Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 5

AS OTHERS SEE IT EDITOR'S NOTE: Only letters with addresses published. Right reserved to reject, condense; brevity earns priority. This Is for your opinion, not reproduction of articles. Deadline each week is It DOOD Thursday. THE WEEKEND FORUM DIRE NEED OF'DOLLARS' EDITOR: I've had the privilege to serve my second year on the board of what I think is one of the most worthwhile groups in our area.

This is the i a Chapter the Citizens Scholarship Foundation. The CSF is having its fund drive and "Dollars for Scholars" is falling shoit of the anticipated goal. The CSF is for the purpose of assisting the average student from (lie middle income and below family. Many students are making their college plans. In cases their scholastic abilities have rewarded them scholarships; their family income is such that (heir worries a small; and some families have planned and saved for this day for their children.

Then there are other students wilh college desires. i grades are A-B-C average and this does not permit them to qualify for most types of available scholarships; their family income is only average a footing the. entire hill would be impossible; and due to circumstances in the homo life no pre-planning could be done. These students' desires oftentimes are much greater than the above average students, They are the type who just a small "push" to let them know someone else really cares and wants to help. Without this "push" they so often have to give up before they start.

These students need help now, today, and you and I are in position to help. It's not too late to help. Dol lars for Scholars will give a lew students their first "push" Upward in becoming tomorrow's adults. I'm going to help will you? Right now, tonight, tend your check to CSF, Xenia Chapter, P.O. Box 403, Xenia.

Mrs. ROGER JENKS, 257 Helen Xenia. IN COMMON: A HERITAGE EDITOR: About 100 years ago two men gal side by side nl a European banquet for notables. One man was black, the other while. Their backgrounds, too, were dissimilar.

The black man was self liberated, an of Education In Columbus. Cer- lainly all of us are aware of the increasing cost associated wilh the operation of our public school system. What is considerably less publicized is the very real financial crisis facing nonpublic schools throughout the stale (Catliolic, Jewish, Protestant and nonsectarian). For example, in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, almost 50 per cent of the parochial schools operated in the red last year. This, of course, cannot continue.

Unless these schools forced to close and others, in marginal condition, will be forced to drop grades. Should it become (necessary to close St. Brigid's Elementary School, taxpayers would be required to support 400 additional students at a cost in excess of $200,000 per year exclusive of capital expenditures. Any substantial reduction in nonpublic. school population could spell severe economic lardship for Ohioans and jrave disturbance for her pubic schools.

This must be avoided! To this end, leaders a administrators of nonpublic schools tliroughout the slate lave initiated a "Statewide Focus on Nonpublic School Edu The objective of this program is to acquaint you, Uie niblic, with the facts and chain your support for a nonpub- ic school teacher subsidy in the amount of $1,500 per teach, er per year. This moderate, responsible proposal is part of 1I.B. 434, the Omnibus Education Bill. should be emphasized that this money will not be utilized for any religious training and will underwrite only a portion of Ihe secular curricula established by the State Board of Education. Write, call escapee from slavery.

He was Fredrick Douglass, cm a nci tor, lecturer and editor of Ihe electlon North Star. Self taught at the outset through stolen glimpses at books, he groped his way from darkness inlo radiance. He had taught himself lo wrile through using twigs he a burned i charcoal. This crude high road led inlo international recognition. But Douglass never forgot an incident of his early childhood.

There was a picture of a dark woman speeding toward him wilh a bit of coarse bread in her hand. She almost ran as she gave it lo him. That was his mother on a secret expedition of to her enslaved child. He never saw her afler that self made errand through or send a telegram today to Senator Holcomb or Representative Scott urging their support for this legislation. Individuals or groups interested in additional informa lion, group discussions or presentations, please contact the undersigned.

LAWRENCE G. RUSS, Major, USAF, Purcell Ave. Xenia VILLAGE IS GRATEFUL EDITOR: The Cedarville Village Conn' cil would like to express deepest appreciation to the voters of Cedarville for passing the $200,000 bond issue at Ihe special B. VILLAGE OF CEDARVILLE, Kenneth H. St.

