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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1942
Page
2
Ohio faced a sharp drop in sales tax revenue from automobiles as wartime rationing halted new car production by year end. 1941 car tax totaled 10.87 million, 23.3 percent below 1940, while overall revenue reached 65.07 million.
The article describes motorists like Joe Doakes who crash prone driving habits risk lengthy repairs or junk sale as wartime parts scarcity bites. Auto repair shops struggle to obtain parts for 90 days, tires are rationed, used tires and junkyard parts grow scarce, pushing owners toward death storage or wreckage.
S. Wilson and C. F. Lantzer display the Myers Y. Cooper trophy won by Stark County Agricultural Society at the Ohio fair managers banquet in Columbus. Stark County also earned a class A certificate of excellence for the best county fair in the state, edging Fairfield Coshocton and Geauga counties in the divisional contest.
Rubber official sees no panic need. William O Neil of General Tire declares US rubber stockpiles exceed German wartime levels and urges conservation. Westinghouse Bates discusses molybdenum substitutes and new plastics boosting wartime production. Guayule plan eyed to supplement rubber supply with projected growth.
Federal Judge Ben Moore denied a bid to remove West Virginia Auditor Edgar B. Sims to Michigan to answer indictments in the Fidelity Assurance association affair. The judge ruled the indictment alone was insufficient grounds for removal under the fugitive warrant.
Vincent Taylor of Archbold Buckeye was named president succeeding L P Bennett of Maumee Valley News Don Orwig of Napoleon Northwest News became vice president and Carl W Funk of Hancock County Herald McComb was elected secretary treasurer The selections were announced in Bowling Green Ohio on January 17.
The United States has maintained first place among steel producing nations worldwide since 1890, marking a long-standing leadership in the industry and signaling enduring industrial strength and capacity across decades.
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