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Publisher Cites Area
Growth, Terms New
Daily Sign of Progress
A daily newspaper for Ottawa County!
An exciting new chapter in local newspaper history will
be written Thursday as The Ottawa County News—after
nearly 92 years' continuous service in the weekly field—
blossoms into a full-fledged daily.
Publisher Robert W. Reider today described the conver
sion as "a significant step because it will help spark the
progress and development that inevitably will bring unpre
cedented growth and unparalied prosperity to this entire
area."
"Weeklies served a purpose years ago, but this commun
ity/' said Mr. Reider, "is ready now to support a daily news
paper of its own and we propose to provide our readers with
one of the finest in our class in America."
"We have tremendous faith in the future and we are back
ing up our confidence in the progress and development of
this community with a substantial outlay of new capital,"
Mr. Reider explained.
Advent of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a marked increase in
public use of recreational facilities, and steady industrial
growth as a result of natural geographic advantages, was
cited to support the publisher's contention that "Port Clinton
and peninsula as well as the entire surrounding area is des
tined for an era of healthy economic and social ex pension.
"It has long been our feeling that
this inevitable growth in a spiral
ing economy would get a substan
tial lift if the community were pro
vided with facilities of a daily
newspaper said Mr. Reider, "and
we intend to contribute our help
and support by publishing the very
best possible."
Mr. Reider said "it is our inten
tion to stress local news and give
it quickly to our readers as it hap
pens, We believe civic activities
and local events can best serve
the immediate and future needs
of the community by being re
ported to the public as they oc
cur."
."At the same time," he added,
do not expect to compete with
nearby metropolitan papers in
their coverage of national and in
ternational events. It will be our
sole aim to adequately cover local
items of news value and to pro
vide local merchants with a daily
opportunity to reach aa ever-ex
panding market."
An additional typesetting ma
chine and other essential equip
ment recently was addded to THE
NEWS' mechanical department in
anticipation of the changeover.
Other mechanical, editorial and
business department needs will be
satisfied as they develop.
At the outset, THE DAILY
NEWS To Become
Ohio's 100th Daily
THE NEWS becomes Ohio's
100th daily newspaper.
According to William J. Oer
tel. executive secretary
nt
the
Ohio Newspaper Association,
there are 99 daily newspapers in
Ohio today.
Mr. Oertel said this week that
the "last daily established was
The Fairborn Daily Herald in
August, 19S1, which originally
was a weekly. J. C. McMillan is
publisher."
"Prior to this/' said Mr. Oertel,
"there was The Bryan Times in
February, 1949, with Cass Cullis
•s publisher. Then The Pomeroy
Sentinel in 1948 with Richard
Owens as general manager.
Both of these originally were
weeklies."
Editor A Publisher 1956 Year
Book lists 1,760 dailies in the
United States.
NEWS will be published Monday
through Friday and normally will
be eight pages. Delivery service
in Port Clinton and Oak Harbor
strip
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will be by carrier. As the com
munity's needs grow, so will THE
Daily NEWS.
"While we have endeavored to
anticipate the problems involved,
it is conceivable that unexpected
Nation's Top Comics
Joining
The NEWS
As an acfcUd readers' service,
THE DAILY NEWS will carry
America's most popular comic
strips (Including Blondie,"
"Flash Gordon,'* "It Happens"
Every Day," "They'll Do It Every
Time" and others).
These attractions will be sup
plemented with daily crossword
puzzles, daily horoscopes, na­
tional news photos and full cov
erage by International News
Service leased wire.
In addition, a Scen-o-Graver
will permit greatly expanded use
of local pictures, long a trade
mark of THE NEWS.
conditions will raise in the process
of converting from a weekly to
daily publication. If and when they
do, we ask the understanding and
indulgence of the general public
until we have satisfactorily passed
what surely will be a trying transi
tory for all departments of the
paper."
