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r WE NEED A NEW DOCTOR! Ancient Printiny Printing may be 2000 years older than, has been thought. This is suggested by new archaelogical data. Half a century ago an archeologist in the eastern Mediterranean island of Crete discovered a clay disk in a Cretan palace, containing hieroglyphic characters which, it is now agreed, were made by movable "type." This find, known as the Phaestos Disk from its place of discovery, has been studied by would-be readers many times, but neved deciphered. Now Prof. S. Davis, a South African archaelogist, announces that he has solved the puzzle. He dates the disk as from 1700 to 1600 B.C., and says that it is in the Hittite language. The Hittites, a people mentioned in the Old Testament are known to have had a great empire in Asia Minor between 2000 and 1000 B.C. They traded in the Mediterranean, making it possible that the disk is one of their products. Davis may be right, but equally, confident announcements about the disk have been made before. Of these a British authority observes that "the attempts so far to read the characters do not. deserve notice." Perhaps the new report may be more of the same. If not, it may open a new chapter in the ancient history of the Near East. ■*'" f"« '■»»■■- ■■■ I •" i* —■■■■ i«—■ ■ iai-aw . .an rw— >n i «■-> ■- Our Changed World When I was ten-going-on-eleven, I read the line "In these days of scientific progress, Jules Verne's books have been moved from the fiction shelves to the scientific shelves in the library." As I had but recently come to the reluctant conclusion that you couMHft-t^^ mediately went to the library. No, they hadn't been moved from the fiction shelves, but that was how I discovered Jules Verne and a whole new world. Times has proven his fantasies to be based on fact. And even his wildest dreams are but everyday conversation in average homes today. Do you remember when you were first studying, history, and how you wished you could have lived in the exciting days, when the whole face of the world changed overnight? It is those days in which we live today. We do not sense the greatness of the hour because it is too near. We do not fully realize the opportunities unfolding before us because we are afraid of change. It is too big for us to grasp. By the time the children of today are grown, the frontiers of time and space will have been pushed still further. They will be explorers of a whole new world, of new skills, of new crafts—there will be new opportunities before them. There is no reason to fear the future. It may not be what we have known. But neither was what we have known familiar to those who preceeded us. We do not discard the past, even while we are adapting ourselves to the future. This is an exciting age in the history of the world—to date. Let us make the most of it, and be glad that we have a chance to live while the world is changing around us. No Clear Solutions Just trying to keep abreast of world developments is becoming a maddening rat race. The population explosion in a shrinking world compounds the difficulty. To no problems—Berlin, Cuba, Latin America, Southeast Asia or even those here at home — are clear-cut solutions evident. For every compulsion to act, equally compelling reasons arise to refrain from action. And behind all the military and diplomatic quandries are equally agonizing economic problems. For example, employment is at an all-time high, yet seems stuck with a hard core of more than four million jobless. The obvious remedy would seem to be to create new jobs. We haave created new jobs—millions of them in the past ten years and still the jobless army remains about the same size. At the same time, industry is screarriing for great numbers of technicians. Our schools are not producing them fast enough. Experts declare they never will be able to, without federal aid. Yet federal aid to education is one of the measures that has taken the hardest beating in Congress. As the British author John Strachey has declared, the free world has no room for either complacency or the counsels of despair. Nor dare we shun economic issues merely because a world of nuclear weapons seems too dangerous a place in which to concentrate on those issues. For in this perilous age it is precisely in the economic field that democracy faces its greatest challenge. If this picture worries you; if sometimes, in pummeling your brain for answers to the world's ills, you suddenly come up with a frightening hunch that you are slipping cogs mentally, don't be alarmed. Our best minds are experiencing the same sort of bafflement. #wt Vol. 48 - No. 35 ■ One Section 1* P*8W NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1971 10c per copy; $4.50 per year by Mail; $6.00 Outside County Income Tax Hike to Fund Water Facility The city's planned $3.6 million water treatment plant will be funded by a combination of a 1/2 per cent payroll tax hike and increased water rates. Voters gave an overwhelming approval Tuesday, May 4, to the Income tax hike from 1 to 11/2 per cent. Total was 1,995 for the tax raise and 1,077 against It. Mayor Charles B. Strausser said "this is the method I favored for financing the water treatment facility. I felt the income tax was the most reasonable way of paying