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LANCASTER. (0., CAGLE-GAZETTb MONDAY, MAY 24, ltef THREE TOP MEN IN 'OHIO STORY9 PRESENTATION 5 When the second and final installment of "Forest Rose" as broadcast by the Ohio Bell Telephone "The Ohio Story" is presented free to the public at 5:30 p.m. today on Lancaster High School auditorium stage, Lancaster and visiting hearers can thank the three men below as those principally responsible for the presentation. With each pictures is a brief biographical sketch. List Programs Of Graduation Events At CarroH High CARROLL Baccalaureate services for the graduating class of Carroll High School, were held in the school auditorium May 23, at 8 p.

m. Rev. Roy Standiford of the Carroll U. B. Church preached.

Commencement exercises are to take place in the school auditorium, May 27, at 8 p. m. when Dr. Walter P. Castoe, pastor of Broad St.

Methodist Church, Columbus, will give the address for the sixteen members. The salutatory will be given by Gladys McCaf-ferty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley McCafferty, while the valedictory address will be delivered by Melvin Rose, son of Mrs. Irene Rose.

Young Rose made one of the most enviable scholastic records ever to be achieved by a graduate of Carroll High School, placing first or second in practically every scholarship contest in which he participated since the eighth grade test in 1944. In the senior scholarship test this year, his score was the highest in the HE'LL FIGHT EVICTION FROM HIS TREE-TOP HOME I county outside the city of Lan-j caster, but he was ranked second when the city contestants were included. On May 30th, the members of the class will board the Chesa-i peake and Ohio "Sportsman' for a four day trip to Washington, D. 'C, and Charlottesville, Va. Final examinations are sched-; uled for Monday, Tuesday and i Wednesday of next week" with school not in session Thursday.

Pupils will return to school Friday at 1 p. m. for their final re-post cards and recognition assembly. PAGE TWELV6 rips i THIS MUST BE AN EGG PLANT lit my irl I FRANK KOBERT WALDROP Altho he faces eviction from his tree-top home in West Orange, N. C.

Melkon Arslanian, who has lived in the branches for 16 years, says he'll fight the eviction order. The 65-year-olct rug shown with one of his two goats, built his unique home, right, as a refuge from the mechanized worlds It's 65 feet high. urine Til MjrK-M-VJ9 VFVllAlllL JLIO JLFllIlIkJ XH 1 1 I PRAGUE Be-bop is getting its bumps in a five-sided musical war here. 3 But, if it has to, it promises to go down be-bopping alongside its American jCzj companions in the face of a threatened flood of Slavic da-da-da-da-. ij The war has taken on political overtones since the government changes in February.

Before it was strictly a fight by lovers of New Orleans jazz, headed by purist Emanuel Ugge, trying to head off the encroachment of sweet music, boogie andbe-bop. Slavic music was in a class by itself sacrosanct. Smetana and Dvorak, the top Czechoslovak composers, were played everywhere, but strictly for long hairs, sentimentalists and state events. Russian and Polish composers were in much the same class. There was only mild patriotic apprehension that American music, even the "adapted" versions of Chopin and Khatchachurian, would force out the folk music of central Europe, which was glorified at white tie concerts and played in village taverns.

Robert Waldrop, narrator of 'The Ohio Story," is a story-teller who ranks among the best in radio. His rich, expressive voice first gained him radio prominence while he was serving four years in the Army. He was narrator of tl're Army War Show, the largest show unit ever to tour the country, composed of 2,000 soldiers. The group made an eight month tour of 18 principal American cities. Waldrop is a native of San Francisco, where he acquired an early and enduring love of music.

He was thought to be a musical prodigy himself, but now his musical talent has taken the form of appreciation of the works of others. In New York he substituted for Milton Cross as announcer of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, and was chosen as commentator for the broadcasts of Toscanini and the NBC Symphony. During this last year, he wrote a series called "Great Moments at the Met," which he delivered at intermissions of the opera broadcasts, sometimes leaving for New York immediately after hi Fridav night "Ohio Story." Upon release from the Army, Waldrop wrote and narrated an entire series of radio programs for the War Finance Division of the Treasury Department. Known as "Treasury Salute," the series i was broadcast over more than a thousand radio stations throughout the country. These programs became the subject matter of WaJdrop's first book, entitled "The American Notebook." Waldrop's voice is the kind that you like immediately upon hearing it, and better every time after that.

He senses every shade of meaning in a sentence, and reads with drama, understanding, and sympathy. In the last, year and a quarter he has made many friends, both for himself artel "The Ohio Story." DISMISSES TlBEL SUIT HAMILTON. 0. -l' Butler-co Common Pleas Judge Fred Cramer today dismissed city Councilman Frank RosendaM's $100,000 libel suit against the Journal Publishing publishers of the Hamilton Journal-News. Judge Cramer ruled the peti- tion filed by Rosendahl did not state a cause of action and was not libel per se.

