Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio • 6

Hold It! Reporter Jim Bishop One Head OPINION PAGE Friday, December 10, 1976 Imwter Caale-toette Lessons To Be Learned HOW DOES the levy defeat at nearby Groveport-Madison School District relate to Fairfield County? In many ways. THERE ARE lessons to be learned from it for everyone associated with area schools from school boards to administrators, from parents to non-parent taxpayers. AND, IT is not inconceivable that there would be a physical relationship. GROVEPORT, despite the second levy-defeat this week, should open in January; but it wil have to get money from somewhere if it opens next September. Perhaps the levy will pass by then.

If not, the district's 6,900 students will undoubtedly be assigned to other districts and there are several in this county clpse enough to be considered. BASIC to persistent voter rejection anywhere is an economic factor higher Oluo lje5terdaij Wo Alt y0ur oneu 5 By Associated Press HISTORICAL often replaces whatever an Ohio River city might lack in the way of physical beauty. Sudh a city is Martins Ferry in Belmont County, which escaped fame as Ohio's earliest settlement only by a narrow margin and then perhaps by definition. A GOVERNMENT-sponsored writers project back in the depression days noted that Martins Ferry "is pushed against the river by the hills. Short cross streets connect its thoroughfares at different levels with squat brick-and-frame houses standing along them in a drab series.

The mood and appearance of Martins Ferry is that of a steel and coal city." BUT MARTINS Ferry is much more than that. It has a proud heritage, one which need not take a back seat even to Marietta, founded in 1788 and officially counted as the state's first settlement. Squatters' settlements, which were no legal, were not recognized. SQUATTERS living along the river in the early 1780s formed a settlement known as Sylvia Porter Lost Holiday Baggage WOODENSHOES Eichorn died. He was 85, which is pretty good mileage for a flat tire.

Eichorn was a cop. He had the acumen of a cigar store Indian. Years ago I wrote disparagingly about him and he sent a thank you note. He wasn't smart enough to put in a squad car. The captain of the old Fourth Precinct in Brooklyn placed him on house duty, which consisted of mopping floors, polishing brass cuspidors, emptying wastebaskets, and running to the corner beanery for eight coffees three with five without.

Woodenshoes was two years from safe retirement and a pension when he spoke out of turn. Six hoodlums hid in a B.M.T. subway line men's room at the Avenue station at 4 a.m. The lady cashier, who was reading the morning News under a shaded light, saw them. A work train came along to pick up the coins in the turnstiles.

The young man with the key was studying at Delehanty Institute to become a policeman. He got off, inserted a key, and opened the box. THE SIX KIDS WERE on him like frightened tigers. One had a gun. The cop-to-be said.

"You guys crazy? There's only a couple of bucks There was an explosion and a flash of light. The lady cashier screamed. The kids grabbed the change bag and ran. They had $5.95, slightly less than a buck a man. The first detective on the scene took a look and got sick to his stomach.

The dead man was engaged to his sister. Brooklyn police headquarters, as always, put "every available man on the job." The borough commander held a conference of brass in the Fourth Precinct. There were no clues except a size 7 brown Warner hat which was found next to the turnstile. It was the most common size of the most common color of the most common make of hat. THE CHIEF SPOKE of shaking down informers and neighborhood gangs.

Wooden-shoes approached with sandwiches. "Wouldn't it be easier." he said, "to find out who fits that hat?" The brass looked up. They saw a big fat man with gray skin and a shoe-brush haircut. Two injectors laughed. The chief didn't.

He was grim. "Here," he said, shoving te hat across the table. "From now on until this thing is closed, you're assigned to find out who belongs to this hat. You are now detached from the 4th and reassigned to Brooklyn homicide." Woodenshoes beamed. He thoueht he had said something intelligent.

The ''autumn vinHs had stripped the leaves from Pr''vct Pa-k flid the snows were crurrchy in as Woodenshoes walked eirht hours a day looking for vnnig men. HE WANDFUFD everywhere from Coney I1pnrl to Street. rue subways, the elevators. sidewalks. We buses, the courts, the office Often he shooed the hat.

on a 'head and the young man tred to ourh h'm. Eichorn learned to d'snlav his Doliee Wfe ouick'v. Cods in the Fourth wetoi hm two in with the hat and tey 'inched. Tiere ws an early soring and re Doners niavpd th? first four at home. Eichorn' looked' for your? fellows at the He was growing' old and tired.

