The Journal Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 14

JOURNAL HICHAM), DAYTON, OHIO, FKIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1953 a County Authorises Start Of Work On Boulevard Engineer To Begin Improvement Of Section Of Brumbaugh Road In Madison Township County commissioners have authorized the county engineer to begin work on a section of Brumbaugh boulevard in Madison township. Commissioners yesterday ordered the engineer to start work on a section of the roadway, which eventually will be one of the county's principal circumferential highways. The section will start at the south line of the Salem Village plat City Ashing For Report On Failure Of Conveyor Commission Said To He Kcqucsting Data On Installation Bids, Bond porfojture City commissioners have called for a complete report regarding failure of the chemical conveyor system at Dayton'i new $4,250,000 water filtration plant. Request for the report was made during a closed door session of the commission Wednesday morning, The Journal Herald learned yesterday, Commissioners, concerned over breakdowns In the system and Its failure to meet required performance standards, asked Charles Horlacher, acting city manager, for the comprehensive report.

(. I 1 near the Free pike. County Engineer Carl Bauer, in lines on Lincoln boulevard in Kettering village. E. D.

Smith, county sanitary Horlacher said yesterday he will a report on the project to the Mi commissioners, said costs oi me engineer, yesterday presented Fringe Meier improvement will be shared with developers of the land, the Warner-Kanter company. He estimated the cost to the county at $12,334. Two 26-Foot Lanes Use Is Said discuss the commission's request with City Manager Herbert W. Starick Monday. Starick is now attending the International City Managers conference in Los Angeles." "I should imagine the report will be submitted next week, sometime before the commission's regular meeting," stated Horlacher.

Horlacher said he believed Star Declining Plans for the boulevard call for the construction of two 26-foot Dayton motorists apparently are ick would issue the report to com- National Office DR. HIGH 1. EVASS, potior of Westminster Presbyterian church, yesterday was named president of the National Hoard of Missions the Presbyterian church, (Story on Page 1.) changing their parking habits in 1 missioners, III. I me downtown area. Comparative figures reveal mo Grassrool Committee Members It is understood commissioners are seeking this information: 1.

How many firms initially bid rY nctaHaf inn rf Vin mm rntrnt torists aren't using parking meters on the fringe of the central busi THE DRIVE FOR the 6.5 mill Dayton tchool operating levy in the Nov. 3 election ness district as much as they nnH th. were plans for the project, tie estimated cost of the sewer line at $12,089 which would set tentative assessments at $3.85 per fronts foot. Cost of water lines were estimated at $11,674 and the assessments at $3.10 a front foot. Water Line Extension Denied Commissioners denied a petition for water line extension on Little Richmond road in Madison township.

Commissioner Harry Kie-faber said a majority of the property owners were against the project. The commissioners also: 1. Approved a petition for a sewer line extension on Smithville road, Kettering village. 2. Awarded a contract amounting to $12,679 to Encrete, for installation of curbing, sidewalk and storm sewers on Rugby road from Siebenthaler avenue south to existing sidewalks and curbs.

3. Awarded a contract to K. II. Gregory, Xenia, for the extension of sewer and water lines on Chamberlin avenue in the Ft. Mc-Kinley sanitary sewer district." a year ago.

Photographer This was reported yesterday by Finance Director Earl E. Hager- prices. 2. Whether It will cost the city more to install new equipment wide lanes separated by a 32-foot wide median strip. The developer is to grade the full 100-foot right-of-way for the roadway, grade and gravel one lane and install storm sewers.

The county will gravel the other lane, surface stone and surface treat both lanes and 'seed and maintain the median strip. The county also must purchase additional land from the developer to provide for the 100-foot right-of-way. Bauer recommended that the county enter an agreement with Warner-Kanter to purchase 2.7 acres of land from the company for $4,182. Earlier yesterday the commissioners ordered a hearing, sched man. who said: "Motorists are still usinc meters "an.

lt wi" receive by forfeiture Wtin rixt nn i tnll be kept close to the people through 51 irhool neighborhood promotion commit' "Sees. Typical of the in these grassroot committee ara the five' thown above, 'siho were among 3(H) attending the opening rally in the Van Cleve hotel. Left to r'fght, Mr. Blanche heater, Kiser high school teacher and president of the Dayton I Classroom Teacher association; Sarah Moon, Drown elementary teacher; Mr. Fred William, preident of the Dunbar VTA, and Robert J.

l'off singer, principal of Weaver elementary chool. They are getting pointer on the levy campaign from lien Shaman, president of the Dayton school board (right). as mnrh in ihp hpart nf the doWn-lui formance bond. Today Called "New Type59 "A new type of photographer is replacing the roughnecks of the past in the newspapers of today." town business district, but revenue from meters in the fringe area is declining. "In some respects, I guess this reflects a change in the parking habits of motorists." To give an example of the drop: in revenue of outlying meters,) Hacerman said the meters on The Brady firm manufactured the filtration plant's present equipment.

