Health director seeks Ohio radiation legislation
Dr. Ralph E. Dwork, Ohio health director, warns of radiation risks from X rays to nuclear particles. He urges a legislative bill to empower the state health department to regulate radiation sources, following a Denver conference where utilities for a statewide program were recommended.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ralph E. Dwork
Dwork
U. S
Denver
State Health Departments
Kidnap Witness Freed In Parker Case At Poplarville
In Poplarville Mississippi C J Mondy a 25 year old Negro inmate jailed for murder is set for release on bond this week as a key kidnapping case witness Parker is feared dead after hooded men battered and abducted him from Pearl River County Jail. Highway patrols guard the jail around the clock to prevent intimidation of prisoners. The trial was postponed to the next term in November under Judge Sebe Dale.
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Poplarville
Miss
Mack Charles Parker
C. J. Mondy
Criminal Court
Sebe Dale
Mandy
Parker
Pearl River County
Prison Break Suspects Put in Solitary at Kilby Prison
Kilby Prison in Alabama placed three recaptured convicts in solitary confinement after Sunday night’s breakout. Two more suspects at large face the same punishment. Walter Tatum, 29, a grand larceny defendant, was spotted by a Montgomery boy, Davis Soper, leading to his capture. Earl Phillips, 36, and Charles Sweeney, 26, surrendered after their stolen car crashed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Walter Tatum
Davis Soper
Davis
Tatum
Earl Phillips
Charles Sweeney
Butler County Demands Sprenz Be Returned for Trial
Butler County officials filed habeas corpus writs to compel Frank L. Sprenz to be returned for trial on bank robbery charges. Prosecutor Robert Marrs pursued actions in Hamilton Common Pleas Court and U S District Court. Summit County officials also seek Sprenz in a $1500 holdup case and related charges.
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Cincinnati
Butler County
Frank L. Sprenz
Robert Marrs
Common Pleas
Hamilton
U. S. District Court
Summit County
Sprenz
Zanesville Enacts City Income Tax
Zanesville council approved a 1 percent city income tax by a 5 to 0 vote. The levy takes effect July 1 for five years and is projected to raise about $650,000 annually.
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Zanesville
Panama reports new hired invasion plans from Cuba
Panama charged that hired fighters are massing in Cuba to invade again. Government minister Jose Bazan told the National Assembly three more boatloads are planned to bring about 400 Cubans to Panama, with the first landing group of 82 Cubans and four Panamanians already in Panama. The invaders reportedly captured Nombre de Dios after advancing 35 miles along the coast, with one Panamanian commander among those drowned.
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Jose D. Bazan
National Assembly
Cuba
Panama
Bazan
Nombre de Dios
Castro Denies Backing Rebs in Argentina Trip
Fidel Castro arrived in Houston on the way to a Latin American economic conference and said he has no interest in promoting revolutions abroad. He denied reports of disagreements with Raul Castro and rejected involvement in the Panamanian revolt, stressing his focus on Cuba.
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Houston
Tex
Fidel Castro
Buenos Aires
Raul
Cuba
Castro
Ex-Welfare Worker Admits Embezzlement
Florence Wilson of Ashtabula, 59, a former county welfare case worker, was sentenced to 1 to 10 years in the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville after pleading guilty to embezzling 14501.60 in welfare funds. She admitted converting welfare warrants issued to six fictitious persons and addresses and said she was alone in the fraud with no explanation for the missing funds.
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Jefferson
Ohio
Florence Wilson
Ashtabula
Ohio Reformatory For Women At
Marysville
Worker Killed In Bulldozer Accident Near Cambridge
A Byesville construction worker Frank Korte aged 63 was killed Monday in Buffalo when a bulldozer being unloaded from a truck slipped and crushed him. Authorities label the incident an industrial accident.
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Byesville
Buffalo
Frank Korte
Two Bills Stall in Committees in Ohio Legislature
In Columbus two major bills linger in committees. The RC N based rate reform faces a single vote short of committee approval, while an omnibus sales tax measure seeks about 119 million dollars for the state in two years. The House panel also moved an emergency SUB bill to release 25 million in benefits. A separate law delays SUB payments until June 19.
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Ohio
House Elections and Federal Relations Committee
State Treasury
Senate Taxation Committee
RCN
Michael V. DiSalle
HOUSE
Senate
John W. Brown
Medina
Talks Slated In TV Strike NBC Mediation Sought
Federal mediators sought to settle NBC engineers and technicians strike affecting television and radio networks. A meeting was scheduled between NBC and NABET, as union members refused to handle video tape for Dave Garroways Today show. The program aired as scheduled with the Bardot interview filmed in Paris.
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New York
National Broadcasting Co
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
NBC
National Association of Broadcast Employes and Technicians
NABET
Dave Garroway
Nbc-Tv
Brigitte Bardot
Paris
Garroway
Bardot
Godfrey Admits Worry About Chest Tumor
New York television and radio star Arthur Godfrey arrived at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for a hospital stay ahead of a scheduled operation. He said he was worried about a chest tumor and noted the procedure would determine if the tumor is cancerous.
