Canton Repository history and circulation details dated 1950
The Canton Repository a daily and Sunday paper outlines its evolution from The Ohio Repository in 1815 through mergers and renamings, notes Associated Press and membership in press associations, lists special representatives and offices, states subscription and street sale rates, carrier and mail pricing, and requires real name and address for publications. The issue dated Wednesday December 13, 1950 provides contact and rate details.
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Ohio Repository
Stark County Republican
Canton Repository & Republican
Canton Repository
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Daily News
Stark County Democrat
Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes Counties
Ael
Council Is Responsible for Finishing Memorial Auditorium
Canton council stalls the Memorial Auditorium project with repeated tabled reports and delays. The public property and finance committees face a drawn out process before any appropriation or ordinance. A broader, more decisive vision is urged to restore confidence in the mayor council system.
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Canton
Memorial Auditorium
Public Property Committee
Finance Committee
Council
Marshall Explains China Peace Efforts Fail After WWII
January 1947 report notes George C. Marshall, newly appointed secretary of state, cites irreconcilable aims of Nationalists and Communists as the cause of failed truce efforts in China. He condemns bloodthirsty tactics while Chiang Kai-shek’s forces retreat to Formosa and Communists dominate Korea, with Americans killed since June.
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George C. Marshall
China
Mr. Marshall
State Department
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Formosa
Korea
Campaign Spending Laws Debate Abuses In Campaigns
The XPERIENCE campaign spending laws trigger debate across state and federal levels. Senators Gillette and Mansfield call for investigations into primary and general campaigns as lawmakers acknowledge evasion and labor union involvement heightening spending incentives. Congress is viewed as a poor regulator since many members benefit from the practices they would study.
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U. S. Senate
House of Representatives
Gillette
Iowa
Senate
Mansfield
Montana
Congress
Landis Era Ends As National Baseball Chief
Unhappy Chandler ENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS led American baseball as high commissioner from 1920 until his death in 1944, shaping policy with prestige and controversy. A. B. Chandler succeeded him, with a seven year tenure and a $65,000 annual pay, noted for balancing owners’ interests and discipline.
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Enesaw Mountain Landis
Law
U. S
A. B. Chandler
Germany rearmament debate tests Western unity
The piece critiques Dean Acheson's push for German rearmament, arguing lack of French accord and arms plans risks splitting the West and provoking Soviet opposition. It questions whether rearming Germany without peace is wise, urging a Franco German settlement first and cautious U.S. diplomacy to avoid provoking Germany.
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Dean Acheson
Germany
Acheson
West
Western
Europe
France
United States
Iron Curtain
Kremlin
Elbe
New York Herald-Tribune
Calamity howlers warned but America must endure
The piece denounces long-standing calamity howlers who fret over every crisis. It argues Americans should ignore doom proclaimers, stay resolute, and prepare for the next test to prove the ship of state can withstand termites and storms alike. The call is to act, not bleat.
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America
Ship of State
Congressional tax hearings weigh on excess profits plan
In Washington, hearings focus on a corporate tax on war profits with Korea as the backdrop. Proposals for individual pay raise taxes and a national sales tax are discussed but not yet billed. Congress may seek a $10 billion new appropriations bill to support the Korea war effort before new lawmakers take office.
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Washington
Congress
U. S
Korea
Socialists Back Profits Tax Oppose Excess Tax
American businessmen urge higher taxes to fund defense costs preferring straight corporation tax hikes over excess profits taxes. They argue the latter harms many mid sized firms and complicates calculations, while a corporate tax rise is simpler and fairer. The piece contrasts small and middle sized businesses with big firms and notes labor unions push wage gains, not price rolls backs, amid price controls and inflation concerns.
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National Association of Manufacturers
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
W. Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
U. S. News & World Report
Representative Celler
House Judiciary Committee
America
Congress
New York Herald-Tribune
Inflation Cure Hinges on Broad Price Controls
Michael V. DiSalle argues inflation stems from wage gains and material shortages. He cites rising wages from unions and parity supports, plus scarcity for defense goods, and says taxes and credit controls alone fail without price and wage restraints. A combined approach—taxes, material curbs, and price and wage controls—is needed, with public willingness to sacrifice.
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Price Control
Michael V. DiSalle
Toledo
United States
U. S
General Motors
United Auto Workers Union
Congress
A Religion Without the Holy Ghost Is Not Christianity
William Arthur asserts that a religion possessing all New Testament ordinances and doctrines would still fail as Christendom without the Holy Ghost, emphasizing the necessity of spiritual presence beyond formal rites.
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W William Arthur
Fragmented column mocks Vishinsky on Korea and politics
A satirical column parodies Vishinsky and Soviet stance on the Korean War, ridiculing claims of no Chinese forces and labeling critics as imperialists. It blends comic reflections on war, media, and public figures, ending with a quip about bureaucratic Washington rules.
Century of notes on mines and moral tales
Up through a century ago copper mines thrived near Litchfield Connecticut. Forty years ago high living costs blamed on freight rates and calls to cap rail and industrial capitalization. Twenty five years ago a Louisville man recovered lost money from a stranger who had found it. Ten years ago Greek War Relief sent $10,000 with Peter Gerros as local chair. British air raids hit Tobruk and Bardia in Libya.
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Gotham Bugle & Banner
James Kevin McGuinness
Sundial
Fame and Fortune
Hollywood
Central Park
Coney Island
Elmer Twitchell
Pacific
O. C. Barber
Barberton, C
Diamond Match Co
Congress
Edgefield Coal Co
Edgefield
Austin Paumier
Louisville
Paumier
Northern Ohio Traction
Vinton Stansberry
C. E. Harter
John Burkhardt
Greek War Relief
New York
Peter C. Gerros
Royal Air Force
Libya
Tobruk
Bardia
Target Practice By H. V. WADE
A satirical piece targets readers with sharp wit about a volcano island and a former Miss World Peace figure pictured in a cartoon, suggesting public sympathy for those living in precarious conditions next to the losing grid coach.
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Miss World Peace
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Repository Building
Market Avenue
Fifth Street South
Ohio
Postoffice
Associated Press
Story
Brooks & Finley
New York Central
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust
Chicago
N. Michigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
Chandler
By Walter Lippmann
Red Army
Far East
Prague
the Howlers
By Truman Twill
Kaiser Wilhelm
Churchill
English Channel
Hitler
MacArthur
Philippines
By Galbraith
Charleston
Keene
N. H
N.A.M
By David Lawrence
Peter Edson
NEA Service, Inc
H. I. Phillips
G. I
Babe
Vishinsky
U. N
G.I
Gen. Mao
Chinese People’s Army
Moscow
Red China
Genghis Khan
Simon Legree
Asia
Emil
P. S
Russia
Henry Wallace
Hank
Millard F. Caldwell Jr
The
Associated Newspapers
Litchfield
Conn
H. V. Wade
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