City officials contend the company's conveyor system fails to meet performance specifications. Specifications call for it to carry 10 tons of chemicals an hour. However, Loyd Huffman, water director, said the system has not met these requirements. uled on Oct. 20 on plans for the extension of 6ewer and water School Heads Start Levy Vote Drive Plans Arc Being Abandoned For Educational TV Slalion By nil.UNAItl) PLATT Jaariul HtrM Hi tit Wrltrr Fourth street, between Council and Charter streets, produced $143 George Yates, chief photographer of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, told members of the Miami Valley Association of Industrial Editors yesterday r'f 1 Meanwhile, Huffman yesterday declared official tests of the equip "How to Make Good Pictures." Temporarily, at least, plans are being abandoned to organize a The one day session took place at ment a "failure." He said during the first three days of a five-day test period, it didn't meet per in revenue during the first eight months of 1952.

During the same period this year, the revenue totaled $350. Meters on Second street, between Crescent and St. Marys streets, netted $600 in revenue last year, against $512 for the same period this year. Hagcrman said parking meter non-commercial educational television station in the Dayton area. i A grass-roots campaign for a 6.5 the Biltmore hotel.

"Today the photographer Is a Members of the Dayton Educational Television Study commit formance specifications, tee reported yesterday. City Manager Starick several "For the time being, at least, the organization and financing of a sejwrate television station on a non-commercial basis for edu weeks ago gave the Brady firm until Sept. 30 to meet contract man with a university background," Yates said. "He has replaced the rough and tough photographer of yesterday who would break into a lady's bedroom to cational purposes is beyond the ability of this area." revenuofor 1953 will show a de- crease as the result of removal 0f.sPecifications or face forfeiture The report was prepared by fin mPtPrs from the immediate ot its performance Dona James F. Clarke of the University downtown area.

j8vv Director Herbert S. Beane of Dayton; Normal Holly, Sinclair I Mi The meters were taken out to: said the city will bill Brady tor college, and James Harris, Dayton Eti Ss i provide additional right turning, the cost of making the equipment storage lanes for rush hour trafficJmeet specifications. till Dayton school operating levy isi the Nov. 3 election was started tost night by 300 school and ITA officials in the Van Cleve hotel, pr. Harold L.

Boda, assistant superintendent of schools and Chairman of opening rally for the levy, said the campaign will be Carried on through 54 school district promotion committees, i Organized by schools, each dis-trlct committee will include from 6ve to 10 persons on a steering committee, its own officers and ki'jL. speakers and 100 "minute-men" enlisted from civic leadership in the school community, Boda said. 30 Attend Rally The rally of the 300 school lead board of education. The committee pointed out cost of establishing such a station would range between $129,000 and -1, May Be Art Institute For Leo Until Sehool Is Named Steele $250,000, and that annual operat get a picture. "The news photographer of 1953 writes a story with light he uses his imagination and has the ability to make pictures, rather than take them," he explained.

New Demands Made New demands are being made today upon the nation's newspapers, the veteran photographer said. They are changing and "becoming more of a daily news magazine rather than a spot news publication." Yates recently attended a five-day conference of the National Press Photographers' association at Rochester, N. Y. He saw there ing expenses would duplicate these figures. A brief survey of major sources Steele high school alumni favor placing Leo, bronze symbol of of financial support revealed the ers, nucleus of a final organization the school for 32 years to its closing in 1940, on the Dayton Art In stitute grounds "until a new high school is named Steele." sponsoring organizations, such as of more than 6,000 workers, began with a dinner, which was paid for educational and charitable groups, would be unable to support the "When a new Dayton high school is named Steele, Leo should he transferred permanently to the campus of that school," Samuel Dilloh's Dealli undertaking.

L. Finn told the Dayton board of education yesterday, by a group of Dayton business and civic leaders, Boda announced. "That shows the top 'citizens of the Dayton school district are backing this levy effort," Ben Sha- "The major burden of support Finn, attorney spokesman for a would have to come from the a process by which wire photos Steele lion committee of the alumni board of directors, said 75 community, from individuals, or man, president of the board of ganizations. business and indus session, completed in a half hour, the board of education also: Authorized the final step in the acquisition of a site for a new high school in the Belmont area through the trade of 4.7 acres of school board land for the same trial firms," it is pointed out. per cent of the 900 active members of the alumni association had Committee members, who have Is Investigated Official Says Wounds Not "SolMnflifteir Law officials have not decided whether the death of a 56-year- voted this choice in a recent been working on the project since could be made into tape recordings and carried around in one's pocket, to be developed at any time.

