107 Districts To Draw GOP Fire In 1950 Drive For House Control
Republicans plan a nationwide push in 1950 to regain a House majority lost to President Truman. The strategy centers on 107 districts across 29 states, targeting margins where Democratic gains were thin in 1948 and aiming to win in districts with 45 to 49 percent of the vote. Key battlegrounds include Pennsylvania Ohio New York and California with efforts to peel off vulnerable Democratic seats and press advantages in several other states.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Politibank
House of
Truman
Massachusetts
California
House
Republican Congress
Minnesota
New Jersy
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Bertrand W
Bud) Gearhart
Congress
Gearhart
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Mr. Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
New Elyria Jaywalking Ordinance Imposes $1 Fine
Elyria Ohio adopts a downtown jaywalking ordinance with a $1 fine and the slogan S.O.B. meaning safety or sorrow, as city officials explain the measure and its intent.
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Elyria
Wabash Rail Employes Go Back To Work
Wabash railroad employes return to work after an eight day strike. A back-to-work agreement between four unions and management, approved by a presidential fact finding board, ends the stoppage. About 3,500 operating workers walked off, 9,000 laid off. wage issues were not involved.
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ST. Louis
Wabash Railroad
Arthur K. Atkinson
Wabash
Judge Raps Hitchhiking Juveniles
Hamilton Judge Oscar Leiser denounces motorists who give rides to hitchhiking youths and urges immediate police handover of runaways. He cites cases of long journeys and a truck driver’s license forfeiture, calls for a federal ban, and warns drivers face liability for injuries.
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Hamilton
Oscar Leiser
Judge Leiser
Leiser
Fire on his own roof reveals Middletown fireman
Jacob Ellman a longtime Middletown firefighter was near his home in Middletown New York when a furnace fire on his roof triggered a call to action. He rushed outside to find flames spreading from his property as sirens wailed. Separately legal notices include a divorce petition filed in Butler County Ohio by Alvin Pullman stating grounds of gross neglect and scheduling responses by April 30 1949. Probate notices name The Winters National Bank as executor for the estate of Breper G Bevis in Butler County with claims due within four months.
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Middletown
N. Y
Jacob Ellman
Helen Pullman
Alvin Pullman
Common Pleas Court
Butler County
Ohio
Eph T. Kiep
Elsie Kiley
Ieai
Breper G. Bevis
Winters National Bank and Trust Company
Dayton
Janney Garepes
Oscar R. Leiser
Estabrook
Finn and
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