State Hospital Buildings Hit
Ohio welfare director John H. Lamneck notes many state wards sit in unsafe antiquated structures over 100 years old. A survey to guide the two year budget lists several buildings pre 1900 including Gallipolis Institute residence, Summit County hospital unit, and main Columbus and Athens state hospital buildings.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Welfare
John H. Lamneck
Frank J. Lausche
Gallipolis State Institute
Summit County
Cuyahoga Falls
Beit
Athens
Toledo State Hospital
Columbus State School
Massillon State Hospital
Wabash Railroad Strike Ends After Eight Days
Wabash Railroad employees returned to work after an eight day strike. A back to work agreement between four unions and management ended the stoppage and was submitted to a Presidential fact finding board which approved it. Arthur K. Atkinson said first trains would run today.
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ST. ‘Louis
Wabash Railroad
Arthur K. Atkinson
Wabash
Farm and Home Week Opens at Ohio State University
About 2 000 farmers attend the 37th Farm and Home Week at Ohio State University as 75 conferences cover sheep honey and farming income. Registration climbs to 2 354 with hopes to draw 10,000 visitors by Friday. Louis Bean predicts cash income near 30 billion and 220 billion national income. beekeepers urged more honey consumption while sheep profits hinge on timing and consumer demand. Dr. Falconer notes 75 years of change in Ohio agriculture and cautions government controls may persist.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Louis H. Bean
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
C. M. Hammans
Ohio State
J. I. Falconer
University
Department of Rural Economics
Falconer
Markets at a Glance Steady wheat corn and oats with mixed livestock
Wheat steady on flour export sales. Corn gains on cash prices. Oats steady with grain markets. Hogs steady to 25 cents higher, top 22.00. Cattle steady to 25 cents higher, top 29.00. Stocks higher with rising volume. Bonds higher, rails improve.
Runaway Nag Streaks Through Athens in Wild Gallop
A western riding horse named Bonnie broke from a stall at the county fairgrounds and fled five miles across Athens Ohio toward the Rock Riffle neighborhood. Police chased the mare via radio updates, crashing traffic lights and crossing Court Street before capture near home.
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Athens
Bonnie
Rock Riffle
Bill Brandenberry
Court Street
Baltimore & Ohio
Walton League Opposes State Natural Resources Plan
Foes of a unified state department of natural resources told the Ohio House conservation committee the plan would politicize the office. Gilbert E. Condo of the Izaak Walton League warned a governor appointed director could wield veto power over wildlife policies, while opponents cited checks by an advisory commission and Senate approval.
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Columbus
State Department of Natural Resources
Gilbert E. Condo
Hamilton
House Conservation Committee
Ohio
Izaak Walton League of America
Condo
Commission
Ohio Senate
Senate
James E. Atwood
League of Ohio Sportsmen
Clay Stackhouse
Wakeman
Federation of Soil Conservation District Supervisors
E. R. Cook
New Knoxville
William Laybourne
Ohio Forestry Association
Death by own action uses electric chair to end his life
Arlington Massachusetts March 23 a young war veteran found dead in a self rigged electric chair in his attic Paul J Costa 21 died by electrocution medical examiner said Costa strapped himself to the chair and connected electrodes to a radio set to deliver the shock police reported the act as suicide noted by authorities.
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Arlington
Mass
David C. Dow
Paul J. Costa
Costa
Youthful believer completes 18 day water fast in Ohio
Watt Brown, 22, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, ends an 18 day water fast saying he feels pretty good after losing 10 pounds. He declines to explain the motive, noting only that he felt he should do it. Church officials report prior fasts with a seven day record.
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Niles
Jesus Name Pentecostal Church
Watt Brown
Mineral Ridge
Brown
Milk price cut lowers quart cost in stores and deliveries
Cincinnati report states retail milk price drops by one cent per quart. Bottled milk delivered now 19 cents per quart, 18 cents in stores, effective Monday.
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Cincinnati
Senate Hikes Unemployment Compensation in Ohio
Senate Democrats pushed a liberalized unemployment compensation bill with GOP help but failed to win a 50 percent liquor license fee increase, sending that bill back to the rules committee. The house approved quail propagation for ten years. Sen. Tom Jones, 75, suffered a heart attack during the debate and was hospitalized. his condition later improved.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Democrats
Rules Committee
House
Emmett R. Guthrie
Coshocton
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Cuyahoga
Lausche
Tom W. Jones
Meigs
Grant Hospital
Canada Plans Sweeping Tax Cuts
Ottawa reports a plan to cut taxes sharply with a 32 percent reduction in income taxes and liberalized exemptions removing 750,000 taxpayers from the rolls. The program also lowers taxes on small businesses, repeals or reduces levies, lifts price controls on many commodities, and relaxes import restrictions. Finance minister Douglas Abbott tells Parliament prosperity remains and inflation danger has passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Douglas C. Abbott
Canada
Slate Fall Injures Carbon Hill Miner
A Carbon Hill miner named Jesse Conley, 35, was seriously injured yesterday in a slate fall at a small coal mine near Carbon Hill. A slate block weighing nearly a ton pinned him, causing a fractured back and crushed right foot. doctors at Hocking Valley Hospital report his condition as serious.