Photographic progress has also been made, he added, in improvement of lenses and film. Born in London, England, Yates began his career in 1911. In 1919 he joined the Register and Trib last January, report a survey Art institute officials, he said, shows "Dayton has almost inex acreage of Dayton State hospital land. haustible possibilities for pro have expressed willingness to pro grams of an educational nature." vide Leo a temporary resting place. old man who lived in an old truck These programs could ranfce une and, except for a period during World War I.

has worked education, said. Shaman said the need for the 6.5 mill levy, which includes renewal of 4.6 mills and the addition of 1.9 mills, could be summarized In the words: "More pupils, more classrooms, more teachers, more operating expenses." The school board president said that in his nearly seven years on the board a total of 574 new classrooms had been built, either in new schools or additions to old schools, to meet a 43 per cent increase in pupils in the same period. "School operating expenses in the past six years have increased approximately $3 million a year," Shaman said. "Wc have had to hire Finn's appeal to the board was from courses on homemaking, courses for the pre-school child. backed up by Attorney Albert there ever since.

He was an in Approved contracts with 13 new teachers: Freda Ballard, Charlotte Berry, Mary Blackburn, Mildred Burritt, Helen Bush, Verda Cassidy, Anna Cottrell, Hazel Felton, Myrtle Leeper, Edris Jenkins, Isabel Noonan, George Zimmerman and Elizabeth Hale. interior decorating, dramatic pres fantry lieutenant during the first Scharrer, another member of the Leo-relocation committee; Palmer Riest, alumni president, and Frank Gloria Arrives In Pin Curlers "ALL SET" for personal appearances at the Rike-Kumler company today. That's what Gloria Swanson reported last night when she arrived in Dayton, hair curlers well concealed under her black chapeau. Full of energy despite 16'days on the road, Miss Sicanson started babbling at once about her "three and one-half grandchildren" one of whom had his 11th birthday Wednesday, Malm onlookers listened unbelievingly, then gasped, "Grandma, what big eyes you hare!" global conflict and set up the di entations, art and music, the city government, public speaking, his was murder or accident. Glenn Dillon, who slept in a tsuck in the rear of 1815 West Third street, was found dying there Wednesday morning by two officers making a routine check.

He was lying on the floor of the cab with his neck against the vision of criminal investigation tory, world affairs and economics. with photography, near Chau- Action to try and get a station for Dayton started when the fed Ilussey, alumni treasurer. Other members of the Steele alumni committee at the board meeting were Kenneth C. Long and Roscoe Iddings, William Holmes, nrineinal of mont, France. Lectures At Drake Besides his work in Des Moines eral communications commission reserved UHF channel 16 in the emercency brake.

He died at 4:20 Parcel Post Annex Dayton area for educational pur poses. Yates lectures tn tne school otit 7 journalism at Drake university. AjdVlCY) LdClllSCIlC Wilbur Wright high school, made fplu llpll SviVlll to an appeal for removal of Ieo utner committee members are "I like to think that the next Esther Seaver of Dayton Art in Talking At Lima 300 more teachers to take care of p.m. Wednesday in Elizabeth's the pupils. (hospital, and a post-mortem "And we must get ready for an showed his skull had been frac-Increase of another 10,000 children in three places, in the schools during the next live Dr.

Robert Stafford, deputy years." coroner, said last night "the Five other members of the Day- wounds could not possibly have ton school board attended the! been self-inflicted," and added, "it rally. They were Paul Wortman, looks like homicide." vice president; Harry Malone, However, detectives investigat- Christmas is coming one yearrstry I go on will be the most ex late to the now nareel nost annex citing of my life," Yates said. stitute. Mildred Stibitz and Catherine Suher, Dayton public library; building on Walnut street Opposition Met In Rezoning Kettering Neighbors Raise Objections A group of property owners last Rev. Edward Connaughton, Dayton parochial schools; W.

A. Dris- He has traveled with every President since and including Woodrow Wilson, and has covered most of the political conventions. The most exciting political con Though the annex was completed for the holiday rush last year, one item calculated to expedite handling and save man-hours coll, Montgomery county schools the campus of his school, as the board of education voted to do last spring. Ben Shaman, president of the school board, said the board would give serious consideration to Steele alumni wishes regarding Leo's temporary location. "We hope we can make a decision that will make most of the Steele alumni happy," he said.

Gov. Frank J. Lausche and Judge Russell L. Carter of Dayton will speak Sunday at the state convention of the Federation cf County Democrats in Lima. Registration for the two-day sessions will be held at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at the Bradfield com- Howard Coon, Brice True and: ing the case believe Dillon, who Delbert Woodford. a schools, and W. B. Alex ander. An- was an epileptic, suffered the wasn installed: The conveyor belt Mrs.