His ruling supported a demurrer filed by the paper. Puerto Rico shows you Exhibit A in the do-eggs-grow-on-trees ar. gument. Puerto Rican farmers stick fresh eggs on trees to frighten off lizards that prey on plant life. The eggs catch and reflect sunlight, and the lizards are supposed to run for their lives.

RADIO ON WRIST LIKE WATCH Tiiciil X7qi IT JL ItOAVH-l If Ml. DON'T SHOOT! Shoot not the duck from yon blonde's head it's part of the hat, bub! The decoy is part of the decor for the Ducks Unlim-! ited Show in Los Angeles, to; 1 il money ior uie esei vauoui i migi aiory D11Q life. Phillis1 hn' not a migratory Dua 1 me ga tt it Administration and two mon- ths later became assistant secre- ta of the Departmerit of Agr if ri- culture. and program act. ivities at the dcpartment pre.j paring recommendations for fu- ture long range farm programs, One Woman Twice Winner In $300 Cash Distributions Thousands jammed Lancaster's i aowntown aiea aaiuraay nignt to participate in the cash donations; distribu-tion which Preceded the coronation of the World Movie; 1-1 j-remiere wueen ai tne iair-5 grounds.

(Sec picture on pa-ip '8.) The contest was made possible through the coooeration of local merchants who gave out tickets with individual purchases in their stores. Mrs. Russell B. Huntwork, Pickerington, was a double winner, taking two of the $25 prizes in the fifth and 12th awards. Other winners were Miss Jean Keesey, Sugar Grove; Paul Pol- ing, Richard Wolfinger.

Hartlaub. Thelma Brown, Mi. Richard Crawford, George Shaw, Thomas Staten. Barbara More- man, and Will Tschopp. DEER DROWNS IN TANK CLEVELAND(P) A deer i wandered into the city's eastsids sewage disposal plant yesterday and drowned in a settling tank.

WUilami Vj But along with everything else since February, musical ears and eyes are cocked forward. Already powerful trades union has deman ed that the playing of Slav music be stepped upon the Czech radio and everywhere else. The Da-Da-Da-Da of the "Volga Boatmen's" song, if they had their way, would supplant the sweet strains of the imperial- istic "Beautiful Ohio," the boogie of "Red River Rag," or Be-Bop as brayed by the bellmen around the Harlem river. A mild exception might be made for "Old Man River," be- cause that is consider in ih noar-, cn ini wocj ncic ouuuu pass on the same score. It is all oart of the Slav demonstration of iii 6im4i, una idi dw, duuui problems of the negro in the U.

S. But other capitalistic music phooey! No Petrillo How strong a campaign the oiav music patriots can muster remains to be seen. The trades union people, all-powerful in the political field, haven't got a Petrillo and can't develop one overnight. The American music advocates sneer down their clarinets and trombones at the demand. They're nothing but a bunch of trum-tra- are Mie i a far," it was prophesized.

"Youth will get it." Uge would throw all the rest of American music into the Vita- va River if you leave him New jvu ran nun en Orleans jazz. Altho he plays no instrument, he a hot man on a phonograph and his record library is the envy of Prague. The Be-Boppers go on plying their trade every minute they can. They're headed by Jan Hammer, whom many considered Europe's best on a Vibraharp, but who swings with equal ease to piano, vibraphone and bass and tickles teenagers with his hot vocal licks on "Nellie Gray," "Sunny Side of the Street" and the newly popular "Cement Mixer." Paying Proposition Hammer, a devotee of Lionel Hampton has just taken a degree in medicine at Charles Universi- Nominate BrannOn i TTft Tin SpfTpfjirV UClttl Of Agriculture WASHINGTON Charles Franklin Brannon, 45, was nom- i inated today to be secretary of agriculture. He now is assistant secretary.

The President sent Brannon's name to the Senate shortly before it convened at 11 a.m. EST. Brannon, a native of Denver 1 a j. i erson. wno resigned iviay iu iu jc0.

ti, I XJiiv xx cnacii aiou iiwuimt ivu iKrieda HennocK. a wew orx City lawyer to membership in the al Communications Commission, to succeed Clifford Durr, who said sometime ago he; not want a new term MissHennock named for a sev en-year term starting July 1, is the first woman ever appointed to the commission. Brannon specialized in irrigation and mining during practice in Colorado. He began his agricultural public service in 1935 as assistant regional attorney for Resettlement Administration Two years later he was appointed regional attorney for the solicitor 0fTlhe, of i 7 IVR SS" hronStto Wah Penver: wf sn" inotnn in Anril 1044 a assistant family cares, he is happiest with his "Thythmus 43" combination that plays nightly at the Pygmalion Club, where the proprietors accept Bc-Bop as a paying proposition. Hammer has gathered around him a bunch of dizzy Gillespie fans familiar to American soldiers who were stationed in Pilsen af ter the war.

