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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
5
The United States reports near record output in grain dairy and livestock as war mobilization boosts production. Wheat and corn reach new highs this year, eggs rise 4 percent in ten months, milk surpasses previous records, and next year’s goals exceed 1941 levels.
Nimishillen Grange, meeting Wednesday night, scheduled its annual birthday dinner for January 7. Co S Hartman was named chairman of the 1942 fair display committee. The group will meet at Ralph Livsey's home in Louisville on Monday December 29 for the session. A Christmas program was presented last night by 11 groups formed by members' birthdays.
The Associated Press reports that the Office of Price Administration will issue temporary price ceilings on textiles including blankets towels table cloths sheets and pillow cases. Maximums will be set at pre December 6 levels and apply to all production and distribution stages except retail sales to curb price rises pending permanent schedules. OPA will also allow a 5 percent price increase for carbon black used in tires inks paints and plastics starting January 1 due to rising costs.
Pvt Homer T Grant 24 of 907 Fulton Rd NW is reported on the road to recovery at Fort Bliss Army Hospital in Texas from a stab wound suffered December 3 while on an excursion across the Mexican border with a companion. They were attacked by two holdup men when leaving a store in Mexico. four other men aided the robbers and both soldiers were beaten and robbed. Grant, who received a knife wound in the abdomen, was pinned to a border station and rushed to the hospital after emergency surgery. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H T Grant and was with his father in the family real estate business before his induction March 6. He is a Jackson Two High School graduate.
Jackson Two groups finalize committees for the Jackson Two Community Institute event to be held February 12 at Jackson Two school. Officers named are Earl S. Johnson president, Mildred Mohler secretary, Gertrude Buchtel hostess, with chairs for program decorations finance reception publicity and dinner among listed volunteers.
The Ohio state employment service is accepting civilian applications for jobs in the Pearl Harbor navy yard in Hawaii. Vacancies include boxmaker, packer, engineman, toolmaker, coppersmith, boilermaker, riveter, sheetmetal worker, instrument maker, machinist, radio mechanic, rigger, aircraft mechanic, electrician, bombsight mechanic and various machinists' helpers. The navy would provide transportation.
Dr Emma Scott of Westerville died at 75. A Methodist medical missionary to India, she was the daughter of the late Dr W H Scott former president of Ohio State University and a native of Chillicothe.
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