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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1949
Page
2
Day ton Ohio February 1 AP General Electric Co plant in Lockland delivered its first aircraft jet engine eight months after construction. The S-47 engine, used in the F-86 fighter, set the world's speed record. The first engine had been slated for April 1 delivery.
Canton pastor warns 2,000 Ohio pastors against psychoanalyzing congregants. Rev. George E. Parkinson says many seekers are soul sick, not mind or body, and counselors should offer Christ’s touch. Dr. B. F. Lamb elected council president for three years at the Ohio Council of Churches convention.
The Philippine constabulary announced the capture of the Hukbalahap base at Sierra Madre Mountain in central Luzon after a three day engagement that routed about 300 guerrillas. In a separate clash near the Andaba swamp north of Manila guards killed three guerrillas and seized five guns including a Czech made sub machine gun.
In Leominster Massachusetts Corporal Ervin E Whisnant approached a policeman and stated I will cut your throat He was later held on drunkenness charges at a police station The assailant was identified as former amateur heavyweight boxing champion Henry Urette
A split in Congress over future farm price supports centers on whether to return to prewar crop controls. President Truman backs keeping agriculture steady, while advocates clash between 90 percent parity supports and flexible systems that adjust with supply. Strong figures include Allan Kline and Albert S. Goss in the opposition to high supports.
Western Germany reports December exports at 72 million dollars and imports at 128.5 million, while industrial output reaches 78 percent of 1936. Gains in iron and steel and coal accompany debates on forming a western German government and the occupation statute.
Rev. Ralph Rayment, 33, named new pastor of First Baptist Church by the deacons. He comes from Casperville Baptist Church in Wawaka Indiana and will arrive in six weeks to succeed Rev. Franklin Dodson who moved to Prescott Arizona. Rayment is Moody Bible Institute graduate and studied at Winona School of Theology in Indiana.
North Nimishillen School on North Canton Maximord was entered by juveniles within the last week. Principal George Biehl reported to the sheriff. Thieves forced entry into the kitchen last Wednesday stealing six ice cream bars, tripping a fridge defrost cycle and damaging 24 dozen ice creamers. The building was entered again Friday when an eighth grade room closet door was forced open. he believes intruders sought March of Dimes boxes.
Dr. Glenn Dowell of Carrollton will address the Young Farmers and Homemakers School on First Aid at the courthouse meeting tonight at 8.
Munich's famous pro Nazi parrot Laura, who yells Heil Hitler on provocation, is missing from the Munich Zoo. Caretakers fear she was kidnaped after recent disclosure that officials were attempting to denazify her speech.
In Monterey California coast guardsmen pulled a small boat from the beach as a good deed but the owner Luigi Piampia later called to ask what happened to the boat he had beached at high tide so he could repair it when the water lowered.
Canton Chamber of Commerce will close a two week campaign for 300 new members with a breakfast at the Onesta Hotel Wednesday at 8 a.m. Final reports will be presented by captains of three 35 member teams led by Robert L. Hammond Don Raley and Arthur Kauffmann. Louis H. Ream heads the membership committee.
American President Lines announces start of construction in March on three postwar round the world luxury liners costing about 1 million dollars each. Ships measure 536 feet long cruise at 19 knots and carry 228 first class passengers.
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