They include young Dunca Broz, a hot trumpeter; Mirek Vrba, a tiny drummer who rolls big breaks and Ladislac Ho- rcik, a mad man on a piano. Between Ugge and Hammer there is a solid sending corps of 'American music -lovers fighting WAI 1 I 1 I STUART BUCHANAN Stuart Buchanan, director-producer of "The Ohio Story' returned to Ohio after 18 years of producing network radio shows to accept the challenge of producing a special-network series with an inspirational them6. He was thrilled with Frank Sied-el's scripts, and has found the work more than measured up to his expectations. A graduate of Wooster.O., College, Buchanan taught drama and poetry at the University of West Virginia and the University of Florida, and directed Little Theatre groups at the same time. He toured for a season with Otis Skinner in "Mister and played summer stock in Denver.

After moving to California, he appeared in six motion pictures before entering radio, first as an actor and later as a program director and writer-producer. He directed star spots on the "Hollywood Hotel" series, and guesf-directed Lux Radio Theatre. Walt Disney made him dialogue and casting director at tht-Disney Studios in Hollywood, and put him in charge of all foreign versions of Disney productions. His work took him to Europe and to South America to put "Snow White" into ten languages. In New York radio, Mr.

Buchanan produced and directed many network shows, and served as head of the script department and program supervisor for the American Broadcasting just before going to Cleveland. Buchanan works tirelessly with actors, musicians and sound technicians to get exactly the right shade of meaning into every sequence. Uncovering and developing dramatic talent in the first place has presented a problem in a city which has no other regular dramatic series. Buchanan has made actors out of bank clerks, housewives, students, and anyone else who had the kind of voice needed for a certain part. His understanding of engineering problems and microphone setups make him especially valuable on remote broadcasts.

Buchanan thoroughly enjoys every phase of production, and puts a great deal of ingenuity and know-how into each program of "The Ohio Story." rnfoef av Tlvivore lJtUltdMei lUVtl In Court After Two Collisions Two Lancaster motorists were slated for hearings in Mayor Fred Von Stein's court today on charges growing out of accidents Sunday. Martin T. Or man, 63, of 628 North Maple-st, was charged with failing to yield the right away after a collision of two cars yesterday at 2:45 p. m. at Main and Front-sts.

Police said Orman was traveling south in Front-st and made a left turn into West Main-sl and failed to yield the right away to Robert M. Jourdan, 25, of Junction City, who was driving north on Front-st. The front of both cars was damaged. Occupants escaped injury. Charges of reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle with fictitious plates were to be filed against Walter Beam, 27, of Lancaster Route 5.

Beam was involved in an accident early Sunday at Mt. Pleas-ant-av and Main-st when he struck the car operated by Kenneth E. Fox, 41. of 335 North Maple-st. Fox was waiting for traffic to clear before making a turn, police said, when his car was struck in the rear by Beam's auto.

Later it was learned the plates on Beam's car had been issued for another vehicle. Louisiana Service Stations Lock Up BATON ROUGE. La. Louisiana service stations locked up their gasoline pumps today for a one-day statewide protest against a proposed two cents per gallon tax increase. The state tax is now seven cents.

Opposition to the levy, which would give Louisiana the nation's highest gasoline tax, came amid more protest against the admini-1 stration's pending bills to put a tax of five cents a bottle on beer ana aouDie tne states one per cent sales tax. PARK SHOOTING FATAL NEWARK. O. Betty Stevens, 17, died last night of wounds suffered a week ago Saturday in a Buckeye Lake Park hootinjr gallery when a sun was discharged accidentally by male companion. Frank Siedel, writer of "The Ohio Story" has been writing motion picture and radio scripts about the Ohio scene for the past ten years.

Actually, he conceived the idea for "The Ohio Story" while he was at school at Ohio State University, where he wrote, produced and narrated a series called "Around Ohio," over WO-SU. He was also associate editor of the "Ohio State Lantern," and made extensive studies in historical libraries. While working at Coulmbus and Pittsburgh radio stations, he wrote a series called "Men Who Made America," and "Men Who Made History," both for the National Broadcasting Company. He also produced scripts for such outstanding network radio series as "Cavalcade of America," the Rudy Vallee show, and the Kate Smith show. When the Northwest Territorial Celebration Commission wanted a series of radio programs dramatizing the settlement of Ohio and the Northwest Territory, Siedel was selected from a number of candidates.

