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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1950
Page
5
A 1950 Christmas sermon emphasizes giving oneself to others. It recaps the Magi tale, urges wrapping gifts, personal delivery, and prayers, and urges extending care beyond family to neighbors, other races, and children, citing love and self-sacrifice as core blessings.
Deputies arrested two motorists and police issued a signal light summons. Charles E. Wingerter 23 of 4230 Fulton rd NW charged with reckless driving after his car rear ended George C. Becker 26 at 25th st and Fulton rd NW. Wingerter fined 15 dollars plus costs at North Canton Mayor's Court. Edwin H. Sumner 30 of RD 1 Louisville charged with failing to yield. backed onto Route 43 from a Waco tavern lot and was hit by Kenneth W. Mark 35 of RD 4. Sumner booked at Louisville Mayor's Court. Signal light summons issued to Harry G. Matz of North Industry.
Norman R. Congleton aged 62 of New Philadelphia pleaded guilty to a reckless driving charge in Massillon Municipal Court. He was fined 50 and costs and had his driving rights suspended 30 days after being arrested at 7 p.m. November 10 by the State Highway Patrol following an accident at the intersection of Routes 93 and 30.
AMP ATTERBURY Ind Dec 2 AP The 28th Infantry Division shows strong family ties with 345 pairs of brothers 33 sets of three brothers and 6 sets of four brothers. Fathers mostly veterans age 15 years. one case has son outranking his father Pfc John V Mulfair 18, outranks Pvt Mulfair 41.
Holmes County Farm Bureau Youth Council meets Thursday December seven at 8 p.m. in Hardy Grange Hall to elect officers and invites all members to attend.
Rev John L Williams formerly of Union Avenue Methodist Church Alliance has been named pastor of Calvary Methodist Church Steubenville for the next assignment. Former Alliance pastor will relocate to Steubenville to assume duties at Calvary Methodist Church.
A Capitol report shows at least 1,133,293 spent in the Ohio U.S. Senate contest. Taft supporters accounted for 885,812 and Ferguson backers 247,461 with state party committees totaling 437,535 for Republicans and 36,609 for Democrats. Labor unions funded Ferguson, with major unions totaling 145,000 plus 74,470 from CIO P A C and 70,750 from the Ohio State Federation of Labor political league.
About 150 college presidents public relations and publicity men from seven states will attend the district 6 conference of the American College Public Relations Association in Canton Alliance and Mt. Union. The theme Know Your Job focuses on current higher education publicity issues. The event includes registrations in Canton St Francis Hotel a publicity workshop Monday talks by Arthur Brandon University of Michigan and Phillip W Porter Cleveland newspaper plus an Alliance Mt. Union College visit and a dinner at Alliance Country Club followed by The Miniver Story at Mt. Union Theater.
MASSILLON December 2 H B Halter of the Railway Express Co reported two fur coats valued at 300 dollars stolen from a company truck Thursday between 1130 and midnight. The furs valued at 100 and 200 dollars were en route from Style Mart destroyed by fire to owners in Richmond Virginia and Orlando Florida.
Mrs. Dorothy Wolfarth, 20, of 2505 10th Street NW, and her husband Robert Wolfarth rode in a car struck by Ancil R. Etter, 42, at the intersection of 9th Street and Harrison Avenue SW. Etter said he could not stop for a signal light and skidded through the intersection. Mrs. Wolfarth was taken to Aultman Hospital. Police reported the event occurred Friday at 7 49 p.m.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill urged a church of conviction and experience as delegates to the National Council of Churches of Christ return home. He pressed extending gospel life to all life, including international relations and economics, with no secular sacred divide. The council unites 31 million Protestants and Orthodox in 150,000 churches, aiming for a 1951 budget of 2.6 million and highlighting later fundraising needs.
Canton representative elect Frank Bow said rent control should be handled at state and local levels in peacetime but could be used in an emergency. He criticized the current law for not providing fair returns to property owners and noted rent control ends December 31 with possible six month extensions. Bow favors state enforcement if extended.
QUEUBENVEN, Dec. 2 AP A 28 year old wife Mrs Edward Taylor gave birth to a baby boy while alone for 15 hours in a snowbound country house. Her husband was away helping clear roads and could not return until 9 p.m. The baby and mother were reported in excellent condition. The infant was delivered on Wednesday at 6 a.m. and found on the bed and floor after the husband arrived at Empire, 21 miles away. Red Cross called Dr Jane Schafer of Toronto.
Coy William O Reese 23 of 1836 Sandwith Ave SW was fined 50 dollars and costs and sentenced to 30 days in county jail by Municipal Judge Gordon J Burris on a disorderly conduct charge. Police said Reese was apprehended in the 200 block of Harrison Ave SW at 11 30 p m Friday by two men who allegedly caught him prowling in the area. A lighter with Reese name on it was found in the vicinity following earlier reports of a prowler there.
Wheeling city, lacking snow removal funds, tested a flame-thrower by Wilbur Everett. The device melted only a small area and left most snow as ice. City Manager William N Hunter called the experiment a total failure.
Warren's traffic commissioner Captain Manley R. English age 46 was named police chief at 400 dollars a month. He succeeds William E. Johnson who resigned last month amid charges of drunkenness and malfeasance. English, on the force twenty years, was the top scorer among three captains taking the civil service exam for the post.
Mrs Gladys Everhart 54 living with brother Floyd McCormick RD 1 Newcomerstown is in poor condition at Union Hospital Dover after suffering a heart attack Thursday. Deputy Sheriff John Sawyer notified rescue crews who, after hours of effort, carried her on a cot nearly a mile to an ambulance.
Church Directory lists numerous congregations by name and address with service times. Each entry provides church name location pastor and weekly schedule including Sunday School worship and additional services across multiple districts in the area.
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