Mr. Reider said that on behalf
of the publishers and entire staff
of THE NEWS he wished to ex
press deep appreciation to sub
scribers and advertisers alike
whose "loyalty for nearly a cen
tury h^s made it possible to open
a bright new chapter for the paper
as THE DAILY NEWS.
BULLETIN
State highway patrol Wednesday
apprehended a 15 year old Tiffin
boy in connection with a wave of
thefts of women's bathing suits
from East Harbor State Park. 27
feminine suits were recovered, Cor
poral Robert Sauer said.
The boy was picked up after hav­
ing been in tihe womarfi balth
house, wearing a girl's bathing
suit. He is in custody of his par
ents and will have a hearing be
fore ludge P. W. Gulau here.
FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Ottawa County Gets Its Own Dally!
With These Exclusive Features!
Full leased wire of INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
BLONDIE, Dagwood and all the Bumsteads
ARCHIE. .America's Funniest Teen-Ager
FLASH GORDON. .world's most famous Space Adventure
BEETLE BAILEY. .world's funniest GI comic
THE HEART of JULIET JONES. .an entirely new kind
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THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME. .Jimmy Hatlo's great comic panel
THE LITTLE WOMAN.. .another new Laugh-a-Day Cartoon Feature
LAFF-A-DAY.
brand new daily messenger of mirth
JUEL REED COVER'S popular column, The Jewel Box
LOCAL PICTURES of EVENTS AS THEY HAPPEN
Daily Crossword Puzzle. .Daily Horoscope.
Latest State, National and International News and Pictures
LATEST SPORTS and SCORES OF OTHER NEW FEA
TURES
DON'T MISS A SINGLE EDITION!
Every Day,— Starting July 16th In
The Paily News
VOLUME 92^NO_22
YOUTH DROWNS
DURING YACHT
OUTING HERE
An 18 year old Columbus college
student who was with a group of
lumber company employees enjoy
ing a day's outing on the 46-foot
CrisCraft Lark II drowned Sunday
noon while swimming as the yacht
anchored off the north side of
Kellys Island.
The victim was Bonnie Williams,
originally from Eckman, W. Va.,
who had been living with an aunt
at 1635 Emerald Ave., Columbus.
He had been attending college in
Colorado, and joined employees of
the 3-C Lumber Co. as guests of
V. L. and Albert Penrod for the
yacht trip.
Members of the party said Wil
liams was swimming off the yacht
when he suddenly went down.
Their efforts to find him were
futile. Mablehead Coast Guard
sent its 40 utility boat, 16 foot
skiff, and 25 foot surfboat. San
dusky station boats joined in the
search all afternoon and evening
but the body was not located. Wa
ter was about 30 feet deep.
Calls Doubled
Marblehead Coast Guards had 8
assistance calls Saturday and Sun
day as their fiscal year ended with
record of 154 calls as compared
to 83 the previous year, BMC Geo.
Maier reported.
A 14-foot outboard, its propeller
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Foster Sent To
Lima Hospital
Guy Foster, 27, who faces three
charges of assault and battery in
Ottawa county following a June 3
•beating and stabbing of "his 73
year-old father-in-law, Paul Gergel,
is at Lima State Hospital for a 60
day period of obseivation.
He was ordered to Lima by
Judge Bernard Hawk, Sandusky co
common pleas court .last Friday in
connection with an arson charge
on which the grand jury in that
county had indicted him in January
1955. Lima will furnish a report on
the man's condition after the 60
day period, and Ottawa county is
retaining holders on the assault
charges i fhe is ruled sane.
Gerner and Wolf
Gets EOD Contract
The Gerner and Wolf Funeral
Home in Port Clinton has been
awarded the contract to provide
mortuary service for all military
personnel assigned or attached to
Erie Ordnance Depot.
