Stricken Boy Becomes Local Symbol Of Aid Efforts
A 13 year old Jimmy Wickersham, hospitalized in Columbus, inspires Trimble and nearby communities to rally support. An auction at the Trimble bus garage Friday at 6 30 p m, organized by the Trimble Two Jaycees with Lions Club backing, mobilizes items and donations to aid the family as they endure his illness and two operations.
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Jacksonville
Red Town
Trimble
Millfield
Glouster
Greens Run
James Wickersham
Jimmy
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
Marvin Wickersham
Athens-Glouster
Athens County
Wickersham
Trimble Two Jaycees
Glouster Lions
Three Die As Car Hits Steel Truck South Of Sunbury
Akron youths Glen Vincent Marsden 20 and passengers Margaret Irene DePriest 17 and Bonnie Lee Barnes 17 died when their car struck a steel laden truck on Ohio Route 3 two miles south of Sunbury. The truck driver Pearl S. Harris 33 of Columbus escaped injury.
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Delaware
Akron
Sunbury
Glen Vincent Marsden
Margaret Irene DePriest
Bonnie Lee Barnes
Highway Patrol
Ohio
Pearl S. Harris
Columbus
Adenauer Confined at Home With Influenza
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 84, was confined to his Bonn residence with a mild influenza attack. His office said he has suffered colds and flu episodes in previous winters.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Mail Opinion Asks Pardon for Chessman
Sacramento reports the volume of Gov. Edmund Brown's mail on the Caryl Chessman case favors clemency as the execution date nears. No precise count, but letters and telegrams lean toward the convict who spent 12 years on San Quentin death row. Chessman, convicted in 1948 of 17 counts including kidnapping and robbery, faces execution scheduled for Friday.
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Sacramento
Calif
Edmund Brown
San Quentin
Chessman
Los Angeles
Prosecutor Considers Public Hearing On Derailment
Lorain County Prosecutor Paul J. Mikus will confer with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio before deciding whether to seek a public hearing into the January 10 derailment of a New York Central passenger train at Wellington. A PACO inspector found brakes working, while a sheriff's report suggested brakes may have failed.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Paul J. Mikus
Public Utilities Commission of
Ohio
New York Central
Wellington
Mikus
PACO
MacArthur Improves at Lenox Hill Hospital
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 80, remains under care at Lenox Hill Hospital after entering January 29 for a prostate gland disorder. Doctors report moderate improvement and ongoing medical treatment.
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New York
Lenox Hill Hospital
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Hates Government Farmer Gives Estate to Relatives and Churches
Gallatin Missouri AP reports 90 year old John William Knight plans to divide his 160 acre farm estate among 12 nieces and nephews four churches and the Salvation Army. He has given $15000 of a $100000 bequest and expects to give away the remainder next year if he lives. He dislikes taxes and wills and says he wants his wealth to go where he wants.
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Gallatin, Mo
John William Knight
Knight
Salvation Army
Missouri
Blake Place
Eisenhower to Address Nation on TV and Radio
President Eisenhower announced plans for a nationwide TV and radio address Sunday to discuss national defense and his upcoming South American tour. He rejected any suggestion he misled the nation and pledged to deny such claims to any accuser's face, stressing America’s defense is strong, awesome, and respected abroad.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
Federal jury splits over coal mine dispute verdict
After 16 hours the federal jury could not reach a verdict in a 2.7 million suit filed by Mine Branch Coal Co of Corning Ohio against United Mine Workers. The plant shutdown in June 1953 amid contract dispute versus unsafe conditions cited by the union. The foreman said no verdict seemed possible. The company is owned by the Margiotti family of Pittsburgh.
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Washington
Federal District
United Mine Workers
Mine Branch Coal Co
Corning
Perry County
Ohio
Charles F. McLaughlin
Charles Margiotti
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Cooler Temperatures Expected Across Ohio Thursday
Overnight lows ran 10 to 20 degrees higher than Monday as southerly winds and clouds kept temps up. Early readings included Cleveland 34 Dayton 34 Cincinnati 38 Columbus 33 with a cold front bringing northwesterly winds and a chance of light rain. Daytime highs reach the 40s before colder air moves in, with scattered northern snow flurries tonight and Thursday.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Dayton
Cincinnati
Ohio
Unemployed Claims Drop In February
Columbus report shows new unemployment claims at 11,443 and continuing claims at 100,937 for the week ended Feb 13. The figures mark their lowest totals in weeks with February 13 new claims below October level and continuing claims under 101,000 for the first time since January. February year earlier had averages of 13,165 new claims and 110,080 continuing claims.
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Columbus
Ohio Bureau of
Siamese Twin Returns Home After Separation
Jeanett Stubblefield leaves Portland hospital five months after a delicate operation separated her from her Siamese twin Denett. The girls born last June were joined at the abdomen. Denett went home December 16 with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Stubblefield of Parma Idaho.
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Portland
Ore
Jeanett Stubblefield
Jeanett
Denett
Univrsity of Oregon Medical School Hospital
James Stubblefield
Parma
Idaho
Senators Defeat Delay On Missouri School Bill
Washington action saw Ohio Democrats Frank Lausche and Stephen Young back a vote to reject delaying next Tuesday's Senate consideration of the Missouri school bill used in the civil rights debate. The motion was defeated 61 to 25.
