Hot afternoon sketches and safety talk across town
A lively description near West Main Street shows a sunny scene with a blonde in shorts and sweater at a memorial, then a quick exit to a restaurant. The page also cites Chicago analysts finding women drivers safer than men from a survey of 1300 rural Ohio two car accidents, noting speeding as a male issue and improper turn as a female issue. Other items include weather chatter, a telephone supervisor returning from illness, traffic counts on North Center avenue, and umpire remarks at a Central League opener.
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Canada
Coney Island
West Main T
Chicago
Ohio
Tve
L. Harrington Gibbs
John Crara
David Weimer
Peter T. Dumbauld
North Center Avenue
Corner Market for Bump on Log
Alfred A. Loeb Inc of Portland dominates a curious Pacific Northwest business making burls or bumps on logs. These fabled fiddleback burls yield richly grained wood for fine furniture and violin work, with 4000 tons shipped yearly to Europe and strong demand from mills.
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Portland
Ore
Alfred A. Loeb, Inc
Pacific Northwest
Europe
Oregon
Washington
California
New Senate Labor Bill Introduced
The Republican backed measure to amend the Taft Hartley law would create a national emergency board and allow a 60 day injunction or plant seizure with presidential action. It would abolish the NLRB independent office, retain the closed shop ban with vacancy referrals, and broaden the non Communist oath to apply to employers. Taft said the bill keeps 22 key features of the existing law and would introduce 28 changes.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Donnell Gx-Mo
Smith
RNJ
Senate Labor Committee
GOP Committee
Morse
Oregon
Aiken
Vermont
Mosse
House
Congress
U.S
National Labor Relations Board
Senate approves $300 million annual federal aid for schools
The Senate passed a bill authorizing $300,000,000 yearly in federal grants to state education budgets, aiding teacher salaries and operating costs. Funds go to states via a per pupil formula, with poorer states receiving more. decisions on parochial access and bus service remain to state control.
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Washington
Senate
House
Donnell
Cain
R-Wash
McClellan
D-Ark
McMahon
D-Conn
Truman
Two Workers Die in Grove City Plant Accident
In Grove City on May 5 Cooper-Bessemer Corp workers were crushed when a flask weighing several tons dropped from a crane. Thomas D. Filer 53 and Frank V. Rouse 34, both of Grove City, were killed. Harry Montgomery 35 was injured and listed not seriously. The plant manufactures Diesel engines and gas compressors.
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Grove City
Cooper-Bessemer Corp
Thomas D. Filer
Frank V. Rouse
Harry Montogomery
Detectives Say Shearer Admitted Killing Denver Dealer
Denver May 5 Two detectives testified that 17 year old William Shearer admitted shooting 59 year old Max Perotin a Denver furniture dealer. Witnesses said Shearer confessed after his arrest and described fear during the holdup.
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Denver
William Shearer
Max Perotin
Shearer
Turtle Creek
Perotin
Leslie Sawyer
Sawyer
Fred Zarnow
Zarnow
Workers Hold Group Insurance Near Fifty Times Salary
At the end of 1947 about 30 percent of the US labor force carried group insurance averaging $2,000 per person. This reflects growing employer provided coverage as postwar benefits expand across industries.
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United States
Anecdotes and signs color Somerset life in brief notes
A mixed column of local light snippets covers a stove delivery dispute beneath a porch sign, a stork calf on a wagon for Veterinarian Robert Korns, a nurse’s painted wagon, Dr. Lowell C. Yund’s July Liberia mission trip, and Amish wit on rain. Also spring fever talk, hospital notes on Louise Spano, and Belgian ties to the New York scene.
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John Swisher
Barkmans
Robert Korns
Betty Specht
Somerset Community Hospital
Lowell C. Yund
Roy C. Yund
Christ's Casebeer Lutheran Church
Liberia
Africa
Zor-Zor
Yund
Emery Hostetler
Elmer Shipley
Louise Spano
Brooklyn
Joseph Spano
St. Joseph College
Brussels
Germany
New York
Bureau of Immigration
Gimbels
Masked Gunmen Loot Cleveland Loan Office Cash
Five masked gunmen seized 23000 dollars from a Lincoln Savings and Loan payroll run on a Cleveland street. George Ziemba and Anthony Bizga were making the Thursday cash pickup when the robbers grabbed 22700 in small bills and retrieved the remaining sacks before fleeing in a stolen car. Police suspect a preplanned job.
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Cleveland
George Ziemba
Lincoln Savings and Loan Co
Anthony Bizga
Bizga
Lincoln Savings and Loan
Cleveland Trust Co
Aspen Plans Goethe Festival Marking Goethe Birthday
Aspen Colorado, the mining town famed for revival era ski culture, will host a Goethe festival to mark the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Artists Dorothy Maynor Artur Rubinstein Jose Ortega y Gasset and Albert Schweitzer will attend with the Minneapolis Symphony performing June 7 to July 17.
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Aspen
Colo
INS
Shakespeare
Johann Wolfgan Goethe
Colorado
Rockies
Dorothy Maynor
Artur Rubenstein
Jose Ortegay Gasset
Albert Sweitzer
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
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Oldsmobile Inc
N. Center Ave
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Mary Barron
Miss Dee
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K. H. Wagner
Stoystown
Penna
James L.brand
W. Church
Robert E. Black
W. B. Cook
John H. Cover
Center St. Day Insurance
Daniel W. Livengood
Eugene W. Pugh
Ralph B. Souders
Hoffman , L. Parnell & CO
I, M. Walker
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Robert L. Miller
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Berlin, PA
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