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Naturalist Traces Salt, Queer Creeks BY CHARLES GOSLIN Daily News Nature Columnist Three roads lead eastward out of Laurelville, a village established in 1871 at the west boundary of Hocking County, where Laurel Pun empties into Salt Creek Of these three roads, one follows the valley of Laurel Run where mountain laurel is in bloom during late spring Another road climbs to Dumm Ridge where the panoramic view is magnificent during early fall, when the foliage has turned to reds and yellows. The third road goes southeast toward South Bloomingvillc and follows the valley of Salt Creek for several miles, until Salt Creek turns south through the Narrows. Many roads converge at the town square of Laurelville. To a stranger these roads are rather confusing, but since we were not strangers we had no difficulty in following this highway toward South Bloomingville, known today as Ohio 56. As we drive south over Highway 56 we arc going down the Salt Creek valley.

South has not always been down stream Before the advance of the lllinoian glaciation which took place some 250 thousand of years ago, the stream through this valley flowed northward. This preglacial stream, which geologists call Laurelville Creek had its beginning near Hue at the Hocking Vinton County line and flowed northward toward Laurelville and Tarlton. Blocked by the ice during the lllinoian glacier period the water of Laurelville Creek formed a lake Wafer continued to raise in this blocked stream until it covered the valley to the 900 feet elevation above sea level. At this level, the water found a notch in the high ridge to the south. Water pouring through this notch in the ridge carved out the valley we now know as the Narrows.

Sand and gravel deposited by this glacier, and the Wisconsin ice sheet which followed 200,000 years later, filled the ancient creek bed to such an extent that the water in the valley remained reversed. he og One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Year, No. 1 36 ily ews Logan, Ohio, Saturday, June 10, 1961 Haynes Postoffice at junction of Big Pine Rd. and Rt. 56.

From Laurelville to almost South Bloomingville (where Salt Creek enters the Narrows) Rt. 56 follows a reversed stream valley. Not only is this Laurelville to Hue road interesting geologically, it's of historical interest too. Parts of this highway follow an old Indian trail that led to the old Indian town of Chillicothe. Many unfortunate prisoners of the Wyandotte Indians walked this trail on their way to Chillicothe Town.

One of these prisoners called this "The Road to In the early days of Hocking County this was a toll road. One of the toll houses stood at the south edge of Laurelville where the road to Adelphi meets the highway. Toll could be thus collected from travelers on both of these roads. As we drive south from Laurelville we see slight traces on one side of the road, then on the other side, of what appears to be a levee This slight elevation was not a levee but the bed of the Columbus Wcllston Railroad, which after many financial problems finally reached South Bloomingville in 1896. It got no further.

The original plans for this railroad, which later was known as the Columbus Southern Railroad, was to pass near Ash Cave on its way to Wellston. The backers of this railroad had hoped to open up the Ash Cave as a resort area. Two engines traveled between Wyandotte, near Amanda, and South Bloomingvillc, until the year 1911 when one of the engines was lost when the trestle over Big Pine Creek at Haynes gave way. After this disaster the remaining engine plied between Laurelville and Wyandotte. A mile or so below Laurelville, a mound of earth can be observed to the west of the road.

This is an Indian mound, one of several along Salt Creek. The valley of Salt Creek, named such because of Negro Athletes Walk Out On Texas Tourney Segregated Seating Blamed As 20 Stars Shun Houston Event HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-Texas had its first segregation trouble in sports Friday night and it virtually wrecked what was supposed to be the finest track and field meet in the state's history Twenty Negro stars, including world record holders Ralph Boston of Tennessee State and John Thomas of Boston University and four Olympians, refused to cross picket lines at the city-owned Jcppesen Stadium. The trouble was triggered by the withdrawal of Texas Southern, a Negro university in Houston. because it charged there was segregation in the seating.

