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A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment. For Every Member of THE FAMILY Judith French (right), sixth grade pupil of principal, Miss Hazel Palmer. Viewing the Torreson (left) principal at Tiffin, a and Miss at old Eastern school for years. (Gazette Plaque Erected In Memory of Hazel Palmer In a simple ceremony Wednesday, pupils of Tiffin school erected a bronze plaque in memory of Miss Hazel Palmer, first principal of Tiffin. A sixth grade student, Judith French, made the presentation on behalf of the pupils, Donald Torreson, Tiffin principal, accepted the plaque for school.

It has been placed in the lobby of the building. Among those present were several teachers who had served under Miss Palmer in the old Eastern school and at Tiffin when it years One was, openeresent was Grace Orth who had worked with Miss Palmer for about years at the Eastern school. service that Miss Palmer had givThe plaque only, hints at the en to school children of Chillico- the and Ross county, 45 Years a Teacher The 64-year-old educator who died Feb. 9, 1952, spent 45 years in the field of education. Although a native of Adelphi, as a child she attended Eastern and schools here.

ChilliCentral, elementary, cothe high school in 1905 and in that same year began her teaching career at the Twin township grade school. In 1906 she taught at a school on the site of the Ross county infirmary. In 1908 she began teaching at the old Jackson school where she became principal in 1920 and continued there until it was abandoned in 1927. Then she became assistant principal of the new Mt. Logan school under Edward Bowers.

In 1932 she transferred to Eastern school as principal to succeed the late Miss Belle Rhinehart. When Eastern was ed Miss Palmer became principal of the newly erected Tiffin. It was at the dedicatory service that she performed her last official act; during the program she suffered a near collapse. The plaque reads: "In memory of Miss Hazel Palmer who was principal of the old eastern school from 1932 to 1950, and was the first principal of the new Tiffin school in 1951." At the bottom is the line: "this plaque placed by Tiffin school AFL Expected to Hit Minimum Wage MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -A demand by the American Federation of Labor for an immediate hike in the present 75-cent federal minimum wage was anticipated today as the AFL's Executive Council went into a fourth day of its midwinter session here.

I Oldest Newspaper VOL. 153, NO. 31 CHILLICOTHE in the United States Tiffin school, presents a plaque honoring former plaque which is located in the lobby, are: Donald Grace Orth (center), who taught under Miss Palmer photo by James E. Leasure Jr.) Four Dems in Mayor's Race Four candidates ning for the city board man nominee on the the dozens, were revealed on the Democratic ticket for mayor, nine runof education, a race for second ward councilRepublican ticket, plus township trustees by with the 6:30 p. m.

filing deadline Wednes- day the board of elections. The four candidates for mayor of Chillicothe on the Democratic ticket are: Howard Uhrig, a former candidate, Burton Stevenson, Clarence B. Rais and Herbert F. Powers, a railroader. Other city offices and the Democratic candidates are: For president of council-Darrell E.

Fawley. For solicitor--Gerald E. Ratcliffe. For treasurer-John R. Burns.

For councilman-at-large-James S. Hartranft, William E. Sammons and Robert W. Badgley. Ward councilmen first, Thomas J.

Bresnahan; second. Everett E. Gire; third, Walter F. Snyder; fourth, C. J.

Vincent. Republican nominees for city offices are: For mayor--Oswald B. Atwell. For president of council-0. I.

Copley. For city solicitor- W. Stanhope. For city treasurer John E. Bliss For councilman-at-large-John E.

Wissler, Forrest D. Harper, and John F. Michael. Ward councilmen first, J. Robert Derry; second, George H.

Landrum and Howard B. Letts (the only GOP contest); third, Richard Schachne Jr, and' fourth, Naomi Wellenreiter, the only woman candidate in the city on either ticket. Apparently due to a misunderstanding on the part of some organizations and circulators, that old members of the city board of education would not be in the running this year, there was a last minute flood of candidates for these three posts, with the result that nine are now the running. Ray O. Duffy, Harry L.

Worf and Gordon E. Hixen, incumbents, all filed for re-election, along with: George E. Pittenger, Robert M. Kauffman, Don D. Allison, Dr.

Ranald M. Wolfe, William A. Dimity and Maurice Schachne. Petitions for the last two were filed at exactly 6:29 p. Wednesday, just in by one minute.

For the county school board the candidates are Willis F. Corcoran, Morris Anderson and Major Weaver. Candidates for district school boards in the county follow: ADELPHI Arthur Congrove Jr. BAINBRIDGE-James C. Patterson, Everett Benner, Gilbert E.