The contract, which extends
from July 1 to December 31, 1956,
was awarded to Gerner and Wolf
after negotiations with mortuary
establishments in Port Cfffrbn and
Oak Harbor. The agreement pro
vides for services to all military
personnel at Erie and Camp Perry
as well as to the immediate vicin
ity.
MONEY MISSING
$37.75 was missing from the cash
register of the Ray Meyers Sunoco
station on Route 2 E when the
service station was opened for busi
ness June 28. Police were notified
at 7:56 a.m.
There was no evidence of
break-in, Chief William Robel said.
The theft continues under investi
gation.
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•Recreation Fund Gets $100
•Port Clinton's summer recreation schedule, operating- on a
slim budget this first year, got a fine assist from this $100 check
which postmaster Verdi Von Thron is presenting Recreation Di
rector Boh Green as a gift from the Fremont Soroptomist Club
of which she is a past president. Mrs. Lcsta Forster, left, and
Mrs. Ann Bolte, right, are other Port Clinton members of the
club. Soroptomists also gave $100 to Oak Harbor Veteran*'
Memorial Park, ami $300 to Rodger Young Park activities in
Fremont. The money will be used for the purchase of recreation
supplies and to further the program in which several hundred
children now are benefitting.
CAMP PERRY MEN INJURED AS CAR
HITS SIGNAL LIGHTS AT CROSSING
Three Camp Perry soldiers were
injured, two remaining at Magrud
er hospital, when their car crashed
into the reinforced barricade sur
rounding the signal lights at Three
Mile Crossing west of Port Clinton
Thursday at 1:10 a.m.
Deputy sheriff Myron Hetrick
said witnesses told him the car was
travelling at a high rate of speed
and was unable to make the cufte.
it spun around after the impact,
and caught on fire. Port Clinton
fire department extinguished the
blaze.
Reported in fairly good condition
Thursday at the hospital were the
driver, Pvt. Fred W. Kahnt, 22, of
Vine St., Brown City, Mich., with
head injuries, contusions and lac
erations and Pvt. Francis J. Levito,
21, 530 Gerhard St., Philadelphia,
^a. Pvt. Edward M. Mulheran, 22,
was released after emergency treat
ment for cuts and bruises of the
hea dan dface. The three soldiers
are from Fort Knox, and are with
Hq. and Hq. Co.r Army Support
(Prov.), at Camp Perry for the Na
tional Matches. Neidecker ambul
ance brought the injured to the
hospital.
Lockwood Zeis Joins Father, Fred M.
Zeis And Howard Fulton As Partner
The Tadsen Insurance Agency
Co., a Port Clinton institution since
1893, this week welcomed a new
partner and at the same time an
nounced the addition of real estate
to its services.
The new partner is Lockwood
Zeis, 1956 graduate oriTiami Uni
versity of Oxford, who on July 1
joined his father, Frederick M. Zeis
and Howard B. Fulton in partner
ship of the E. Second St. firm.
The real estate expansion of the
firm is effective immediately with
gr.iMfcig of a real estate broker's
license to Mr. Fulton, who has
passed his state board examination
after serving two years as a real
estate salesman.
The new partner, 22, was grad
uated from Port Clinton high
school in 1952 as one of the out
standing members of tlie class. He
major-tsi in business administration
at Miami University. He Is married
to the former Mary Jane Crohen
and they have a nine months old
daughter. Angela.
The family is staying for the
present with Mr. and Tvlrs. Fred
Zeis while their new home at the
corner of Fourth and Jackson Sts.
is being remodeled.
The agency was founded by the
late .K. Tadsen in 1S3. Fred
Zeis joined its staff in 1937, and
became a partner in 1943. buying
the business shortly before Mr.
Tadsen's death in 1945. Mr. Fulton
became a partner seven years ago.
Jan .13 of this year, the company
moved to its new Second Street
offices.
An office for the new partner is
now being completed.
A third change also became ef
fective at Tadsen's this week. Mrs.
Robert Brown, the former Carol
Quisno, started as new secretary,
replacing Jane Minoff who is be
ing married July 14.
