Navy Sav es Face In Satellite Race Vanguard Soars Into Orbit
The Navy’s Vanguard rocket launched today from Cape Canaveral and placed the second U S satellite into orbit after earlier failures. President Eisenhower announced the triumph two hours and 23 minutes later, as observers hailed a near perfect flight and a possible 5 to 10 year operational life for the mission.
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Scientists Seek Survival Fluid for Space Travel
Army research official James B. Edson said space medicine researchers aim to develop a substance enabling breathing eating and drinking to be unnecessary on flights or on other planets. He predicted moon Mars and interstellar travel within 10 to 15 years and discussed a possible lunar base in a sealed cave.
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Weekend Snow Claims Nine On Ohio Highways
Snow covered Ohio highways and reduced visibility led to a weekend toll of nine deaths on state roads. A Michigan soldier died on the Turnpike en route to Virginia as a storm caused loss of control. Two other deaths were deemed freak accidents: a baby girl hanged by sleeping clothes and a Lakewood man who fell from a homemade trapeze. the third occurred in a fire.
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Farmers Talk With Benson
Fifty Ohio Farm Bureau delegates arrive in Washington to lobby congressmen and Agriculture Secretary Benson. Their two main demands are a new price support formula for basic commodities and opposition to Benson’s plan to cut milk support prices from about 3.25 to 3.00 per hundredweight.
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Ohio and West Virginia Weather Outlook With Light Snow
Mostly cloudy and cold today tonight and Tuesday with occasional snow flurries across the state. Highs near 35 to 40 with lows 25 to 32. West Virginia sees cloudy cold conditions with light snow and similar temperatures. Five day forecast shows temperatures about 8 degrees below normal, little daily change and minimal precipitation.
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Doorstop shell in Middletown set off by long service
Mrs Blanche Thompson found a WWI German artillery shell given by her husband’s brother. After a painter urged inspection the National Guard determined the shell still contained TNT. They destroyed the device on site.
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Wife Found In Vehicle Near Chester
Donna Jean Offutt 21 of Minersville Route 1 died from a crushed skull when the car she drove left Sugar Run Hill and hit a tree near Chester Saturday night. Her husband George Lynn Offutt 22 survived with minor injuries after the car traveled 80 feet from the gravel road. He reports they left home to visit his parents but turned toward Chester as the time neared. He says he was unconscious for about half an hour after the crash.
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Kennedy Accepts Irish American Honor in Holyoke
Sen John F Kennedy visited Holyoke Mass to receive a plaque as Outstanding American of Irish Catholic Descent for St Patrick day events. He borrowed a necktie and arrived wearing a blue tie for the ceremony.
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Col Moore to Face Hearing on Channel 10 Grant
Col George Gordon Moore, brother in law of Mamie Eisenhower, appears before a House subcommittee amid debates over probing his involvement in the Federal Communications Commission award of Miami Channel 10 to a National Airlines subsidiary. He denies any basis for the allegations and cites social ties to National Airlines president G T Baker. A grand jury investigates the matter and the FCC reviews the grant.
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New York Returns Kentucky Fugitive in Gas Station Robbery
IRONTON Police report Fred Justice, 31, of Ashland Kentucky, arrested in New York City over the March 5 Rich Oil service station robbery in Coal Grove. The $191.75 heist left an attendant with a arm wound. Sheriff Carl Rose says Justice plans to waive extradition.
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Edwin Day Former Wadsworth Publisher Dies at 91
Edwin A. Day, longtime Wadsworth newspaper publisher, died Sunday at South Side Hospital. He was 91.
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GI Scientists Stage Mutiny Against Army Mess
About 60 draftee scientists from the Engineers Research Laboratory at Fort Belvoir staged a week long boycott of the mess hall in protest against Army routine and neatness standards. Lt. Col. Ray E. Lavan called it mutiny and a dozen held to the line, while some men left due to pay stoppages and a dramatic warning about punishment.