His wife said that if only he had kent his big meu'h shut he would still have been a reliab'e gooher. One day he wa'ked on the gras Prospect Park where it says: "Don't Walk on the Grass." He saw a bare head on a park bench with his back to Woodenshoes. HE SNEAKED UP behind it and dropped the hat on the head. The young man froze. He was silent for a moment.

Then he whispered, "Okay. Okay. Don't shoot." The cop was so surprised that he forgot to put the cuffs on the prisoner. Nobody at the Fourth could believe it. Woodenshoes had actually found the one man out of a million wearing that hat who owned it.

The homicide guys had no trouble breaking him down. They had trouble making him stop. That night, Brooklyn headquarters had all six hoodlums. The trial in Kings County Court was as casual as a rubber stamp. Two confessed to the deeds of six.

The jury sent four to the electric chair. The press called it the "Nickel Murder." The executioner was paid $600 for killing four guys, whereas they got $5.95 for murdering one. It's all a matter of arithmetic. Woodenshoes the dummy retired. The police commissioner swore in 700 new cops in the policy gymnasium.

In their presence, he pinned a medal on Eichorn, "IN YOUR LIFE work," he intoned, "you are going to learn that it is persistence that pays off. I don't know of a nobler example than Officer Eichorn." Staton Jlie Situation Michael Staron Screaming Ourselves Hoarse living costs, taxes, and utility bills. Few have any control over these items, but local school funds still must be approved by voters, and they often react negatively because of an economic crunch. STILL, much misunderstanding is allowed to fester over school financing. Many don't understand it.

Many don't try. Schools often do a poor job of explaining their finances, but often are never queried until a crisis develops. MANY average citizens think local boards and administrators have carte blanche to spend however they see fit and that many expenditures are for items they deem unnecessary. THE TRUTH IS, local schools are mandated from state and federal bureaucracies on how they spend and, all-too-often, on what they spend, their money. Norristown on the Martins Ferry site.

In 1795, seven years after the government had given him a tract of land there in return for surveying services, Absalom Martin laid out a town named Jefferson. WHEN THE seat for Belmont County was placed elsewhere, Martin bought back the lots already sold and voided his town plat. However, settlers persisted in arriving and a ferry was established and continued to operate. BY THE EARLY 1830s large numbers of hogs, sheep and cattle were being ferried across the river for shipments to eastern markets. In 1835 Ebenezer Martin, son of Absalom, replatted the town and named it Martinsville.

Because the ferry was owned by him, the town became known as Martins Ferry. WILLIAM DEAN Howells was born there in 1837 and several of Zane Grey's early books have Martins Ferry and vicinity for their locale. The area is crowded with historical places of interest. THE AMERICAN man and woman are being overpowered by external environmental factors, and taxation is only the top of the iceberg. They realize they have little control over those factors, and what control they do have can be summed up by the simple word: No.

More and more they are telling their government leaders no and are voting no. It is no surprise that most Americans are neurotic in one way or another. In a society characterized more and more by alienation what is more surprising is that we are not more neurotic than we already find ourselves to be. AMERICANS ARE in an "attacking" mood. Somewhere, someplace, somehow, the steady drain of their income must stop, or the American family itself will like New York City be in danger of defaulting.

The steady drift of high inflation coupled with rising taxes cannot continue indefinitely. The system will crack. Could there ever be another revolution in this country? Does the thought of yet another revolution sound inconceivable? IN 1976 A NEW revolution does sound incredible, but by 1986 when inflation is at 20 per cent and peoples' paychecks have been swallowed by taxation and nobody can afford a decent home, then Americans may no longer be looking through Alice's Looking Glass at revolution. I don't consider myself a radical revolutionary, but I do have the commonsense to look at a deteriorating condition facing middle and low income Americans and know the United States cannot stay healthy if the condition continues. AN ACT of 1852 by the Ohio Legislature limited women and children under 18 to a 10-hour day, the sole regulation of its kind in that period except for a provision forbidding employment of children under 12 in mines, enacted in 1874, Otherwise these were no restrictions on employment of women and children.