for it and I'm glad the voters agreed.'' "But the most Important thing now is to build the plant," the Mayor added. A contract is expected to be awarded July 1, with a two year building schedule. Water will be chlorinated, softened, and objectionable chemicals will be removed. The plant would, be on Freedom St. in Jackson Twp. Present minimum water rate will be raised from $7.20 per quarter to $9. The average bill of $8.55 for 15,000 gallons of use per quarter will go to $13.50. Without the income tax it would have risen to $24.60. The minimum water rate without the income tax would have been $16.20. Water users outside the city will pay 100 per cent more on their water bills. City officials have urged building of the water facility because the Ohio Department of Health has been pressing for chlorination of the city's water. Chlorination at the individual, wells would have been costly, inefficient, and would not have removed chemicals or softened the water. If voters had turned down the tax increase, the plant would have been built anyway and funding would have come entirely from increased water rates. ■•••; Future plans 'include provide ing at least two more wells as water sources at the centralized plant, better water pressure, new water storage towers and further extension of water lines. The 1/2 per cent Income tax raise wlU bring some $320,000 more into the city. The present 1 per cent tax brings in about $640,000 annually. City officials said the income tax can be voted out in the future if the citizens desire it. Water bills will soon be sent out monthly instead of quarterly. The 1 1/2 per cent tax becomes effective July 1. Advisors had pointed out that passage of the income tax hike to 1 1/2 per cent would benefit those making less than $9,000 annually. Anyone with a higher income would find it cheaper to pay for the treatment plant by higher water rates only. The plant will be paid for over a 30 year period. Bids will be asked for by June 1. The site covers 22 acres and the plant will centralize pump- ing water from the five wells. City to Advertise For Bids on Fire Station If present plans go according to schedule, the City of North Canton should have a new fire station by the end of the year. City Council approved an ordinance Monday night, May 10, to advertise for bids and let the contract for a new fire station at the northeast corner of N. Main St. and Hower St. NE. Construction is expected to take six months. ' Council also approved con- Dress - Conduct School Code Being Studied WEAK A POPPY FRIDAY. Mayor Charles B. Strausser accepts the first memorial Poppy from seven-year-old Mariann 'Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bishop of 466 Hillcrest Ave. NWj He has proclaimed. Friday, May 14, as Poppy Day in the city, wWich will find American !Legion Auxiliary members distributing the memorial flower in the downtown area. Made by hospitalized veterans, thei poppy is worn in remembrance of America's War Dead. Donations from 'the sale are returned to the hospitalized veteran in the form of rehabilitation and assistance to the families of these veterans. Mrs. Mildred is" cihainnan«f<r^>*e local UnSt 419 project, m ;.'. <-Y, ., ,->-.* NC Elementary Band-Strings Concert May 22 On Saturday, May 22, the North Canton Elementary Band and String Ensembles will present their concert at 8 p.m. in the Junior High School gymnasium. The elementary band is made up of fifth and sixth grade instrumentalists from the four elementary schools in the North Canton School system. There are approximately 95 students involved in this year's elementary band. They will be performing 'Salute to Brahms", "Melodies That Were Broadway" and several others. The fourth grade string ensemble consists of approximately fifteen string students and the fifth and sixth grade string orchestra consists of about 35 string students. The string students are under the direction of Miss Annette Durato and the band students are directed by Henry Leitner and Robert McCleaster. Tickets for the concert may be obtained from the instrumental students or at the door the night of the concert. Farewell Reception Set On Sunday fior Rev. Bell A farewell reception for the Rev. and Mrs. Winston C. Bell is planned Sunday, May 16, from 2 until 4 p.m. in Fellowship Hall of Community Christian Church. Rev. Bell will close his pastorate at Community Christian Sunday. He has accepted a call as pastor of the Southport Christian Church in Indianapolis. In addition to his pastoral leadership with the Community Christian Church, Rev. Bell is a member of the North Canton Rotary Club and has served as president of the North Canton Ministerial Association. He is first vice president of the Council of Churches of the Greater Canton area. A member of the State Board of Managers for the OhioSociety of Christian Churches (Disci-' pies of. Christ) and various state committees, he Is the general chairman of the District VII Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ). He has previously served on the national Board of Recommendations for the International Assembly of the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ). Rev. Bell came to North Canton in June 1963, after serving an eleven year pastorate in Niles. Rev. and Mrs. Bell have a daughter, Mrs. Kerry