That came Thursday night and it was late Friday before the other Negroes in the meet followed suit when 30 segregation demonstrators picketed the meet Eldrewey J. Stearnes. director of the Progressive Youth Association. a group working for desegregation, goaded Boston and Thomas into withdrawing when he said they were insults to the Negro race for refusing to walk out. Stearnes said heatedly that the two were 'wined and dined and brainwashed into staying in the Boston and Thomas both turned away from the stadium when they reached the picket line after giving no indication at a meet dinner that they would not compete.

not going to go in there as long as these people are out here Thomas said. The meet went on without the Negro athletes but there were no world or national records as had been anticipated from such stars as Boston, the great broad jumper. and Thomas, the mighty high jumper, who hold world records of 27 feet Va inch and 7 feet 3 inches respectively. It was a blow to the University of Houston, which sponsors the the Meet of Champions. Flash Floods Block Hocking Highways Castro To Receive Tractor Mission HAVANA (API Fidel Castro said early today he will receive a four man bargaining team from the United States to work out details of swapping 1.200 captive Cuban rebels for 500 tractors But the bearded prime minister raised anew his alternate proposal to trade the rebels captured in the abortive April invasion for held by the United States, Puerto Rico, ragua and Guatemala.

Castro notified the U. Tractors-for-Freedom Committee that he would receive its technicians, provided they have full power to negotiate the tractor-prisoner deal as by the Cuban prisoners mission sent to the United States to broach his offer. The freedom committee an nounced in Detroit its bargaining team will fly to Havana Monday. In his note to the freedom group Castro said he would have pro ferred leading members of the committee itself. Mrs.

Franklin I). Roosevelt and Milton Eisenhower, come to Havana, that is not More Riders Enroute To Mississippi Today's News In Brief WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson says that the United States will not surrender the free people of Asia to communism putting up a He said it was his judgment that in Asia is worth fighting and that the Ameri can people, once they understand the tremendous stakes, ready to follow' the path that means just for Asians, but for ourselves as Plcukharp's Store filling station. WASHINGTON Fulbert Youlou of the Republic of Congo advised Americans today to forget their own standards when dealing with Africa. you wish to aid us, and I am sure you do, you must cease to think of Africa in terms of free enterprise and the American way of life," Youlou said in a speech prepared for a National Press Club luncheon.

JACKSON. Miss. (API more were en route from Nashville, to Jackson today to raise the number testing segregated travel facilities over the 100 mark The five white riders and their three Negro companions left Nashville after receiving instruction in technique from the Nashville student nonviolent movement. Meanwhile, a petition asking for a three-judge federal court to protect Freedom Riders from arrest and police interference was expected to reach U.S. Dist.

Judge Sidney Mize in Biloxi today. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed the bill in U.S. District Court Friday. It was the first NAACP move to align itself directly with the Congress of Racial Equality in tests of Deep South laws and traditions. The NAACP has favored legal action, rather than the more direct CORE-sponsored rides, although supporting the goal of desegregated travel facilities.

In the wake of legal moves, strong rumors filtered through Jackson that most of the Freedom Riders would be transferred this weekend to the state penitentiary at Parchman, 150 miles north of Jackson. Heretofore, arrested riders have been held in city jail while convicted riders have placed in Hinds County Jail or the next door city jail. He insisted, however, that the bargaining mission have powers to discuss the quality and amount of indemnification Cuba is asking Your committee cannot decide by itself what kind of equipment Cuba is going to accept as compensation for all the material damage done by the aggressive actions launched from the United States against our Castro declared. committee ought to know that we are the ones to decide over our own business and that we only accept technical advice when we ask for it beforehand." The note, signed by Castro, also called for an answer to his proposal for exchanging the invasion captives for Cubans held in the United States and elsewhere. this he said, would be willing to surrender all her claims for material indcmni fication Castro has insisted repeatedly during his overtures that the exchange should on a "freedom for basis.

Castro insisted he had no ulterior motive in suggesting that Mrs. Roosevelt and Dr. Eisenhower come to Cuba to take a personal hand in the negotiations. The freedom committee said its bargaining team will fly from Miami. Monday at 2 30 m.

