The Greene County Guardian, December 6, 1956

Boxholder the greene county GUARDIAN U.S. Postage Paid Jamestown, O. Perm it No. 27 Vol. I No. 2 JAMESTOWN, Ohio, December 6, 1956 Second ClassPermit Pending at Jamestown, O, Ten Cents RALPH CUMMINGS . . on again, off again JAMES CORBEAN . . . in, to begin HAROLD SPITLER . . . mayor apparent Go-Ahead Given School Light Here jedar May ^uit Twn’ship Gears were set in mo t i o n Mo n d a y night which may grind the village of Cedar- ville away from the township. A t t o r n e y Philip Aultman was aut ho r i zed to draw up legislation for petitioning the Co u n t y Commissioners for removal of the village from the township. Village residents, under the current subdivision organiza­ tion, pay about $800 in taxes y e a r l y for operation of the township, that money would go into the village treasury. If the act is completed, vil­ lage r e s i d e n t s no longer would have any voice in the election or administration of township offices. The move follows a similar action completed early this year by the city of Xenia, which divorced itself f r om Xenia Township. NO MEMBERS, NO MEETING Jamestown's Wilbur Thomas Post, American Legion, Post­ poned its r e g u1a r meeting T u e s d a y ni ght . Too few m e mb e r s appeared for the regular session. Jamestown v i l l a g e fathers Monday night paced off the first formal step toward the installation of a school light in front of Greeneview South High school. Village Clerk Dean Sesslar was aut hori zed to ask the state for a traffic count at the Y i nt ersect i on of State 72 and the Charleston pike, the initial move necessary before the state highway department will approve the installation. Edward Irons, president of D o ra Fields O f f ic ia l ly Out Dora L. Fields f o rm a l l y signed his resignation before the Jamestown village coun­ cil Monday night - - a paper that will end 25 years of ser­ vice to the v i l l a g e as fire chief. Aldermen voted to accept the resignation, e f f e c t i v e Jan. 1. However, Fields will continue as a volunteer fire­ man. Meanwhile, selection of a successor for the retiring fire chief will have to be approved by both the village f a t h e rs and the township trustees. the board of education, told c o u n c i l members that the school board would meet half of the installation costs, to a m a x i m u m of $250, if the council wouldmeet the other half. Current estimates on cost of installing the three -way light run at $500. Being sought is a three-way light that would be operative during school hours and would remain on flasher signal after school hours. It would con­ trol traffic both in-bound and out-bound from the village on the state road and the pike. If the state traffic count in­ dicates that the need is just­ ified, approval of the install­ ation will be forthcoming. However, responsibility vor f i n a ncing of the light rests with local bodies. Street Done Primingandsealingof Ced­ ar St. in Cedarvillehas been completed. Work was done at village e x p e n s e by the Greene County Highway De­ p a r t me n t . The steet had been re-grade d b e fore the surface treatment was done. IN VALUATION JUMP C’ville Rices Area Cedarville township showed eastern Greene County's big- g e s t jump in value during 1956, according to new prop­ erty valuation figures prepar­ ed by the count y auditor’s office. Cedarville village rose con­ siderably while both James­ town andBowersville record­ ed valuation hikes of some $20,000 over the 1955 figures. Rises in valuation this year; are caused by almost entire-' ly.by the addi t i on of new properties to the tax dupli­ cate. Re-evaluation of the county is lagging behind the requirements of the state-- a situation general through­ out Ohio. Valuation hikes mean tax­ ing subdivisions draw bigger amounts onwhich to operate. Each $1, 000 rise in valuat­ ion means every mill of tax­ ation is worth another $1 to the political subdivision. C e d a r v i lie township rose f r om a 1 9 5 5 valuation of $500, 409 to this year's sum of $6 ,008 ,329 . T h a t total i n c l u d e s v a l u a t i o n s of $2, 741, 530 in real estate, $1,069,870 from public util­ ities and $668,856 from per­ sonal property. Cedarville village, which last year had a valuation total of $1, 469, 000, has risen to $1,529 ,073 . T l f a t c ome s from $1,060, 860 in real es­ tate, $162, 050 in p u b l i c utilities and $306,163 from personal property. S i l v e r creek township last y e a r s howed a val ue of $2,688,0 55 against this date's total of $ ^ , 6 62, 146. The c u r r e n t t o t a l i ncl udes $1, 912, 600 from real estate, $324, 250 in public utilities and $425, 236 from personal property. Cedar Cliff School District is now wo r t h a t ot al of $6,897,014, upnearly a third of a million dollars over last year's $61/2-million figure. The c u r r e nt total includes $4,288, 060 from real estate, See VALUATION Back Page CEDAR COUNCIL SHUFFLE: DeForge Still Mayor; Cummings isOn, Off; Corbean is Appointed Fancy footwork on the village council level Monday night at'Cedarville resulted in the following line-up: Mo r r i s O. DeForge still is Mayor. Ha r o l d J. Spitler