Eight Army Units Open for Enlistment
Capt Walter L Messick announced eight Army units are recruiting former servicemen for three year terms with options for four or five years. Eligible applicants may select their preferred unit among divisions stationed in Washington Texas North Carolina Kentucky California South Carolina New Jersey. Reenlistment near home is encouraged for married servicemen and details are available at Middle town Army and Air Force Recruiting Office room 205 1007 Central Ave.
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Walter L. Messick
Army and Air Force Recruiting Office
Armed Forces
Army
U. S
Continental United States
Second Infantry Division
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Second Armored Division
Camp Hood
Texas
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
North Carolina
Second Engineer Special Brigade
Ftt. Worden
Third Armored Division
Ft. Knox
Fourth Infantry Division
Ft. Ord
Calif
Fifth Infantry Division
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Ninth Infantry Division
Ft. Dix
N. J
Messick
Army and Air Force
Central Ave
Middletown
Phil Hannah Considered for Post With New Group
Cleveland AP report says AFL leaders consider Phil Hannah secretary of the Ohio Federation of Labor for the leagues New Labor Education and Political League. Ex U S Senator James Mead is also mentioned. The league aims to campaign against Taft Hartley vote. The 30 member committee weighs a director in Washington. Hannah had been assistant secretary of labor and resigned in protest.
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Cleveland
AFL
Phil Hannah
Ohio Federation of Labor
William Finegan
Cleveland Federation of Labor
U. S
James Mead
New York
AFL League
Washington
Hannah
Company Plans New Coal Mine in West Virginia
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co President Frank Purnell announced a big coal preparation plant for the Logan County West Virginia mine. Construction on a picking table starts April 1 with more equipment to follow. The Dehue mine yields about 2200 tons daily of high quality low volatile coal.
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Youngstown, CO
Frank Purnell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Logan County
W. Va
Dehue
Fire Captain Dies After Smoke Inhalation
Springfield Fire Department veteran Hugh Garrity died after being overcome by smoke while battling a house fire. He served 44 years and is survived by his wife a daughter and a son who works with the Piqua fire department.
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Springfield
Hugh Garrity
Springfield Fire Department
Piqua Fire Department
Young Samuel Colt Builds Wooden Model Revolver
Inventor Samuel Colt, at age fourteen in 1829, while on a runaway voyage to India, constructed a wooden model of a later famous revolver.
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Samuel Colt
India
Master Paintings Taken in Castle Robbery
Budapest report alleges five old master paintings were stolen from an uninhabited Bodogkovaralja castle. Gypsy thieves reportedly boiled canvases to create home made shoe uppers with Velasquez fragments found in a gypsy hut and four Titian works missing entirely.
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Budapest
Hungary
Uj Hirek
Bodogkovaralja
Velasquez
Broadcasts Approved by Senate Committee Voice of America
Washington AP reports the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved unanimously the bill authorizing the State Department to fund and direct Voice of America foreign broadcasts. The measure moves toward full Senate consideration.
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Washington
State Department
Voice of America
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oil Shipment Probe Opens in Washington and Michigan
Senator Ferguson of Michigan began gathering information on oil shipments to Russia and French oil purchases in the Caribbean. He spoke with Murl Aten, chair of Governor Sigler’s fuel oil study panel, about concerns over shipments to Russia and France’s Caribbean purchases funded by U.S. foreign aid.
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Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Russia
Caribbean
Michigan
Murl Aten
Kim Sigler
Aten
France
United States
Crochet Hat and Glove Set Pattern 746
Crochet pattern notice from 1948 promote Laura Wheeler Needlecraft offerings. Details include hat and glove set, charted directions with photos, and price: twenty cents for Pattern 746 plus fifteen cents for the catalog. Mentions weaving on huck toweling and a note on the word commode.
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Laura Wheeler
News Journal, Inc
Needlecraft Dept
P. O
Station F
Little child dies of rare disease in Columbus hospital
Jimmy Martin a 22 month old Pom eroy boy with xanthomatosis died at Children's Hospital Columbus. He had spent Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Albert Martin and four siblings after Meigs County Society raised funds to send him home by taxi.
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Columbus
Jimmy Martin
Pomeroy
Children’s Hospital
Jimmy
Albert Martin
Meigs County Society of Columbus
Father and son in collision near Van Wert
Clarence B. Couts, 65, farmer, was killed when a car driven by his son George, 18, collided with a freight train five miles south of Van Wert. George was reported in critical condition with a skull fracture.
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van Wert
Clarence B. Couts
George
Here
NYC Railroad Named In Suit
Grover C. Neal of Springfield Illinois sued the New York Central Railroad in Superior Court for 100000 damages. He alleges a yard conductor's mishap last summer when a wheel block pulled from a standing freight car on August 14 1947 caused the car on an incline to roll back and amputate his left foot. He seeks a jury trial.
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Chicago
Grover C. Neal
Springfield
New York Central Railroad
Neal
Broadway
Mostly Water Content in Foods and Soils
Food expenses largely for water average one half of each dollar. Vegetables and eggs show high water content with pork beef and fish ranging from 50 to 80 percent. Soil nutrients focus on nitrogen phosphorus potassium and calcium.
Cost of Living Hits Mahoning County Jail
Mahoning County Commissioners raise jail boarding rates to 1.25 dollars per prisoner per day for City of Youngstown and Columbiana County inmates effective February. The move follows decades of Columbiana County prisoners being boarded here after bond issues for a new jail were rejected.
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Youngstown
Mahoning County
Columbiana County
FASTEETH improves fit of dentures advertised in ad
False teeth wearers face embarrassment from loose plates. The ad promotes FASTEETH alkaline powder to hold dentures more firmly, reduce plate odor, and improve comfort. Sold at drug stores.
Quadruplets Move to Arlington as Father Shifts Work
Three year old Cirminello quadruplets depart Philadelphia with father Joseph Cirminello to Arlington Virginia. The family relocates so he can continue as a corporate analyst with the Securities and Exchange Commission, now based in the nation’s capital for a period.
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Philadelphia
Cirminello
Arlington
Joseph Cirminello
Securities and Exchange Commission
Relief for Distress Symptoms From Excess Acid Treatment
A free book touts Willard's Cure for symptoms of distress from excess acid and poor digestion. It claims over three million bottles sold and offers a 15 day trial. Promotions by Castell Drug Co, Gallaher Drug Co, and Gillen Crow Pharmacies.
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Willard
THE
Castell Drug CO
Gallaher Drug CO
Gillen-Crow Pharmacies
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