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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1949
Page
4
A brief urging readers to use repository want ads to reach buyers for unwanted items. It promotes the method as effective and economical and suggests dialing 55101 and asking for Want Ad-Taker to insert one of these results as sales helpers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt built a reputation as a big spender but Truman far surpasses him spending about 45 billion yearly in four postwar years. The piece compares presidential fiscal records from 1789 to 1941 and through 1945 to show how Truman’s postwar outlays and tax collections exceed all predecessors, with a detailed table of costs and agencies involved.
A historical table details per capita government spending and receipts from 1789 to 1949, showing how four postwar years under Truman intensified federal costs. The piece notes Lincoln’s Civil War cost, the growing per person debt, and claims every newborn bears a $1,690 lien on future earnings.
Jaromir Smutny chancellor of Czechoslovakia at the time of President Beneš death fled to the American zone of Germany and is being questioned by U S intelligence officers. Other Czech refugees say Smutny likely knows more about the Communist seizure of their homeland than any other non Communist west of the iron curtain.
Police say two year old Gerald Thornton was accidentally killed by a shotgun blast likely fired by his four year old brother Dennis. The children, sons of Mr and Mrs William Thornton, were upstairs when the gun was placed in the room after discovering prowlers Saturday. Detective Sgt Howard Turner stated the incident occurred last night.
Justice of the Peace Otto Granner extended for two weeks a hearing for Lena Morrical and Floyd Hughes of Oxford on charges of illegal possession and sale of liquor. The couple were arrested by state agents in a raid at Wade Lodge Mill near Venice.
Berlin July 26 AP The Russians deny a blockade of Berlin asserting no intent to close entry points or restrict freight traffic. Lt Gen M I Dratvin says claims lack foundation and Soviet authorities will follow existing agreements. Checkpoints Luebeck and Bergan-an-der-Jamme opened in the British zone.
About 900 employees across six Cleveland breweries receive pay hikes of 11 and 12 cents per hour under a new contract. The plants include Cleveland Home Brewing, Brewing Corp of America, Leisus, Pilsner, Standard, and Cleveland Sandusky, with the C I O Brewery Workers Union as the bargaining representative.
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