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Winner and Loser REJECTED By SEN6.T6, FINANCE ^OMMlTTfie^ Year Round Brotherhood The period through which we are passing is one which weeds some such concept as Brotherhood Week to allay inter- faith friction and hostility. Various controversies and circumstances have given rise to tensions which are more than ordinarily sharp. The emotions centering in the ruckus .over Senator McCarthy are disturbing. The Senator from Wisconsin is a man who arouses strong feelings, both pro and con. Hardly anyone is neutral where he is concerned. The conti-oversy ranging about him has repercussions which are not K>nly nationwide but worldwide. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation in the public schools has likewise given rise to a wave of emotion in many parts of the United States. Some non-Southern regions have become aroused because the South does not appear to be accepting the ruling as readily as those regions feel they should. The South, for its part, tends to resent criticism from "outsiders". [Another conflict concerns the State of Israel. Even the Jewish people are split on this issue, and feeling between certain groups of Jews is almost as strong as between Jews and Arabs. Here is a divisive force which must not be permitted to weaken the unity of the American people. In each of these controversies, and in others involving entirely different questions, the spirit of brotherhood is called for, and those immediately concerned should place national solidarity above political, religious or regional differences. The American way is to allow all sides of every controversy to be heard, and to arrive fearlessly at honest conclusions, but without undermining the basic oneness of the nation. ..■■.-;-..-•••.--.-...•■ --_-....■..,.■- ■ ... r--^-- •. The concept of brotherhood, so heavily stressed during BrotherhJbod Week, should be emphasized throughout the entire year, to the end that we Americans may present a united front to any perils that may confront us from beyond the sea's. Do We Get Out or Go Under? Public announcement by the Atomic Energy Commission that lethal radioactive fall-out from the H-Bomb detonated at Bikini last year covered an area Iof 7,000 square miles gives us the first fact on which we can build some conception of atomic war. It will aJso needle the Congress and the Civil Defense into tackling their responsibilities to the American people a little more aggressively. Up to now, the principal activity has been to soold the public for its apathy in the face of this new and all-pervading horror. But we do not think the people have been apathetic to the technological possibility of obliteration — especially when it gives all the advantage to an aggressor who would strike first, which, histtorically, we have never .done. We do not think Americans have forgotten Pearl Harbor, or have failed to consider what a modern sneak-attack could do. We do think the people have been stoical, perhaps even fatalistic in the face of Civil Defense disorganization and Congressional preoccupation. This situation is well illustrated in the National Capital, which we would expect an. enemy to regard as a desirable target. Civil defense in Washington is in a stalemate, stymied between two schools of 'thought. The authorities can not agree whether the citizens should take shelter, or whether they should evacuate. No doubt similar situations prevail elsewhere. And certainly, under present conditions, neither plan could be effective in our big cities. Perhaps the AEC should tell us more about nuclear annihilation. Stopping Communism in Asia The Communist aggressors who invaded French Indo- China and compelled the partition of that country last year are no longer going to have things their, own way. Just recently, Lt. General John W. O'Daniel, Chief of the United Statjes Military Mission in Vietnam, began the job of training and organizing the army of South Vietnam. Working in close cooperation with the French Indochinese command, our .forces will ultimately have a missifon composed of some three hundred officers and ,non-coms. A total army of 100,- 000 with a' reserve amounting to an additional 150,000 is planned. This is the approach long recommended by our top military advisors in Asia. Armys composed-Iof native troops, given the training and weapons available to the Western Free Wjorld, are capable of defending their homelands from the attacks of Communists. There is no disposition on the part of Communist leaders to submit their.program to plebiscites. Thfey are relying solely upon aggression and the terroriza- tion process to achieve their purpose. Our sholwing of determination in the Formosa area', combined with the new defense system illustrated in Vietnam, willgivethe Kremlin pause, and the paus"e may