Maude Danehy. Robert Kline was unable to attend vention he attended, Yates re- tioch college. fatal injuries during a seizure in system to handle sacked mail and caned was 1932, when Roose- Supt. Robert French, who was the confined space of the cab. loose parcel post.

velt was nominated. ttTAFRMen Take Course munity center, where all meetings n'Sht gave strong verbal opposi-will be held. i tion to the proposed rezoning of a Approximately 120 Daytonians tract of land at the southern lim-will attend the convention, accord-1 Finn, reVwing the history of Guy Mundhenk, acting postmaster, explained some of the made-to-order parts didn't fit and installation was delayed until a It was the first time flash bulbs were used on a national story, instead of the old flash powder. He said the past 20 years have Representatives of the as. a high school sym- Institute of Technology at Wrieht-, oi, saia.

scheduled to be chairman of thej Police still are working on the levy rally last night, was confined: case, and Dr. Staftord said an otto his home by influenza. jficial verdict will be withheld un-After explaining the plan of the return Monday of Dr. Rob-school district committees for theert E. Zipf, county coroner, from levy promotion drive, Boda Ridge, where he has "What do you think of it?" School been studying radio-isotopes at the and PTA officials at the dinner atomic energy laboratories in Oak gave it a unanimous vote.

Ridge. ing to James M. Wilson, chairman month ago. 1 A At 1J 1 A The subject tract lies south of VVnrk is nmv In nrncrrpss and Deen me goiaen ae 01 pnoiog- of the local delegation. Wilson, who lives at 3100 Germantown David on Lebanon pike, "Steele alumni love Leo and we regard it as a very valuable piece of art." In an otherwise routine business Patterson Air Force base will attend the Purdue university seminar Sept.

30 on "Transonic Testing in Wind Tunnels." if it proceeds on schedule the beltlraphy an era when the news will be readv the latter part of photographer was accepted in-October. Mundhenk said. 'stead of ignored. sireer, is treasurer or me siaie and consists roughly of nine organization. arroQ ouca ui wirn.li are owned by Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Newsock and the balance by the Huffman Realty company. The No Double Identity Clause Included With These SixSetsOfTivins Strength In District "We believe the strength of the school appeal is within each sch'wl district, where there is a personal relationship ln-tween the parents and the school." Boda said. School district committees, he two parties have asked to have the area reclassified from a residential "Rl" zone to a "Bl" business zone. Principal argument of the group, a number of them living in nearby Washington township, was that in allowing business to move down the pike, Kettering was de said, are expected to follow a basic general plan of organization throughout the city, but "shall hae complete freedom to initiate their own program of activities within that pattern." Next Thursday is the deadline! announced lor the organization of) the steering committees in each; school neighborhood.

Two training sessions for speak-j 1 1 1 1 A I stroying the most attractive approach to the city," and a still lovely residential area. After outlining his neighbor's and his own opposition, S. T. Pyper of 7 Enid avenue, remarked, "Members of my family have been buried in David cemetery, and I expect to be there one day myself. I don't like to think that my head is going to be resting just 120 feet from a gasoline pump." Following the hearing, council passed an appropriation ordinance covering expenses for the balance of the year.

Totaling $184,219, the appropriation allows for the reservation of $4,688 from the general fund and $25,995 from the road fund for the Moraine town-ship-Kettering village. tax settlement Mayor Brubaker indicated the cis on me stnooi vy ui ue iifiu at Longfellow school Tuesday, October 6, the first from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., the second from 7:30 to 9 p.m. 2 1 More Named Cily Tax Dodgers The names of 24 more suspected Income tax dodgers were submitted to City Manager Herbert W. Starick's office yesterday. Finance Director Earl E.

Hager-man said the 24 are delinquent in their 1951 and 1952 accounts. He said all of the persons have been contacted prior referral to Starick's otfice. The manager will turn the suspected tax-dodging cases over to the city legal department for t'Z I sums were calculated on a ratio of assessed property values when the two areas comprised Van jEuren township. The money is being set aside to await final agree-jment between Moraine and Ket-Itering. he said.

Phyllii and Phillip Card, 16, seniors, of 52? Parrot street; seeond rote, Jean and Janet Seidenschmidt, 13, tophomoret, of 3316 East Seeond ttreel; Ronnie and Don Moeller, 1 1, Freshmen, 132 Morth Garland arenue; Rene and Preston Doirourt, 15, soph-omores, of 31 Huffman arenue. TV IV TIIOIUIJ.S aren't bothering ilbur Wright hiph school tenchert thi year. Six twosomes are enrolled but nont are identical tuins. Shown holding clasn on the grot (left to right) are: front roir, Joan and June Snndert, 17, seniors, of 2903 Hast tint street; Georgeanna and Joanna Cow her, 16, juniors, of 31 Xorth Jersey ttreef; action. 1.