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The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1949

Page

7

Tribute concert honors Kent State band director Roy Metcalf

Former students including R Donald Stump and Urho Seppelin will conduct tribute pieces at Kent State University tonight at 8 15 in the university auditorium. Metcalf founded the band program in 1929 guiding growth to an 80 piece concert band 30 piece ROTC military band and 100 piece marching band.

Kent State University Roy D. Metcalf Kent State R. Donald Stump McKinley High School Urho Seppelin North Canton High School Metcalf K.S.U. Was R.O.T.C Wittenberg College Western Reserve University Illinois Kent

Dock Strike Halts Hawaiian Shipping

In Honolulu on May 2 the C IO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union led a midnight strike by 2,000 dock workers over 32 cents an hour more pay. The halt threatens vast island freight including food, raw sugar, and pineapple exports to the mainland as federal conciliation has failed.

Honolulu Hawaii C.so. International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union

Banister Slider Dies As 102nd Year Nears

Florence E. Dolph of Scranton died yesterday, 18 days before her 102nd birthday. Born May 19, 1847, in Dickinson City, she moved to California in 1902, lived there 44 years then returned to Scranton. She had slid down the banister to show health in recent birth days. She was the oldest alumna of Lewisburg Seminary now Bucknell University.

Scranton Florence E. Dolph Dickson City Lewisburg Seminary Bucknell University

Russians Aid Recovery of Bodies in Lift Crash

Berlin reports the Soviet Army escorted a British ambulance sent to recover the bodies of four civilian crewmen from a four engine British air lift plane crashed Saturday. Police found the wreckage yesterday.

Berlin

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