The Cedarville Herald, Volume 70, Numbers 1-26

C E D A B Y I L L E ’ S OLDEST INSTITUTION The Cedarville Herald P u b l i s h e d i n t h e I n t e r e s t o f C e d a r v i l l e ' a n d S u r r o u n d i n g C o m m u n i t y ' PER Y E A H ________$1.50 PER COPY .....................5e VoUttmn LXX FifthGradeofCeou. V Cedarville, Ohio, Friday, April 11, 1947 **M*#-**-§5 Number 18 ShownThisWeek t£M* V v 1st row —Paul Coates, Bill Arthur, Dickie Dungan, Joe Sharpe, Thurman Baker* Janet Shaw, Donald Stewart, Louisa ■Williams, Donald Eaker, Perry Andrews. 2nd row —Shirley Rogers, Su- GreneCounty Qualifiesfor SafetyAward Twenty-six counties and thirty- seven cities have qualified for the 1946 accident death reduction award which the Ohio State Safe­ ty Council makes to communities and counties showing a 10 per cent decrease in fatal accidents during the year. The award was established in 19-45, when 29 coun­ ties and 40 cities won. , J. C. Hiestand, president, Ohio State Safety Concil, announced that Athens, Delphos, Sidney, Adams County and Greene county have won in both years. Maple Heights, St. Bernard, Urbana and Wapakoneta had no fatal accidents during 1946 and will receive 100 per cent reduction awards. None of the cities with perfect records in 1945 were able to repeat last yaer. Hiestand stated that award winners had a real job to do. Ohio’s fatal accidents increased 5.5 per cent last year, so the winners had to go against the prevailing trend rather vigor­ ously. This probably accounts for the winners list being smaller than in the previous year. A number of Ohio cities be­ tween 5,000 and 10,000 population will receive certificates of eomen- dation from the National Safety Council in recognition of their freedom from traffic fatalities during 1940. Hiestand suggested that any community or county can reduce and control accidents and acci­ dental deaths if it sets about to do so. This year eight cities and six counties are organized under the Green Cross for safety cam­ paign May 1 to 31—to energize an intensified program of public safety education in their com­ munities in cooperation with the state wide program. Every day 478 Americans die of cancer! No one is safe! Cancer strikes young and old, rich and poor alike! Guard those you love. Give to conquer cancer! sanne Miller, Martha Deck, Ee- Becca Kaiser, Neil Frame, Doris Fawcett, Donald Fife, Judy Sch­ wab, David Hertenstein, Bill Baldwin. 3rd row —Joanne'Miller, Char­ lene Walker, Joyce, Smith, Euth Peterson, Mary Peterson, Amy James Clifford Dies in Hospital James Clifford, 76, Xenia, died in a Xenia hospital Friday after­ noon. Born in Winchester, Ind., Dec. 31, 1870, ho moved to Xenia in 1902 and until recently resided in Cedarville. A son, Harold, of Xenia and a brother, Ellsworth, Winchester. Ind., survive. Funeral services were held at the Neeld funeral home Tuesday at 1:30 p. m., in charge of Rev. Hugh S, Graham, of the First Methodist church. Burial was in Woodland Cemetery. SpecialElection ToBeHeldin BeaverDistrict Voters in Beavercreek town­ ship school district will be asked to approve an extra $65,000 im­ provement bond issue at a special election, possibly June 6, earliest date allowed by law, it has been announced. The Beaver board of education, allotted $60,000 by voters in No­ vember, 1945, for a six-room ad­ dition and equipment at the over­ crowded Dayton pike school, re­ cently received bids and the low­ est contract offer proved to be more than twice the a m o u n t available. The additional $65,000 issue will be presented separately, it was said. Prosecutor Marcus S h o u p, called in by the board in an ad­ visory capacity, said that $125,- 000 is neeesary to proceed and complete the addition and im­ provements. Higher cost of build­ ing materials was blamed. C. M. Stebbins, supervising principal.. of Beaver, the third largest school district in the county, ranking only behind Xenia and Osborn Bath, revealed the enrollment now is 730 pupils. The present building was de­ signed for only 600 and with limited cafeteria facilities. Most of the student body is now served noon lunches. DairyInterestsinCountyWinin FightAgainstColoredMargarine The interests of hundreds o f dairy farmers throughout Greene* Fayette, Clinton, Highland, and Boss counties were well served this week when State Senator Albert L. Daniels of Greenfield, joined with four other senator® on the commerce and labor com­ mittee in voting to postpone, in­ definitely, further consideration of a bill which would have per­ mitted the manufacture and sate o f colored oleomargine in Ohio, according to O. Er. Anderson, ex­ ecutive secretary of the Ohio Dairy Products association, Col­ umbus. By voting in opposition to the |f. bill, Senator Daniels agreed with dairy industry representatives on evidence that the coloring o