Ohio Senate Okays Turnpike Bill 26 to 5
The Ohio Senate approved a plan to create a five member Turnpike Commission to finance a 239 mile toll road linking with Pennsylvania. Bonds would be privately sold and state money not pledged. Route would run near Youngstown Akron Cleveland Toledo toward Indiana. House approval expected after stalled talks two years ago.
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Ohio
House
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
William M. Boyd
Cuyahoga
Orval Whitacre
Stark
State Highway Patrol
Winter
Turnpike Commission
Commission
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Akron
Cleveland
Toledo
Indiana
Chicago
Albert L. Daniels
Highland
David McKerguson
Guernsey
Tom V. Moorehead
Muskingum
Fred R. Seibert
Auglaize
Alfred Cohen Dies at 89 Former Ohio Electoral College Leader
Alfred M. Cohen, 89, longtime public figure in Cincinnati, died after months of illness. A six term member of the Ohio Electoral College, he served as president of the body that cast Ohio’s votes for Harding and Taft era presidents. Cohen also sat on City Council from 1885, was a state senator 1897–1900, led the law firm Cohen Hurtig and Cohen, and led B’nai B’rith as national president from 1925 to 1938, serving as honorary president at his death.
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Cincinnati
Alfred M. Cohen
Ohio Electoral College
Truman
Cohen
Ohio
Cohen, Hurtig and Cohen
B'nai B'rith
Hamilton Youth Will Head OSU Fraternity Body
Ohio State University students appointed and elected to posts in the University’s Council of Fraternity Presidents include Richard J. Fitton of Alpha Gamma Rho Hamilton elected president Roy L. Morris of Phi Delta Theta Cambridge appointed secretary treasurer Karl J. Loveland of Alpha Gamma Phi Toledo appointed director of special events Howard Teifke of Alpha Tau Omega Fremont and John F. Commin of Phi Delta Theta Fostoria elected members of the executive committee.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Richard J. Fitton
Alpha Gamma Rho
Hamilton
Roy L. Morris
Phi Delta Theta
Cambridge
Karl J. Loveland
Alpha Gamma Tho
Toledo
Howard Teifke
Alpha Tau Omega
Fremont
John F. Commin
Fostoria
McKinley Students Win Scholastic Art Awards
Nancy Sherman of McKinley Junior High received a scholastic key and certificate of merit for a pastel in the Scholastic Regional Art Contest. Her drawing will advance to the national contest at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Debby Ingwersen earned a certificate of merit for placing fifth. The winners, instructor Miss Maude Horn and Principal L. J. Ragland, attended the exhibition at John Shillito Store in Cincinnati as Carl Zimmerman presented the awards.
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Nancy Sherman
McKinley Junior High School
L. J. Ragland
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
Debby Ingwersen
Maude Horn
John Shillito
Cincinnati
Carl Zimmerman
Engineers List Program Schedule
Miami Chapter of Ohio Society of Professional Engineers announced future plans at the noon meeting. A R Edwards of Armco International will give a talk with colored movies on his world trip March 14 at 7 30 pm at the Champion Coated Paper and Fiber Company activities building in Hamilton. March 23 a new sound film Steam for Power will be shown at noon at the Manchester Hotel. March 30 the group will meet at noon in the Manchester Hotel cafeteria. Wyoming then a territory gave women the vote in 1869 followed by Utah the next year.
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Miami
Ohio Society of Professional Engineers
A. R. Edwards
Armco International Corporation
Champion Coated Paper and Fiber Company
Hamilton
Manchester
Atlantic Pact Action Delay Being Sought
A 35 million Protestant committee in Cleveland pressed the United States Senate to delay any Atlantic Pact action until the public can study its implications. The study conference, led by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, seeks a statement urging caution, moral principles, and time for deliberation before full church decisions.
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Cleveland
U. S. Senate
Senate
Department of International Justice and Goodwill
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Nuch
Burke Opposes Belt Conveyor Amid Ohio Debate
Cleveland Mayor Thomas A Burke declared opposition to the Lorain to East Liverpool belt conveyor project, calling it a threat to dock and railroad facilities. He warned it would ruin Cleveland and Ashtabula, and said he would oppose the Senate pending bill to make the conveyor an Ohio common carrier.
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Cleveland
Lorain
East Liverpool
Prairie
Ashtabula
Thomas A. Burke
Senate
Ohio
Parma
City Port and Harbor Commission
Bluffton history teacher loses bid for acquittal
Bluffton College history instructor Larry Gara, 27, a Quaker at a Mennonite school, lost a motion for acquittal in federal court. Prosecutors say he advised former student Charles Ray Rickert to avoid draft registration. Rickert was sentenced to 18 months for draft evasion.
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Toledo
Bluffton College
Larry Gara
Mennonite
Frank L. Kloeb
Bluffton
Charles Ray Rickert
Kloeb
Hearing resumes in $25,000 damage suit
A Middletown jury in Common Pleas Court under Judge P. P. Boll resumed a two day hearing in Flora Barrett’s claim of $25,000 against Albers Super Market. She testified she broke her ankle and suffered permanent disability after slipping at the Middletown store on July 17, 1947. The panel includes Albert Pickett Henry McKay Bonnie Lindner and other jurors.
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Common Pleas Court
P. P. Boll
Flora Barrett
Tytus Ave
Middletown
Albers Super Market
Albers
Albert Pickett
Henry McKay
Bonnie Lindner
Nellie Weber
Katherine Weaver
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Aeo Label
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Michael Arneson
Norway
Arneson
Mabel
OSU
Mkinley
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Territory
Utah
Dillman’s Market
Kraft Miracle Whip
Dillman’s
Atlantic Pact
Burke
Demets Turtles
van Heusen
van Heusens
ARROW
Wembley
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