Congress To Convene Tuesday Amid Urgency
Congress prepares to reconveneTuesday with a sense of urgency driven by Sputnik and rising defense and foreign aid debates. The opening week will feature more than 40 committee hearings on missiles defense budgets and science education while questions of presidential disability gain attention.
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Gavin’s One Man Revolt Triggers Army Shakeup Calls
Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin, chief of the Army’s research program, declares he will retire March 31 at 51 with 30 years service. He criticizes the Joint Chiefs of Staff system and urges civilian planning group reform, while Congress weighs changes and a probe into threats of transfer follows his testimony.
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Ohio State astronomer links fireball to Sputnik fragment
Dr. John D. Kraus of Ohio State University says a fiery fireball seen over central Ohio at 5 55 a m might be a fragment from Sputnik I. The meteor traversed from north to east for 17 seconds just as Russia’s satellite was due to pass overhead.
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Subcommittee Probes Nuclear Submarine Missile Threat
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson reports the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee is examining the risk posed by missile firing submarines. Rear Adm. Hyman Rickover testifies in a closed session as Allen Dulles warns of Soviet submarines. Sen. Jackson presses for a bold Navy program to build at least 100 missilesubs per year.
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Eight People Killed In Ohio Traffic Accidents
The first weekend of the new year saw 15 deaths in Ohio from accidental causes. Eight were traffic fatalities, with other deaths including two boys who drowned on Sandusky Bay, two young sisters in a Toledo area home fire, a mother and son from carbon monoxide exposure in Cincinnati, and a woman burned by a dress fire.
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Explosion Ravages City Block in Madison Wisconsin
A string of underground natural gas explosions near Capital Square destroyed a large city block and damaged an auto body shop front. A middle aged couple died as their house exploded. Fire officials estimated up to a million dollars in damage with over 40 blocks sealed off during a 15 hour containment effort.
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Theron A. Brown
Madison Gas and Electric Co
Hoffa Retrial Begins Today in Wiretap Case
In New York, the Hoffa retrial resumes on federal court dockets with James R. Hoffa, Bernard Brennan, and Bernard Spindel charged in a Detroit wiretap conspiracy. The first trial ended in a jury deadlock on December 20. Brennan leads Teamsters Local 337 in Detroit and Spindel is a professional wiretapper.
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Detroit
Bernard Brennan
Teamsters Local 337
Bernard Spindel
Ten Ohio Schools To Share in DuPont Aid
DuPont funds will reach 10 Ohio colleges and universities as part of its annual education aid program. Across the nation 135 schools receive nearly 1 150 000 dollars. Ohio State Western Reserve Wooster Antioch Case Tech Kenyon Marietta Mount Union Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan are listed recipients.
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DuPont
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Antioch
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Marietta
Mount Union
Oberlin
Ohio Wesleyan
Cleveland woman’s 600 mile drive saves four relatives
Elva Martin 24 of Cleveland rushed to Hampton Virginia after a hunch and found her mother, sister, nephew, and sister’s mother-in-law near death from carbon monoxide poisoning. Firemen revived them with oxygen before hospital transport. Charles Bill Jr and Fay reported weeks of dizziness prompting the call.
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Cleveland
Elva Martin
Martin
Charles Bill, Jr
Fay
Charles Bill, Sr
Connersville
Emma Hegner
Bill
Charles
Camera captures dogs misdeeds in Boise
Idaho Humane Society uses a new camera to photograph dogs at large. Boise enforces an ordinance requiring dogs on property or a fine up to 15 dollars. Fines are paid after a Rover photo surfaces, and disputes may send the dog, owner, and photos to court.
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Eight Alleged Communists Go on Trial in Cleveland
Eight defendants, including Marie Reed Haug and her husband Fred, face trial in U S District Court on conspiracy to violate the Taft Hartley act. The case centers on allegedly filing non Communist affidavits with the NLRB in 1951 and 1952. Also charged are six others for persuading people to submit false affidavits.
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Volwiler Named 1958 Priestley Medal Recipient
New York The American Chemical Society named Dr. Ernest H. Volwiler of Abbott Laboratories North Chicago Illinois as the 1958 Priestley medalist for distinguished service to chemistry. Presentation will occur at the Society meeting in San Francisco this April. Volwiler, Highland Park Illinois resident and brother of the late Ohio University historian A T Volwiler, attended his funeral in Athens on June 28 last year.
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Hamilton
Ohio
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Highland Park, Ill
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Ohio University
Athens
Murder Charge Filed As Kentuckian Dies
A fight at a Kenna service station near Ripley left Hersel Clifton Skeens of Kentucky dead after he fell and struck his head. William J. Miller of Kenna, 27, is jailed in Ripley on a murder charge awaiting a Monday hearing, according to State Trooper H. M. Starbuck.
