Ohio Valley Storm Lashes Region With Heavy Rain and Losses
A long storm system dumped up to 4.33 inches of rain in less than 12 hours at Point Pleasant and caused widespread damage across Mason County and central Ohio. Flooding forced road closures, toppled trees, and knocked out power as churches, homes, and a brick plant suffered damage and two lives were lost to lightning.
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Hocking
Northwest
U. S. Weather Bureau
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Weath
E. R. McCormick
Ohio River
Athens
Mason County
Country Club
J. C. Pauley
West Columbia
Amesville
Federal Creek
State Department of Highways
Nelsonville
Logan
Hocking County
Middleport
Glouster
Shawnee
Perry County
Claycraft Brick Co
Columbus
Edward Cathrone
Scioto
Daisy Wilson
Crooked Tree
Noble County
Millard Mincks
Macksburg
Washington County
Wilson
Howard
Wilmington
Lebanon
Findlay
Zanesville
Ex-Senator Blair Moody of Michigan Dies at 52
Former U S Senator Blair Moody died at University Hospital at age 52 after battling virus pneumonia. Moody had been campaigning in Michigan for the Democratic nomination to succeed Homer Ferguson and was reported recovering hours before his death.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
U. S
Blair Moody
University Hospital
Washington
Moody
Homer Ferguson
Patrick V. McNamara
Detroit
Ferguson
Hancock
Upper Peninsula
Cyrus C. Sturgis
Department of
Internal Medicine
Connell Viewed Likely Confirmed as Federal Judge
An aide predicted James C. Connell of Cleveland would win Senate confirmation as Federal District Judge for Northern Ohio. A Judiciary Committee hearing was postponed due to a quorum shortfall, with a new meeting hoped for later this week or possibly next Monday.
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Washington
James C. Connell
Cleveland
Ohio
Bricker
Senate Judiciary Committee
Court Finds Man Not in Violation Over Parking Meter
In Albany New York John J Bylancik was cited for overtime parking after his meter vanished and later found defective. A patrolman recorded a red meter reading and issued a ticket, but meter repair workers later overhauled the unit and the judge revoked the ticket.
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Albany
N. Y
John J. Bylancik
Man dies in garage accident after wife touches gas pedal
Marion Ohio police report Gaines L Rush 71 was crushed to death when his wife inadvertently pressed the car gas pedal causing him to be pinned against the garage wall last night.
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Marion
Ohio
Gaines L. Rush
Ex Mayor Glenn B. Haller Dies At 62
Ashland obituary reports former mayor Glenn B. Haller age 62 who served from 1942 to 1948 died Tuesday.
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Ashland
Glenn B.haller
Dems Seek Voice in Naming Cohn Successor on Senate Panel
Washington AP Senator Jackson says Democrats will push to have a say in choosing a new chief counsel for the Senate investigating subcommittee after Roy M. Cohn's resignation. Chairman McCarthy accepted Cohn’s departure with reluctance and moved aide Donald Surine to his payroll, while staff confirmations were approved for 22 members but blocked for Thomas Lavenia awaiting security clearance.
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Washington
Jackson
D-Wash
Roy M. Cohn
Senate
McCarthy
R-Wise
Cohn
Donald A. Surine
Subcommittee
Potter
R-Mich
Secret Service
Thomas Lavenia
Surine
Lavenia
Defense Department
Senate Finance Committee approves social security bill
The Senate Finance Committee backed a social security bill to cover seven million more Americans with higher benefits and taxes. It preserves a minimum $5 monthly rise for five million current retirees and future retirees, while future formulas could yield up to $35 more monthly. Wages subject to tax would rise to $4200 annually effective January 1, 1955, from $3600.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Milligan
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Private Power Test Opens Amid TVA Debate
Senators prepared to gauge opposition to a new private power source in the Tennessee Valley while an informal agreement aimed to limit debate on the linked atomic energy law. Republican Leader Knowland recessed the Senate after a long session and anticipated a vote today on whether the Atomic Energy Commission may negotiate with a private firm for power it will not itself use.
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Washington
Tennessee
Knowland
California
Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
War's End Seen as Red Triumph
Washington reports indicate a negotiated end to the Indochina war is viewed as a communist victory and a defeat for the free world. It would halt a billion dollar annual U S drain while forcing new burdens to shore up non communist Southeast Asia and delay talks on a collective defense.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Indochina
Free World
Southeast Asia
U. S
United States
Britain
Williams accuses Truman appointee of underworld ties
Senator Williams alleges Franklin Lamb of New York was placed in a key ODM role in 1951 solely on Maj. Gen. Vaughan's word without an FBI background check. Lamb allegedly had access to sensitive material on critical allocations and price control plans affecting wartime markets.
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Washington
Williams
Del
Senate Today
Lamb
Musician Alfred Goetz Dies After Studio Fall
WTAM staff musician Alfred Goetz aged 42 collapsed after finishing a tuba solo in the Cleveland studio. He was rushed to Charity Hospital where he was pronounced dead. His final piece was Grandfather's Clock, a tune whose words reflect a clock stopping at a grandfather’s death.
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Cleveland
WTAM
Alfred Goetz
Charity Hospital
Dayton business leader dies at 74
Dayton Ohio February 4 H F Cappel 74 president of the Kappel Furniture Co died Tuesday in Dayton. The funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Dayton
H F. Cappel
The
Kappel Furniture Co
Stowaway Heifer Appears Aboard Shipbound Cattle Shipment
A white heifer found in the hold of an ocean freighter is declared a stowaway and returned ashore. The animal was among 62 cattle including Guernseys Jerseys and Holsteins shipped to southwestern Germany for refugees by Heifer Project Inc. Pastor Harold C. Hollinger of Redding Pennsylvania accompanies the gift cattle mission to Europe.