f oleomargarine would; destroy a large segment o f the market for H -mfflr and cream and thereby bring |t about a general reduction in [v over-att production; would not make «ieo any more accessible to lower-income consumers since the federal tax of 10 cents per pound would become effective on the colored product; a n d that the dairy farmer, through the pur­ chase of soy-bean feed, provide a more permanent a n d stable market for the soy bean grower than the oleo manufacturers ever could provide. It also was pointed out during hearings that in a matter o f a few months, it was probable that importation of cheap foreign oils would doubt­ less force the price of domestic soy bean oil down to pre-war levels* Opponents to the bill cited sta­ tistics to the effect that more than 170,000’ Ohio farm families, plus over 100,000 urban residents, depend directly upon the dairy industry for their livelihood, while only a few thousand per­ sons are employed in the oleo in­ dustry in the state. There are only four manufacturing plant® in Ohio* Sanford, Norma . Klontz, James Dawes, Eugene Bennington. 4th row —Mrs. Evans, Donald Tackett, Richard Butts, John Kearns, Ralph Hudgell, Robert Kirkpatrich, James Moore, Eliza Litteral, Ronald Johnson. —Photo by Ramme. Experts to DiscussFuture OfGlenHelen Foresters, conservationists, and agriculture experts of state and federal agencies in Ohio will meet at Antioch college on April 18 and 19; Kenneth W. Hunt, direc­ tor of Glen Helen, Antioch’s nat­ ural campus tract, announced. They will discuss the develop­ ment of the 1,000 acre woodland which recently received its own half-million dollar endowment from the estate of Hugh Taylor Birch. “Fifty years from now, what, will they wish we had done with ‘ the glen,” is the question posed for the public discussion on Fri­ day evening April 18. Invited to take part in the panel at this session are Dr. O. D. Diller, authority on tree breed­ ing from the Ohio agriculture experiment station at Wooster; Dr. Charles Dambach, zoologist at Ohio State university; Dr. T. C. Kennard of the soil conserva- tionservice, Columbus; Dr. A. S. Short of the wildlife conservation extension service, Columbus; Dr. G. E. Bazler of Chillicothe, land- scapearchitect for the Ohio state parks; and Dean C. L. Dow of Ohio uinversity at Athens, The conference will open Fri­ day noon with a tour of the area under discussion. The twenty ex­ perts will go into separate closed sessions Saturday morning to discuss possible work for Glea Helen in forestry, wildlife, con­ servation education, soil conser­ vation. Other experts at the conference will represent the Ohio Farm Bureau, the U. S. forest service, the state water resources hoard; the Ohio division of forestry and ox conservation and natral re­ sources. Local school heads, county agents, and extension service offi­ cers will also take part in the two-day conference. They include Greene County Agent E. A. Drake, S. O. Liming, county superintendent of schools, J. A. Odegard, representative of the soil conservation service, and E. D. Stroup, wildlife conservation extensionist. Louis Bromfield, novelist* of Malabar farm, Lucas, O., Dr. Ar­ thur Harper, state naturalist, H. S. Wagner of the metropolitan pai'k board in Akron, J. Edgar Rhodes of Wilmington, Del, Dr; Arthur B. Williams of the Cleve­ land museum of natural history, J. R. Lawwill of the Ohio arch­ eological and historical society, and David C, Bradfute, farm owner, have also been asked to the conference. Members of the glen advisory committee, repre­ senting Yellow Springs and Anti­ och college interests, will also take part, Many Attend Skating Party Approximately 40 persons from Cedarville were at Hodge’s skat­ ing rink, Springfield, .Tuesday evening where the Youth Fellow­ ship of the local Methodist church sponsored a roller skating party. The proceeds froin the -party will go to the youth fund* HostetlerNamed DeanforSummer SessionsatCollege Porfessor A. J. Hostetler, head of the department of education of Cedarville college, has been ap­ pointed dean of the annual Cedar­ ville college summer school, Presi­ dent Ira D. Vayhinger announced. For three decades Cedarville has conducted an annual summer school and next summer the en­ rollment will probably be the largest in its history, the college head declared. There will also Jbe a .reversal o f the usual policy for the sum­ mer curriculum he declared. As has been the usual custom a curriculum has been announced and the student is required to adapt his needs to it. However, the needs Of the summer students for the summer term will be sub­ jected to diligent study and then out of their actual, needs the course schedule will be forth­ coming he said, A number of new instructors will be hired for the summer term in addition to a retention of part of .the