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Newspaper

The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 08, 1949

Page

4

Private Ponds Enhance Beauty of Rural Homes

A study notes Canton and Stark County residents increasingly build private lakes and ponds as decorative landscape features and local water supplies. Many are man made, using dammed streams or marshy ground, with Meyers Lake and Sippo Lake cited as examples. Lakes aid fire protection, wildlife, flood control, and recreation, with costs ranging from near nothing to several thousand dollars.

Canton Stark County Cable Ohio

Flood Walls To Be Battered In Army Tests on Ohio River

Cincinnati May 7 AP Flood walls will be hammered by high water this summer in a $425 000 Army Engineers experiment to measure wall strength and safety. Four cantilever walls on a 35 foot structure will be tested with 350 gauges recording hydrostatic and electric data. The tests aim to reveal construction cost cuts without sacrificing safety as engineers consider where to build and how to confine the river. located off the A and P highway two miles east of Coney Island amusement park.

Ohio River Cincinnati U.S. Army J. D. Kenty Robert R. Philippe Ohio River Division of Engineers Coney Island Middlewest

District Chamber Group Attends DC Chamber Convention

U S Representative John McSweeney hosted a breakfast in the Capitol for a 16th Congressional District delegation attending the United States Chamber of Commerce annual convention in Washington. Canton and Massillon chamber leaders and Alliance delegates met officials including Senators Taft and Bricker during the session.

U. S John McSweeney 16Th Congressional District United States Chamber of Commerce Washington, D.C Sam Rayburn Capitol Building Canton Chamber of Commerce Eugene Carr A. C. Hutchinson Jay l L. Goodin H. S. Ernst W. A. Porterfield Ohio Chamber Perry Angstadt Selby Folks Massillon Chamber Alliance F. H. Roth C. C. Bynon Walter Boyd C. C. Henderson Robert Graham J. G. Caskey Porterfield Mr. Ernst Ohio Robert A. Taft John W. Bricker Senate

Paris Crowd Cheers Woman Bull Fighter

Parisians cheered a bloodless bull fight but protested as French law barred the famous Peruvian matador Conchita Cintrón from making a kill. One bull balked at leaving the ring, finally drawn out by two prettied cows with bells.

Paris Matador Conchita Cintron

Skeleton ruled out as missing teacher Lola Celli

Columbus, May 7 AP A skeleton found near Grand View is not missing school teacher Lola Celli. Coroner Robert A Evans said the bones have been buried at least 20 years and belong to a person about 50. The missing teacher vanished three years ago near her home.

Columbus Lola Celli Robert A. Evans Grandview Evans

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