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ONE OF OHIO'S BEST HOMETOWN PAPERS
OTTAWA COUNTY NEWS
READ BY MORE THAN 20,000 PEOPLE EVERY WEEK
PORT CLINTON, OHIO, FRIDAY JULY~6,
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S(n)akes Alive!
Whatta Trick!
'There's a snake with its tail
caught in a car window on Sec­
ond St., and ifs going to give
somebody an awful scare," said
a feminine voice on the phone at
police headquarters Friday at
4:24.
And, by golly, there was.
Some boys had parked the car
and left the garter snake hang­
ing out the window. Police re
moved it.
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LATE HOSPITAL
An Independence Day arrival
was the son born to Jigr. and Mrs.
Gale Stephens (Joan Lester) of Rt.
1, Oak Harbor, at Magruder hos
pital Wednesday, July 4. The baby
weighed seven lbs. and 12 ozs.
A daughter, seven lbs., was born
Youn£ Testifies
In Murder Case
Edward Young, 83 year old rural
Oak Harbor service station man
ager, took the witness stand in
Lucas county court Monday as John
Bowens, 35, New York ,went on
trial for first degree murder of
sheriff's deputy Raymond West
over May 29.
It was the $70 robbery of Young's
station that triggered the events in
which the deputy and and an 18
year old hospital technician were
killed and a blind man critically
injured.
Mr. Young told of being robbed,
his revolver taken, and left tied
with clothesline. Bowens denied he
nred the shot that killed t«e
deputy but admitted the Young
robbery.
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Local Woman, 89,
Has Surgery Like
President1s Case
An 89 year old Port Clintonite
knows exactly what the doctors
were talking about, in connection
with President Eisenhower's re
Cent surgery.
Mrs. Caroline Petersen had an
intestinal operation of the same
nature but there is one differ*
ence, she told her doctor: "I am
a Democrat."
Mrs. Petersen came to Port
Clinton as a bride of 22 when
there were dirt roads in the vil
lage and few houses. Her forti*
tude in undergoing and recover
ing from the surgery has won
the love and respect of everyone
who knows heri
1956
BOY, 3, HIT AT
PARK CROSSING
An 8 year old Mattmee boy sus
tained cuts and bruises Friday at
12:40 p.m. when he was hit by a
car as he rag into the highway at
City Park. The boy was Eric Wayne
Warnock, 627 Pierce St., and the
car driver was John J. DeLores,
39, Toledo.
Mr. DeLores told police he was
travelling east on Perry, 400 feet
from Ash, when the boy darted
across from the beach to the south
side of the highway.
Despite unprecedently heavy
week-end traffic and crowds, only
minor accidents were reported.
Cars driven by George Moore, Jr.,
Fremont, and Mildred Cucaro, San
dusky, had slight damage when
Moore backed from the Sohio sta
tion onto Madison St. as the other
car turned the corner. A Cleveland
and a W. Va. car were involved in
a minor accident in front of the
liquor store Saturday afternoon.
Calvin Brown, 130 Linden St. was
cited by police for leaving the
scene of an accident after a parked
car owned by Merryl Truex, 416
E. Second St., parked on E. Second
St., had its left side scraped.
Athletic Field
Lighting Bid Of
$19,500 Accepted
Work on improved now lighting
at the athletic field ,which Port
Clinton voters included in their
$925,000 school bond issue last fall,
will get underway immediately
with letting of the contract to the
Bernard Construction Co. of Bowl
ing Green.
Its base bid of $19,500 for a 96
lamp installation with 70 foot
wooden poles was low of four
opened Thursday night by the
Board of Education. Valley Engi
neering CO. of Fremont bid $22,300
with an alternate bid of $30,300 if
steel poles are used Lake Erie
Electric Co. had a $23,750 base
bid with $39,000 for steel poles
Taylor Electric Co. had a base bid
of $28,180 or $34,660 wlfh steel
poles.
