Lemon Township incumbents sweep to victory in election
Incumbents in Lemon Township won big as Wayne Ludwig narrowly beat William Day for the second Board of Trustees seat. Henry McLaughlin led the ticket with 907 votes, while 31 percent turnout produced a decisive defeat of a proposed one mill operating levy for three fire departments. Charles Reuthe, Wilbur Flory and Robert Matson were elected to the Township Board of Education, with Simpson and Trimble trailing. Incumbent constable Otis Cole won one of two posts. Blue Ball area votes split between Lebanon tallying. Ruth D. Martin led for the Blue Ball Local School District Board, with other unopposed candidates, and a small levy passed 16-8.
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Lemon Township
Wayne Ludwig
Board of Trustees
Ludwig
William Day
Henry McLaughlin
Threeman
Board of Eduation
Charles Reuthe
Wilbur Flory
Robert Matson
Reuthe
Flory
Matson
Victor Simpson
James Trimble
Otis Cole
Jack Deaton
Earnest Cottongim
Henry Thomas Ensor
Cottongim
Ensor
Blue Ball
Middletown
Lebanon
Blue Ball Local
Ruth D. Martin
Fred McQueen
Chester Hall
Stanley Dennis
Veteran trustee upset in Madison Township election
Albert Snider, incumbent for over two decades, was defeated by David Weikel in the Madison Township Board of Trustees race. Weikel led with 607 votes, diver and Weikel will join the three member board. In related contests, Weikel’s son Homer won, and two seats on the Madison Local School District Board of Education went to Weikel and Walter Billett. Charles Paullin topped the justice of the peace race, with two positions filled safely for him and Albert Bolling despite write ins for mayor of Trenton. Unopposed Wilbur McCray and James E. Smith won the two constableships.
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Madison Township Board of Trustees
Albert Snider
David Weikel
Weikel
Wallace Diver
Snider
Diver
Madison Township
Homer
William Billett
Madison
Billett
Charles Paullin
Justice of the Peace
Albert Bolling
Paullin
Trenton
Wilbur McCray
James E. Smith
Britain uses mail to track oil pollution oceanside
Britain plans a campaign against oil polluted beaches by dropping 10 000 plastic envelopes with postcards across a 500 mile Atlantic arc from the Bay of Biscay toward Iceland. Found cards will help the National Institute for Oceanography map currents to locate oil drift. Envelopes to be dropped by RAF planes, with multilingual cards and a payment of two shillings sixpence to finders.
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London
Britain
Atlantic
Bay of Biscay
Hebrides
Iceland
The
National Institute
Royal Air Force
Newcomers Join Trenton School Board After Election
The Trenton Board of Education will have three new members after the election. Ralph Chamberlain Stanley Kehr and Gilbert King won unofficial tallies, defeating incumbents Cecil Ash and Herbert Kelhoffer. C L Conarroe did not run again. Current members Joseph Graham and W L King remain on the board.
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Trenton
Trenton Village
St. Clair
Chamberlain
Ring
Kehr
Kelhoffer
Ash
Vincent Paul Horn
Joseph Graham
W. L. King
Large ear lobes noted in Borneo and East Africa
Encyclopedia Britannica describes ear lobes in Borneo and East Africa as often stretched to hang to the shoulder with holes large enough to pass a closed fist through.
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Borneo
East Africa
Service News: Sgt William E Long Promoted to First Class
Sgt William E Long son of Mr and Mrs Everett A Long of Ex celle has been promoted to sergeant first class. He serves with Company C 76th Tank Battalion 11th Airborne Division at Fort Campbell Kentucky. He trained at Fort Knox and Fort Benning and is now first sergeant of his company. He has six years in the Army and aims to make a career.
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William E. Long
Everett A. Long
76Th Tank Battalion
11Th Airborne Division
Ft. Cambell
Army
Long
Mc.Kinley Junio
Lemon - Monroe
Ft. Knox
Ft. Ben
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Hauselman Transportation Company
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Toledo
Detroit
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Lima
Bellefontaine
Monroe
Baltimore & Ohio
NEW York Central
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