150 High School Students Tour Vinton Timber Lands
Scientific timber land methods were shown to about 150 Southeastern Ohio high school students during a tour of the Vinton Furnace Tract in Mc Arthur. The event, part of Ohio Hill Country Forestry Day, urged youths to stay on the farm by showing profits from proper land use.
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Southeastern Ohio
Vinton Furnace
McArthur
SEO Regional Council
Council
E. B. Smith
SEO
Smith
Athens County
Athens
Meigs
Gallia
Vinton
Jackson
Hocking
Baker-Wood Preserving Co
Hamden
Clyde English
SEC
House Votes Tax Relief For Congress
The House approved a budget bill funding operations of Congress and provided tax relief for members plus free hometown office space. The measure raised House allotments to $62,391,780, slightly above committee recommendations but well below others, after prior belt tightening.
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Washington
House
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Congressional
Senate
Cincinnati Mother Heads Taft Drive
Mrs. Irvin B. Klei, a mother of six and grandmother, will be state campaign manager for Charles P. Taft in the Ohio governor race. She has 20 years in politics and helped Cincinnati's charter movement. She previously served as executive secretary for Independents for Taft in Taft's 1950 campaign.
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Cincinnati
Irvin B. Klei
Charles P. Taft
Ohio
MacArthur Warns Against Political Conniving In Michigan Address
Gen Douglas MacArthur cited the danger of political conniving and a possible move toward a military state during a speech to a joint Michigan legislature session in Lansing. He urged leaders not to infiltrate rivals ranks and warned republics fall when civilians cede power to the military, without naming parties.
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Lansing
Mich
Douglas MacArthur
America
Michigan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
MacArthur
Japan
Dems Name Dever and Rayburn for National Convention
Democratic leaders began organizing the national convention with a keynote speech by Gov. Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts and Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas chosen as permanent chairman. McKinney cited geographical balance as a key aim for the gathering.
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Chicago
Paul A. Dever
Massachusetts
Democratic Convention Arrangements Committee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Frank E. McKinney
Dever
Rayburn
FBI Arrests Ohio Banker Embezzlement Case Probed
Alliance Ohio bank official Richard M. McCullough 41 assistant cashier at Mount Union Bank bound to federal grand jury on embezzlement charges totaling 27549 dollars. He allegedly mis applied 1500 last May 6 and made a 20000 false entry three days earlier. Up to five years in prison possible. FBI Cleveland chief Paul J. Shine cited bank examiners.
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Alliance
Federal Grand Jury
Richard M. McCullough
Mount Union Bank
FBI
U.S
William Laub
Akron
Grand
McCullough
Paul J. Shine
Cleveland
Kirchner denies horsemeat knowledge in Kay Brand trial
Findlay Ohio Joseph Kirchner former owner of Kay Brand Packing testified he did not know his company sold horse meat as beef. He said he thought purchases by Louis Wolff a Kay Brand agent of 30,000 pounds weekly for two years were Mexican beef. He is the first of nine Kay Brand employees to stand trial on horsemeat sale charges.
Continental Closes Cambridge Plant in New York
Continental Can Co. will close its Cambridge plastics plant on August 15. President Hans A Eggers said ongoing financial losses justify ending operations and the firm will seek to reassign workers to other company plants.
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New York
Continental Can Co
Cambridge, C
Hans A. Eggerss
Cambridge
Skywatch postponed across 27 states
Operation Skywatch a round the clock aircraft spotting project scheduled to begin Saturday in 27 states has been postponed indefinitely. Unexplained orders were telephoned last night from the Columbus filter center to Athens Observer Corps boss C. B. Nye and Gallipolis chief observer Garland Nibert Jr and Dave Collins supervisor in Gallipolis. Nibert said the call came at about 10 15 p m Thursday. Posts in the region were told to stand by for further notice.
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Athens
Gallipolis
Columbus
C. B. Nye
Fire-Tassin Tank Unveiled in Army’s Flame Thrower Tank
Aberdeen Maryland reports the Army has revealed its new flame-throwing M 47 medium tank with the flame thrower as the main armament. The design allows a larger flame thrower and more fuel storage inside the tank, replacing the removed cannon. Some specifics remain secret.