full time faculty he said. “ The shortage o f teachers is becoming rapidly worse,” Presi­ dent Yayhinger said. “Hot only are we receiving desparate calls from county superintendents in Ohio for teachers but also from nearby states. Pittsburgh educa­ tors have sent desparate appeals for additional personnel. The ele­ mentary teacher situation is worse still. I f we can judge by applications coming in from new students, the elementary teacher is fading from the picture, al­ most entirely.” Not only will the local institu­ tion seek to help out on the teach­ er situation by giving special at­ tention to the needs of prospec­ tive teachers hut will also offer a varied schedule for all liberal arts courses he indicated. The physical education department of which Mendell Beattie is the head will be substantially expanded for the summer. Summer school opens June 9 for the first session closing July 12; second term July 14 ending August 16. Health Department Issues Warning The county health department has issued the following warning: “We found at our preschool conferences, especially in Xenia, that a large number o f children had been immunized for diph­ theria and whooping cough, but hot vaccinated for smallpox. We cannot help feeling that this failure to vaccinate for smallpox is a serious mistake, and that the parent should insist that vac­ cination he done at approximate­ ly one year of age. The reaction at this time is usually less than it is in the older ‘child. Failure to vaccinate until school age re­ sults in a large reservoir o f sus­ ceptible individuals which might very well mean disaster, a pos­ sible epidemic, especially since travel has become almost univer­ sal, and day nurseries and kin­ dergartens are increasing in num­ ber.” Red Cross W ill Reach Drive Goal Late returns in the Greene county Red Cross fund drive have lifted the total to $15,498.08 and it seems certain the final count will carry the chapter over the $20,000 goal, Miss Katherine Smith, Red Cross executive di­ rector, announced. Accounting in part for the new boost were late reports from Mi­ ami and Cedarville townships which added $1,600 and $300, respectively. Still to be heard from are Wright and Patterson fields where contributions now exceed $17,000. Although returns from that area are divided equally be­ tween Greene and Montgomery counties, Progressive Club To Meet Monday The Progressive club will hold its regular monthly dinner meet­ ing on Monday evening at 7:30 at the Old Mill Camp. Plans for the annual field day on Labor day will he discussed as well as plans. for the park. Blue prints of the park will he shown to the group if they are ready at that time, if not, the drawing Will be shown. Members desiring transporta­ tion ter the meeting Should call Harry Hamman, Ward Is Turned Over to Army Charles Ward, 22 Cedarville, an auto theft suspect held in county jail for several weeks, was turned over to army authorities ■Saturday for being absent with­ out leave, the sheriff's office dis­ closed. Ward’s wife, Mercie, last week, filed application for a habeas cor­ pus writ to release him, charging he was being held without proper commitment papers. The sheriff's department had believed him responsible for the theft of an auto owned by Walter LeMaster, Cedarville, March 13. The car was found in Xenia, abandoned and wrecked. He had pleaded not guilty in municipal court and was awaiting further -examination officials Said. R.$,Townsley Local Company ConstructingNewTypeHomeinXenia Robert S. Townsley, 82, died at his home on South Main street Friday at 6:30 a. m. after a five weeks' illness. The son of James and Clarissa Harper Townsley, he was horn in Cedarville township June 4, 1864 and had been a resident of Cedar­ ville since 1909. A member of the United Pres­ byterian church, he was a former director of the Cedarville Build­ ing and Loan association and also served twelve years as a township trustee. He is survived by his widow, 'Mrs. Mary Effie McMillan Town* sley, whom he married in October, 1887; a son, Fred, near Cedar­ ville; three grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Services were held at the Mc­ Millan funeral home, Monday at 2 p. m., in charge of Dr. R. A. Jamieson of the United Presby­ terian church. Burial was in Mas- sie’s Creek cemetery* Presbytery ToMeetat 1 ^ ^ iV ^ ^ i* ^ V I l i S l i l tt J SB m, The annual spring meeting of Dayton Presbytery will be held in the First Presbyterian church of Yellow Springs, morning and afternoon, Tuesday, April 15. .The Rev. Herbert S. Schroeder is host pastor and is also the* enrolling clerk of the Presbytery. The guest speakers include the Rev. Hamlin G. Tobey, Columbus; the new field representative for Chris­ tian education in the Synod of Ohio and Mr. G. F. Scliroggen, New York, regional director of the