Clair, Clerk Treasurer. -A: NO ONE IS LISTENING (lie night. forever. He remembered it Since I have been involuntar- ly involved in iwrary City Hall controversy, I will offer my thoughts on the situation. I these thoughts will be accepted what IfJay are the personal opinioas of an outsider spent approximately five years in the police department.

a'ly disagree nn issues, have 1 1 issues I have At splendid (able ssues ionnri Fredrick lcarned lo appreciate Ihe tioned above. Fredrick Doug lass actually rubbed shoulders wilh who could harness children's dreams lo words, and dash off wilh I reindeer express. as by merger of i and fairyland. He sat cold and removed, was my sisler (Mrs. Milo Snyder) nearly always functions rationally, logically and intelligently afler premeditation.

Personally, I am quite pleased lhal she and other members of ore unrepresented publics aivj getting out of FIK I'UIII i III I i i I v.1. I Douglass' report of Ibis attlc sUlr es of revloufs ii I generations, and demanding ef- Out of 1e ecUveI an(I past, on', from a selling of stork ernmenlal operations. tnet nroevinj poverty came Iheso iwn men men I and city' management. The city often with good Intentions, make decisions on particularistic crifer- a such as friendships, i ns i and status. These decisions are then imposed on he public and city employes who logically prefer decisions affecting them to be based upon universalistic criteria.

Conflict in city government will continue until the city official, terminate this practice of evaluating city policies and employes ay flexible, arbitrary standards. In other words, city management must become fair in appearance as well as in fact. Third, the current police controversy certainly must have dimensions have teen made public. Apparently Armstrong was playing the amicism game for some ciiy commissioners and had the spotlight focused on him by a rash of police illnesses. Thess conclusions stem from the fact that Chief Miller was on administratively firm ground when he transferred the officer from narcotics work Even assuming the City Commission and Ihe city manager felt a full time narcotics officer essential, Armstrong's handling of the situation violated at teast four basic concepts of good management.

Even so, Chief Miller has apparently followed the manager's directive thereby creating what should have been predictable results. Now it's Chief Miller's fault? Fourth, I am very unsympathetic with people who attempt to solve personnel problems by firing or driving other competent people from the organization. I question Uie ethics ol such irresponsible tactics. Chief Miller's competency was determined by a legitimafe and, as far as humanly possibte, objective evaluation; therefore, without substantial evidence to the contrary, I accept his abilities and his right to his job. Eliminating him will not solve Xenia's problems.

Such a tactic has not worked in the past, it has not worked in other cities and it will not work here. The underlying problems i not be solved by scapegoating. In conclusion, I see tfos situ a tion as having been created by inflexible, however well mean ing, people who refuse to work together by facing the facls anc admitting mistakes. It will nnl be settled justly and adequately until those involved adopt more patient atliiudes and flexible positions, and begin working together toward a solution. If everyone would admit responsibility for tha existing situalion and start anew, situation could be improved without a great deal of additional damage.

What I am suggesting is that each individual --policeman, citizen, and city official ought to recognize all other individuals as worthwhile human beings who have feelings, values and knowledge which are important (o every- ione's well being; one should be trealed in an authoritarian, arbitrary, mechanistic or discriminatory fashion. Each person must be given 'he dignified and fair treatment to which he is entitled by all others. However, as long as jeople refuse to truly communicate, and as long as the members of the power structure use autocratic methods based on privale considerations, public employes and other citizens will, and probably should, continue to create headaches Ihem. JOHN ANGELL, houghl as that suggests to many who are "hooked." The Agriculture Department ould finally admit that the or- anic phosphate and hydrocar- on pesticides are far too dan- erous to be used at all. I) nyone doubts the danger anc coffs at Rachel Carson's writ- ngs, just "Clinica Handbook on Economic Poi sons," from the Governmeni rinting Office for 60 cents.