well refresh the world's hopes for real freedom, ■ COLUMBUS, OHIO Ohio State Museum Columbus 10, Ohio 55 VOLUME 16 NO. 24 NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955 7c per eopr Mary Kitzmiller Wins CAP Contest 1st Elimination Mary Kitzmiller of North Canton was one of four cadets from the Canton - Massillon squadron of the Civil Air Patrol who won chances Sun* day, March 6, to participate in the 1955 international exchange program sponsored by the CAP. The first elimination was held in Cleveland at Fourth Group headquarters. Other area winners were Ted Stults of Massillon and Donna Milburn of Canton. Sylvia Christner of Massillon was selected as an alternate. These four will go to Cleveland March 19-20 fdr the second elimination. Male winners are sent to for eign countries to study Air Force procedure while female winners study in United States posses . sions. Carol Kitzmiller, Mary's sis - ter, was selected toy the A i^r" Force as one of last year's winners in the program and was sent to Alaska for two weeks. Rotary Club Again Sponsors Easter Seal Campaign To Aid The Crippled The North Canton Rotary Club will again this, year sponsor the local Easter Seal campaign, the Annual appeal for funds made by the Ohio Society for Crippled Children in cooperation with the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. George Robinson is chairman of the Rotary committee planning the campaign and helping him are Dr. A. R. Basinger, William Stull.Sr. and Dan Boon. The entire Rotary Club Will de-, vote their Thursday, March 10 meeting to working on this project following their regular, dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Commun. ity Building. The envelopes containing the seals are distributed to the Rotary Club by the Ohio Society for Crippled Children. The commercial department of North Canton High School, headed by Mrs. Olive Aldridge, address- es the envelopes, Which are then stuffed, sealed and mailed to every family in the community by the Rotarians. The Rotary Club also sponsors the Good Friday sale of Easter Lilies on the s'treets of the village toy the Junior Red Cross. The white lily is the symbol of the Easter Seal Society. The 1955 'campaign will be held from March 10 to April 10 in Ohio and throughout the nation, according to an announcement made by Dr. Charles A. Bowers, of Cleveland, president of the Ohio Society for Crippled Children. The annual appeal is conducted in every state, in the District of Columbia, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "During this month 'preceding Easter, people in Ohio will have a chance to provide needed help to the thousands of crippled persons in this state who need rehabilitation," Dr." Bowers said. "Ohioans can play a vital part in providing a hopeful and productive life for crippled chil - dren by buying Easter Seals," The Ohio Society and its 101 local affiliated county societies for crippled children conduct the campaign in this state. More than 90 per cent of the. funds raised remain in Ohio for services to the physically handicapped. The remainder goes to a national program of research and rehabilitation. "Every year," said Dr. Bowers, "the statewide network of crippled children'^. Ea,ster:. Seal, so'cietie's he^p:'th6tis^ff<Js' of crippled 'Children and adults by providing medical care, physical training, recreation, vocational guidance, and many other services. "These crippled children societies in Ohio need not only the continued moral support of the citizens in the state," he said, "but a more generous financial support than ever before. While thousands of handicapped children have been helped in the past, there are still thousands more that must be reached. The part that the individual can play at this time of year in helping this whole program of rehabilitation is to give his all out support to the Easter Seal cam - pa'ign." Among major projects supported by the crippled children's societies through financial contributions made during the Easter Seal campaign in Ohio are: three treatment centers for orthopedi- cally crippled children; centers devoted to cerebral palsied chil. dren; annual medical demonstrations of treatment techniques; over 35 epileptic clinics per year; summer residential camping for more than 1000 crippled boys and girls; and a jointly sponsored three week summer workshop at Ohio State University for teachers of crippled children, and speech and hearing therapists. This year's Easter Seal will be oblong in shape and display a white lily, symbol of the Easter Seal Society, on a pink back - ground. A bright blue ribbon imposed on the lily says, "Help Crippled Children," and below it, on a bright pink ribbon are the words, "Easter Seals.'' Sorosis To Meet Thurs., March 10 The North Canton Sorosis will meet Thursday, March 10, at 8 p.m. in the Community Building' annex with Mrs. William Pool and Mrs. William 'Parker Jr., greeting members as hostesses for -the~evenlng. Miss Ruth Lehmiller of Canton, guest speaker, will present a humorous reading "The Main Who Was a Book." She will be introduced by Mrs. Clyde Hill, program chairman." Mrs. Robert Kidder ol Massillon will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Richard Evans. Mrs. William Willis will lead the devotions. A sale o'f articles made by the blind will be in charge of Mrs. Richard Seemann. 