denomination’s restoration fund. The Rev. E, Howard McClin- tock, Springfield, Will preside throughout the day as moderator and deliver his moderatorial sermon at the morning session. The Rev. Alexander H Coyle, Troy, will report as chairman of Presbytery’s committee on Chris­ tian education and present Can­ didate Jay S. Johnson for exam­ ination fo r licensure and ordina­ tion. The Rev. D. Earl McKinney, Springfield, will report as chair­ man of Presbytery’s committee on united promotion on the pro- gresSjOf the restoration fund. Mr. Johnson is completing his theo­ logical training at the Yale Di­ vinity school at New Haven, Conn., ajid plans to be ordained in the First Presbyterian church, Middletown, Sunday evening, April 20. Four commissioners to the meeting of the national assembly in Grand Rapids, Mich., and eighteen delegates to the Pres­ byterian Synod of Ohio at Woo­ ster are to be elected, half of them ministers, the other half lay delegates. A new moderator is to be chosen and another en­ rolling clerk elected. More than fifty ministers from the eight counties of the district and lay delegates from the forty-three churches of the Presbytery are expected. The women of the host church will serve the noon lunch­ eon. The other officers of Pres­ bytery, besides Moderator Mc- Clintock, include the Rev. S. Tur­ ner Ritenour, Dayton, vice mod­ erator; the Rev. Malcolm A. Har­ ris, Clifton, recording clerk; the Rev. Herbert S. Schroeder, Yellow Springs, enrolling clerk; and the Rev. C. L. Plymate, Dayton, stated clerk and treasurer. Cancer is no respecter o f age. It strikes young aiid old* Give to conquer cancer! . - n ' ''i ' J? ' jw . * f > v .*sr-,-* ■* £ WMmmmmmmmmm fmm . A pre-cast roof span is hoisted into place by workmen laying the roof on the new-type precast MoneyIs Distributed Thirty-six taxing districts in Greene county have received $371,845.91 in checks as their February shares of Teal estate, public utility and special taxes, County Auditor James J. Cur- lett announced. This total does not include four overlapping school district areas in three other counties, he said. The semi-annual settlement came from tax collections on first half 1946 returns. The second 1947 settlement will come in August. Funds allotted municipalities: Fairfield, $6,177.54; Wright View, $467.72; Osborn, $20,201.80; Ce­ darville, $3,082.13; Bowersville, $379.20; Clifton, $190.42; Yellow Springs, $3,527.21; ’ Jamestown, $1,938.15; Spring Valley, $871.97; Bellbrook, $286.46, and Xenia, $27,536.38. School districts: Bath, $56,117.- 69; Beavercreek, $34,790.86; Cae- sarcreek, $4,240.87; Cedarville, $12,150.30; Jefferson, $7,770.02; Clifton-Union, $2,829.15. Ross, $10,542.93; Silvercreek, $16,895.20 Spring Valley, $12,533.91; Sugar- creek, $15,042.72; Xenia Twp., $12,649.79; Xenia city, $63,098.28, and Miami, $18,443.53. Townships: Bath, $7,336.89; Beavercreek, $6,986.24; Caesar- creek, $1,790.69; Cedarville, $2,- 889.58; Jefferson, $1,518.15; Ross, $2,180.92; Silvercreek, $1,834.13; Spring Valley, $1,581.03; Sugar- creek,$1,866.28; Miami, $4,013.64; New Jasper, $1,338.57, and Xenia Twp.,$6,561.61. To Discuss Danger Of Communism The danger of Communism to American freedom will be the topic for discussion at 3 p. m. Sunday over station WING, Day- ton, on the Fact Finder’s Forum sponsored by the United Farmers of Ohio. Scheduled to appear on the dis­ cussion are Dr. Lewis E. Corey, Antioch college professor of eco­ nomics, and Archbishop McNich- olas, Cincinnati. home. Left to right are Nathan S. Elder and Frank Collins plac­ ing the hollow span. $8,060 Judgment Awarded by Court Judgment for $8,060 was awarded Monday by Common Pleas Judge Frank L. Johnson to the First National hank of Osborn against Harold M. Law­ rence, James B. Swords, Eliza­ beth M. Lawrence, Anna E. Rat- erman, Paul L. Donovan and John B. Striteh, all signers of a promissory note dated last Nov.6, Morris D. Rice, Osborn lawyer, filed the suit for the hank as part of action being taken against Lawrence , owner of the Law­ rence motor sales at Fairfield, who has been charged by Elias Quinn, police chief there, with issuing bad cheeks that may total as high as $150,000. The hunt for Lawrence, 36, has extended to Florida where he is believed to have gone about a month ago with his family for “a vacation.” He made his home in Springfield. FormerClifton ResidentDies Mrs. Etta B. Dolwiek, 81, of 1578*Mond St., Springfield, died at 11:40 p. m. last Wednesday after being in failing health the last three njonths. She was a resident of the Clifton commun­ ity about fourteen years ago. Surviving are seven daughters: Mrs. Carrie Grindle, Clifton; Mrs. Flossie Sites, Cedarville; Mrs. Rose Luttrell; Winchester, Va., Mrs. Mary Weaver, Springfield; Miss Geneva Dolwiek, at home; Mrs. Virginia Leslie and Mrs. Ethel Allender, both