A. Mc- Calla, who lives in Nashville, Tenn., and a son, Ronald, who Is a sophomore at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. NC Summer School Signup Is Underway Registration is currently underway for summer school sessions for the North Canton School District. Elementary classes will be June 15-July 16 from 9-11 a.m. daily at Orchard Hill School. Jack Hudson, who is co-ordinating the classes, reports registration ends May 28. Courses offered include primary reading for pupils in grades 1-3; intermediate reading for grades 4-5-6 and elementary mathematics for grades 2-6. The courses offer help for specific problems in reading and math and incorporates new materials to assist the individual pupil. High school summer school dates are June 24-Aug. 6, with no classes July 2-5. Registrations through May 21 will determine whether courses will be given and late registrations will be accepted through June 23 for sections not already filled. Six courses will be offered: American government, American history, general science, general math, algebra I, all to meet 8 to 12 noon daily, and personal typing, which meets for 90 minutes each day. Driver training classes are filled. Junior High summer session will be from June 14-July 16. Work offered includes basic English and math courses for 7th and 8th graders. Depending upon demand, classes will run either one or two sections. A single session would be from 9-11 a.m. daily and a double section would have classes from 8-10 and 10-12 each day, principal Don LaHue reports. 7th and 8th graders are also eligible to take the personal typing course being offered at the high school. Deadline for registration is May 28. Aifport Manager Rotary Speaker John Doyle, manager of Akron-Canton Airport, will report on its "Growth and Expansion" when he speaks to North Canton Rotary Thursday, May 13. The 6:30 dinner meeting will be at Community Christian Church. He will be introduced by Dr. James Brandau, program chairman. Dale Gerber and Jim Griesinger will act as greeters and Jack Hudson will' give the invocation. A board of directors meeting will follow the dinner. Navy Petty Officer Third Class Thomas R. Regula, son of Mrs. Naomi C. Regula of 7184 Braucher St. NW, was graduated from Electronics "A" School at the Service School Command, Great Lakes, 111. Reports are being compiled by separate student, faculty and citizen committees as a preliminary step toward preparation of a new statement of policy on dress and behavior, the Board of Education announced at a special meeting Tuesday, May 4. Dr. James Brandau, superintendent of schools, said the Hoover High School student council is conducting a survey of student opinion. He added that principals at the various schools are gathering faculty opinion. Harold Pinney, board president, said the board has appointed an adult committee to work on the policy, also. He stated that the names of the committee members may be announced at the May 19 regular board meeting. In other business during this meeting, the board: EMPLOYED the following teachers: Mrs. Deborah Dybvig of Delaware, O., to teach French at the Junior High School; Donald D.Airhart of Bowling Green, English at the Junior High; and Mrs. Charlotte Davis of North Canton, half day kindergarten. Also employed were: Paul Keller of Canton, special education at Hoover High; Mrs. Margaret Steinhoff of Norm Canton, elementary; John Eb- inger of North.Cantos-, general science" at the Junior High; and Miss Susan Adams of New Concord, health and physical education at Portage School. GRANTED a leave of absence to Mrs. Barbara Hartong, elementary teacher at Portage School, for the 1971-72 school year. LEARNED that Dr. Brandau will make a survey of possible year around school plans and will report to the board. APPROVED a summer driver education program. HEARD from Robert Braucher, clerk, that cleaning crews will work in each school building this summer, and that work will also be done on basement Hines, Amy Kistler, ceilings and shower rooms at Lockler, Kris LundstromJScOtt Portage School and plumbing Mackall, Lisa Miller, Bern Ann at the Junior High. Morrison, Tom Queen and Joan WAS TOLD by Dr. Brandau Sheehan. that construction at Northwood The program is under the School is progressing weU. direction of Mrs. Dorothy Lowe SET tbe next meetihgfor 7:30 Define, p.m. Wednesday, May 19, in the Tickets are available at tbe Hoover High School library, door or from students. tracting for demolition of buildings on the fire station site. In other business Council: DISCUSSED proposed use of the new city park to be built on the square and a clarification of the loitering ordinance. About an hour or almost half the meeting was devoted to the questions raised by tne Rev. William L. Brown of Faith United Methodist Church. As chairman of the North Canton Committee on Community Relations and as a member of the Ministerial Association he presented a motion passed unanimously by both groups. It reads: "We urge that the specific needs of the youth in relation to the total community be considered in development of the park and other downtown facilities and that the Committee on Community Relations proceed with such plans prior to problems which might develop. "It is further urged that a study be made of the loitering (Continued