EST on a regularly scheduled flight and indicated newsmen could go along. The plane ordinarily flies empty to to pick up passengers for Miami. Adlai Handed Blast By Latins Pro-Castro Elements Stage Demonstration Straitsville Couple Trapped In Auto MIAMI, Fla (AID Cuban property in the I mted States was up for grabs today by Americans whose holdings in Cuba were confiscated by Fidel Castro. Circuit Judge Hal P. Dekle Thursday ruled that any Cuban property found in this country can be attached He found in favor of Terry Kane, who contended that the Cubans confiscated $22,500 worth of farm equipment in tractor agency.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) Adlai Stevenson faced the threat of more demonstrations today in Brazil, major trouble spot in his Latin American tour, after catching a blast here from supporters of Fidel Castro. The chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations came under the first attack of his tour Friday night when speakers at a university rally denounced him as an of Wall and demanded that he leave Uruguay The Uruguayan government also made clear to a special mission for President it opposed any action against the Castro regime in Cuba It was especially firm against armed intervention. Stevenson was due in Rio de Janeiro in midafternoon to seek understanding with new president, Janio Quadros, on Cuba ami other issues. U.S.

officials, who have been worried by some policies of the Quadros government, are anxious to line up his support for a program to improve working conditions in laitin America. Stevenson planned to see the Brazilian foreign minister and other officials, then fly to Sao Paulo Sunday for private discussions with Quadros SteveiiMiu associates played down the importance of Friday demonstrations, but it was further proof that South American sentiment, both official and private, is pretty solid against anti-Castro action Stevenson found this feeling both in the Venezuelan and Argentine governments and again in Uruguay. HAVANA Castro said today Cuba is open to Americans and Cubans are free to go to the United to go to American universities to see if they can be brainwashed The prime minister spoke at the closing session of the leftist assembly of the Union of International Students. The revolutionary leader berated foreign news agencies for their reports on the Cuban situa tion and declared; are the most misunderstood events in the history of the world ami history is made not by news agencies but by the revolutionaries We have never said we are Communists. This is a name that has given to us.

This is a socialist Last Conkle Land Is Sold In Park Area LeRoy Conkle of Lake Rd. said today that heirs of J. II. Conkle have sold to the state the last tract of land owned by the family in the Hollow area. The 3.6 acre tract provides a connecting link between OI Cave state park and Conkle's llollnw park, an initial step in a long range state plan to join up all llocking state parks into a single recreation area.

All ol the llollow area was owned by the Conkle family for many years before its purchase as a state park. A downpour of cloudburst proportions sent Monday Creek on a rampage Friday night and blocked traffic between and New Straitsville for several hours. An electrical storm and heavy shower followed early today in the Logan area. Lightning knocked out the radio tower used city police ami the county sheriff's department, nearly all city traffic lights and a number of individual telephone lines. Showers, starting Wednesday evening, have produced over three inches of rain in the area in the 2 'a-day period Two state highways were reported closed at noon today.

Blocked by high water were Rt 505 1 tween Carbon Hill and New Straitsville and Rt 278 between Carbon Hill and Nelsonville. Routes 75N and 56 near South Bloomingville were reported open today after being closed last night. The Hocking River crested at a peak six inches below flood stage at the city waterworks about 5 a.m. today. The water level had fallen about 10 inches by noon.

John Burgess, who lives along Rt 75 near the junction of Rt. 668 said oik water was the highest he had ever seen in that area last night. He reported his house was surrounded by water, and Rt, 75 was covered completely for a quartcr- milc distance. He said the water was car high in one spot. There was no traffic through that vicinity for five or six hours, he said.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ambrose of New Straitsville were trapped in their car when the vehicle was caught in high water on Rt. 75 near the Wayne Timbcrlake residence and swept off the highway. They were able to get out a car window.

An unidentified man car- run! Mrs. Ambrose to safety, Sheriff Hartman reported. The water was up around the windshield, he said. Ambrose was taking his wife home from work when the incident occurred about 9 p.m. She is an employe of J.

C. Co. in The car was winched out of the water by an oil truck. Sheriff Hartman said traffic was backed up nearly a mile on Rt. 75 because of the high water.

