Here are some articles from the week of May 19th to 25th.
May 23, 1943: Dayton Dogs serve in remote areas.
Major Eldon A. Kellner and his wife raised Doberman Pinschers in Dayton.
When they were ordered to leave Chicago to serve, their dogs, Vicki and Amy, were also sent for training.
The Doberman was selected for use only by members of the Marine Corps. Dogs were used as security guards and other important jobs.
The couple had hoped to have a dog together, but Amy ended up joining the Marines in River City, New Jersey, while her mother, Vicki, enlisted in the Marines in the South Pacific.
Both dogs were bred. Vicky won the Grand Prize at the 1939 Morris & Essex Show. Amy’s father won the top prize at the Madison Square Garden Show in New York in 1941.
The Kellners wanted to get both dogs back after the war and continue breeding the bloodline.
“If they go into combat, we’ll have to start all over again after the war,” Major Kellner said. There will always be a Doberman in the Kellner family, and there will always be “Vicki” and “Amy.” ”
May 24, 1953: Setting up the four-way flight suit for the era of ultra-high speeds.
Scientists at the Wright Aeronautical Development Center previewed a new experimental four-way flight suit designed to protect aviators from extreme temperatures when faster aircraft literally become too hot to handle.
One of the biggest problems in the era of hyperspeed, when planes were expected to travel at several times the speed of sound, was the scorching temperatures that humans and machines had to endure.
When an aircraft flies at three times the speed of sound at sea level, its surface temperature reaches 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
In that case, the pilot suit would need to “air condition” the pilot.
On the other hand, if the pilot has to bail out and land in the Arctic Ocean, the suit must also handle that situation. The suit also needs to keep the pilot afloat.
The secret of the new suit was to offer variable insulation values combined with variable permeability to ventilate the air.
The next step in development was to devise gloves and a hood for the suit.
May 19, 1963: 17 college students spend night in jail after barbershop sit-in
Sixteen Antioch College students and one Central State University student were arrested for a “sit-in” at Gegner Barber Shop in Yellow Springs and spent the night in the Greene County Jail.
The Yellow Springs residents posted bail of $35 each, but all decided to stay in jail overnight in protest before being released the next day.
The arrests were made after students entered the store and owner Louis Gegner’s father, Louis Gegner, punched a black student twice as he sat in the barber’s chair.
Louis Gegner called police, claiming the group was trespassing. A spokesperson for the group said, “We were waiting at the store for a haircut. We were not trespassing.”
The group, known as the Antioch Committee, has been unsuccessfully trying for weeks to racially integrate barbershops.
The barber claimed he did not know how to cut black people’s hair and won a federal justice court ruling that he had a constitutional right to refuse service to black people.
This judgment was under appeal.
May 20, 1973: 93-year-old friend remains in old courthouse.
For the first time in 93 years, the Old Montgomery County Courthouse has been built on its own.
The courthouse was destroyed by demolition crews. Only a pile of rubble remained.
Demolition contractors were unable to locate the cornerstone, and records did not conclusively show that a cornerstone existed. If it had existed, it would probably have been destroyed by the flood of 1913, reaching a fairly high level of historical monuments.
County commissioners were considering turning the area into a plaza with a waterfall.
In later years, the square was actually created under the design supervision of Virginia Kettering.