These scripts were used for a national network series, and are still being used by the U. S. Office of Education. Siedel started writing and div-ecting educational and industrial films in 1940. among them "Ohio the Beautiful," "Oddities of Ohio" and "Ohio Year Book" for the Standard Oil and other films for the U.

S. Navy, the U. S. Office of Education, and many Ohio industries. His work on "The Ohio Story" takes him all over the state, visiting people and institutions that have a place on "The Ohio Story." He might be interviewing the president of a huge industry, browsing around the Ohio State Museum, tramping the fields of a typical Ohio farm, or driving 300 miles to find a monument to a pig.

He has the unique ability of capturing the human element that activiated great schools anfl industries, besides doing accurate on-the-spot reporting. His genuine warmth and honesty enable him to get stories that have been' refused to other reporters time and time again. Tn Hnt Mr Siedel has written some 200 scripts for "The Ohio Storv and has a list of about 1000 future subjects a list that grows daily. Stoutsville Girl Seriously Injured In Auto Accident Miss Garnet Zeimer, 19, of Stoutsville, was seriously injured early yesterday when the auto in which she was riding with Vonie Williams, 25, Mt. Sterling Route 1, crashed at Routes 56 and 316, five miles northwest of Circle-ville.

Miss Zeimer was taken to Mt. Carmel Hospital with fractures of the skull, pelvis, and six ribs, and internal injuries, Williams also was taken to Mt. Carmel and treated for severe cuts and possible head and internal injuries. Details of the accident were lacking. The state highway patrol continued its investigation.

United States museums increased from 600 in 1910 to 2,500 in 1939. Officials of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. said they recently drilled for gas at the big East Pittsburgh plant in hopes of securing supplementary supplies that would assure continuance of vital operations in the long, cold winter months. Westinghouse has brought in one gas well producing 1,500,000 cubic a month. Altho normal requirements at East Pittsburgh are about 40 million cubic feet per month, officials plan no further drilling since the present well will enable them to continue essential operations.

i 'si ftffh-J i i L. sv jfof -tw Large Industries Drill For Gas On Their Own Property PITTSBURGH Large western Pennsylvania industries tired of natural ga3 shortages which cut into production each winter are now prospecting on their own hook. Many of them are drilling for gas in their own backyards since it's costly and difficult to transport the fuel long distances. Several companies have expanded drilling activities since the postwar shortage arose and others, like Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Allegheny Ludlum SI eel are going into gas prospecting Open-mouthed with amazement, Jeffrey Fleming, 6, listens to his own voice coming from a newly-developed wrist watch radio.

Dr. Cledo Brunetti of the U. S. Bureau of Standards holds the transmitter. Young Jeffrey got to hear his voice during an engineering progress demonstration at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.

ty. He and hSi wife, the singer to keep jazz alive here. The Da-jVlasta Hammerova-Pruchova, re- da-da-da and trum-tra-ra-da play icently became parents of a son. jers will know they've been in a 'But for all his professional and 'fight, if they manage to win. OUR BOARDING UOL'SI E6A.D.

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An outstanding example of the current trend is the Carnegie Natural Gas a big industrial gas producer wholly owned by the U. S. Steel Corp. That company has the status of a public utility since it supplies individuals local ed along its lines as well as the steel mills, which use gas to reheat sled so it can be processed. At a time when the constantly increasing demands for gas have strained facilities, the operations of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.

demonstrate how some big concerns are supplementing purchased gas with gas from private wells. Drilling activities by Pittsburgh Plate Glass reached an all-time high last year because of the severity of the fuel shortage in this industrial capital. Last year the firm drilled 22 wells, with 10 rigs in operation. This year only four rigs are in use. The ce hes more than 250 gas producing wells in Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, Jefferson and Westmoreland counties of Pennsylvania, Gas is piped thru the company's own lines to compressor stations and then pumped to two big plate glass plants in Sreighton and Ford City, Pa.

Householders First In recent winters, Pittsburgh district gas consumer industrial plants have suffered extensive production losses and employes have lost working time because nubile utilities hnvp rHiirprt and sometimes cut off---gas to industrial customers. By law, utilities must meet the needs of the and give industry what's left. MjO ttovpMOUT oar PRETTY ZmUST Mill THE PORCH AS mm 1 1 i VOU GOT TO TALK WITH YOUR 1 1 iJF EAT KEEP HANDS --HE SAID WHV MOTHERS GET GRAV eo tu tv tvct me. 7: 0 ALL GREAT "if.