to page 3) 7th Graders In Concert Friday The Seventh Grade Boys and Girls Glee Clubs will present their annual spring concert in the North Canton Junior High Gym on Friday, May 21, at 8 p.m. The boys will sing ' Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho",. "Havah Nageelah", "Water Come's Me Eye", 'Til Go Home With Bonnie-Jean" and 'fThis Land is Your Land". £ Girls Glee Club will otter "There is a Balm in CHlead", "What the World Needs Now", "Little French Clock", "The Unicorn" and "A Wonderful Day Like Today". Seventh Grade Girls Ensemble will sing "Do Lord" and "Where is Love". As an added attraction the Eighth Grade Select Choir wift perform four selections 'Tan** fare for Thanksgiving", "John the Baptist", "Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees" and "The Crawdad Song". ,::p Student accompanists Willie Barbara Ball, Joy Boldt, Ltutfel Linda PARK SITE CLEARED. This was the scene Monday as workmen completed the first day of demolition that will clear the area from E. Maple St. to the new Community Buildiing for a new city park. The garage that onctf housed Harpold, Guenther and Dungan Motors and the Main St. frontage that had been borne for the Chamber of Commerce, Jaycees and a restaurant went the first day. Beaver Excavating Co., which has a 20-day contract to complete the clearance, report the remaining two buildings, the old CB-YM and Hummel-Nye store site, should come down this week weather permitting. Removal and cleanup of tjie area is expected to tiake* about 10 days, before back- hoeing and leveling of the area can start. if ' £ ,' "£ rvWiAji aim»-<- Kfi.V.1*,; Pry; --: ^-.^*iiiiajK*ii_ai_»i*^i*-#s«!i(lJ' '.-.vx^MiTsiSrifcMt'A^
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Title | The Sun. (North Canton, Stark County, Ohio), 1971-05-12 |
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Title | 1971-05-12-001 |
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WE NEED A NEW DOCTOR!
Ancient Printiny
Printing may be 2000 years older than, has been
thought. This is suggested by new archaelogical data.
Half a century ago an archeologist in the eastern
Mediterranean island of Crete discovered a clay disk
in a Cretan palace, containing hieroglyphic characters
which, it is now agreed, were made by movable
"type." This find, known as the Phaestos Disk from
its place of discovery, has been studied by would-be
readers many times, but neved deciphered.
Now Prof. S. Davis, a South African archaelogist,
announces that he has solved the puzzle. He dates
the disk as from 1700 to 1600 B.C., and says that it
is in the Hittite language.
The Hittites, a people mentioned in the Old Testament are known to have had a great empire in
Asia Minor between 2000 and 1000 B.C. They traded
in the Mediterranean, making it possible that the disk
is one of their products.
Davis may be right, but equally, confident announcements about the disk have been made before.
Of these a British authority observes that "the attempts so far to read the characters do not. deserve
notice." Perhaps the new report may be more of the
same. If not, it may open a new chapter in the ancient history of the Near East.
■*'" f"« '■»»■■- ■■■ I •" i* —■■■■ i«—■ ■ iai-aw . .an rw— >n i «■-> ■-
Our Changed World
When I was ten-going-on-eleven, I read the line
"In these days of scientific progress, Jules Verne's
books have been moved from the fiction shelves to
the scientific shelves in the library." As I had but
recently come to the reluctant conclusion that you
couMHft-t^^
mediately went to the library.
No, they hadn't been moved from the fiction
shelves, but that was how I discovered Jules Verne
and a whole new world.
Times has proven his fantasies to be based on
fact. And even his wildest dreams are but everyday
conversation in average homes today.
Do you remember when you were first studying,
history, and how you wished you could have lived in
the exciting days, when the whole face of the world
changed overnight? It is those days in which we live
today.
We do not sense the greatness of the hour because it is too near. We do not fully realize the opportunities unfolding before us because we are afraid
of change. It is too big for us to grasp.
By the time the children of today are grown,
the frontiers of time and space will have been pushed
still further. They will be explorers of a whole new
world, of new skills, of new crafts—there will be new
opportunities before them.
There is no reason to fear the future. It may not
be what we have known. But neither was what we
have known familiar to those who preceeded us. We
do not discard the past, even while we are adapting
ourselves to the future.
This is an exciting age in the history of the
world—to date. Let us make the most of it, and be
glad that we have a chance to live while the world
is changing around us.
No Clear Solutions
Just trying to keep abreast of world developments is becoming a maddening rat race. The population explosion in a shrinking world compounds the
difficulty.
To no problems—Berlin, Cuba, Latin America,
Southeast Asia or even those here at home — are
clear-cut solutions evident. For every compulsion to
act, equally compelling reasons arise to refrain from
action. And behind all the military and diplomatic
quandries are equally agonizing economic problems.
