40 Weekend Auto Mishaps Leave Two Hurt
Stark County motorists reported 40 weekend crashes to police deputies and state patrol. Two serious injuries noted, including 82 year old Richard Shad in Alliance City Hospital with a fractured skull and two broken legs after being struck on Route 62 near Route 173. Driver Jack Foster, 34, North Jackson, said he swerved to miss a pedestrian walking a dog in dim lights.
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Stark County
Richard Shad
RD 3
Louisville
Alliance City
Sheriff's Office
Jack P. Foster
RD 1
North Jackson
Divers Search Lake for Victim in Canton Woman's Drowning
Divers from Cleveland joined Summit County deputies at Turkeyfoot Lake to recover the body of Hila Maxine Hays 31 of 1617 Royal Ave NE Canton who drowned Saturday afternoon near the YMCA camp after a boat capsized during a ride with Walter Sells of Dover. Hays native of Portsmouth had lived in Canton for years and is survived by her parents three brothers and two sisters. The body will be brought to Jack funeral home and later sent to Portsmouth.
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Cleveland
Turkeyfoot Lake
Hila Maxine Hays
Royal Ave
Y.M.C.A
Summit County
Sheriff’s Office
Canton
Ohio State Employment Service
Walter Sells
Dover
Sells
Miss Hays
Portsmouth
Wade Sturgill
William, Wade Jr
Franklin D. Sturgill
Garnett Lockhart
Blanche Duncan
Oliveville
Jack Funeral Home
Two men fined in Canton behavior cases
Samuel J. Scozzarella, 33, was fined 50 and costs and jailed 30 days for disorderly conduct by indecent exposure after allegedly exposing himself to a woman in the 500 block of Tuscara St. W. Augustus Oliver, 52, was fined 100 and costs on an e intoxication charge and 50 and costs on a suspicious person count, after prowling near the 700 block of Sth St NE amid window peeping complaints.
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D. L. McCarroll
Samuel J. Scozzarella
3Rd St NE
Canton
Tuscara
St W
Augustus Oliver
10Th St
Massillon
Sth St NE
Oliver
OSU summer class to award many doctorates
More than 40 percent of the summer quarter graduates at Ohio State University are candidates for advanced degrees. At least 90 will receive doctoral degrees, and about 380 will earn master’s degrees from the class of 1,100.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Alliance Centennial Ball Crowns Miss Thomas Queen
Miss Irene Farren named Miss Ohio for 1950 crowns Miss Thomas as centennial queen at a Saturday night ball. Lions Club parade featured three costumed citizens on Sunday. Albert H. Fraraccio inspects a 2,800 pound cake planned to feed 10,000 at tonight's celebration.
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Irene Farren
Ohio
Thomas
The
Lions Club
W. R. Wymer
H. N. Fox
Frank Labarba
Albert H. Fraraccio
Centenary Parade Opens With Gov Lausche Lead
About 2,000 attended a interdenominational service at Mt Union stadium as Alliance kicks off its centennial. The highlight is tonight's parade led by Gov Frank Lausche featuring 18 bands and 40 floats plus the world’s largest centennial cake, weighing 2790 pounds and costing 2500 dollars, cut by Lausche and the centennial queen Marilyn Thomas.
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Bureaulliance
Alliance
Mt. Union Stadium
Tri-County
Frank Lausche
Lausche
Coun
Vice Squad Raids Trap 11 Persons
In a two hour operation the vice squad arrested seven women and three men on morals charges and aided liquor inspectors in seizing a Canton man for violating a liquor ordinance. Troy Sissen, 42, was charged with selling beer after 1 a.m. at 2103 Harrison Ave SW and a D-3 permit location. Several individuals were charged with residing in or operating a disorderly house at addresses on Rex Avenue SE Walnut Avenue SE and 417 Rex Ave SE and 337 Walnut Ave SE.
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Canton
Troy Sissen
Harrison Ave
Rex Ave SE
Patricia Collins
Rita Govez
Ann Williams
Akron
Salineville
Walnut Ave SE
Jacqueline Stewart
Toni Martin
Gail Grayson
31 Area Scouts Finish Canoe Trip in Michigan
Boy Scouts of McKinley Area Council returned Sunday night from a weeklong canoe exploration in northern Michigan on the White River. The party included 31 scouts and leader E A Burnham of Alliance. They carried tents and food in canoes, cooked, and lived on self supplied rations with fair fishing noted and several fish dinners.
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Boy Scouts of McKinley Area Council
Michigan
E. A. Burnham
Alliance
White River
Priest at Wainwright Recalled for Navy Chaplain Service
Rev. Fr. Joseph Busek administrator of St. Pherese in Wainwright and St. Paul the Apostle in Midvale has been recalled to the navy as a chaplain. He will report to the Marine Training Base at Paris Island South Carolina on September 15. Fr. Busek previously served as a chaplain in World War II in the Mediterranean region.
