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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1949
Page
15
The St. Louis police quartet performed at the First Presbyterian Church for a ladies night in Kirkwood and received a $1 parking meter overstay fine. Kirkwood Councilman Fred Farrow paid the fine for the visiting officers.
James Marlow argues the United States drift toward government intervention in the free enterprise system. The piece outlines the gradual growth of regulation from tariffs to the new farm support program proposed by Agriculture Secretary Brannan. It explains how price supports and potential buying of surpluses would shift decision making to the government, raising questions about true economic freedom and the public cost through taxes.
The piece outlines failure of unifying the armed forces under James Forrestal due to inadequate law, lack of service cooperation, and presidential hesitation to compel unity. Eisenhower is drawn from Columbia to chair the joint chiefs, but the existing law limits power. Frank Pace Jr. proposes a presidential appointment of a supreme chairman over all services and as top military adviser, creating an unelected official with broad authority.
Hoover Commission warned that elevating a principal military adviser to influence the secretary and president risks Napoleonic power and a dangerous division of responsibility. Ferdinand Eberstadt testified that civilian oversight must prevail to avoid military cliques and failed governance.
HAL BOYLE discusses fears about the gadget age and thinking machines. Norbert Wiener of MIT warns that automatic factories could render unskilled workers obsolete, likening the shift to radar advances and flagging social danger if people are displaced.
Hal Boyle foresees a future where machines gain greater brainpower and power than people. He warns that without heart, humans risk becoming hired hands of their own gadgets, as machines outpace human judgment in a mechanical era.
A Greyhound bus, two tractor trailers, and a car wrecked on a foggy highway four miles north of Milan. Seventeen injured. Edward Zimmerman, 30, of Cleveland, the bus driver, listed in serious condition. The bus carried 22 passengers and struck the rear of a truck, then hit the leading truck before another car hit the last truck.
The State Liquor Board canceled the 3.2 beer permit of Dale L. Anderson of Beloit in Mahoning County after he failed to appear to answer a charge of possession of gambling devices.
Ted Dunlap introduced 30 candidates to 80 members of the Women’s Republican Club at a YMCA brunch. He urged a vigorous registration drive after the primaries and in the fall municipal elections, noting about 40 000 eligible voters did not vote in 1947. The next branch meets May 10 and the executive board on April 29 at 5 30.
A southbound New York Central freight train derailed here, derailing two cars. The cars stayed upright and no injuries were reported, tying up rail traffic for about five and a half hours.
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