A newspaper article marked May 25, 1951 reads: 16 From Ross Leave For Army Induction Sixteen young men left Friday morning for army induction, raising to 226 the number of men to be drafted for the army from Ross County. The group boarded a special bus at the bus terminal on East Main Street at 7 a.m. Friday, bound for Columbus. Leaving were: Joe Dale Payne, Route 8; Richard L. Tuttle, 381 Church Street; Robert W. Tuvell, 90 North Rose Street; Robert Eugene Brown, 252 Elm Street; James O. Liebe, 107 North Sugar Street; Robert Ryan, Greenfield, Route 1; Bradford Damron, 878 Vine Street; Lawrence H. Gray, Bainbridge, Route 1; Marvin L. Miller, Route 2; Cecil Foster Paugh, Bainbridge, Route 1; DeWayne Baine, Londonderry, Route 1; Joseph Bernard Harris, 74 West Sixth Street; Glen F. Neff, 903 Jefferson Avenue; Richard D. Evans, 429 East Water Street; Emery B. Birchfield, Bainbridge, Route 2; and Earl Albert Leasure, Route 6.