Palmer, Ralph B. Kline, Ralph I (Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 4) Clothing, Blankets Sought For Holland Flood Relief Chillicothe Jaycees appealed world. Thursday for contributions of One-sixth of their country is clothing and blankets for the under water as a result of the storm and flood sufferers of Hol- recent storms and breaking dikes. land.

Hundreds are dead and thousands Donations will be accepted to- without food, clothing and shelday and tomorrow at the Civil ter. Defense office in the Armory. "Remember how, during the The office will be open until 8 war, the Dutch risked their lives p. m. both days.

to shelter American Air Force The material will be packed men forced down in Holland," and taken to Columbus Airport Mr. Derry said. "Now they need where American Airlines has vol- our unteered to fly it directly to Hol- Persons wishing to send finanland. cial aid may mail checks to John Headed by Derry Dalgleish, Holland Flood Relief, J. Robert Derry, who organized Civil Defense Office, Chillicothe, the campaign Thursday, said the or directly to Holland Flood Repeople of Holland are desperately lief, 74 Wall street, New York in need of help from all over the City GAZETTE Years Older Than the 5, 1953 22 U.S.

Urged to Pay Full Cost Of Highways in Atom Area LONDON (AP) A British Socialist leader today accused President Eisenhower of egging Chiang Kai-shek on to attack the Red China mainland and warned "there was a risk of spreading the Korean war." Deputy Labor party leader Herbert Morrison opened a major House of Commons debate by expressing apprehension that the sudden switch in American policy taking the wraps off the Chinese Nationalists might lead to "considerable consequences." Citing the risks of Chiang attacking the China mainland, Morrison declared: Poses Questions "Supposing he gets into difficulties, supposing he is defeated, supposing some of his troops are surrounded, supposing there is pa naval action by Communist China against his troops in transit-what is the United States going to do then?" "Is the United States going then actively to participate as the United States directly in warlike activities against the mainland of China or against Chinese naval forces? There is a real risk that there might be major trouble between Communist mainland China and the forces of the United States." Morrison emphasized: Cites British Opinion West of the CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, THURSDAY British Leader Says Ike Egging Chiang on to War Morrison Cites Risks In Warning of Danger Of Spread of Fighting those operations. Wonders About Blockade "The government of the United States ought not to be under any illusion as to British public opinion about that situation if it arises. "We should deplore it, we should not feel we could associate ourselves with it. We should think it had arisen from a mistaken policy on the part of the new president and his administration. "We should certainly take the view that it would be wrong for British forces to be involved in "Supposing the forces of Chiang Kai conduct a blockade against the Chinese mainland and interfere with British merchant shipping peacefully going about its business? "I would like the foreign secretary (Anthony Eden) to inform us what Her Majesty's government would do.

What does the Royal Navy do? "We could not. tolerate Chiang Kai-Shek interfering with peaceful British shipping and that shipping would be entitled to the active protection of the Royal Navy." Alleghenies--Established 1800-Three EVENING, FEBRUARY Sentinel of the Piketon Trailer Park M. Strain of Youngstown. The young area is shown putting everything bath, laboratory and two is this mammoth office (upper doctor who recently moved into in readiness in his 51-foot trailer examining rooms. (Photos by Atom-Area Doctor Sets Up Office in 51-ft.

Trailer By BARBARA PIKETON--Trailers are fast atomic Pike county but one in ment. It is the ultra-deluxe, that houses the office of Dr. 50 Students Hospitalized After Blaze LOWELL, Mass. At least 50 students were hospitalized today after a flash fire blasted into a classroom in the Lowell State Teachers College. Hospitals reported seven of the injured were in critical condition from burns.

The injured, including at least one male student, were taken to three hospitals. Many suffered only from shock but exact information on the injuries was not immediately available. The flames spread quickly from a third floor stairway up through the roof and for a time it appeared the three-story brick structure might be doomed. The fire followed explosion of: a workman's acetylene torch which was believed to have set off a tank containing more of the volatile gas. China Demands U.S.

Accept Truce Pact or Fight to End TOKYO (-Red China Wednesday warned the U. S. to accept Communist terms for peace in Korea or face a fight to the finish along the bleak battlefront. In a direct challenge to U. S.

President Eisenhower's new adEn ministration, Red Premier Chou demanded unconditional resumption of truce talks at Panmunjom, an immediate cease-fire and an 11-power political conference to settle the thorny question of war prisoners. Rejected as 'Old Stuff' American officials immediately broadcast threat as rejecteduthe They said it was the same proposal advanced by Russia in the U. N. last. December and voted down.

