Gallagher Property Purchase Favored By City Council
The Logan city council voiced preliminary support for buying the Gallagher property on Front Street for a playground and park at an estimated net cost around five thousand dollars after delinquent taxes. The measure was referred to committee for study with action anticipated at the next meeting.
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Gallagher
Front Street
Claude Chrisman
City Recreation Board
Chrisman
Ralph Griffin
Southard
Heine Packing Company
Judith Ann Woolery
Logan High School
Ruth Easterling
Oak Grove Cemetery
Harry Shaw
Logan Board of Education
Richard Gerken
Safety Committee
Roger Friend
Logan
Friend
Wood Street
Amos Potts
One Man Pays For 99 Overtime Parking Tags
Buell Eby, among three individuals listed for hearings on overdue overtime parking fines, paid 99 tickets dating from January 1951. He said his truck blocked his storeloading while unloading and urged for loading privileges. city officials warned warrants would be issued for unpaid old tickets. He and others pleaded innocent as hearings were scheduled for Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buell Eby
Eby
Logan
Roger Friend
Harry Shaw
Shaw
Fred Hildebrandt
Phil Henderson
Kansas City Levees Built Still Higher
Flood workers raised levees in Kansas City as Missouri River floods and rain continued. Crests along the Mississippi and Missouri threatened towns. Red Cross counted about 105,000 people displaced. Army engineers estimated $54.8 million in damage across the region.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Mississippi
Iowa
Red Cross
Army
Nebraska
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Convicts Fail In Effort To Raid Arsenal
Heavy armed state police halted a mutineers raid at a Southern Michigan prison arming depot. Prisoners held 10 guards as bargaining leverage and demanded Gov Williams enter talks. Police uncovered a tunnel breach and rushed the block. Warden Frisbie resumed negotiations with signs of possible concession.
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Jackson
Mich
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
Julian N. Frisbie
Freda Mae Nixon Dies Early Today
Freda Mae Nixon 21 died at 6 30 a m at her North Walnut Street home after a heart ailment and illness. She leaves parents Clarence and Beatrice Nixon sister Leora grandparents Mrs Sadie Nixon and Mr and Mrs Charles Lehman. A native of Hocking County she attended Logan schools and graduated in 1950. She was an YWCA member and 4 H leader. Funeral Saturday 2 p m at the Methodist Church. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Body at Leonard Funeral Home after noon Thursday.
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Freda Mae Nixon
Walnut Street
Clarence
Beatrice Lehman Nixon
Leora
Sadie Nixon
Logan
Charles Lehman
Hocking County
YWCA
Methodist Church
R. B. Wilson
Oak Grove Cemetery
Leonard Funeral Home
Ohio witnesses face contempt citations in Red scare probe
The Ohio UnAmerican Activities Commission considered contempt actions against four Dayton witnesses who refused to name as Communists at its sixth hearing on Red activities. Melvin and Pearl Hupman Henry McGill and Vassel Thames were identified as Communists by John C. Mitchell and Asbury Turner, who disclosed past Communist ties. All four have links to the United Electrical Workers, a union expelled by the CIO for Communist activity, and they dodged questions about fighting for the United States in a Russia conflict.
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Columbus
Ohio UnAmerican Activities Commission
Melvin
Pearl F Hupman
Harry McGill
Vassel Thames
Dayton
Ohio
John C. Mitchell
Asbury Turner
Mitchell
Turner
Hupmans
Clinton County
McGill
Thames
United Electrical Workers
CIO
Commission
Gordon Renner
Cincinnati
Hupman
United States
Russia
Sidney Isaacs
Red Party
U. S
Witch of Buchenwald loses appeal in Germany
Ilse Koch known as the Witch of Buchenwald must serve a life term for Nazi camp atrocities. West German supreme court rejected her claim of double jeopardy, ruling she was not convicted twice for the same crime.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Ilse Koch
Witch of
Buchenwald
West German
Supreme Court
Midwest farmer vote in hog price debate shapes 1948 style race
Washington reports farmers in the Corn Belt face low hog prices and political blame. Democrats accuse Republicans of curbing price supports while Brannan argues only buyout schemes could prop hog values, with Congress resisting direct payments. The 1940s farm politics repeat amid campaign strategizing.