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Wainwright
Joseph Busek
Church of St. Pherese
Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Midvale
Navy
Paris Island
S. C
Busek
Mediterranean
Destroyer Rescues U S Flier Shot Down
The U S Navy says Lt. (j g) Nat Curry of Lexington Missouri bailed out of his Corsair after anti air fire near Songjim east coast North Korea. A destroyer raced 60 miles to rescue him as fighters circled overhead.
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U. S. Flier
Tokyo
United States Navy
J.g
Nat Curry
Lexington
Songjim
North Korea
Canton Ministers Receive Transfers at E U B Conference
Three Canton Evangelical United Brethren pastors were transferred at the Ohio Conference session closing in Toledo. L H Naumann moves to Bethel Akron, O V Latta to North Hill Akron, W L Muller leaves Trinity to pursue evangelical field. Le Roy Deinger comes to Calvary Canton, Earl W Pay moves to Grace Canton, A C Zagray to Trinity from Emmanuel Cleveland. John Bench heads to Germantown, with R E Hern replacing him from Northeast Pa. All other Canton pastors remain. Transfers take effect Sunday Sept 10.
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Hree Evangelical United Brethren
Canton
Ohio
E.U.B
Calvary E.U.B
Toledo
L. H. Naumann
Calvary Church
Bethel Church
Akron
O. V. Latta
Grace Church
North Hill Church
W. L. Muller
Trinity Church
LeRoy Deinger
North Hill
Earl W. Pay
Akron Boulevard Church
A. C. Zagray
Emmanuel Church
Cleveland
John Bench
Homeworth
Germantown
R. E. Hern
Northeast
Akron Sailor Escapes Navy Prison Brig
An Akron prisoner escaped from the naval training station brig in Newport Rhode Island. Navy authorities say he was serving a light sentence for absence without leave.
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Akron
Newport
R. I
Naval Training Station
Navy
Navy Re Enlistment Rules Expand Pay Grade Options
The Canton navy recruiting station reports a Washington directive allowing former service members with honorable discharges to re enlist in higher pay grades than before. Ex sailors discharged at E-7, E-6, or E-5 may re enlist in E-4 or higher in most cases, with 11 veterans urged to contact the station for details. Lewiston, Idaho, touts a premier municipal water plant.
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Canton
Washington, D. C
Navy
Woman Bruised in Fall From Attic at Home
Mrs Edith Munsell a 46 year old resident of 710 Mahoningave NE escaped serious injury in a freak accident at 8 a m Sunday. She was walking in the attic when she misstepped and fell through plaster board into the room below. Mercy Hospital attendants treated her for bruises to a wrist and shoulder and she was released.
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Edith Munsell
Mahoningave
Mercy Hospital
Waterbury reports two TVs stolen from basement store
Massillon on August 28 B Waterbury of 1433 Janie Street NE told police two television sets were stolen from his store basement. He said one went missing last Monday and the other Saturday between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
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Massillon
B. Waterbury
Janie St
Truman Signs Wider Social Security Bill
President Truman signed the revised social security bill expanding old age pension rolls by about 10 million people. He expressed objections to a provision limiting the labor secretary’s power to cut unemployment insurance funds for states not meeting federal standards.
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Truman
Washington
White House
Congress
Secretary of Labor
Salem inventor Nathan Read patents steam vehicle in 1790
Nathan Read of Salem Massachusetts patented a steam vehicle in 1790 but abandoned the project due to insufficient public interest.
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Nathan Read
Salem
Mass
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Stark County Humane Society
Alliance Centennial
Marylin Thomas
Elks Home
Rita Madsen
Jack
Louise Vickers
Fern A. Kotte
Nellie Tippens
Nellie Tippens. Mrs. Kotte
Horrock
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Marilyn Thomas
Memorial Hall
Barbara Quinlan
Margaret Wild
Shirley Witherspoon
Minerva
Cilman
Eagle Bakery
Pete Fraraccio
Fraraccio
Dow Chemical Co
Midland
Mich
Telephone Answering Service OF
4Th ST
N.W
Benson
Canton City Lin
Fishers
Crubbo Pure
SWIFT
Ae Tender House’ Steaks
Calif
Navarre Rd
Garfield SW
Wagner
W. Tusc
Bologna
Chuck
Ansorn
Convenient
Mahoning Road
Auditorium Market
Fulton Rd
Broad Ext
Greenfield SW
Plant
MOOSE
Pork Hearts
Quality Fruit CO
the Military Bulletin Board
Lewiston, Ida
Wlonday
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