Sporn plant adds third generating unit at Graham Station
Ohio Power Co official H B Kress disclosed a third unit will be added to the Philip Sporn plant at Graham Station. The project raises total capacity to 555000 horsepower with cost over 50 million dollars and potential for further expansion. The plant, located at West Virginia along the Ohio River opposite Racine, is a joint venture with Appalachian Electric Power Co. First unit due in about a year, second in June 1950, and the third scheduled for completion in July 1951.
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Philip Sporn
Ohio Valley
Kress
Ohio Power
Appalachian Electric Power Co
West Virginia
Ohio River
Racine
Mr. Kress
Ohio-West Virginia
Sporn
Tidd
Steubenville
Ohio
Windsor
Wheeling
W. Va
Philo
Zanesville
U S Deal Seen as Cause of Attack on Tito Regime
Washington and Belgrade near a $30 million financial settlement related to nationalized Yugoslav property. Tito’s split with the Soviet bloc fuels rumors of Western aid as a possible option if he remains at odds with Moscow.
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U. S
Tito
Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Belgrade
Prise
Delight
Moscow
Kremlin
Balkan
Truck Driver Thrown Through Windshield in Rutland Crash
Edward Schaeffer of Pomeroy is under observation at Meigs County General Hospital after head injuries from being thrown through the windshield of a dump truck. The truck struck coal dumped on Route 124 by an out of control trailer-truck driven by 18 year old Raymond Henry of Wellston during an attempted pass near Rutland.
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Pomeroy
Edward Schaeffer
Meigs County General Hospital
Raymond Henry
Wellston
Rutland
Horse Leaves Home To See the City
A sorrel horse wandered around POINT PLEASANT yesterday wearing work harness. It came from Henderson and pulled loose from the plow. It traveled up First Street to Viand and as far north as Seventh Street before being halted. The horse belongs to Robert Darst. It ran away to see the city.
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Point Pleasant
Henderson
Shadle Bridge
First St
Viand
Seventh St
Robert Darst
High Wind Damages Homes Cars and Planes in Logan
A 1:25 p.m. Tuesday wind storm damaged two houses two autos and three planes at Logan. A tree crushed parts of a residence at 334 West Front Street and another tree damaged a roof and dented a car. Piper Cubs at the airport suffered extensive damage estimated near $1 000 as power lines fell and circuits failed citywide. Local crews, aided by Lancaster, cleared lines and restored service by night.
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Logan
D. E. Snook
Front St
Walter Brooker
Marie Lines
W. Hunter
Dale Derr
Lee W. Harper
Harper
Roy Stallsmith
John
Hunter St
Spring Street
Schoolhouse Hill
Market
Washington St
Service Department
Boyd Wright
J. R. Young
Ohio Power Co
East
South Logan
East Street
Young
Lancaster
Higher Meat Prices Predicted for Summer
Washington forecasts show meat on the hoof at record levels may rise further this summer and early fall. Hog, cattle and sheep prices surged about 8 percent from mid May to mid June as supplies to market fell while consumer demand stayed firm.
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Washington
The
Agriculture Department
Steelworker Pay Raise Forecast by Iron Age
The Iron Age reports steelworkers will receive a pay raise within a few weeks and notes steel prices may rise by four to six dollars per ton over current quotations from major firms. The weekly publication describes expected wage gains and price increases in the steel industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metalworking Trade Weekly
Last British Troops Leave Palestine After 31 Years
British forces complete 31 years of occupation as the last troops withdraw from Haifa. Lt. Gen. Gordon H. A. MacMillan, the final commander, leads the orderly exit behind barbed wire to ships and landing craft. Evacuation began May 15.
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Haifa
Israel
Palestine
Holy Land
Gordon H. A. MacMillan
Britain
Housing Shortage Hits Ohio Pen Death Row
Columbus report says Ohio Penitentiary death row is full with 14 cells occupied. Warden Ralph W. Alvis plans seven new death row cells as three more condemned men are expected, while Clifford Gayles faces execution Friday night.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Ralph W. Alvis
Clifford Gayles
Xenia
Court Upholds Taft Hartley Provisions On Affidavits
A three judge federal panel upheld Taft Hartley Act provisions requiring union officers to sign non Communist affidavits and to file financial statements. Union lawyers said they will appeal to the Supreme Court.
