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Newspaper

The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1950

Page

11

All-Star Football Broadcasts On Mutual And DuMont

The 17th annual All-Star game between the Eagles and a college all-star team will be aired by Mutual and WHK with TV on DuMont and WXEL. Harry Wismer and Red Grange provide play by play and color, as the event reaches overseas via Armed Forces Radio.

Mutual Broadcasting System WHK DuMont Network WXEL Philadelphia Eagles Chicago Soldier’s Field MBS Harry Wismer Harold Red) Grange Milwaukee Minneapolis DuMont Jack Brickhouse Vince Lloyd Mutual Bert Bell Eagles

G E Prepared To Double Pace

SCHENECTADY New York Aug 9 AP General Electric Co ready to double wartime production if national mobilization occurs President Charles E Wilson said GE has accelerated mobilization planning due to Korean fighting. About 20 percent of current business is defense work with jet engines radar and gunnery systems among items produced.

Schenectady, N. Y General Electric Co Charles E. Wilson G E G-E Army Ordnance Hanford Works Richland Wash Knolls

Cemetery Records Revived by Stark County Society Team

The Stark County Historical Society resumes its third and final summer cemetery visits. E. T. Heald H. T. O. Blue and Ralph Paxton Jr. copy burial data from old headstones in neglected cemeteries. About 26 of roughly 100 cemeteries remain, mainly in the northeast. The team began at Werner Church Cemetery.

Stark County Historical Society E. T. Heald H. T. O. Blue Ralph Paxton Jr Werner Church

Odd and Interesting by W. L. Gordon

Martin Van Buren was the first U S president born outside Britain and the eighth president born in 1783 after independence. Ancient mapmakers filled unknown spaces with whales and elephants. An average American eats about four pounds of food daily. Building a six room house may require up to seven thousand pounds of steel products.

United States Martin van Buren

Senators Eye Wire Tapping in Capital Inquiry

A Senate special committee was convened to prepare an inquiry into wire tapping in Washington. It may probe reports that Howard Hughes phone lines were tapped during the 1947 war contracts inquiry. Maj. Robert J. Barrett is to testify. the panel has broad authority to investigate wire tapping by any person or agency in the capital.

Tris Speaker Cleveland Indians WHEC St. Louis Browns WERE Whec-Fm Ohio Jeptha Wade Cleveland Cincinnati WHBC Cbs-Wgar Mbswhk Falcon Nbc-Wtam CBS Washington Senate Howard Hughes Brewster Maine Senator Brewster Frances Dustin Robert J. Barrett Senator Neely West Virginia Barrett Hughes

Scouts Plan Canoe Trip In Michigan Exploration

Boy Scouts from six McKinley Council districts plan a canoe exploration trip in Michigan. E A Burnham leads, with Andrew Weber Richard Wiseman and Max Guest assisting. Officers include Don Boone Jack McKelvie George Canterbury Jack Bowen and John Crume. They assemble August 19 in Canton then travel to Toledo before moving to base camp near Hesperia and return August 27.

Michigan Jewish Center McKinley Council Hesperia White River E. A. Burnham Alliance Andrew Weber Canton Richard Wiseman Max Guest Carrollton Don Boone Jack McKelvie George Canterbury Jack Bowen John Crume

Polio Strikes Two Month Old In Portsmouth

Merland Shoemaker of Blue Creek is the county's first polio victim this year. Portsmouth physicians note medical journals list only 17 polio cases in babies under six months in 53 years.

Portsmouth

Man Nabbed for Putting Tacks on Drive

In Bakertown, 62 year old George Cravens admitted placing tacks on Leroy Gilbert s driveway for seven years out of anger over a prior eviction from rural property Gilbert helped secure as president of the Green Creek Township school board. Sheriff Fred H. Paul said charges are pending.

Leroy Gilbert Fred H. Paul George Cravens Gilbert Green Creek Township

Parking Meters Expand in Minerva Vote and Alley Approval

Minerva council approved 17 more parking meters after 125 were installed yesterday. Mayor W. R. Brown reported the meters in use and the council also filed to vacate an unused alley and street on Grant and W. Highets for a new Catholic Church construction, with signatures of property owners attached.

Minerva W. R. Brown Grant W. Highets

Summer School Director Named for Western Reserve

Dr Raoul A Pelmont of Brown University Providence R I will succeed Dr Emile B DeSauze as director of Western Reserve University's summer schools of French and Spanish in Cleveland.

Cleveland Raoul A. Pelmont Brown University Providence, R. I Emile B. DeSauze Western Reserve University

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