Rockefeller Withdrawal Roils 1960 Nomination Contest
Gov Nelson Rockefeller’s decision to drop out of the Republican race shocks both parties. Democrats debate best rival to Nixon while Republicans claim unity as they eye the Chicago convention. Top contenders cited include Kennedy Humphrey Symington Johnson Brown Stevenson.
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Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
GOP
Richard M. Nixon
Nroecidanew
Nixon
Los Angeles
John Ff. Kennedy
Mass
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn
Stuart Symington
Johnson
California
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Adlai E. Stevenson
Seven Arrested as Plant Reopens Under Court Order
Albert Lea Minnesota police say seven men entering the Wilson and Co meat packing plant were arrested for carrying firearms as the plant reopened under a federal court order. National Guardsmen guarded the site while cars with non union workers entered the grounds. Martial law was lifted at midnight following the court order.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Wilson & Co
Freeborn County
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Convict Flees Ohio Honor Camp
Lorain County man Melvin Frank Lowe 38 escapes from Zanesville honor camp in Columbus area. Sentenced June 1949 to 10 to 25 years for armed robbery. transferred from Ohio Penitentiary on October 30. Missing found during Sunday midnight check, warden reports.
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Columbus
Melvin Frank Lowe
Zanesville
Ohio
Bergler
Sacks
Lowe
Lorain County
De Gaulle Cancels Receptions After Brother's Death
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle mourning his brother Pierre who died after heart surgery in Neuilly. The 62 year old Pierre De Gaulle passed away Saturday night at the American Hospital.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Pierre
Neuilly
Train wreck injures 30 in Ceylon near Vavuniya riot site
A mail train was wrecked and derailed Sunday night in north central Ceylon as it passed through Vavuniya, injuring 30 people. Vavuniya had been the scene of rioting last year between Sinhalese and Tamil groups.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Ohio holiday weekend traffic toll lower than forecast
Ohio saw 28 deaths over a 78 hour holiday period ending Sunday including 17 highway fatalities, four fire deaths, and seven in miscellaneous incidents. Nationally 471 traffic deaths, 42 in fires, and 70 in other mishaps marked the 78 hour season.
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Ohio
Highway Safety Department
Associated Press
Inquiry Board Reopens in Steel Dispute Tally
Eisenhower’s three man inquiry board resumes talks amid rising tension in the steel crisis. Finnegan reports zero progress after Sunday negotiations between industry leaders and United Steelworkers. Morning sessions with unions and firms precede a final offer to be voted by 500000 steelworkers mid next month.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Board of
Joseph F. Finnegan
United Steelworkers
Severe Winter Storm Strands Motorists Across Midwest Path
A major winter storm swept the Midwest causing blizzard conditions from Kansas to the Dakotas and Iowa Nebraska Minnesota. Winds 30 to 50 mph and 4 to 8 inch snowfalls halted bus traffic and stalled hundreds of automobiles across Missouri Iowa Nebraska. Rain and fog plagued other regions while New England saw snow turning to rain and colder air moving east.
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Kansas
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Lincoln
Neb
Mid-Continent
Mississippi Valley
New England
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Ohio Valley
Gulf
New York
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Alabama
DiSalle Signals Uncertainty Over Attending National Dem Conclave
Ohio Governor Michael V. DiSalle said he has not decided if he will attend the Democratic national convention in Los Angeles on July 11. He refused to rule out not going, and his plans remain unsettled as he concedes a possible “favorite son” campaign with about 70 counties backing him to head Ohio’s 64 vote delegation. He plans to clarify the issue on January 6.
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Columbus
Michael V. DiSalle
Los Angeles
DiSalle
Ohio
Johansson Patterson Rematch Pact Reached in Stockholm
World heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson agreed to meet Floyd Patterson in New York next June after a conference with New York promoters led by Roy Cohn. Cohn indicated a preference for the Polo Grounds over Yankee Stadium for the rematch.
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Stockholm
Ingemar Johansson
Floyd Patterson
New York
Roy Cohn
Polo Grounds
Yankee Stadium
Four Hungarians flee border for asylum into Austria
Four Hungarians including two frontier guards escaped across the Iron Curtain to Austria for political asylum over the Christmas weekend. Austrian border police said it was the largest leakage through the Communist fortified frontier in months.
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Eisenstadt
Austria
Unseasonably Warm Ohio Weekend Ahead of Cold Front
Abnormally warm weather persisted in Ohio with Sunday highs from 57 in Canton to a record 66 in Columbus and 71 in Chesapeake. A colder air mass moves in tonight, bringing temperatures closer to normal and light showers today. Rain totals reached up to half an inch in Canton and Cincinnati, with possible lake effect snow flurries Tuesday near Lake Erie.
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Ohio
Canton
Chesapeake
Youngstown
Cincinnati
Lake Erie
Eisenhower Opens Door to May Paris Summit
President Eisenhower signaled the United States would accept a mid May summit in Paris with France and Britain. White House secretary Hagerty cited May 16 as a probable date, while stressing date dependability on consultations. A telephone session with Secretary Herter led to the decision.
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Eisenhower
Paris
United States
White House
James C. Hagerty
France
Britain
Christian A. Herter
Washington
Herter
Defense
Thomas S. Gates Jr
John A. MecCone
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Hagerty
International and Defense Field
Subway Strike Threatens New York City Transit
Four thousand transportation workers authorized a strike to halt all subways and buses in New York City the moment the new year begins. The Transport Workers Union members met at the Manhattan Center and unanimously endorsed the action amid Times Square New Year crowds.