'During the business meeting the slate of new officers will be presented to club members by the nominating committee, and nominations from 'the floor will be in order. Mrs. William Pool is chairman of the nominating committee. Jr. Woman's Club Plan Dinner and Election March 14 The North Canton Junior Woman's Club will hold a pot luck dinner and election of officers in Fellowship Hall at the Community Christian Church at 6:30 pjn. Monday evening, March 14., Hostesses for the evening wjttK be Mrs. J. Allen Myers and Mrs. Harry Newell. . ' ....... Miss Maxine Thompson, a club member, will give aft illustrated talk on. her trip through Europe last summer. Mrs. Blair Woocfeide is chairman of the dinner 'committee. Assisting her are, Mrs* Robert Whiteman, Mrs. Michael Skubari, Mrs. Leland Pierce, Mrs. Robert Frye, Misg. Burdine^ Willa- Myrus The Mind Reader To Be Here March 18 Myrus, the mind reader, who has hosts of fans all over this section of Ohio, will be in North Canton at the Community Building Friday evening, March 18. The show promises to be every bit as interesting and spellbinding as Wis regular television performance. The show is being sponsored by the North Canton Junior Chamber of. Commerce and tickets are available from any member of that organization or •at the Community Building, King's Confectionery or Valen - tine's Pure Oil Station. i Volcano Run Rampant Molton lava, bursts more than fifty feet into the air along a fissure one mile long at Hilo, Hawaii, as the Kilauea volcano \ resumes activity along her eastern flank after a one day rest. > This" night aerial photo shows a glowing stream of lava flowing ? from part of the mile-'long fissure. New Books For Spring Reading Available Now At The Library Garden Club Members To See "Roserama" Local Man With U. S. Fleet Off Tachen Islands Dale D. Stephan, hospitalman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Stephan of Route 7, North Canton, Ohio, is aboard the USS Yarnall. The destroyer has been operating off the island of Formosa with ifast carrier-Task Force 11 as a part of Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride's 7th Fleet. The ship took part in prepara- tions for the evacuation 6f the Tachen Island group some 200 miles north of Formosa itself, mosa itself, and it'is expected that the destroyer will remain a part of the 7th Fleet until the situation in the Far East relaxes. Women with March Birthdays To Attend Saturday Lunch All women whose birthdays faJL in March; axe invited to attend the covered '- dish luncheon oi ifhe Elizabeth Marefi Club in; the .Women's ^Room of the man, Mrs. Wayne. McCarty and: Commuriitjy Building at, m o o n, Mrs. William Ciidden, .Saturday, March 12. ? v. |The Curlew's Cry by Mildred ^alker: The story of three dec- aides in the life of an American town. and of its growth from pioneer days to the era of dude ranching in recent times. It is -ajlso the story of Pamela and of Her life. '. The Gold Of Their Bodies by Charles Gorham: This is a major work of fiction based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Here Gauguin emerges as a vital being with genius in Ihe tips of his fingers. World Of Albert Schweitzer by Erica Anderson: Meaningful text and beautiful photographs make this an inspiring pictorial biography. This story has been told before, but never before in pic - tures that bring the spirit of the man and his life on two continents so vividly before the read- eiv '*■"..■ "•-*' ~-" • * '•- Treasury Of American Gardening by John R. Whiting: Whether your gardening inter - ests lie in formal gardens, window boxes, or in arranging centerpieces, 'this book will be both inspiring and useful. My Several Words by Pearl Buck: This is the true story of a woman Who has lived a life tremendously exciting and tremendously worthwhile. Art. Ol" Eating by M. F. K. Fisher: This is a book which des. eribes cooking not as a chore but as a praiseworthy activity. Bouquet by G. S. Whittet: A galaxy of flower paintings in 48 colour plates. The reader may study the art of flower painting in detail from the examples reproduced. The 'Red Carpet by Marshall MacDuffie: 10,000 miles through Russia - a 65-day, eye-opening, sometimes hair-raising, always fascinating tour that took the author through eight republics of the Soviet