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CRACKER What Attracted Irish BY RAY HIGGINS Bellbrook, long dormant as a sleepy village but now revitalized by an influx of new "citizens, "is preparing to take a look over its shoulder. Sometime this summer, (the actual dates still not confirmed.) the town that centers one of Greene County's most beautiful when named director for ia. James Snoden, who became an associate judge of the county later, came in 17S. John Clancey who arrived before 1803 and established the first tavern, joined with Henry Opdyke and Stephen Bell to organize the town that was officially certified Feb. 9, 1816.

It was Opdyke who hit upon and picturesque areas, will eel- linking the name of Bell with ebrate the sesqui-centennial an- Kttte stream known as Little Sugar Creek to niversary of Its beginning. Hie plans have engaged citizens in a burst of enthusiasm that is significant of the new spirit that has sparked the community. Bellbrook has become conscious of its historic past and is attempting to crys- talize this heritage for its new citizenry. Among the busiest of those volunteers planning the program are Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Berryhill, area residents whose family lineage is rooted deep in Sugarcreek and who ire responsible for preparing a history of the village. Between them have scoured the archives, explored court and county records, dug tip old newspaper files, ex- "Ifiiined historic manuscripts, clpcumented their findings and photostats to authenti- discoveries. And they are Berryhills now are concerned about the cause of an apparent Irish migration there- Their research has revealed many family names of obvious Irish origin but there is nothing in, the economic history of the 4LOwn that would indicate what this influx. IXThc first settler in what be- iame Bellbrook was Joseph C. Vance who, sold iis holdings along the Pinkney Rd.

and inoved to the Sugar Creek to create a name for the new town. They laid out 84 lots and sold them at public auction. The town was incorporated Feb. 13, 1832, with William Bigger as first mayor. It was in 1882 that Andrew Byrd, converting former United Presbyterian Church to a dwelling, discovered water on the site had magnetic properties.

Promoted for its value it sparked a sanitarium which was converted later into a hotel that attracted health seekers from afar. It burned in 1893, was replaced by a bathlt house that met a similar fate in 1913. The coming of the Dayton Xenia Traction Co. electric cars in 1900 brought the village a new enthusiasm. In the meantime the arrival of the railroads in Xenia in the 1840s brought an influx of Irish laborers.

Their ranks were decimated by a cholera epidemic but survivors remained to work in the cordage mills and on the railroads. But what attracted some of these Irish to Bellbrok is something the Berryhills would like to know. They want to account for the Killians, the Gibbons, the Parleys, the Hagens, whose names crop up in the historic papers they have researched. Who knows? PHIL, Revolts In Africa Blow To Red Chinese EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE XENIA DAILY GAZETTE FOR OPINIONS, PAGE FOUR 'Bigger War 9 Talk Senseless HARVEY. Homegrown Communists ained Weight In 1965 no longer open season on in United Our- Supreme Court has aui but overruled; the McCar- Sn 'Act and the homegrown are celebrating.

fXin-ihe Arcliiej Brown case, 'the Supreme Court found in a- the Communist. decreed the -Labor-Man- Reporting and- Dis- closure Act of 1959 was "unconstitutional." Nov. 15, the Supreme. jDourt ruled that 43 leaders of jthese conspirators in our midst tniay refuse to register "with the as the McCarran had prescribed they should. j'xThe Communists celebrated victory with a real whing- in New York City, at iwhidi Gus Hall stated that the JCbrnmunists can and will now out infrrthe open." In -December, Gus -Hall told Chicago audience.

"that He claimed one to two thousand additional members. Another of domestic head Reds, Henry boasted that The Worker would new readers by June! June is a big date 6n;" Communist Reds in the United Sates now "open in the open," will hold their own "political convention." It'll a public show, with the press and. TV invited and I would guess the "convention" will get national news coverage all out of proportion to the 10,000 persons the "party" represents. On college campuses, too, Communist cadres gained important high "ground in 1965. Communist Hym a Lumer wrote last-July that there has been "a new upsurge of radical thinking among young people in the United States." This has not been my observation, but it" is the kind" of misstatement with which the Bellicose talk-by the chairmen of the armed services committees of both the House and Senate only makes it all "Ehe more important that the administration continue probing for a way to bring, about negotiations for peace in Viet Nam.

