Governor DiSalle Urges Meigs County On Sewage Progress
Gov. Michael DiSalle urged Pomeroy and Middleport leaders to speed sewage disposal plant projects at a Sacred Heart Church dinner. He contrasted 150 towns with completed plants since 1952 to the two Meigs County communities and warned that business could move elsewhere if progress stalls. The talk touched on population decline, state aid, and rising education costs as he urged action.
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Bob Hoeflich
Pomeroy
Middleport
Michael DiSalle
Sacred Heart Church
DiSalle
Meigs County
di Salle
Ohio Water Pollution Control Board
Ohio
Goes To Jail For Tickets In Detroit
Charles W. Lewis, 37, was jailed for 90 days for 105 unpaid parking tickets totaling 523 dollars. He told Traffic Judge John D. Watts that he had been walking since the most recent December 1958 ticket, and a jaywalking arrest uncovered the unpaid fines.
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Detroit
Charles W. Lewis
Lewis
John D. Watts
Undertaker Finds Bullet Hole in Man Declared Died Naturally
In Wichita Falls Texas Justice of the Peace H M Newman ordered an autopsy after an undertaker discovered a bullet hole through the heart of Chester B Wallace 45 whose death had been previously put down as natural causes Wallace body was found in his apartment Monday prompting the investigation
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Justice of the Peace
H. M. Newman
Chester B. Wallace
Wallace
Wednesday Marks Beginning Of Lent
New York report notes Lent begins Wednesday for Christians worldwide. Easter Sunday April 17 ends the 40 day period of self denial with Sundays excluded from observance.
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New York
Reds Deplore Resumption Of Air Flights
The Soviet Embassy in East Berlin condemned the possible resumption of high altitude air corridors above 10 000 feet by Western Allies over Berlin. A spokesman warned of potential clashes with Soviet fighters if planes violate the ceiling. Washington reported plans to notify Moscow before resuming the flights intended to supply West Berlin with C130 cargo planes.
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Berlin
East Berlin
U. S
Soviet Union
United States
Washington
Moscow
Gdr
East Germany
West Berlin
Window Cleaner Killed After Sixth-Floor Fall
Kenneth Atwell about 40 a window cleaner died after a fall from a sixth floor window at the edge of Cincinnati downtown. Police said he fell while moving between windows and died two hours later on the sidewalk.
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Cincinnati
Kenneth Atwell
Atwell
Tri-County Bank Approved to Serve Coolville Area
The Ohio Banking Advisory Board granted formal approval for the Tri-County Bank to be based in Coolville in a building once used by the Coolville National Bank. Incorporators from Coolville and nearby towns plan a mid March meeting to elect officials with operations expected by April first.
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Coolville
Ohio Banking Advisory Board
Tri- County Bank
Coolville National Bank
C. L. White
Oscar Pierce
H. Hall Chapman
H. C. Parrish
J. S. Lamp
Little Hocking
Frank L. Goebel
Parkersburg
Atty. C. E. Berry
Athens
Goebel
Tri-County
Athens County
Washington County
Meigs County
Belpre
Murder Jury Is Selected In Ironton Case
A jury is sworn to try Bill Joe Schaffer for first degree murder in the strangulation of his former teacher Emma Remey, age 75, during a February 21 1958 robbery attempt at her Ironton home. An alternate juror remains to be selected.
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Ironton
Bill Joe Schaffer
Schaffer
Emma Remey
Martha Grant Reaches Century Mark In Daily Prayers
Martha Grant turns 100 today as she prays daily morning and night beside her bed. Her daughter Alma Mabray, with whom she lives, shared the routine and birthday milestone.
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Dallas
Martha Grant
Alma Mabray
Mrs. Grant
Chessman Makes Dramatic Offer in California Death Penalty Fight
Daryl Chessman offers to die in the gas chamber if California abolishes the death penalty for all. He writes Gov. Edmund G. Brown, pledging to drop legal challenges and disavow further aid. Brown had just signed a 60 day reprieve as Legislature reconvenes amid fierce debate on capital punishment.
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Sacramento
Calif
Daryl Chessman
California
Edmund G. Brown
Chessman
Capitol
Brown
Strike Averted After Long Negotiations By Local Unions
John Ward reports that the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co crews narrowly avoided a strike after around the clock talks. Local 1466 and Local 832 IB EW workers ratified a new 28 month contract with an 8.7 percent wage rise, including 4 percent immediately and increments in March and July 1961.
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John Ward
Nelsonville
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Columbus
Coshocton
Chillicothe
C&soe
Ohio Utility
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Trade Pact With Russia Is Approved
Tokyo reports Japan rejects Soviet protest but approves a trade pact worth over 400 million dollars with the Soviet Union. Premier Nobusaki Kishi states the security treaty poses no threat, while Moscow calls it aggressive and not conducive to world peace.
