Guernsey Benefit Group Rebuffs From Lausche
Gov. Frank Lausche and Welfare Director Frazier Reams rebuff a Guernsey County Democratic move to enroll Cambridge State Hospital employees in a county benefit association with $10 annual dues. O. J. Sharpe, leader of the effort, says the group is civic and non political while claiming over 1,000 members have joined. Hospital officials request details on officers, aims, and spending, warning political use could threaten employees’ civil service protection.
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Cambridge
Guernsey County
Cambridge State Hospital
Benefit Association
Frank J. Lausche
Frazier Reams
O. J. Sharpe
Byesville
Guernsey Benefit Association
Sharpe
Association
Jeffersonian
State Hospital
Lausche
Arthur T. Hopwood
Hopwood
Plastic Toys, Inc
S. and W. Corporation
Seven Ash tabula High Schools to Close Under Order
Ash tabula county Superintendent L M Finley announced seven county high schools will close under a State Education Department consolidation order for schools with fewer than 100 pupils. The affected schools are Windsor Williamsfield Rock Creek Pierpoint North Kingsville Dorset and Colebrook.
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Ashtabula
L. M. Finley
Ashtabula County
Finley
Windsor
Williamsfield
Rock Creek
Pierpoint
North Kingsville
Dorset
Colebrook
NMU accuses AFL union of lakes strikebreaking
Detroit AP report says CIO National Maritime Union accuses AFL Sea Farers International Union of strikebreaking as Lake Carriers Association cites dwindling NMU tied vessels 316 fleet down to 268. LOA president A T Wood notes 16 of 26 bargaining vessels remain with NMU, 10 unreturned. SIU denies knowledge of strikebreaking. NMU strikes enter 15th day with ships returning to service after agreements with tanker firms.
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Detroit
CIO National Maritime Union Today
AFL
Lake Carriers Association
NMU
Great Lakes
A. T. Wood
LOA
Association
AFL Seafarers International Union
Nicholas Romano
SIU
Romano
Toledo
Atlantic
Fred J. Franen
Great Lakes District
I Siu
Pollock
the Lakes
Eight Measures Await Lausche's Signature
Governor Lausche faces eight measures awaiting his signature after the fourth special session adjourned sine die. The Ohio General Assembly passed the bills last week and completed sessions at 1 55 p m yesterday after officers signed in skeleton sessions.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio General Assembly
Mass break report sparks alarms at Alabama prisons
A false wholesale escape report near Draper Prison led to a statewide manhunt before correction. Nine convicts escaped, seven recaptured. two still at large. Kilby Prison cotton mill fire blamed on prisoners. both incidents involve mill workers. Night Warden Weston cited heavy damage and inferred arson.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Draper
State Highway Patrol
Kilby
WD. Weston
Weston
O. S. Wells
C. G. Brown
Youth Wins With Brodie 80-Foot Leap From Bridge
Kentuckian Billy Allen age 17 leaped 80 feet from the Ohio River Bridge in Covington prompting parental consent to marry Ella Lindley age 16. The couple plan nuptials November 10, Billys eighteenth birthday, after his hospital recovery.
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Brodie
Covington
Ohio
Billy Allen
Ella Lindley
Billy
Ohio River
Ella
Clarence C. Lindley
Heart Attack Fells Suspect in Slaying
Joseph Salacunis, 38, detained for fatally shooting his brother in law Burt Walters, 46, collapsed from a heart attack in City Hospital’s prison ward hours after the incident. Detective Inspector Frank Story said charges would follow if he recovers.
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Cleveland
UPI
City Hospital
Frank Story
Joseph Salacunis
Burt Walters
Jack and Heintz Unveil Lightweight Fuel Saving Engine
Cleveland based Jack and Heintz Precision Industries introduces a new light weight engine aimed at boosting peacetime production and employment beyond wartime levels. The company emphasizes fuel efficiency and retools to support postwar demand.
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Cleveland
Jack & Heintz Precision Industries, Inc
Jack & Heintz Co
Relief To Be Boosted For Cost Of Living Increases
Harrisburg Pennsylvania residents will see increased relief allotments offsetting higher costs for food and clothing. The Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance will implement the changes on October 1.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance
Ohio State Fair surpasses 200000 attendees in 92nd year
Ohio's 92nd state fair reached the 200000 attendance mark with governor Lausche visiting the grounds. By 6 p m a four day total rose to 192714 as officials predicted admissions would surpass 250000 dollars. livestock judging crowned several grand champions including Jays Successor the chestnut stallion and multiple cattle breeds.
