Truman Maintains Labor Board Tilt With New Appointee
The piece argues President Truman preserves a pro union majority on the National Labor Relations Board by appointing former Senator Murdock. It discusses Herzog as potential swing vote, predicts three-to-two labor alignment, and questions future Senate confirmations and board interpretations of Taft Hartley and Wagner Act provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
National Labor Relations Board
Murdock
Utah
Howard Smith
Virginia
House
Smith
Houston
Paul Herzog
Mr. Herzog
Reynolds
Gray
Herzog
Senate
White House
Classified Notice on Subscriptions and Rates
Subscription rates listed for Ohio and West Virginia by carrier or mail with weekly carrier payments and overseas options. rates include 41 year 13.00 6 months 6.50 38 months 3.25 1 month 1.25. Foreign and military terms noted with request. National representatives listed in major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
West Virginia
Unio
West Iginia
Mai
Westin
Athens
Jon W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Half-Hearted Savings in Foreign and Domestic Spending Cuts
The House Appropriations committee trimmed a billion and a half from foreign programs while leaving several costly items intact. Critics argue the cuts are not deep enough and point to continued funding for lend-lease liquidation, UNRRA, unemployment programs, rent control, and sugar rationing. The piece links fiscal restraint to tax reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
UNRRA
America
State Monopoly Critique on Liquor and Socialized Medicine
Opinion argues state liquor control invites corruption and monopoly profits harm education budgets. It questions socialized medicine, asserting government workers lack morality and accountability, and urges private or alternative funding to avoid governance abuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Liquor Control Department
The Case Against Partial Socialization of Industry
A speaker warns that government planning leads to a totalitarian state and argues that mixing socialist with free enterprise endangers liberty. It asserts the nation’s wealth rests on free enterprise and individual rights, opposing socializing the electric utility sector and urging preservation of that philosophy for future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Democracy in Korea steady progress amid early governance
Peter Edson reports from Washington on Maj. Gen. Archer Lerch and the South Korean transition to self government. Koreans cross the 38th parallel into the American zone seeking a better life as Americans help build executive judicial and legislative branches with a mixed system of elected and appointed officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Archer L. Lerch
U.S
South Korea
38Th Parallel
Lerch
John R. Hodge
Korea
Ahn Chai Hong
Kimm Kin Sie
Longfellow Quotation on Will and Rest
To will what God doth will is the only science that gives us rest as voiced by Longfellow.
Crop Diseases Prevention Discussed for Gallia Farmers
Gallia County Agent reviews corn borer and fungal diseases affecting oats, tomatoes, and sweet corn. It outlines control steps including resistant hybrids, seed treatments, crop rotations, timely dustings, and soil deep plowing. The bulletin Treatment and Management of Permanent Pastures by D. R. Dood is available at the County Agent's Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O. Wheeler
Bidwell
Gallia
Clinton
Columbia
Gallipolis
D. R. Dood
Ohio State University
Ralph Davis
Safety check seizes 286 vehicles with 62 defects
In Gallipolis during July 13 to 19 officers led by Police Chief Chester A. Leaper and Sheriff Elmer E. Hatfield inspected 286 cars. Defects included inadequate brakes 11 times horn failures eight defective wipers six out headlight beams 14 tail lights 27 defective stop lights 37 bad tires one defective rear vision mirror one and other defects six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Chester A. Leaper
Elmer E. Hatfield
Traffic checks by Gallipolis post police
Gallipolis post State Highway Patrol conducted two road checks on Monday. On Route 35 west of Jackson 97 passenger cars and 64 commercial vehicles were inspected with 48 warnings and one arrest. On Route 160 south of Vinton 28 vehicles were checked with 11 warnings and one arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallipolis Post
State Highway Patrol
Jackson
Vinton
Rent Control Office To Open Weekly In Gallipolis
The area rent control office will be open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm in Gallipolis. Carl J. Martin Jr of the Federal Rent Control in Columbus says he is assigned to Gallia County to aid landlords and tenants with rent problems. He will be in Gallipolis Wednesdays and Thursdays each week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Rio Grande WSCS to Host Special Meeting
Mrs. James Richards will host a special Rio Grande WSCS meeting at 8 p m Wednesday in Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
James Richards
Rio Grande
WSCS
Divorce Granted in Gallia County Gross Neglect Case
Common Pleas Judge Lewis C. Warden granted Pearl H. Devault a divorce from Maude E. Devault on grounds of gross neglect in Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Common Pleas
