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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1947
Page
3
Peter Edson reports a Washington gathering of six top helicopter authorities and aviation writers. Igor Sikorsky notes current limits include 150 mph speeds and payloads for two to 20 people.
Ohio legislators consider a local government financing plan including a $25 million annual state revenue share, with admissions taxes for municipalities, intangible taxes returned to counties, and a $12 million sales tax allotment. The plan seeks extra $14.5 million this year and accompanies a $585 million general appropriation bill with $75 million for a soldiers bonus.
The piece argues against a proposed 70 million cut in CAA airport funds, detailing unused or underused Ohio airports Zanesville Mansfield Springfield and Youngstown with context about local politics, prior spending, and possible effects. It labels current expenditures as political favors and questions efficiency while urging critical view of Washington economy claims.
The piece argues Canada reduced individual taxes by about 29 percent with 90 percent of taxpayers benefiting while ending a fiscal year with a 352 million dollar surplus. It says the United States should pursue comparable savings and efficiencies rather than expanding expenditures under the New Deal era.
David Lawrence argues the Wagner Act skews bargaining by penalizing an employer for openly explaining options and risks of unionization. He advocates preserving free speech for both sides, warning that current bills muzzle discussion and force one-sided labor relations actions.
A fresh Wagner Murray Dingell compulsory health insurance bill is introduced in Congress. It envisions nationwide prepaid medical and some dental services with federal grants to states and financing mainly from a 3 percent earnings tax up to 3600 dollars. Coverage widens to include civilian federal employees and dependents.
In Louisville Kentucky Diana Barrymore and her husband John Robert Howard appeared before Police Judge Homer C Moe Lellen on charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct. Officers described a fist swinging incident on a downtown street corner and in the police station holdover. The couple later told reporters they knocked down Miss Barrymore and Howard claimed they were struck with a club.
Moscow reports depict Stalin accusing Britain and the United States of breaking a promise to open a western front in 1942 to bleed Russia. The Moscow News reveals excerpts showing Churchill pushing for action while Roosevelt clashes with him.
The AFL Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks opens a week long convention in Cincinnati with Phil E. Ziegler saying wage increase talks of 20 cents an hour will be a central business point.
Warren officials announce new bus service connecting Warren with Windham and Braceville will boost labor supply by about 800 workers daily. The Warren-Newton Falls Transportation Co. reports the service opens today.
Leaders of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers held a mass meeting in Cleveland to plan a lengthy strike against Ohio Bell Telephone Co. after a new wave of cable cutting disrupted service for about an hour, with both sides blaming each other. The company offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of those damaging cables.
Ohioans spent about 2 500 000 for infantile paralysis in the past three years. Arnold L. Larsen, state representative, reported 2 354 cases in 1944 1945 and 1946 at the Polio Preparedness Conference in Columbus.
Coroner S C Ward ruled that 43 year old insurance salesman C W Hankinson died by accidental drowning. Hankinson's body was found in a creek near his Amherst Township home yesterday.
Schenectady New York General Electric announced a new industrial camera with a one millionth second exposure and capable of producing a finished negative within 30 seconds, signaling a leap in rapid photography technology.
Three year old James Garrison was found dead in a pond near his home in New Mitini. Police and local authorities are investigating the tragedy as the body was recovered yesterday.
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