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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1949
Page
3
The Truman administration weighs a compromise to avert farm surpluses and a drop in income. Administrations aides study flexible supports for nonperishables and marketing programs while debates linger over wartime rigid price supports for cotton to peanuts and the shift to parity based scales.
Warren G. Smith was named exalted ruler of Anton Elks Lodge No. 68 on Tuesday night. Elected officers include Robert Gray leading knight Paul Grimm loyal knight James Cowgill lecturing knight Richard C. Stober secretary Robert Simpson treasurer Joseph Fitzgerald alternate delegate Frank Fuhr tiler and Leslie E. Strong five year trustee. Officers will be installed April 12. The lodge approved a 100 donation to the Billy Husarick plastic surgery fund.
A discussion explains parity price calculations for wheat under normal supplies. It contrasts the Aiken Law with a proposed plan that would set price supports at 90 percent of parity, with minimums and control programs affecting flexibility and loan-based surpluses.
Police reported William Guiton 66 of 713 Tuscarawas St E fractured a hip after a fall at Orchard Ave and Tuscarawas St E. He was taken to Aultman Hospital. Elizabeth Nemeth 6 of 1812 Minerva St NW suffered forehead contusions and was treated at Mercy Hospital after a fall on Cleveland Ave NW while going to school.
Congress passed a bill to grant permanent residence to Dr. Chung Kwai-lui, a Chinese scientist in the United States since 1936. Westinghouse officials say she works on confidential projects for the army and navy and could be endangered if forced to return amid China's civil war. The measure awaits White House action.
In Columbus the Ohio Senate education committee delayed a $25 monthly teacher raise and $3.50 per pupil funding until the source of funds is identified. Chairman Emmett R. Guthrie said a bill to provide the money is being drafted and would be introduced this session.
Defense and rebuttal testimony wrapped up in the Emma Fletcher Ream will case in New Philadelphia. Thirty three witnesses were called by each side since Feb 21 as relatives contest a lost or destroyed will that favored eight Fletcher Enamel Co. associates in Dunbar West Virginia. The trial resumes Thursday at 9 am for closing arguments and law points before Judge Blake C. Cook.
John Hall of North Canton, an eighth grade pupil, becomes the first finalist certified for The Repository's third annual spelling bee final at Timken High School on April 22. The North Canton finals featured district entrants and noted past runner up status.
Longfellow Junior High School Massillon runs two spelling bees this season. One bee was held as a school project and another aims to select champions for The Repository bee.
Gerald Mayle 27 of 1831 9th St NE pleaded innocent in Municipal Court to a truck theft and waived preliminary hearing binding him to the grand jury. He was arrested March 6 in a reported stolen 1930 pickup. Trial on driving without a license deferred to April 4 pending grand jury action.
Chet Adams of the Cleveland Browns will show films of the 1948 Browns season at Uniontown High School Saturday at 8 p m under the Uniontown Lions Club sponsorship. Lions Club plans a spring festival on the school grounds June 18.
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