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New York
U. S. Supreme Court
GOP Eyes World Scene Dems Study Candidates
Republicans focus on foreign policy with Dewey and Dulles discussing the Berlin crisis by phone. Warren returns to New York. campaign strategy details remain private as Democrats push domestic issues and price concerns. O mahoney cites high prices as a key campaign fault, while Truman contemplates a possible draft by July.
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Associated Press
Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Dewey
Berlin
Dulles
Earl Warren
New York
Warren
California
Case Scientists Find Star Brighter Than Sun
Scientists at Case Tech's observatory report a supergiant red star about 10 000 times brighter than the sun. Dr J M Nassau said infrared photography allows deeper space study, presented to the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena.
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Pasadena
Calif
Case Tech
Cleveland
Case
J. M. Nassau
Cleveland Observatory
American Astronomical Society
2000 Union Members Quit CIO Group
Cleveland report says two thousand MMSW Union members voted to withdraw from CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Casting Division over affidavits and transfer to the CIO National Association of Die Casting Workers. Local 755 represents Aluminum Company of America workers in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Cio-Mine
MMSW
Cio-National Association of Die Casting Workers
Aluminum Company of America
Akron Mayor Vetoes Pay Increase Bill
Mayor Charles Slusser vetoed a $12.50 monthly wage hike for city employees citing lack of funds. The council had approved the increase recently.
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Akron
Charles Slusser
Tax Evasion Charged To Former Inquirer Owners
A federal grand jury indicted Eleanor Louise Patenotte, former owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and her son Raymond for attempted evasion of 2 million dollars in federal income taxes and failure to report over 8 million dollars in profit from the paper sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eleanor Louise Patenotte
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Raymond
Train Enables Firemen Move Portable Pump to Fire
Middleport volunteers faced a blaze at Hobson near here using a yard engine to carry a portable pump and equipment. They drew water from the engine tank and brought the fire under control with no reported cause or damage yet fixed.
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Middleport
New York Central Railroad
Hobson
Parley Called In Threatened Timken Strike
A federal conciliator stepped in to avert a midnight strike at Timken Roller Bearing Co in Canton Ohio. The United Steelworkers demanded 11 cent hourly raises and removal of wage inequities tied to a War Labor Board directive. Timken offered 5.13 million dollars to settle the wage issue while union negotiators walked out over an ad campaign.
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Canton
Timken Roller Bearing Co
T. W. Robertson
Cleveland
Timken
War Labor Board
Draft Order Undecided in Selective Service
Officials said no final decision on the first called age group for the draft. Age will determine induction order rather than a lottery. Twenty-one has been cited as a starting point, with President Truman to decide. Birthdays will determine sequence within the chosen age group, from January 1 to December 31. It remains undecided whether the first group will be exhausted before another is called.
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Washington
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Republican Congress
Truman
Democratic Platform Committee
Philadelphia
Leon Henderson
Americans For Democratic Action
OPA
Dwight Eisenhower
P—Selective Service
FDR's Granddaughter to Wed Republican
Anna Eleanor Boettiger, Roosevelt's eldest granddaughter and a Democratic figure in four elections, will marry Van H Seagraves, 25, son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Seagraves of Oregon City, Ore., and the couple plans a July 7 wedding.
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Phoenix
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor
Sissie) Boettiger
White House
van H. Seagraves
Charles Seagraves
Oregon City
Ore
Ironton School Head Hired at Barberton
Paul G. Gunnett, Ironton schools superintendent, signed a three year Barberton contract at 7000 dollars annually. He replaces Walter S. Crewson, who resigned to lead Hamilton schools.
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Barberton
Paul G. Gunnett
Ironton
Gunnett
Board of Education
Walter S. Crewson
Hamilton
Newspaper Executives To Buy Radio Station
Warren Tribune Chronicle executives are part of a syndicate that has contracted to purchase WRRN in Warren Ohio from Nied and Stevens Inc pending FCC approval. The price is not disclosed.
