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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1950
Page
2
Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia called for revising the draft to fix inequalities caused by the call up of national guard and reserve forces while men with dependents are exempt. He urged the House Armed Services Committee to study manpower needs and propose remedies.
President Truman issued an executive order extending all coast guard and coast guard reserve enlistments for 12 months for those whose terms expired after Sept 27 and before July 9, 1951. He also signed legislation permitting draft of coast guard personnel under the selective service act and called up the national guard and reserves. Vinson urged changes to draft age and standards amid high rejection rates and debates on how long guard and reserve members should stay on active duty.
Millersburg Parent-Teacher Association schedules five meetings this year. Ted Evans of WWST Wooster will host an audience participation quiz show October 12 followed by open house in all school buildings. A Christmas party December 14 features a performance of The Citizens Gift. Dr Garry C Myers of Cleveland will speak February 8 and April 12 honors high school seniors and the student safety patrol. The final meeting honors the graduating class with Paul Barrett of Wooster College speaking on The Working Citizen.
Charles E. Wilson president of General Motors announces that a disastrous strike was avoided by stockholders approving the employee pension and retirement program. They also approved a stock split doubling GM stock and halving par value, with two new shares issued for each old one. Sloan supports the move to broaden the market and attract more stockholders.
The Ohio built schooner Tantalus, missing since Aug 8 after leaving Manzanillo, Mexico, was sighted 75 miles southwest of San Diego and all crew members and owner Mrs Christianson were reported in good health. The craft, en route from Minneapolis to Alaska via the Mississippi River and the Panama Canal, had been the subject of a wide search.
Condensed from Gayelord Hauser's best seller in October Reader's Digest. Explains how food affects health and personality, with a basic exercise to trim the waist. Readers learn why eating certain foods boosts vitality and may improve looks.
Gen. George C. Marshall speaking in Cleveland as president of the Red Cross urged national unity and moral force to meet a gruelling period ahead. He warned military force alone cannot defeat foes and called for self denial, devotion to the oppressed, and readiness for large scale troop movements. Marshall announced Red Cross plans to train up to 20 million Americans in first aid and to expand nursing services with 100,000 women as nurse aides.
In Columbus on September 28 AP reports the army organizing a new Ohio reserve unit of 478 officers to train infantry replacements. Headquarters at Fort Hayes, with regiments in Cleveland Dayton Akron and battalions in Cleveland Dayton Akron Cincinnati Lima Portsmouth and Youngstown. Major General to command, Col Julius H. Lintner named chief of staff.
In Hollins Virginia, cab driver Peter Spycher becomes professor of French and German at Hollins College after a passenger, Grace Edwards, slips him the address of Hollins president John Everett. Spycher, with a PhD from Zurich and a teaching stint in Kansas, had been driving in Evanston when the chance encounter led to his new role. He prefers teaching and instructing students over cab work, calling it a “darn sight better.”
James Johnson of Alliance pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to carrying concealed weapons. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 30 days in county jail after officers found a .32 caliber revolver with four shells in his car at 4 30 a m Wednesday.
Dayton judge tells jury warehouses are not legally required to insure goods kept on premises but should, directing them to deny a $3,000 damages claim by Mrs. Sylvia Cody against Miller's Moving & Storage Co. Her belongings burned in a 1946 fire. no clear negligence shown.
A two car collision near Circleville hurled 55 year old Crawford Legg of Piketon from his vehicle into a parked truck, resulting in his death. Local responders arrived but Legg succumbed at the scene.
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