Revised Budget Aims to Cut Taxes and Debt
Congressional leaders applaud a revised Eisenhower budget showing total spending at 72.1 billion and a deficit of 3.8 billion for the year ending June 30. The plan lowers outlays by two billion from earlier estimates, suggests a balanced budget next year, and contemplates tax changes including a possible national sales tax.
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Eisenhower
Treasury
Humphrey
Congress
Truman
Soldier pleads innocent in Ohio murder case
A 25yearold AWOL soldier Harold St John of Dorchester Mass pleaded innocent to a seconddegree murder charge in the slaying of Joseph W Harding 53 a state industrial relations executive in Zanesville Ohio He was arraigned in Municipal Court waived preliminary hearing and bound to the grand jury without bond The grand jury to meet Sept 8 St John told the sheriff no he wanted his father notified He said I guess I just got excited thats why I shot him Harding who had given St John a ride left a farewell party in Columbus for retiring boss Albert A Woldman Police noted St John admitted shooting Harding when he resisted robbery The Army CID attended the arraignment Harding was killed an hour and a half after leaving the Columbus party
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Zanesville
Ohio
Joseph W. Harding
Harold St. John
Dorchester
Mass
Charles Hendershot
St. John
David Weiss
Criminal Investigation Division
U.S. Army
State Highway Patrol
Harding
Columbus
Albert A. Woldman
Ohio State Fair Opens With Record Attendance Pageant
The 99th Ohio State Fair begins an eight day run in Columbus. Officials expect about 750000 visitors, 300000 more than last year, aided by a new one floor exhibition building and bleacher expansions bringing seating to 10160. The pageant of Ohio history The 17th Star opened last night before about 20000 people, written by Paul Green with a cast of nearly 500 and narrated by Gene Lockhart.
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Columbus
Ohio
Paul Green
Gene Lockhart
Reds Release five Ohioans
Seven West Virginia men and five Ohioans were among the American war prisoners repatriated at Panmunjom today. They are C. N. Morgan Raysal Sgt. Lewis Van de Linde Madison Cpl. Harold R. Estep Dry Branch Cpl. Ernest H. Hess Hugheston Pfc. Florice L. Prickett Baxter Sgt. Hale Vanney Grantsville Cpl. Thomas A. Lyke Colliers Ohio Cply. Richard V. West Springfield Cpl. Edward A. Ruth West Chester Route 1 Cpl Herbert M. Romberger Toledo Cpl. Alvi D. Norris Brunswick Pfc. John H. Hidey Cleveland.
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Panmunjom
C. N. Morgan
Raysal
Lewis van de Linde
Madison
Harold R. Estep
Dry Branch
Ernest H. Hess
Hugheston
Florice L. Prickett
Baxter
Hale Vanney
Grantsville
Thomas A. Lyke
Colliers
Ohio
Richard V. West
Springfield
Edward A. Ruth
West Chester
Herbert M. Romberger
Toledo
Alvi D. Norris
Brunswick
John H. Hidey
Cleveland
Missing church door baffled Elmira police
A clergy man called to report a missing church door. Police found the sliding door was simply opened and the minister did not realize its type.
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Elmira
N. Y
Hot Weather Still Dominates Week Ahead
Forecast calls for mostly fair, hot weather from Saturday to Wednesday with scattered showers possible. Temperatures run about 6 to 8 degrees above normal, highs around the upper 70s to low 80s and lows near 58 to 60, with rainfall under a quarter inch expected over five days.
623 Graduate At Ohio State
In Columbus Ohio a graduating class of 623 at Ohio State University was urged not to overlook job opportunities in Ohio where a two billion dollar industrial boom has created a shortage of skilled workers. Superintendent Novice G Fawcett highlighted the Pike County atomic energy plant and expansions in aluminum plastic rubber electro metallurgy fuel gas and telephone industries.
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Ohio
Ohio State University
United States
G. Fawcett
Pike County
Matamoras Man Dies In Rt. 7 Collision
Marietta Ohio reported two fatal crashes on Ohio 7 within 24 hours. George Gale Beaver 19 of Matamoras Rt. 3 was killed in a collision 20 miles northeast of Marietta. A second fatality Charles Lee Graham 26 of Marietta died two days earlier five miles away.
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Marietta
Ohio
George Gale Beaver
Matamoras
Rt. 3
Ohio 7
Here
Charles Lee Graham
Beaver
Telephone Workers Strike In Capital
About 10,000 telephone workers in the Washington area and West Virginia joined a broader strike by Communications Workers of America members. Picket lines appeared at installations as talks with Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. failed. Wages sought by the union range from two to three dollars per week higher, with company offers of one and a half to two fifty.
