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    "ocrText": "THISCAN'T FIND HOUSE, AKRON FAMILY OF SIX LIVES IN A TENT IN WOODS\nThe wisecrack about pitching a tent for the duration of the housing shortage is a dead-\nCharles, 2 1-2, is at left, with Earl, Jr., 5 1-2, beside him. Right, an interior view of the tent\nly serious matter to Earl Carl and his family. The Carls, Mr., Mrs. and four young children,\nFrom the left are Earl, Jr., Charles and Mrs. Carl with the baby. The other child, Ethel 1\nhave only a tent for a home and it sits in a woods half mile off Dan st. on North Hill. Left,\n8, was in school when the pictures were taken. The family has lived in the tent seven month.\nMrs. Carl peeks out the top of the tent flap while holding her youngest, Nancy Louise, 9 months.\nTent THIS\nAkron Coal\nmunicipal light plant has less than\na seven day coal supply, commer-\ncial and industrial power supply\nwas cut 70 per cent.\n(Continued From Page One)\n(Continued From Page One)\nThe state guard policed an\nMRS. CARL switched off one\nbut cannot operate if they cannot\nly, but dark city Wednesday\nburner... \"I just seem to get\nship in or out.\nafter all street lights were cu\nfaint with the smell now that\nSERIOUS EFFECTS of the coal\nI'm pregnant,\" she explained.\nCOLUMBUS WAS cla\n\"My next one is coming in\nstrike, however, were being felt\ndown on violators of its browno\nut\nover the entire state.\nApril.\"\norder.\n\"If we don't get a home be-\nThe 25 per cent reduction in pas-\nsenger train service hits Akron\nThere were hints, also that uti\nfore that time I know I'll go\ncrazy.\"\nagain. The Erie railroad is taking\nties and industrial firms\noff two express runs between\nCarl, a worker at the M. &\nstantial coal supply may b\nChicago and Jersey City, effective\nS. Body Repair shop, and his\nSunday and Monday.\non to share it with hospit\nwife have sought constantly for\nTrain No. 2 leaves Akron for the\nothers suppliers of vital S\nthe past seven months for a bet-\nlast time during the coal strike at\nHome supply might be boc\nter place to live. Their oldest\n2:45 a. m. Monday. No. 7 makes\nthis way, solid fuels administration\nchild, Ethel Mae, 8, now attends\nits last run to Chicago at 5:28\nmen said.\nForest Hill school. The other\np. m. Sunday.\nAkron's big rubber factories m\net\nthree are forced to remain in-\nTHE ERIE ANNOUNCED that\nthe freight embargo with a stat\nside the tent all day long now.\n4,000 employes will be laid off by\nment that they will keep op\nRats run through it, although\nSunday... Chamber of Commerce\nand shipping as long as th\nMrs. Carl says thus far she has\nchecks in a number of cities indi-\nA good deal of the shippir\nbeen able to kill most of them.\ncated small plant closings will be\ntruck.\nThere is no toilet and the\ngeneral if the coal shortage lasts\nGoodyear Aircraft Corp.,\nnearest source of drinking water\nanother month.\nis a spring nearly half a mile\ning the bins\" for its coal, may ts\nClosing of the Cuyahoga Falls\nhave to cut temperatures in\naway. Carl brings jugs of water\nschool for lack of coal was follow-\nit\nfor washing from the Botzum\nplants to just above freezing,\ned by similar action at Alexan-\nBrothers' sand and gravel pit\nwas announced, but plans no\nwhen he comes home at night.\ndria, Licking county; Darby town-\nmediate change in employ\nship school in Pickaway county,\nschedules.\n\"WE DON'T need clothes and\nand at Athens county where five\nAs long as the weather\nschools were dismissed.\nmild this can be avoided,\nwe don't need food. My husband\nmakes enough money to support\nAt Hamilton, O., where the\npany spokesman said.\nus. We will have enough for\nChristmas toys, but we won't\nhave any place to put them,\"\nsaid Mrs. Carl. \"All we need is\na home.\nGifts\nThe Carls were forced to leave\ntheir former home on Berwin\nO\nst. last spring when the landlady\nt\ntold them the board of health\nfor\nt\nhad condemned it. \"Our only\n\"\nsolution was to buy a tent,\" they\ne\nexplain. \"No one wants kids,\nthe\nG-G\nyou see.\"\nit\nt\n11\nTraveler\ne\nSPENCER'S QUALITY\nf\nn\nLUGGAGE\nst\nFor the man or woman, boy or girl who is going away\nto school, to the sunny south or traveling on business\nideal gifts in luggage. Also a\nvelty gifts for stay-at-homes.\nMEN'S GIFTS\nTWO-SUITERS\nCOMPANION BAGS\nCLUB BAGS\nADSTONES"
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