40-5. These are the conditions laid down by Red China's No. 2 leader in a broadcast over Peiping radio: 1. "If the U. S.

has the will and desire for peace in Korea she should unconditionally resume talks at Panmunjom." 2. Red China and North Korea "are ready for an immediate cease-fire on the basis of agreement already reached at Panmunjom." 3. "Thereafter we are prepared to discuss the question of THE WEATHER State of Ohio PAGES -7 CENTS left) being used by Dr. Shelley the Pike county atomic plant I which includes a waiting room, Barbara Bolmer Kalfs). Dulles Calls on Europe to End in Old Rivalries BONN.

Germany U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today called upon continental Europe to put away its "old dangerous rivalries" and join quickly armed union to "provide the indispensible cornerstone of a strong Atlantic community." The secretary and Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen flew here from London, where they reportedly left behind a warning to British leaders that concrete progress must be made within 75 days toward creating a European defense army including German troops or America may reduce its aid program. After a brief preliminary meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, they swung into a series of conferences with German and Allied leaders which will virtually fill their 21-hour stay here.

Dulles praised the 77-year-old chancellor as "one of the great postwar statesmen who has the vision to move forward and realize the possibilities of the Dulles said he and Stassen were making this fact-finding tour of the six-nations which have signed the treaty to create a European defense army because "we believe these countries stand on the threshold of a great evolutionary change which will supplant national rivalries with unity." The 75 day period of which Dulles reportedly warned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as well as Italian and French government chiefs--would put the deadline on April 20. That is three days before the North Atlantic Council of Foreign Ministers is to meet in Paris. City Planners Set Date for Zone Hearing City planning board, in a meeting Wednesday afternoon at the city building, announced a public hearing for a zone change which will be held at its next regular meeting, Feb. 18. The change is requested by the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen for a meeting hall to be erected on the northeast corner of Watts and Washington streets.

The requested change is from Residence to Residence Approved by the board was the request of Orson Hayes for a service station on the northwest corner of Riverside and Bridge streets. The board will recommend to city A Change from Residence to Business Light rains likely tonight; low 34-42. Showers, mild Friday, Wednesday 42-28 Thursday, 7:30 a. Plea to Ohio's Congressmen Made by C. of C.

Delegation Reminds Solons U. S. Should Solve Own Problem Public Invited To Get Chest X-rays Friday Because a majority of food handlers reported for chest X- rays on the first two days of the current survey, the general public being invited to have free rays at the Welfare House Friday. This was announced Thursday by Mrs. Virgil Hess, executive secretary of the Ross County Tuberculosis and Health association, Dr.

Aaron Shapiro of the state department of health who is here with the portable X-ray unit, E. R. Miller and Harold Boecher, city and county sanitarians. Friday hours are 9 to 11 a. m.

and 1 to 4 p. 1 m. The unit will also be open to the public Monday and Tuesday from 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. and on Wednesday from 9 to 11 m.

and 1 to 3 p. m. 929 Report At a meeting of the executive committee of the Ross County Tuberculosis and Health association Wednesday night, Mrs. Hess reported that 929 food handlers had reported on the first two days of the survey. The Liois club is supplying most of the volunteer workers for the survey and Mrs.

Georgia Phillips, Welfare nurse, is assisting. Plans are completed for an inindustrial survey at the Aluminum Cooking Utensil the Chillicothe Paper Co. and the Mead Corporation the first week in March. Mrs. Hess was authorized to attend a two-day meeting of executive secretaries at Columbus, Feb.

19 and 20. She will give paper on the value of the evaluation study made by the local organization several years ago. Plan Annual Meeting Plans are being made for the annual meeting of the association early in March. Ralph Ratcliff, president, expressed appreciation for the interest shown by farm groups who wrote the state department of health asking that the X-ray survey be continued in rural Ross county. Mr.

Ratcliff appointed Miss Lucy Thornton, Harold Breiel and Mrs. Harold Perry as an advisory committee to assist the tuberculosis nurse, Mrs. Helen Glockner, on her problems. The nurse reported one new case of -advanced, active tuberculosis, two admissions to Mt. Logan sanatorium, one discharge with medical consent, one leaving without medical consent and one death.

Attending the meeting were: Mr. Ratcliff, Ben M. Segal, Mr. Breiel, Robert Doersam, Miss Ruth Hemmerle, Harry Ottman, Mrs. Ames Nelson, Lawrence Heightsmen, Miss Thornton, Mrs.

Glockner and Mrs. Hess, LONGSHOREMEN QUIT NEW YORK (-Longshoremen refused to go to work on the city's piers today, throwing their weight behind a strike of tugboat crewmen in a move that could the Port of New York. WASHINGTON (AP)Ohio city, state and chamber of commerce representatives came here to tell the state's congressmen today that the federal government should pay the full cost of developing roads in the Southern Ohio atomic plant area. As one official put it: "Since the federal government created problem, the federal government should pay the costs that result." Saxbe Also There Speaker William Saxbe of the Ohio House of Representatives, representative of the Ohio highway department and officials of the East Ohio Gas Co. also were here for the "Ohio Highway Conference" in the Congressional Hotel.