A 10-HOUR day for men in Ohio was established by law in 1852 but only where it was not otherwise specified in the contract. After the Civil War agitation for an eight-hour day began and continued intermittently for many years. VICE presidents born in Ohio but who became residents of other states were Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, 1885-1889: Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, 1905-1909, and Charles G.

Dawes of Illinois, 1925-1929. Heading home for the holidays? DON'T be on the losing end of lost, bashed, or smashed luggage and think that because you have escaped to date, you're immune to the possibility of your baggage being crushed or ruined. DON'T another 1976 statistic among the 3 million passengers on domestic flights who by yearend will have been left up in the air while their luggage took a walk or was mishandled after their flight had landed. The total is small compared to 200 million passengers, but it's still far too big. DON'T ignore the precautions recommended by baggage handling experts to minimize the risks of lost or bashed luggage.

The chances that your luggage will go astray or awry increase when your bags are transferred from one airline to another. A full 40 per cent of problems occur on these inter-connections at which point there can be as many as 10 handlings. The airlines are trying to tackle this problem with automated baggage systems in their terminals and containerization has come with the wide-bellied jets. But while this has helped, it has drawbacks. Rough handling is a hot issue.

So are soft-sided plastic and fabric bags. Cheaply constructed molded luggage is another problem, for plastic cracks at the low temperatures of high altitude storage space. To cut down on baggage stolen from the luggage claim area, the airlines are now enforcing their strongest claim check review system ever. Regulations now require you to carry your name and address outside the luggage. BUT THERE'S PLENTY more that you do.

Specifically: Tag each of your bags inside as well as outside. If you don't have identification tags handy, your airline will supply them at the check-in counter. Note your destination and length of stay inside the luggage. Jot down and carry in your purse or wallet the type, color and name of your luggage. Carry your valuables, cameras and medicines plus all other items not easily replaceable in your own tote bag.

GET TO THE terminal early if you are checking in odd-size Christmas gift packages, skiing equipment, etc. Many of these items must be hand-carried to the hold; they' can't be put on a conveyor. Never forget to lock your luggage. If your baggage, is lost, report this at once. The bags still may be aboard the plane.

In any event, even if you are in a hurry, take the time to report before you leave the airport. Your failure to do so may result in the carrier's denial of your claim even if the baggase is not found, warns the Civil Aeronautics Board. See that airline personnal fill out a "loss or damage" report form on your luggage. You will be asked to describe the bag. its contents, dates items were purchased, original cost, value when lost.

If the carrier cannot locate your baggage within three days, you will be sent claim forms which you must file in 45 days. Return the forms as soon as possible to exoedite processing. YOU MAY BE asked to substantiate your claim with sales receints. Don't count on full payment for such items as clothing. Settlement of claims s'wu'd take four to six weeks but during the Christmas period, settlement may take longer.

Don't surrender your basrgage claim check until you get your back. 20 The Fairfield Garden the Junior Garden Club Report damaged baggage as soon as you discover it. Airlines will not honor claims if you wait too long (until you get home, for instance) to report them. Airlines will pay for damage (handles torn off) that could have been prevented. They will not be responsible for breakage of fragile items in your luggage or damage due to overpacking.

If you have off-sized or delicate packages, ask the airline for boxes which may help insure safer handling. As for the carrier's liability, the maximum liability on domestic flights is $300 per fare-paying passenger. Liability on international flights is based on weight, not value. The carrier will pay you based on its assessment of your loss from $1 to $500. The CAB does not tell airlines how much to pay to settle a claim.

FOR PROTECTION, you might purchase extra insurance by declaring excess value and paying the fee for coverage on check-in. P. til er3f: waive Dayton Schools COURT-ORDERED desegregation of Dayton schools in this city of 243,000 should receive a grade of A-minus or B-plus for success, according to Robert J. Kegerreis, chairman of a monitoring group. "If you grade the whole thing, the school system itself did very well, the students did beautifully and the community performed magnificently," said Kegerreis, president of Wright State University.