Ii ells the symptoms of acute nd chronic poisoning, how to diagnose and treat. A lot of the ymploms sound exactly like hose usually dubbed Inesses. Of course, there's the matter the increasing nitrates in raler, a result of heavy fertili at ion of land with soluble rates. Rodale Press said thai from the word 'go." But there's money in tot industry. The industries richer and the farmer gets oorer eventually because ie land cannot survive on par lial nourishment for long.

Grocery store owners shoulc efuse to sell the more letha ides. I often wonder why more children aren't killed in gro- ery stores or in lawn and gar en stores. They are so tempt ed by spray cans. My hat is off lo Francis Mar in of the Burgess Seed a lant Co. of Galesburg, Mich, vho recently announced tha lis company was discontinuing the sale of DDT, Dieldrin ant "Mordane because they a harmful to man and beast.

He iaw that less toxic chemical; could do the jobs necessary. A friend at Yellow Springs Job Brannum, who owns KB? Sales Service, had the sam dea a few years ago and switched to promoting a bo anical insecticide, Pyrethrum spray. He's a great lover )irds and wildlife and a enough to be convinced a wisoning the earth is wrong May many more follow suit. How are you going to help The best beginning is with reading. Look in the library fo iteralure on air, water a and pollution.

Become an Intel ugent fighter. Farmers a gardeners should investigat organic methods of fertilizatio and insect control. PAULINE PIDGEON 576 S. Columbus St Xenia PICTURE IS ONDISPLAY Se TM n( (he rescn placed together. What Ihoy a some basic prob- in common: a herilRge of mother's love tlial strelclied Ihraiigh Icms primary of which is communication.

Miller is talking, obstacles to life wilh Ihr-ir Resh 1 Armstrong will not listen; ture of devotion. God meets groping hands, always and inlo Ihcm He pills His prosperl and His might. LEE NRWSOME, Wilherforce. -A- OMNIBUS BILL AID EDITOR: Do you know that one of every seven clcmenlary and secondary-school students in Ohio attend a nonpublic school, that one of every eight teachers arc employed by nonpublic schools, and iliat one of every I schools are nonpublic schools? These arc Ihe facts published by the Division of Computer Services anil Slalistlcnl of tie Stale Department Ihe police employes are lalking, but (he Commission is not listening; Armstrong is talking, but Ihe police are not the cilizens are lalking, but Ihe Commission is neilhcr listening nor lalking. 11.

would ccrlainly be helpful if everyone stopped being so damned aulo- cralic and commiinicaled a debotari their differences as we expect mature adults lo do! The way it presently stands, Issues are handled by looking at the proponents and Iho exponents siding with one's "own kind of people," and rushing for one's meat cleaver to get in the first licks. Armstrong and Miller can work together, but it will take reasonableness, effort, a communication. Another prohKmi is the role that nmicism the reliance on friendship and friend's opinions, and to a lessor extent nepotism, plays in Xenla'a policy develop- Michigan Slate University, East Lansing, Mich Eclilnr's Nnle: Mr. Angell, a former Xenia policeman, alludes (o mention of his name in the current discussion involving local police when his sister, Mrs. Snyder, organized picketing two weeks ago in support of Chief Harold Miller.

SOLUTIONS UNPOPULAR EDITOR: The "anti pollution planning' editorial in Wednesday's XDG was much appreciated. 0 course, this is the kind of thing Rodale Press, Natural Foods Associates and National Heallh Federation have been saying for the past 15 years. It's too bad the pendulum ha. In swing so dangerously far be fore the general population get stirred up enough to act. Then is so much that can he done every individual lo prevent fur ther pollution.

Of course, we need cars tha don't put out poisonous gases wilh their exhausls. And we A restoralion of a magaziiii nclure of Eber D. Howe (1798 885) and of his mother, Mabe Dudley Howe (1765-1852) an ct-slors of Dr. Thomas Howe of Wilberforce, is now on exhibit in the photograpic i s- ilay at Hike's. Eber Dudley Howe was I ounder of The Cleveland Her id in 1819 and, in 1822 of Th, Painesville Telegraph, still ii xislence.

