Canton Repository 1950 publication notes and rates
The Canton Repository details its history from The Ohio Repository to the Canton Repository with dates of name changes and acquisitions. It lists Associated Press affiliation, special representatives, and offices. Subscriber rates and mail areas are noted for Stark and nearby counties. Monday October 2 1950.
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Ohio Repository
Stark County Republian
Canton Repository & Reublican
Theanton Repository
Canton Daily Repository
Evening Repository
Canton Repository
Canton Daily News
Germany
Stark County Democrat
Associated Press
Associatedress
AP News
Story
Brooks & Finley
New York
New York Central
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelhia
Chicago
Nichigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty Building
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Associaton
Industry Keeps Booming Amid Postwar Expansion Outlook
Business Week foresees the biggest expansion boom in history with industry ready to scale up production using enlarged wartime facilities. Employment will rise, prices may inflate, and government loans and contracts could underpin growth as the nation plans long term defense production beyond the emergency period. The piece cautions about future borrowing and inflation while noting unemployment will stay low and workers and machines will be in demand.
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Ndustry
Business Week
Free World
Congress
N. Y
Vanishing Koreans puzzle North Korean army mystery
U N forces face puzzling disappearance of a large North Korean army after recent Pusan battles. Some units fled north, others hid, and many soldiers may have melted into South Korean civilians wearing local attire. The division of Korea remains central to UN aims to reunite the peninsula.
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Pusan
Historical 38th Parallel and its uneasy legacy
The piece argues the 38th parallel is a historical artifact shaping Korea and world power dynamics. It recalls past cautions from 1904 and 1918 showing how fixed lines provoke conflict, and urges admitting people to atomic shelters based on usefulness to mankind, per an atomic scientist.
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38Th Parallel
Korea
Japan
Inflation's bite: savers bear brunt of rising costs
The Federal Reserve Board warns inflation harms savers and consumers while wage and crop price supports boost costs for many. It urges government action to protect purchasing power and curb price rises, noting bonds and savings lose real value over time.
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Federal Reserve Board
Truman
Economist
Sylvia Porter
New York Post and Post-Hall
U. S
Federal Treasury
McCabe
N. Y
U S Needs 6 000 000 Workers In War Economy Shift
Analysis argues Korea and Cold War pressures push inflation and labor shortages. It predicts wage hikes around 10 percent, rising production costs, and a 60 million plus civilian workforce with unemployment near 3.4 million in 1949. To meet defense needs, the nation will add about 2 million military personnel and up to 6 million civilian workers, leveraging women and older/younger workers while awaiting broader war-time adjustments.
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Northwest
Korea
Labor Department
Russia
Highlights Of Local History by Dennis R. Smith
Russell & Co. began in Massillon in 1842 by three brothers and operated until 1942, the county’s longest running industrial firm. Ben Fairless, future United States Steel Corp. president, recalls his early selling of 18 papers daily at half a cent and reselling at one cent for a 50 percent profit, then janitor work at Justus School for $65 yearly.
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Russell & Co
Massillon
Ben Fairless
United States Steel Corp
Justus
Justus School
Fear and policy in Korea power struggle text
The piece argues fear of defeat in Korea could provoke premature disarmament and reliance on crisis rhetoric. It condemns administration manipulation, urges patient, informed leadership, and warns against using fear to drive Congress toward costly actions while stressing a long, measured defense effort.
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Gen. Bradley
Congress
Women to Return to War Jobs as Men Leave Posts
The piece argues that women will fill industrial roles as men depart, citing Frieda Miller and the Women’s Bureau. It notes a growing female labor pool, WW II precedents, and the need for government support like nurseries, extended store hours, and plant dormitories to aid housewives entering factories.
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All Lady Toilers
Frieda S. Miller
U. S. Women’s Bureau
Once Over By H I Phillips on Murphy as New York police chief
The columnist lauds civilian Thomas Murphy as New York police commissioner amid the Hiss probe fallout. Murphy is praised for courage and fortitude, likened to historic figures, and seen as a corrective force against political shindigs, with claims police integrity outweighs politics in a high-stakes cleanup era.
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New York
Thomas Murphy
Bootsie
Alger Hiss
Big Tom
Murphy
John L. Sullivan
Big Bill Taft
Thomas Dewey
Bruce Bairnsfather
A. Conan Doyle
Watson
Civic Virtue
Yesteryear
Tom
Hiss
Police Department
Mr. Murphy
Tom Murphy
Commissioner Murphy
Miami bingo girls admit stealing from counting room
Six Miami telephone girls confessed to stealing thousands of dollars by keeping coins hidden in their brassieres. A Florida correspondent recalls a shabby prank yielding a jackpot. Elmer Twitchell tried a salt water cure drink that failed to curb thirst or loneliness. New Yorks new police commissioner drawn to Belmont caused confusion about a saddle number.
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Miami
Florida
Elmer Twitchell
Nursery rhymes in cold war Voice of America tale
Washington reports The Voice of America uses Mother Goose to comment on the Soviet rivalry. The dispatch notes a sparrow killed Cock Robin during an unarmed training flight and that Little Red Riding Hood’s tale hinges on the wolf being seated. The writer mocks the column and suggests fruit jelly as a joke substitute for beauty cream to lure ants.
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Washington
Mother Goose
Soviet Union
Voice of America
Voice
Cock Robin
Little Red Riding Hood
U.P. Dispatch
Omnibus Anti-Communist Law Enforced Amid Objections
The omnibus anti-Communist bill becomes law despite Harry’s strong objections. It remains to be seen how many Communists will be caught riding on omnibuses.
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Harry
Associated Newspapers
Thunderstorm Burns Barn Northwest of Canton and More
A severe storm toppled into Ephraim Schrantz’s barn three miles northwest of Canton, burning it to ashes and destroying 200 to 300 bushels of wheat. Nearby, a barn on the old Stinger farm in Perry Township was damaged but remained standing, while Judge Kelly’s large Perry Township sheep shed was destroyed.
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Ephraim Schrantz
Canton
Stinger
Perry Township
Judge Kelly
Weary Willie Tramp Replaced by Flivver Hobo
A social agency in Little Rock Arkansas reports many requests for gas and oil money from families traveling in autos. The article notes the rise of the Flivver Hobo pairing with their destitute kin replacing the older Weary Willie freight train rider.
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Willie
Flivver Hobo
Little Rock
Ark
Timken Orders $500,000 Electric Furnace for Canton Plant
Ten years ago Timken Roller Bearing Co ordered a new 60 ton electric furnace for its Canton plant marking the second furnace installed there in a year. Lt Col Stanley J Grogan of the War Department press section said the army opposed press censorship to avoid greater dangers than minor security leaks.
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Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Stanley J. Grogan
War Department
Army
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Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc
Repository
Market Avenue
Fifth Street South
Ohio
Postoffice
Prvate
Maiithin Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes Counties
North
South
United Nations
U. N
Rhine
Berlin
By Mark Sullivan
By Raymond Moley
United States
Assoc
By Dennis R. Smith
By Galbraith
WeLeTon
By Walter Lippmann
Bradley
White House
Louis Johnson
Malik
Vishinsky
Mr. Vishinsky
By Douglas Larsen
U.S
Ncle Sam
H. I. Phillips
Belmont
Lora Kelly
Canton Electric Co
W. C. Anderson
H. M. Walmsley
Michael O’brien
North Canton
William McKinley
Mike” Bitzer
Mr. McKinley
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