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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
2
Psychiatrists describe reckless drivers as crazy and unfit to drive. The Mansfield News Journal notes such behavior includes speeding through red lights and unsafe lane changes, urging license denial to curb highway accidents.
The Carey Times edited by Eloise Thrall is published every Thursday. It is entered at the Carey Ohio Post Office as second class mail matter.
A collection of playful quips and satirical notes ranges from politics and crime to sports and media. It teases the era with mock wisdom, lampooning figures like Tom Dewey and the press while riffing on coins, jail policy, and changing norms in a brisk, era-tinged voice.
The column blends satire on aviation expansion, tax forms, Miss America pageants, and world fairs with notes on Mars canals plant life and the New Deal. It cites Lindbergh, Franco, and a Maine Boy Scout tale while panning Florida ship canal plans and planetary life conclusions.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer cites John L Lewis as a rising radical whose influence has waned. It notes his attack on Vice President Garner drew praise for Garner in Congress and likens Lewis to a figure whose rhetoric now backfires. The piece condemns Lewis and urges restraint.
Norman A. Waaland 41 of Findlay was sentenced by Judge Neal L. Lora to concurrent prison terms after pleading guilty to four counts of armed robbery and burglary. He received 10 to 25 years on each armed robbery count and 1 to 15 years for burglary. Accomplice Clark Decker remains jailed pending a hearing. Waaland admitted no hooded identity but investigators found burlap sacks with eye holes in his Findlay garage.
County commissioners arranged issuance of $36 132 in relief bonds to finance the county s share of relief expenditures for 1940. Notes backed by beer, malt, wort admission taxes through 1942 are to be paid by March 1 of 1940 1942. Auditor final approval obtained. estimated county receipts from taxes total about $47 000 with a cushion of $11 000 to cover interest and potential shortfalls. Bonds include one 8500 note two 11697 notes and a 423827 note with the first due March 1 1940.
A mother named Mrs Carr welcomed her tenth child and a neighbor joked that she had another Carr. The mother replied that it was, to her, the caboose.
The village council of Carey Ohio enacts Ordinance 293 requiring written permit from the Board of Public Affairs before any house sewer connects to a public storm sewer. It defines permitted uses, prohibits objectionable wastes, sets inspection requirements, and empowers the board to enforce, amend, or repeal connections with penalties for violations. The ordinance becomes effective after lawful publication and coincides with the new sanitary sewer system project.
The missionary society of the Church of God met at Mrs. Albert Schoenberger’s home with twenty members present. Officers elected led the business session and included President Mrs. Neff and secretary Florence Cole. Several locals visited, camp Pettinger attendees went to McCutchenville, and Epworth League participants from the local Methodist church returned from Lakeside.
Mrs Newton Favorite near Waldo saw a man steal pigs from her farm. She ran out and removed the rear license plate from his car while he was busy in the pigpen. Officials traced the thief using the plate evidence.
The Bryan city council votes to push back the sewage plant completion date from October 10 to December 10 due to heavy spring rains, a June 10 tornado, and utility shortages at project start.
The Carey Exempted Village School District Wyandot County Ohio will sell at Carey High School on August 31 1939 at 8 30 p m refunding notes totaling 2970 28 dollars dated September 1 1938 and 5463 28 dollars dated December 1 1938 with 2 percent rate not exceed 4 percent annually. Bids may specify different rates and must include a certified check equal to 1 percent of the note amount.
Notice to fiduciaries heirs and creditors that Winford J Ogg as administrator filed a schedule of debts for Elsie Jane Ogg deceased. Hearing set for August 25 1939 at 9 a.m. in the Court of Common Pleas Probate Division Wyandot County Ohio. Exceptions to the schedule must be filed five days before hearing.
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