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Washington
Communications Workers of America
Washington-West Virginia
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Farrell J. Beaver
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
St. Louis
Indiana Bell Telephone Co
Indiana
New York
States
District of Columbia
Vincent Samaska
American Airlines
United Air Lines
Chicago
Michigan City
Ind
United
South Bend
FBI captures top Reds in Sierra Nevada hideout
In a dawn operation, sixteen FBI agents in camper disguises seized Robert George Thompson and Sidney Steinberg 8000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada. Thompson, among 11 top leaders convicted in 1951 under the Smith Act, is sent to Alcatraz to serve three years. Steinberg faces removal proceedings in New York after bail set at 100000. Also arrested were Carl Rass, Samuel Coleman, and Shirley Kremen, each jailed on 35000 bail. Patricia Blau was later picked up near Stockton and charged with harboring the fugitives.
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FBI
Grim Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
Robert George Thompson
Sidney Steinberg
Sierra Nevada
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Alcatraz
New York
Steinberg
Sierra
Carl Edwin Rass
Minnesota
Samuel I. Coleman
Shirley Keith Kremen
Los Angeles
Patricia Blau
Stockton Calif
Fur Workers Union Leader Indicted for Perjury
Federal grand jury in Washington indicted Ben Gold, president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, on charges he lied in an August 1950 NLRB affidavit claiming he was not a Communist. A warrant was issued for Gold with bond set at $10,000.
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Ben Gold
Fur Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
Justice Department
Gold
International Fur and Leather Workers Union
United States
Canada
CIO
NLRB
Communist Party
State rests murder case in Kenton trial
The state finished its case in the second degree murder trial of Lawrence Sawyer and James Tatum, both 31 and 25, charged in the June 9 Kenton shooting of Richard Burchiel. Defense witnesses began testifying with ten more scheduled as evidence collection continues. Ballistics expert Emery E. Galloway testified bullets came from guns carried by Sawyer and Tatum.
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Ohio
Lawrence Sawyer
James Tatum
Fort Wayne, Ind
Richard Burchiel
Kenton Street
Emery E. Galloway
Burchiel
Sawyer
Tatum
Gun-Wielding Woman Flees with Infant in Cleveland
Nurses identify a 24 year old wife of a factory worker as the suspect who brandished a revolver and abducted a 3 week old from the Mary B. Talbert Home for unwed mothers. The baby was found nine hours later at Frances Tyes home unharmed. Tyes was questioned but not charged.
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Cleveland
Mary B. Talbert
Frances Tyes
Injuries at Speedway Fatal to 2 Mechanics
Defiance Ohio. Melvin Hawkins 48 died Thursday from injuries suffered in an accident at Taylor Speedway that also claimed Lawrence Stephen 29 Wednesday night. Both men were pit mechanics struck by a wheel thrown by a racing car.
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Ohio
Melvin Hawkins
Taylor Speedway
Lawrence Stephen
Vinton Sesquicentennial Postponed Over Polio Fears
Vinton County plans for the McArthur sesquicentennial over Labor Day weekend were postponed after four polio cases were reported, three in McArthur in the last week. New dates tentatively set for October 11 to 13 following guidance from the county health officials and state health authorities.
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D. M. Bryson
Freed Yanks Describe Red Death and Brutality After Capture
Panmunjom AP report says 144 American prisoners freed today recount brutal treatment by communists to the armistice. Other nations also released include 4 British and 2 South Africans. Some Americans witnessed mass killings and a nun's shooting. Union armistice talks note Indian troops guard prisoners.
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Panmunjom
Reuben K. Kimball Jr
Baytown
Tex
Hotel Plunge Kills Ohioan
A 17 year old from Defiance Ohio James Doody vacationing in Chicago fell from a 10th floor YMCA Hotel room. He died from head injuries. friend Paul Layman 18 also of Defiance slept through the incident and cannot recall entering the room. Doody played high school football and had a Toledo football scholarship pending.
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Defiance
Ohio
YMCA
James Doody
Paul Layman
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Layman
University of Toledo
Noted Swindle Suspect Extradited From Oklahoma
Oklahoma City officers returned to Oklahoma with 37 year old F C Swindell charged in a $180 swindle of an Oklahoma City automobile firm. The report places the man in Wichita Falls Texas and notes the interstate transfer.
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Tex
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
F .C. Swindell
Gallipolis Best Known Citizen James Thomas Dies at 99
Gallipolis veteran James Thomas, 99, longtime pudier and native of South Wales, died at his son Dr H B Thomas’s Holcomb Hill home. Born December 20 1853 in Tamby Pembrokeshire he lived in Gallipolis since 1947. He witnessed ship Great Eastern and Garfield’s assassination year, naturalized at 33, worked in tin mills and sheet metal plants, and served as a watchman before his death.