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Rebels Capture Medan Port as Indonesian Crisis Expands
Rebel troops reported by Maj. Boyke Navin Golan seized Medan on Sumatra’s north coast, a 300000 population hub, as Sukarno ordered reinforcements to North Celebes. Officials warned of further defections as West Java and South Sumatra show anti-government shifts. Sukarno announced Central Sumatra’s Siak Sri Indrapura town fall, bolstering control of the east coast.
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Bridges Seeks Standby RFC Revival To Avert Crash
Sen Bridges proposals aim to revive the Reconstruction Finance Corp on a standby basis to act during a threatened big business crash. He cites railroads as a risk and notes RFC's past role in stabilizing economies. President Eisenhower would hear the plan Tuesday as lawmakers push anti recession actions.
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Boy Wounded by Shrapnel In Farm Explosion
A 15 year old Morgan County boy named Andrew Mohler was operated on at Good Samaritan Hospital for shrapnel injuries after a metal pipe exploded while he melted lead for fishing sinkers. The blast pierced his forehead and caused a brain injury and skull fracture during a visit to his grandparents farm near Dale Washington County.
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Zanesville Man Surrenders to Police in Abduction Case
A Zanesville man sought by Worthington police on abduction and assault charges surrendered to Louisville police today. Samuel Charles Swingle, 24, gave himself up after his father and a Catholic priest persuaded him to do so.
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Chauncey man cancels ad after flood of calls
Glen Snider of Chauncey canceled his work horse for sale ad after it ran one day. The Messenger Classified Ad notes the service connects buyers and sellers quickly and cheaply at 1.25 for three days.
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Terrorist Explosions Hit Jewish Centers in Two Cities
A pair of dynamite blasts struck Miami Florida and Nashville Tennessee damaging a Temple Beth El annex and a Jewish community center. No injuries reported. An anonymous call tied the Tennessee blast to school integration and warned of a federal judge being killed.
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Weather Still Cold with Snow Flurries Across Rural Hamley Run
Partly cloudy conditions with occasional snow flurries persisted Monday as temperatures hovered near freezing. Rural Hamley Run reported a low of 17 after recent highs of 27 and 36, 38 and 37, 29 and 37 across Friday through Sunday.
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Underwood Set to Speak at Scout Dinner in Athens
West Virginia Governor Cecil H. Underwood will speak at the 38th annual Kootaga Area Boy Scouts Recognition Dinner in Athens on April 14. Dr. J. J. Stark notes the nine-county event honors volunteers. Ohio University Center hosts, with William Hubbell of Cincinnati and top Region Four scout professionals attending. The Silver Beaver award will be conferred to one or two volunteers.
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Wife Admits Killing Infant Son in Oklahoma Garden
Terrence D. Hitt, of Plymouth, Michigan, spoke to reporters after his wife confessed to smothering their 6 week old son Brady Dean, burying the body in the garden and staging a kidnapping, with the husband appealing to find the child.
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Tomato Basket Falls Driver Wrecks Car
James O. Andrews, 35, Albany, faces charges of reckless operation after a basket of tomatoes fell from his front seat. He swerved to reach it, struck a curb, and toppled a telephone pole with a street light at N Congress and Carpenter.
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Police Radios Relay Global Overtime and Firefighting Reports
Wayne County sheriff road patrol hears radio chatter about overtime disputes and fires in oil fields of Caracas Venezuela. Voices in Spanish argue from Argentina and a Sacramento California dispatcher checks on drivers in a city metro area.
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Student Struck by Auto at Ohio University Intersection
Barbara Husted a Mansfield sophomore at Ohio University sustained multiple stitches to her left hand after being struck by a car at the College Union Street intersection. Richard E Mayhew a Newark sophomore 19 said he did not see her until the collision. She was taken to OU Health Center by private ambulance. No charges were filed against Mayhew.
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