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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1950
Page
4
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American paratroopers landed at Kimpo Airfield near Seoul and joined battle, with about 2,500 men in the airborne outfit reported. The force, nearly double a typical World War II regiment in firepower, is expected to help in house to house fighting in Seoul as two divisions, the 82nd and 11th, bolster quick strike capacity in Korea.
A reader asks if a minor physical disability blocks draft entry. Answer notes a fine line judged by doctors and that dependents do not automatically defer reservists. If guardian of a minor, new rules may require leaving the WAC organized reserve.
AKRON Sept 25 AP The Babcock Wilcox boiler plant at Barberton ends a strike by about 3500 members of Federal Labor Union No 20186. Workers vote to accept a wage package with an immediate 12 cent raise, 5 cent increase July 1, and another 5 cent raise on July 1, 1952. Present scales not listed.
Louis H. Symes was named president of the Canton Florists Association for the coming year at the annual election meeting last week. Donald Dorn was named vice president, Ruth McKinney secretary treasurer, and Homer Dalabahn, Albert Kehl and Carl Oeffinger named to the executive committee.
Ohio State University begins orientation week for about 5500 freshmen with a convocation at Ohio Stadium led by President Howard L. Bevis at 10 30 a m on Wednesday. A band tryout selects 120 musicians for the football marching unit as rehearsals start ahead of the season opener against Southern Methodist.
Joseph J. Von Lehman, 61, branch manager of the Fifth Third Union Trust Co. bank at Cumminsville, died at his South Fort Mitchell, Kentucky home.
Premier Alcide De Gasperi's government launched a nationwide land reform. In Cotrone, 30 peasant families in Santa Severina received the initial plots of 7 to 10 acres each. Over two weeks 400 families in the village will get land as part of a program redistributing about 3.7 million acres to roughly 400,000 peasants.
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