House Action Sets Stage for Federal Welfare Department
Washington AP reports the House Executive Expenditures Committee approved a bill to create a Cabinet level Department of Welfare, uniting health education and welfare functions. Oscar Ewing is named potential first secretary. opposition from organized medicine warns of non medical control.
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Washington
Department of Welfare
House
Executive Expenditures Committee
Congress
Labor Department
Commerce
Armed Services
Secretary of Defense
Oscar Ewing
Federal Security
Truman
Robert E. S. Young
Columbus
Association of Physicians and Surgeons
Hoover Commission
Commission
Cincinnatian Sentenced To Penitentiary For Armed Robbery
LeBalon Q AP Cincinnati men tied to Belcher Service Station holdup near Waynesville. Lemuel Trotter 21 changed plea to guilty and received one to 25 years in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus. James E Crenshaw 28 got one to 25 years. James E Lewis 21 faced an indefinite sentence at Mansfield Reformatory. Crenshaw injured feet during jail escape, one likely to be amputated.
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Lebanon, Q
Common Pleas
Alton F. Brown
Lemuel Trotter
Cincinnati
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
Trotter
James E. Lewis
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Lewis
James E. Crenshaw
Belcher
Waynesville
Crenshaw
Gerald W. Couden
Richard Satterthwaite
Couden
Warren County
Middletown
Middletown High students entertain Co-ops at hotel meeting
Five Middletown High School students performed solo numbers with a woodwind quintet directed by Vincent Carter at the Manchester Hotel Cafeteria weekly Co-operative Club gathering. The group will perform at Miami University on March 12 as part of the district musical festival.
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Manchester Hotel
Middletown High School
Miami University
Vincent Carter
Joan Heyer
Edwin Bleedow
Jean Carter
Tom Geran
Gene Phillips
Chester Skillman
Hamilton
Fire in Hatchoya village leaves 2100 homeless and deaths
Tokyo based Kyodo News Agency reports a temple fire in Hatchoya village Yamanashi prefecture. Two people died and 150 injured seriously as about 80 percent of the village was destroyed. Hatchoya lies near Lake Kawagushi close to Fujiyama. Investigators attribute the blaze to a charcoal foot warmer.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Hatchoya
Yamanashi Prefecture
Lake Kawagushi
Fujiyama
Canton union bricklayers gain 1 cent raise to 2.50
The American Federation of Labor Bricklayers will raise pay to 2.50 per hour starting April 1, announced by the Construction Council of Stark County. About 900 carriers and laborers in Canton and Massillon locals will receive a 10 cent hourly boost.
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Canton, O
American Federation of Labor Union Bricklayers
Construction Council of
Stark County, Incorporated
Canton and
Massillon
One Man In 36 Is Acquitted In Butler Court
Butler County Common Pleas Court records show 1 acquitted among 36 arraigned this year. Prosecutor Jackson Bosch noted 35 others have been sentenced or await sentencing in the current dockets.
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Butler Court
Hamilton
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Jackson Bosch
Civitan heard Miss Kronborg's European tour tale
Miss Doris Kronborg, clerk of the local Juvenile Court, spoke at a Civitan Club noon meeting about her Europe trip and Denmark Folk College established with no exams or degrees. She noted Americans’ politics interest versus Danish practice. Kronborg toured Europe from August 1947 to August of the following year and is a Middletown High School alumna who later joined the State Department before returning to Middletown to work in the Juvenile Court.
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Doris Kronborg
Europe
Civitan Club
Denmark
Folk College
United States
Miss Kronborg
Middletown High School
State Department
Washington
Middletown
Tucker's Firm Under Probe
The Justice Department announced a Chicago grand jury investigation into Preston Tucker and the Tucker Corporation. The panel will convene in Chicago on Monday February 1 with witnesses summoned. The probe focuses on activities of Tucker and aspects of the automobile maker, linked to a new type car produced in a former wartime plant in the Chicago suburbs.
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Washington
Justice Department
Tucker Corporation
Chicago
Preston Tucker
Appointment Made in State Liquor Office
Among seven appointments in the liquor department announced today by Oscar L. Fleckner director of State Liquor Control was Dorsey Barnett of Middletown. Barnett 56 lives at 23 Crawford St and is a clerk in the State Liquor Store here.
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Oscar L. Fleckner
State Liquor Control
Dorsey Barnett
Middletown
Barnett
Crawford St
Woman unearths Revolutionary Bayonet in Kansas Yard
Mrs. W. R. Collins found a Revolutionary War bayonet in her back yard at White Cloud Kansas. She traced ownership to the great great grandfather of the late Ruel Smith Wakefield who fought and died in the Lexington and Concord battles.
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Kansas
White Cloud
Kan
W. R. Collins
Ruel Smith Wakefield
Lexington and
Concord
Sportsmanship Commandments For Middletown High
Middletown High School students will receive a ten commandment list during a pep rally at 2:30 p.m. The items urge respect for officials and opponents, no cheering jeers or wagers, and emphasize sportsmanship. The Masqueraders class staged a relevant skit and coaches, team members, and Bob Joslin will speak on the effort.
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Middletown High School
Bob Joslin
Middletown - Hamilton
State Food Dairy Head Is Appointed
Co W Van Schok of Hilliard named chief of the divisions of Foods and Dairies in the state agriculture department, effective March 1. Base salary $5,400. Succeeds Homer Johnson of Caldwell, who has served two years. Van Schok is a dairy farmer and certified seed grower, said Director A W Marion.
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Columbus
Ap) — Co
W. van Schok
Hilliard
Foods and Dairies
State Agriculture Department
van Schok
Homer Johnson
Caldwell
Noble County
A. W. Marion
Woman Pays for City Traffic Light in Springfield
Mrs. Sherwood Moran, mother of two, funded a traffic signal at the Springfield corner after a two year battle to secure one near her home. She bought a unit in Bowerville for 35 dollars and will cover installation costs totaling 204 dollars.
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Springfield
Sherwood Moran
Edgewater plant expansion opens in Lorain with U S Steel chief
A 10,000,000 addition to the Ohio Public Service Company Edgewater plant begins operation in Lorain on Thursday. Irving S. Olds of New York, chairman of U S Steel, will attend the opening ceremonies. The plant began construction in April 1947.
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Lorain, O
Ohio Public Service Company
Edgewater
Irving S. Olds
New York
U.S. Steel Corporation
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Federal Welfare Department
Richard Wagner
Switzerland
Tational Distillers Products Corporation
N.Y
Cincinnatian
MHS
Howe
BEL Sith
Johnston
Ralston Paint Store, Inc
N. Broad ST
Civitans
Tucker
DIAL
W. J. White Insurance Service
Amer
Wolverine
Pantie
Umea Ihy
Glamour Magazine
Indies
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