Lewis C. Warden
Pearl H. Devault
Maude E. Devault
Teachers Celebrate Certificates in Pomeroy-Middleport Area
Meigs County board of examiners issued certificates to listed teachers in the Pomeroy Middleport area. Superintendent Hennessey reported rapid progress on Albany street and commercial lighting installation. A novel court demonstration via telephone by Justice S E Hedges and Deputy H D Nice led to a $30.58 fine for a Columbus resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy-Middleport
Meigs County
D. W. Hennessey
Pomeroy
Albany
Peate S. E. Hedges
H. D. Nice
Columbus
Logan Officials Sublease Limestone Quarry Operation
Logan commissioners leased the limestone quarry opened by the State Highway Department on the Whitecraft farm in Green Township. They will use the output for county roads when state needs are met. Nelsonville Eagles beat Morgan County 9 to 0 at the City Playground with Sam Witham pitching and Jimmy Odenthal going 5 for 5 while breaking a batting slump. Meigs County 4-H leaders formed a Council with Mrs C D Copley president and elected officers Ivan Cotterill, Mrs Harry Davis, Carol Guthrie, and Mrs Homer Midkiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
State Highway Department
Whitecraft
Green Township
Nelsonville Eagles
Sam Witham
Morgan County
Jimmy Odenthal
Eagles
Meigs County
C. D. Copley
Ivan Cotterill
Harry Davis
Carol Guthrie
Homer Midkiff
Grand Petit Jurors To Be Drawn August 9
Gallia term jurors for September will be drawn August 9 by Judge Lewis C. Warden who ordered the jurors commissioners to prepare a list of 200 electors to fill the wheel before August 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Lewis C. Warden
Commissioners of Jurors
Gallia Hospital Admissions and Births Noted in Week
Gallia region patients admitted to Holzer Hospital include Betty Jo Raike Gallipolis Ferry Mrs. Thomas Guthrie Kerr Syrus Roe Mrs. Bert France Garrett Layne Mrs. Harry Swisher Neal Wise Gallipolis Mrs. Sarah Willis Glouster Ephriam Kalklosch Wellston Mrs. Martha Newton Hartford W V Carl Karr Julia Ann Smith Jackson Virginia Gothard Middleport Millie Louis Lancaster Mrs Lawrence Saunders Crown City J E Murray Mercerville Mrs Everett Saunders Northup Clarence Hash Bidwell David Cochran Point Pleasant Sons born to Mrs Donald Farrar Rio Grande Mrs Wesley Morgan Rio Grande Mrs Cecil Child Point Pleasant and Mrs Carl French Gallipolis A daughter born to Mrs Helen Barnhart Middleport Twin sons of Mrs Lawrence Ousley Wellston died shortly after birth Discharged include numerous local residents.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Betty Jo Raike
Gallipolis Ferry
Thomas Guthrie
Kerr
Syrus Roe
Bert France
Garrett Layne
Harry Swisher
Neal Wise
Sarah Willis
Glouster
Ephriam Kalklosch
Wellston
Martha Newton
Hartford
W. Va
Carl Karr
Julia Ann Smith
Jackson
Virginia Gothard
Middleport
Millie Louis
Lancaster
Lawrence Ousley
Alden White
Grover Mitchell
Clara Jenkins
John Claar
Willard Dickens
W. N. Hayward
Shelba Pittinger
J. P. Schrader
Ralph Davis
Edward Stroth
Willard Cragg
James M. Smith
Walter Wedemeyer
Carly W. Myers
Carroll Norris
Curtis Jenkins
Paul Pullins
Harry Coughenour
Cecil Childs
Richard Grant
Lora ‘Tagg
Gallia County votes for road work and equipment
Gallia County commissioners authorize purchase of a maintainer for 7000 dollars and a truck for 2200 dollars. They set aside 5000 dollars for maintenance and gravel and limestone allocations for county roads. Bids are invited for coal for courthouse and county home with a noon August 4 deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
C. L. Johnson
W. G. Haskins
T. E. Daniels
W. Emmett Slagle
Clay Township
Friendly Ridge
Ingalls Road
William Hollow
Tunner
Clay Chapel-Yellowtown
Burnt Run
Teens Run
Providence
Providence School
Raccoon
Evans
Green Township
Blessing Road
Neighborhood
Herman-Northup
Harrison Township
Northup - Yellowtown
Engineer Set For Tax Talks
Gallia County engineer Leonard to attend Columbus directors meeting at the Neil House on the proposed constitutional amendment. The measure would move the one cent gas tax from the state general fund to the road fund and appear on this fall’s ballot. He received two telegrams from society and association leaders about meeting time and a petition deadline of August 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
N. Leonard
Gallia
State County Engineers Society
Columbus
Neil House
State General Fund
Leonard
Walter T. Jacobs
Toledo
Society
Donald A. Patterson
Paul C. Shafer
Engineers’ Association
Pallbearers Named At A. M. Hoyt Rites
Pallbearers at the Albert M. Hoyt funeral at Centenary Church in Gallipolis were Sheriff Elmer E. Hatfield Dr C Priestley Charles Northup R A Pitchford Harry Hulshorst and Luther Shoemaker The Rev Lowell A Nihizer of Rodney officiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Albert M. Hoyt
Centenary Church
Elmer E. Hatfield
Dr. C. Priestley
Charles Northup
R A. Pitchford
Harry Hulshorst
Luther Shoemaker
Lowell A. Nihizer
Rodney
Driver Arrested in Gallipolis For No License
Betty Lee Kent aged 24 of Kansas City Missouri was arrested by State Highway Patrolmen on a charge of lacking a driver's license. She was fined five dollars plus court costs by Justice of the Peace Art Lesser of Jackson.
