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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1951
Page
2
John W. Pulley of the Canton-Massillon Housing Authority says a 90 day project to repaint 300 housing units on Tuscarawas Street will cost about 47000 dollars. Moisture damage caused peeling necessitating scraping before painting. Nobis Decorating Co. of North Canton holds the contract after bidding statewide.
Advertisement promises a non-acid alkaline powder named FASTEETH to secure false teeth. It claims teeth stay in place during eating laughing and talking without gummy taste or sour sensation and also controls denture odor. Available at drug stores.
Cincinnati police officers on leave rose to 45 as John H. Cummins named eight more officers receiving kickbacks from towing operators. City Manager Kellogg ordered them off duty pending completion of the probe, joining 37 already on leave. Witness Edwin G. Melzer linked police to informing garages of wrecks and favored towing operators who paid kickbacks. Leslie Tanner testified of a partnership tied to a towing business now in receivership and a loan of 200 dollars with a promised 5,500 dollars unrealized.
Navarre Cub Pack No 28 will hold a swimming party this afternoon at West Lebanon. The cubs plan an outdoor fireplace build at Community Park this month and will present a nature exhibit at their next meeting on August 26 in the park.
An old advertisement extolls that the liver produces two pints of bile daily and that Carter's Little Liver Pills help bile flow freely. It claims relief from indigestion and sour feelings, urging readers to buy a 37 cent package at any drugstore.
The Cleveland district OPS warned all but two of 82 new car dealers and two of 55 used car dealers in Stark County to list price guide books used in sales. Names of noncomplying dealers will be turned over to OPS enforcement. Other counties Mahoning Trumbull and Summit showed noncompliance rates with several dealers lacking price guides. Carroll and Holmes counties reported full compliance with price guide listing.
New York August 8 AP Many apparel makers expect higher fall retail prices but not as high as predicted in spring. Most foretell a 7 to 10 percent rise over fall 1950 levels, with one leading suit maker backing off from a $7.50 to $10 estimate to about $5 on a $50 to $60 worsted suit.
H W Farmer regional VA manager announced that 23 099 World War II veterans in 38 northern Ohio counties remain in school under the G I Bill. Subsistence payments reached 1 023 169 dollars and tuition and supplies 630 496 dollars. Total VA disbursements in June were 6 230 132 dollars in this region.
Calcutta reports from Aug 8 say East Pakistan cities held blackout drills and fear of coordinated assaults on Kashmir and India's Assam region. Nehru warned of possible invasion during elections as Pakistan air force and ground units conducted large maneuvers along a 600 mile front with foreign commanders involved.
A delegation of Japanese lawmakers visiting the United States to observe the San Francisco peace treaty signing in September were guests of Mt Vernon Ohio today. They will stay through Friday to study the town as a model small American city before continuing to Chicago to see big city life. Earlier they examined U S farming near Syracuse New York.
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