Trie work is to be completed
August 20 when football practice
will begin.
Contract for the paving of Sixth
St. extension for a distance of 410
feet, adjacent the new school site,
was let to Roger J. Au Co., Mans
Thursday, July 5, to Mr. and Mrs.' field. Its bid was $9,003 for con
Curtis Trayanum (Betty Jones)
1105 State St.
New admissions: James Stotts,
Route 1, Oak Harbor, surgical Fred
Kahnt and Francis LeVito, Camp
Perry, accident
crete, $9,840 for black top. The bid
on concrete was accepted. Only
other bidder was Peerless Construc
tion, Fremont, which entered bids
of $11,228.25 for concrete and
$9,330.45 for black top.
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Here's Two Lads
Who Like To Walk
Last Sunday Bill Spring and
Eddie Burckhardt spent the day
with Bill's grandfather in Miller
ton, a Columbus suburb. In the
afternoon the boys decided to go
for a stroll. A little over two
hours later they found them
selves in front of the Capitol
Building. After a short sight-see
ing trip they called Bill's parents
to drive them back to MilTerton.
When they clocked the distance
they found that they had walked
nearly 7Va miles.
This is a story about a little girl
who died, but who left behind her
a dramatic saga of neighborly help
and community love that will
never be forgotten in Ottawa Coun*
fr
it is the tale of four year old
Jacqueline Sue Rudes, little dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Rudes of Martin, who died June
25 at St. Vincent's Chanty
pital in Cleveland after undergo
ing rare surgery to repair a heart
condition.
It is the story of 20 men and
women who promptly and gladly
laid aside their personal affairs at
the call of the Ottawa County Red
Cross Chapter to give their blood
at Cleveland, enabling surgeons to
make delicate heart repairs which
were Jackie's only chance not only
for a normal life—but for life it
self and of the men and women
who made possible the mass dona
tion at the Cleveland hospital.
Mr. Kna^p and other adjacent
residents assisted the Akron men
in retrieving the boat, which they
took back to Akron. The life pre
servers which had brought them
to safety in the chii^' darkness
Tuesday night were the trunk
o ftheir car.
Wednesday was a dark, gloomy
Fourth of July with a chill wind
and occasional spits of rain, and
as a result adjacent beaches which
would have drawn capacity crowds
had limited amounts of picnickers
and visitors. Traffic was far below
a holiday normal.
No accidents were reported at
the sheriff's office, and police had
day of only minor calls. Ma
gruder hospital's emergencies were
only of a minor nature.
CD Officials
Confer On System
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Life Jackets Save
Akron Deaf Mutes
In Near-Tragedy
Two Akron deaf mutes got safely to shore in darkness^
wearing life preservers, after their 14 foot outboard equip
ped with two motors went down Tuesday night about lj#
p.m. off Catawba Island.
Their boat was recovered
ashore on the J. F. Knapp property
at "Little Pittsburgh," Route 1.
The empty boat, pnrtially submerg
ed, was seen by Mr. Knapp around
7 a.m.
The Coast Giurd was notified,
and two Coast Guard boats spent
two hours searching the area for
possible victims until the two men
arrived, identified the boat as
theirs and said they were its only
occupants.
They did not give their names,
and only vague information of
their experience could be obtained
since all conversation had to be
carried on by writing. Mr. Knapp
said.
Ottawa county Civil Defense
heads went to St. Mary's Sunday to
meet with officials there who are
installing a siren system for Aug
laize county. Lucag county already
has this system in operation, and bejng coached this year by Dave
can notify 64 spots within 30 sec
onds. Ottawa County Civil Defense
is planning a similar program as
soon as the new radio communica
tions are put in operation.
Going to St. Mary's were Howard
R. Brown, director of Civil De
fense Lyle Kibbel, deputy direc
tor Willard Bloom, chief observer,
G. O. C. and Raymond Brown. They
conferred with Col. Arnold Reich
er, CD director of St. ^Viry's and
Auglaize co, GO Csupervisor Lt.
