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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1950
Page
4
Ralph Crow 65 owner of McArthur Stone and Coal Co and father of Mayor John Crow died in Logan after a long illness. Funeral plans were not immediately announced. Crow helped lead local business and politics in McArthur and was known for his community involvement.
A House merchant marine subcommittee urged fast action to build an alternate waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific, studying a companion canal along the existing route or a new canal in Nicaragua. Mexico was ruled out as a site. Nicaragua would cooperate. The panel warned the Panama Canal could be knocked out by bombing, making a new route a long process, with three to ten years needed for new locks or a sea level canal.
Herman D Emerman appointed assistant city solicitor effective January 1 by City Solicitor Robert P Wilson. Emerman to be confirmed by city council. previous Stark County prosecutor aide and long time prosecutor staff member with civil division duties. Also notes Samuel Krugliak’s appointment as an assistant in Prosecutor Rossetti's office effective January 1. Some estimates place annual losses from worthless checks as high as 300 million dollars.
Vice Admiral Lynde McCormick outlined plans for a large new aircraft carrier to Congress during Senate appropriations hearings. The vessel would sit between the navy’s 45,000 ton carriers and the scrapped 65,000 ton United States, with defense funding totaling 20 billion dollars. The United States project was halted after paying 10 million dollars in liquidated damages.
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson returned to Columbus from Florida after an emergency appendicitis operation in Fort Pierce interrupted his southern vacation.
The tragedy of a marriage that shaped Ernie Pyle’s life is revealed through his letters and devotion to America’s fighting men. Read by his close friend in an American legend style in January Readers Digest.
Holiday decorations feature artificial trees potted options and center pieces priced at 1.25 with pine cone streamers and satin ribbon. Kenwood Arondac blanket praised for beauty warmth and comfort bound in rayon satin in blue green rose peach gold or champagne sizes 72 by 90 inches priced 14.95 Bedding floors for the home.
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