Christmas Trees Aid Erosion Fight At Scout Camp
Local Boy Scouts collected over 4000 Christmas trees for Camp Hook to be used as soil erosion filters in ravines and gullies and as wildlife cover. Troops 5, 7, 20, and 26 contributed, guided by Lou Waldner and Paul Parker. The year around project turns discarded trees into practical conservation aids.
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Lou Waldner
Middletown
Camp Hook
Tory
Paul Parker
Boy Scout
Parker
Good Fellowship
Don Pearson
Michigan Ave
Harry Mack
Grove Ave
Four Missouri Mules Sail For Inaugural Parade
Four Missouri mules chosen to represent Truman’s birthplace in the inaugural parade left Lamar for Washington. The animals Beck Polly Ducke and Blondie rode in a truck driven by Billy Bob Adams. Lamar residents previewed the mules on Friday as they pulled a white wagon around the square in harness and shine.
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Missouri
Lamar
Truman
Washington
Beck
Polly
Ducke
Blondie
Billy Bob Adams
Claude Adams
Banker Dies in Columbus at 77
Fred C. Rector a Columbus attorney and Buckeye State Building and Loan director died yesterday at age 77. A native of Pickaway County he spent his career in the city’s financial and legal circles.
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Columbus
Fred C. Rector
The
Buckeye State Building and Loan Couny
Pickaway County
Woman Found Dead In Jail Cell After Series Of Tragic Events
BERKELEY Calif AP a woman identified as the wife of a U S Treasury Department employee was found dead in a jail cell after a sequence of events. The 40 year old Mrs Alice C Hopkins reportedly tied a cloth to a cell crossbar and hanged herself after asking her husband James Hopkins to bail her out. A scrawled note read you dont know Ive gone through a thousand hells tonight.
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Berkeley
Calif
U.S. Treasury Department
Clifford van Meter
Alice C. Hopkins
James Hopkins
Hopkins
Washington, D. C
Treasury Inspection Department
van Meter
Jacqueline Berry
Copperweld Steel Plans Combined Sale of Holdings
Copperweld Steel stockholders approve a plan to sell both government and private war facilities. Bids will be received by January 19 from the War Assets Administration. Copperweld, a major electric furnace steel producer, supplied material for aircraft guns and engines during the war. The announcement followed a Pittsburgh stockholders’ meeting.
Middletown City Club and Civic Meetings Schedule
A roundup of dozens of local meetings including the Quarterback Club at the Manchester Hotel noon, Symasa Orchestra at Middletown High at 7 30, Knights of Pythias at Ford 8, Industrial Council at the Manchester Hotel noon, American Legion Blythe Williams post 8 p m, Legion Executive at the Legion Home 7 30, 814th Tank Battalion at Aeronca Factory 8, Middletown Hospital Board 7 30, Middletown Cooperative Club 6 30, Civilian Club at Manchester Hotel noon, Rotary at Manchester Hotel noon, National Guard drill 7 at barracks, Cancer Clinic 7 at hospital, North Middletown Fire Association 7 at Fire House, Fraternal Order of Eagles 8 at hall.
Far Eastern Pact To Block Reds Foreseen
London reports a regional Far East pact to stem Communist expansion may follow Western cold war moves. Possible members include the United States Britain Canada Australia France Holland New Zealand China and India with Indochina Indonesia and Malaya considered for future inclusion. Bevin and Schuman discussed mutual Far East problems, urging support for national independence movements. A Bevin aim is to encourage these movements not those stirred by Moscow. A British French policy announcement in the East could come soon, officials say.
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London
Far East
Russia
United States
Britain
Canada
Australia
France
Holland
New Zealand
China
India
Indochina
Indonesia
Malaya
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Bevin
House of Commons
Europe
Foreign Office
Former College Board Head Dies
Frederick A. Henry 81 longtime Cleveland attorney and former president of Hiram College board died Saturday after an 81 year life in civic affairs He chaired multiple companies and taught law at Western Reserve University a judge on Ohio circuit court and a university professor he is survived by his wife a son and four daughters
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Cleveland
Frederick A. Henry
Hiram College
Geauga Lake
Henry
van Sweringen Company
New Amsterdam Company
Williamson Company
University of Michigan
Old Circuit Court of Ohio
Western Reserve University
Louise Adam Henry
Canadian Tourist Traffic Surges to New 1948 High
The statistics bureau says 1,824,000 U S cars entered Canada in 1948 marking a record year for Canadian tourist traffic from the United States.
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Ottawa
United States
Canada
The
Statistics Bureau
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Peg Flynn
Journal
Copperweld Steel
Quarterback Club
Manchester Hotel
Civic. Sym Asa
Knights of Pythias Past Councellors Association of
Butler County
K. of P. Hall
Ford
Industrial Council
Blythe- Williams Post
American Legion
Will
Eighth Ve
Legion
814Th Tank Battalion
Aeronca Aircraft Factory
Middletown Hospital Board of Trustees
Civitan Club
Manchester
Rotary Club
U.S. National Guard
Middletown Hospital
North Middletown Fire Association
North Middletown Fire House
Order of Eagles
Reed-Klopp
Philco
Compact Philco
Philco 607
Philco 504
LIFE
Lane
Lane Hope
Honduras
Ohio
College Board
OHIQ
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