The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 41

City i rrviiieiew hk rv7 4 Growing Community By RAY C. St'TLIFF ORRVILLE The outward signs of change since this Wayne Has Bright Future get any big city notions right away and start hiking the tax rate, voumy community was pusned. jnto the Ohio city class have THE RESIDENTS OF ORRVILLE began adjusting them-' Jt? Vlrtually invisible. seives t0 the idea of ijving a city instead of a village as long and Nickel Plate trains 8tiU tear through as three years ago. Back in 1949 before the census was taken the heart of town just like they did before.

The municipal light, i it was pretty well established through the increase in homes water and ice plant functions without any noticeable sign the demand for electric light and water connections that change and the housing shortage hasn't eased a bit. Orrville would have more than 5,000 inhabitants when Uncle Orrville became a city with sort of reluctant pride when the Sam counted noses. 1950 census showed a total of 5,183 Inhabitants. The 1940 census So the transition from village to city has been made very I listed persons in Orrville. Everybody was pleased that Orrville had made the grade as a city, although some of the property owners privately said i they hoped the Chamber of Commerce and city officials wouldn't smoothly.

For most residents, especially those who have lived here most of their lives, their pride in seeing their home town grow was tempered with hope that it would remain a friendly, helpful community where everybody knows everybody else. I The people of Orrville like their small town ways and want to keep them. ACTUALLY the only change that has been made since the official city status became ef- Orrville's first City Council meets with other city offi- Codiano, First Ward; Orrle Gresser, Fourth Ward; Robert dais In attendance Back row (left to right), Paul Howells, E. Webner, at-Iarge. Right side of table (front to back), Paul clerk of council and high school principal; Herbert Sollen- Schantz, Second Ward; Ralph E.

Herbert, Third Ward; La Vera berger, council president; Ray Lindamood, city solicitor; Fletcher, at-large. Councilman Wayde Hostetler, at-large, was Mayor J. W. Evans. Left side of table (front to back), George absent when the picture was taken.

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL (left) and Edgar Kochel. Seated are City Solicitor Ray Lindamood (left), and Commission Chairman L. E. Forrer. The Civil Service Commission in the one new government body formed in Orrville since It became a city.

Standing are Jonah Howells SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952 Army Confident Its New Tanks Will Outperform All Others Car Of Tomorrow? But Buyers Will Desigiiers Say, Dictate Its Styling Present Models Have Increased Firepower Expert Says Trend Toward Lowered Height, George W. Walker with By KENNETH NICHOLS NEIGHBORS' STORVj Practically everyone in the St. Sebastian neighborhood is proud of Ifi rila VJ1J i Ki Troop No. 378, their (mothers and their leader, Mrs. C.

H. Behrle of 378 Wildwood av. They enjoy telling the story of the girls, the mnthera and rittjLj Mrs. Behrle Nichols because it's such a nice, heartwarming story the kind that makes you a little prouder to be a human being. Perhaps the one thing about the story that Impresses the listener is the unselfishness in- 47 i.

1 I yL a. a- f----- aiAiniii n-mmi. nrn liif 'V V' 1 'f "5, XX I 1 i The T-41 light tank, made in Cleveland and tested at West Richfield, has a high velocity 76-millimeter gun. Other Orrville Rotopix section. photos in fective Jan.

1 was in the city government. After the census bureau certified last year that Orrville had moved from the village to city classification the community was divided into four wards. As a village the five members of council had been elected at-large and the mayor was chairman of council. Last Fall for the first time voters selected four ward coun-cilmen and three at-large and elected a president of council. The post of village clerk was dropped and that of clerk of council was created.

GOING UP to city classifica tion also made it necessary to form a civil service commission and begin to place appointed city employes under civil serv ice. Mayor J. W. Evans named Jonah Howells, Edgar Kochel and L. E.

Forrer to the commission. Mayor Evans is Republican but with a fine disregard for partisanship he gave the Democrats control of the commission. Howells and Forrer are Democrats and Kochel is Republican. "I picked 'em because they will do a good job regardless of what party they belong to," Mayor Evans said. Except for state and national elections party lines are not of much importance in the com munity.

MAYOR EVANS, who has lived in Orrville 40 years, is now in the first year of his third term. He was born in Akron and went to school through Central High. He came to Orr ville with his family like a lot of other residents here did, because of the Pennsylvania Railroad. His father was a railroad employe. Although the amount of Pennsylvania employment has declined in recent years there still are many railroad people living here.

Some of those who work at other points on the Pennsyl vania still make their homes in Orrville. The first cut in railroad employment came some years ago when the shops were moved away and Orrville lost its position as a division point. A year ago the last of the steam locomotives on the main line of the Chicago-Pittsburgh run gave way to Diesel motive power. That meant the end of the old roundhouse that used to service the steam engines. WHATEVER dent was made in employment by the march of progress on the railroad has been more than made up by the arrival of new Industry.

