Ohio House Passes ONeill Budget Amid Track Fight
The Ohio House approved a 1957 58 operating budget of 1.152 billion dollars by a 126 7 vote. Lawmakers trimmed a proposed 15 percent take out on horse tracks to 14 percent, blocking additional revenue for track operators and funding county fair subsidies. Senate hearings followed on a controversial compulsory fair employment practices bill.
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Columbus
House
Cial
GOP
William O'Neill
Fred Danner
R-Summit
Senate
Commerce and Labor Committee
Ohio
Jordan Queen ousts Jordan Premier over Cold War drift
King Hussein removes Premier Suleiman Nabulsi amid a dispute on Soviet versus American influence. Reports say troops sealed Amman routes while Hussein promotes Brig Mohammed Maatya and looks to James Richards for Eisenhower Doctrine support. Diplomats note U S interest and Nabulsi's pro Soviet stance.
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London
Jordan
Hussein
Suleiman Nabulsi
Washington
Egypt
Syria
Beirut
Lebanon
Amman
Mohammed Maatya
Nabulsi
Fisenhower
James P. Richards
Middle East
Richards
U. S. State Department
U. S
Israel Denies Coasts Guarded by Troops Amid Egyptian Charges
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Moshe Leshem rejected Egyptian claims that troops remain at Taba and Ras el Nakb on the Aqaba coast. Cairo also alleged UN troops are crossing into Gaza to fraternize with Israeli soldiers. UN said all Israeli forces left Gaza on March 8.
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Jerusalem
Egyptian
Aqaba Gulf
Moshe Leshem
Israel
United Nations
Gaza Strip
Taba
Eilat
Ras el Nakb
Sinai Peninsula
Sharm el Sheika
Cairo
U. S
Raymond A. Hare
Nasser
Suez Canal
Informats
Hare
al Messaa
Foregin
Mahmoud Fawbi
Gulf of Aqaba
Kern Hills
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Gulf
Restoration refused on tax bill discount in Ohio
The Ohio House Taxation Committee rejected restoring a two per cent vendors' discount in a substitute bill ending sales tax stamps. The discount restoration proposed by the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants failed 12 to 4. Vendors received discounts totaling $4,356,000 last year.
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Columbus
House Taxation Committee
Ohio
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Ohio West Virginia road urged as national defense need
Rep Byrd of West Virginia stated that a Canton Ohio to Charleston West Virginia route via U S 21 and the West Virginia Turnpike is a national defense necessity. A West Virginia Virginia Ohio congressional delegation discussed the interstate plan with Bureau of Public Roads officials, the group meeting after prior talks.
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Washington
Canton
Ohio
West Virginia
Rep
Byrd
D-W.va
Bureau of Public Roads
Ohio River
Virginia
Bureau
Charleston
W. Va
Princeton
Belated alarm boy follows warning and avoids danger
Nine year old Charlie Martin asleep late misses the bus at Trotwood Ohio and walks home. A passing motorist offers a ride, he recalls his father's warning and jumps from the moving car. Deputies and locals search the area before he is found walking home by his father.
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Dayton
Charlie Martin
Trotwood
Charlie
Here
Sheriff's Office
William Newshaw
Canada presses pledge on security material amid Norman death row
Washington reports say Canadian officials demand that secrecy material shared with the United States be barred from congressional committees without Ottawa's consent. The move follows Ottawa's anger over the Cairo death of ambassador E. H. Norman and allegations of his past Communist ties. The U S answer cited no responsibility for subcommittee actions.
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Washington
Congressional Committees
Canada
Christian Herter
A. D. P. Heeney
United States
Congress
Cairo
E. H. Norman
Norman
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Parliament
Heeney
Herter
Subcommittee
U.S
Post Office Pligst Told In Record
Postmaster General Summerfield testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee that the Post Office would have to use every effort to stay within the budget. He requested 47 million dollars more to maintain normal mail service, with 17 million approved and 30 million delayed. He ordered offices to prepare to halt nearly all Saturday mail and noted a freeze on route extensions through June 30.
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Washington
Summerfield
House Appropriations
Post Office Department
Cannon
D-Mo
Lawmakers to Honor Orville Wilbur Wright
Ohio lawmakers move to honor Dayton brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright with a state Capitol mural showing their first successful Kitty Hawk flight nearly 54 years ago. The bill clearing the Senate proceeds to the House.
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Columbus
Ohio
New Sheriff Chosen for Franklin County Post
A 48 year old career police officer Stacey Hall a Columbus detective lieutenant becomes Franklin County sheriff. He will assume the post Monday following the effective resignation of Sheriff Ralph J Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Franklin County
Stacey Hall
Ralph J. Paul
Bomber Hears Sanity Debate
George Metesky known as the Mad Bomber appeared at a Brooklyn sanity hearing. He was described by psychiatrists as an empty shell and highly dangerous and was deemed unable to understand the charges for the Brooklyn Paramount Theater bombing on December 2.
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New York
George Metesky
Kings County Hospital
Brooklyn
Albert LaVerne
Bellevue Hospital
Kings County
Samuel S. Leibowitz
Metesky
Brooklyn Paramount Theater
Joy Drowns in Creek Near Circleville Home
Four year old Robert Pence son of Mr and Mrs Charles Pence drowned Wednesday in Hargus Creek near his Circleville home. Authorities said he apparently fell into the creek while playing along the bank with another boy and was dead when pulled from the water by an older sister.