THE SCHOOL district, with 40 per cent black students, was ordered by a federal judge to bus this fall more than 13,000 of the system's 41,000 students to achieve a racial mixture that varies in each school by less than 15 per cent from 52 per cent white and 48 per cent black. Kegerreis' committee, the 53-member Dayton Citizens Advisory Board, was appointed by Judge Carl B. Rubin to monitor the implementation or desegregation and assist in working with community groups to bring about peaceful integration. The committee is midway through writing its report, Kegtrreis said. AMONG THE recommendations completed is one that wil) suggest that new teachers hired undergo training to understand some of the tensions involved in court-ordered desegregation.

Also, the committee would like to see the school system buy its buses, which are now leased. TRANSPORTATION has been a problem through the three months. Students unaccustomed to taking the bus and occasional late buses and breakdowns were the main source of snafus. In October, a few buses were pelted with rocks. "These little things keep coming up, but overall I'm happy," said John Maxwtll, schools superintendent.

"THATfS NOT TO say nothing's gone wrong. We've had things bounce here and there. There have been fights and some weapons found in the schools. But I expect the fights to continue, they always have. Years Ago Club with entertained the members of a Christmas party at the Mr.

Christmas PEOPLE ARE SICK of taxes. They are sick of local, state and federal taxes eating up nearly half of their paychecks. That sentiment came forth at a recent Pickerington Council meeting when village residents voiced opposition to a proposed one per cent income tax. Although those in attendance were only a handful, it's safe to assume their sentiments are the sentiments, of many others who make their homes in Pickerington. While the constant whine of people who complain about taxation may be a bit tedious to councilmen who may think they are fortresses under seige, these people do understand the pulse of most Americans today.

AT THAT COUNCIL meeting those four or five people said the Groveport-Madison school levy would definitely be defeated, and they were right on target with the prediction. But what can be done about the taxation predicament the average American finds himself in today? He and his wife both work to just make ends meet. He finds his dollar will buy less goods than 10 years ago, and knows in 10 years it will buy even less. Yet he knows that while his purchasing power will continue to decline, the amount of taxes taken out of his paycheck will climb. He feels like a lone man marooned on a melting ice cap.

He is screaming himself hoarse crying for help, but the vocal exercise is not stopping the steady melting of his ice world. Lancaster Eagle-Gazette If h't for PalrfleU Comfy Wt'ra for A consolidation of th lonocitor Foojlo ttabliih4 ItW and Itt Loneosfor Oarotto, stobliihod 1S20. In farad ot Stcend Clou Mottor March 11, 19M Lan-esitor, Ohia Pott Off let undir th Act of Marcn 1(79; Sicsnd Clan pottaga paid at Lancaitar, Ohio. Published ovonings, axctpt Sunday at 131 Wtst Chostnut Lancaitar, Ohio 43130. Richard E.

Foreman, Publisher-General Manager Rao Jomisor, Editor Mn.ibar Audit Bureau at Circulation, Ohio Now rjpor Allocation, and th American Nawspopar Pub-shor's Allocation, th Associated PrejsSi UPI Tola-photos. Dally II eanti, by carrier We weakly including Holiday ooks, by meter route 14.15 monthly. Wail Subscriptions in Fairfield County One Year 00 00. months 115.30. Three Months M.2S.

Mail Subscription eutilde Foirtuld County-One year 140 00. tlx Months 121.00. Three Months $11.55. Mail Subscriptions an pay able In edvanca and the Caala-Gazett resarval the right to adjust rates durlrsj subscription period bV (lying 30 days notice. 40 Years Ago Today's Good News "And If It seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, In whrwe land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15 The choice calls for haste, surrender and service.

God has a plan for vour life and you will not be happy until He is allowed to proceed with it. Turn it all over to Him today! Children's Home. Advisors were Miss Florence Wilson, Mrs. 30 Years Ago Under the direction of Ralph McConagha, musical supervisor assisted by the grade teachers, the pupils of Millersport elementary school were to present a Christmas operetta In the school auditorium. Title of the operatta was "When Toys Come To Life." Members of the WSCS of the Carroll Methodist Church had a banquet for the Youth Choir after rehearsal in appreciation of the services they were rendering.

