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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 13, 1949

Page

15

Laurel Cliff Resident James Radford Widow Dies at 55

Mrs. James Rad ford aged 55 died at 6 a.m. at her Laurel Cliff home. Born May 27, 1894, daughter of Emerson and Lucy Russell of Rutland, she was active in the Free Methodist Church. Surviving are husband, father, sister Letha Russell of Milford, and four nieces. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. Laurel Cliff Free Methodist Church. Burial Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at Ewing funeral home.

Pomeroy James Radford Laurel Cliff Emerson Lucy Russell Rutland Free Methodist Church Letha Russell Middleport Laurel Cliff Free Methodist Church O. L. Fowler Crooksville Beech Grove Cemetery Ewing Funeral Home

Cincinnati Markets Report Cattle Hogs Lambs and Poultry

Markets show brisk activity in Cincinnati and Point Pleasant with cattle and veal strong good grass steers priced at 19 to 22.25 and veal tops around 31. Hogs show mixed values with 18 to 18.60 for 175 to 250 lb, sows 12 to 15.75, light weights 15 to 17, and boars 8 to 15. Poultry butter and eggs noted with fowls and roasters priced per weight and standard egg grades listed. Meat buyers and stockers referenced alongside regional price ranges and stocker calf quotes.

Cincinnati U. S. Dept Point Pleasant

Committee condemns Maritime Commission ship sales

A congressional committee denounces how the Maritime Commission spent federal funds amid a sale of six ships. The ships cost the agency 150 million dollars but were sold to private operators for 70 million. Comptroller General Lindsay Warren sparked the inquiry, and the House Expenditures Committee backed it.

Washington Maritime Commission Commission Lindsay Warren House Expenditures Committee Warren

Truman Signs Bill Raising Service Pay

President Truman signed a $500 million a year military pay bill, giving the armed services their first general pay raise since 1908. Effective October 1, top brass receive increases while the lowest rank remains at 75 dollars, with back privates after five months service gaining five dollars.

Washington Truman Army Navy Air Force Coast Guard

Boyd Orr Named 1949 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Oslo announces Boyd Orr the recipient of the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize. The Scottish food expert and former head of the United Nations FAO advocates world federal government and expanding food production to prevent hunger.

Boyd Orr Oslo Norway Lord Boyd Orr Nobel Committee United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization

Congressional support claimed for world federation plan

Rep Hays of Arkansas says a majority of the House Foreign Affairs Committee backs a resolution for a world federation with an international police force. He predicts Congress will approve it in 1950.

Washington Rep. Hays D-Ark House Foreign Affairs Committee Congress

Reading smog probe already made by private institute

Columbus state health director John D. Porterfield said he cannot start a new smog study in Reading without delaying other projects. He will notify Gov. Lausche by letter that a private group, the Kettering Institute of Applied Physiology in Cincinnati, has already conducted such a study whose results are not public.

Columbus John D. Porterfield Frank J. Lausche Kettering Institute of Applied Physiology Cincinnati

Local Nursing Graduate Attends Methodist Church Commencement

Miss Blanche Elizabeth Brooker, daughter of Howard Brooker, graduated from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Gary Indiana on Sunday September 18. Attendants included Mrs. Blanche Brooker Mrs. Virginia Short and Mr Howard Brooker of Baltimore.

Murray City Blanche Elizabeth Brooker Howard Brooker Methodist Hospital School of Nursing Gary Ind Blanche Brooker Virginia Short Baltimore Hazel Storer Canton Ohio City Methodist Church Robert Dunn Mary Beard Tiffin Ralph Barber Clint Gant Parkersburg Gant George Drake Drakes Clarence Cook Jack Cook Akron Cook Home Charles Vanare Donald Cook Columa Garnet James Jamie Nelsonville Frank James William Addis Buchtel James Roy Hawk the Plains Inlaw William Hawk Benny Smith Chicago Maude Farmer Cecil Lunsford Glouster Farmer Merlin Hillyer Eileen Fund+man Taylorville Pearl Hillyer Hillyer Ruth Palmer Eapha McCoy Sue Paul Lambert Dewey Hicks Howard Rogers Columbus Lester Sorrell Hocking Valley Hospital Logan Eldon Loper Mike Loper Sandy Abahazie Cleveland Johnny Abahazie Steve Abahazie

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