Akron Bus Drivers Strike Hits Mass Transit
AP reports Akron Ohio and surrounding towns lose mass transit as 450 drivers and 125 mechanics join a 30 member CIO Transport Workers Union picket. The action seeks 30 cent hourly raises, marking a third strike in three years for Akron Transit Company and halting service after a two am last run.
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Akron
Akron Transportation Company
CIO Transport Workers Union
ATC
Barberton
Cuyahoga Falls
Scout Cookie Sale Opens by Local Girl Scout Troops
Girl Scouts begin the first postwar cookie sale with orders taken Saturday. One pound boxes cost 40 cents and will be delivered in two weeks to customers solicited that day. Profits go to troop funds and the camp fund of the Girl Scout Council led by executive director Mrs. Garnet L. Church. The previous sale saw 10,000 boxes sold locally.
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Girl Scout Council
Garnet L. Church
Middle concert to feature modern pieces at Middletown High
The Middletown High School auditorium hosts the second Middletown band concert of 1948 on Sunday April 4 at 3 p m. The program includes Juke Box a five movement suite reflecting five nickels in a drugstore record machine and a show of styles from Stan Kenton to Benny Goodman. Conducted by Wilbur Crist and featuring soloists Lenora Boughton and Gloria Kievit the program also includes In the Cathedral by Pierne Bittersweet overture Noel Coward and Cole Porter song arrangements Rosalie In the Still of the Night You d Be So Easy to Love It s De Lovely My Heart Belongs to Daddy and I Love You.
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Middletown High School
Stan Kenton
Tommy Dorsey
Harry James
Wayne King
Benny Goodman
Ruiz
Wilbur Crist
Middletonian
Capital University
Columbus
Crist
Gabriel Pierne
Noel Coward
Cole Porter
Rosalie
Daddy
Lenora Boughton
Dennison High School
Gloria Kievit
Slides for His Living Columbus Job
Curtis Stephens works in the Morehouse-Martens department store to keep the package chute clear. He rides down the chute from top floors to the basement to prevent jams.
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Columbus
Curtis Stephens
Morehouse-Martens
Milk consumption per Canadian rises to 1.01 pints in 1946
The report notes that average daily milk intake per person in Canada reached about 1.01 pints in 1946, up from 0.74 pints recorded 26 years earlier.
Pint-sized Petticoat Pattern for Spring Fashions
An advertisement for pattern 9462 by Marian Martin describes a small girls outfit with ruffles flounce and bow in sizes 2 through 10. The pattern includes illustrated Sew Chart and fabric requirements and costs twenty five cents with options to add a pattern book for fifteen more cents. Orders go to Middle town Journal Pattern Dept New York.
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Middletown Journal
Pattern Dept
West 18Th St
New York
N. Y
Marian Martin
Tims
Traffic accident linked to police chief's brother
A traffic accident occurred last night and is linked to Rudolph, who is the chief of police. The report notes many wine bottles use colored glass to protect contents from light.
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Rudolph
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