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New York
Harold C. Hollinger
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Redding
Europe
Germany
Tron Curtain
Heifer Project, Inc
Church Fight Enters Court Writ Issued
The Defiance county common pleas court heard a writ of prohibition to block a church parsonage eviction in St. Pauls Methodist. Judge Mullholland granted a temporary writ and set July 30 to show cause, while he considers reassigning the case to avoid church-board ties.
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Defiance
Ohio
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Defiance County Common Pleas Court
Joseph C. Richards
H. B. Mullholland
Justice of the Peace
C. J
Louys
Mullholland
Church Board
Carl V. Weygandt
Ohio Supreme Court
Peace Pact Ends Indochina War and Draws Iron Curtain
France, Vietminh leaders sign armistice ending eight year war in Indochina and partition Vietnam at roughly the 17th parallel. A cease-fire for regular forces sets in within a week, with 10 million north voters under Ho Chi Minh while Bao Dai leads the south. Cambodia and Laos remain under French-backed rule. Civilians may move within a year. the French hold Hanoi Haiphong enclave for 500 days.
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France
Indochina
North
Vietnam
Georges Delteil
Ta Quang Buu
Laos
Mendes-France
Cambodia
League of Nations
French Union Expeditionary Corps
Ho Chi Minh
Bao Dai
Germany
Korea
Hanoi
Haiphong
Red River
Mental Patient Suspected In Slaying of Teenager
Joliet Illinois sheriff deputies arrest 40 year old Anthony John Stefanich a mental hospital inmate on murder charges in the slaying of 18 year old Donna Bogart found shot in an abandoned car north of the city. Stefanich had been discharged from Manitena and Elgin state hospitals for tests and is sought for questioning.
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Joliet
Donna Bogart
Roy Doerfler
Anthony John Stefanich
Stefanich
Willard Blood
Bogart
Carol Bishop
Manleno State Hospital
Elgin State Hospital
Miss Bogart
Post Orchard
Wash
Wildcat Strike Ends at Oak Ridge Atomic Plants
A nine day wildcat walkout by AFL Laborers Union 18 ended Tuesday at Oak Ridge Tennessee. About 1 000 workers returned to night duties from two plants after picket lines were withdrawn at 2 p m EST. The strike began July 12 with 2 000 laborers stopping work over a 15 cent wage demand above a 1 40 hourly rate.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
AFL Laborers Union #18
AFL
Eisenhower backs TVA amid Senate debate on private power
President Eisenhower dismisses claims he aims to destroy the Tennessee Valley Authority. He defended TVA during a news conference tied to Geneva Indochina talks, noting no intention to risk all-out war with the free world and addressing a proposal for a private Tennessee Valley power source.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Senate
Tennessee Valley
Indochina
Geneva
Free World
Korea recovery aid faces Korean and U S friction
Seoul report details U S effort to spend a billion dollars to rebuild Korea after the three year war. Clinton Wood leads the FDA program but faces opposition from Koreans and government officials who want direct control, distrust American waste, and demand joint oversight with Paik Too Chin.
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Ust
Wood
Japan
Ohioan's Body Found in Field near Mata ga
The body of Orville A. Millhoan, 73, of near Beallaville, was found on Elisia Wells farm near Mata ga at 1 45 p m Tuesday by Wells while combining grain. He was last seen alive the previous Tuesday. Decomposition hindered identification until Helen Barnes recognized his clothing. Autopsy ordered by Monroe county coroner Dr Edwin Webster. Sheriff Sulsberger said no suspicious circumstances.
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Woodsfield
Orville A. Millhoan
Beallaville
Elisia Wells
Mataga
Wells
Francis Sulsberger
Millhoan
Helen Barnes
Milihean
Edwin Webster
Monroe County
Sulsberger
Two Women Murderers Paroled After 10 Years
Columbus report states Dorothy Fields 29 of Hamilton county and Emma Ayles 33 of Butler county will be paroled after ten years served for second degree murder from the Ohio reformatory for women at Marysville. The Ohio pardon and parole commission announced on Tuesday.
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Columbus
Southern Ohio
Ohio Reformatory For Women
Marysville
Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission
Dorothy Fields
Hamilton County
Emma Ayles
Butler County
Auditor Blames Delay in Townships Road Funds
State Auditor James A. Rhodes criticizes the hold up in distributing 2.5 million dollars to townships for road work under the Wheeler law. He says certification from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles is late, delaying checks to townships as officials question the delay.
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James A Rhodes
State Highway Department
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Lausche
Highway Department
Rhodes
Haile Selassie Visits Tito in Yugoslavia
Thousands of flag waving Yugoslavs greet Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in Belgrade on his arrival from Nice for a seven day visit. Marshal Tito welcomes the first non Communist head of state to visit since World War I.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Agoslave
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Marshal Tito
Selassie
Nice
France
Randell Harriott Elected Ohio Region BVA Chairman
Randall Herriott was elected chairman of the Ohio Region of the Blind Veterans Association at the annual organization meeting held here. Other officers named were Carl Mock Logan chairman and Robert Oberhouse Pemberville secretary treasurer.
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Delaware
Randall Herriott
Ohio
the Blinded Veterans Association
Carl Mock
Logan
Robert Oberhouse
Pemberville
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