Fortunately, Sen. Richard B. Russell and Rep. L. Mendel Rivers do not formulate our military policy.

But they occupy influential positions in Congress, and the influence of their thiniing may; well spread as the war It seems sure to do so. Russell and Rivers are not alone in foreseeing that U.S. involvement will intensify in the near future. They have both adopted a more belligerent line than President Johnson's, however. The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman predicated a major escalation of the'-war on the failure of the current Washington peace He feels that if it does fail as he VIEWS AND OBSERVATIONS SATURDAY, JANUARY 8,1966 what Congressman.

Rivers seems to have in If current Washington peace efforfe fail, says Rivers, "we should turn loose the whole force of all four of our armed -services against this aggressor." He demands all-out military' effort, "even if this means going to Peking." Whether or not Rivers fully realizes it, the clear implications of his remarks are that lie thinks we should not only engage in a massive land War on the Asian continent but also employ nuclear bombs on Peking and other cities. We judge that to be" irresponsible belligerence, -all more irresponsible coming from the chairman of the House Armed Services committee. It is good thing that President partv in the Unit- States Otfis party, Reds so cffectivel nuslead It is a criminal conspiracy, but Inatis his purposeful choice of "words) is experiencing "the upsurge" in its history. in view of North VieU Nam's intransigent posture--then "we will be compelled to take more drastic 'steps. JJ That sounds ominous, though "Russell has not DAILY GAZETTE every day except "Sunday at Xenia.

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This PBS 20 Years Ago Today Audit Bureau of circu'tataons: Ohio Newspaper Awocia- Inland Press Assodaition: Bureaa of Advertising 3UfPA; Newspaper Adverting Ex- 'ecntlves Association: i Advertising Executives- Association; af- of National Editorial Associ. NATIONAL mdvertisinf repreienta- -Shannon i 1 Inc division of Story Kelly-Smith with offices in Cleveland. ISfew Philadelphia. Detroit. i-San rrancisco, Los Anjteles.

Cm- caKo, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Mi- itoi. A Daily by Families It is true that more Communist spokesmen were invited to more schools to speak to more students -in 1965 than ever in the history of this infiltration. In 60 appearances in colleges and universities, they addressed more than 32,000 students and a The clever Communist theoretician in the United States, Herbert Aptheker, made about half those appearances. Further, 1965 was the year bad apples contaminated a barrel -of wet eared kids. Unhappy over prospects in Viet Nam, they over eager to listen to anybody who professed to propose "peace." The clandestine Communist; school at Camp Midvale, was well attended.

The subsequent recruiting campaigns in behalf of youth front organizations were measurably effective. By September, Gus Hall was able to report to another "secret" session of youdi leaders, near Monterey, that he wanted Du Bois Clubs membership increased to 50,000. By December, the national chairman of Du Bois, Hugh Sterling Fowler II, was cbiming only 2,500 members in 56 cities. SUfl, that's a big jump 800 members Ihe previous January. Now with and Oglesby able to thumb their noses at our State Department and go to North Viet Nam on Congressional demands for IbS yw investigation of the "de- for Red mobilization in And it welled the ranks of the Red winos.

a Johnson and at least some of Ms advisers are more temperate and have better sense. Reasons for Humphrey's Asia trip have been left vague-prompting optimists to hope LB wants him handy over there iri-case something to the Hanoi feelers. Bain-making in H) years is foreseen. If we'd spent a hun- dreilth of what's been spent By United Press International Three revolts in less than two weeks not only demonstrate the confmutng instability of too 'many newly independent African countries but also the decline in the political fortunes rfRedChina. Upgirmfog "TW 22 2Sd continuing into this week, mfliiary coups have topped the governments of Dahomey, the Central 'Afrieaa Republic and Upper Volta.

