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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1950
Page
10
A reflective Christmas tale echoes Heywood Broun's shepherds legend. One young shepherd stays with the flock, hearing only a whisper in his heart while others seek angelic signs. The story reinforces faith, inner miracles, and shared joy as Christmas message of peace endures.
Columbus dispatch reports heavy travel across Ohio as Christmas holiday begins. Public transport systems face packed terminals, crowded trains, extra flights, and buses running double and triple runs. Officials expect today the roughest travel day with many passengers unable to secure reservations and delays on slippery highways.
President Truman, home for Christmas in Independence, declares the United States needs time to build a safe world. He praises Americans as in excellent shape to meet the challenge of world communism and urges unity at a dress suit banquet with Masons and old friends after arriving from Washington.
The Trail and Parliament will debate a bill to end registered brothels in Bangkok and Thonburi where about 200 licensed houses and 40 000 licensed women operate, alongside many unregistered venues and unlicensed prostitutes.
Americans bought a record 23.6 billion dollars worth of life insurance in 1949, reflecting strong demand across households and insurers. The figure highlights growth despite postwar economic adjustments and signals expanding coverage among diverse populations and age groups.
TORRS Conn Dec 23 Rudolph the red nosed reindeer earns a place in folklore's social register. University of Connecticut Prof James H Barnett authoring a book on Christmas in American Culture calls Rudolph the only original addition to Santa Claus folklore this century.
Canton man Dalton Shinn aged 34 and his wife Nola aged 32 were arrested after a Friday fight at their home. Police cited intoxication and disorderly conduct. Both were treated at Mercy Hospital for injuries including Shinn’s knife wound and Nola’s facial injuries. A mattress in their room was set on fire during the altercation.
Keith Straughan traveled from the coast to Macon Georgia with a low bed trailer carrying a five room house he claims was carved from a single cross section of a 267 foot tall tree to prove how large things grow in California.
At Hungnam North Korea refugees crowded the allied beachhead port as 25000 people were moved south. About 300 officials and leaders aiding the UN cause were evacuated under special orders by the 10th Corps. Refugees were checked for Reds before boarding, with lines of ordinary people mirroring earlier southern evacuations. An army civil affairs administrator said only about one percent in Hungnam were Communist, while about 40 percent were fence sitters or fellow travelers.
Multiple churches host concerts and cantatas including First Methodist Church Christmas programs with Rev. Roland Hohn speaking on The World's Most Needed Miracle and a candlelight service at 4 p.m. featuring junior choristers, orchestral and vocal selections, plus Handel Messiah numbers and Nicene carols. Other sites list Children divisions at Maple Avenue Church of the Brethren, Trinity EUB Church cantata The Music of Christmas and First Church of the Nazarene events with soloists, choirs, and candlelight observances throughout the day.
The directory lists multiple congregations with addresses and service hours. It covers Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite, Orthodox, and other denominations across Canton area churches, noting Sunday schools and worship periods. It serves as a townwide religious schedule reference.
Three motorists were arrested and three received signal light or stop sign summonses Friday and today. Harold D. Geib 25 of 133 Dueber Ave SW charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving after hitting a police cruiser. William E. Graves 26 of 3932 6th St SW charged with disorderly conduct and intoxication after colliding with a City Lines bus and a parked car. Harter Mayle 32 of 516 Mahoning Rd NE charged with a stop sign violation after skidding into an intersection and hitting a car driven by Ray Springer. Alfred C. Woodruff of Youngstown issued signal light summons. Constanine Dovidio and Loshia A. Hufler cited for stop sign summons.
A civil defense organization for both western and eastern Pakistan will be established soon with S. N. Bakar of the Ministry of Interior in charge. Bakar received training in civil defense in England.
Seoul reports President Syngman Rhee issued a December 23 amnesty reducing or cancelling sentences for civil and military prisoners. Death sentences may be commuted to life terms or shortened after individual reviews, with special consideration for women and ill prisoners and guidance to prosecutors to seek lighter penalties.
Charles M. Lincoln 84, longtime international affairs specialist for the New York Times, died at his Warren home after a lengthy illness. Born in Bath Maine, he began with the Palladium and later worked for the Philadelphia Press New York World and New York Herald. He was managing editor of the World for a decade under Joseph Pulitzer and led the Herald before editing its Paris edition. After the Herald Tribune merger he joined the Times until retiring in 1941 after 50 years in journalism.
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