Eisenhower Pushes Federal Standards On Unemployment Aid
President Eisenhower tells governors a federal standard may be enacted if states do not broaden their jobless aid. Congress weighs permanent nationwide changes to set minimum weekly benefits at 50 percent of wages and extend duration beyond 26 weeks.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Executive Committee
Governors Conference
White House
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Senate
Kidnaper Payne in Kanawha Jail after self harm attempt
Richard A. Payne, 23, former convict who abducted Mrs Elma Baldwin and three children, cut his arm with a razor at Kanawha County jail. He said he would not return to the penitentiary and sought release for his cellmate Burton Post. Post is serving multiple five year terms for armed robbery.
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Richard A. Payne
Kanawha County
Payne
Burton Junior Post
Payne M.s
Post
Elma Baldwin
India Will Keep Hands Off Tibet
New Delhi. Prime Minister Nehru said fighting in Lhasa has subsided and India will not intervene in the Tibetan revolt against Chinese Communist rule. He noted no reliable information on the Dalai Lama’s fate and suggested he may be under house arrest. The Times of India Hong Kong correspondent reported the Dalai Lama under restraint while Peiping pressed Tibet’s military government to withdraw his support.
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Lhasa
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Times of India
Peiping
Chang Ching Wu
Buddha
India
Paiament
Widespread fires claim nine lives across three states
Fires in Dallas Texas Groton Vermont and Rockville Maryland killed nine people including four children and two mothers. In Dallas Bertha Wilbanks 42 and three children Donnie 7 Melvin and Linda 11 died with Evan 14 in serious condition. In Groton Norman Whitehill 18 and daughters Marie 13 months Tina 2 months perished. husband burned. In Rockville Florence Louise Williams 4 and April Mae 5 months died. sister Helen Maria 3 in serious condition. mother and 2 year old son treated for burns.
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Tex
Bertha Wilbanks
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Melvin
Linda
Evan Wilbanks
Groton
Norman Whitehill
Marie
Tina
Washington
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Rockville
Florence Louise Williams
April Mae
Helen Maria
Clermont County seeks new treasurer amid delay
Selection of a county treasurer may take longer than Clermont County commissioners expected. Commission President Charles F. Clark called the situation a hot potato and said a choice may not be made until late today, if at all.
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Batavia
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Clermont County
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Charles F. Clark
Demand for Wage Increase Hits Impasse in Ohio Electric Strike
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers strike against Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. enters its fourth week as mediators call the talks at an impasse over premium pay for top linemen. Union members begin life watches on supervisors and distribute warning leaflets while negotiations pause for another meeting. The company serves 23 southern and central Ohio counties.
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H. J. Montoney
Montoney
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William Hamlet
Moeller OKs Hiring Of Kin
Washington report quotes Rep. Walter H. Moeller of Ohio defending nepotism if the relative is competent. He cites his daughter Janeen, a Valparaiso College sophomore, as a potential summer hire at identical pay to any similar job.
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Valparaiso College
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Cuban authorities isolate political prisoners after Havana riot
Havana authorities announce isolation of political prisoners after a riot at Castillo del Principe prison. Interior Minister Luis Orlando Rodriguez accuses remnants of the Batista regime, held on war crimes charges, of instigating the disturbance Saturday night and pressuring for Warden Isaac Noche Fernandez to be fired.
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Castillo del Principe
Luis Orlando Rodriguez
Batista
Isaac Noche Fernandez
Girl Clings to Life After Amputated Leg Incident
Eight year old Julia Ellis clung to life in a Kirkwood hospital after a car strike near Arnold Missouri. Her sister Donna nine also injured with both legs fractured. Driver Robert E Kemp twenty five of Lemay charged with careless reckless driving while drinking. Julia had her right leg amputated Saturday night by a doctor using a borrowed penknife.
