwell and com munity, the volunteer workers will contact every home in their section between 6:30 and 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Those who do not plan to be home at that particular time should laave an envelope witl their contribution in it for th solicitor. Polio Basketball Game Set For Fe Belle Valley Will Tangle With Redskins Final plans have been com pleted for the Caldwell-Belle Valley basketball game which will be played at the local audi torium on Tuesday evening, Feb. 1st. Principal Gilbert W. Weekley said that two games would be played that evening and all re ceipts will be given to the March of Dimes campaign for Noble county. The first game will be pl^ed at 7 o'clock and pit the Caldwell Junior high team against the Junior high five of Belle Valley The varsity game will begin promptly at 8 o'clock, Principal Weekley said. Expenses of the officials will be deducted and the balance will be turned over to the polio fund The usual admission will be charged at the door but any contribution will be accepted. Coach Gerald Drake of Belle Valley, said today that his Purple and White Riders are "keyed" up for this game and they are confident they will re turn to the valley with the scalp of the Redskin tribe. This will be the only official regulation game that the Cald well Redskins will play with a county team. Three Noble County Girls Pass State Board For Nurses .M ..., Nancy Secicii, daughter of Supt. and Mrs. H. C. Secrest of Caldwell Miss Joan Uhl daughter of Mrs. Virgil Uhl of Belle Valley and Mrs. Joan Ackley Scott, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Dale Ackley of Cald well, received word last week that they had successfully passed the state board test and had been awarded registration cer tificates. Miss Secrest and Miss Uhl are both members of the staff at the White Cross hospital in Colum bus. Mrs. Scott is living in Albuqu erque, New Mexico, where her husband is stationed with the U. S. Army as a recruiting of ficer. American Women Finally Reach Naples, lialy Four American women, includ ing Louise McCune, of Colum bus. mother of Mrs. Richard San ford, South Olive, finally made it to Europe, Monday despite a ship fire that burned up most of their clothes. The women were aboard the Danish ship Lexa Maersk which caught fire at Singapore at Christmas time. They got new clothes and finally arrived at Naples, Italy aboard the Willen Ruys. Mrs. McCune has visited with her daughter Jeanette McCune Sarvford in the South Olive com munity and is well known there. Prior to going to Europe, she was employed in Japan. TO FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Clark ray and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ramsey left Sunday morning for Miami, Florida and other points of in terest in the south. They will be gone at least two or three weeks. INCOME TAX—I will not be making out income tax returns this year.. Charles L. Dyer 30 BEEF HIDES wanted. Highest market price. D. D. Nichols, t'aldue" Ciiui. Z3tf. r* •v. Texas Eastern Pays $30,797 As Largest Single Tax Payment Real estate tax collections continue to increase at the of fice of Treasurer A. R. Hicks with a report showing that $85,234.35 had been taken in since the tax books opened Jan. 10. This would be for a two weeks period up to and including Monday, Jan. 24. The biggest "take" in one single day so far was Monday of this week when Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation paid their real estate taxes for the first half of 1954. Their total check was in the amount of $30,797.84. Uhis includes their holdings in Stock, Enoch, Olive, Jackson, Marion, Center, Noble and Brookfield townships. Miss Patsy Miley and Miss Ruth Ann Danford are the two deputies in charge of the collec tion during the illness of Treas urer Hicks. Mr. Hicks is improv ing rapidly from a heart attack at his home in Sarahsville but will be confined to his home for several weeks yet. Deadline for the payment of real estate taxes of Feb. 10 and there will be no extension of the time this year. The collection for the first half in 1954 amounted to over $150,000 and there is every in dication that the tax this year will equal or surpass that of 1954. Texas Eastern is the only public utility to pay their tax to date for Noble county and large checks are still forthcom ing from Ohio Power, Pittsburgh Consolidated, Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., and several oth ers. The largest single day collec tion in the past two weeks was Monday of this week when the total hit $34,425.73. The collection, per day, since Jan. 10th, for all real estate, is as follows: January 10, $4,272.33 Jan. 11, $3,825.11: Jan. 12, $4,140.00: Jan. 13, $3,000.07 Jan. 14, $6,500.93 Jan. 15, $2,463.04: Jan. 17, $4,338. 43: Jan. 18, $4,097.01 Jan. 19, $5,135.34 Jan. 20, $6,128.95 Jan. 21, $4,460.88 Jan. 22, $2,446.46 Jan. 24, $34,425.73. Sale Of Gasoline To Aid County Poiio Drive Members of the Caldwell Lions club will assist Mike Brienza, Saturday, Jan. 29, when he turns over the receipts of his sale of gasoline for the entire day to the March of Dimes cam paign. Several members of the Lions club will operate the gasoline pumps during the day with Clair Murphy, chairman of this parti cular committer. Each year, Mike Brienza, local supplier of Sinclair products for this district, turns over the pro ceeds of the sale for one day to the polio fund. The service station is located at the corner of North and Cum berland streets and motorists are urged to patronize this place of business next Saturday and do their bit in the polio drive. I. 0. Gibson To Head [ounfy School Bet-id The Noble county board of education held their organiza tional meeting last Saturday at their offices in the courthouse. J. O. Gibson was elected presi dent for the ensuing year. E. O. Bond is the vice president and members are William B. Schott, L. E. Hedge and F. W. Burlin game. Supt. H. C. Secrest serves as clerk of the board. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Tli tax books were opened Moniur In the County's Treasurer's OfTlc« for rulleiting the first half of the 1954 Real Estate Taxes in Noble County. The books will remain open for ap proximately 30 days from January M. A. R. HICKS. Treasurer Noble County, Ohio 2& 23 30 v*.ii'-