Cancer Society Hears Report On Training
A report on volunteers training for southwestern Ohio members of the American Cancer Society was given at a noon meeting in Cincinnati. Twenty two counties were represented, with Middletown members L. P. Smith Mrs. Howard Wilson and Mrs. Walter Bender in attendance. Committees were named for budget and education and plans were laid for an April campaign and 1949 budget discussion.
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Ohio
American Cancer Society
Cincinnati
Manchester
Otea
Middletown
L. P. Smith
Howard Wilson
Home Service Committee
Walter Bender
Robert Millan
Harold Sebald
Sylvester Shetter
Walter Reese
Mabel E. Gardner
NOT THE FIRST MARK TWAIN NAME CHANGE SOURCE
The note explains that Samuel Clemens was not the original user of the pen name Mark Twain. Captain Isaiah Sellers first used the name, which Clemens adopted after Sellers died.
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Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
Isaiah Sellers
Clemens
Sellers
Churches Fidelis Bible Class Meeting Highlights
The Fidelis Bible Class of St Pauls Evangelical and Reform Church met Tuesday evening with devotionals by Mrs. Frank Buchanan on How to Make the New Year New. A brief business session followed before committee chairwoman Mrs Forrest Barnes and assistants took over.
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Fidelis Bible
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Frank Buchanan
Forrest Barnes
Charles Leppich
Addie Lamb
Anna Leppich
Lawrence Renner
Snow Flurries Predicted Amid Flood Reuters Update
Middleton residents faced more snow flurries as storms receded. The Great Miami River fell from 164 feet to 15.2 feet, then rose to 16.2 feet this morning. Thirteen state roads remained closed. Route 42 south of Waynesville reopened. Ohio flood threats lessened but creeks stayed high and some farm land flooded.
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State Highway Patrol
Waynesville
Cincinnati
Ohio River
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ohio
Miami
Licking
Mill Creek
Miamitown
Harrison
Xenia
Shawnee Creek
Miami River
Butler County
Gift Certificate From Spa Near Pyrenees Listed at Station
A 49 BOX visited the station to see the train off and a box car opened to accept a last-minute gift, a certificate from a spa near the Pyrenees. The spa offers a cure of 21 days to any U S ex service man who participated in the liberation of French territory.
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Pyrenees
U. S
Traffic Deaths Fall in Trumbull County Ohio in 1948
Traffic deaths in Trumbull County dropped 35 percent last year. Police counted 33 fatalities in 1948, down from 51 in 1947, according to AP.
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Warren, O
Trumbull
Truman to unveil major foreign policy within two weeks
Washington AP reports President Truman is expected to deliver a defining foreign policy statement in about two weeks, likely at the inauguration on January 20 or sooner in a Congress address. The plan reportedly includes a North Atlantic alliance and a foreign military aid program to support Western Europe against Soviet expansion.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
Russia
Western Europe
Taxpayers Use Wrong Forms in 1948 Filing
Cleveland AP reports taxpayers are filing form W-2 as their income tax report for 1948. Collector Thomas M. Carey warns W-2 cannot be used alone and must be attached to Form 1040 or Form 1040A to show salary and withholdings.
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Cleveland
Internal Revenue
Thomas M. Carey
Carey
No Real Rift Expected On Foreign Aid
Washington AP report on domestic foreign policy hints at a Senate move likely despite Republican anger over Foreign Relations Committee staffing. Democrats push a bipartisan approach to foreign problems while Republicans criticize the committee split and dispute foreign spending details.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Milwaukee Strike Ends After Citywide Transit Idle
Milwaukee streetcars and buses returned to service after a day idle as most motormen and drivers reported back to work. A 10 o’clock meeting between transit officials and utility workers, arranged by Prof. Nathan Feinsinger, was called after yesterday’s cancelled four am strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Transport Company
Nathan Feinsinger
University of Wisconsin Law School
Ohio sales tax receipts jump in pre Christmas week
Ohio sales tax collections for the week ending December 25 rose to 3,361,259 from 3,110,970 a year earlier. State Treasurer Dor H. Ebright noted the 1948 total to date reached 127,039,692, well above 114,094,272 in 1947, while earlier December weeks lagged. He cited a declining gain rate since mid-1948 and the August 1 removal of the one cent tax on small purchases as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Dor H. Ebright
Ebright
Southerners Are Homeless After Floods
In Columbus Mississippi region heavy floods forced about two thousand residents from homes including 1,200 Black and 1,000 White people as rivers surged. Alabama and Tennessee flood victims numbered around one thousand. Red Cross Disaster Chairman Kelly cautioned relief efforts amid ongoing rain and worsening weather.
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Columbus
Miss
Red Cross
Farmer Kelly
Alabama
Tennessee
North
Georgia
Soil damage from long cropping in Ohio lake beds
Dr. Hugh H. Bennett warned Ohio farmers that years of cropping on the old northwestern lake bed have compacted soil. He compared it to boiling potato soup, noting dense, dense soil hinders rainwater absorption and crop use, a hidden erosion-like problem.
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Paulding
Ohio
Hugh H. Bennett
U. S.soil Conservation Service
Washington
Riding County
Bennett
Dr. Bennett
Scarlet fever outbreak reported in Tus sere county
County Health Commissioner T F Mec Gough said 18 scarlet fever cases have occurred in Tus sere county since December 1, signaling a significant health concern for Dover and surrounding areas.
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Dover
T. F. MecGough
Tussere
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