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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1949
Page
1
The Repository plans seven Goss Headliner units costing 550115 dollars to boost daily and Sunday circulation. Manufacturing starts January 11 with operation targeted by early fall 1950. Each unit prints 16 pages, five together yield an 80 page issue.
Mrs. Edward D. Wilgus, a Shanghai native by birth, seeks news from her mother six sisters and two brothers after Nanking fell. The Canton resident, married to a U.S. Army sergeant, recalls Shanghai’s cosmopolitan life, servants, and varied cuisine before the war, and laments the distance from home as war rages.
Dr Robert C Rutledge Jr is found guilty of second degree murder in the slaying of Byron Hartman at a Cedar Rapids hotel room last December 14. Jurors deliberated 3 hours 41 minutes. sentencing to be set by District Judge J E Heiserman within 30 days.
The Western powers proposed to end military government in Germany and let the eastern zone join a Bonn based federal state. Vishinsky called it one sided but asked for time to study it. Bevin Schuman and Acheson advanced the plan in a four power meeting. The plan requires Germanys unification under a four power statute with an all German federal government and limited Soviet reparations while granting freedoms for East Germans to move assemble vote and press.
Editorial notes rising demands for federal economy in Capitol. Senator Byrd argues the budget is a vast, opaque operation affecting foreign policy, state and local governments, and millions of Americans, while Congress lacks transparent budget analysis and control over outlays.
A Byrd's eye view presents fiscal 1949 1950 1951 projections: income around 39.5 40.9 40.9 billion and expenditures near 41.5 44.2 48.4 billion. It notes these are expenditure estimates not appropriations and warns they may rise with subsidies, military plans, or future programs.
The piece argues fiscal 1951 will test government finances as tax revenue dives with personal income drops. It warns of three options: cut spending, raise taxes, or large deficit spending, with deficit financing deemed unthinkable and tax hikes possibly worsening recession. It notes looming heavy civilian commitments and military contracts.
The document argues federal waste and inefficiency with only debt interest exempt from cuts. It notes over 2.1 million federal workers and more than 6.8 million public employees nationwide, calling for prompt retrenchment as deficits threaten a 1951 fiscal crisis beginning July 1, 1950, with potential municipal and state deficits.
Notice lists Republic Steel employees and their schedule with no operations on Sun May 29 and Mon May 30. Workers in Department No 2 on vacation to report May 31. Dr A R Olmstead resumes practice May 31.
Nearly 1100 seniors across Canton public schools and Central Catholic prepare for final rites. Timken High opens graduation events with class night, with other public schools following next Friday. Central Catholic blends features into a communion breakfast after baccalaureate. Six baccalaureate sermons are planned for next Sunday. Local ministers will deliver sermons for the public schools, while visiting priests handle Catholic services.
Canton and North Canton honor war dead with parades and services. A 9 45 a.m. Memorial Day parade travels Market to Tuscarawas to Elgin to 7th and McKinley Monument with firing squads and taps. At 3 30 p.m. units assemble at Harmon and S Main for a Memorial Day program at the stadium led by Rev C H Kern. Joint memorial at First Christian Church 7 30 p.m. features Rev P H Welshimer. drum and bugle corps from Hughes Post participate. G A R Hall events, West Lawn Cemetery rites, and Mrs McKinley memorial at 2 30 p.m. complete observances. Many workers enjoy a three day weekend with banks and factories closed until Tuesday.
The Repository launches its annual amateur snapshot contest with $420 in cash prizes and a potential $1,500 national award. Entries due by 8 am Thursday June 9, with weekly contests for four classifications Babies and children Young people and adults Scenes and still life Animal life. Winners announced the following Sunday.
The HE Repository will publish a single Memorial Day edition with press at midnight and distribution to homes early Monday. News items must be delivered or phoned to the editorial department by 9 tonight. The want ad department is open 3 to 5 30 p m today for Monday edition ads and closed Monday. Tuesday ads taken Tuesday 8 to 9 30 a m.
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