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More on Fostoria 1944 Sale of Old
Bank Building Completed
Article by Gene Kinn
R/t March 27,
2004
An
agreement for the sale of the old First National Bank building, on the northwest
corner of Main and Center Streets, known as the Emerine building, has been
completed. Andrew Emerine announced today (No. 24, 1944) the
deal, which will be closed as soon as the necessary papers can be made ready, is
one of the largest real estate transactions in Fostoia in many
years.
The
Midwest Realty Management company, Dayton,is the purchasing agent and it is
understood that the consideration is slightly less than $60,000.
The
Emerine building was constructed by the late Andrew Emerine Sr., about 1890 and
housed the First National bank for 44 years, Shortly before the building was
completed, it was damaged considerably by fire and much of the interior had to
be rebuilt.
The
large store,, North of the banking offices, originally was occupied by the A.
Weaver and Sons dry goods store. The store also utilized the second and
third floors of the building..
At the
time the building was constructed, Fostoria had three banks, First National at
100 N. Main, Foster and Company at 200 S. Main and the Mechanics Savings Bank
company at 123 S Main.
Early
advertisements of the First National Bank listed. A. Emerine, president' William
Ash, vice president; Alonzo Emerine, cashier and A. E. Mergenthaler, assistant
cashier.
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Former
Fostoria on Broadway
From R/t March 27,
2004
Article by Gene
Kinn
Arlene
Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz Anderson, North Vine Street, who has
been playing the part of Hetty in the Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl, this week
took over the role of Phoebe, one of the Applegate daughters. Miss
Anderson, in being chose for this more important role, replaced Miss Carol
MacFarlane, who has returned to the west coast to resume work in
pictures.
Arlene
is a graduate of Fostoria High School in 1942 and a former voice pupil of Myron
E. Barnes of Tiffin.
Bloomer
Girl is now playing at the Shubet Theater, New York city. A feminist
crusade against the hoop skirt of 1861 provides the plot for this bright musical
comedy hit. The production has style and tremendous charm. The
score of the play is excellent and the costumes and scenery are lovely.
The play is a smash hit and is destined for a long New York run.. Life magazine
of November 6 carried many pictures of this production.
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Local Soldier
Trapped in Nazi Cross-Fire
From R/t March 27,
2004
Article by Gene
Kinn
Trapped
in an armored car, between a Nazi cross-fire near Liege, Belgium, Sergeant Edwin
E. Russell, 21 formerly of 436 Columbus Avenue, was wounded in the left arm by a
rifle bullet. He is now recovering at the United States Army general
hospital in England.
"Sgt.
Russell is recovering rapidly and his condition is satisfactory," said his ward
surgeon, Lieutenant E. A. Maxwell of Carthage, New York.
He said
Russell was one of the first American soldiers to enter Paris after it was
liberated by the French forces.
Sgt.
Russell was wounded when his armored car ran into a German trap. He was
picked up by the medical soldiers soon after he was shot. Earlier he
received a slight shrapnel wound of the head during the St. Lo
campaign.
Russell's wife, Jayne, lives at the Fostoria address. He is a former
employee of the Electric Auto Lite Spark Plug company. He entered the Army
in January, 1942
From R/t March 20, 2004 A letter, excerpted here, was received
by Mrs. Robert Young, Springville Avenue, from her
son, Maurice L. Young S1/C U.S. Navy, who now is stationed
on the west coast. Maurice, a former Fostoria Daily
Review carrier, has made four trips to Europe and
has been assigned to the amphibious forces in the
Pacific. Enemy POW's working locally concerns
American Legion
John B. Rogers is the talk of the town in Hollywood From R/t December 27,
2003
Article By Gene
Kinn
John B.
Rogers, president and founder of the John B. Rogers Producing Company, Fostoria,
received considerable publicity recently in an article appearing in the
Hollywood, California Citizen-News.
A
column in the paper, "Geller Gossip," written by Amy Keith Carroll, concerns
happenings at Geller's Workshop, formerly Max Reinhardt's studio, now owned by
Jack Geller, formerly of Fostoria. It reads as follows:
"America's super-director of plays and pageants--the man who has done more than
any other to stimulate this country's participation in theatrical life, is
visiting in Hollywood."
"In
this land of production experts, where simultaneous production of a dozen films
in a studio is an achievement, John B. Rogers, who has organized, managed,
produced and directed at least 20,000 plays and pageants by and for Americans,
has been something of a sensation for forty years. As president of the
John B. Rogers Producing Company, in Fostoria, Ohio, he had a pre-war staff of
125 directors. He has handled, by proxy, the details of as many as 1,000
plays, pageants and public celebrations a year for an entertainment-hungry
public.
