Floods Recede in Ohio as Mop Up Begins in Fremont
Flood waters along the Sandusky River retreat toward banks in Fremont while Newark faces water supply disruption after a Licking River dam breach. Gov DiSalle visits Newark to offer aid as flood toll stands at three. emergency declarations lift in Findlay and surrounding towns.
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Associated Press
Sandusky
Fremont
Ohio
Newark
Licking River
Michael V. DiSalle
Warren
Findlay
van Wert
Paulding
Ottawa
Girl Slumbers After Nine Day Wakeathon Wins Job
Pocatello Idaho Jo Warner 22 kept awake nine days 202 hours 29 minutes 40 seconds in a music store window to win a regular radio job for KYTF The stunt supported March of Dimes and led to her engagement with Benny Farah 21 an announcer at the same station They plan to wed Saturday doctors found no ill effects after she finally slept
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Pocatella
Idaho
Jo Warner
KYTF
March of Dimes
Benny Farah
Farah
Child Dies in Aspiring Poisoning Case in Maumee Valley
Fifteen month old Roberta Grohowski died after ingesting about 30 aspirin tablets from a bottle on a mantle at home. Coroner Paul Hohly investigated the case, noting the child was daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Grohowski Jr and died Wednesday night at Maumee Valley Hospital.
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Toledo —i
Roberta Grohowski
Maumee Valley Hospital
Paul Hohly
Robert Grohowski Jr
Bank Robbery Strikes Bond Hill Branch in Cincinnati
Cincinnati saw its first bank robbery in three years on Wednesday when a nervous gunman robbed employees at the Bond Hill branch of Fifth Third Union Trust Co. and escaped with 2254 in cash.
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Cincinnati
Bond Hill
Fifth Third Union Trust Co
Peru Struck as Wabash River Flood Surges
Peru Indiana faced its worst flood in memory as the Wabash River breached floodwalls and forced about a thousand families to flee. Gov Handley declared a regional disaster and asked Eisenhower to designate it a disaster area while state police National Guard and Air Force Base personnel aided evacuations with no reported casualties.
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Peru
Ind
Harold W. Handley
Indiana
Eisenhower
Bunker Hills Air Force Base
Freak Accident Fatal To Building Inspector
Charles Mahl aged 79 city building inspector died at St Mary Hospital Huntington after a steel beam fell striking a temporary fence and pinning him against a parking meter during construction work in Ironton on February 4. Mahl succumbed early today in the West Virginia hospital.
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Ironton
Charles Mahl
St. Mary Hospital
Huntington
W. Va
Mahl
Auto Champion Killed at Daytona Speedway Crash
Marshall Teague, 37, former national stock car racing champion, was killed Wednesday during a speed run at the Daytona Beach Speedway in Florida. The incident marks a fatal crash involving a prominent racer at the new facility.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Marshall Teague
Daytona Beach Speedway
James L. Tinker Forgetful About Service Station
Kansas City police report James L. Tinker said his car stalled during a February 2 storm and he left it at a service station. He now cannot recall the station's location.
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Kansas City
James L. Tinker
Tinker
Potomac Derails: None Dead
A Washington to New York passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad derailed about 10 miles east of Baltimore at 7 43 a m. Roughly 300 passengers were aboard with no fatalities but six with serious injuries and two other hospitalizations.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore County
Potomac
Washington
Wilmington
Del
Race Study Is Guarded
A 40 member Virginia commission met behind closed doors for nearly five hours as it prepares a new plan to curb public school integration. Gov. Lindsay Almond and Atty. Gen. Albertis Harrison were questioned on strategies to contain race mixing after resistance laws were struck down by courts.
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Richmond
Virginia
Commission On Education
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Eisenhower Leads Lincoln Tribute On Lincoln 150th
The nation marks Abraham Lincoln's 150th birth anniversary with ceremonies led by President Eisenhower. Carl Sandburg and Fredric March participate in a Congress address and Gettysburg Address reading. Hoover and Truman send letters to the event. A Springfield Wisconsin observance features Mayor Willy Brandt speaking near Lincoln’s anti slavery landmark.
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Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Carl Sandburg
Fredric March
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman
Lincoln Group
District of Columbia
Richard S. M. Emrich
Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Springfield
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Ike
White House
Brandt
U.S
Free Berlin
Emergency Clause Out As SUB Bill Is Passed
Ohio Senate passes the supplemental unemployment benefits SUB measure as a regular bill 24 to 9, denying an emergency clause needed to avert a referendum. Only Sen. Ross Pepple supports an emergency clause amid talks the House may reinsert it, with Sen. Charles Mosher possible to aid.
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Columbus
Senate
Ohio
House
Ross Pepple
Lima
Charles A. Mosher
R-Lorain
Republicans Eye Chicago or Philadelphia for 1960 Convention
Washington reports that Chicago and Philadelphia lead as possible sites for the 1960 Republican national convention with a late July or early August date under consideration. No final decision expected before April as bids are reviewed and tours completed.
