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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1949
Page
5
Mr L Erdman of Willoughby Ohio and his wife report shedding 28 and 32 pounds respectively after using Rennel. They praise the non starve approach and urge others to imagine eating normally while losing weight. The letter cites a pharmacist bottle and a home recipe method.
Columbus April 27 The House conservation committee backed a strip mine control bill under the Agriculture Department division of reclamation. The 13 to 0 vote carries Governor Lausche's endorsement who says the prior law was unenforceable. The bill requires licenses fees of 50 dollars plus 10 dollars per acre and a 190 dollar per acre bond, with penalties from 100 to 1000 dollars daily. Regulations apply to 250 acre operations or larger. Operators must restore spoil banks and revegetate, but a clause on covering faces and abandoned openings was dropped.
The House commerce and transportation committee heard opponents of a bill to authorize the Riverlake Belt Conveyor Lines to condemn a 130 mile right of way for a rubber railroad serving Cleveland and Youngstown. Critics argued eminent domain, job losses, and economic disruption, while proponent Kenneth Lloyd claimed belts are practical and would save shippers millions.
A labor management clash at Danner Press Inc centralizes around three plants Canton Akron and Medina. Local 82 of the AFL Mailers Union accuses the firm of unfair labor practices for excluding mailers from a contract triggering a three day strike involving about 16 workers and idling roughly 250 at Akron as cross picket lines block entry. An NLRB trial examiner will likely hear the union charge next week with plant closures possibly continuing during the process. The Akron plant at 1250 Camden Ave occupies about 30 workers and recently opened after Peerless Pump division left Food Machinery Corp.
Canton Jewish Welfare Fund will set its annual solicitation goal at a regular director meeting next week announced by general chairman Robert Erlanger. Henry Morgenthau Jr., former Treasury secretary and UJA leader, spoke at a luncheon and urged full support for Israel and the national United Jewish Appeal drive.
Daniel Martino, director of bands at Indiana University, will conduct the Indiana University band at Mt. Union College for a spring high school music festival. About 1,100 students from nearly 50 northeast Ohio high schools are expected, with guest conductors Carmine Ficocelli of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and W. Oscar Jones of Findlay High School.
Diebold Inc sales leaders will be honored as guests of the industry at French Lick Indiana from Monday through Thursday. The Diebold 100% Club will host about 50 attendees from the bank and systems division for the annual event.
Vice squad members nabbed Rose Smith 27 for residing in a disorderly house and Linda Macks 30 for soliciting at 404 5th Street SE early today. The case targets public nuisance and illegal solicitation operations. Both suspects were processed per standard procedure.
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