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Aberdeen
Oil strike cools as 15 bargaining talks set nationwide
United and oil company negotiators hold 15 sessions amid a 16 day oil strike affecting 90 000 workers across 22 unions. Local agreements with 70 firms include Standard Oil Indiana Sugar Creek 1400 workers and Globe Refining Lemont 400 workers. WSB wage ceiling 15 cents an hour. federal officials fear aviation fuel shortage persists.
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Washington
O. A. Knight
Standard Oil of Indiana
Sugar Creek
Globe Refining Company
Lemont
Continental Oil
Denver
Sinclair and Phillips
WSB
Cyruss. Ching
Federal Conciliation Service
Ex Cons Questioned In Slaying At Maple Heights Station
UPPER SANDUSKY AP Two Cleveland ex convicts Albert Sauerhass and John Horay are being questioned by Wyandot County deputies in the dynamite murder of Maple Heights operator Karl Kwinem. Kwinem, 38, was found shot and blown apart in a woods near here after a May 8 explosion and burned auto without license.
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Upper Sandusky
Wyandot County
Cleveland
Maple Heights
James Brewer
Albert P. Sauerhass
John J. Horay
Karl Kwinem
Carl Stone
Here
Carl Stansberry
Stansberry
Canada Hikes Newsprint Price To 126 Per Ton
Washington says Ottawa will authorize a ten dollar per ton rise in newsprint cost, effective June 15, boosting delivered price to New York to 126 dollars per ton. Price hike, requested by Canadian manufacturers, would raise publishing costs in the United States. Arnall opposes the move.
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Washington
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
Canada
New York
Oregon Voters Expected To Set Record Turnout
Sunny weather could bring out about two thirds of Oregon's 778000 registered voters in a potential turnout record. The piece notes this as the first real test of Eisenhower strength in the Far West and mentions related party delegate dynamics in North Dakota Missouri and Washington with Kefauver leading in Spokane.
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Oregon
Eisenhower
Far West
North Dakota
Bismarck
Taft
Missouri
Kirksville
Kefauver
Spokane
Washington
Harry Henson
Spring raiders clash with police at Barnard dorms
The report details male student raids on coed dormitories across several colleges. At Columbia University Barnard College police fought over 1000 students for two hours as men entered female dorms and stole undergarments while coeds threw items from windows. Similar incidents occurred at the University of Miami Dickinson dorms with fire hoses. In Cambridge a campus rally over a comic strip character turned riotous, resulting in 28 arrests.
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New York
Columbia University
University of Miami
Columbia
Barnard College
University
Universities of
Florida
Nebraska
Iowa
Purdue
Denver
Otterbein College
Ohio
Dickinson
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Holt Wins West Virginia Governor Nomination in Primary
In West Virginia, Rush D. Holt leads a crowded Republican gubernatorial field with a decisive total over three rivals, to face Democrat Marland in the fall. Kilgore wins Democratic Senate nomination. Taft leads presidentials with 80 percent counted as results trickle in.
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Point Pleasant
Rush D. Holt
John D. Copen Haver
J. W. Maxwell
Melvin Muntzing
Holt
William C. Marland
Marland
Cyrus S. Kump
E. H. Hedrick
Beckley
Ray Safer
Harley M. D. Kilgore
J. Horner Davis
Charleston
U. S
Kilgore
Chapman Revercomb
Revercomb
M. G. Burnside
William Campbell
Will Neal
Howard Bailey
State Board of Public Works
Lawyers Back Ohio Conclave
The Ohio State Bar Association endorsed proposals for a state constitutional convention and gubernatorial appointment of judges as part of its 72nd biennial convention in Cleveland. Other items call for more municipal home rule, executive power strengthening, and legislative reapportionment. Taft opposed the constitutional convention after council endorsement.
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Cleveland
Ohio State Bar Association
Bar Association
American Jet Ace Missing in Korea
The Air Force announced Col. Walker M. Mahurin a famed fighter pilot was shot down over Korea Tuesday. The 33 year old Sabre jet ace who downed more than 250 planes in two wars has not been heard from since reporting that he had been hit by flak and was possibly on fire. Mahurin was from Fort Wayne Indiana and helped pioneer Sabre jet dive bombing.
