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I NO CELEBRATION THIS TIME■ Cambridgeites Jubilant ’ After Two World WarsAnnouncement of the peace agreement in Vietnam brought no response in Cambridge such as was triggered by the Armistice in World War I or by the cessation of hostilities in World War II.Files of The Jeffersonian show that news of the Armistice in World War I was greeted here with wild enthusiasm, although the report of the official ending of hostilities was received early in the morning.Within a very short time, a tremendous celebration was in fll swing. Autos and trucks appeared on streets as if by magic, all loaded with boys and men with flags, revolvers, and enything else that would make noise. There was no work that day and the city joined in full-swing with celebrations.Parades formed on Wheeling Ave. that day and evening and Prof. LaChat hastily gathered members of the Cambridge Band and joined in. W. A. Taylor was parade marshal.There were special Masses and other church services and Mayor Longsworth called for an orderly celebration.Schools in Cambridge closed as did all business places andAtty. Milton H. Turner gave a stirring patriotic address.At the head of the evening’s parade was the Cambridge Band, with four men carrying a dummy figure of the Kaiser.Cambridge and all the U.S. was free from war until World War II and after the agony of those yeas, Cambridge again was plunged into a victory celebration.Upon learning Aug. 14, 1945, of the news of the end of the World War II, Cambridge again staged spontaneous celebration, with crowds of people downtown, amid shrieks of whistles of industrial plants and the blaring of automobile horns. It was 193 weeks after Pearl Harbor and there was peace again.Cambridge was closed up tight and federal, county and city offices were closed all day. Businesses were closed, but a few restaurants were opened with only a few workers showing up.First Methodist Church was filled with people, with the Rev. I^ester S. Evans, the Rev. Ernest Howell and the Rev. W D. Heaston in charge.All over town people were!§ 1\\ \ ' , 'talking “peace” and one couple just quietly walked down the street knowing they would see their son again.Good news was boundless here. Harold Rutledge, 444 Oakland Blvd., received word his brother, Raymond of East Liverpool had been freed from a prison camp near Shanghai, China.Fletcher Hospital, the army medical complex north of Cambridge, received word of the peace quietly but happily.TTie Jeffersonian ran a full page ad sponsored by various businesses that was headed “Thank God.”A victory jubilee was planned for Aug. 16 at the city park, complete with calliope music by Robert Corbin and vocal solos by Evelyn Brower. Ball games, picnics and band concerts completed the activities.Korean War, 1950 to July 27, 1953.When this conflict ended in Cambridge, as elsewhere, enthusiasm is said to have been “under control.”According to the Jeffersonian account of the “peace” day, there were a few whistles and handclaps in Times Square when baseball results were interrupted with news of the peace across the hugh electric sign. Most people just kept walking and in Clevbeland, television viewers complained because programs were cut for news of the truce.There was no celebration in Cambridge in 1953, and 20 years later the end of another war resulted in no celebration on the scale noted here at the conclusion of either World War.
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 27, 1973
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Evelyn B.
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