Cities represented included Akron, Ashtabula, Canton, Cincinnati, Columbus, East Liverpool, Hamilton, Marion, Oxford, Springfield, Marietta, Steubenville, Youngstown and Zanesville. The Ohio chamber told a reporter the group is "much interested" in making U. S. 23 highway all the way from Portsmouth to Columbus. Present plans call for the government to foot about 74 per cent of the estimated 24 million dollar cost of necessary road work in the plant area.

The new $1,219,000,000 gaseous diffusion installation will be built in Pike County, about midway between Portsmouth and Chillicothe. The current road plans involve a four-lane highway only between these two cities a distance of some 50 miles. The Bureau of Public Roads has indicated in the past it does not believe extension of the four lanes another 48 miles or so to Columbus is currently warranted. BOLMER KALFS becoming part of the scenery particular is causing a lot of com51-foot, chartreuse and maroon Shelley 1 M. Strain, who may be nation's only "doctor on wheels." Dr.

Strain's compact prominent not only for its but also for its location as the first trailer in the Piketon Traler park. Soon, homes on wheels will be rolling into the park built along the historical earthwork, Graded Way," just south of the village. As far as Dr. Strain has been able to ascertain, he is the only physician practicing from such a unique location. When he first heard about the AEC project, he left his home in Youngstown to investigate the area.

One glance told him that Pike county's six doctors were overworked even without a terrific influx of prospective patients. Office Problem Settled After deciding to make Pike county his new home, Dr. Strain had the problem of finding a suitable office. He wanted a central location. Days of viewing possible rooms and the uncertainty where highways to the plant would be routed, led him to startling decision.

He would practice from a custom-made trailer which would cost approximately what remodeling would require. This scheme also gave him an opportunity serve trailer residents as well afford plenty of time to select "the" ideal permanent location. Seats for: 12 So, Dr. Strain contracted with the Kropf trailer company of Goshen, for an eight-foot wide, 51-foot long modern office. A dream of compact design, the trailer boasts a waiting room with two clothes trees, magazine and hat racks, a small table and 12 comfy chairs, Next in line is a small hallway which doubles as a reception office.

Off this hall is an amazing "bathette," with toilet, lavatory and bathtub replete with shower. The middle of the office has laboratory counter space, a sink, small autoclave, storage space and an examining area which will be enclosed by a curtain, At the rear is the main examing room. Each room is equipped with the latest sterile white and shiny metal equipment, Staffing the office will be a nurse and medical technician, Dr. Strain reported. The walls are paneled in fir plywood.

The trailer has a front entrance and, in the middle room, a second door which will be used as an exit to cut down on traffic. The ceiling slopes from 11 feet to ft. The office is heated by two oil floor furnaces which force hot air throughout the trailer. The entire unit is de- (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Nationalist Raiders Have Hit Red Coast TAIPEH, Formosa (A) Wellequipped Nationalist raiders landed on the Red China coast Jan.

9, joined waiting guerrilla troops and struck into the interior, the Ta Tao news agency said today, The report gave no details, even whether the raiders withdrew. war at an 11 power political conference." Hurls Challenge Then Chou hurled this belligerent challenge: "If the new American administration has no intention to do so and continues policies of the Truman administration in Korea and intends to further enlarge and extend the Korean War, we are thoroughly prepared to fight it out with the aggressors to the last." Allied negotiators, fed up with 15 months of fruitless wrangling, walked out of Panmunjom talks Oct. 8. They said they would return only' if the Communists agreed to one of several U. N.

proposals or came up with something new, The Communists want back all of the 122,658 POWs held by the U. N. The Allies have agreed to send back only the 83,000 willing to return. Chou's tirade was a quick Red reply to President Eisenhower's State of the Union speech Monday. Eisenhower said he was ordering the U.

S. Seventh Fleet to stop "shielding" the China mainland from possible invasion by Chiang, Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese. Ben Ames Williams Writer Who Grew Up in Jackson Dies BROOKLINE, Mass. UP -There will be private funeral services for Ben Ames Williams, the prolific historical writer who died Wednesday. Williams, 63, who grew up in Jackson, where his father ran a weekly newspaper, first wrote of his own journalistic experiences in Boston.

Later he branched out into the historical field. His novels, "Leave Her to Heaven," "House Divided" and "Strange topped best-seller lists for months. He leaves his widow, sons, his mother. Mrs. Daniel two, Wilifams of Sutumbus, and a sis.

ter, Mrs. Ray Sims, also of Co(lumbus..