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Midwest
80Th Congress
Congress
Agriculture Department
Brannan
Eight C&O freight cars derail near Chillicothe
Eight Chesapeake and Ohio freight cars derailed 11 miles south of Chillicothe Tuesday. A spokesman said two trainmen in the caboose were bruised. Cause of the derailment was not known immediately.
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Cincinnati
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chillicothe
Caboose
Soldiers Learn First Survival Lesson From A Bomb Blast
At Yucca Flat the first post blast survival lesson emerged as soldiers and officers near the detonation stood unhurt under the cloudy flame. The test showed the danger of heat and dust, with a tank crew witnessing fatal heat through an open hatch. The lesson is keep your mouth shut and seek cover, a stark early atomic incident report.
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Atom Bomb Site
Yucca Flat
Japan
Ground
It's Repulsive but It's Harmless in Montreal Welfare Claim
A Montreal welfare worker says some low income families feed their children canned dog food in sandwiches. Nan Garvok of the Montreal diet dispensary notes grocers report doubled sales of canned dog food amid the practice she calls repulsive yet harmless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Nan Garvok
Miss Garvok
Eisenhower wins big in Pennsylvania and New York primaries
In Pennsylvania Eisenhower's decisive victory fuels calls for a large share of the GOP votes. New York favors Harriman for Democratic nominational support, while Kefauver dominates the popularity race among Democrats, with Truman not seeking reelection. Taft backers call the results meaningless for delegates.
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Friends of the General
Robert A. Taft
New York
W. Averell Harriman
Federal Mutual Security
Harriman
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Taft
Harold E. Staswith
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Truman
Kefauver
Chicago
Mrs. Idella Larimer 81 Dies At Hocking Valley Hospital
Mrs Idella Mae Larimer 81 wife of Charles Larimer of 504 East Main Street Logan died at 9 45 am at Hocking Valley Hospital after a few days admission She was a Logan native and would have marked 58 years of marriage May 10 Survived by husband three sons Harold Frank of Logan John of Lancaster a daughter Florence of Logan four grandchildren and one great grandchild Funeral from Leonard Funeral Home Saturday at 10 am Dr R B Wilson officiating Burial Oak Grove Cemetery Friends may call after noon Thursday
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Idella Mae Larimer
Charles Larimer
East Main Street
Hocking Valley Hospital
Larimer
Logan
Harold
Frank
John
Lancaster
Florence Larimer
Leonard Funeral Home
R. B. Wilson
Oak Grove Cemetery
Funeral
Mobilization Panel Report Prompts White House Briefing
Washington reports April 23 that President Truman plans to release findings of the Mobilization Advisory Committee after a 25 minute meeting. The panel urged wage policy restraint and public justification for price hikes, while critics alleged bias in the Wage Stabilization Board.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Industry
Labor
Agriculture
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Morse
Rore
Senate Labor Committee
America
Senate
Sen
Knowland
California
Commerce Sawyer
CIO
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H. G. Southard
Dr. Southard
William Knapp
Council
Health Department
Hocking River
Mulberry Street Bridge
Robert Byers
Sanitarian
Nevada Desert
Nictory
Waltonian Men’s Chorus
J. Richard Farmer
Ralph Poston
Robert Kinney
Lloyd Hinerman
William Mock
Wilbur Oeffler
William Pence
Sam Erbaugh
Kenneth Bright
William Hutchison
Walter Prather
Wiley Thurness
Harry Armstrong
Fred Blume
Harley Meyer
Edgar Hillyer
Paul Schrader
Ralph Moorehead, Jr
N. M. Brown
John Sherwood
B. G. Greenman
Cleon Tucker
Waltonians
Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority
Corn
Thomas E. Dewey
Corn Belt
C&o
Bikini
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate Banking Committee
Elis Arnall
Banking Committee
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
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