of Spring- field; three sons, John, Raymond and George, all of Springfield; two siste/s, Mrs. Ella Hamilton, Tremont City, and Mrs. Rozella Hamilton, Springfield; a brother, Walter Botkin, Donnelsville, O; forty two grandchildren and thir­ ty-four great grandchildren, Her husband, Tobias Dolwiek, died two years ago and five children also preceded her in death. Services were held Saturday at 3:30 p. m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Springfield, with burial in Valecemetery in that city. GrayLaudsCooperationofPublic InStrikeofTelephoneOperators C. W. Gray, Ohio Bell 'Tele­ phone manager of the Xenia dis­ trict, is high in the praise of the public for the fine cooperation they are showing the company during the strike of the telephone operators of the company, - The strike of the operators be­ gan at 6 a, m. Monday and up to the time the Herald went to press there was no sign of a settlement, although some of the government conciliators working on the case had expressed optimism, In the local district the only phones to be effected were those in Xenia where Ohio Beli still operates, manual switchboards. AH other phones in the district, which comprises all o f Greene county, are the dial type. How­ ever,.all long distance calls were *•*£* subject to the emergency only call ruling of the company. Mr Gray stated that attempted calls have been very light at the Xenia exchange and that long distance calls ‘had dropped ac­ cordingly. He stated that the boards were being manned by supervisory and management em­ ployes, some of whom were sent into Xenia' from other points of the Bell system. “We have had very little troub­ le with the telephoning public after the emergency only ruling is explained. Only in one or two instances have we experienced any difficulty,” Mr, Gray com­ mented. He also pointed out that the total calls being handled on the boards amount to only 10 per cent of the Usual number. —Photo, by Richard A. Ramme. Precast houses from cellar to roof have become a reality in Greene county. On the outskirts of Xenia, the Creswell Concrete Products company is construct­ ing a pTecast concrete house, which soon will he ready for its new owners, Mr, and Mrs. Jame® Lockwood of Jamestown. “While heavy industry for a long rime has used the idea o f precast-concrete construction, it’s entirely new in the small building field and we aTe using the plans of Ernest W. Davies of Columbus, a well known designer, who after years of research has perfected the house now being built by ns,” says A. W. Creswell head of the local company. Every part of the house is pre­ cast, and while -at the present the work is still being done in Colum­ bus, forms and equipment are be­ ing installed in the Cedarville plant, which will enable it to go in full production soon. The heaviest part of the house weighs less than 1,000 pounds, so only a few workmen and light derrick equipment is used in the construction, reducing the cost of labor to a minimum. After the foundation is built—3 and it can he either concrete blocks or poured concrete—the precast floor unit, consisting of hollow spans, is put Into place. The floor unit is self-snpport- ing and hollow to reduce weight. This comes in handy to heat the house in winter, for hot air can circulate through the hollow; spaces. The walls of the house are constructed with precast planks which are supported by beams and posts. One row o f planks is installed on the outside of the beams, and one on the inside, leaving a dead air space in the wail which is installed a fibre insulating hoard to give the house added insulation. , The roof, according to Mr, Creswell, consists of roof spans which are similar to the floor spans. Atop the Toof is poured vermilite insulating concrete, which is sloped toward the middle to allow drainage. Then the roof is covered with regular roofing material. To make the house cool during the summer months, a two-inch pool of water is permitted to stand on the roof and if rainfall is not sufficient all the owner has to do is to open a valve inside the house and flood the roof. Door frames and window frames will also he out precast concrete. Regular steel sash will he used and the precast form, will have a groove to receive the sash. Steel door jams will he bolted to the precast door frames. Inside the house the walls -will be smooth and the firm intends to apply wall paper directly to the precast walls. The owners will be able to hang pictures and orna­ ments on the wall, as in any other house, f Medical Group Asks Increase in Fees A resolution suggesting In­ creased fees to he charged hy its members has been adopted hy the- Greene County Medical society, it has been disclosed. The society also Went on re ­ cord to support state legislation tt> increase salaries o f jpubliq school teachers, y-v