Bodies Found Of 17 Victims In Plains Blizzard
A new storm swept the plains as Wyoming Montana and Colorado recovered from a blizzard that killed 17 people. Families Phil Roman Jane Roman Tony and Peggy were found in 20 foot drifts near Ault Colorado. Andrew Archuleta and daughter Nancy were found near Burns Wyoming.
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Wyoming
Montana
Colorado
Plains
South Dakota
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
Canada
Gulf States
Indiana
Ohio
California
Arizona
Midwest
Great Plains
Phil Roman
Jane
Tony
Peggy
Ault
Colo
Mrs. Roman
Union Pacific
San Francisco
Chicago
Cheyenne
West
Welfare Director Is Appointed By Lausche
Gov Elect Frank J Lausche named Common Pleas Judge John H Lamneck of New Philadelphia as welfare director in his incoming cabinet. Lamneck, 57, from Tuscarawas County, has served as probate and juvenile judge and authored The Ohio Juvenile Court and Child Welfare Manual.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Common Pleas
John H. Lamneck
Philadelphia
Lamneck
Herbert D. Defenbacher
Lausche
Robert L. Moulton
Galion
Commerce
W. Marion
Rockford
Theodore J. Kauer
Erie County
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Cold Weather In Prospect For Ohio
Cold weather was forecast for Ohio as high water from recent rains continued to close highways. Ten routes remained closed and dozens of families evacuated in Cincinnati and Lebanon. The weather bureau warned of increasing cloudiness and colder temps with possible snow flurries in the northeast tomorrow.
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Ohio
State Highway Department
Cincinnati
Lebanon
Weather Bureau
Highway Department
Prospect
Dawn
Ansonia
Troy
Pleasant Hill
Trenton
Wilmington
Corwin
Waynesville Pike
Omega Pike
Waverly
Weather and sale notice in Cleveland area ad
Northeastern Ohio forecast calls for fair windy and mild conditions this afternoon tonight and Saturday with a low around 34 and a high near 4. A shop ad touts men s underwear sale and grade A beef for home freezers plus lard offers from Elyria Frozen Food Fuller and Rowd ads showing.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Elyria Frozen Food
Fuller, Rowd
Six Objectives For Prosperity
President Tru man's council of economic advisers proposed six basic aims to sustain growth. They call for a 3 percent annual production rise, long term planning to smooth capital outlays, higher and fairer consumer income and spending, enhanced government fact finding and statistics, strict conservation with broad but controlled natural resource development, and a large rise in imports of materials and goods not economically produced in the United States.
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Washington
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
United States
Plane Carrying Three Men Is Lost In Fog
TACOMA Washington a Air Force C 47 transport plane with three crewmen disappeared in fog over McChord Field early today and authorities fear a crash in the nearby mountains. The fuel supply ran dry at 237 A M PST as search parties were sent into the hills. The twin engine craft was attempting an instrument approach when the tower ordered a climb. It had been located seven miles north on a radar scope but contact was lost amid fog.
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Tacoma
Wash
Air Force
McChord Field
Here
McChord
Ftme
Proposal To Double Aid To China Gains GOP Backing
A group of Republicans backs William C Bulitt's plan to double United States aid to China urging a one-year program of 800 million dollars in military and economic assistance. Senator Styles Bridges says he will push the plan despite State Department policy, and supports sending a top general with an adequate staff to the Far East to direct anti-Communist forces.
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Washington
William C. Bullitt
China
Styles Bridges
N. H
Congressional
Committee On Foreign Aid
State Department
Bridges
GOP
Bullitt
Far East
France
Russia
Committee
Bulitt
Famed Mauna Loa split opens lava river toward Kona coast
Famed Mauna Loa erupts with a 15 mile lava river threatening coffee villages along Hawaii's west coast. Air Force observers note a east west fracture across the cone with three lava streams merging seven miles down the slope. A smaller eastern flow toward Hilo has traveled three miles and is not dangerous.