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Carbon Hill
Jesse Conley
Hocking Valley Hospital
Conley
Engineers to Sound Lorain Harbor for Dredging
Army engineers will begin soundings in Lorain Harbor Ohio on March 28 to prepare for dredging. The work is expected to take about two weeks and was announced today by officials in Buffalo New York.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Army Engineers
Lorain Harbor
Senate Votes Home Rule Rent Control Provisions
The Senate approved a 45 to 33 vote to let states drop federal rent controls with gubernatorial approval, part of a plan to extend controls 12 to 15 months. The measure allows rent increases up to 10 percent and limits recontrol to New York and Chicago for residential hotel apartments.
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Senate
Washington
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Banking Committee
New York
Chicago
Lucas
D-Ill
House
Judge Dismisses Hot Ham Indictment in Lancaster Case
Lancaster dentist Dr. J. Russell Stukey, owner of the Club Cheri south of Lancaster, had his indictment for buying and concealing stolen meat dismissed by Common Pleas Judge Harry Kilburger after the prosecution rested. The halt ends another Fairfield County hot ham trial. Ball's trial continues.
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Lancaster
Common Pleas
Harry Kilburger
J. Russell Stukey
Cheri
Fairfield County
Stukey
Denver Ball
Ball
Columbus
Cost of Living Bonus Approved for Springfield Teachers
The Springfield board of education voted cost of living bonuses for school staff. Teachers and principals will receive a $200 lump sum on June 15, while other employees get weekly or monthly increases for the rest of the year, from $3 weekly to $22 monthly.
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Springfield
Springfield Public Schools
Board of Education Today
Rabies Quarantine Ordered in Hamilton County Townships
Dr. J Philip Owens Hamilton County health commissioner ordered a 90 day quarantine in seven western townships. Five positive rabies cases found in the area over the last month.
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Cincinnati
J. Philip Owens
Hamilton County
Trial of Nine Nudists Opens In Michigan
In Monroe Michigan on March 23 nine defendants including five Ohioans face indecent exposure charges from a raid on an alleged nudist camp last August. Names include Vaughn Brown Verla Brown Ellsworth Repp Molly Repp Edith Church all admitting partial or full nudity at the raid. State Police detail a chase of Edith Church to a car as she attempted to clothe herself.
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Monroe, Mich
Vaughn Brown
Verla
Lima
Ellsworth Repp
Molly
Toledo
Edith Church
Maumee
American Sunbathing Association
Posse
Clay Worker Scalded At New Straitsville
Ernest Clark 41 of New Straitsville Brick Co. suffered first to third degree burns when a dryer steam line burst spraying him with hot steam. At Hocking Valley Hospital doctors reported his condition good. He was injured yesterday around 2 30 P M while on the line and resides in Nelsonville.
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Ernest Clark
New Straitsville Brick Co
Hocking Valley Hospital
Clark
Nelsonville
Jaywalkers Face Fines Under New Elyria Ordinance
Elyria officials implement a downtown jaywalking ordinance with a $1 fine and the slogan S.O.S. meaning Safety Or Sorrow. The measure aims to curb unsafe crossings and improve downtown safety.
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Elyria
S.O.S
Coal Operators on an Uneasy Seat in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh March 23 The nation’s coal operators face a choice as John L. Lewis weighs resuming work next Monday or extending the two week stoppage. Senate confirms Dr. James Boyd as director of the Federal Bureau of Mines by a 50 to 11 vote, a move that Lewis says ties mine safety to opposition to Boyd’s appointment and will test miners’ protests. Boyd has served without pay since December 1947 and Lewis questions his practical experience in mine safety matters.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Senate
Lewis
James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mines
Mississippi
Truman
Dr. Boyd
Soviet Zone Seeks To Try Ilse Koch
Soviet authorities in the Weimar zone request custody of Ilse Koch after her October prison term. Bavarian officials have not decided. Koch, linked to Buchenwald, was sentenced to life by an American court in 1947 and later reduced to four years on review by Gen. Lucius D. Clay.
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Munich
Germany
Weimar
Ilse Koch
Buchenwald
Hans Walter
Johnson confirmed as secretary of national defense
The Senate approved Louis A. Johnson’s nomination to head the national defense department in a unanimous voice vote. He succeeds James Forrestal as secretary, marking a smooth transition in the defense leadership.
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Washington
The
Senate Today
Louis A. Johnson
National Defense
James Forrestal
Russians Say U S Uses Iran as Military Base
Secretary of State Acheson rejected Soviet claims that the United States seeks to turn Iran into a military base against the Soviet Union. He affirmed U S support for Greece Turkey and Iran and noted Soviet pressure and propaganda in Iran while denying U S advisors aim to base activities against Moscow.
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U.S
Iran
Washington
Acheson
United States
Russia
Greece
Turkey
Tehran
Soviet Union
Baby Girl Left on Doorstep in Springfield
A baby girl seven to ten days old was found on the Pry doorstep after a caller directed the couple to retrieve and care for it. A prior incident last February 25 left a baby boy at Dr Naomi Green's porch. Both infants were taken to City Hospital and police have no clues to their identities.
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Springfield
Arthur Pry
Naomi Green
City Hospital
Pry
Love Thief Accusation In Congress Marriage Case
Mrs. Eilene Diana Latta Lawrence sues Naval Captain Harold Latta Lawrence for separate maintenance claiming his close ties with Edith Nourse Rogers, the long serving Massachusetts congresswoman. The suit, filed yesterday, seeks financial support and an accounting of joint property without a divorce.
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Washington
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Eilene Diana Latta-Lawrence
Harold Alexander Latta-Lawrence
Congress
Latta Lawrence
Toledo
Ohio
Rogers
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Miss Ranyal
Michigan
Carl Seim
Miss Church
New Straitsville
Boyd
Soviet Zone
Johnson
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