The Herald v.as hi nird venture in journalism Af er mililary service during the Var of 1812, he worked first with he Buffalo Gazette, a lamed The Patriot and stil ater The Commercial Adverlis Subsequenlly he helped It i i Pa a The Gazette Vhen he was not i 21, hi gathered all of his earthly pos essions--horse, saddle, bridle valise and $25 in cash for hi rek the West: Cleveland hen a village of 200 inhabitants When he left The Cleveland Her aid, the publication was som $1,000 in debt. By the time vrole his autobiography in 187f proprietors were word abou, $100,000. Now, (he print ng press he used is in th Veslern Reserve Museum ii Some of these riefails wer rather recently, when a copy of Eber D. Howe's Auto biography, printed by The Tele graph Steam Printing House vas acquired. In some ways, a maddening document, fo ie omits a great deal of signif cant material.

For example, why did Ihe fam ly move from Seneca a Vew Vork, lo Canada, i across Ihe Niagara River, year before Ihe War of 1812? At what point and why i hey decide lo he American ralhcr lhan loyal suhjecls a madman, i Majesty George III? For a full year they seemed not lo care one way or the other. Not foo many years later his stand on slavery ambiguous. He never liked it, but at first he accepled ads from owners concerning runaway slaves, By 1826 or so, he had not only discontinued ac such advertising, but he and his wife were operating an underground railway slalion in Painesville to help slaves la cs- from JACK JORDAN, Gazette Editor OLD FRIEND GIL OGILVIE always claimed to admire our Ability in making a typewriter hum. We never made any bones about envying his golfing ability. Nearly twenty-three years ago, when our son Mike was born, we were writing: sports for The Gazette Sports." something: called a n's Journal of We decided to vacation and lined up "guest columnists" to do our chores.

One was Gil. ALL THIS CAME FLOODING back when some yellowed clippings fell out of a letter from the retired Xenia Country Club pwnei'-pro to this desk. The "youngest clip" was July 1963 showing Miami Valley PGA members lined tip with their junior partners--promising: kids from the pros' respective links. Gil was pictured with Larry Welsh, a West Point grad since and now serving his country. Rich Taylor, Gil's assistant, had Tom Neeld, now with the family funeral home, as his youthful links companion.

The late Tom Blackburn, one-time Xenia Central High coach before Ms University of Dayton fame as cage mentor and golf pro at Madden Park, also was pictured with a protege. iV THE OTHER CLIP WAS his "guest columnist" stint for "Jordan's Journal." In it, he classified the community's golfers by age bracket: The late M. Davidson was identified as the oldest participant in the district seniors' tourney that year (1946) and him "Down-the-Middle" Davidson. Gil's "old "names like Poague, Schick, McKay and Reynolds Then: "In the yoimger men's class such as Smith, Bicking, Brown, Justus, Ball, Fath, Malavazos, Neatherton He dipped down to college and high school age enters but we do have several ilaces of business in this area md they are as helpless as the est of we taxpayers. We have been (old Ihere is 10 money to repair Ihe viaduct to build a new bridge something could be vorked out to relieve our silua- on.

Mrs. WILLIAM H. NOBLE, 678 Kennedy Xenia. COMPASSION IS LACKING EDITOR: We have just finished observ- ng the one week set aside 'early for animals. As a clilld, was always taught to treat my pets, as well as those of ilners, with love and kindness.

And since that time I have never grown into the idea that inimals are dumb creatures nit rather that each has a personality and a set of fellings all its own. Dumb animals, oh no. Dogs can be laughl, they can respond command. And you cannot convince me ttiat they are incapable of feeling because every dog I ever had could react to a one of voice, and was capable youths: like Graham Justus and Rich Thomas Wrig-ht, Lowry, Shearer, Taylor, Deen, Hanlon. Helvenston, Reynolds, Eavey, dark, Adair and oth- Then came "grade school age Nick Ungard, Rich Hull, the Miller brothers, Bill, Rich and Bob, the Reynolds cousins, Bob and Jim, Jackie McQuiggar and several others down the age lists even further we find smooth-swinging Tommy Wood and 5- year-old Larry Ball Jay Smith 2.J and 2-year-old Susie Ogilvie giving a lesson to 1-year-old Cherylle Malavazos." Gil mentioned women, too, but doggone if this space is going to quote him 23 years later and attach time span to that touchy subject.