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Honolulu
Mauna Loa
Island of
Hawaii
Air Force
Hawii Island
Hilo
Ohio Town Has $100,000 Blaze
A $100,000 fire in West Jefferson started by an explosion destroyed half a block of the business district and cut communications for hours. One fireman was overcome by smoke as flames raged two and a half hours in a two story brick building housing a bowling alley, a beer parlor, and a tire shop. The adjacent frame house housed seven Carl Fisher family members and two boarders.
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West Jefferson
Dale Minor
Babe Watson
Joe Wolvert
Carl Fisher
School Board To Have Larger Meeting Room
The Elyria City Board of Education renovates to create a larger, brighter meeting room by removing a partition in the previous two rooms. The project includes repainting, refinishing, improved lighting, and Venetian blinds. The new space will serve board, teacher, and principals meetings and other gatherings. The board will elect officers for 1949 and consider temporary January appropriations, with full year funds likely in February after the county auditor’s certificate. The current officers are Burton I. Ohlemacher president and Pierre R. Smith vice president.
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Elyria
W. O. McClellan
Burton I. Ohlemacher
Pierre R. Smith
Retail Sales Jump in Lorain County During 1948
Lorain County retail sales rose about 20 percent in 1948 over 1947, based on sales tax coupons. County Treasurer Walter J. Wright reported 9064,446 in coupon sales after service charges, a county high and $156,042 above 1947. He notes large chains may not use county coupons and that his office handles roughly half of total coupons. Fees totaled 42,507 with operating costs about 33,900. Mens shirts offer advertised at 990 and 4.25 in the Men's Shop.
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Lorain County
Walter J. Wright
Wright
58 Young Men Go To Berea For Examinations
Elyria Local Board 72 sent 58 young men by two special buses to Berea for pre induction medical examinations. Of these, 57 were local registrants and one transferred from another board. Two transfers were requested after departure and two men failed to report without explanation. Delinquent registrants were urged to report for immediate induction.
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Elyria
Berea
Board 72
Marvin Albert Joan
R. D
Grafton
William Byrd Coon
Chestnut Ridge
Robert Eugene McBurney
R. D., Oberlin
Howard Orvail LaPorte
Follette Street
Federal District Attorney
Elyria Memorial to Add Four-Story Wing Facing East River Street
The new four floor addition to Elyria Memorial Hospital will be built on the side facing East River Street. It will provide 80 new beds to relieve overcrowding and expand medical and surgical facilities as part of the $850000 expansion campaign.
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Elyria Memorial Hospital
East River Street
Boy Hit By Car Escapes With Minor Injuries
Richard Spicer nine years old of 702 West Broad street suffered brush burns on his left hip and scratches on his cheek at 3 45 p m yesterday when struck by an automobile while crossing Chestnut street at Second street James Henderson 416 West 13th street said he was driving south when the boy darted from east to west side of Chestnut and was hit by the right front corner of his car He took the boy home when he refused hospital examination.
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Richard Spicer
West Broad Street
Chestnut Street
Second Street
James, Henderson
West 13Th Street
Chesnut
President seeks rent controls and broad economic powers
President asks Congress to extend rent control for at least two years and renews calls for standby wage price controls to curb inflation. He hints at an excess profits tax and expands the tax program with $4 billion in new revenue, while noting possible excise tax changes and higher Social Security taxes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
81St Congress
State of the Union
Bodies Of Two Servicemen Coming Home
Two servicemen from this vicinity are returned for burial. Pfc. William W. Clark of Spencer will have funeral services at 2 30 Sunday at Parker Funeral Home with the Spencer American Legion post in charge and Rev. Hoffman officiating. Interment in Spencer cemetery. Clark died July 10 1944 on Saipan with the Fourth Marines. He leaves his mother widow and son, plus sisters and grandparents. Edward Val Schovan cak of Lorain arrives home today. A second lieutenant and B 24 bomber crewman, he was killed February 25 1944 in Nuernberg Germany on his twenty fifth mission. He leaves his parents and sister. Funeral services Monday at 9 30 from the Funeral Home and 9 from Holy Trinity church. Burial in Calvary cemetery with Veterans of Foreign Wars officiating.