Union. Fingerprints Never Lie by Fred Cherrill: A Scotland yard case book. Professional and amateur sleuths and mystery fans, will be especially intrigued by the evidence of Fred Cherrill's lively memours that fingerprints never lie. Modern Renaissance In American Art by Ralph W. Pearson: Presents the work and philosophy of 54 distinquished artists- Atomic Science - Bombs And Power by David Diety: A survey of progress since the war, both military and non-military. A majority of the book is entirely new. The latest, best and clearest book on the subject. Women's Guild of Zion E and R Ghurclh Plan Spring Meet March 16 The Women's Guild of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church will hold its spring meeting in the church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Mrs. Walter Trott will preside. Mrs. E. K. Zinn of Canton, well-known to local church women as an interesting and fluent speaker, will talk on the subject "Under Three Flags." Music will be presented • by a trio consisting of Mrs. Will.am Schafer, Miss Mary Ellen Smith, and Mrs. R. G. Geiger Jr., Mrs. Michael Karlo will lead devo - tions. All women of the church are- invited to attend and see the work the guild' is doing. The group also hopes to have samples of the articles Japanese women make from old nylon stock-1 branch, Class B; ings provided them by the wo-1 Snare Drum Solo: men.of the church. Class B. The North Canton Garden Club will meet in the Community Building annex Thursday, March 17, at 8:30 p.m. The meeting will be a half-hour later than usual to avoid conflict with Lenten services. Mrs. William Bonnell, vice president, will preside in the absence of the president, Mrs. Mel. vin Gross. Mrs. Gross and Mrs. Walter Reigle, program chair - man, are making the "Garden Club Tour," which includes vis- its-.^o- tra:rderis- "m" 'Philadelphia"' and New York city. Mr. Jack Sutton pf Sutton's Flower and Garden Mart in Canton will show pictures on pro- pogation and culture of roses. This showing of the pictures, called "Roserama," will be the first in Ohio. Mrs. James Stackhouse is program chair - man. Arrangements using forced shrubs and illustrating the theme "Spring Prelude" will be taken by Mrs. Richard Everett, Mrs. William Bonnell, Mrs. Robert Elliott, Mrs. Richard Sutherin and Mrs. O. E. Siebert. Mrs. Lewis Walters and Mrs. Homer Young will serve as hostesses for the evening. Area Student Musicians Rated Superior In Annual Stark Contest A .number of area students were among those who received 121 superior ratings awarded vocal and instrumental soloists and ensembles by judges at the annual Stark County solo and ensemble contest at Canton South High School Saturday, March 5. Some 300 students participated in the daylong program. Vocalist judges were Ruth Co. gan of Canton Lincoln High and Helen Mayton of Kent. Instrumentalist judges were George Polce of New Philadelphia, George Toot of Carrollton and Howard Pardee of Salem. Superior ratings went t0 the following area students: Soprano Solo: Barbara Parker, Middlebranch, Class B; Cornet and Trumpet Solos: Doyle Smith, Middlebranch, Class B; French Horn Solo: Janet Hol- shoy and Carol Brumbaugh, Jackson, Class B; Trombone Solo: Miriam Bower, Jackson, Class B; Baritone Horn: Margie Betts, Middlebranch, Class C; Edna Metz, Jackson, Class B; Piano Solo: Martha Jordan, Greentown, Class C; Mary Lou Hill, Middlebranch, Class B; Clarient Solo: Peggy Hay'nes, Marianne Kirk and Carol De- Jane, Jackson, and Patricia Ma- ly, Middlebranch, Class B; Tenor Saxophone Solo: F a y e Slayman, Jackson, Class B; Bassoon Solo: Patricia Ma'ly, Middlebranch, William Finger, Jackson, Class B; t Woodwind Trio: three from Jackson, Class B; Flute Duet: "Jackson, Class B; Cornet Duet: Jackson, Class C; Cornet Trio: Middlebranch, Class B; Clarient Quartet, Middle - Jackson, Here's What Your Contribution To The Red Cross Accomplishes ~ ^ The annual Red Cross Drive is being highlighted in Nbrth Canton throughout this week under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Mortimer, local chairmen, and will feature an intensified door-to-door campaign Sunday, March 13, from 1 to 5 p.m. Some 85 workers, many representing civic organizations, will canvass the North Canton School district, distributing .Red Cross membership cards and lapel pins to contributors. The annual membership and fund campaign of Canton Chapter American Red Cross opened March 1 with a goal of $115,000 announced by general chairman of this year's campaign, .Richard E. Lawrence. This figure includes $63,900 which will be needed for local requirements for Canton Chapter for the coming fiscal year, and $51,000 as its share of National require - ments. A brief review of the fiscal year 1953-54 might be made to explain more fully the terms "local requirements'' and "na - tional