William King, and former PCer
Dale McCullough, who is working
with the Air Force on a sound de
tector and lives at St. Mary's.
BIKE RECOVERED
A call on a stolen bicycle came
in to police at 6:10 p.m. Thursday
after the bike of Tom Wiseman,
315 W. Third St., disappeared
from in front of Tony's Snack Bar.
At 9:44 a.m. Friday, police were
notified by Mike Brenzo, 715 State
St., that a bicycle had been
abandoned there. It was the Wise
man bike.
Child Dies... But Story Of Efjorl
Made By Friends Will Long Lire On
The story began June 18 when
the Ottawa county Red Cross Chap
ter got a call that Jackie was to
undergo surgery on June 28 which
would require 14 pints of A-posi
tive blood.
Executive secretary Ada Haydon
gave quick assent that the blood
would be available through the
Hos- Red Cross blood program. She
wrote to the Cleveland blood bank
immediately asking all coopera
tion.
Back came a call next day. The
surgery would be a new type of
operation made possible by the
new heart-lung pump. Bottled
plasma would not do. The blood
must be fresh, whole, living blood,
direct from the donors. Could the
Red Cross supply enough donors?
Ada knew Ottawa county and its
generous people. There was no
hesitation in her "Yes".
From the Red Cross files, valuan
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This Is Last Time
For Ottawa County
News" Masthead
Today is the last time you will
see the name "The Ottawa Coun*
ty News" on your paper.
For The Ottawa County News*,
which for nearly 92 years has
proudly served this community*
as a weekly newspaper, next!
Thursday gives way to newt
name and a new distinction*
"The Daily News" will appear or|
our masthead as the first dailvf
newspaper in the history of Qt»
tawa County starts rolling front
our presses on July 12.
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Bob-Tales
By ROBERT W. REIDER
Port Clinton's M. J. (EddieV Ed
wards will be city chairman for
National Brotherhood Week next
February. .he was picked for the
job by Louis Seltzer, editor of The
Cleveland Press.
A certain business firm bet
sizeable check waiting to start the
ball rolling on construction of
community swimming pool at Put
in-Bay. .Chamber of Commerce,
let'* got
When Coach Joe Lukac's Red
skins meet Perrysburg in the
second grid game of the coming
season the affair will have a county
flavor. .the Yellow Jackets are
Martin,, former Rocket mentor.
That new fog horn-type noisa
you hear is not the luxury liner
"Aquarama" docking at Put-in-Bay
.just one of the burro* at the
Pony Ride.
After a European wsit, Betty
Neff believes that Roy Webster
still possesses a secret formula as
a vinter ...
Johnny Manton, ex-FBI agent
who is well known in Port Clinton,
has entered private law practice
in Toledo.
Billy Martin ia having the time
of his life art Camp Eberhard,
Mich. .he's the 14-year-old son
of Charley (Travelers,) and Sue
Martin.
Starting next Thursday
we'll Ih» with yon EVERY dav.
hope you tell your friends alxmt
thr exciting, bijf, new DAJLY
NEWS!
ble beyond measure with their
painstaking detail on even' gener-f
ous blood donor, came names of
A-positives who live in the Martin
Genoa area. V
Dave Piatt, Genoa businessman^
and co-chairman of the blood pro
gram in the Genoa area, left his^
store. He visited potential donors,
and did the legwork to set up tne?
donation.
Not a person he visited said no„
although it meant one visit to Ma*
gruder hospital to have blood sam*
pies taken, and a trip to Cleveland#
on the day of the surgery.
Some people whose names weren't^
on the list wanted to help Jackie^
too.
In tfre meantime, another
from Cleveland said the survtyk
had been moved up to Monaay,
June 25. That meant increa a
tempo, because after the blood?
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