There were also reports of high water last night on Big Fine Rd. near the junction of Krishbaum Rd and near the C. H. St. Clair residence south of Union Furnace.

struck in adjoining I-oc County, killing a 9-year-old girl Heavy timber from a partially constructed church fell on her. A score of Ravenna children were hurt when the storm collapsed a church where 23 children were studying the Bible. Mayor Millard Webb said only five or six persons appeared seriously injured. National Guard, Civil Defense ami Red Cross units wore set up in the city and the guard patrolled Ravenna Friday night as an 8 30 6 a.m. curfew was called The mayor said he tlunk it would necessary to establish public shelter or food lines.

The city had water and partial telephone service but was without electric power. The mayor said the storm apparently struck first in the railroad yards, then hit in a five block business and residential sector. Ravenna was incorporated 40 years ago, its principal business being the Louisville Nashville Railroad shops on the main line to part of the eastern Kentucky coal field. Betsy Bush. 9.

was one of those in the church. Her quick wit in dropping to the floor immediately may have saved her serious injury. heard it ami lay dowm on the she said. some of the other children were running around and Betsy suffered only some minor bruises. Her father, Floyd Bush, was at their home across the street when the twister hit.

As he rushed out of the house, the church was collapsing and rubble was falling in on the children. never heard anything so pitiful in my he said of the screams and moans. He rushed into the ruins and found some of the children buried under mounds of brick and timber. Some of the children, Bush said, have had 2,000 pounds of stuff on Most of the children were taken to the Estill County Hospital at Irvine, Ravenna's sister city along the Kentucky River here. However, they later were transferred to other hospitals in this area.

I at South Bloomingvillc, now replaced with a the salt works which once operated along its banks, was a favorite haunt of the early Indians. As we go down the highway toward South Bloomingvillc there is California Hollow on our left, then Sam's Creek Valley to our right. The next road is to our left. This road we cannot tell you about; it is one of the few we have yet to explore. Salt Creek approaches the highway and soon we are at Haynes where Big Pine Creek empties into Salt Creek.

Here, Highway 56 crosses Salt Creek. A post office was established at Haynes which originally was called Pincvillc, probably because of Big Pine Creek. D. L. Davis was the first postmaster and this was a station on the Columbus Wellston Railroad until the trestle failed.

We remember well the Smith School which stood along the highway where the Conrad Branch and the Jimtcwn Rd. join the highway. From here it isn't far to the road up Blue Creek, and then the road through the Salt Creek Narrows, where Rt. 56 again crosses Salt Creek. Just east of this Salt Creek crossing the highway cuts the bed of the abandoned railroad Now the remains of the railroad are to our right (east of Rt.

Where the railroad and highway crosses was once called Reed, probably a flag station along the railroad. Now the highway is going up a valley, for now we are in the valley of Queer Creek, the headwaters of which are at Old Man's Cave. The next road to our right would have taken us to Greenbrier Ridge, the high elevation between the Narrows of Salt Creek and the valley of Goose Creek, a stream which empties into Queer Creek at South Bloomingville. We reach South Bloomingville, a village laid out by John Chil- (Continucd on Page 2) WASHINGTON today sought a clerk from the hush hush National Security Agency who has been missing since Monday. The FBI declined comment on whether it was taking part in the search for William Hyter Covington.

28. conducted by Maryland state police at the request of N'SA. WASHINGTON (AF) Half of all American families had money incomes of at least $5,600 in 1960 more than in 1959. But the increase, the Census Bureau reported Friday, was worth only half as much in purchasing power. The reason: Price increases during the year.

PALM BEACH. Fla. (AP) President doctor expressed confidence today that the ailing back is getting well. Logan, Nelsonville, Athens Tagged For Special U.S. Aid GENEVA (AP) A possible break in the deadlocked international conference on Laos appeared in the making least in the talking stage.

MIAMI. Fla. Racial bars will be lowered for the first time at the University of Miami in the summer session starting June 15. WASHINGTON (AP) Five de pressed areas in Ohio have been named eligible for special federal aid to help curtail heavv and persistent unemployment. The five are among 114 areas in the nation which will benefit in nearly $400 million of federal loans and grants designed to revive their economies.

