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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1951
Page
1
Marshall explains reasons for ouster as OPS cuts push through. Beef ceilings take effect soon with retail and wholesale reductions planned by fall. Cattlemen warn shortages and illegal markets while industry groups predict a black market boom amid three staged OPS directives and price posts.
Washington The Agriculture Department forecast stable food prices at least into early summer assuming no major shift in international tensions. Supplies remain adequate for civilian consumption and first quarter prices ran about 15 percent above a year earlier with meats eggs fats and oils and processed fruits showing the largest gains.
Washington fixed a three member salary stabilization board to oversee pay raises for executives and white collar workers outside unions. The panel will represent the general public, align with wage board policies, and apply a 10 percent ceiling to salaries under its remit. Chairman George W. Taylor will join as an extra member of the salary board.
Elevator operators and other service workers pressed mop up strikes in New York City against about 200 commercial buildings and skyscrapers not yet signing new wage agreements. The union demands a $6 weekly minimum wage for a 40 hour week for apartment building workers, noting current pay scales from $48.45 to $34.93 for a 48 hour week.
In Cleveland a speech by Edwin Hayato Sakai notes the American worker tends to be older and stay longer with a single employer. He states American workers average about 10 years older than Japanese counterparts, with a seven man touring team praising American productivity under federal cooperation.
More than 300 Allied planes attacked Sinuiju Air Field on the Korea Manchuria border, the biggest raid of the war, with 312 jets and fighter-bombers from all UN air fields. Reports varied on damage to Red planes, while ground gains continued with South Korean advances and shelling of Red positions near Inje and Hongchon.
Columbus report states the Ohio Utilities Commission chief Harold Mason warns that even with proposed additional supplies and storage programs, Ohio faces a gas shortage next winter. A freeze on new or converted burners is likely. Mason returned from a multi-state meeting to form a committee to study the fuel gas crisis and press for increased supplies from pipelines and the FPC.
SAN SALVADOR El Salvador the weekend quake death toll rose to 1200 with about 4000 injured as reports trickled in from isolated disaster regions. President Osorio ordered martial law in the affected coffee belt area while aid and evacuation efforts surged amid fears of disease from the quake zone.
Washington notes James Prioleau Richards of South Carolina will become chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, replacing the late Rep Kee of West Virginia who died yesterday after long illness. Richards says he is not an isolationist nor an interventionist and has acted as head during Kee’s illness this year.
Ottawa County grand jury reported after examining 21 witnesses that the 121 slot machines cited by Gov. Frank Lausche have been removed. Jurors declared the county now clean and gambling ended as of the report.
COLUMBUS cities and towns within 200 miles of Columbus will receive parcel post service by post office trucks early this summer. Postmaster Allen M. Rowe announced the plan to replace the old railroad star routes with motor trucks.
President Truman outlined a definite concrete plan for greater military strength and mobilization in case Moscow starts a third world war. Speaking to about 400 industrialists, he warned peace in Korea does not end Soviet threat and urged rapid buildup, mobilization, and extended price wage rent controls to curb inflation. He emphasized national unity and patriotism to meet the desafio, and proposed higher taxes to fund defense.
New York James J Moran a longtime city official and ally of ex Mayor William O Dwyer faces up to five years in federal prison for perjury before the Senate Crime Committee. Judge Charles A Dewey will impose sentence Friday after a jury of 12 found Moran guilty following a four day trial. Moran remains free on a 25000 bail as sentencing nears.
Air Force authorities investigate a B-25 bomber crash during a routine training flight between Miamisburg and German town. The two pilots, First Lieut. Jay Warren Bishop aged 29 from Elizabeth town Pennsylvania and First Lieut. John Cameron Moyer 35 from Upper Darby Pennsylvania, died when the twin-engine aircraft exploded and burned in a wooded area.
Washington Senator Guy Gillette says investigators will review charges of excessive spending and scurrilous literature in Ohio's senatorial campaign last fall. Republican Senator Taft defeated Democrat Joseph T. Ferguson amid claims of high spending by both sides.
Mrs Anna O Bryant 45 fell approximately two and a half feet from her bedroom window in West Columbus today. Authorities investigate cause of accidental fall and confirm identity. Local residents report no immediate signs of foul play as officers secure the scene.
Secretary of Defense Marshall testified MacArthur pressed for influence over U S foreign policy and was ousted after a March 20 letter to Rep Martin. He cited the letter as central to the ouster debate and noted policy statements require clearance with state and defense departments.
Newark makes history nominating a woman for mayor as primary results leave incumbents challenged in Akron Canton and Youngstown. Slusser seeks fourth term in Akron against Harter while Canton reelects Slusser ally Nichols and Youngstown’s Henderson runs unopposed. Newark also taps Katherine Scoles for Democratic county post after a four-way field.
Washington group from the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development urges the United States to increase economic aid to Western Europe to supplement military support amid growing aggression. They estimate a $1 billion currency deficit in noncommunist Europe, notably Germany and Italy, due to arms buildup and call Allied nations to act for Atlantic security.
In Columbus the Ohio House votes today on a truck tax bill adding about 5 million dollars yearly. The measure faces the Senate backed highway financing plan from Senator Ralph Winter, aiming to raise far more funds. Winter’s plan includes higher baseline taxes, increased truck and bus license fees, a revised highway fund split, and reduced state highway mileage.
16 year old student Pearl M. Sanford found a small sandstone slab on a Scioto River gravel bar near Chillicothe. The 2 by 3 inch inscribed face reads Colonies Francoises 1690 P. Le Moyne Sr. D Thuie with initials I I and EL. Historians weigh its authenticity as evidence of early white presence in the area before existing records.
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