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Circleville
Robert Pence
Charles Pence
Hargus Creek
Robert
Wanted baby furniture ad boosts calls and sales
A saucy want ad notes buyers stopped the sale after a buyer called and purchased a baby bed a Tenda and a nursery chair. It claims a dozen homes still need baby furniture and urges readers to call 31242 for a courteous ad taker.
They ll Swap Wives Amicably Near Millbrae California
Two couples plan an unusual marriage switch near Millbrae California. Dr Frank E Schwartz 38 will marry Betty Brooks 35 while Mrs Brooks marries Martin Brooks 35. Wives are obtaining divorces in Reno. Brooks runs a garden and pet supply business.
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Millbrae
Calif
Frank E. Schwartz
Jean
Betty Brooks
Martin Brooks
Reno
Brooks
Mrs. Schwartz
Mystery crater in Calif yard sparks Army probe
In San Gabriel California a backyard crater sparked by a suspected falling object drew Army Ordnance experts to inspect the site at the Murphy home. Residents reported a sonic boom and the hole, about 10 feet by 10 feet, was excavated with heavy timbers but yielded no definitive cause by dusk Wednesday.
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San Gabriel
Calif
Oscar Murphy
Army
San Gabriel Valley
Los Angeles
Pat Murphy
Oscar
Murphy
Sheriff's Deputies
Ft. MacArthur
Sewage Plan Must Be Set
Village officials must decide within three months on a sewage disposal plan for the Ohio River discharge. The state water pollution control board renewed the village permit for three months, conditionally requiring a joint or individual disposal decision with Middleport.
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Pomeroy
E. F. Robinson
State Water Pollution Control Board
Ohio River
Middleport
Queen Elizabeth Basks in Louvre Gala as Venus Table Shocks
Paris reports a lavish Louvre reception for Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister Mollet. Guests used the Venus de Milo pedestal as a cocktail table and Greek vases for cigarette disposal while Prince Philip smoked nearby. Guards watched closely as art endured the uproar.
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Venus
Louvre
Elizabeth
Paris
France
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Raphael
St. Michael
Guy Mollet
Louvre Museum
Soviets Cancel Big Debt Across Nation
The Soviet government announced it will cancel interest and principal on 260 billion rubles of state bonds for 20 to 25 years, a move Khrushchev linked to a future communist era. The public reportedly will not object, as bonds were deducted from wages over decades, but the policy effectively confiscates private savings and reshapes pensions and retirement plans.
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U. S
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Russia
Soviet Union
Suffocation Ruled in Freezer Death of Ice Cream Seller
Franklin County coroner ruled the death of 24 year old Bradley K. Mc Donald accidental suffocation. The Columbus ice cream salesman was trapped in the freezer of his truck when a faulty lock kept him inside as the temperature fell to twenty degrees below zero.
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Columbus
Robert A Evans
Franklin County
Bradley K. McDonald
Evans
McDonald
Rayburn Sees Income Tax Cut For Next Year
Speaker Rayburn of Texas said a tax cut for next year appears likely amid budget cutting and a renewed push by the Ways and Means Committee. Republican leaders voiced interest while Eisenhower officials urged caution and debt reduction.
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Rayburn
Washington
Congress
Texas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Eisenhower
Martin
Massachusetts
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Britain's Tax Cuts Stir U.S. Debt Postponement Debate
Washington reports Britain moved to cut taxes as Congress weighs delaying up to seven annual payments on a 1946 loan worth over 4.3 billion. The House passed the bill 218 to 167 and sent it to President Eisenhower amid controversy over potential U.S. taxpayer costs. In Ottawa, Canada followed with a similar loan repayment action.
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Washington
House
Britain
Eisenhower
U.S
Ottawa
House of Commons
Canada
Rayburn
Tex
Martin
Mass
Senate
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Teamsters Study Position in Secret Galveston Meeting
The Executive Board of the Teamsters Union plans a secret strategy meeting in Galveston Texas next Tuesday to decide whether to defend against AFL-CIO charges of corrupt influence. An AFL-CIO hearing date is set for May 6 in Washington. The union is the largest AFL-CIO affiliate with about 1 350 000 members.
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Galveston
Tex
Teamsters Union
Gulf
Afl-Cio
Afl-Cio Ethical Practices Committee
Teamsters
Washington
Youths Charged With Damaging Railroad Freight
Two Pomeroy youths confessed to breaking into three Chesapeake and Ohio freight cars at Monkey Run depot damaging 13 sacks of feed a carload of picture frames and a private suitcase hurled into the Ohio River. Police Chief Frank Hudson and Patrolman Henry Werry arrested them. cases set for Juvenile Court.
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Pomeroy
Frank Hudson
Chesapeake and Ohio
Monkey Run
Ohio River
Hudson
Henry Werry
Langley Seen At Game Club
A Portland officer testified that Detective Sgt. Dan Mitola saw Dist. Atty. Langley at Jack and Jill's night club on Feb. 25 1955 where gambling occurred. Mitola said he and Langley sat inside the door table and observed gambling equipment. Langley’s attorney argued Langley believed he could not prosecute since the gambling funded charitable and civic groups.
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Portland
Ore
William Langley
Dan Mitola
Langley
Mitola
K. C. Tanner
PAL Club
Reuther Proposes Craft Union Limits at UAW Convention
Walter P. Reuther, re-elected UAW president for a seventh term, offers a plan to keep craft unions from drawing skilled workers from the industrial union. The proposal would let skilled groups negotiate supplemental pay contracts beyond minimums, while not abandoning industrial unionism.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Convention
Reuther
UAW
Eisenhower seeks new agency to modernize airways control
President Eisenhower asked Congress to create a new agency to decide on modernization of the nation's airways control system to handle rising air traffic.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
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