requirements." During this year, total expenditures for services to ser - vicemen, veterans and their dependents reached more than $37 millions. This figure represents help given to your neighbors and your neighbors' sons and daughters in time of trouble and emergency — not only emergency financial assistance but also help in solving personal and family problems, providing commumica- tions between servicemen and their families at home, help in applying for government benefits, and recreation in military hospitals. The Canton Chapter alone handled over 2,800 such individual family cases during the fiscal year. While the Canton area had no major disasters during the fiscal year, the Canton Chapter as. sisted the victims of several one- family fires with food, clothing and home furnishings. Nationally, an average of six disaster relief operations were conducted each week by the Red Cross. This means some 62,000 persons were given emergency mass care, and 7,100 families were given rehabilitation aid following injuries or losses caused by -the disasters. The t o t a 1 amount spent for disaster preparedness and relief was $3,036, 862. This figure does not include the more than $3,000,000 spent for aid to human beings during three hurricanes and the Rio Grande flood of last summer and early fall. Another great group of Red Cross services are the Safety and Nursing services. In the Canton chapter, 2,453 Red Cross certificates were issued in First Aid and Water Safety, and over 250 in Nursing Skill3. Through training in first aid, water safety, home care of the sick, and mother and baby care, the organization prepares millions of Americans each year to help themselves and others in mements of personal crisis and in time o'f disaster or emergency. Nationally, more than 2 million nursing, first aid and wa. ter safety certificates were issued' to trained persons, and over 4 1-2 million persons were instructed on these subjects at group instruction meetings. The Junior Red Cross, which is the Red Cross in the schools, has 21 million members in 76,000 schools throughout the nation. They perform community ser - vices and provide aid to child victims of disaster and war in foreign countries. During the year, they sent 368,700 gift boxes to 56 countries. In the Canton Chapter are 76 schools which, besides many other activities, filled 1800 gift boxes and three large school chests. In all, the national organization and its 3,720 chapters expended more than $87 millions in meeting .the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people who turned to the 'Red. Cross for help. These figures are large, but so Were the needs. And so was fhe extent of the help rendered by the American people through the Red Cross. Seniors To Give "New Fires" Friday, March 25 , The seniors of North Canton High School will present the play "New Fires" in the high school auditorium Friday eve - ning, March 25, at 8 p.m. "New Fires" is a wholesome true - to - life comedy about an average American family that find that peace and contentment can be anywhere, even on 1 a farm in the Ozarks. Stephen Santry, an author | from Chicago, has inherited his I Uncle Gideon's farm. Since Stephen is at his wit's end to know what to do with his family (who .he fears have lost their grasp on the fundamental values of life), he decides to bring them to the farm and issues the ultimatum that they work or they don't eat. Several complications occur and the family is imprisoned on the farm, left to amuse themselves and to attend their own wants. When an enforced quarantine is finally lifted, we find— but we'll let you find out for yourselves. The cast includes Carole Mon- zione, Nancy Speicher, George Livingston, Dave Van Dyke, Dave Kaufman, Lenny Young, Joanne Whitman, Peggy Powers, Harriet Schmitt, Barbara Clou- ser, Bob Mueller, Gary Storch, Becky Kintz, Elaine Zeiger, and Carol Miller. Greentown Voters Will Get School Bond issue The'' Ohio Board of Tax Ap - peals March 3 approved a special $45,000 bond issue Which will now be voted upon by voters in the Greentown Local School District at the May 3 primaries, according to the board of elec - tions. Only voters in Lake Township 2 and 3 precincts will vote on it. The issue will require a levy of 18 cents for each $100 of tax valuation and would require a 65 per cent majority for approval and would be in effect for not more than 15 years. Money from the issue would be used to build and equip fireproof additions to the present school buildings and to remodel , and equip present ones, as well ; as to landscape the grounds. Pfc. Robert D. DeLong Stationed In Germany Pfc. Robert R. DeLong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon DeLong of 225 Woodrow Ave., arrived in Germany in January and is stationed there with the 63rd Tank Bn., 1st Army, in Kingaln. He