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Columbus
John M. Hodson
Frank J. Lausche
Fat
Doris
Bonnie Albright
Green Springs
Aberdeen
Angus
Attempt Seen For Speed-Up Of Paris Talks
The Big Four aligned against an Australian reparations plan as the 21 nation peace conference enters its month-old phase. U S officials predicted a Foreign Ministers Council meeting to speed work, with Molotov opposing the Australian proposal and France Britain backing it. Italy urged frontier redrawings while a military commission discussed its operations as Luxembourg Palace corridors buzzed about a possible Big Four meeting to influence stalled treaty drafts and hundreds of amendments.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
Willard Thorp
U.S
United States
France
Britain
V. M. Molotov
Italy
Luxembourg Palace
Corn Damage Fear Voiced Across Ohio Fields
The Weather Bureau reports slow development of late corn fields raising fears of frost injury, especially in northern Ohio, while southern counties show advanced grain and early denting. Tomatoes in some areas are being processed and mostly good though some late. near Dayton severe tomato blight is noted.
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Columbus
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Dayton
Soldier Ejected From Airplane In Test
In the second test this month of the Army Air Forces new ejector seat, Corp. Harry J. Brickheimer of Athens Wisconsin was catapulted yesterday from a P 61 Black Widow night fighter a mile above Wright Field. His parachute opened three seconds after the explosive cartridge hurled him and his seat about 20 feet clear of the tail fin.
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Dayton—L
Army Air Forces
New
Corp
Harry J. Brickheimer
Athens
Wis
Wright Field
Brickheimer
Polio Record Hit as Fifth Lake County Case
In Painesville Lake County records rise as health department reports a fifth polio case this year. The latest victim is seven year old Charlotte Bobak, transported to Cleveland City Hospital for treatment.
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Painesville
Lake County
Health Department
Charlotte Bobak
Cleveland City Hospital
Rescue Attempt Fails as Ohio Man Dies on Tracks
Springfield report states James E. Brooks, 39, of Cincinnati, was killed after a failed rescue when Mrs Margaret Price, living nearby, could not pull him from the tracks where he had fallen near the New York Central System line.
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Springfield
York Central System Limited
Jed James E. Brooks
Cincinnati
Margaret Price
Ames Bern Gets CPA Approval for Heater
Dawes in Chicago announces approval for a school heating upgrade in Ames Bern School District. The Board of Education plans to replace the worn-out heating system with a new heater at a stated cost of 2900 dollars as authorized by the district’s finance board.
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Dawes
Chicago
Gates Dawes
Fed
Board of Education
Ames- Bern
Columus
Body Recovered of Billy Conner in Quarry Pool
The body of Billy Conner, 26, was recovered last night from an abandoned quarry pool where he drowned Sunday.
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Chillicothe
Billy Conner
Meat Ceilings May Be Hiked Over June 30
Washington says OPA will raise meat ceilings as deadline nears posting new price tags on steaks chops roasts and other meats. Secretary Anderson favors a two dollar per hundred rise in cattle and hog prices while Porter seeks a rollback. Meat control becomes effective tomorrow midnight on live animals. Sugar rationing news offers mixed messages with five pound limit continuing this year and into next, Spare stamp No 1 to be valid Sept 1 with a 30 day extension on No 49 due to shortages.
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Washington
LPI
OPA
Clinton P. Anderson
Paul Porter
OSU enrollment may reach 25,000 by Oct 1
Ohio State University enrollment may hit 25,000 by October 1 as Vice President Bland L. Stradley announced. He cautioned that housing shortages and other factors could alter the actual count, noting spring quarter had 16,120 students and about 13,000 to 14,000 expected to return in the fall.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Bland L. Stradley
Stradley
Moran and accomplices ordered to Ohio Penitentiary
Judge Robert A. Martin denied a new trial for George Bugs Moran Virgil Summers and Al Fouts after their conviction for the June 28 armed robbery of a tavern employee in Dayton Ohio The judge ordered them transported to the Ohio Penitentiary within five days to serve 10 to 25 years.
