Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program Reported Under Way
Washington says the Air Force has a real firm program for ICBM development. Lt. Gen. Donald L. Putt testified to a Senate panel that funding has been cut in recent years, while warning the USSR could overtake the United States in quality and numbers. He noted over a billion dollars earmarked since 1954 and stressed a realistic yet urgent schedule amid competitive advances.
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Steel Leaders Granted Powers To Call Strike
United Steelworkers of America gain power to call a nationwide strike if no new contract by June 30. Wage policy committee authorized the strike threat amid stalled talks with major firms including U S Steel Bethlehem and Republic. President David J McDonald called the Big Three offers bank and Inland president Joseph L Block defended them as fair.
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Joseph L. Block
Tito and Red Chiefs Polish Pact Details
Yugoslav President Tito and Soviet leaders near finalizing a joint communique on bilateral cooperation, with no Cominform style framework. Bohlen, U S ambassador, urged justice as essential for peace while Tito pressed the need for balance between peace and justice.
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Charles E. Bohlen
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Senate Approves Boost for Long Range Bombers Defense Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 13 to 12 to add 1.16 billion dollars to Air Force spending, boosting a defense money bill toward 35 billion. Democrats weigh U S air power against Russia as the bill moves to debate with a vote likely after Tuesday.
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Russia
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
New Ruling Sought On Pinball Decision
The Ohio Supreme Court was asked to reconsider its ruling that pinball machines awarding free games to high score players are gambling devices. The request follows the test case that led to the decision in Columbus.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Cigaret Hater Seeks Race Up Pike's Peak
COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado. Dr Arne Suominen a 56 year old tobacco hating physician of Delray Beach Florida has challenged any two cigarette smoking runners to race up Pike s Peak in August He said in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce that he would give the smokers 15 minute rests.
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Reliable driver wanted to Brooklyn Army Terminal
Classified ad seeks a reliable driver to take a car to Brooklyn Army Terminal before June 29th. Wages and expenses offered. Contact L. A. Davis at 319 Elizabeth &J., phone 166. The ad drew immediate calls and was cancelled by the advertiser.
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New Russian Look Is Newer & Newer in Moscow
Visiting Yugoslav President Tito hosted a gay party for Soviet hosts at the Soviet Skaya hotel. He complimented one guest as cosmopolitan, while Khrushchev joked about his character. The guest was A. I. Mikoyan, an Armenian revolutionary, seen in a white dinner jacket, a first for Soviet leaders at such events.
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Hitchhiker Slays Pastor Near Taft Oklahoma
Edward Leon Williams admitted shooting Tommie Robert Cooke 24, a Tulsa minister who picked up hitchhikers to preach Christ. Williams, an ex convict, told officers Cooke forced him to stop by the road near Taft after giving him a ride.
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Ladder Accident at Camp Kills Inmate Robert Bason
A ladder struck a high wire on Monday, killing 25 year old Robert Bason of Lakewood. Lodge inmate L C Kelly Williams, 27, of Akron, who held the ladder base, was knocked unconscious and treated at Lodi Hospital before returning to the camp.
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Ways To Help Youth Fitness Being Sought
ANNAPOLIS Md Is American youth in danger of going to pot physically If so whats to be done about these were the two major questions facing the Presidents Conference on Fitness of American Youth today as it prepared to wind up a two day session at the Naval Academy Leaders from sport education medicine and related fields agreed that if youth has not yet gone to pot it risks doing so in this gadget era Public opinion must be jolted to support a national program stressing better fitness.
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Naval Academy
Kefauver To Speak At Orrville Dinner
Orrville Ohio event plans Estes Kefauver as speaker at a Wayne County Young Democrats dinner priced at five dollars per plate. Virgil Musser of Doylestown leads the group with Wayne Hays of Flushing and John McSweeney of Wooster also mentioned as attending with Earl Wise among those named.
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John McSweeney
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Earl Wise
Gully Washers Bring Ohio Rainfall Near Normal
Rainstorms over several days left Ohio rainfall near normal overall with scattered totals. Washington Court House recorded 2.57 inches in two hours while Kenton saw 3.75 inches. Cincinnati 1.9, Columbus 1.20, Cleveland 0.85 inches amid widespread relief from the heat wave as hot humid conditions persisted elsewhere.
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Reds Offer Egypt Billion-Dollar Loan for Dam
Cairo report says the Soviet Union offered to lend Egypt 1.12 billion dollars to finance almost all of the Aswan Dam. Western nations pledge 70 million cash plus 80 to 130 million later, with a World Bank loan of 200 to 250 million. Egypt would provide 760 million in labor and materials. Nasser has not decided.
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A Bomb Site Rites Planned at Trinity New Mexico
A village priest will lead services at Trinity Site on July 15 to honor the first atomic detonation and pray for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The event marks the 11th anniversary of the July 16 1945 blast that ended World War II.
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Woman Says Youth Coddling Hurts Society in Akron Talk
Ruth Alexander of New York, juvenile problems authority, told sheriffs that youngsters are too coddled and law enforcement should have more leeway in punishing youth. She spoke at a session of the National association.