Orrville today has SO sizeable industries and more are In prospect as the active Chamber of Commerce looks around for manufacturers who want a new location. The Chamber has persuasive talking points, including good roads for trucking, excellent railroad connections both East and West and North and South, and plenty of room to expand. Industrially, the future of Orrville is exceptionally bright. THE CHAMBER of Commerce is a little touchy about the housing situation. When private builders weren't moving fast enough last year the Chamber went out and promoted a new allotment.

More than half of the lots now are sold and some new homes are started. The 30 Industries help boost Orrville's tax duplicate to $10, 000,000, a high valuation for a community of that size. The tax rate is $22 per thousand valuation and there no ln fte OKBVOUC Vsf one of his designs for the "Automobile of Tomorrow." top Army planners were still considering what to do about the tank situation. They could have used all their tools and plant facilities to turn out M-46s as fast as possible. They chose instead to strive for a better tank, parts of which already have been designed, and meanwhile produce M-40s at la moderate rat.

That Fall and Winter Army ordnance men and automobile and locomotive manufacturers worked feverishly to set up the assembly lines for tha new medium M-47 (unofficially called the Patton II) and the light T-41 Walker Bull- j0g. THE FIRST T-41 rolled off the lines at the Cadillac plant in Cleveland in March 1951. All pro duction on the M-46 at the Army Ordnance Arsenal at Detroit end- SECTION Greater Vision V' 1 1 wi 6S rir 1 her badge In dramatics, another in music ana me like. Mrs. Behrle worked hard on arranging the tea.

So it came tea time and the mothers and girls arrived, the mothers wearing knowing smiles. With the aid of Mrs. Werner, the neighborhood chair-roan of the Girl Scouts out there, the 18 mothers had raised $50 among themselves. They presented the $50 to Mrs. Behrle along with some nice words about how much they appreciated her unselfish service-like putting her car over the curb, for one thing.

The $50, of course, was to pay the Behrles' share of tha auto damage. As we said, we thought this was a good story to hear on a Sunday for, while we are no expert on religious lore, we remember reading that one is commanded to "Lqvb thy neighbor as thyself." "No, Alice Isn't home! This is her honey-hatred, Noa-eyed 105-poand sister 1 Kj CLARKE BEACH WASHINGTON UP Th Army baa iMd a lot ci tank trouble. Xrmj bmb canted that orltl-toma rapMtadlj; flung: at V. 8. tanks and tank production alnca tha Xovaaa outbreak hava con-taload aoma truth.

But thay feal tank rcquira-Manta hara bean mat wail aa or battar than might hava bcn ax-paatad eofutldering; tha tiny sums of money CongTen allotted for tank bulld-up in the postwar yeara. They now appear generally agreed that three new U. 6. tanks now In production will outperform any other known tank, enemy or Allied. They don't aay what they know, ft anything, about new developments in Russian tanks.

But they point out that the two Russian tanks well known here, the heavy Stalin III and the medium T-S4, tha one United Nations forces are bucking in Korea, are both World War II products. They say the Russians have certainly been working as hard on tanks as the U. S. and probably have models still unveiled which will far outperform those now on display. WHEN THE Communists poured Into South Korea, U.

S. tankmen were still living pretty much on World War II leftovers. To economize, Congress had allowed so little money for development that no new tanks had been built. The little money available was spent for research on new tank engines, transmissions, guns, 1 wjrreis ana so lorin. The Army was putting new type engines, transmissions and some other new developments into 800 of the World War II M-26 Persh-Ings.

This modernizing job had been started In early 1949, and the result was called the M-48 Pat-ton, a medium weighing about 48 tons. This was the sum total of "new" tanks. SO IN July 1950 the 20-ton M-24 battled the 88-ton Russian T-S4 with lad results. By mid-August, however, the Army was delivering M-4 Shermans and M-46s to Korea. Both outclassed the T-34, according to authorities Hera in tha U.

S. in July 1950 "Go ahead and have fun, Christopher! Just because you ara teaching me to fish is no reason for you to let me catch them alii DETROIT If you wanted the real low-down on the "automobile of tomorrow" you would expect to get it in the studio of a leading car stylist. But it doesn't work out that way. George W. Walker, styling consultant to the Ford Motor Co.

and widely known industrial designer, says he doesn't know what the car of 1962 will look like. "And I doubt," he said In an Interview, "that any other designer or stylist has more than an idea where current trends will extend a decade from now. Of course, it will be a distinct refinement, but it isn't on today's drafting boards. "We could build a car of today of the low, broad, turret-top type usually associated with the 'dream car" of tomorrow, but couldn't sell It. Car designing Is a matter of evolution; there Isn't anything revolutionary about It.

"Nobody knows now what materials we will have to work with a decade hence. Perhaps we will use more plastics, more aluminum or even magnesiumin designing the 1962 car." THE TREND, Walker says, is toward lowered height, still greater vision and of course, greater eye-appeal. The designers almost have reached their limit In lowering overall height, he adds. "People won't buy the cars that knock off their hats as they step in," he explains. The maximum also has about been reached in width.

