Employment Rises in Ohio Despite Draft Pressures
Ohio reports rising employment with unemployment down as older men gain factory jobs. July manufacturing employment reaches its peak since October 1948, while new jobless claims fall to half the July 1949 level. Continued claims total 61,400, down for six months. Manufacturers raise age limits to 50 or 55 to fill positions, while 19 to 23 year olds face tougher entry.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio State Employment Service
Former Slave Recounts Sale on Block as Boy
UENA VISTA VA August 17 UP One hundred year old Uncle Dan l Winston says he remembers being sold on the block as a slave when he was a boy. He recalls the sale price of 450 and memories of keeping flies off Young Marster Samuel Richeson. He watched Lee surrender on his way to Richmond and recalls postwar hardships. Toasted corn for coffee and ashes boiled for soda bread are among the hard times he describes. Bricks torn from smokehouse doors were boiled for the salt that had saturated them.
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Uena Vista
Dan’l” Winston
Kepin
Marster
Samuel Richeson
Dan’l
Richmond
Lee
Stark Carroll Holmes Boards Set First Draft Totals
Stark Carroll and Holmes counties must supply 42 men for the first Korean War era induction, Sept 1 call. Tuscarawas Wayne not listed. Stark boards total 21, Carroll 12, Holmes 9. Ohio will draft 661 that day as part of 2,850 in September. calls go to Sept 8 15 22 and 29 for delinquents. Col Goble says 137 boards to fill September quota. only 60 boards affected. Draftees drawn from a remaining pool.
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Stark
Carroll
Holmes
Selective Service
Columbus
Tuscarawas
Wayne
Ohio
Col. C. W. Goble
Sharpshooter Rusty Reed, 16, Sets Multiple Records
PARKERSBURG West Virginia August 17 UP Earl Rusty Reed at 16 is famous across five states as a top young sharpshooter. He holds pistol rifle and shotgun records, learned at age three and a half from his father, started skeet at 12, and has demonstrated before 23 clubs in five states. He won tri state junior skeet titles in 1947 and 1949 and performs tricks like tossing three moth balls and splitting them in the air.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Earl
Rusty) Reed
Rusty
Kentucky
Maryland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Pool of Men Ready After Pre-Induction Exams
A pool of men who passed their pre induction physical examinations at least 21 days ago forms the minimum waiting time between exams and military life.
200 Boy Scouts Camporal At Tuscaloar This Weekend
Annual McKinley Area Boy Scouts camporal at Camp Tuscaloar features 500 scouts and scouters. Events include firebuilding knot tying nature ID and an Eagle Award presentation to Ronald Foltz of Troop 1 North Canton. Clergy and officials from Canton Mount Union attend. camp ends Sunday afternoon.
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McKinley Area
Boy Scouts
Camp
Tuscaloar
Ronald Foltz
North Canton
Paul Miller
Canton
Robert Luntz
Advancement Committee
Ralph Fisher
Dan Myers
Mount Union College
Fisherman's Luck Nets Charity Check in Indiana
In Goshen Indiana a fisherman along the St Joseph River found a floated envelope containing a $501.80 check payable to a charity in Elkhart It originated from a Sunday School in West Liberty Ohio and was delivered to authorities by police after the finder reported it
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Goshen
Ind
St. Joseph River
E. C. Slabaugh
West Liberty
Elkinart
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National Education Association
Tuscarawas Valley
Parimode
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Hudson
Fulk-Bayer
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