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The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 11

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Massillon, Ohio
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11
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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948 THE EVENING INDEPENDENT, MASSILLON. OHIO School Play To Be Given Three Nights Carriers To Meet Saturday The 97th meeting of the eastern Ohio-western Pennsylvania district of the National Association of Letter Carriers, A. F. ol L. will be held Saturday evening at the American Legion home in Lincoln Way E.

Dinner will be served at 6:15 p. m. The program will open with the singing of "America." The Rev. Otto R. Gerber.

pastor of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church, will have the invocation and the (Rev. L. Reichlin. pastor ol St.

Barbara's Catholic church, the benediction. Mayor S. Robert Weirich and Fred W. Justus, local postmaster, will welcome the letter carriers. A response will be given by Veryl Blystone of Warren, president ol the northeast district.

Phillip Leppor of New York City, national trustee of the N. A. L. Walter Jones of Bellaire, state treasurer of the N. A.

L. C. and Olga L. O'Connor of Youngstown, a member of the executive board of the Ladies' auxiliary of the N. A.

L. C. will speak. Paralyzed Actress, Husband Separate Balloon, Bread Strangle Boy, 3 HOLLYWOOD, Film actor NEW YORK A three-year-old Ricnaicl Quint- Monday was strangled to death today Ins separation from paralyzed by a toy balloon and a lump of Screen Actress Susan Peters said she probably will file for divorce. Miss Peters is staying at her brother's ranch near San Luis Obispo, after leaving then- home, Quine said.

"She said she would be happier alone," Quine reported. They were maried Nov. 7, 1943, and two years later Miss Peters accidentally was struck in the spine by a bullet while hunting. She has been confined to a wheelchair since Passover bread. Arthur Forsylh of Brooklyn was holding an inflated toy balloon in his lips while he ale a piece of an unleavened bread used i in the observance of Passover, a iJewish hoi id a v.

Suddenly the balloon deflated into hi mouth and both it and the bread were forced into his throat. The Amalekites, a Bedouin tribe of ancient Palestine, were exter ruinated about 725 B. C. "I excess on my new FORD 45,000 IkPaylood INJURIES FATAL TO GIKL CANTON, (AP) Injuries re- I ccived in a. Feb.

29 auto accident I were fatal to Dorothy Jacobson, 23, yesterday. The car overturned and I caught lire. come in- WE SELL NINE MEMBERS of the large cast required for the play, Remember Mama," to be presented in the Washington high school auditorium Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 8:15 p. are shown here front, left to Frances Hardman, Pat Englehart, Margaret Ann Rigdon, Dick Siegfried' and Norma Jean Schoener and rear, left to right, Bill Hamilton, Charlene Reiter, Pat Sill and Janice Scharvcr. The experiences of a large Norwegian family in the city of San Francisco during the early part of the century make up the story of the play, "I Remember Mama," which will be presented by the Struts and Frets dramatic club of Washington high school in the school auditorium Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 8:15 p.

m. "I Remember Mama" first appeared in book form and was widely acclaimed and later won more fame when a short version was printed in a popular magazine. The stage version of the story was an instant -hit when presented on Broadway. Recently the play was made into a movie which has not yet been generally released. THE PLAY is a human, heart warming comedy marked by many amusing and touching incidents including the family's struggle to secure enough money to put one child through school, the buying of a graduation present, the illness of the baby of the family, the visits of a blustery but kind hearted uncle and the marriage of an aunt to an undertaker.

"I Remember Mama" requires one of the largest easts ever to appear in a Struts and Frets play. Major roles will be enacted by Margaret Ann Rigdon a "Mama," Pat Englehart as-Katrin whose remin- escences form the basis of the play, Dick Siegfried as "Papa," Frances Hardman as Christine, Bill Hamilton as Nels, Norma Jean Schoener as Dagmar and Wilbur Arnold as Uncle Chris. Others in the cast include Char- Jene Reiter, Pat Sill, Janice Schar- ver. Jane Snyder, Robert Wallace, Betty Hasson, Pat Ehret, Donna Mae Dray, Tom Webber, Dick Hayne, Stan Dunlap, Jackie Allman, Miriam Stoner, Tim Padden, Charles Reiter, Lois Lindsay, Shir- Icy Fox nd Ann Schrader. The play will be given three nights because only 600 seats will be sold for each performance to enable all members of the audience to see all 14 scenes well.

The advance sale of tickets indicates capacity audiences at all three performances. Tickets are being sold by members of the dramatic club and at the school. Reconsideration Of Blue Law Sought hot question of whether Akron should have Sunday dancing raised its beaten head in city council again Monday, less than a week after that body killed proposed ordinance which would have written off the books Akron's oldest blue law. Harold Nelson, an leader who first asked that the ban on Sunday shuffling be repealed, Monday demanded that council reconsider its 12-1 vote against the measure. "The ordinance was turned down because of a pressure group, and I was asked not to use any pressure tactics, and did not," said Nelson in his letter.

What would he done with the orchestra I letter was not decided. EXECUTIVES GET CUTS CLEVELAND. CAP) Salary cuts ranging up to 5C) per cent have been given to virtually all executive officers of Jack Heinz Precision Industries, board chairman and president, Byron C. Foy, reported today. Foy said the company, which was faced with a shortage of orders in recent months, had resumed full-scale production of 'some 100,000 electric fans.

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Years Available:
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