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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1950
Page
15
In a 1950s reflection on federal agency growth, the speaker critiques expanding government powers, including NRA and socialized medicine debates. He notes public sentiment resists further expansion, cites TV color schemes as a broader, unsettled beginning, with personal indifference toward television.
A George Sokolsky column argues agencies lack authority to curb invention. The FCC’s unilateral device ban, expanding beyond law, would render many TVs obsolete and hinder color TV progress, provoking concern over regulatory overreach and practical harm.
In a humorous piece the author notes State College is geographically remote with no railroad, distant stations, ox cart and dog sled service, and a population ratio of 4.3 men per woman. He calls it the largest college in the United States by enrollment and jokes about it being an ideal place for either higher learning or a penal colony, with escape deemed impossible.
Inez Robb humorously contrasts Ivy League campuses with State College noting students' diversions from math to hamburgers, juke boxes, and pinball. The writer laments aging while recounting campus life, jesting about teaching journalism students how to succeed.
War reporters chasing front lines in northwest Korea face rapid shifts as UN withdrawals complicate navigation. Command posts move overnight and roadblocks appear on familiar routes, forcing reroutes and delayed dispatches. Correspondents at 8th Army HQ cobble fragments into stories while dust and weather hinder identification and travel.
Don Huth describes AP reporters in Korea bundles of clothing, freezing nights in open jeeps, and numb limbs. They shiver by fires while eating cold beans, vow not to return, then file dispatches and seek a new marching order each day in a harsh, wintry landscape.
A mother and her husband faced murder investigations in Muskegon Michigan after burying their four year old daughter Carol Ann Thompson in a deep backyard grave on November 20. They admitted beating the child for being unruly and were arrested with two other daughters as they planned to flee the state.
The Cuyahoga County Republican finance committee reported last month's election costs totaling 115000 plus dollars with the exact sum 115 155 93 dollars.
Sam Hodnick of Canton has been elected president of the Eastern Ohio Football Officials Association, taking over from Cantonian Paul A. Schott. Dwight V. Peabody of Canton was re-elected secretary treasurer, with J. H. Dalrymple of Akron as vice president. Schott joins the executive committee alongside Earl Schreiber of Canton, Clayton Schlemmer and A. G. Sweitzer of Akron, Don Welsh of Apple Creek, and Augie Zimmerman of Cuyahoga Falls.
San Marino holds its status as the world’s oldest constitutional republic and smallest sovereign state, famed for its historic towers and enduring independence.
GRANVILLE Ohio December 4 AP A conference meeting set football games through 1953 and basketball through the 1952 season while Toledo joins the loop for a Toledo tournament December 7 8 1951 Dayton Dr Dave Reese chaired the sessions.
The season schedules are not yet released and will be announced later by the respective schools. No dates or opponents are provided in the readable text.
Some coastal turtles routinely lay up to 150 eggs in a single nesting event, a pattern observed by researchers studying reproductive strategies and environmental pressures shaping sea turtle populations.
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