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Gallipolis
Betty Lee Kent
Kansas City
Justice of the Peace Art Lesser of
Jackson
Judson Picnic Planned at Chickamauga Park
Gallipolis announces Ann Judson Sunday School Class picnic set for 6 30 p.m. Thursday at Chickamauga Park. If rain arrives the event moves to First Baptist Church.
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Gallipolis
Ann Judson
Chickamauga Park
First Baptist Church
John Finley Dies at 72. Gallia Farm Owner
Gallia farmer John Finley 72 of Teens Run Road near Bladen died in Holzer Hospital at 6 10 p m Monday from coronary thrombosis following pneumonia He operated his farm until illness native to Gallia County Married twice and survived by three daughters and a son Funeral plans pending with Miller's funeral home in charge Relatives from Maryland and three sisters survive his passing.
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Gallipolis
John Finley
Ralph Jeffers
Nettie
Bladen
Hugh Jeffers
Edna
Racine
Edward Williamson
Ravenswood
Paul Finley
Noah Clark
Lena Grove
Maryland
Finley
Cora Tilton
Zanesville
Carrie Chevalier
Eva Burnette
Columbus
Miller
Seventeen Gallipolis Residents Fined or Bonded in Weekend Violations
Gallipolis police arrested seventeen people over the weekend for intoxication and related charges. Names include Draper Cordill Rutherford Durst White Crabtree and Johnson with varying fines and bonds. One driver Fife was fined fifty dollars and had driving rights suspended for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
George H. Draper
Eastern Ave
Kenneth Cordill
Robert Rutherford
Henry E. Durst
Middleport
Glenn White
Bidwell
Homer Crabtree
Rodney
Charles Johnson
Ed Johnson
Cecil White
Charles Biffle
Clarence Prince
Greyson
Percy Bryant
City
Hillis Pinkerman
Mercerville
Joe Fife
Frank Simmons
Clarksburg
W. Va
Clayton W. Spencer
Warren Darnell
Clere Sayre
Point Pleasant
Route 2
River traffic at Gallipolis Locks on Ohio River shown
Gauges at Gallipolis Locks show 18 and 14.5 feet with 15 feet on rollers on Monday afternoon. Upstream passages include the Virginia at 2 50 p.m. and Dan Sullivan at 8 15 p.m. Down boats seen at 12 05 p.m. and 2 15 p.m. on the Marietta reach. Kanawha Falls gauge reading 2.19 feet and falling while Atlas moves up the Kanawha at 1 25 p.m.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Eureka
Virginia
William Larimer Jones
Dan Sullivan
Ohio
Gordon Green
Bellville
Penn
Millwood
W. Va
Bruce
Maysville
Bevilla
New Richmond
Heekin
Upper Wheeling
Monongahela
Lower Wheeling
Peace
Marietta
Kanawha Falls
Winfield
Kanawha River
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David Lawrence
National Dispatch
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Newspaper Association
Associated Press
Peter Edson
Japan
Fenelon
Forresta
BROWN
Roy Monroe
Walnut Township
L. M. Skidmore
Tom Agee
Letart
Gallia Hospital
A. M. Hoyt
Judson
By Galbraith
NEA Service, Inc
T. M. Reg
U.S. Pat
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