Poston Conveyor Cut Sparks Standstill in Hamley Run Strike
Athens County Sheriff Harold Shields investigates the cutting of a coal conveyor from a mine tipple to the Poston power plant as part of a broader 9th day strike by 1300 utility workers. A subsequent cable cut and a high voltage line short circuit disrupted service to several towns.
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Harold Shields
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Poston
Hamley Run
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
Sheriff Shields
C&soe
Columbus
Sevice
Hillards
West Jefferson
Alton
Rome
Lincoln Village
Ironton Walkout by 100 Ohio Bell Operators Ends
About 100 operators at the Ironton Ohio Bell exchange staged a morning walkout in protest of a new 15 month contract. CWA leaders ordered them back to work from Cleveland, citing dissatisfaction with contract wording. Supervisors handled night shifts and emergency calls only.
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Ironton — i
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ironton Exchange
Communications Workers of America
Carol Dalton
Ironton
CWA
Cleveland
Board of Education Faces Decision Today
The State Board of Education faces a decision today on a state plan to strengthen math science and modern language instruction. The plan includes hiring a coordinator and three educational specialists to oversee advising for local school systems.
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Columbus
State Board of Education
More Talks Set Today In Columbus
Negotiating session planned in Columbus to end an 11 day pressmen strike against the Dispatch Citizen and Ohio State Journal. About 70 members of the Columbus Web Pressmen Local 15 seek a new contract. strike began February 26 over wages and overtime pay. A new paper, Columbus Daily News, published by Local 13 of the Guild, appears today selling for 10 cents. it will close when the struck papers resume.
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Columbus
Columbus Daily
Columbus Web Pressmen’s Union
Local 15
Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Citizen
Ohio State Journal
French Reds Win Seats In Municipal Elections
In France and overseas territories on Sunday municipal elections produced stronger Communist gains. About 38 000 communities voted to choose nearly 500 000 councilors from over a million candidates. Reds rallied from prior setbacks and won roughly one in four votes in big cities and smaller towns.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
Communist Party
National Assembly
Reds
Livestock Dealer Dies in Vienna Car Collision
PARKERSBURG A Marietta livestock dealer W Ed ward Wenzel 85 was killed Saturday when the car he rode in struck another auto in Vienna.
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Parkersburg
Marietta
W. Edward Wenzel
Vienna
Boy in Chicago Hospital to Undergo Blue Baby Surgery
A 29 month old California boy David Stewart with a blue baby heart condition awaits a specialized operation in Chicago Children's Hospital. His parents and his Navy veteran father are optimistic the surgery will restore normal life. Donations from San Francisco Bay area residents totaling nearly $10,000 financed the trip and procedure. A police escort arranged by American Legion members accompanied the boy from Midway Airport to the hospital.
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Chicago
David Stewart
David
San Francisco Bay Area
Thomas Stewart
Sharp Park
Calif
San Francisco
American Legion
Children’s Hospital
Midway Airport
Stewart
Lay Down Your Arms Rebel Chief Calls For Unity
Leader Col George Grivas of EOKA urged followers to cease struggle and unite behind Archbishop Makarios to build the Republic of Cyprus. He retires from politics but remains hidden, noting he may travel to Athens soon and will monitor events from afar. He said independence is preferable to national disruption.
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Nicosia
EOKA
Makarios
Republic of Cyprus
George Grivas
Cyprus
Greece
ESOKA
Griva
Ethnarch
Marshall condition unchanged at Bragg Army hospital
General George C. Marshall's condition remained serious and unchanged today at the Army hospital in Bragg, North Carolina.
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Bragg
George C. Marshall
Army Hospital
Macmillan Opens Western Policy Tour Amid Berlin Talks
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan begins a swing through allied capitals to shape a Western policy for talks with the Soviet Union. In East Berlin Khrushchev meets with Erich Ollenhauer as Western leaders discuss sustaining West Berlin. Macmillan plans reviews with De Gaulle, Adenauer, and Eisenhower, aiming for a firm yet flexible approach on arms reduction in central Europe.