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H. M. Starbuck
Hersel Clifton Skeens
Kentucky
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Ohio WAC death prompts inquiry at Fort Jackson
The War Department announces Private First Class Jeanette Werk twenty nine died by hanging in a WAC barracks rest room near Fort Jackson. Her Elyria Ohio home is listed as her residence and the incident occurred late Saturday or early Sunday.
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Elyria
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WAC
Cigarette blamed for $40,000 fire at Riley Co. store
A carelessly discarded cigarette caused a fire at the Riley Co. branch store in Cleveland Sunday night inflicting an estimated $40,000 in damages. Fire crews fought the blaze, with investigators tracing the origin to the discarded cigarette.
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Rains Threaten Homeless as Evacuations Increase
Continuing rain and flooding threaten the homeless in south Texas with 1800 evacuated as the Rio Grande valley around Alamo faces crest delays. Snow blankets western Texas and New Mexico with up to 20 inches, leaving hundreds of motorists stranded from Odessa to Marfa.
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Painter Suffers Loss In Early Year Fire On Mill Street
Middleport reports its first property fire of the year in the Sunbury estate rear rooms of a building on Mill Street. Painter F. M. Conne, 76, smelled smoke and found two rooms ablaze, destroying most clothes and several paintings. Turpentine blamed. Byer Barber shop and an apartment nearby slightly damaged. Conne saved two paintings including a Wright brothers commission example. Insurance policy had just expired. Conne has been in town six months.
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Reverend Garshaw resigns to lead Newark church
The Rev. Joseph A. Garshaw, pastor of Central Christian Church in Huntington, announced his resignation on Sunday to take the pastorate at Central Church of Christ in Newark, Ohio.
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Ohio
Directors Elected at International Academy Meeting
Phoenix Arizona Sunday saw seven directors elected for three year terms at the International Academy of Trial Lawyers annual meeting Craig Spangenberg of Cleveland Ohio was among the new directors.
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Craig Spangenberg
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Airmen Fly Across Antarctica in Single-Engine Plane
Four British airmen completed a historic flight across Antarctica in a single-engine plane. They traveled 1600 miles from a British base near the Weddell Sea to Scott Base on the opposite side, marking a notable Arctic era aviation feat in New Zealand.
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Flexibility Sought in U S Disarmament Policy
The National Security Council was to consider Harold E. Stassen proposals to loosen U S insistence on parallel limits. The key idea would drop a testing halt condition tied to stopping nuclear weapons production, a move opposed by Dulles and AEC chief Strauss.
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Ohio BUC Opens Makeshift Office After Fire
Cincinnati reports the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation will open a temporary office today after a blaze destroyed the former headquarters and its records. About 3000 recent claimants lack files and must re apply.
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Rockefeller Panel Calls for Major Defense Overhaul and Billions
A Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel argues the United States falls behind in missile age readiness and urges about three billion dollars more in annual defense spending for several years. It calls for unified commands and officers serving under the armed forces rather than a single service, plus NATO nuclear provisions and expanded strategic capabilities to deter Soviet advances.
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Ike Returns To Meet With NSC
President Eisenhower returned to Washington to confer with the National Security Council on East West relations. He drove 85 miles from Gettysburg in under two hours, interrupting a Gettysburg holiday to prepare for Congress. He invited Republican leaders for a Tuesday morning briefing ahead of the new session. He spent his final farm day with four grandchildren.
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Hartford Shop Hit by Fire
A pool room and barber shop in Hartford were gutted by an early morning fire. Owners Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grimm were away in Ohio. their son Eugene Rayburn ran the operation. Fire units from Mason New Haven and Pomeroy aided in control.
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Tiffen
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Former Toledo Mayor and Judge John Carey Dies at 52
Common Pleas Judge John Q. Carey died at his home after a brief illness. A former mayor of Toledo and a former Democratic state representative, he was a Notre Dame graduate.
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Common Pleas
John Q. Carey
Notre Dame University
Princess Margaret Falls Ill For Princess Alexandra’s Birthday
Princess Margaret was taken ill with a heavy cold in London today and cancelled her attendance at her cousin Princess Alexandra’s 21st birthday party.
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Hillary Arrives By Plane to Aid Pole Crossing
Sir Edmund Hillary lands at McMurdo Sound after a 1200 mile flight in under a day. He heads to Scott base to join Dr Vivian Fuchs and a 12 man British party edging toward the pole as the first overland crossing since Scott's 1911-12 expedition.
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