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New York
Arthur Godfrey
Harkness Pavilion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Godfrey
Medal of Honor Winner O J Williams Dies at 77
CINCINNATI O J Williams who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Spanish American War at age 14 died at Veterans Administration Hospital on Monday at age 77.
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Cincinnati
O. J. Williams
Veterans Administration Hospital
Polk Dies of Cancer at Walter Reed Center
Rep James G Polk 62 a Democrat from Ohio died of cancer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center The veteran congressman had served 20 years in two stints beginning in 1931 He was out during the 78th and 79th Congresses and returned for the 80th and served in the List Congress The death leaves the House with 282 Democrats and 152 Republicans and two vacancies
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Washington
James G. Polk
Ohio
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Polk
Congress
House
Soviets Open to Inspection in Nuclear Talks
At Geneva the Soviet Union signaled openness to limited inspections of disturbances as a path to halting nuclear tests. Britain and the United States welcomed the idea and urged consideration of a staged suspension proposal by Macmillan and Eisenhower, while Khrushchev has not embraced the plan.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Harold Macmillan
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Cleveland Union Reaches Early Two Year Truck Contract
Acceptance of a new two year contract early today averted a threatened strike by truck drivers in the construction field, signaling relief for projects and workers.
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Cleveland
Democrats Seek Override Of Eisenhower REA Veto
Democrats plan to override President Eisenhower's veto of a rural electrification bill. They seek a two thirds vote in both houses to set a pattern for future measures, with risks if defeated. The bill would shift final REA loan authority from the administrator to the secretary, while Benson remains supervisor.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Republican Congress
Inflation Raises Pay Rate For Prisoners
In Salem Oregon the legislature passed a bill allowing prisoners to work off fines at five dollars a day instead of two. The measure aims to ease inflationary costs the county jail faces and moves to the Senate for final approval.
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Oregon House of Representatives
Senate
Storms Ebb After Broad Midwestern Rain
The Associated Press reports wind and rain storms tapering off from the central plains to the Atlantic Coast. Tornado threats ended after funnel clouds were spotted in Missouri and Arkansas. Strong winds, hail, and heavy rains soaked Midwest cities as the storm moved toward the Ohio Valley and Southern New England.
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Weather Bureau
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Arkansas
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Cattle Drive Runs Rail Route From Texas to Pa for Summer
In Little Rock a major spring cattle movement begins as 5500 head from the King Ranch ride rails toward Pennsylvania pastures. The Santa Gertrudis, bred from Shorthorn and Brahman stock, are rested at North Little Rock before another load departs, part of 85,000 head headed north to fatten on summer pastures.
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Oklahoma
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South Texas
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Kansas
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Western allies unite for Geneva talks on Germany
Secretary of State Christian Herter arrives in Paris to join British French and West German ministers for three days of talks. Allies plan a Western backed German proposal package for the Geneva four power meeting including Western rights in Berlin and step by step force reductions. An all German committee would study contact and eventual elections while agreement hinges on European security.
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U.S
Christian A. Herter
Washington
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Soviet Union
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Heater
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Berlin
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Parole Imposed for Part In Raid at Ohio Wesleyan
Two male students at Ohio Wesleyan University were fined 35 dollars each and placed on good conduct parole for the April 16 raid on the women's residence halls. A coed received no sentence change after admitting she opened a door to admit male students.
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Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Few Jurors Seated in Smith Murder Trial
In Columbus the first degree murder trial of David Stanley Smith, 21, stalled as only four jurors were tentatively seated in the opening session. He is charged with killing Janice C. Porter, 24, a neighbor and expectant mother, on December 16 and pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Columbus
David Stanley Smith
Smith
Janice C. Porter
Shell Loss May Mean Danger For Children
Authorities fear children may handle Civil War shells found near Ft Sumter weekend. About 50 shells were dug up by workmen and were to be stored Monday, but the shells were missing when workers returned.
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Charleston
S. C
Ft. Sumter
Liu Shao-chi Named President of Red China Sparks Western and Chinese Concern
Observers in Hong Kong react to Liu Shao-chi’s election as president of Red China. US and British experts predict trouble for either the West or Beijing as Peiping preserves Mao’s power. Nationalist papers on Formosa warn of Mao’s potential vulnerability amid Tibet unrest.
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People’s Republic
Mao Tse-tung
Red China
Mao
Communist Party
Hong Kong
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China
Peiping
Mao Tze-tung
Formosa
Liu
Moscow
Tibet
Tiger Standard
Fake Death Proves Real in Norristown
Bea trice Robbins told police she thought her husband Albert Robbins was faking after she brushed against a kitchen rifle and he fell. She slept, woke to find him dead, a doctor declared death natural at first, then coroner found a bullet hole.
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Norristown
Beatrice Robbins
Albert
Robbins
John C. Stimpson
Quadruplets Die After Birth at Bethesda Hospital
In Zanesville a girl and three boys, born Monday night to Mr and Mrs Donald Wise of near Roseville at Bethesda Hospital, did not survive. The 37 year old mother was reported in good condition.
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Zanesville
Bethesda Hospital
Donald Wise
Roseville
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