received his basic training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Mrs. DeLong, the former Virginia Lloyd, and their son .Robert, live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William N. Lloyd of RD 4, Canton. Greentown Legion Post To Hold Birthday Dinner Saturday, March 12 Chapter BB Of P.E.O. Group To Meet Monday Chapiter BB of the P.'E.O. Sisterhood will meet in the home of Mrs. L. K. Acheson of 816 Portage St. at 8 p.m. Monday evening, March 14. Mrs. High- field Johnson will serve as assistant hostess. There win be a reading of the state by-laws of the organization and election and installation of officers. Mrs. R. T, Warburtpn, president, will install the new officers. Floyd Jenkins, Commander, of Uniontown, Ohio, has announced that the annual birthday dinner of Howard D. Miller Post 436, Greentown, Ohio, will be held at the post home on Route 8, two miles north of Greentown, Saturday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m; Asi usual, there will be a covered: dish dinner. Guests for the evening will be the Ground Observer Corp Jfrom North Canton who will show movies with regard to civilian defense. * All legionnaires, families, and frienag <%<£ Urged to attend. Jack'1 Cain of H&rtvi'lle is the program Chairmiaib
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Winner and Loser
REJECTED
By SEN6.T6,
FINANCE
^OMMlTTfie^
Year Round Brotherhood
The period through which we are passing is one which
weeds some such concept as Brotherhood Week to allay inter-
faith friction and hostility.
Various controversies and circumstances have given
rise to tensions which are more than ordinarily sharp.
The emotions centering in the ruckus .over Senator McCarthy are disturbing. The Senator from Wisconsin is a
man who arouses strong feelings, both pro and con. Hardly
anyone is neutral where he is concerned. The conti-oversy
ranging about him has repercussions which are not K>nly
nationwide but worldwide.
The Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation in
the public schools has likewise given rise to a wave of emotion in many parts of the United States. Some non-Southern regions have become aroused because the South does not
appear to be accepting the ruling as readily as those regions
feel they should. The South, for its part, tends to resent
criticism from "outsiders".
[Another conflict concerns the State of Israel. Even the
Jewish people are split on this issue, and feeling between
certain groups of Jews is almost as strong as between Jews
and Arabs. Here is a divisive force which must not be permitted to weaken the unity of the American people.
In each of these controversies, and in others involving
entirely different questions, the spirit of brotherhood is
called for, and those immediately concerned should place national solidarity above political, religious or regional differences.
The American way is to allow all sides of every controversy to be heard, and to arrive fearlessly at honest conclusions, but without undermining the basic oneness of the
nation. ..■■.-;-..-•••.--.-...•■ --_-....■..,.■- ■ ... r--^-- •.
The concept of brotherhood, so heavily stressed during
BrotherhJbod Week, should be emphasized throughout the
entire year, to the end that we Americans may present a
united front to any perils that may confront us from beyond
the sea's.
Do We Get Out or Go Under?
Public announcement by the Atomic Energy Commission that lethal radioactive fall-out from the H-Bomb detonated at Bikini last year covered an area Iof 7,000 square
miles gives us the first fact on which we can build some
conception of atomic war.
It will aJso needle the Congress and the Civil Defense
into tackling their responsibilities to the American people a
little more aggressively. Up to now, the principal activity
has been to soold the public for its apathy in the face of
this new and all-pervading horror.
But we do not think the people have been apathetic to
the technological possibility of obliteration — especially
when it gives all the advantage to an aggressor who would
strike first, which, histtorically, we have never .done. We do
not think Americans have forgotten Pearl Harbor, or have
failed to consider what a modern sneak-attack could do.
We do think the people have been stoical, perhaps even
fatalistic in the face of Civil Defense disorganization and
Congressional preoccupation. This situation is well illustrated in the National Capital, which we would expect an. enemy
to regard as a desirable target. Civil defense in Washington is in a stalemate, stymied between two schools of
'thought. The authorities can not agree whether the citizens
should take shelter, or whether they should evacuate. No
doubt similar situations prevail elsewhere. And certainly,
under present conditions, neither plan could be effective in
our big cities.
