On the Square Delays and District Dispatches
The column recalls layoffs in Lorain Ohio and visits by Edward Spangler and Neal Ankeny to his in law in Lorain Steel Works. It notes Edward’s Somerset high school 1948 graduation and mentions daylight saving law reform discussions. Store power outages caused darkness and humor during a busy shopping afternoon.
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Jrkmen
Lorain
Ohio
Edward Spangler
Guy Spangler
Dean Phipps
Edward
Neal Ankeny
Lorain Steel Works
Somerset High
H. W. Walker
Pennsylvania
Adams County
Montgomery Ward
Bible Times
Joshua
Henry Keafer Wins 25 Dollar Essay Prize
Henry Keafer a 17 year old Somerset R C senior won 25 dollars for his essay in a Pennsylvania Electric Association contest. The award came at the high school with a second 25 dollar prize going to his FFA chapter. Henry wrote on The Most Important Uses of Electricity on the Farm in up to 500 words.
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Henry Keafer
Somerset R. C. 2
Pennsylvania Electric Association
FFA
Henry
Pennsylvania
C. G. Munzer
Johnstown
R. P. Martin
Penelec
Somerset
William E. Griffith
Orlando Hines
Hines
Duquesne Seeks FM Radio Permit
Duquesne University seeks permission from the FCC to build a student operated FM radio station on campus. If approved the station would likely use a noncommercial educational frequency between 88 000 and 92 000 kilocycles.
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Pittsburgh
Duquesne University
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Robin Food’s Ballad Fame Dates to 15th and 16th Century
The text notes that the earliest strong popularity of Robin Food arose from ballads during the 15th and 16th centuries. It highlights traditional verses shaping the character’s rise in popular culture.
Christmas Program At First EUB Dec 19
First EUB church presents a full Christmas program with morning and evening services led by Pastor B F Bungard. The Nativity scene is directed by Mrs Robert Holtzinger with a cast including Rev B F Bungard Allen W Reed Rebecca Shultz and Ray Sembower. Music features organist Mrs A D Shaffer choir selections and solos plus a postlude Noel Guilmant and a festive 7 30 pm service with Prelude Joy to the World Silent Night and Away in a Manger.
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EUB
B. F. Bungard
A. D. Shaffer
Ruth Brubaker
Bach
Art
Lorenz
Manger
Dale
Kohlmann
Doxology
L’estoir
Robert Riley
Jesus
Spence
Handel Ashcraft
Bungard
Luther
Reader
C. E. McFarland
Zacharias
Gabriel—Allen W. Reed
Mary—Rebecca Shultz
Sheperds
Ray Sembower
Clifford Bowman
Pete Kelly
Angel
Helen Hoover
Joseph— Dean Forney
Wise Men
C. D. Peck
Allen W. Reed
Robert Holtzinger
Ray
J C Penney Employees Get Extra Payment
The Somerset store employees heard from manager D O Thompson that 72 workers will receive a special payment equal to two weeks salary. The extra is not a Christmas bonus and applies to all staff with a year’s service except managerial and those on the prefixed earnings plan. Thompson estimates local payout about 1756 dollars.
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J. C. Penney Company
Somerset
D. O. Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Penney
Thompson
B and O to light Holly Tree for holiday season
The B and O confirms a 50 foot holly tree along its main line near Jackson Maryland will be lit December 18 with President Roy B White lighting the switch. About 150 B and O Women’s Music club and Glee club singers directed by Dr James Allan Cash will perform with a brass and string ensemble. Thousands are expected to attend from Baltimore and nearby areas.
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Jackson
Washington
New York
Susquehanna River
Pulaski Highway
Roy B. White
B& O
B & O Women's Music Club
Glee Club
James Allan Cash
Baltimore
Chardon Man Declares Role as County Elections Historian
Wallace W. Hall, 89, of Chardon has filed to serve Geauga County as chief historian of elections from 1880 to today. He has preserved at least one ballot from every county certification batch.
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Chardon, O
INS
Wallace W. Hall
Chardon
Geauga County
Hall
County Board of Elections
Skunk At Large And Other Local Tidbits
Rev H Austin Cooper reports a skunk under his back porch after a night return home. The Rev Cooper invites amicable relocation of the skunk and offers his puppies for adoption. Attorney Leland Walker crafts a knit necktie into a cravat after trimming fringe. An ice storm causes a frozen radiator at a local station. a smokestack is displaced during repairs. no injuries reported from a fallen ice laden limb on West Main.
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H. Austin Cooper
Brotherton
Mr. Cooper
Br're Skunk
Cooper
H. B. Speicher
Statler
Leland Walker
H. W. Walker Company Cream
Tce
West Main Street
Resistance to Farm Policy Faces Steep Pushback Abroad
Underground reports from behind the iron curtain indicate strong resistance to farm collectivization in satellite states. Lithuanian party sources describe embittered combat by bourgeois nationalist elements against workers and peasants as Moscow suppresses dissent. Private dispatches from Poland note killings of farm agents as authorities push collective farming.
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Washington
INS
Moscow
A. S. Trofimov
Lithuania
Trofimov
United States
Baltic States
Hitler
Poland
Greenland right whale known for massive baleen supply
The almost extinct right whale also called the Greenland whale is the largest of the whalebone species and can furnish about 3,500 pounds of baleen.
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