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New York
Times Square
Transport Workers Union
Manhattan Center
Lodge rules out 1960 bid after Rockefeller decision
United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge tells a reporter he will not be a candidate for any elective office in 1960. The statement follows New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's decision not to seek the Republican presidential nomination.
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Beverly
Mass
United Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Five Day Forecast for Ohlo Area
Forecast calls for near normal temperatures with highs around 35 north 30 south and lows 21 to 23. Expect a cooler Tuesday and persistent cool through Saturday with minimal daily changes. Precipitation remains limited to about a half inch near the Erie region.
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Ohlo
e@ krie
Tugboat Blast Threatens Crescent City Harbor
A tug boat exploded beside a barge carrying 800,000 gallons of gasoline near Crescent City California. One man is missing presumed dead another burned four people fell into the bay and the town was evacuated as the blast shook the waterfront and was felt miles away.
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Crescent City
Crack Train Hit By Massive Earth Slides
SEATTLE Wash Two massive earth slides in 20 minutes pushed part of a crack 13 car passenger train into Puget Sound north of Seattle Sunday. Ten injured six crew none serious. Empire Builder bound for Chicago with 188 aboard derailed four unit diesel loco and later slides carried diesel units baggage mail car into the Sound. Mail dormitory left teetering on a seawall. Six other cars derailed but upright. About 700 feet of track buried 15 feet deep 650 feet ripped up. Immediate damage estimate unavailable.
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Seattle
Wash
Puget Sound
Here
Great Northern Railway
Empire Builder
Chicago
Bishop Newbigin Links Family Planning to Global Change
Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, secretary of the International Missionary Council, urged that family planning and resource distribution be viewed together within life planning. He warned that new nationalism and a shifting world order will shape the church’s mission and the neutral stance of the church amid Cold War pressures. The talk appeared at the 18th Ecumenical Student Conference at Ohio University.
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Lesslie Newbigin
International Missionary Council
Ohio University
Newbigin
India
China
Nine Prisoners Set for Charges in Columbus Workhouse Riot
In Columbus, nine inmates from a second floor dormitory face possible charges after a Saturday riot at the Columbus Workhouse. The disturbance lasted about an hour, during which a guard was beaten and hostages taken as inmates burned mattresses and threw objects down stairs. Police used tear gas to regain control.
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Columbus
George White
Paul Blackburn
Blackburn
Carl Bover
Here
Ohio 104
Logan weekend spate of six burglaries alarms police
Logan police investigated six break ins over the weekend. At John’s Bar and Grill on E Front St entry came through a split front door with a juke box and a cigarette machine opened. losses were undetermined. At Inboden’s Marathon Station on E Main St entry used a ladder. loss undetermined. A trailer residence on E Hunter St reported cash stolen. A New Bethlehem Pa. mobile registration card theft occurred Sunday. A car on Route 3 at Green Gables lost left rear wheel. Bargain Store on E Main St had a rear door pried and glass broken, entry not completed.
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Front St
Inboden
Marathon Station
E. Main St
Bob Beck
E. Hunter St
Henry Daug
New Bethlehem
Jerry Lehman
Logan Route 3
Green Gables
National Limited Wrecked Early Sunday in West Virginia
Wreckage cleaned up after the eastbound National Limited of the Baltimore and Ohio derailed early Sunday 17 miles east of Grafton West Virginia. Eight people were injured none seriously when eight of fourteen passenger cars and five diesel units left the track after a broken rail.
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Grafton
National Limited
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Critics name Hepburn and Stewart top stars of 1959
Film Daily polled critics who named Audrey Hepburn for The Nun's Story and James Stewart for Anatomy of a Murder as the year's top actors.
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New York
Andrey Hepburn
James Stewart
Film Daily
Miss Hepburn
Stewart
Confession Ties Man to Christmas Eve Slaying in Paine
Floyd E. Hargrove admitted Sunday night that he fired the fatal shot through a kitchen window killing Charles R. Clark, husband of the woman Hargrove loved. Clark was a 35 year old design engineer and Boy Scout leader. Lois Clark, 30, admits an affair with Hargrove and several others. Mrs. Clark may be polygraphed if medically allowed. Prosecutor Ostrander said Hargrove is held as a material witness.
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Painesville
Floyd E
Gene) Hargrove
Edward R. Ostrander
Lake County
Hargrove
Charles R. Clark
Navy
Unrest Sweeps Southern Iraq
Reports from TEHRAN indicate unrest spreading through southern Iraq with speculation Premier Abdel Karim Kassem could deploy troops to quell a revolt rather than threaten Iran. Basra traders say opposition grows as tribesmen arm farmers and civilians for possible uprising.
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Tehran
Iran
Iraq
Abdel Karim Kassem
Basra
Kassem
Aiken stock rises in Vermont after Rockefeller withdrawal
In Montpelier Vermont the vice presidential prospects of U S Senator George D Aiken rose sharply as New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller withdrew from the race for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.
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Montpelier
U.S
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
Vermont
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Lexington Priests Ordained Celebrate Mass in Lourdes
Lourdes, France. David and Patrick Sorohan of New Lexington Ohio joined a group of young American Catholic priests ordained last week at the American College in Rome. They celebrated Mass together in Lourdes this Sunday.
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Lourdes
France
David and
Patrick Sorohan
New Lexington
Ohio
American College
Rome
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