Each represented a blow to Hed Chinai Dahomey, -the military government of Gen, Christophe Soglo suspended relations with UPF Best Seller List THE SOURCE--James Mchen- er THOSE WHO" LQVE-I i Stone STAIRCASE-Bel AIRS ABOVE THE OROUND- Maiy Stewart HOTEL Arfhur Haiky THOMAS Shelley Mydans THE" HONEY BADGER--Robert Ruafk THE RABBI Noah Gordon THE GREEfr BERETS Robin Moore THE CONCERN- John OTIara THE SEAT OF POWER-James D. Horan Nonfiction KENNEDY Th eo C. Sorensen GAMES PLAY: THE OF Erie A GIFT. OF PROPHECY Ruth.JIongomery YES I CAN Sammy Davis, Dr. X.

A GIFT OF JOY Hayes with Lewis Funke IS PARIS BURNING? Larry Collins and Domini 511 Lapierfe OF THE PRESIDENT Theodore" A THOUSAND DAYS: -F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE Arthur E. ScMesinger, Jr. MRS. JACK ---Louise Red China and ave the staff of the embassy 72 hours to leave the countiy.

In the Central African Republic, the'new government closed the Chinese Embassy in Bangui and ordered a-census of aU Communist Bangui had been one of the largest Red Chinese propaganda centers in Africa. It was the recent scene of large Communist 'Chinese industrial trade fair where the Chinese sold cut-rate goods ranging from textiles to motorcycles. In the tipper Volfa, where President Maurice. Yameogo surrendered with apparent relief his reins of government-to the military, ihere were reports the army acted to prevent a take-over by. sympathizers The president had accused both Feting and Ghana of plotting his werthrow.

of coarse, other reasons for the actions of the military, including popular unrest over economic conditions and the usual BoHtical, tribal and religious differences. -But a distrust and a dislike for the policies of Red China were common factors. Within the past critir cisms of Red China's subversion policies also have come from other" African nations, notably i and Burundi broke relations with the Chinese on the charge tfaafr-'Peimg'had backed The Red Chinese also bet out in where a revolt against the LeopokMle governmeci had supported in part by Chinese weapons. The Chinese influence" strong Tanzania where diplomats "have been accusecl of spying and expelled and through whose port, of Dar es Salaam most of tie Ctunese. weapons and propaganda have entered central Africa.

1 The Red Chinese also 1 remain a force in Brazzaville, capital of the former IVeridi Congo. But in total the last'-year's efforts "by Premier Chou En Lai and Foreign Ti, Red China's distinguished travelers, nave in Africa been a -failure. Ike-Africans may not ag-ee with U. Soufli Viet Mm, but neKher do they buy the -Chinese argument "that the war in Viet- Nam symboliaes a new colonialism iy -which, the Western powers hope to reoccupy-Africa. Neither do they Red Chinese attacks on United Nations which they regard as important fonom for themselves.

BuHeast ofrall-do they likeat when the -Chinese declare-that Africa is ripe for revolation-r- which could only be against governments how jn power. JAMES KELLER: Three Minutes HEART ATTACK KILLS 3 A runaway automobile with 1 dying man at the wheel raced through a busy intersection in New York late on night. Before it halted twa women, from Illinois were killed and three other persons were injured. The 65-year-old driver had suffered a heart attack and his foot jammed the accelerator to the floor, causing the car to lurch forward. The two women who were killed--aged 59 and 64--had just left the New York a Theater where they had seen a performance of They nad arrived only a few days before from Chicago and "had planned to fly to Bermuda for a vacation.

"When and where each of us will answer the final summons we do not know. But of one thing we can all be "it is appointed unto men to die once and after'this comes judgement." (Hebrews 9:27) Remember; the longest'life is relatively brief in comparison to the endless stretches of eternity. Prepare well, you have time to meet your Maker so that you may recieve an everlasting reward from THrn. Let me live each day; 0 Lord, so that I will be "ready at any time to appear ore You. TWELVE YEARS WITH JOHN F.

KENNEDY Eve- Jyn Lincoln McKay WORLD AFLAME i Graham Almanac By United Press International Today is Saturday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 1966 with 357 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. the morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Venus, Jupiter" and Saturn.

Those born today are under' the sign of Capricorn. Confederate Gen. James Longstreet was born on this day in 1821. On this" day in- history: In 1815. Gen.