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Warren, O
WRRN
Warren Tribune- Chronicle
Federal Communications Commission
Nied and Stevens, Inc
Council Snarl Delays Bus Service Renewal
Valley Motor Transit Co. service restart was postponed as city council debates to extend current fares stalled. An agreement had set resumption for today after yesterday’s accord, but legislative delays halted the plan.
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Council
Steubenville
Valley Motor Transit Co
Author, Lawyer William P Bull Dies in Niagara on the Lake
William Perkins Bull aged 78, a noted author and lawyer, died today in Niagara on the Lake Ontario.
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Niagara-On-The-Lake
Best Receives Life Sentence For Treason
Robert H. Best, an American newspaperman and radio propagandist for German Nazis at $200 a month, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason by Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford. A $10,000 fine was also ordered after the government urged the death penalty.
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Boston
Robert H. Best
Francis J. W. Ford
Best
Ford
T. Vincent Quinn
United States
Charles W. Bartlett
Dr E C Class of Ohio U dies at home
Dr E C Class 51 of 50 Fairview Ave died at home after a six and a half year illness. on leave from Ohio University faculty he joined the OU College of Education in 1932 and served until 1942. born Newport Kentucky he held AB from Baldwin Wallace MA from Colorado State Teachers College and PhD from Columbia Teachers College. He taught in Denver schools and at Flagstaff Arizona and Clarion Pennsylvania. Survived by wife Lydia M Class and four sisters in Kentucky. Funeral Friday 4 pm at First Methodist Church.
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E. C. Class
Fairview Ave
Ohio University
Class
OU College of Education
Newport
Baldwin-Wallace College
Colorado State Teachers’ College
Columbia University Teachers’ College
Denver
Colo
Flagstaff State Teachers
M. A. Rogers
San Bernadino
Calif
Carrie McHale
Anna Eichmann
Florence Filer
Kentucky
First Methodist Church
Harold F. Kellogg
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral
Water Shortage Fears Amid Heavy Rains At Salem
Salem with 13 000 residents faced a water shortage despite recent heavy rains. Service Director Frank K Wilson banned air conditioning in restaurants stores and factories. Officials blamed high domestic and industrial demand as the city relies on deep wells for supplies.
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Salem
Frank K. Wilson
Bricklayers Elect Toledo President in Ohio Union
Bernard Heppner of Fremont Ohio was elected president of the Ohio Conference of Bricklayers Unions AFL at a recent meeting. The selection names Heppner as head of the statewide union body.
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Bricklayers Elect
Toledo
Bernard Heppner
Fremont
Ohio
Ohio Conference of Bricklayers Unions
AFL
Gov Herbert and wife in minor car mishap near Washington
Governor Thomas J. Herbert and his wife were in a minor auto accident while en route to Cincinnati for the Ohio River Compact signing. Executive secretary John Robert Jones was driving. no injuries to the Herbert party. Opposing driver Fred W. Weidmayer, 81, Orlando, Fla., sustained a severely lacerated hand.
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Washington
Thomas J. Herbert
Cincinenati
John Robert Jones
Jones
Fred W. Weidmayer
Orlando
Fla
Weidmayer
Traffic deaths rise in May after seven months
The nation recorded 2,650 highway fatalities in May, up from 2,570 in May 1947, marking the first increase in seven months. Through May, the total highway deaths reached 11,270 for the year.
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Chicago
Recommend Hypnotism as Cure for Arguments
The Rev. Paul T. Mc Clurkin, pastor and psychologist from Hadley Massachusetts, advised at the Hi Y congress that couples in a family storm should relax and talk in soothing tones. He suggested hypnotism as a calming technique to prevent quarrels.
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Oxford
Paul T. McClurkin
McClurkin
First Congregational Church
Hadley
Mass
Four Die in Plane Crash Near Munich
A U S Air Force C 45 transport crashed near Munich killing four American crew members.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Munich
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