The car designers, Walker says, do not dictate car styling. he says, "the public Itself determines the styling of the automobile. Certainly, we are not going to design anything the public doesn't want." Over the years, Walker said, one or two companies have attempted to introduce radically different designs. "There wasn't anything basically wrong with these vehicles," he said, "but they were far ahead of their, time and the public wouldn't go for them. The same fate would befall any attempt to introduce a 1962 model car tomorrow if we knew now how to design it." WALKER HAS been designing automobiles or automobile bodies since 1928 and at least one automobile every year since then has borne the imprint of his styling Ideas.

He had a major part In designing the 1949 and subsequent Ford cars, and currently Is working on tha 1955 Ford. That means, of course, that the 1993 and 1954 models are off the drafting boards, although the '54 still Is subject to soma last minute changes. Walker believes there la a substantial market for a small, two-passenger quality, car, like the British-made Jaguar. Walker drives one of these, painted white. The color, he says, is just Incidental, although he believes certain colors make cars appear broader.

Black, he said, gradually is declining in popularity. A true stylist, Walker says "styling is the most important factor the car manufacturer commands today. You have to have eye-appeal In everything not only automobiles, but even In tractors and refrigerators," Doctor Says Lincoln Had Injured Brain NEW YORK UP) A kick in the head by a horse apparently fractured Abraham Lincoln's skull in boyhood, causing permanent brain injuries. The injuries may have partly shaped his personality, and ed in April 1951, and by July the arsenal was turning out its first M-47s. The 28-ton T-41, with a 500-horsepower engine, can race faster than 40 miles per hour.

It has a high-velocity 76-millimeter gun that can outshoot many larger weapons. The M-47 has the M-26 Pershing hull just as the M-46 had. But into it the ordnance men have placed a new turret and a high velocity 90-millimeter gun, the fine engine of the M-46 and an improved range finder. The Army is now producing still another tank, the T-43, America's first true heavy. It weighs 60 tons and has a very high velocity 120-millimeter gun more than a match, according to experts, for the Stalin Ill's 122-mlllimeter low er velocity weapon.

Chrysler is turning this tank out at Newark, Del. grinding corn or sugar cane; and, growing Impatient of her slow pare he shouted, 'get up, you and gave her a whack with a stick. She kicked back, hitting him In the forehead. "He was knocked unconscious for many hours and was thought for a time to be dead. He seems to have recovered without apparent serious after-effects, since he received no special medical attention for tha head injury, the doctor living many miles away." BUT BRAIN hemorrhages and blood clots from 'the blow could have left permanent damage, Dr.

Kempf says. Lincoln's left eye was weakened. It would turn upward, showing more white In the eyeball. It gave him a slightly staring effert. It caused double vision, which In turn brought headaches, nausea, Indigestion and depression.

This was an organic neurosis. Dr. Kempf suggests. This type of eye trouble can set off an emotional conflict or neurosis, and the emotions can make the eye trouble worse, in a vicious circle. i volved and Sunday seems like a good time to taiK snout tnat.

You see. Mrs, Behrle had promised, the girls in her troop that she would take them out to the CYO gathering at Camp Santa Maria over a recent weekend. Well, it rame time for the outing and Mrs. Bchrle's little girl just 2 wasn't feeling too well. She didn't think she should go but then she thought of how disappointed her 18 other "daughters" would be.

"I'll stay close to tha telephone," she told her husband. "I've got the car. If she gets worse, call me and I'll be here in a jiffy." FORTUNATELY, a got along all right and Mrs. Behrle could stay with the troop. When it came time to go home again, the leader set out with four of the girls in her car.

She was coming across route 224 in Barberton when it happened. "He was just a kid in an old, green convertible," Mrs. Behrle explains. "And he went right through the red light. "I saw he was going to hit us If I stayed where I was and I thought of the girls.

I put the car over the curb. It was Just my luck that there was a fire plug there." When the tense terror of the near-crash had vanished, Mrs. Behrle had four unscratched girls but a badly scratched, dented and creased automobile. "It's all right," she hastened to assure the girls. "We have insurance." She neglected to add that her insurance was the $50 deductible type.

The Behrles had to pay $50 of the repair bill. FOR SOME months before this, the troop had been planning a tea with a little play and some music for the mothers. The entertainment was neces indirectly affected his career. This new viewpoint on Lincoln comes from a psychiatrist, Dr. Edward J.

Kempf of Wading River, N. writing in the American Medical Association (AMA) archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Tha fracture affected Lincoln's ayes, causing double vision and making him neurotic, ha suggests. It aould hava caused a tendency to sink into a dull, melancholy state whenever Lincoln's mind was not being stimulated. To fight back, Unooln perhaps strove to keep mentally alert.

His passion for Justice and love of humor eould have been ways of doing this, Dr. Kempf writes. SOME OF his clues came from a study of Lincoln's photographs, and a life mask made in 1860. The mask shows an unusual depression in the forehead, right over the left eye. Dr.

Kempf thought it might mean a skull facture. He looked for evidence of such a serious accident, and found it when Lincoln was 10 years old. "He was driving an unshod mare hitched la ft circular mill for "Sometimes yon have to take a lot of lessons before your parents realise they are wasting their money 1" 4 sary so that one girl could earng.