"From
New York to Hollywood, where he put on the Will Rogers Memorial; from Mobile,
Alabama to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he has helped Americans express
themselves.
"There
was nothing amateur, but the cast in the handling of these great shows.
The National Antietam Celebration, the director-general of which, for the Rogers
Company, was Jack Geller, now executive director of Hollywood's Geller Theater,
focused national attention on the anniversary of the Civil War
Conflict.
"World
WarII halted Rogers' plans for a great
Pan-American goodwill tour with a pageant dedicated to peace in the Americas.
That would be a fitting task for the largest production company in the
world.
"John
B. Rogers' post-war plan? Well. he says, ' we are waiting now for the end
of the war and meantime, our sewing machines and other equipment are busy with
war service. We have a vast amount of scenery and props, thousands of
scripts--in fact, everything needed for successful production. When the
war is over, we shall be ready for the next step. Americans are talented"
they love to appear in their own shows.
"Meanwhile, I am much interested in what I see of the training for stage and
screen here at Geller Theater Workshop. It is astonishing to find such
excellent skill both in youth and adults. They learn to put things across
in fine fashion. It would make our work much easier if there were many
such schools across the country.'
"John
Rogers is a veteran of thousands of productions with their myriad
details...their headaches. His kindly, easy-going nature is probably
responsible for the fact that he can ' take it.' With all his experience with
human nature, he still smiles."
Local woman has a part in Norman Rockwell's art From R/t Sept. 27, 2003 Article by Gene Kinn ------------------------ Jean Henry, daughter of Mrs. E.R. Pillars, North Union Street, is aiding Norman Rockwell, noted American artist, whose paintings are used for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post, it was revealed today. The Fostorian is doing photography and line lettering for the artist, at Arlington Vermont. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Captured Japanese two-man Submarine on Display From R/t Sept. 27, 2003 Article By Gene Kinn ------------------- Japan's unsuccessful secret weapon, the captured two-man suicide submarine, which participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, is now on a nation-wide fund raising tour for, "Bundles for America, Inc." will be exhibited in Fostoria Tuesday July 4, 1944 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., on Main Street near Center Street. The vessel is 81 feet long 6 feet in diameter and weights seventeen and a half tons. It is mounted on a standard diesel truck and trailer. The sub and its officer were captured after it grounded on a reef near the Isle of Oahu. No trace was found of the second man, the mechanic, so it is assumed he drowned. The officer was four feet three inches tall and weighed less than ninety pounds, spoke good English, but claimed he had never been in the United States, the Philippine or the Hawaiian Islands. When captured, he was wearing shorts, side arm and Samurai sword. Bundles for America, Inc., is a home front organization which participates in programs caring for families of serviceman as well as servicemen within our own borders. The United States Navy prepared the captured submarine for this tour by cutting portholes along each side and attaching steps and catwalks so that the public might view the interior. For this privilege, a nominal admission is charged - 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for servicemen, servicewomen and school children. Mixed Ball Season this Year (1944) in
Fostoria
Local Lad Playing Ball in Elmira, N.Y. From R/t July 12, 2003 Article by Gene Kinn George Rader. former Fostoria baseballer, is on his way to baseball fame, a communication from the Elmira, N.Y. baseball team indicates. The local lad, who joined the club earlier in the month, is assured of a starting spot when the club opens against Williamsport, Pa. on May 3, 1944. He will go at shortstop. George writes that Elmira has a "swell playing field and you can tell my friends that I'll be putting Fostoria on the baseball map" Note; George was team Captain of the 1938 Fostoria High School Baseball team. coached by John Rolfes. In picture below.George is in the first row second from the left. 
From R/t
June 21, 2003
Article by Gene
Kinn
Local teacher
saves youngster life
Little Larry Snyder, four and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Snyder, 311 W. Jackson St. owes his life to Charles Zumpft, a Lowell School
teacher, whose presence of mind and quick thinking resulted in the rescue of
the child from the cold waters of Pelton quarry, North Countyline Street,
shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr.
Zumpft and several members of his class in photography had gone to the quarry
earlier in the afternoon, to work on a class project. They had
noticed two pre-school age youngsters playing near the shallow portion of the
quarry.