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Dayton
Robert A. Martin
George
Bugs) Moran
Virgil Summers
Henderson
al Fouts
Ohio
Predict Completion of Hocking Dam by Spring
State Highway Director Perry T. Ford said work on the Lake Logan dam and spillway in Hocking County will be completed by mid summer 1947. The project includes re routing State Route 664 and a bridge spillway structure, with contracts possible as early as next spring.
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Columbu
Lake
Logan
Hocking County
Perry T. Ford
Ford
U S Supports Greece In Diplomatic Turmoil
Athens reports mounting tensions as Russia's ambassador plans departure amid a plebiscite to reinstall King George II. The United States signals support by sending the carrier Franklin D Roosevelt and naval forces to Greek ports while Greece faces UN Security Council charges from Ukraine and Yugoslav diplomatic moves.
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Athens
K. K. Rodionov
Greece
George II
Rodionov
Isador Cankar
Ukraine
United Nations Security Council
U.S
Rodzonov
U. S
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stephenos Stephanopoulos
Russia
Tito
Cankar
Balkans
Washington
Missouri
Turkey
Dardanelles
London
Agreement Accepted By Rubber Workers Amid Strike End
Akron General Tire and Rubber Co. will begin full production Monday after the United Auto Workers CIO ratified the new working agreement ending a strike that started June 20. A four hour cloudburst flooded York Beach area, isolating about 1000 hotel and cottage occupants.
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Akron — GF
General Tire and Rubber Co
United Auto Workers (Cio
York Beach
Accident Cost On Roads Set At 79 Million
Ohio's traffic accidents in 1945 caused damage both real and hidden estimated at 79 million dollars, per State Highway Director Perry T. Ford. Rural highway damage totaled 2.341 million in real property costs, with hidden costs lifting rural losses to about 24 million. In 413 fatal accidents that year, property damage reached 197,424 dollars, averaging 501 dollars per fatal crash.
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Columbus
Ohio
Perry T. Ford
Ford
Plane Trials Are Delayed In Postwar Thompson Trophy
National Air Race officials delayed qualification flights for 12 starters in the Thompson Trophy race after two days of bad weather prevented placement of barrage balloons used as navigational aids. A bomb plant and two hangars near the home pylon will serve as marks for pilots.
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Cleveland
National Air Race
Death benefit totals show six month decline
Ohio families collected 542,084,000 in death benefits on 45,656 insurance policies in the first half of the year. This compares with 45,561,000 on 47,737 policies in the first half of 1945, according to the Institute of Life Insurance. The current total trails the 1945 level by about 11,000,000 in peace-time payments.
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Columbus
Ohio
Institute of Life Insurance
Medina bars to close during fair near Medina Fairgrounds
Sheriff Charles Williams and Police Chief Benford announced that all places selling intoxicating liquor within two miles of the Medina Fairgrounds will be closed from September 4 to 7 inclusive to coincide with the Medina Fair.
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Medina
Medina Fairgrounds
Charles Williams
Benford
Three hospitalized after Circleville crash in Ohio area
James W. Russell, 31, of Zanesville, and Garland Whaley, 28, with Lawrence H. Gibson, 25, of Harriman Tennessee, were hospitalized for injuries from a car accident. Registration Sept 21. Bowling Green State University said the Sandusky branch would hold registration in September.
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Circleville
James W., Russell
Zanesville
Garland Whaley
Lawrence H. Gibson
Harriman
Tenn
Bowling Green —Up
Frank J. Prout
Bowling Green State University
Sandusky
Probhm
British troops raid Dorot Ruhama in Gaza district dawn search
British 6th Airborne Division troops swept into Dorot and Ruhama in Southwest Palestine at dawn and began a search for arms. Officials did not disclose troop numbers or opposition. Simultaneously, forces searched Jerusalem’s Bukharian quarter.
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Jerusalem
6Th Airborne Division
Dorot
Ruhama
Gaza
Palestine
Time quotes on housing program flaws and failed builds
SAM SIMMONS cites Time asserting many new houses for veterans failed due to poor materials and craftsmanship. He notes 225,000 of 1,200,000 planned homes completed, questions government planning and Wyatt’s leadership, citing Nitro and Eleano r housing projects as failed nationwide efforts.
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Mineola
L. L
Wyatt
Red House
Eleanor
Point Pleasant
Louisville
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