Ohio budget battles end work as Lausche moves pensions
In Columbus Ohio lawmakers and Governor Lausche push to end the 98th General Assembly. The budget passes House after record high negotiations with Senate changes. House approves two year budget while pensions and state employee wages await funding and final adjournment July 29.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
98Th General Assembly
Lausche
House
Senate
Secret Blair House meeting fuels atomic talk
President Truman met privately with 16 high level officials at Blair House for two hours and 33 minutes. No details were released, but the closed session amid Senate debates and atomic energy scrutiny sparked speculation about international atomic weapons developments.
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Blair House
Czech Reds Move to Seize Catholic Church Control
In Prague the communist justice minister called Archbishop Josef Beran a traitor and pushed a law to grant the Red government full control over the Roman Catholic Church. Information minister Vaclav Kopecky accused Pope Pius XII and the church of blessing fascism, signaling sharp state attacks.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Alexei Cepicka
Central Action Committee
The
National Front
Vaclav Kopecky
Pius XII
Pontiff
Church
Lausche appoints Dickerson to Ohio State Industrial Commission
Governor Frank J. Lausche announces the appointment of J. Maynard Dickerson of Youngstown to the State Industrial Commission for a term ending June 30, 1955. Dickerson is identified as a Negro attorney. The governor also reappoints Clyde Hissong of Columbus as state education director for a term ending August 15, 1953.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
J. Maynard Dickerson
Youngstown
State Industrial Commission
Dickerson
Clyde Hissong
NFU Backs Farm Bill Endorses Administration Plan
The National Farmers Union announced support for the administration's farm bill today. The union cited provisions aiding farmers and rural communities and urged swift congressional passage.
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NFU
Washington
The
National Farmers Union
Taft Speaks Tonight on "Dangerous Taxation" Broadcast
Senator Taft of Ohio is set to address the nation on the Mutual network from 9 45 to 10 PM EST tonight reacting to President Truman's economic report His topic will be Dangerous Taxation A separate Washington dispatch notes plans for a nationwide business conditions survey by the Secretary of Commerce for potential government action if needed
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Truman
Senate
Europe
Washington
Taft
Rohio
Mutual Broadcasting Company
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
International
Legislature Adopts Adjournment In Ohio House Vote
The Ohio Legislature ended its sessions with the House approving Senate amendments to an adjournment resolution by 106 to 9. The action marks a definite conclusion to the current legislative term.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate
Agree on Slash In Arms Funds
Senators tentatively agreed to cut about 1.28 billion dollars from current military spending this fiscal year. Anonymity withheld, a second session was set to continue cuts later. House had approved 15.9 billion for Army Navy and Air Forces with further reductions proposed including 799 million from Air Forces and ending one year enlistments to save 50 million.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Army
Navy
Air Forces
Hero Roger Young Buried in Ohio Village
The body of WWII hero Roger Young will be sent to Green Springs Ohio for burial on July 22. A posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, he single handedly attacked a Japanese machine gun nest on New Georgia Solomons July 31 1943.
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Roger Young
Ohio Village
Chicago
Green Springs
Frank Loesser
Young
37Th
New Georgia
Solomons
Newspaperman Walter Morrow Dies at 54
Walter Morrow a widely known newspaperman died from a heart ailment at age 54 in Oklahoma City. His last newsroom post was editor of the Columbus Ohio Citizen in 1942.
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Oklahoma City
Walter Morrow
Columbus
Ohio
Citizen
Senate Eyes Anti Low Mood Legislation To Boost Output
The bill aims to raise annual production to 300 billion dollars and creates a 2 billion unemployment reserve fund with 30 billion for non federal public works planning. President Truman backs the plan, designating John Steelman to coordinate it with cabinet heads and agencies. About 15 Democratic senators sponsor the measure as the final draft is completed.
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Washington
America
Truman
Senate
Congress
Ath
Truman Signs Long Range Housing Bill
President Truman signed the long range housing bill and urged quick implementation. He invited more than twenty sponsors to the signing ceremony and framed the measure as a major victory for his fair deal program. The bill finances federal aid for city slum clearance and urban rebuilding with immediate requests for extra appropriations.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
State moving to take land for two new parks
The state public works director announced plans to appropriate land for two state parks, Beaver Creek near Lorain and Mentor Headlands at Fairport.