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Otey
Ruth Alexander
New York
Ohio lad ties for lead in national marbles title
Billy Boolard of Niles Ohio shared the lead with Ray Stanley of Roanoke Virginia last year’s southern champion in the opening round of the national marbles championship at Asbury Park New Jersey on Monday.
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Ray Stanley
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Buckeye Girls State elects teen governor today
In Columbus the Buckeye Girls State program selects a governor and legislative and judicial officials as part of its activities for the day.
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Buckeye Girls State
City Council approves gas rate hike for East Ohio Gas
Cleveland city council on Monday night ratified an agreement granting East Ohio Gas Co. a 5 percent increase to a base rate of 1.00 for the first 1000 cubic feet and 0.654 for each additional 1000 cubic feet.
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East Ohio Gas Co
Mother Tells Of Tortures In Lyndhurst Police Chief Killing
Kathryn Trosper, 25, described her husband Ray S. Trosper, 28, Lyndhurst police chief, as a hard drinking man who employed subtle tortures to control her. She cited beatings over small incidents, including an instance where he suffocated her with a pillow. The Cleveland mother recounted the abuse in a county jail interview.
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Pinball Owners Lose Suit to Block Toledo Law
A suit by 38 pinball machine owners to stop Toledo from enforcing a post July 1 ban on certain machines was dismissed by Common Pleas Judge Tom D. Stahl. The judge said the owners lack a claim unless their machines are proven gambling devices.
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Common Pleas
Tom D. Stahl
Britain detonates second atomic blast off northwest Australia
Australia reports Britain has exploded an atomic device off its northwest coast as the second test in a current series of nuclear experiments. The test marks another stage in Britain’s program with the device reportedly detonated in the sea and monitored by observers from Canberra and allied agencies.
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Republicans Believe Ike To Stay in Race
The Associated Press reports Republicans expect Eisenhower to remain a presidential candidate though hospitalized after June 9 surgery. Senator Bricker and Leonard Hall back plans for a convention with Ike as the likely nominee. Democrats see Harriman gaining momentum while polls favor Stevenson among Illinois delegates. Maine Republicans nominate Willis A. Trafton Jr. to oppose Muskie in September.
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Dems Charge Influence in Nickel Plant Expansion Probe
Democrats on the House investigation allege political and private influence in a 43 million dollar nickel plant expansion project at Nicaro Cuba. Republicans reject the charges as unfounded and seek further hearings, citing scant evidence and possible perjury in testimony.
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Tees-Agers Abandon Plans for Celebrating Fourth in Big Way
Five Dayton teenagers, all set for a big Fourth of July celebration, were in custody. Deputies recovered 11 of 12 fireworks bombs, powerful enough to blow up a house, reported stolen Saturday night from United Fireworks Manufacturing Co. Deputy B. E. Baker said the boys planned to dump them along a fence by the plant.
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New York GOP Plans Drive for 2 Million
The New York State Republican Committee outlined a $1.9 million campaign fund to finance the 1956 election efforts in New York and support the national GOP push. The meeting re-elected officers and named 10 delegates at large to the national convention.
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N. Y
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Republican State Committee
Anti-Vivisectionists Protest Cancer Experiments
Philadelphia group of the American Anti-Vivisection Society protested a report that 96 Ohio State Penitentiary inmates volunteered for cancer experiments.
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Philadelphia
Two Children Starved as Mother Locked in Hospital
NEW YORK The bodies of two infants a two year old girl and a month old boy were found in an East Side tenement after being left alone when their mother was placed in a psychiatric ward eight days earlier. The tragedy underscores concerns about care and safety in crowded urban housing.
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New York
East Side
Humphrey Seeks Majority Backing for Foreign Aid
Senator Humphrey predicts a Senate Democratic majority will back at least 2.4 billion for foreign military aid when needed. The figure matches the House total but trails the Senate committee’s 4.5 billion proposal. Debate on the aid bill will wait as the Senate handles the Defense Department appropriations.
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Sen
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Temporary Successor To Barkley Appointed
Kentucky governor names Frankfort attorney Joseph J. Leary as temporary U S Senate replacement for the late Senator Alben Barkley. Announcement comes before the Democratic State Central Executive Committee meeting in Louisville. Barkley died April 30.
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Prankfort
Joseph J. Leary
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Barkley
Self-Rule Proposal For Cyprus Seen In London Offer
Britain plans a new self-government offer to Cyprus aimed at curbing the island’s rebellion. It would grant local Greek Cypriot control with a future plebiscite and protect Turkish minority rights while Britain retains defense and foreign affairs. A rapid meeting followed between officials and the Turkish envoy over Turkish Cypriot insistence on remaining ties to Turkey.
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Three Men Buried In Slide at Quarry
RIVERDALE New Jersey workers cleared rock and rubble to reach the bodies of two of three men buried by a quarry slide that toppled Monday. Granite boulders weighing tons covered them as one side of the quarry failed.
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Alliance bids sought for teen science building project
Obie Mount Union College announced a bidding call for a new science building to house gas, chemistry, and physics departments. The project aims to consolidate labs and classrooms to support STEM programs and student research initiatives.
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Alliance
Mount Union College
Baby Drowns In Akron Home Bathtub
Daniel Rafferty seven months old drowned Monday in a bathtub at his Akron residence. Local responders declared the infant dead at the scene. An investigation into the incident is pending.
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