is now council president. Ralph C umm i n g s no longer is on the c o u n c i l . James Corbean is on the council but there still is a vacancy. H e r e ' s how the thing un- Greeneview tangles: DeForgq previously had in­ fo r m e d the council he was resigning to take a job with the state, wo r k i n g out of Sidney, But, Monday night, he told village officials that pending cases in his Mayor's Court force him to retain the office to which he was e le c­ ted in 1955 until March 1, 1957. Sincehehasmovedhis fam­ ily to Sidney, he becomes a village mayorin a b s e n t i a . During his absence, the pres­ ident of village council will step into the mayor's seat on judicial cases and other mat­ ters. C umm i n g s submitted his resignation to c o u n c i l last week in a s p e c i a l session. But i t was n o t accepted. Monday night it was. Then, while Cummings was off the council, other members e- lected Spitler president. They immediately then re- a p p o i n t e d Cummings to council. But the local im ­ plement dealer declined the appointment, telling fellow councilmen that he did not have the proper a m o u n t of time to devote to the office. James Corbean, a draftsman forthe Morris Bean and Co. , C e d a r ville plant, actually was appointed to council a week earlier. He fills a va­ cancy created when William Ferguson, who was elected to council in November 1955, refused to take his seat Jan. 1,1956. Ferguson's vacancy had re­ mained until Corbean's ap­ pointment. That leaves c o u n c i l with another hole - - the vacancy created by Cummings' res- Adds Bus Bus fleet of the Greeneview- local school district has been upped to 12 buses. M e mb e r s of the board of education, at a special meet­ ing last week, approved pur­ chase of a 5 4 - p a s s e n g e r Chevrolet bus from L a ng ' s Chevrolet Company of Xenia for $4965. La ng 's was low bidder for the sale. Other bids opened at the meeting i n c l u d e d , $5175 for a 1956 GMC, from Clelland Motors, In c ., Lon­ don; $4900 for a 1956 Ford from Rambo-Yoder, James­ t own ; and $5324.19 fora 1957 international from Hall J. Hill, Jamestown. The a d d i t i o n a l bus will bring the fleet to the point where it can handle the pre­ s e n t l o a d , Bo a r d Clerk Richard Dabney explained. Jury G tes Middleton Thomas H. M i d d l e t o n , Watkins Rd., near J a m e s ­ town, has been indicted by the G r e e n e County g r a nd jury on a m a n s l a u g h t e r charge resulting from a fatal auto wreck recently in Xenia. Police there charge Middle- ton 's car went across the cen ­ terline and struck a Dayton man’s auto head-on, killing the other driver. Middleton was to have been arraigned later this week in Common Pleas Court. Cedar Near New Lights For Streets Cedarville made an impor­ tant move Monday night to­ ward becoming the county's first village to install 10, 600- l u m e n flourescent lighting fixtures. C e d a r v ille village coun- o i l m e n returned to Dayton Power and Light Co. a request for new proposals on street lighting. Under a DP&L proposal stud­ ied Monday by the council, Cedarville would rip down 12 o f the 4, 000 l ume n aerial boulevard lights now used in the uptown section and re­ p l a c e t h e m with 15 of the flourescent fixtures like those now used in Xenia. The proposal also called for the r e p1a c i n g of 57 of the 1.000- lumen lights now used in the residential section with 77 lights which would produce 2,500 lumens each. The pro­ posal also called for 36 of the 4.000 -lumen lights. The vil­ lage wouldhold onto the four 10, 000-lumen aerial sodium lights now used at the Main and Miller Sts. railroad cross - ings. The village currently pays a street lighting bill of $2,445 a year, or $203.75 per month Und e r t h e proposal eyed Mo n d a y night, the village lighting bill would climb to $5,220 a year or $ 4 3 5per month. Under the three and a half m ill levy approved by voters Nov. 6, the village will re­ ceive approximately ail or See LIGHTS Back Page JAMESTOWN STORES OFFER EVENING YULE SHOPPING ignation.________ Refugee Aid Both the Farmers and Trad- . ers Ba nk of Jamestown and the Miami Deposit Bank of Cedarville have a g r e e d to serve as clearing houses for an aid-to-Hungary drive be­ ing conducted by the Greene County Red Cross c h a p t e r . Tellers at e i t h e r bank will accept contributions to aid, refugees from the Soviet-hit country. Nearly all retail outlets in Jamestown will remain open e v e r y night, starting Dec. 14, t h r o u gh the Christmas shopping season. Downtown,businessmen, at Thursday n i g h t's session of the J ame s t own Merchants’ Association, a g r e e d t h e y should operate on uniform store hours to provide a bet­ ter service to shoppers. Knowledge that all s t o r e s will be open until at l e a s t 9 p .m . throughout the shop­ ping season is believed to be j a good spur to business. Mer- c h a n t s feel that the buyer liked to wrap up several shop­ ping chores at one time. If only a few stores are open, the shopper must make sev­ eral trips--or do his shopping elsewhere. Jamestown, with its wide variety in merchan­ dise offerings, offers every convenience to shoppers.