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Columbus
Beaver Creek
Lorain
Mentor Headlands
Fairport
Authorities probe death of Emmett Comer in Urbana
Urbana officials open an inquiry into Emmett Comer's death on March 19. The body will be exhumed and an autopsy performed at Baker Funeral Home. Comer's will left $32,000 to his housekeeper Dorothy Adams, triggering a court fight with his brother Harry Comer. Mrs Adams and Clyde Sprinkle faced charges and penalties in relation to the case.
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Urbana
Champaign County
Emmett Comer
Urbana Route 2
Baker Funeral Home
St. Paris
Richard P. Faulkner
Faulkner
David H. Moore
Comer
Dorothy Adams
Harry Comer
Lena
Adams
Clyde Sprinkle
Sprinkle
Columbus
Five Day Outlook With Showers Across Ohio
The five day forecast from The Associated Press shows temperatures 2-4 degrees below normal with highs near the mid 80s and lows around 63 west. Expect over half an inch of precipitation with local showers in the east tonight and Saturday and widely scattered showers from Monday through Wednesday.
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Ohio
Area
Farmers Told to Cut Wheat Planting and Grow More Cattle
Secretary Brannan outlined a 1950 program calling for 14.0 million fewer wheat acres and shifting land to grazing for beef and dairy, to counter weak foreign demand. Each farmer would receive a national allotment of 68.9 million acres based on past production, with compliance affecting price support.
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Washington
Brannan
Strike Averted As 3 Steel Firms Accept President Plan
The Big Three U S Steel Bethlehem and Republic backed down to White House pressure and agreed to a 60 day delay while a three member board investigates the wage pension dispute. The United Steelworkers CIO had already accepted the plan and will halt a strike at compliant firms.
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Truman
CIO
United Steelworkers
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
White House
Eben Ayers
Vote Set Next Week On Atlantic Treaty
The Senate agreed to a 4 P M EST vote next Thursday on the North Atlantic Security Treaty. Senator Lucas of Illinois secured the agreement amid opposition from Senator Donnell Missouri. Democratic leaders oppose extending the Monroe Doctrine to Western Europe as a substitute for the pact.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Donnell
Rmo
Europe
More Gas Customers Authorized by PUCO
The State Utilities Commission authorized Ohio Fuel Gas Co. to add 21,260 residential and 1,496 commercial heating customers, totaling about 45,000 more space heating customers. The order permits the gas supplier to furnish gas for heating purposes to these new customers.
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Columbus
State Utlities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Ohio Fuel
Today s Markets at a Glance
WHEAT easy cash prices lower. CORN mixed July weak others steady to firm. OATS easy heavy cash grain receipts. SOY BEANS steady price changes small. HOGS steady to 25 cents higher top 23.00. LIVE STOCK unevenly 25 cents higher to 50 cents lower choice absent. STOCKS irregular steels rally. BONDS mixed selling in rails.
Ohio Legion Auxiliary Reverses on Sending Joan Rankin
The American Legion Auxiliary reversed its decision and will send 16 year old Joan Rankin of Cincinnati to Girls Nation in Washington. The board said previous objections due to social discrimination were based on misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Rankin expressed surprise at the change and said she will be treated the same as other participants.
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Ohio Legion Auxiliary
Washington
Columbus
American Legion Auxiliary
Joan Rankin
Buckeye Girls’ State
Carl W. Smith
Ohio
American Legion
Cincinnati
Buckeye
Carl W. Zellers
Gibsonburg
Miss Rankin
Smith
Auxiliary
Joan
State Land Agent Visits Logan Today
Tim Millar of Columbus, land agent for the state division of conservation, visited Logan regarding land appropriation for Lake Logan. Only two tracts are involved, owned by Jerry Blosser and Elza Ringhiser of Logan Route 2. A previous report of a certificate served on Homer Evans was incorrect. Evans has cooperated fully in negotiations.
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Tim Millar
Columbus
State Division of Conservation
Logan
Lake Logan
Homer Evans
Millar
Conservation Division
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C. Wiliam O'Neill
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Atom
Mr. Truman
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Speed
Chioan
Associated Press
By Ovid A. Martin
Benjamin F. Fairless
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Philip Murray
Murray
Steelworkers
PUCO
Rails
Rep. McSweenney
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