They include: Nelsonville, Batavia Georgetown- West Union, Cambridge. Portsmouth Chillicothe and Point Pleasant. W. Representatives of the 50 states are meeting here with officials of the new Area Redevelopment Administration (AHA) which will carry out the program. Those communities on the list are considered major areas of chronic and substantial unemployment.

Smaller communities and areas will be added later to the roster of those eligible for assistance. At the opening session of the federal-state conference, Secretary of Commerce Luther 11. Hodges urged state officials not to and see anything in program. is not a panacea," lie said. will not answer all your problems.

The work is still William L. Batt ARA administrator, told he meeting that the whole concept of the program is to help people help themselves. Under the program, depressed areas will be able to apply for federal grants and loans to at tract new industry and carry out economic planning. Hodges announced that former Democratic Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida will head the National Public Advisory Committee on Area Redevelopment.

That 25- member group will meet at least twice a year to review the AKA program and make recommendations regarding its operations. Collins, who was permanent chairman of last National Democratic Convention, now is president of the National Association of Broadcasters. Hodges said he will announce the names of other committee members next Tuesday. Slaying Of Couple Baffling To Police SELIGMAN, Ariz, slaying of an Oklahoma couple as they slept in their ear only a few feet from their four sons baffled police today. Slain early Friday were J.

D. Welch, 33, and his wife, Utha Marie. 31, of Spencer, Okla. Both had been shot in bead. Welch, a truck driver, was tak ing his family on a long-planned vacation to California.

Asleep in a pup tent three feet from the car were hoys, Jimmy 12, Tommy, 8 Billy, 7, and Johnny, 5. RAVENNA, Ky. (AP)-Thirty or more families looked today for temporary housing after a tornado injured more than 50 and caused heavy property damage in this railroad town at the sutheastem edge of Blue Grass region. The hit skip storm Friday also FORECAST SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL sunny and warmer this afternoon Mostly fair and mild south tonight with chance of scattered thundershowers extreme east and central late tonight. tonight 58-66.

Sunday partly loudy and warm with chance of scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers mostly in the central portion High in the 80 s. Court Martial Faces Boss Of Ill-Fated Texas Tower' U.S. Ambassadors Given Assurance Of Backing WASHINGTON Kennedy has sent a personal let ter to American ambassadors around the world making clear they are in command as to American affairs in the countries where they are stationed. Secretary of State Dean Rusk reported that today in a speech to a graduating group at the Foreign Service Institute. Rusk said administration of foreign matters lias suffered from a lack of unity in command in Washington and from too uncoordinated operations at overseas posts.

WASHINGTON Air Force has ordered a colonel to face a court martial in the collapse of a radar that dragged 28 men to their death in the Atlantic Ocean. The officer. Col. William M. Banks, has been charged with being derelict 111 duty by failing to keep himself informed.

Banks was in command the Boston air defense center and tower was part of its radar network. The court martial was ordered Friday by the air defense commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Lee. The Air Force indicated military trial may convene within a week.

Charges against two other offi William R. Sheppard and Reginald L. ills missed. Both had been serving under Banks. Lee also dismissed a charge against Banks of culpable negligence resulting in death.

Banks is from Raleigh, YV Ya. The tower, officially known as No. 4 but unuffectionately known by its crew as buckled and sank in an Atlantic gale Jan. 15. Standing on three stilt like legs in open sea, No.

4 had Been battered and weakened by hurricanes Daisy anti Donna, and it was inclined to sway and vibrate like a tuning fork. were times when the men lay in their bunks and practically cried because the thing swayed the sister of one of the lost crewmen has recalled'. The widow' of another received a letter from her husband which said: hope it (the tower) lasts long enough to get home and see you and the kids It didn't. The Air Force said tlu? chargo against Banks is that: his knowledge of the structural condition of the tower and his receipt of the severe weather forecast, Col. Banks failed to keep himself appraised of the developing weather situa turn; did not maintain contact with the officer 111 charge of tower and with the commander of the squadron, and failed to hold himself readily available for any action necessary in view of the developing dangerous situation at the.