West Hocking district formed with five member board
Hocking County board appoints five members from Good Hope Laurel Benton Perry and Salt Creek townships to form the West Hocking School District. New board to organize at 7 30 P M Thursday in the Samuel Dillon office and set meeting times. Four merged districts Gibisonville Rockbridge Laurelville and South Bloomingville dissolved after state education department suggestion. County board members Thorne Matheny McGrady Grattidge and McVey attended with clerk Dillon.
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Hocking County
Gibisonville
Rockbridge
Laurelville
South Bloomingville
State Department of Education
David Thorne
C. S. Matheny
J. F. McGrady
T. Grattidge
Harry McVey
J. Dillon
Jimmy Stewart Welcomes Twin Girls From Caesarean Birth
Hollywood reports actor Jimmy Stewart and wife Gloria Hatrick McLean welcomed twin daughters born by Caesarean section last night. Stewart distributed cigars in celebration as the family announces the new arrivals.
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Jimmy Stewart
Hollywood
Mrs. Stewart
Gloria Hatrick McLean
WACs Arrive in Okinawa First Contingent Lands
The first contingent of the Women's Army Corps has arrived in Okinawa, reported from Tokyo on May 8. The arrival marks the initial deployment of WAC personnel to the Pacific theater during the postwar buildup.
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Tokyo
Women’s Army Corps
Okinawa
Truman Warns Against Expanding Korea War
President Truman, on his 67th birthday, pressed opponents to accept his Korea policy. He warned that expanding the war as Gen. MacArthur proposes could trigger an atomic assault on major American cities and warned voters that atomic war would devastate the United States. He argued free nations have checked communism in Asia and urged unity to defend the world order, stressing that foreign policy is a matter of life and death, not politics.
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Truman
Douglas MacArthur
America
Nazi Germany
Korea
Russia
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Seattle
Los Angeles
Asia
Kremlin
Mr. Truman
MacArthur
Manchuria
Formosa
United States
United Nations
Unemployment Drops in April Says Census Bureau
Washington report states unemployment fell by 403,000 in April to 1,744,000, the lowest total since October 1948, according to the Census Bureau.
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Washington
Census Bureau
UN Strikes North Fronts On Korean Frontlines
UN forces push west toward Munsan and Uijongbu while South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel near Inje. Tank infantry spear into Chunchon as a Communist drive unfolds. US jet planes bomb rail yards at Sunchon and enemy night jets first engage between Anju and Chinnampo.
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Uijongbu
Inje
Chunchon
Sunchon
Anju
Chinnampo
Quake Death Toll Increases In Eastern El Salvador
San Salvador reports the country’s worst earthquake disaster with about 1000 killed in Jucuapa and thousands injured across Chinameca Santiago de Maria and surrounding towns. Aftershocks continued, authorities moved families to shelters, and Imbo volcano began erupting near Jucuapa amid rescue efforts.
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el Salvador
Tion
Santiago de Maria
Berlin
Jucuapa
Chinameca
Nueva Guadalupe
Santiago de Marta
Caserios
Imbo
Allies Push North in Korea Amid Skirmishes
Allied forces pushed cautiously north along a 100 mile front with patrols probing for retreating Reds. Across the western and central sectors there is no formal front line, only a wide no man’s land as Fifth Air Force flew 500 sorties. Lt. Gen. Van Fleet visited the western front to award the Presidential Unit Citation to the Gloucestershire regiment.
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Red Korea
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Kimpo
Seoul
Han River
Mijongbu
John Randolph
United Nations
Chunchon
38Th Parallel
Inje
Fifth Air Force
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
Western Front
U.S
Gloucestershire Regiment
John
Cleveland Women To Attack Prices
The Greater Cleveland Federation of Women’s Clubs will lead 16 000 women in a week of strict meat purchase and usage limits to probe price effects. If they stick to their diets, meat prices may be impacted.
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Cleveland
Greater Cleveland Federation of Women’s Clubs
Pulitzer Prizes Awarded to Top U S Newsmen and Writers
The 1950 Pulitzer honors go to Conrad Richter for fiction The Town and to several journalists for international and local reporting. Among winners are Relman Morin and Don Whitehead for Korea coverage, Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart for Korean war reporting, and Cyrus Sulzberger for exclusive interviews. Local reporting prize goes to Edward Montgomery for BIR expose. Max Desfor of AP photographed the best news image. Reg Manning wins top cartoonist for Hats.
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New York
Conrad Richter
Miami
Korea
Marguerite Higgins
New York Herald Tribune
Herald Tribune
Homer Bigart
Bigart
Keyes Beech
Fred Sparks
Chicago Daily News
Beech
Sparks
Berlin
Cyrus L. Sulzberger
The
New York Times
Stepinac
Yugoslavia
Edward S. Montgomery
San Francisco Examiner
Bureau of Internal Revenue
William Harry Fitzpatrick
New Orleans
Max Desfer
Associated Press
Reg
Reginald W.) Manning
Phoenix Arizona Republic
U S Rejects Russia Jap Peace Treaty Proposal
The United States rejected Russia's proposal to let four Pacific powers including Red China draft a Japanese peace treaty. State Department said Washington will proceed with treaty talks and aims to have a draft ready within weeks. Russia suggested a foreign ministers council to draft the settlement in June or July.