The
class group was 60 to 75 feet from the scene when one of the youngsters, Gary
Heiser, five and one-half years old, dashed up screaming that his playmate,
Larry snyder, had fallen into the quarry from the high stone pier which juts
out into the water.
Mr.
Zumpft ran toward the high bank, removing his heavy clothing as he ran.
He dropped over the ledge to the water surface and waded in to water waist
deep to where the Snyder child was struggling.
He
removed the youngster and took him to the nearby home of Ray Patterson, 846
North Countyline St. Later the child was taken t his parents home,
apparently none the worse for the experience.
Local instructor
takes post as BGSU swimming coach
Al
Sawdy, former Fostoria High school physical education instructor and trainer
of the Redmen athletic teams, will assume his new duties next Monday, as the
swimming instructor and athletic trainer at Bowling Green State university,
President Frank J. Prout announced today, Sawdy, has been serving in a
similar capacity at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he also has been
assisting in the CDT Army Aviation program,
Sawdy
was graduated from Michigan Norman college in 1931 and was appointed a member
of the faculty of Fostoria high school, where he served until 1941 when he
resigned to go to the Detroit Lions professional football team as a trainer...
He served two seasons there, with two former Fostoria high coaches, Bill
Edward's and Dugan Miller.
Sawdy
has a wide experience including director of the swimming program at Fort Knox
in the summers of 1932 and 1933, water front director at Limberlost Camp in
LaGrange Ind., in summers of 1934 to 1938 and manager of the Fostoria swimming
pool in the summers of 1939 and 1940.
Wagner family
sends five sons to war
From R/t June
7,2003
Article
by Gene Kinn
Four
sons in the service and another about to be inducted within a few days is the
wartime contribution of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wagner 320 W Lytle St., parents of
eight sons and two daughters.
Pvt.
Marlowe Wagner, 24, has been in the service the longest. He is somewhere
overseas and has been in the army since October 16, 1942.
Pvt.
Kenneth H. Wagner, 20, the youngest of the quartet, has been in the service
since July 25, 1943 and is stationed in India.
Pvt.
Burton Wagner, 28, has been in the service since November 13, 1943. He
is stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Burlin James Wagner was examined on February 21 and reports for induction at
Findlay March 24.
Delbert Leroy Wagner lives in Zanesville He has recently been
classified 1-A and took his blood test preliminary to taking the pre-induction
examination.
A
daughter, Mrs. Roy Susor and her husband, who farm during the summer, work in
a defense plant. So does the father.
With
the exception of the youngest daughter Joan, a student at
Fostoria high school - (later, Mrs. Max Fleming) and Mrs. Wagner,
who keeps house, all of the Wagners as well as their son-in-law, are either in
active military service or work in defense plants.
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Strange things
happen in Wartime
Article by Gene
Kinn
Strange things happen in war--and many are the stories of strange reunions,
under strange conditions -- but Fostoria has "one for the
book."
A
father and his son, members of diferent branches of service, met on the beach
of Bougainville Island during the early stages of the invasion of that Jap
stronghold by American forces.
Lt.
Richard C. Kuhn, U.S. Marine Corps and his father, Cheif Petty Officer George
D. Kuhn chief of chiefs of his company of Sea Bees, U.S. Navy are the two
gentlemen involved.
On
this particular occasion, when Marine Lieutenant Richard Kuhn went ashore, he
found that his dad had beat him to the punch. Chief George Kuhn went in
with the first wave of invaders and was on hand to greet his son when he
lannded.
Lieutenant "Dick" is now home, spending a leave with his mother, Mrs, Elma
Kuhn, 820 N. Countyline St., and has plenty of praise for the Sea Bees and
even admits that, "they're so good, they might embarrass the
Marines."
Chief
Kuhn is a brother to W.D. "Bid" Kuhn, 205 Elm St.
From
R/t May 3, 2003
Article
by Gene Kinn
Families pet hen "is quite a pet"
You know the story about Mary and her little Lamb. "Everywhere
that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. "You've heard of
pet dogs accompanying their young masters to school. but Fostoria's
President of Council Terry M. Segner has one that
can beat all of them.
The Segners have a hen. Just a plain old hen, who is
quite a pet, but who manages to lay her daily egg as
part of her all-out war effort.
Thursday, Mr. Segner and some of his railroad associates
were discussing the possibility of being winners of a friendly
drawing for the stray hen which had wandered on the premises.
"What hen?" inquired Mr. Segner.
"The one outside your office." came the reply.