Andrew Jackson won the battle of New Orleans, killing and wounding 1,400, Congress approved legislation providing suffrage for Negroes in the District of Columbia. In 1918, President Woodrow, Wilson presented his 14-point plan for.peace to Congress. In 1963, the first session of the opened and did not adjourn until Dec. 3(b EDITOR'S NOTE: Only Experience Breeds 1 i--i VersatflSty In Printers By JACK JORDAN Editor of The Gazette A journeyman printer who has known no employer other than this newspaper in Ms trade is Jim "Wolary. He grew up with In high school, he started with The-Gazette in the Circulation Department's mail room.

When World War arrived, he left-- with 'the U.S. lNavy which sent him to sea duty in the Pacific. It was early 1947 when he began his apprenticeship in our Mechanical Department- Over those years-yearly 19 of them now he" has picked up experience and ver- satfiity; particularly ih makeup, to where he is a capable swing man. A point in evidence is a special edition, published last month by this" newspaper. Jim was pulled off" daily makeup and turned lopse on 16 special pages whici he put together and sandwiched MAKEUP A for" the day: President Wilson said: form of efficiency is" the spontaneous cooperation 'of a free people." for a smoota production Job.

5 Long ago, Jim learned that the rule, condemning, good newspaperman for evert assuming anything without applied equally to printers. He asks questions. Jim, wife-Bette and two sons make their home in Pinecrest Gardens at 661 -Saxony Dr. We thought you'd like "to know BENNETT CERF TryAndStopM( President Truman disclosed that W. Jivei-ill Harriman, ambassador to Russia, wants to resign Actress Dorothy TOt the Upper Room Thou, art my" a my therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide (Psalm 31:3) PRAYER: keep Averafti net paid circulation ftled with ABC subject to for period ended Sept.

30, Businesi uses advertising to maintain and increase its outlets for foods. Without it, tax income would decline. as manager of tfee Xenia of Western and Southern life Insurance Go. following discharge from Man- Lamour, agement of the Xenia Hotel Howard, Coffee Shoppe has been as- wood to a son named John sumed By Gerald" (Jerry) John- Ridgely Gen. Henry son, a Re-New H.

Arnold is expected to re- Cleaners, 8 W. Second St, re-; tire about Feb. 15 from the ported a burglary -in which Army Air Force Greene several were County topped its goals in the Peggy Adamson of Bath recent Victory Loan drive the High School, Osborn, won the final figure being $4,499,154 Prince of Peace declamation I A Uf contest and Will participate-in pollution the nation's the district event be Bended and i -I YT- i their-original ciuaK claimed Jonn Aereke $, ttt, have the wake of angry protests by ney High- School athletic direc- lemJavajiabTe for long servicemen About 7,000 tor County-commissioners Western Union employes in New appropriated $300 to continue York left their jobs ahead; of a the war on foxes Byron strike Luther Gebhardt Nelson won the Los Angeles will resume ppiitkm Open, feet wisdom -and. love that we. shall, always Dumbly and ear-" nestly seek Tny, guidance in aU matters-great and small.

In" Stolen Christ 7 spirit Amen. POLLUTION CURABLE KENT, Ohio DPI) A Kent State be- JTiHE LONGEST touchdown run in football -t Doughty Columbia Coach Lou, Little thinks "it was pullejd off by George Halas, now-solon of the Chicago'-Bears, early in. iis playpg' career. was' pitted against the great Jim Thorpe, and. plucked one of the'Indian's rare fumbles put of the air in a driving rainstorm.

He 'knew he didn't "have a. of out-running Thorpe, so he rigged and zagged away from every tackle attempt of the Indian, and eluded him for lack of money. Dr. Benjamin A. Fcote, in Kent's first annual Great Contemporary Issues Lecture, said the pollution problem was nationwide.

Thorpe, slip- in a lake on the ten-yard line. swam the last 10 yards for a touchdown," Halafc told Little. bet I covered about 198 yards in that one run." Sir Arthur Sulfivan, the ini- Jnorfcpty with lived once'to a. TOW of He'd walk down the liae, Wckins tht foot -at he-found the. one that-Bounded E-flat, he home.

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