City Budget Near Million Adopted by Commission
Butler County city commissioners approved a 1950 budget of about one million dollars with a $100000 general fund increase for equipment replacement and higher personnel costs. Bonds on the City Building and Water Works will be paid off next month. The meeting deferred two letters on township dump use and the Dixie Heights water project. A county prison board contract at $1 per day was approved, along with 15 larger water meters to replace smaller ones. A drinking fountain for Douglas Park was ordered, curb cut approvals were given for a gas station driveway, and a $ polio fundraiser boxing show was authorized at Armco Field for September 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County Budget Commission
Fred J. Schatzmann
Water Works Department
Ross Hill
Francis Carmody
Vacaion
Lemon Township
Paul J. Mehl
Thomas H. Feltz
Dixie Heights
T. F. Peterson
Peterson
Douglas Park
Marvin D. Clark
Verity Pkwy
Canal St
Ohio Oil Company
Clinton D. Boyd
Polio Fund
Armco Field
Lehman to Seek Senatorial Post in New York
Former Governor Herbert H. Lehman is expected to run for the U S Senate this fall. A Democratic source said Lehman would seek both the Democratic and Liberal nominations to fill the seat vacated by Robert F. Wagner who resigned due to poor health. Interim appointee John Foster Dulles plans to serve until December 1 and does not intend to run.
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Albany
N. Y
Herbert H. Lehman
U. S. Senate
Lehman
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
John Foster Dulles
GOP Foreign Affairs Authority
Dewey
Dulles
Canton student wins top honor in 1949 Model Car contest
Howard Assel of Canton Ohio tied for first place in the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild contest at Ohio University. He won a university scholarship worth 4000 dollars as one of the top awards announced by the guild.
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Winstop
Detroit
Howard Assel
Canton
Fisher Body
Craftsman’s Guild
Ohio University
Preble County Completes Large Scale Road Paving Project
Eaton County Engineer B G Sheppard announced the county highway department sealed 500000 gallons of blacktop on Preble highways, the largest one season improvement. Superintendent Seth Schletterbeck led the effort ending last week, with 71 miles of county roads and 33 miles of township roads treated under a shared cost plan. The project finished early due to favorable weather, and fall work includes widening and grading Yost road and grading and ditching various county roads with township cooperation.
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Preble County
Sheppard
Highway Department
Yost
Lanier
Gasper
Florida convict confesses to 1941 Wilmington double murder
Daniel Webster, a Florida inmate serving time for forgery, admitted to North Carolina authorities that he stabbed a mother, Lelia Bryan, and drowned her four year old daughter, Mary Rachel, near Carolina Beach in 1941. He buried the victims and said the crime haunted him.
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Wilmington
N. C
Florida
North Carolina
Clifton L. Moore
Lelia Bryan
Mary Rachel
Moore
Daniel Webster
Carolina Beach
Webster
Robert Anderson
St. Augustine
Rabbit Family Grows Too Much
Houston case about Louise Van Valkenburgh who owns 400 rabbits after buying two 15 years ago. Neighbors and health officials urge action. she plans to give up the rabbits though she insists she never killed or sold any to killers. She notes the rabbits are her only real companions and fears 25 lonely years ahead without them.
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Houston
Louise van Valkenburgh
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Therm
Duo-Therm
AGA
Gama Court of Flame
S. Broad ST
Ligore
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Duncan Phyfe
Preble
Ted Mahrote
Rid Six
Peg Palmer
Yampoo
Cosmetic Dept
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