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Tokyo
Nicolai Fedorenko
Nobusaki Kishi
Soviet Union
Russia
Memorial Services Planned July 30
On the 15th anniversary of the torpedoing of the U S S Indianapolis memorial services will be held for the 900 men who drowned with the cruiser. Rep Joseph W Barr invited Secretary of the Navy William B Franke to attend. They will be held in Indianapolis July 30.
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Washington
U.S.S
Indianapolis
Joseph W. Barr
D-Ind
the Navy
William B. Franke
Senate votes to continue around-the-clock civil rights session
The Senate approved 55 to 6 to keep the civil rights debate going without recess during a dawn session. Leaders from both parties backed 24/7 sittings to push a bill toward a decision, despite a Morse motion to adjourn and a late-night quorum challenge by Southern Democrats and the filibuster effort.
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Washington
Senate
Wayne Morse
Dore
Morse
Probe Finds No Soliciting in Jackson County Inquiry
Columbus Ohio Highway Director Everett S. Preston says an investigation found no Highway Department employee solicited or accepted political contributions from Jackson County workers. The probe followed rumors and included statements from 29 Jackson County employees that they were not pressured to contribute.
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Columbus — i
Everett S. Preston
Highway Department
Jackson County
Preston
Census clock clocks nation at 179 million population
The Census Bureau estimates the United States population at 179,690,586 as of 8 a.m. EST today. The figure comes from the bureau’s census clock displayed in the Commerce Department lobby.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Bureau
Commerce Department
Teacher Injured In One Car Accident On Silver Bridge
James Frank Hill a Wahama High School teacher 48 of Monroe Avenue was critically injured in a single vehicle crash on the Silver Bridge at 2 20 a m Tuesday He suffered a skull fracture brain injury and lacerations and was transported first to Pleasant Valley Hospital then to Calbel Huntington Hospital for head and brain surgery Police investigated the crash which demolished the car and blocked the bridge for over an hour
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Point Pleasant
James Frank Hill
Monroe Avenue
Wahama High School
Silver Bridge
Hill
Pleasant Valley Hospital
Cabell-Huntington Hospital
Bank Probe Nears End of Twelfth Day
Investigation into the Bartlett Farmer's Bank robbery extended to its 12th day as FBI agents and county deputies pursue a blond suspect, 25 to 30, who held cashier Mildred Martin at gunpoint February 19 and escaped with 764 dollars. Authorities in Athens Morgan and Washington counties aid the probe. Logical sources refer to spending by individuals with unusual income.
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Mildred Martin
FBI
Athens
Morgan
Washington
Ohio Farms Decline Five Thousand In Year
The Agriculture Department noted a drop in Ohio farms from 174000 at the end of 1958 to 169000 at the close of 1959, a decline about 2 percent. The report says total U.S. farms also fell and farm size edged up due to purchases and consolidations while suburban development reduced farming areas.
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Washington
Ohio
Agriculture Department
U.S
Quakes Hit Agadir as Fires and Tidal Wave Roil Port
Two massive earthquakes struck Agadir near Casablanca Morocco followed by fires and a tidal wave. Officials feared 1000 or more dead or injured in the south Moroccan port city, with casualties mounting after midnight Monday.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Agadir
Purvis Found Dead Severs FBI Nemesis Link In 1980s
The former FBI team leader Melvin Purvis was found dead at his home, ruled a personal safety related wound under the jaw. Purvis, in his early 50s, was reportedly despondent and recently ill.
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Florence
S. C
FBI
John Dillinger
Melvin Purvis
William T. Eaddy
Purvis
Rosanne Purvis
Walter Meade
House Approval Adds 8.33 Million for School Districts
The House overrode its Appropriations Committee and voted 8.33 million dollars in extra funding for school districts swollen by federal installations. The omnibus supplemental appropriations bill covers various federal agencies for the remaining four months of the fiscal year ending June 30.
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Washington
Appropriations
House
Plane Evacuated After Landing Gear Collapse at Midway
Sixty persons aboard a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation were evacuated without injury after the landing gear collapsed as it prepared to take off from Midway Airport for Phoenix and Los Angeles.
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Chicago
Trans World Airlines
Midway Airport
Phoenix
Ariz
Los Angeles
Defense narrows in on maid testimony in Finch trial
In Los Angeles a defense summation claims 12 discrepancies in Marie Anne Lidholm’s account of socialite Barbara Jean Finch’s slaying. Prosecutors and witnesses describe a high profile trial of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff with maid Lidholm at center.
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LOS Angeles
Barbara Jean Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Marie Anne
Finch
Grant B. Cooper
Cooper
Miss Lidholm
Mrs. Finch
Masonic Temple Burns, Once Slave Network In Western New York
A 143 year old two story frame Masonic temple in Westmoreland New York burned Monday night. Lodge master Sidney Mills of Rome said the building once served as part of a Civil War era network smuggling slaves from the South to Canada. Damage estimated at 38000 dollars. No injuries reported.
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Westmoreland
N. Y
Sidney Mills
Rome
Canada
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