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Washington
United States
Russia
China
State Department
Department
Japan
U.S
Burl G Summers Killed by Train in Dayton
Burl G Summers 30 of Dayton was struck by a train Friday night. A World War II veteran, he is survived by his mother Mrs Florence Summers and six sisters and two brothers. The body will be carried to Leonard Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon for a 2 PM Friday service with Rev B J Hall officiating. burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Dayton
Florence Summers
Logan
Lester
Canton
Charles
Dorothy Davis
Josephine Raley
Lorain
Margaret Hawkins
Lancaster
Mary
Virginia
Pearl Summers
Leonard Funeral Home
B. J. Hall
Nelsonville
Oak Grove Cemetery
Dewey Talks With MacArthur In Courtesy Visit
New York May ... Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Gen. Douglas MacArthur met for two and a half hours in the general's hotel suite. A Dewey spokesman called the visit courtesy and said world situation topics were discussed.
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New York
May
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Truman 67 Today Observes 67th Birthday in Washington
President Truman marks his 67th birthday in Washington today. The White House notes the occasion with official greetings as the nation observes the milestone.
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Truman
Washington
Lake Logan Dam Funds In Bill Up Before House
A $5,000,000 civil defense appropriation heads Ohio's two year additions and betterments bill, alongside $12,726,000 for new state buildings. The measure also allocates funds to repair dams at Lake St Mary's Grand Lake, Knox County lake, Hocking County lake, and Hargus Creek lake, plus park expansions and university repairs at Ohio, Miami, and Wilberforce.
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Civil Defense Fund
Senate
House
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Grand Lake
Knox County
Hocking County
Hargus Creek Lake
Pickaway County
Cowan Creek
Clinton County
Hueston Woods
Butler County
Miami
State College
Wilberforce
Congressman Kee Dies Of Heart Attack
Rep. John Kee of West Virginia aged 77 and longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee died today from a heart attack during a routine committee session. Capitol physician Dr. George W. Calver pronounced him dead.
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Washington
John Kee
D-Wva
House Foreign Affairs Committee
George W. Calver
Capitol
McArthur Banker John L Will Dies at 70
John L. Will, 70, longtime McArthur banker and former Vinton County National Bank president, died at 1 A M en route to Hocking Valley Hospital after a heart attack at home. A native of McArthur, he led the bank for 13 years as assets surpassed 3.6 million. Surviving are his wife, two sons, a brother and sister. Funeral services tentatively set for 2 P M Thursday at Wrightse1 Company Funeral Home with burial in Elk Cemetery.
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McArthur
Ohio
Hocking Valley Hospital
Will
Vinton County National Bank
Southeastern Ohio Bankers Association
Episcopal Church
Wrightse! Company Funeral Home
Elk Cemetery
Chakeres Receives Look Showman of the Year Award
Phil Chakeres of Springfield Ohio, operator of a three state theater chain, was presented the Showman of the Year plaque by Look Magazine in Cincinnati on May 7. His award honors his work in entertainment.
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Cincinnati
Phil Chakeres
Springfield
Look Magazine
Convicted Rapist Dies in Chair Amid Efforts to Save Life
Willie McGee, condemned for raping a white woman five and a half years ago, died in the electric chair in Laurel Mississippi. Supporters and officials worldwide had pressed for stays from Gov Fielding Wright and federal judges. protests in Jackson and Washington showcased the racial politics surrounding the case and its final hours.
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Miss
Willie McGee
Fielding Wright
U.S
Sidney Mize
Jackson
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Wayne G. Borah
New Orleans
U.S. Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Fred Vinson
United States
Truman
Supreme Court
Wright
Civil Rights Congress
Washington, D. C
McGee
White House
MacArthur
Destruction of Trained Armies Goal of Allies
Secretary Marshall stated the United Nations aim in Korea is to inflict terrific casualties on Chinese forces to break their morale and destroy trained armies. He urged a strategic path to a negotiatory basis while protecting morale and allies, and noted UN troops are blocked from nearing the Soviet border and MacArthur is limited to Korea.
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Washington
Marshall
United Nations
Korea
Secretary of Defense
Joint Chiefs of Staff
MacArthur
Manchuria
Grand Jury Eyes Ottawa County Slot Machine Racketeering
A grand jury sworn in at Port Clinton investigates how slot machine owners operated in Ottawa County. Judge Thomas Stahl urged the probe as twenty exhibitors testified. State investigators reported over 100 machines found, later removed, with county officials ordering all slots out of the county.
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Port Clinton
Ottawa County
Common Pleas
Thomas Stahl
Frank J. Lausche
Myron A. Rosentreter
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