City Council to Report Cost and Taxes on Gallagher Park Purchase
The city votes 6 to 1 to negotiate for Gallagher property on West Front Street as a park and playground. The parks committee is to report the lowest price and tax allotment from due taxes, with Frank Mantor and Mayor Friend urging the purchase. Purchase price is about 17000, with at least 11000 in back taxes owed largely to the city. A Logan VFW delegation backs the plan, while Sam Bright opposes funding without clear revenue.
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Gallagher
West Front Street
Committee On Parks
Frank Mantor
Manner
Friend
Te Patchen Real Estate Agency
Treasury
Cemetery Trust
Logan
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Vaughn Collins
Hocking
Floyd Riddlebarger
Joe Brenick
Military Order of Cooties
Taft Dominates West Virginia Republican Primary
In West Virginia on May 14 Taft led by a wide margin in the delegate race and held a strong position in the popularity poll. Across 1,120 precincts results showed Taft with 54,916 votes to Stassen's 15,299. Democrats named a 20 vote unpledged delegation.
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Taft
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Ohio
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Washington
John Marshall Butler
Maryland
Indiana
Missouri
Minot
N. D
North Dakota
Oregon
Kefauver
Tennessean
Ed Downs
South Dakota
Aberdeen
Hubert Humphrey
Hospital Plans TV For Patients
In Cleveland on May 14 the Euclid Glenville Hospital announced it will offer radio and television at every bed when it opens next October. A small charge will apply, but Superintendent Jay W. Collins argues the devices provide therapeutic value and aid convalescence by reducing patient boredom.
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Cleveland
Euclid-Glenville Hospital
Jay W. Collins
Searchers Reach Downed Airliner in Brazilian Jungle
Searchers reach the wreck of a Pan American Stratocruiser in Brazil's northern jungles and report no survivors among 50 aboard. The 18 man team led by Congressman Lino de Matos reached the crash site after being dropped by helicopter. the plane went down 15 days ago.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Lino de Matos
Six Ohio Educators Set for Anti Red Panel Testimony
Six education leaders including three from Ohio State University are slated to testify next week before the Ohio UnAmerican Activities Commission. OSU instructors subpoenaed will face questioning about attending meetings led by known Communists.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio State University
Ohio UnAmerican Activities Commission
Samuel L. Devine
Commission
FBI
New York
Fineburg
U. S. Sung Court
Theaw
OSU
Isaacs
Steel Decision May Not Come For Weeks
The article notes planned steel mill closings by Clo-Steelworkers if wage demands are not met. It discusses timing of the U S Supreme Court ruling on President Truman's steel seizure, the arguments by John W. Davis and Harold Perlman, and Justice Jackson urged delaying the decision until written opinions are issued. The outcome hinges on whether the action exceeded legal authority and may take weeks.
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Washington
Truman
U. S. Supreme Court
David A. Pine
Justice Jackson
Jackson
United
WSB
Congress
CIO
Sen. Dirksen
R-Ill
Senate
Court OKs Firing of Union Worker
New York May 14 A two to one U S circuit court of appeals says an employer may fire a union employee who refuses to cross another union's picket line while on duty at a customer's plant. The decision reverses the N L R B ruling.
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New York
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
Reds Demand Daily Talks in Korea Armistice Row
Communist negotiators in Munsan insisted on daily truce talks while rejecting the Allied armistice package. Nam Il charged prisoner abuses tied to the Rose Island spy incidents as Dodd and Colson faced new developments. Front skirmishes along central Korea sides reported renewed fighting and air raids damaged rail lines and structures.
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Munsan
Korea
Nam II
Rose Island
Francis T. Dodd
Charles F. Colson
Dodd
U. S
Washington
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Kose
Joy
Nam
Koje
Colson
Eighth Army
North Korea
Ten Klan Members Convicted in Kiddnapping Case in Carolina
In Wilmington North Carolina on May 4 ten of eleven Ku Klux Klan members were convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy for coastal Carolina flogging incidents. Federal Judge Don Gilliam ruled ten guilty and declared one defendant innocent while four others had pleaded no contest.
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Wilmington
N. C
Coastal Carolina
Don Gilliam
George Miller
Senate Panel Extends Controls and Plans Wage Board Reform
The Senate Banking Committee voted to extend wage and price controls to March 1 next year and to reorganize the Wage Stabilization Board into an all public body. The panel also extended rent controls and material allocation through June 30 1953 and notes Capehart pricing changes affecting manufacturers not retailers.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
Sens
Douglas
Illinois
Moody
Michigan
Truman
Congress
Capehart
City adopts sewer ordinances and funds disposal plant
City council adopted ordinances establishing sewer rental rates and regulating public and private sewers. Rates rely on water use with a minimum of 2.90 every four months. outside city, charges depend on sewer connection size. Effective August 1, funds go to a Sewer Revenue Fund for construction and operation of a disposal plant, aiding bond rates. Four resolutions approved including bids for lime and soda ash, transfers between funds, and parking restrictions on Third and Hill Streets. An annexation petition for North Wood Street residents will be prepared.
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Harry Shaw
Richard Gerken
Third Street
Warner Avenue
Riff Street
Hill Street
Market Street
Spring Street
Walnut Street
Hunter Street
North Wood Street
Gerken
Shaw
North Market Street
Buell Eby
Mulberry Street
Ohio Sewage Setup Studied
The State Health Department reports one million Ohioans live where municipal sewage treatment is adequate. A survey checked plant condition and operation quality, excluding rural areas. The Ohio Water Pollution Control Board will use results when issuing permits for discharges into state waters. Permits for cities discharging sewage must be obtained by Sept. 27.
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Columbus
State Health Department
Police Dog Involved in Rochester Car Collision
Policeman Donald Dunce driving his own car struck a dog owned by Policeman Patrick McDonald in Rochester. A dog named Police is involved. details are unclear from the brief clipping.
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Rochester
N. Y
Donald Dunce
Dunce
Patrick McDonald
Police
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