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James Thomas
H. B. Thomas
Holcomb Hill
Mr. Thomas
South Wales
James
Sajs
Anne James Thomas
SECA
Tamby
Pembrokeshire
Sais
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Atlantic
America
James Abram Garfield
Niles
Ohio
Pentagon issues last Korean casualty list
The Pentagon released casualty list No. 889 for Korea noting 142 277 Americans killed wounded or missing since the war began. The department cites identification progress and continued checks months after armistice talks as it closes a costly foreign war.
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USIA Slashes Global Operations Dismissing 2000 Employees
The United States Information Agency says it will cut global operations and fire over 2000 staff due to reduced appropriations. Voice of America and overseas libraries will be affected as programs are pruned to essential overseas activities. Theodore C. Streibert, director, notes total funding this year is 75 million dollars, down from 106 million the previous year.
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United States Information Agency
USIA
Voice of America
Theodore C. Streibert
The
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Mother Accused Of Murder Attempt In Gas Venting Case
In Los Angeles a two year old's mother Mrs Voneie Baggett is charged with attempted murder of her six children ages 1 to 9 by turning on gas in the family home. Police say the children were found unharmed. Her husband William Baggett, 30, is jailed on an abduction accusation.
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Los Angeles
Voneie Baggett
William FE. Baggett
Repatriated Ohio POWs Ship Docking Change
The Navy announced the transport Gen. W. F. Hase carrying Ohio repatriated prisoners of war will dock in San Francisco Saturday at 5 30 p m EST instead of morning. Sgt Rudolph A Pavlik of near Enterprise is among the returning soldiers published by the Army.
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Navy
W. F. Hase
Ohio
Rudolph A. Pavlik
Near Enterprise
Army
Three more file estate claim in Kelly case in Ohio
Columbus Ohio Frank H Kearns Franklin County prosecutor says he will ask Judge Leland Rutherford to summon three more claimants who allege to be half siblings of Dennis R Kelly. Kelly died in an Army camp February 12 as the estate press continues.
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Ohio
Dennis R. Kelly
Frank H. Kearns
Franklin County
Leland R. Rutherford
Keily
Rutherford
Rose Sigler McGhiey
Springfield
Dempsey's Daughter to Wed Loyola Student
Joan Hannah Dempsey, 19, will marry Dennis O Flaherty, 21, a Loyola University student, in Our Lady of Loretta Church Los Angeles. They obtained a marriage license and will wed Saturday with the groom's uncle Monsignor O Flaherty officiating.
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Santa Monica
Cailif
Jack Dempsey
Joan Hannah Dempsey
Dennis O'Flaherty
Loyola University
Our Lady of Loretta Church
Los Angeles
Monsignor O'Flaherty
India avoids UN defeat by withdrawing from Korean peace talk
India pulled out as a possible participant in the Korean peace conference amid a 60 nation General Assembly vote. V. K. Krishna Menon said peace aims are better served by not forcing a resolution, prompting applause from U S and opponents while the Soviets remained silent. The assembly later moved to adopt an American sponsored plan for a conference including 16 UN troop supplying nations and possibly North Korea and Communist China if Moscow desires.
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India
UN General Assembly
V. K. Krishna Menon
Menon
United States
U. 8 S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Andrei Y ¥. Vishinsky
New Zealand
Leslie Knox Munro
Politcial Committee
S0 Nation
Rubber Wage Accord Near Firestone Strike End
Negotiators near a settlement resuming talks to end the CIO United Rubber workers strike at Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. The latest offer reportedly includes an 8 percent hourly increase with direct wage boosts and fringe benefits, while the union’s demand was lowered from 13 to 11 cents per hour. About 25,500 workers across eight cities are idle in the second day of the strike with average wages around $2.05 per hour.
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Cleveland
CIO
United Rubber Workers
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone
Cycle Rider Killed in Delaware Ohio
Junior Farr Baldwin aged 17 died when his motorcycle rider was thrown from the machine in Delaware Ohio. Authorities investigated the fatal accident and extended condolences to his family and friends.
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Delaware
Ohio
Junior Farr Baldwin
Stubborn Bargaining Delays Franco U S Aid Agreement
Washington reports ongoing talks between the United States and Franco Spain over a three pact framework for economic and military aid and U S use of Spanish bases. Bases discussed include Barajas Madrid Barcelona Seville Cartagena Cadiz and El Ferrol with Spain retaining ownership. Maj Gen August Kissner leads the U S negotiation team and secrecy surrounds the process.
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United States
Generalissimo Franco
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U.S
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U. S
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