Home Gas Blast Destroys Harrison Ave House
Two occupants miraculously escaped as a gas explosion leveled the one story home at 1213 Harrison Ave SW shortly after noon. John Szasz, a Timken Roller Bearing Co. employee, and his 65 year old mother Anna Egyed were inside. Firefighters fought flames about 20 minutes as two firefighters were injured by a collapsing ceiling. Investigators suspect accumulated gas and a disrupted gas main may have caused the blast.
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Harrison Ave
John Szasz
Timken Roller Bearing Co. Employe
Anna Egyed
Szasz
Mother
George Levers
Robert Patterson
Aultman Hospital
Mercy Hospital Tops Ohio Emergency Fund Priority List
Mercy Hospital is placed on a new federal emergency funding priority list with ten other Ohio hospitals. A local building fund has raised over 1.5 million dollars with an expected federal share of 750 thousand to support a 200 bed complex on the Timken estate. The list reflects planning stage and community fundraising impact.
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Mercy Hospital
John D. Porterfield
Ohio Health
Ohio
Mercy
Porterfield
Timken
Hart Memorial Hospital
Kenton
Chillicothe Hospital
Toledo Health Center
St. Charles Hospital
East Toledo
Columbus Health Center
Williams County Joint Memorial Hospital
Montpelier
Mount Vernon
Cuyahoga Chronic Disease Hospital
Cleveland
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Dayton
Citizens’ Hospital
Barberton
Hoover Cleaners and Open House at James Laundry
Hoover Cleaners announces home demonstrations at Thurin's with model details and dial code 64511. Klingstedt and Schroyer advertise gifts and calendars before a deadline, plus Double's offers cuff links and money clips at $3 each. An open house at James Laundry, 1501 Harrisburg Rd NE, runs today 1 to 9 PM with free roses to ladies. Barr Dairy advertises fresh cider and home delivery at 23888.
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Thurin
James Laundry
Harrisburg Rd
Quints Shine At New York Banquet First US Appearance
The Dionne quintuplets, aged 16, arrive in New York for their first U.S. public appearance at a celebrity banquet. They face a packed schedule of interviews, hair styling, and rehearsals before singing with their high school choir at a Waldorf Astoria dinner.
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EW York
Dionne Quintuplets
Gotham
United States
Papa Oliva Dionne
Callander
Ont
Quints
Alfred E. Smith
Waldorf- Astoria
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Broadway
5Th
Park Avenues
Canada
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Cecilia Sawyer
Local Repository Ad Brings Eggs and Rock Hogs Sale
Ad from Canton lists eggs at 2 dozen for 75 cents and rock hams at 28 cents. Free delivery offered. Address 921 9th NE with phone 5888i-ad. Tenant-Landlord Hdggs also promotes services at 100 N. Market in Canton.
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Canton
Early Reports Encourage Canton Community Chest Drive
First day returns from Canton Community Chest campaign show Division A reporting three accounts with gains of 50 percent, 11 percent, and maintenance. Division C and D also show mixed results. leaders cautious yet hopeful, aiming for a 5 percent net increase to reach the 445 909 goal as luncheon reports follow.
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Canton Community Chest
Paul B. Belden Jr
Belden
Name Imprinted Xmas Cards Order now News Depot-ad
A News Depot advertisement promotes personalized name imprinted Christmas cards. The brief item urges readers to order now, highlighting customization and quick turnaround for holiday greetings.
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News Depot
Ending of Bus Strike Hinges On Pay Raise
Canton City Lines bus strike stalls on wage raise as drivers and gar agents demand higher pay. Negotiations yield agreement on working conditions, but wage talks lag, with a 20 cent raise previously asked and seven to ten cent offers on the table. Conciliator Horace Vokoun to resume talks with mayor and union this afternoon.
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Canton City Lines
Thomas H. Nichols
R. E. James
National City Lines of Chicago
Nichols
Horace C. Vokoun
Cleveland
James
Juvenile Court Holds Two After Massillon Vandalism
A 10 year old boy and his 8 year old cousin admitted causing $2500 damage to Lloyd Bristol's Massillon area home last Sunday. The boy is in juvenile detention. the girl to her mother awaiting court action. Police traced the pair after questioning many Newman area youths. Also, Ronald Schloneger, 18, Louisville, fined $75 for writing obscene language on Pleasant Grove School windows.
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Lloyd Bristol
Young Ave
Newman
Massillon
Ray Nanamaker
Fred Elsass
Bristol
Louisville
Ivan Ray
Schloneger
Ray
Veto-Free Defense Plan Approved by U N Group
Western powers debated adding the Big Five to a UN peace patrol plan as the General Assembly committee approved a section by section emergency action proposal. The plan would require earmarked defense units for veto-free action if Security Council vetoes block action, with final approval expected early next week and a 14 nation commission pending composition.
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U.N
N. Y
United Nations
U. N. General Assembly
U. N
General Assembly
Security Council
Cripps Resigns British Economy Post After Ill Health
Britain's economic czar Sir Stafford Cripps, age 61, resigns as chancellor of the exchequer citing ill health. He returned from a Swiss rest cure and Italian vacation after holding the post since November 1947 and guiding Britain’s postwar financial recovery. The move comes amid concerns over the economy and Cripps’s long tenure as “Mr Austerity.”
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London
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
Exchequer
Treasury
United States
Switzerland
Italy
Court Enjoins Distribution of Sample Ballot
Common Pleas Judge George N. Graham ruled that a sample ballot for a political campaign must mirror the official ballot. He granted a temporary injunction restraining Ted Dunlap from printing or distributing any sample ballots not in lawful form and required a $1,000 bond.
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Common Pleas
George N. Graham
Board of Elections
Guy C. Hiner
AD 2
Ted Dunlap
Republican Party
Hiner
Graham
Mr. Dunlap
House of Representatives
Stark County
Republican
J. L. Hilton
Russell J. Burt
Henry Kattman
Burt
Reds Capture Pyongyang as UN Forces Advance
UN troops seized Pyongyang, route to North Korea’s capital now open, with Premier Kim Il Sung and regime likely fled north. Reds surrendered by the thousands, bridges blown on the Taedong, US 1st Cavalry and ROK divisions pressing toward Manchuria while guerrilla resistance looms possible.
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Kim I Sung
Manchuria
Soviet Siberia
Pyongyang
U. S
Manila
Tokyo
Canton
Pusan
Taedong
Hukkyo
U.N
Korea
Flora Fetzer Public Stenographer Listing
Flora Fetzer, shorthand reporter and public stenographer, offers professional transcription and stenography services. Contact number 34762-ad for inquiries and assignments.
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Flora Fetzer
Cloisonne pill boxes and cigar lighter purses sale
A sale listing offers cloisonne pill boxes from 1 dollar each and perfume holders for purses at 2.50. Tiny cigarette purse lighters are priced at 2.50.
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