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Paris
Harold Macmillan
East Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Socialist Party
Erich Ollenhauer
West Berlin
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Moscow
Khrushchev
London
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Washington
Eisenhower
U.S
Adenauer
de Gaulle
Central Europe
Convicts Face Charges After Reign Of Terror
In Walpole Mass authorities prepared charges against six state prison inmates after a two hour reign of terror on Saturday. Steeled guards freed hostages including Warden John A Gavin and Catholic chaplain Rev Edward F Hartigan. Nearly 100 state troopers surrounded the prison as 25 troopers breached entrances under orders to shoot to kill. The convicts surrendered once faced with armed troops and riot gear.
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Walpole
Mass
John A. Gavin
Edward F. Hartigan
Arthur J. O'Leary
Coleman declines joining any third party over racial issues
Memphis Tennessee Gov J P Coleman of Mississippi said on a local TV youth panel he would not join a third party in the South over racial issues. He noted he has always opposed third parties because they cannot win and do little good, though they remain a possibility.
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Memphis
Tenn
J. P. Coleman
Mississippi
South
Weather outlook for West Virginia and Ohio Valley regions
The West Virginia area eyes continued clouds and a cold night with lows 25 to 33 and Tuesday sun with highs mainly in the 40s. In Ohio and Ohio Valley zones clearing and cooler tonight with possible rain in valleys. today’s high about 45 and low 36. Tuesday high near 48. The five day forecast calls for near normal temperatures with frequent light rain or snow in the north and light rain in the south. most likely rain periods Tuesday, late Wednesday or Thursday, and Friday or Saturday. total precipitation from 0.5 to 0.75 inches. Temperatures average near normal with no major changes noted for the week.
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Smow
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Chicago
Cleveland
Fort Worth
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Omaha
Philadelphia
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Salt Lake City
Ay Boglig
Dems Press for Expanded Military Strength Amid Berlin Crisis
Democratic leaders push for up to 750 million dollars extra for intercontinental missiles and broader military readiness. President Eisenhower says no further action needed now while a Senate subcommittee led by Lyndon B. Johnson reviews defense strength, amid hopes for summer Berlin talks.
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U. S
Eisenhower
Berlin
Senate
House
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Fatality Number 3 Reported in Mason County Traffic Death
Mason County records a third traffic fatality of the year after Wilbur Brumfield 56 of Glenwood was struck on Route 2 by Ronald Allman 21 of Ravenswood. Brumfield died from traumatic injuries. Allman, stationed at Fort Knox, left the scene and faces no charges. Brumfield’s wife and several children survive along with his work at American Car and Foundry.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Wilburt Brumfield
Glenwood
Ronald Ross Allman
Ravenswood
Brumfield
Frank Waugh
Waugh
Oliver Eschenaur
Allman
Fort Knox
American Car and Foundry
Huntington
Della Weekley Brumfield
Jiles Brumfield
Nina
Orvile Adkins
Bowen
W. Va
Betty Akers
Lawrence Waugh
Emma
Party Erupts Into Shooting One Dead
In Columbus an all night party ended in a shooting that killed Louise Saddler and left Earl Clark critically wounded. Bernard Jackson then reportedly killed himself after shooting Saddler twice and firing a shot into Clark’s temple. All victims were natives of Columbus.
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Columbus
Carl E. Tetrick
Louise Saddler
Bernard Jackson
Jackson
Earl Clark
Grant Hospital
Annabelle White
Jane Minnis
Westerville
Saddler
Clark
Prisoners Tunnel To Freedom Recaptured In Ohio
Four hours after two inmates escaped Ashland County jail they were recaptured twelve miles away in West Salem. Using spoons and a pipe fragment, Ken Buxton and Billy Ray Cranmore gouged a 17 by 8 inch hole in the wall of the old jail house on Sunday.
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Ashland
Ohio
Ashland County
Ken Buxton
Billy Ray Cranmore
West Salem
Airline stewardess vows return after deadly crash
Joan Zeller a 21 year old American Airlines stewardess injured when a crash killed 65 persons was discharged from Flushing Hospital New York. She flew with her mother to Providence to continue convalescence at home and still walks with two canes promising to resume work as a stewardess.