For example, employment is at an all-time high,
yet seems stuck with a hard core of more than four
million jobless. The obvious remedy would seem to be
to create new jobs. We haave created new jobs—millions of them in the past ten years and still the jobless army remains about the same size.
At the same time, industry is screarriing for great
numbers of technicians. Our schools are not producing them fast enough. Experts declare they never
will be able to, without federal aid. Yet federal aid to
education is one of the measures that has taken the
hardest beating in Congress.
As the British author John Strachey has declared, the free world has no room for either complacency
or the counsels of despair. Nor dare we shun economic
issues merely because a world of nuclear weapons
seems too dangerous a place in which to concentrate
on those issues. For in this perilous age it is precisely
in the economic field that democracy faces its greatest
challenge.
If this picture worries you; if sometimes, in
pummeling your brain for answers to the world's ills,
you suddenly come up with a frightening hunch that
you are slipping cogs mentally, don't be alarmed.
Our best minds are experiencing the same sort of
bafflement.
#wt
Vol. 48 - No. 35 ■ One Section 1* P*8W NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1971
10c per copy; $4.50 per year by Mail; $6.00 Outside County
Income Tax
Hike to Fund
Water Facility
The city's planned $3.6 million water treatment plant will
be funded by a combination of
a 1/2 per cent payroll tax
hike and increased water rates.
Voters gave an overwhelming
approval Tuesday, May 4, to
the Income tax hike from 1 to
11/2 per cent. Total was 1,995
for the tax raise and 1,077
against It.
Mayor Charles B. Strausser
said "this is the method I
favored for financing the water
treatment facility. I felt the
income tax was the most reasonable way of paying for it
and I'm glad the voters agreed.''
"But the most Important thing
now is to build the plant," the
Mayor added.
A contract is expected to be
awarded July 1, with a two
year building schedule. Water
will be chlorinated, softened,
and objectionable chemicals
will be removed. The plant would,
be on Freedom St. in Jackson
Twp.
Present minimum water rate
will be raised from $7.20 per
quarter to $9.
The average bill of $8.55 for
15,000 gallons of use per quarter will go to $13.50. Without
the income tax it would have
risen to $24.60. The minimum
water rate without the income
tax would have been $16.20.
Water users outside the city
will pay 100 per cent more on
their water bills.
City officials have urged
building of the water facility
because the Ohio Department
of Health has been pressing
for chlorination of the city's
water. Chlorination at the individual, wells would have been
costly, inefficient, and would
not have removed chemicals
or softened the water.
If voters had turned down
the tax increase, the plant would
have been built anyway and
funding would have come
entirely from increased water
rates.
■•••; Future plans 'include provide
ing at least two more wells as
water sources at the centralized plant, better water pressure, new water storage towers and further extension of
water lines.
The 1/2 per cent Income tax
raise wlU bring some $320,000
more into the city. The present
1 per cent tax brings in about
$640,000 annually.
City officials said the income
tax can be voted out in the
future if the citizens desire
it. Water bills will soon be
sent out monthly instead of
quarterly.
The 1 1/2 per cent tax becomes effective July 1.
Advisors had pointed out that
passage of the income tax hike
to 1 1/2 per cent would benefit
those making less than $9,000
annually. Anyone with a higher
income would find it cheaper
to pay for the treatment plant
by higher water rates only.
The plant will be paid for
over a 30 year period. Bids
will be asked for by June 1.
The site covers 22 acres and
the plant will centralize pump-
ing water from the five wells.
City to Advertise For
Bids on Fire Station
If present plans go according to schedule, the
City of North Canton should have a new fire station
by the end of the year. City Council approved an ordinance Monday night, May 10, to advertise for bids
and let the contract for a new fire station at the
northeast corner of N. Main St. and Hower St. NE.
Construction is expected to take six months.
' Council also approved con-
Dress - Conduct
School Code
Being Studied
WEAK A POPPY FRIDAY. Mayor Charles B. Strausser accepts the
first memorial Poppy from seven-year-old Mariann 'Bishop, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. J. Bishop of 466 Hillcrest Ave. NWj He has proclaimed. Friday,
May 14, as Poppy Day in the city, wWich will find American !Legion Auxiliary
members distributing the memorial flower in the downtown area. Made by hospitalized veterans, thei poppy is worn in remembrance of America's War Dead.
Donations from 'the sale are returned to the hospitalized veteran in the form
of rehabilitation and assistance to the families of these veterans. Mrs. Mildred
is" cihainnan«f |
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