The Rev. Roy Standiford, pastor of the Evangelical United Bretheren Church was the after-dinner speaker, using as his subject, "The Garden of God." Lancaster High School's football squad named Jack Boertsler and Kenny Shouldis as coaplains of the 1947 football team. The anouncement was made at the football dinner by Athletic Director Barney Francis. O.C. Stroup.

music supervisor of Berne Union School attended the Ohio State Musical Educators Association convention at Springfield with headquarters at the Shawnee Hotel, The main speaker was Bliss Wiant, head of the musical school, Peking, China. 10 Years Aco and Mrs. Harold Anders were hosts at a family dinner at their home on Rt. 6 Lancaster! This was to be an annual affair, held each year on the Sunday preceding Christmas. A lighted Christmas tree, polnsettlas, and red candles decorated the family room and the table was also appointed in keeping with the season.

Enjoying trie event were several people. Next year hostesses for the gathering were to be Miss Mary and Miss Gladys Snonebarger. The Lancaster Hammond Organ Society held its December meeting at Shaws Chart Room. Dinner was followed by a Christmas program at the Mumaugh Memorial. The program was highlighted by two performances (solo) including Mrs.

Edgar Everhart at the piano followed by Mrs, Ralph Westernbarger at the organ. Selected Christmas poems were read by Wayne Montague with organ background music by Mrs, Everhart. Albert Russell delighted the group with a hilarious presentation of his award winning talk, "The Story of My Life A Born Loser." The anual Christmas party for the Bereans of St. Peter's Lutheran Church was arranged in the form of a luncheon at Hotel Lancaster. Candles glowed in green glittered glasses and holly was used in table decorations, Mrs.

Lowell Ricketts gave the invocation. Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Sigmt fraternity was to be the host at its anual New Year's dance at the Elks Home in Lancaster, The planning committee had already signed George McGarvey and his band to play at the dance. Dancing was to begin at 10 p.m. Clyde Vorm, host chairman, was assisted by Mack Abbott and Paul Rider in arranging the dance plans. Dr.

Alden Brush, past president of the Ohio Dental traced the origin of dentisty back through history, and stressed dental care in his address to the Lancaster Rotarians. Walker P. Tracy and Dr. Phil Floyd comprised the committee for the meeting. Elected officers of the Daughters of Honor Sunday School class at the First Methodist Church were: president, Mrs, Gertrude Kern; vice president, Mrs.

Carmin Bitler; secretary, Mrs. Carl Alklre. treasurer, Miss Mabel Evans. Appearing at the Lyric Theatre in Lancaster were Ed mund Lowe and Elissa Landi in "Mad Holiday." Playing gt the Liberty Theatre was "Yellow Cargo," starring Conrad Nigel and Eleanor Hunt. Little children in Lancaster, were getting their homemade glides and skates ready in hopes a snow would fall and create a blanket of white for Christmas.

Weathermen couldn't predict the chances of snow two weeks In advance, but could Jiiiy recommend that children keep their fingers crossed. waiter btuart, Mrs. Wade Cozad. Mrs. E.R.

Jewell, Mrs. Fred Lahrmer, and Mrs. Norwood Ramey. Warren Allen Ticknor. 234 Lake in his letter to Santa Claus, asked for one toy, an electric train.

Ray Evans was to serve as chairman for the West School Carnival to be held in the early spring. Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church Senior Choir sang the Christmas wiatata, "Chimes of the Holy Night," William George was choir director and Mrs. Charles Roger, organist. Soloists were Clara Ruth Moore, Alice Yeazel, Donna Lowry, and Robert liary. Sigma Circle, OCCL, had purchased living room furniture to provide better quarters for the girls at the Fairfield County Children's Home, according to Mrs, Thomas Wadworth, circle president.

The project was under the direction or Mrs. Ralph Wentz, Mrs. Jack Kitsmiller, and Mrs, Bert McClain. Llnda Miller. Liberty Union High School senior, was selected band queen for the annual party of the Liberty lUnion band in the cafeteria..