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Providence
R. 1
Joan Zeller
American Airlines
Flushing Hospital
New York
Dulles Enjoys Weekend Rides and Berlin Discussion
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent a pleasant weekend moving through a park by hospital, visited his home briefly, and later conferred with two aides on the Berlin situation.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Berlin
Saturday Crash Fatal To Woman In Glouster
Glouster a native of Toledo Rosemary Craig 55 died Monday in Mount St Mary Hospital Nelsonville after a two car crash on Route 13 two miles north of Glouster Saturday. Survived by two sons Tom Fritz and three daughters Elsie Barbara Linda Lou all of Glouster plus a granddaughter sister Josephine Columbus and brothers Joseph and James Herberts. Norbert W Johnston funeral home arranging services.
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Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nelsonville
Rosemary Craig
Gordon
Route 13
Here
Toledo
Tom
Frederick
Fritz
Elsie
Barbara
Linda Lou
Josephine
Columbus
Joseph Herberts
California
James Herberts
Nevada
Norbert W. Johnston Funeral Home
Foster denies guilt in Hawaii murder case
Kath ryn Foster, 43, of Gloucester origin, pleads innocent to second degree murder in the fatal Waikiki apartment shooting of her husband Francis, 56, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. Police questioned her after delays in reporting the death. Married in 1947 at Middleport, trial set for May.
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Honolulu
Kathryn
Foster
Glouster
Francis
Waikiki
Middleport
Gas Service Broken In Two Counties
Service crews from two gas companies worked into the early hours to restore gas service to about 3700 customers of the Delaware Gas Co. here. A regulator failure cut off the fuel supply early Sunday. Accumulated moisture froze in an Ohio Fuel Gas Co. regulator near New Albany, cutting off service to about 4300 customers in northern Franklin County and Delaware County.
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Delaware
Delaware Gas Co
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
New Albany
Franklin County
Delaware County
Strike Ends at Carborundum Co After Union Vote
Logan 11 630 Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union ended the strike with a 97 to 37 vote to return to work. Pickets withdrawn and temporary strike HQ buildings removed as workers prepare to resume shifts. main dispute was a union shop and contract talks broke down February 4.
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LOGAN
Carborundum Co
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Eagles Hall
George Tipton
George Shay
OCAW
Tipton
Grant Byrnes
Byrnes
Common Pleas
Rebels Who Killed Yank S'ound Shot Rebels Who Killed Yank S'ound
Four nationalist rebels who killed an American and a German and wounded another American in western Algeria last week were reported killed by French troops. The slain included Homer Flint Kellems of Arkansas and a German translator Raimund Abele. A camera and watch believed stolen from Kellems' car were found. Wounded William Hobbs, 27, of Siloam Springs, progressed in a Tlemcen hospital.
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Algiers
Algeria
Homer Flint Kellems
Siloam Springs
Ark
Raimund Abele
Kellem
Kellems
Vivien Kellems
Connecticut
Blonde Suspect Confesses Bank Robbery in Nevada
LAS VEGAS Nev A shapely blonde has admitted robbing the First National Bank of Nevada of 1780 Ida Belle Ingram 19 Roanoke Va told FBI agents I’m sorry I did it She staged the robbery Friday Ingram formerly was a bank teller in Washington DC and Alexandria VA
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Roanoke
Las Vegas
Nev
Reno
Belle
First National Bank of Nevada
Ida Belle Ingram
FBI
Miss Ingram
Washington, D. C
Alexandria
Last Wish Answered Dying Arizona Boy Visited By Heroes
Gilbert Schooling, 15, terminally ill in Phoenix area, met three heroes Pat O Brien Jimmy Bryan and Tris Coffin who visited him Sunday. O Brien sent a signed baseball, Bryan left a model racing car and Coffin gave a marshal’s star and autographed photos.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Gilbert Schooling
Pat O'Brien
Jimmy Bryan
Tris Coffin
Gilbert
Sheriff's
Jerry Centner
Wcentner
O’brien
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Francisco Giants
Bryan
Coffin
Arizona Rangers
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