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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1947
Page
1
Ohio proposes a statewide expressway system costing about 742 million dollars, expanding total 10 year highway outlays to over 1 billion. The plan prioritizes city bottlenecks, with eight large city expressways totaling 555.6 million and rural routes to follow. studies may add more routes and modified expressways.
President Truman proposed a next fiscal year outlay of 37.528 billion dollars in a budget to Congress, aiming for a balanced books by June 30, 1948 with a modest 202 million dollar surplus if no tax cuts occur. He urged avoiding further excise tax cuts and raising postal rates to erase a 352 million dollar deficit, while defense and veteran programs drive higher current-year costs.
Gen Hsiung Shih Hui, Manchurian director, said formal talks with the Soviet Union on returning Dairen to China would start soon. National troops near Dairen hold 15 miles from the port to prevent incidents with Russians as Dairen remains under Soviet control under a 1945 Sino Soviet treaty. The US has urged open port status. Hsin Sheng Pao reports Soviet troops have not evacuated the Yalu River lock on the boundary between Southern Manchuria and occupied Northern Korea.
Columbus report states whiskey blended with neutral spirits and gin brandy rum and cordials were removed from ration control. The liquor department cut the allotment of still rationed liquor in half for the period beginning Monday and ending January 25.
The 80th Congress begins with the House pressuring the Senate on labor regulation. Plans call for a comprehensive strike control measure before March 1. The measure would enable federal court injunctions to delay coal or major industry strikes.
Cincinnati moves its air traffic to the new Boone County airport in Kentucky as American Trans World and Delta abandon Lunken. Delta’s 6:10 a.m. Chicago flight ends Lunken service after 18 years, while American plans a 11:10 a.m. landing of a DC-4 to mark four engine service.
Edward Lamb of Toledo urges federal legislation capping portal to portal wage suits to four years. He cites Fair Labor Standards Act recordkeeping requirements and argues Congress should set a statute of limitations. He sent the appeal to Senator Robert A. Taft.
A 17 year old admitted writing notes threatening to set fire to several Charleston business establishments unless prices were reduced. Police said the youth was adjudged insane by the Kanawha County Mental Hygiene Commission and jailed awaiting transfer to a state mental institution.
Marion Ohio mayor Harry Crisp reduced his salary from 1200 to 1 a year to fund pay raises for city employees. The council approved his plan to become a one dollar a year mayor and to drop his liquor control post. A follow up measure granted a ten dollar monthly wage increase for each city worker.
Federal investigators arrested Vance M. Bridgeforth at Port Columbus hours before dawn on charges of possessing six thousand forged sugar ration stamps. Dillon Wallack of the OPA said the case could reveal a nation wide counterfeit ring. Bridgeforth is a Chicagoan, age 42.
Australia remains the sole hold-out as major powers decide Trieste goes under United Nations Security Council administration. The Security Council opens a long debate over arms reduction with United States and Russia clashing, while Australia refuses compromise.
Columbus Ohio final meeting of the nine member strip mine commission ended with a proposed regulation plan. A $50 permit for most coal stripers, a $1000 bond for land restoration, ridges leveled to 15 feet, up to $50 per acre for reforestation, and access roads for firefighting in reforested areas.
Public school teachers of Huron County plan a Sunday meeting in Norwalk to demand a single salary schedule with a 2400 to 5000 dollar range, tenure laws, and standardized ethics to improve working conditions, as reported by the United Fleet Association.
Six Ohio members of the House have applied for pensions under the congressional reorganization act. Others must apply by July 2. The applicants are George H. Bender Robert Crosser Thomas A. Jenkins Michael J. Kirwan Earl R. Lewis and Homer A. Ramey.
Former Preble County ace Walter F. Cohee died yesterday at his Camden home. Cohee, longtime sheriff, served the county in prior years and was remembered for his public service.
Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal told a Cleveland World Affairs forum that the United States will remain militarily strong until the United Nations is a going concern and will deploy force to support UN sanctions. He urged maintaining air sea power and a modern army while stressing a strong domestic economy.
Judge Raymond A. Younger, 48, of Celina, will succeed Charles L. Sherwood in Columbus as head of the State Pardon and Parole, earning $6,000 a year. He will serve until March 31, 1949, with his Mercer County bench seat to be filled later by a Herbert appointee.
Erie County Grand Jury indicted George McKinley Sexton age 20 for first degree murder in the December 22 killing of Otto Hoffman, a watchman at Brown Industries plant in Sandusky Ohio.
Sam Simmons argues that Russia may stage a controlled election with rival candidates to mislead outsiders about democracy. He suggests the Stalin circle could force a change and notes revolutions are unlikely to remove despots as armies cannot match state power.
Prime Minister Attlee ordered the army navy and air force to shield food supplies as 14 000 truck drivers strike continues into day five. Housewives queue for rations while troops stand by and 500 drivers in Liverpool join the walkout spreading to the provinces. Newsprint to one London paper chain halted from Kent mills amid nationalization pressure.
A stork arrived in a Kentucky State Police cruiser at Ironton General Hospital last night. Patrolmen Carter Cornette and Cliff Sanders said the baby, a 6.5 pound boy, cried loudly after being transferred from Mrs. Carl Osburn of Greenup County to speed the delivery.
Nashville youths James D. Sandusky 19 and John T. Kelly 20 were charged with murder in the death of a Good Samaritan motorist. State Safety Commissioner Lynn Bomar said one suspect admitted tying the victim to a tree and using him as a target. Sandusky reportedly fired seven shots from a .22-caliber pistol at Sprouse.
In Columbus the State Association of County Engineers debated boosting annual salaries from 2 100 to 6 000 dollars to 3 600 to 9 000 dollars based on county population. They also approved abolishing the one cent liquid fuel tax and increasing the gasoline tax from 3 to 4 cents per gallon.
President Truman proposes a national defense budget of about 11.08 billion dollars for the coming year, roughly one third of the total budget and higher than the 8.0 billion previously urged by Chairman Taber. He argues the figure balances security with economy and supports UN world security efforts. The plan cuts Army, Navy requests and shifts atomic research funding to civilian control within a broader defense framework. Army and Navy combined staffing would average 1.64 million, with personnel costs comprising about 45 percent of spending.
President Truman told Congress that price support programs could cost up to 1.5 billion annually in the near term as wartime demands fade. He warned of a 330 million loss from price support operations and urged cuts to soil conservation subsidies from 300 million to 200 million for 1948. He also proposed trimming Agriculture Department appropriations by about 73.6 million from the current year.
The president submits a 291 million dollar waterway budget to Congress for the coming 12 months starting July 1, with total flood control and rivers and harbors allocations split into 188.356 million and 102.494 million respectively. War Department engineers hold 200 million unexpended from wartime funds that could be released, while overall spending shows a slight 4 million reduction from current estimates. Major construction is planned on the Missouri and Ohio river basins.
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