Massillon council rejects Lawndale project extension
Lawndale Heights housing project faced extinction after Massillon City Council voted 6 to 1 against extending the lifeline of the federal housing area. About 100 property owners protested, arguing the 180 units lower nearby property values and threaten public safety. Federal funding ends July 30, 1952, forcing families to find new housing within the year.
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Repository Bureau
Lawndale Heights Federal Housing Project
Lawndale Heights
Council
Otto C. Schneider
The Doctor Says on Obesity Risks and Ideal Weights
Obesity increases risks of high blood pressure diabetes heart disease cancer and surgical complications. The piece notes the phrase digging one's grave with the teeth and provides typical ideal weight ranges by height and frame for women and men, recommending doctor guidance to determine individual targets.
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Edwin Jordan Anwards
NEA Service, Inc
Crusty Meat Loaf Supreme with Cream Horseradish Sauce
A lazy day main dish featuring a corn meal crust baked with a ham and veal filling. Serve with creamed potatoes and garden peas, a tangy horseradish sauce, and asparagus salad for a summer menu.
Wheat Cultivation Covers About One Percent of Land
The article notes that wheat is grown on roughly one percent of the Earth’s land surface. It highlights wheat as a major crop with global significance and implies widespread agricultural cultivation though specific regions are not identified.
Bow Calls National Freeze on Gas Installations
Representative Frank Bow of Ohio argues a federally imposed halt on new gas heating installations would cost the gas industry about 100 million dollars and affect some 50,000 dealers and 300,000 workers. He cites state utility commissions as better suited to manage the issue, while P.A.D. prepares an order to ban new installations.
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Washington
Frank Bow
Ohio
Bow
Public Utilities Commissions
P.U.C.O
Ray O. Martin
Petroleum Administration For Defense
Canton
State Commission
Martin
Ohio Commission
P.A.C.O
East Ohio Gas Co
P.A.D
Gas Advisory Council
Federal Power Commission
Baltimore
Ohio Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Final Rendezvous With Buddy of 1917 Marine Captain
At Spring Grove cemetery Cincinnati a quiet Marine kept vigil beside a flag draped coffin. Two captains joined in battle in France and shared adjoining companies in the fifth regiment. Captain Jack West was killed in 1918 after heroic deeds in no mans land. His buddy Clifton B. Cates, later a four star general, attended the rites and departed slowly.
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Incinnati
Quantico
France
Marine 5Th Regiment
Jack West
Bedeau Wood
No Man’s Land
West
Cincnnati
Shanshai
Washington
Spring Grove Cemetery
Clifton B. Cates
United States Marine Corps
Villages May Contract Fire Protection With Nonprofit Units
Columbus July 17 AP Attorney General C William O Neill ruled villages may contract for fire protection with nonprofit volunteer departments reversing a prior opinion. Callan said over 100 volunteer fire departments will be affected as the ruling holds such contracts are authorized by general law and the Constitution.
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Columbus
C. William O’neill
Harry A. Callan
O’neill
Callan
O'Neill
Herbert S. Duffy
Labor Opposes Split Income Tax Break In New Bill
Senate finance chair George of Georgia says the split income provision will not be dropped as labor unions call it a loophole. The measure, enacted in 1948 to ease inequities from community property laws, benefits middle and upper incomes and faces political resistance to elimination.
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Ty Aseeeicion
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Truman
Treasury
Senate
Stanley Ruttenberg
C.I.O
Finance Committee
House
Former Miami Sheriff Faces Fall Tax Trial
Former Dade County Sheriff Jim Sullivan and his wife Ethel along with eight others were indicted on income tax charges. Bonds were set at 5,000 dollars each. The group faces tax totals spanning 1945 to 1948 with hearings likely delayed to late fall due to docket congestion.
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Miami
Miami, Fla
Dade County
Jimmy Sullivan
Ethel
U. S
Ernest L. Duhaime
Duhaime
Sullivan
Sullivans
William Burbridge
Miami Beach
Brazil
Harold M. Salvey
Charles Friedman
Jules Levitt
Edward G. Rosenbaum
Samuel P. Cohen
Gordon Williams
Broward County
Walter R. Clark
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Burbridge
Albert H. Mouradian
S. E. Chambers
Mouradian
Dr. Chambers
Salvey
Levitt
Friedman
Samuel
Western Union 13 Reds Again Raise Accepted Placed in Jail
Western Union workers vote to accept a 17 cent hourly pay rise with 8,000 messengers getting immediate 7.5 cent hike and 24 cents more by September 1, pending Wage Stabilization Board approval. About 35,000 employees affected. strike planned for July 2 canceled.
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Western Union
Washington
Western Union Co
Adolph Brungs
A. F.L. Commercial Telegraphers Union
Draftees Get Extended July Enlistment Deadline
Stark County draft boards report an extension of the July 15 deadline for draftees to enlist in the army navy air force or marines to July 31. Recruits who had physicals but not induction notices may enlist until August 1. Local offices had seen a surge of enrollments before the original deadline.
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OMG
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Stark County
Model plane flies far in contest near Muncie
Clayton C. Hornbeck watched his model airplane vanish during a contest at Muncie. The next day farmer Louis Fuelling located the craft 30 miles away in a field, far from the starting point in Portland, Indiana.
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Portland
Ind
Clayton C. Hornbeck
Muncie
Louis Fuelling
Andrew Jergens Co. closes printing dept after 38 years
Cincinnati firm winds down its in house printing after 38 years. The Andrew Jergens Co will contract printing work and reassign or help find other jobs for 38 printers during a six month closure window.
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Cincinnati
Andrew Jergens Co
Illinois Village Fluoridates Water System
Ridgway Illinois installed a water fluoridation unit guided by local dentist Dr C S Wachowski. The duplex feeder regulates chlorine not fluoride in drinking water to reduce tooth decay in children under eight. The fluoridation unit serves the town’s 1006 residents.
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Ridgway, Ill
U. P
C. S. Wachowski
Village Board
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David D. Dowd
Paul Williams
Edgar J. Lash
Stark County Budget Commission
Edwin P. Jordan, M. D
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U.S. Marine
Buddy
Iowa
R. E. Hovenden
Shenandoah, Ia
Labor
New York
Alexander Holtzoff
Sylvester Ryan
Civil Rights Congress
Holtzoff
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Grace Hutcheins
Miss Flynn
Jacksonville
Fla
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp
America
Illinois Village
Keith Cordovans
Keith
New England
Keith Highlander
Suarket
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