IN CONCLUSION, GIL SAID: "Then we have another prospect. His initials are M.W.J. and he was bom Sept. 7. His dad, who writes a sports column for this paper, has visions of him carrying a footbal or tossing in long shots from the basketball floor.

He may do just that--for a few years. But we woulr like to bet he winds up swinging a golf club Son Mike wraps up five years at the Universitj of Cincinnati next month, will get his degree then One weekend last month he came home, had time foi a too-rare game of golf and had a 44-37 at Greene Country Club. Gil was i right, way back on Sept 21, 194(5. Seems like yesterday. But who are we kidding? Not you, you know implied, hut what, precisely, were they? The pendulum had swung, as it did many times in his 1 i e- time.

The basic fairness was evident early. In the school near Ovid, N. where Eber D. learned his ABC's, the frequently lay down on Ihe schoolroom floor and took a quiet snooze. What led to that temporary interruption of pede- had best be skipped.

Nevertheless, he was a good teacher, says Eber, who incidentally, was a teetotaler. At least, Eber D. learned. Witness The Painesville Telegraph. Witness, also, his history of Mormonism.

Witness, slill further, the Creed wilh which he concluded i autobiography, It conlains 13 articles, but perhaps only the last need be mentioned: "I do not promise to believe exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exaclly what I believed yesterday; for I expect to make, as I have martn, some honest progress wilhin 24 hours." Remember, he was 80 then. The point of view would a been impressive at any a Dr. and Mrs. THOMAS D. HOWE, Wilberforce.

LONGS FOR THAT JUG! EDITOR: You know you don't have fo lave equipment lo be a farmer any more a soil bank farmer, that is. A 11 you need is a 100-acre smiling ever since. I wish I ha that jug now; there are some around here that could stand double shot of it NOLAN SAXTON Bowersville BOTTLENECK IS CRITICAL EDITOR: What is being done to help the helpless people in the South east End of Xenia? Goodness knows we were bac enough off wilh no traffic ove: the viaduct (on S. Monroe St. before the man-made traffi' jam was put in effect on S.

De troit (at the underpass). One morning recently a gen tlemen who drives lo Daylon work was 20 minutes late, du to the following circumstances Both crossings on S. Columbu. St. were blocked by trains well as S.

Monroe and Washing- Ion the only olher oullel was Hill St. and it was clogged by cars lhat could not north (on Detroit). True, he waited, and finally arrived at his destination but let's look at the situation from another angle. What if ah emergency had arisen, such as a fire, and we all know things like that a happen any hour of Uie day, how would fire equipment have gotten through? You might say come in from the south over Cincinnati Ave. providing those crossings were THE XENIA DAILY OAZETTE Saturday, May 17, 1969 of being Imrt just as easily any human being.

Maybe (here are not enough people who care about animals, or about what happens to animals. But 1 care and because I care I refuse to accept the idea of a rfog, any dog, lying dead a cardboard box at the dump, ecause our "so-called" dogcatcher couldn't pick him up. 3r that a badly hurt pup, after being hit by a car, was left to die by policemen who refused to pick it up. Or that any resident seeking to have a picked up and impounded ralh- er lhan left to die a more horrible dealli by facing Ihe elements of nature, or by careless motorists who would just as soon take the life of an animal as one of a human being, is told to pay $2.50 or refused the services of our city dogcafcher who is paid every day by our (axes. Believe me, any dead animal sooner lay on a city street and rot than be picked up by our dogcalcher, our po Ifcemen, or our sanitation department.

And where is our lax money going that we pay Ihese services? I'm beginning lo think some joker is pork-cling a Htllo extra money Cor himself. Mrs. KATHERINE A. JOHNSON 249 Kinsey Apt. 1-A Xenia Armed Forces JOHNSON HONORED CEDARVILLE Spec.

5 James R. Johnson Jr. has besn awarded the Army Commcnda- JAMES R. JOHNSON ion Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement in Vietnam. Spec.