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Washington
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Stephen M. Young
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Senate
Four Major Issues Listed On Agenda
The Democratic Congress braces for a clash with President Eisenhower on four issues including a possible veto of a $900 million water pollution bill. Republicans and Democrats debate bond interest limits and postal rate hikes as a large Treasury surplus looms. Dirksen notes potential cuts to the $4.175 billion foreign aid program and signals possible compromise on the bond ceiling. Treasury officials push for easing financing costs amid political tension.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Dirksen
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
White House
House
Ways and Means Committee
Anderson
Treasury
Carole Tregoff’s ordeal on witness stand ends
Carole Tregoff endured cross examination in Los Angeles as she denied conspiring with surgeon Dr. R Bernard Finch to murder his wife Barbara Jean last July 18. She described fear and fleeing into bushes during the struggle over a gun, and the defense signaled it would call more witnesses as the case nears jury deliberation next week.
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Carole Tregoff
Bernard Finch
Los Angeles
Robert Neeb
Clifford Crail
R. Bernard Finch
Barbara Jean
Carole
Finch
West Covina
Miss Tregoff
Teen Agers Escape After Damaging Patrol Car
In Windsor Ontario two patrolmen stopped a car with three youths who looked suspicious. One youth was placed in the patrol car, the others fled. The assailant crashed the patrol car, escaping on foot. another two youths drove away. Damage to the patrol car was 500 dollars.
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Windsor
Ont
Sandwich East
Back Seat Baby Born During Snowbound Delivery
Mrs. Allen C. Kline of Carlton and her eight pound son are reported fine at City Hospital Meadville after a snowbound trip. She began the journey Tuesday and was delivered in the back seat as a homemade sled pulled by a tractor carried her to the highway where Amos Kline met her and drove her to town.
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Meadville
Allen C. Kline
Carlton
City Hospital
Foreign Aid Budget Faces Huge Cutback Debate
Congressional critics urge a billion-dollar cut in the Eisenhower foreign aid request of 4.175 billion dollars as Secretary Herter goes to the House to defend the program. Passman argues the recommendation is too high while urging more burden sharing by European allies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Christian A. Herter
Capitol Hall
Herter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Passman
House
Youngstown Boy Drowns at Central YMCA Pool
Nine year old John P. Petretich who had joined the Central YMCA two weeks earlier drowned in the pool spinning with six companions. Lifeguard Richard Bennett pulled him from the deep end and he died at a hospital. YMCA executive secretary Paul B. Davies called it the first drowning since the Y pool opened in 1890.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Central Ymca
John P. Petretich
Richard Bennett
Paul B. Davies
The
YMCA
Crazed Ford worker slashes ten at Brook Park plant
Joseph Young, 42, an industrial truck driver, ran amok at Ford’s engine plant No 2 in Brook Park. He slashed ten workers with a pocket knife before workers subdued him and he was taken to Cleveland State Hospital. Three injured remained serious or fair.
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Cleveland
Ford Motor Co
Joseph Young
Young
Cleveland State Hospital
Harry Peebles
Rocky River
Truman Sees GOP Defeat if Nixon Runs
Former President Harry S. Truman says the Republicans would lose in 1960 if Richard Nixon is their nominee. He told reporters in Miami that any Democratic candidate could beat Nixon and that he will support the eventual nominee. He was in Miami to see a play starring his daughter Margaret and to relax in Florida.
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Miami
Fla
Harry S. Truman
Richard M. Nixon
Truman
Margaret
Key West
Mystery Submarine Said To Have Escaped
Argentina's Navy secretary warned the fleet is too small to trap the elusive submarine in Golfo Nuevo. Navy sources said the sub had not been detected in the southern Argentine gulf since Sunday, strengthening belief it escaped.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Golfo Neuvo
Argentine Gulf
Racial Sit-In Violence Sparks City Wide Tensions
In Portsmouth a sit down at a white only lunch counter ended in a brief brawl as about 50 to 60 Negro students clashed with white youths. One white youth was hospitalized with a slashed face. Three Negro students were arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
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Portsmouth
Rose's Department Store
Martin Luther King
Durham
N. C
Atlanta
Carolinas
Virginia
High Point
Wegroes
Small Size Tax Stamps Appear Soon
Columbus report states that new sales tax stamps in one two and three cent categories will begin appearing in about two weeks. State Tax Commissioner Stanley J. Bowers says the changes, the first size update since 1935, arrived today and will save Ohio between 75000 and 100000 dollars annually in printing and distribution costs.
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Columbus
Stanley J. Bowers
Bowers
Postal Clerk Shoots Girl and Kills Himself
In Dallas Texas a postal clerk killed his girlfriend Sandra Booth Wilson 23 by shooting her twice in the head and then shot himself Nathaniel Wyatt died from a self inflicted gunshot. Wilson was listed in critical condition after the incident Tuesday.
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Dallas
Tex
Nathaniel Wyatt
Sandra Booth Wilson
Derailment Strikes B and O Freight Near Leavittsburg
Officials investigate a Tuesday derailment of 13 cars of a B and O freight near Leavittsburg Ohio. About 1000 feet of track torn up in the wreck en route from New Castle Pennsylvania to Willard Ohio. No injuries reported.
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Warren
Ohio
Leavittsburg
New Castle
Willard
Steel orders down in New York area by ten percent
Steel orders are about 10 percent lower than a month ago in the New York area according to Ron Age magazine.
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New York
Ron Age Magazine
Five Day Forecast for OHLO: Cold With Snow Likely
The forecast calls for below normal temperatures by 7 to 19 degrees with highs near 37 north to 42 south and lows around 21 to 25. Snow flurries are expected near Lake Erie Thursday and Friday with a broader snow chance Saturday or Sunday. total precipitation about half an inch.
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Noremal
Frida
Lake Erie
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