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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1951
Page
19
A vintage breakfast feature explains monogramming pancakes by layering batter on a hot griddle to form initial letters like A E P. It provides griddle cake recipe yields 10 to 12 cakes and a warm Apricot Maples sauce recipe using maple syrup butter and apricot nectar for a fancy topping.
Newark dispatch reports a mass meeting of Prudential Insurance district agents planned in Newark as a response to the suspension of 32 Pittsburgh agents. Harold M. Weston leads the Pittsburgh steering committee of the National Federation of Insurance groups amid AFL President William Green denying authorization of the work stoppage. Green said he discussed the matter with George Russ, agents council chair, in Washington yesterday.
The report notes that assurances were given that measures would be taken to restore the men to employment. It emphasizes ongoing actions to bring workers back to their jobs.
These Days column cites Herbert Hoover denying ghostwriter claims by George Sokolsky and four four star generals. Hoover says he writes his own drafts and that criticism of his methods ignores his ideas, noting his insistence on professional, engineer style drafting and careful revision.
In 1951 Drew Pearson notes Herbert Hoover personally revises his speeches, drafts again and again, sending to printers and friends for critique. He insists he writes himself, not hiring a staff, while critics urge reporters to maintain accuracy and proportion in their own work.
The 5th Air Force explains its casualty tallies are trimmed by interrogators who compare pilot reports with aerial observers and ground intelligence. Four-plane flights are reviewed, with up to a third subtracted, and plane films rechecked daily to ensure accuracy. An actual case shows 230 killed versus 1,025 found later by the 8th Army.
The Associated Press recounts conflicting tallies from air and ground forces in Korea. Claims of tanks destroyed and enemy killed vary daily, with air force rounds and pilots’ reports balanced against 8th Army evaluations to determine the true outcomes.
A general court martial of Canton air force sergeant Master Sgt. Belden G. Blake moved forward behind closed doors in Akron after Maj. Walter E. Flagg ruled the session unavailable to the public and press. Blake, 31, formerly of 815 Auburn Ave NW, was detained last August on a reported sex offense, with air force rules permitting open trials but allowing secrecy in sensitive cases. The case marks Summit County’s first court martial and a rare proceeding off a military reservation.
Hans Hansen of Des Moines bought a 70 acre tract near West Branch Iowa 41 years ago when no building existed. Now his 240 acre farm includes 80 tillable acres and all structures built by Hansen himself a home woodshed garage workshop double corn crib chicken house two barns hog house tractor shed fuel house a saw mill shed and a machine shed.
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