Glouster Mourns Former Mayor Thomas Williams Sr
Glouster loses former mayor Thomas Williams Sr 80 after a stroke at Mount St Mary Hospital Nelsonville He served 20 years as mayor and was a Trimble Two trustee Survived by wife Inez two sons including current mayor Thomas four brothers and four sisters plus many grandchildren and great grandchildren Funeral Sunday at 2 p m Glouster Methodist Church with burial at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Mount St. Mary Hospital
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South Wales
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Katherine James Williams
Zanesville
Margaret Williams
Cleveland
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Indianapolis
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Britain to veto South Africa resolution at UN Security Council
Britain told UN Security Council members it planned to veto a resolution condemning South Africa over racial policies as the nine nation council prepared to vote on Ecuador's proposal backed by Asian and African states. No immediate comment came from Britain.
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Rockefeller suffers party setbacks as New York closes 1960 session
Gov Nelson A Rockefeller faced a string of defeats from Republicans as the New York Legislature wrapped up its 1960 session. The governor's reform agenda stalled amidst intra party opposition, ending a turbulent legislative year.
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N. Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
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Larry Mays Found Dead In Auto In Logan County
Larry Mays 23 of Sand Run died Thursday afternoon from accidental asphyxiation. He was found face down in his car on Gallagher Ave after leaving H. C. Godman Shoe Co. co workers reported he seemed well at 3 30 p m. Coroner Dr J Ward Doering ruled death by asphyxiation. Police noted he sat at Main St and Gallagher Ave before police were called at 4 40 p m.
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Kent State enrollment rises as spring quarter opens
Kent State University reports a 10 percent rise in full time student enrollment from last year with 6 395 full time students in the spring quarter. Saturday and night courses add 1 410 students, a 25 percent increase over March 1959 totals.
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Kent State University
De Gaulle Rebuffs Khrushchev With Nuclear Test Show
Paris reports a second French nuclear test near Reganne, 1500 miles south of Oran, described as a plutonium device of smaller yield than the 1945 Hiroshima bomb. De Gaulle and Khrushchev meet at Rambouillet amid talks, with no expected French Soviet political accord. Khrushchev leaves for Moscow Sunday.
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River Towns Brace For Possible Ohio Floods
Meigs Gallia Mason area residents monitor the Ohio River for possible flooding as Pomeroy Middleport Point Pleasant and Kanauga may miss serious flooding if no additional rain falls. Projections show Point Pleasant could crest near 45.5 feet with floodwalls protecting up to 66.3 feet and closures on Routes 35 17 and 2 if levels rise. Ironton anticipates crest near 50 feet with flood pumps operating and traffic rerouted on Route 52 and Route 7 near Chesapeake.
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Workers Get Raise in Tailored Clothes Pact
A three-year contract raises the hourly pay for 125,000 workers in the tailored men’s clothing industry by 17 percent. The agreement was announced Thursday.
Ohio flood slows roads and forces evacuations
The Ohio River rose to 32 feet at noon and edges toward a crest near 39 feet in East Liverpool. Roads closed and residents moved from low-lying areas as Wellsville and Powhatan faced high water. West Virginia towns from the Pennsylvania line to Wheeling saw heavy impact with about 400 people evacuated in New Cumberland.
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Gooey Mud Threatens Rural Areas
Thousands of rural Ohioans faced mud disruptions as April arrived with rain. Buses failed on back roads, many schools closed, and roads vanished in Knox Wayne Holmes and Geauga counties amid a warm spell that worsened the sewage-like mud.
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AEC Sets 1960 Test Start With Las Vegas Explosions
Las Vegas reports the Atomic Energy Commission will begin its 1960 test program next month at the Nevada test site with a series of non nuclear explosions marking the initial phase of the series.
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Weather Satellite TIROS 1 Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral
A 270 pound weather watch satellite named TIROS 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral at 6 40 a.m. EST atop a Thor Able rocket. NASA reported it in orbit two hours later with a likely useful 400 mile high path and a three month life. The craft carries two cameras to image cloud cover and link to ground stations for global weather pattern study.
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Survivor in Arkansas Jet Crash Faces Memory Test
Air Force investigators rely on memory of 1st Lt. Thomas G. Smoak, 26, of Richmond, Va., the lone survivor after a B47 bomber exploded over Little Rock. Five other airmen died and eight homes were destroyed in the dawn disaster with civilians killed in their own houses.
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Thomas G. Smoak
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Wife's Phone Call Angers Husband Leads to Ripping Phone
In Baltimore George Woods 36 said his wife talked a lot on the telephone and was always whispering His wife testified she says he grabbed the phone from her and ripped it from the wall interrupting a call to her sister Mrs Woods called police on a neighbor's telephone.
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White Students Arrested After Dining With Negroes in Alabama
Eleven white Illinois students and their sociology teacher were jailed in Montgomery for several hours after dining with Black students at a Negro cafe. They and two Montgomery Black students faced disorderly conduct charges, later released on bond.
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Ala
Nesmiths
Welfare Department
Youth Conference Panel Urges Racial Integration
A panel from the White House Conference on Children and Youth urged President Eisenhower to use executive power to push racial integration of public schools. Delegates adopted about 700 recommendations and endorsed sit-in protests by Negro students at segregated lunch counters in the South.
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Truce in Wisconsin primary over religion issue
In Milwaukee a temporary truce ends a heated religious dispute between Hubert Humphrey and John F Kennedy as Wisconsin Democrats prepare for next Tuesday's primary. A former state chairman disclosed a protestant ad funded by undisclosed supporters costing 1400 dollars, denounced by both candidates who spared each other blame.
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Minnesota
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Three Killed During Negro Jail March in Durban
Police fired on an African crowd marching on Durban's jail as the mob reached West Street. Initial reports say three Africans were killed and three wounded during the riotous scene in this port city amid racial crisis.
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South Africa
West Street
Ohio five day forecast with above normal temperatures
The forecast calls for temperatures about six degrees above normal with highs near 57 in the south and lows 33 to 37. Warmer tonight followed by cooler conditions Sunday then warmer again by Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation includes thunderstorms, with activity possible again Tuesday or Wednesday.
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