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U. S
Lausche Plans Flight to 37th Division at Camp Polk
Gov. Frank J. Lausche will fly from Columbus at 8 a.m. to inspect Ohio's 37th infantry division at Camp Polk Louisiana. He travels with Mrs. Lausche Adj. Gen. Albert Henderson and Columbus Akron Youngstown and Cleveland newsmen. He said he will visit as many units as possible this afternoon to review their training.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
37Th Infantry Division
Camp Polk
Lausche
Adj
Albert Henderson
Akron
Youngstown
Cleveland
Allies Again Decline Red POW Barter in Panmunjom Talks
In ninth straight day of armistice discussions at Panmunjom, Vice Admiral C Turner Joy rebuffed the Red proposal to exchange 132000 prisoners for 12000 Allied captives and urged a recess until new terms emerge. A further session was set for tomorrow at 11 am local time.
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Munsan
Korea
Red
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Panmunjom
Joy
Reds
Planes Silence Red Artillery Planes Silence Red Artillery
Allied planes silenced 20 Red guns and damaged two tanks along the Korean battlefront as 1220 sorties flew in clear weather. Fighter bombers hit communication lines and a large vehicle repair center near Pyongyang. Air Force reports 30 buildings destroyed and rail lines cut in 65 locations near the Manchurian border.
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Seoul
Korea
Pyongyang
Kefauver Leads Harriman in Democratic Delegate Race
A new Pennsylvania delegate survey shows W. Averell Harriman regaining lead over Estes Kefauver in the race for Democratic presidential nominating delegates. The AP tally shifts as Harriman moves from second to contender status, with 45 Pennsylvania delegates still uncommitted.
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W. Averell Harriman
Pennsylvania
Harriman
Mutual Security
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Associated Press
Jauver
New York
Kefauver
Jailed Man Casts Vote in breach of jail rules
Odd Nibert, jailed for illegal whiskey sales, fled briefly to vote after being released on a French leave. Police recovered him. Ernest Hesson, city police chief and sheriff candidate, escorted four prisoners to the polls. Nibert did not return to jail. Judge Lewis Miller said Hesson acted without court authority.
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Point Pleasant
Frank Morrison
Odd Nibert
Circuit Court
J. G. F. Johnson
Ernest Hesson
Nibert
Carl Aeiker
Aeiker
Johnson
Lewis Miller
Hesson
Ohio Five Day Forecast Details
Temperatures in Ohio will run near normal with highs from 68 in the north to 74 in the south and lows from 48 to 50. A warmer Sunday followed by cooler Monday and Tuesday, then warmer Wednesday. Showers occur tonight and Saturday and again late Tuesday and Wednesday, totaling three quarters to one and a half inches.
Sea Returns Dead Angler to Vanished Fisherman’s Home
Humboldt County coroner states Stephen Mersich died of a heart attack while fishing solo near Eureka California. After firing seven shots to attract help, he collapsed on his boat which drifted to a breakwater and ran dry. The sea carried his body home for burial.
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Eureka
Calif
Stephen Merisch
Stephen Merssch
Humboldt County
Lloyd Wallace
California
Mersich
Humboldt Bay
CIO Stands Put on WSB Pay Demands
Philadelphia union leader Philip Murray said he would renew peace talks only if the steel industry initiates them. He stressed the 26 cent an hour package plus union shop endorsed by the Wage Stabilization Board remains non negotiable, and warned there would be no further compromise.
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Philadelphia
Steelworkers Union
Philip Murray
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Taft Campaign Spends 32131 As Primary Nears
The Charles P. Taft for governor committee reported spending 32131 in its bid for the Republican nomination in the May 6 primary. Treasurer C. W. Broeman said total contributions were 34036 with 1095 on hand to cover unpaid bills totaling 17110. Unpaid debts include three loans totaling 10500 with Taft loaning 5000 and personal contributions of 1452.
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Columbus
Charles P. Taft
Taft
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Thomas A. Herbert
Cleveland
Roscoe R. Walcutt
C. W. Broeman
Taft Committee
Broeman
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