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Pfc
William W. Clark
Mable Clark
M. B. Johnson School of Nursing
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Parker Funeral
Spencer
Clark
Saipan
United States Marines
Betty Clark Wagner
Billy Clark
Bloomfield
N. J
Joyce Clark
Bery] Boose
Grafton
Air Corps
Schovancak
Lorain
Nuernberg
Germany
Joseph Schovancak
Vera Hadaway
Holy Trinity Church
John M. Kandrac
Calvary Cemetery
Portsmouth Bus Union Threat Triggers 18 Cent Wage Demand
Portsmouth city bus lines faced an ultimatum from the transit union demanding an 18 cent hourly wage increase by January 15. A strike would disrupt service across Portsmouth and West Portsmouth routes, including Boston and Sciotoville, affecting Guaranteed Automobile Service operations by Deetz Inc. and Chiytlee Plymouth.
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Portsmouth
Boston
Sciotoville
Immediate Guaranteed Automobile Service
Deetz, Inc
Chiytlee-Plyrmouth
W. Rene
Secretary of State Resigns to Aid Health
Washington announces major reshuffle as George O. Marshall resigns for health. Dean Acheson named Secretary to carry forward foreign policy. James E. Webb and others promoted. Resignations take effect January 20, with Pace and Lawton filling Budget Bureau posts. Marshall, 68, recently operated for kidney removal and is convalescing.
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Washington
George O' Marshall
Dean Acheson
Truman
James E. Webb
Robert A. Lovett
Frank Pace, Jr
Webb
Bureau of the Budget
Pace
Frederick J. Lawton
Budget Bureau
Acheson
Marshall
Army
State Department
Harvard Law
Roosevelt
Treasury
Cordell Hull
Edward R. Stettinins, Jr
James F. Byrnes
Troxel Manufacting Company Donates to Elyria Hospital Campaign
Troxel Manufacturing president Richard M. Timms announces a 10000 dollar corporate gift to Elyria Memorial Hospital's 850000 dollar expansion project. The gift funds a Father's Waiting Room in the nursery and reflects broad local business support for the hospital modernization effort. Timms notes strong community spirit and expects further employee pledges to advance the campaign toward its top goal.
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Richard M. Timms
Troxel Manufacturing Company
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Timms
Elyria
Communists Move Closer to Tientsin Center
Communists breached outer defenses and reached within two miles of Tientsin's center amid fierce fighting on the Nanking University campus. An emergency air field near the race course provides the port's link to Peiping as forces surround the city from three sides.
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Nanking
Tientsin
China
Nanking University
Peiping
Columbus editor Purdy dies at 73 after heart attack
COLUMBUS Ross C. Purdy 73 longtime general secretary of the American Ceramics Society and editor of its journal for 25 years died yesterday of a heart attack in Columbus. The notice also includes an unrelated ad line about men’s suits and auto body work.
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Columbus
Ross C. Purdy
The
American Ceramics Society
Quota Club Names New Service and Sunshine Chairs
Elyria Quota club announced new service chairman Marge Gilbert and sunshine chairman Grace Shepard at yesterday's luncheon. Louise Dutch takes leave for Columbia University. next meeting on January 20 will feature Mary Spoerl speaking. Club supports Quota International project for the hard of hearing and has raised over $350 with a $100 donation to Elyria Memorial Hospital campaign.
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Elyria Quota Club
Service
Sunshine
Marge Gilbert
Grace Shepard
Louise Dutch
Columbia University
Mary Spoerl
Franklin School
Quota International
Elyria Club
Elyria
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Strike It Rich 1849ers Sell Used Goods in Chronicle Ad
An old style want ad invites readers to sell used stoves rugs electric heaters and furniture for cash. Dial 44 121 or 44 131 to reach an Ad Taker who will assist. The playful line contrasts gold digging 1849ers with modern classified shopping.
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Chronicle - Telegram
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