Perhaps the AEC should tell us more about nuclear annihilation.
Stopping Communism in Asia
The Communist aggressors who invaded French Indo-
China and compelled the partition of that country last year
are no longer going to have things their, own way. Just
recently, Lt. General John W. O'Daniel, Chief of the United
Statjes Military Mission in Vietnam, began the job of training and organizing the army of South Vietnam. Working
in close cooperation with the French Indochinese command,
our .forces will ultimately have a missifon composed of some
three hundred officers and ,non-coms. A total army of 100,-
000 with a' reserve amounting to an additional 150,000 is
planned.
This is the approach long recommended by our top
military advisors in Asia. Armys composed-Iof native troops,
given the training and weapons available to the Western Free
Wjorld, are capable of defending their homelands from the
attacks of Communists. There is no disposition on the part
of Communist leaders to submit their.program to plebiscites.
Thfey are relying solely upon aggression and the terroriza-
tion process to achieve their purpose.
Our sholwing of determination in the Formosa area', combined with the new defense system illustrated in Vietnam,
willgivethe Kremlin pause, and the paus"e may well refresh
the world's hopes for real freedom, ■
COLUMBUS, OHIO
Ohio State Museum
Columbus 10, Ohio
55
VOLUME 16 NO. 24
NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1955
7c per eopr
Mary Kitzmiller
Wins CAP Contest
1st Elimination
Mary Kitzmiller of North
Canton was one of four cadets
from the Canton - Massillon
squadron of the Civil Air
Patrol who won chances Sun*
day, March 6, to participate
in the 1955 international exchange program sponsored by
the CAP. The first elimination was held in Cleveland at
Fourth Group headquarters.
Other area winners were Ted
Stults of Massillon and Donna
Milburn of Canton. Sylvia
Christner of Massillon was selected as an alternate.
These four will go to Cleveland March 19-20 fdr the second
elimination.
Male winners are sent to for
eign countries to study Air Force
procedure while female winners
study in United States posses .
sions.
Carol Kitzmiller, Mary's sis -
ter, was selected toy the A i^r"
Force as one of last year's winners in the program and was
sent to Alaska for two weeks.
Rotary Club Again Sponsors Easter
Seal Campaign To Aid The Crippled
The North Canton Rotary Club will again this, year
sponsor the local Easter Seal campaign, the Annual appeal
for funds made by the Ohio Society for Crippled Children in
cooperation with the National Society for Crippled Children
and Adults. George Robinson is chairman of the Rotary
committee planning the campaign and helping him are Dr.
A. R. Basinger, William Stull.Sr. and Dan Boon.
The entire Rotary Club Will de-,
vote their Thursday, March 10
meeting to working on this project following their regular, dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Commun.
ity Building.
The envelopes containing the
seals are distributed to the Rotary Club by the Ohio Society
for Crippled Children. The commercial department of North
Canton High School, headed by
Mrs. Olive Aldridge, address-
es the envelopes, Which are then
stuffed, sealed and mailed to
every family in the community
by the Rotarians.
The Rotary Club also sponsors
the Good Friday sale of Easter
Lilies on the s'treets of the village toy the Junior Red Cross.
The white lily is the symbol of
the Easter Seal Society.
The 1955 'campaign will be held
from March 10 to April 10 in
Ohio and throughout the nation,
according to an announcement
made by Dr. Charles A. Bowers, of Cleveland, president of
the Ohio Society for Crippled
Children. The annual appeal is
conducted in every state, in the
District of Columbia, Alaska,
Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
"During this month 'preceding
Easter, people in Ohio will have
a chance to provide needed help
to the thousands of crippled persons in this state who need rehabilitation," Dr." Bowers said.
"Ohioans can play a vital part
in providing a hopeful and productive life for crippled chil -
dren by buying Easter Seals,"
The Ohio Society and its 101
local affiliated county societies
for crippled children conduct the
campaign in this state.
More than 90 per cent of the.
funds raised remain in Ohio for
services to the physically handicapped. The remainder goes to
a national program of research
and rehabilitation.
"Every year," said Dr. Bowers, "the statewide network of
crippled children'^. Ea,ster:. Seal,
so'cietie's he^p:'th6tis^ff |
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