Johnson, the on of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Johnson of 492 Bridge has been in Vietnam at Bien Hoa Army Headquarters with (he 101st Airborne Training School since December, 3967. HOME ON LEAVE S-A Jack William Mclntosh, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Mclntosh 1120 Reid A arrived home Monday following Ft, Knox, and training as radar technician at Ft, Mon month, N. and was previous ly stationed at Scott AF Bast, III. He and his wife, who has served In the Air Force, i have their year old daguther, Angela, baptized May 25 in Jamestown i Method 1st Church and a parly at the Delbert Fowler home will f'ol- APGAR ASSIGNED Army Pfc. Wayne L.

Apgar. 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K.

Apgar, 324 Hollywood was assigned April 12 to the 1st Infanlry Division in i nam, as an infantryman. TO VIETNAM FAIRBORN Al-C Ned M. Musselman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M.

Mussolman of Circleville, is on duty at Phan Rang AB, Vietnam. Airman Musselman, an a i r- craft electrician, is a member of (he Pacific Air Forces. Before his arrival in i nam, lo was assigned to Luke AF'B, Ariz. The airman, a 1961 graduate of Logan Elm High School, received liis BS degree in 1965 from Ohio Slate University. He also studied at Franklin Law School of Capital University in "olumbus.

His wife, Judy, is Ihe daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Eriferline of 148 Holmes Fairborn. clear.

But when you get to could stpp smoking, as painful a cape. The slops in between are farm nnd a soil conservation man and you are. in. raise the same kind of crops now that they used to raise down lome silting around the old country stove in Ihe winferlime. But they didn't get pay for it.

Some of Ihe oldtimers got sn jood they could just look at a latch of corn and tell you how many bottles they were going to get out of it. Some of them wanted to make It sound good and they counted the jugs! My uncle was a preacher am we gave him a drink at it 30 years ago ano he has been JA CK McJNTOSH Naval boot training, and will report next week for duty aboard the USS Butlc, off Boston. During training, he made acling petty officer of Co. 168. His address will he S-A Jack Mclnlnsh, USS Butlc, (AE 27), FPO New York.

N. Y. 09501. KOB! GflADUATES FAIRBORN Airman Elderly Coed To Graduate EMPOR1A, Kan. (AP) More than 1,100 persons will receive degrees from Kansas Stale Teachers College next Friday--including one coed who took 73 years to make it.

Mrs. Mabel Jones Wright, 90, Topeka, began working toward her bachelor's degree in 1896 when the college was stilled Kansas State Normal School. Two Children Drown In Pond ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) Two children drowned Friday in a pond near their rural homi; in southeastern Ashfabula County. The victims were Thomas Schoonover, 5, and his 3-year- oJd sister, Pamela, children o' Mr. and Mrs.

Delias Schoonover. Aulhoritics said the bodies jwere found in about four feel chael S. Kobi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W.

Kobi of 62 Ramona has graduated at Sheppard AFB, from the training curse for U. S. A i Force electrical power specialists. Airman Kobi is a graduate of Fairborn High School. FOWLER ASSIGNED JAMESTOWN Spec.

5 Roger L. Fowler, son of Mr. of water. Your One Hope Only God ixwer to grant eternal life. Through HI'J Son, Jesus, He offers this lile to you.

Meet Him In Worihip Hn Week that is as far as you could go. kins is serving at Selfridge I realize we are in an older AF Base, Mich, part of town with no shopping He received basic training at SOUTHSIDE CHURCH OF 205 Lake Xenia, Ohio Sunday Services Church School Morning Worship Evening Service Mid Week Prayer Meellng, Wed We Welcome ALL ALWAYS Darwin Orow, Pastor GOD 1 9 7:00 P.M. 1 7 1 fit imlsi )oo to itiiri ft IM lolloilnt lenlct): 9:30 i.n.-- Sondir Schai i.rc.-tloril!l(-7:30 p.il 8:30 p.n.-Trilnll! Union p.m.-Pw»r HJ Hill) itnlct. DAYTON AVENUE Bopttt.