Whereupon Mr. Segner looked out the window and behold there
was a hen which resembled his pet in appearance. He
went outdoors, called to "biddy," who responded and
followed him into the office. The drawing was off.
He verified the hen's absence from the Segner promises by
a phone call to his home.
That evening,an associate asked him if it wee a practice for
him to haul his hen on the radiator apron of his car.
Now Segner knows why people stared at his car as he drove to
work.
This
from one of Terry's daughters; (year 2003)
I
remember a newspaper article about the hen at the time,
entitled
"Biddy Follows Terry to Work." Dad had a 1936 Chevy then which had a thin flat front bumper which curved backward at the ends. Biddy always perched there for the night in the garage. And, it seems that she was able to "hang tight" for the entire trip that particular day. Biddy was a plump Rhode Island Red who had been nutured by me from a purple colored easter chick. Max (my sister) was in Service then, but I'm
sure that mother sent her a newspaper clipping of the
event. Biddy's
longivity was mostly due to her daily egg production
ability, but she
was also a family pet who would follow anyone anywhere.
I always had to
shut her up or she would follow me to school or the
Saturday afternoon
matinee at the State theater....or anywhere else
I might be going.
Ruth (Seger) Gilson
FHS Class of 1949
From R/t April 12, 2003 (Article
by Gene Kinn)
Hays
Taxi Company to Move
After 16 years in the Hays Hotel lobby, the Hays Taxi Company
has moved to new quarters at 108 W.
North Street.
Wayne
A. Cline and Homer E. Cline owners, said today that a waiting
room and office are being equipped at the new address.
The name of the firm will be retained.
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(Note)
Wayne came to Fostoria in 1924, being transferred
from the Ohio Power
Co. in Shelby, Ohio. While working at the local Ohio Power Station, he leased his automobile to a local Taxi Co. and drove
part time for them. In 1926 he and his brother Homer
acquired the local Taxi Co. They continued providing
24 hour Taxi service to
Fostoria meeting all daily incoming
passenger trains. (33 at one time) and transferring passengers,
(Baggage Trunks, Freight, Coffins etc.) to other local depots, to catch an outgoing
train.
Those having layovers
would be transported to the Hays Hotel for the night, or to another
local
overnight
facility.
In 1945 the company was acquired by Blaine Hummel, a local car dealer. The Cline Brothers
had operated the 24 hour local
Taxi service for
19 years.
Wayne died shortly after the company was acquired by Mr. Hummel,
and Homer found employment at the Autolite Sparkplug.
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From
R/t April 12, 2003
(Article
by Gene Kinn)
Locals
Petition removal of Heavy Truck traffic from Main Street
A petition bearing the signatures of 135 Fostoria citizens,
taxpayers and Main Street Businessman, asking for the removal
and discontinuation of heavy, through motor freight traffic
over congested, narrow Main Street, will be presented to members
of City Council at their meeting in City Hall tonight (Feb.1,
1944)
Andrew Emerine, president of the First National Bank, who
will present the petition to council, said today that it is
not an attempt to prevent any car or truck from passing through
Main Street, where the occupants desire to make a stop for
any reason, but the request is directed to the heavy tow truck
"trains" hauling saw logs, bailed straw and cattle and other
trains of trucks which stop for red lights only and are a
menace to life and property.
Mr. Emerine said
that 95 percent
of the Main Street businessmen and 99 percent
of the people of Fostoria are in favor of the correction to
this grave error in routing and it is sincerely hoped that
immediate action may be taken to divert these heavy freighters
from the downtown
business section of Fostoria.
Tonight's meeting will be unique in that for the first time
in years, council will meet three times in February, the shortest
month of the year.
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From
R/t April 12, 2003
(Article
by Gene Kinn)
WWll Italian Prisoners
Wages Higher than Local Labors.
Replying
to protests
by Fostoria Labor groups, Col. Harold
Woolley, commanding officer at Camp Perry, today asserted
that the use of Italian war prisoners, and the rate paid
to them at a Fostoria fertilizer plant, are determined by
the War Manpower Commission.
CIO
and AFL labor leaders charged that prisoners of war, transported
daily to the Fostoria plant, are receiving better wages
than local laborers because they receive long rest time.
Officials
of the Baugh and Sons Fertilizer plant in Fostoria the United
States Employment Service office in Fostoria and the Area
War Manpower Commission office in Toledo, refused to comment
today when representatives of the Fostoria Review-Times
contacted them regarding the statements made by Col. Woolley.
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