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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1949
Page
2
The Stater announces a summer edition aimed at local news for students on break. It pledges to be a home-town paper with aims to entertain and inform, delivered Tuesdays and Fridays by and for the student body.
A compact trivia key listing ten questions with answers. Includes state abbreviations, leukocytosis, Mercury as messenger, South America toothless anteater, Arbor Day Nebraska, first Christmas card by W E Dobson, Parmesan as not a soft cheese, Christian Science founder, red green color blindness, and Aesop as Greek slave.
Entered as second class matter October 11 1927 at the Post Office Kent Ohio under the act of 1879. Commercial Press Inc. 1155 Depeyster St Kent Ohio lists Robert West as Editor in Chief and George Baldridge as Business Manager.
The Veterans Administration office in Cleveland says June benefit checks may be delayed by a few days due to summer reductions in staff. The notice cites fewer employees as the reason for the late distribution of payments to veterans.
A spoof column by George Scriven denounces sports writers for obscure jargon and offers a plan to end sports pages. He mocks terms like cagers and hardwood and suggests moving sports coverage to the society desk. The piece ends with class dismissal and a note about future columns.
Veterans may switch from monthly premiums to quarterly semi annual or annual payments to save money and gain convenience. Details are available at VA offices or by writing to the VA district office in Columbus Ohio. The canteen service remains self supporting with prices covering operating costs only.
Britannica notes the present erosion rate would lower the entire Mississippi river drainage basin by one foot in about 6,000 years. The figure highlights long term geological change across a vast area.
Aspen hosts a two week Goethe Bicentennial Convocation from June 27 to July 16 featuring lectures by Albert Schweitzer Jose Ortega y Gasset G A Borgese and Ernst R Curtius and writers Thornton Wilder Stephen Spender Ludwig Lewisohn plus a music festival led by Dimitri Mitropoulos with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Recitals by Erica Morini Herta Glaz Mack Harrell Jerome Hines Dorothy Maynor Artur Rubinstein Gregor Piatigorsky Victor Rabin and Vitya Vronsky Special rates of 65 for a ten day convocation including lectures and concerts available to students professors and faculty Reservations through the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival Aspen Colorado.
All student drivers without current plate registrations must register now or face a $1 late fee. Traffic director Leslie Morgan urges compliance. The Traffic Department is located at the entrance to the east gymnasium corridor.
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