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Washington
Chicago
Philadelphia
National Committee
Democratic Committee
Los Angeles
Senate Probe Seeks Crime Secrets From Apalachin Meeting
The Senate Labor Management Committee plans to reveal testimony tying the 1957 Apalachin crime convention to efforts by gangsters and corrupt labor leaders to seize the coin machine industry. Lt. James Mooney of the NYPD will testify, marking the first public disclosure of police findings about the gathering of 58 leaders and racketeers.
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Washington
Senate Labor Management Committee
Apalachin
N. Y
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
James Mooney
New York City
Engineer Dies in Virginia Beach World-Renowned Dr. Hardy Cross
Dr. Hardy Cross, 74, renowned in structural engineering, died Wednesday in Virginia Beach after a brief illness. He contributed foundational methods for structural analysis and shaped modern engineering.
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Virginia Beach Va
Hardy Cross
U S Steel to Recall 400 at Lorain Tube Plant
Lorain Ohio workers at U S Steel Corp national tube division will be increased to 9100 with the recall of 400 employees within the next few days.
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Lorain
Ohio
U. S. Steel Corp
National Tube Division
Police Seek Twins Missing In Cleveland
Cleveland police search the east side for five year old twin sisters who left kindergarten Wednesday and have not been seen since.
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Cleveland
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Ontario
West Virginia shows cloudy skies with sleet changing to rain tonight. temperatures low in the 40s. Northeast areas expect 24 to 30 degrees, Friday mainly cloudy with light showers and warmer. Ontario forecast fair today and tonight with a low around 42. Friday cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms and a high near 49.
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West Virginia
Fair
Werner
Carborundum Contempt Charges Bring Union Action
Logan reports that Local 11-630 Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers members and officers face contempt charges after allegedly disobeying a temporary injunction amid the Carborundum strike. An affidavit by vice president J Wendell Hamm accuses members of blocking and intimidating a company truck on Route 33 near Enterprise.
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LOGAN
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Carborundum Co
Common Pleas
J. Wendell Hamm
Carborundum
Ed Hankison
Mack Wicks
Roger Burchfield
Clarence Brooks
Lee Brown
Kim Strawn
James Auer
J. Miller
George Tipton
Sammy Bolin
Herschel Anderson
Agreement On Cyprus Draws Near
London reports Britain, Greece, and Turkey pressing toward a three power accord to end British rule on Cyprus. Foreign ministers met for hours and planned another session with prime ministers to seal a constitutional move toward a Cypriot republic.
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Britain
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
East Mediterranean
Fatin Rustu Zorlu
Selwyn Lloyd
Evanghelos Averoff
Zorlu
Averoff
Zurich
Definite though Rare Disease at Tuberculosis Hospital Head Discusses Silicosis
Dr Kalbheim Waering, superintendent of the Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital, tells the Pomeroy Lions Club that acute silicosis is definite though rare. He cites five Graham Station Vanadium Corp workers hospitalized and lists victims Clyde Ferrell, Thomas McKay, Richard Jacks, Herman Michael, and Clifford Carder as cases under study.
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Kalbheim Waering
Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital
Pomeroy Lions Club
Waering
Lions
Ohio Valley
Van
Adium Corp. of America
Graham Station
W. Va
Ohio
Vanadium Corp. of America
Southeast Tuberculosis
Nelsonville
Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital
Clyde Ferrell
Pomeroy
Thomas McKay
Bashan
Richard
Junior) Jacks
Langsville
Herman Michael
Clifford Carder
Point Pleasant
Boy Hangs To Death In Game Of Cowboy
A four year old boy died in Cincinnati in a pretend game when a rope tied to a sawhorse around his neck caused hanging. The other boy, Robert Vierling, reportedly climbed on the horse and jumped, leaving one death and an accident investigation.
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Cincinnati
Gregory Bruton
Robert Vierling
Robert
Former high school star shoots salesman en route to game
The Morgan County sheriff reports Lowell Eugene Oliver, 20, McConnelsville Route 3, shot Thomas Camden Roach, 31, of South Charleston, W Va, with a .22 pistol on Ohio 377 near Sharpsburg three miles south of Chesterhill. Roach died at Marietta Memorial Hospital. Oliver confessed to firing after an argument about basketball and race. He is held in Morgan County jail without charge as prosecutors review the case.
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Stockport-Windsor
West Virginia
Athens
Ohio University- Marshall
Morgan County
Karr
Karr's
Oliver
Roach
A. H. Whitacre
Chesterhill
Fawcett-Stone
Eisenhower seeks massive IMF increase and World Bank stake
President Eisenhower urged Congress to approve a 1.575 billion dollar rise in the U.S. gold and dollar contribution to the International Monetary Fund a 50 percent hike. He also asked doubling the U S subscription to the World Bank capital from 375 million to 6 35 billion with no cash outlay for the United States. Other members would be asked to do likewise.
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Eisenhower
Congress
International Monetary Fund
United States
World Bank
Oil Pioneer Ed Prather 91 Dies After Illness
Houston Texas obituary notices report Ed Prather 91 a pioneer Texas oil operator died Wednesday after a long illness.
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Houston
Tex
Ed Prather
Texas
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