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Julia Ellis
Kirkwood
Julia
Donna
Arnold
Robert E. Kemp
Lemay
Clarence Ellis
Police Vow They Il Find Girl's Killer
Spokane police pledge to solve the murder of Candy Rogers a nine year old Camp Fire girl found dead in woods after a 16 day search. Police Chief Clifford Payne says officers will stay on the case until the perpetrator is caught. A pair of blue suede shoes were found by air force base personnel aiding the investigation.
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Wash
Candy Rogers
Clifford Payne
Fairchild Air Force Base
Tax Increase Push Gains Speed in Ohio Legislature
In Columbus the push for new taxes accelerates as Gov. DiSalle urges action to fund a two billion dollar state budget. House and Senate committees plan hearings on a sales tax rise of over 200 million in two years, plus removal of tax stamps. Revenue would also come from higher cigarette, liquor and hotel taxes and ending certain exemptions.
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Michael V. DiSalle
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Stephen R. Olenick
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A. G. Lancione D Belmont
House Taxation Committee
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DiSalle
DiSalle Seeks 90 Day Delay On State Construction
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle asked the State Office Building Commission to pause for 90 days to study funds available for new construction. The move signals a temporary postponement while financial options are reviewed.
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Michael V. DiSalle
State Office Building Commission
New York businessmen buy Mutual Broadcasting System
A group of New York businessmen has purchased the Mutual Broadcasting System, marking a major move in broadcast ownership and signaling changes for the national radio network.
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New York
Mutual Broadcasting System
Weather West Virginia Ohio Outlook With Warmer Tuesday
West Virginia will be fair then cold tonight with lows 25 to 30 east and 30 to 35 west. Tuesday turns fair and warmer. Ohio sees fair and warmer today and tonight with Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. tonight lows near 32 to 30 and highs around 63. The five day forecast notes temps above normal in the north central area and near normal in the south, with warmer nights and a cooler midweek followed by renewed warmth and scattered showers Wednesday into Thursday or Friday. Rain showers likely Wednesday with about a half inch total.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Nasser accuses Kassem of refusing to aid fight to finish
In a Damascus broadcast Nasser condemns Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem and Soviet leader Khrushchev as backers of Kassem. He claims the Soviet ultimatum of 1956 did not stop the British French and Israeli on Egypt and says Kassem refused to send troops for a fight to the finish against Israel. He cites Syrian frontier attacks and anticipation of a wider war.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Abdel Karim Kassem
Israel
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Nasser
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Suez
Library of Congress Helps Ohio Schoolboy Pronounce Hetuck
An Ohio sixth grader, Rickey Sewell of Leavittsburg, learned the word Hetuck meaning big buckeye in Indian and its pronunciation Hee Tuck with equal stress. Rep. Robert Cook asked the Library of Congress, which after a delay traced Hetuck to Marietta Ohio in 1788 where Col Sprout led a procession to the Campus Martius court. The term grew from that scene and the buckeye tree, yielding the nickname Buckeye State.
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Leavittsburg
Ohio
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Robert Cook
Cook
Library of Congress
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Col
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Hetuck
Buckeye State
Kidnaping Charge Prepared for Girl Escapees
Two 16 year old girls Peggy Ann Moore of Omaha and Janet Spegel of Lexington Neb will face kidnaping charges after breaking out of a Nebraska industrial school and forcing farmer Jesse Richards to drive them to safety. They were captured at a roadblock near Salina Kansas after commandeering Richards car with a butcher knife and a .22 pistol threatening to shoot.
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Nebraska
Peggy Ann Moore
Omaha
Janet Spegel
Lexington
Neb
FBI
Jesse Richards
Geneva
Peggy
Janet
Richards
Dynamite Blast Damages Coal Loading Building in Lee County
In St. Charles Virginia a dynamite blast damaged a coal loading building at a non union mine in Lee County early today. There were no injuries reported.
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Lee County
Kosygin Heads Long Soviet Economy Drive
Premier Khrushchev assigns Alexei Kosygin to lead a seven year plan to modernize the Soviet economy and catch up with the west. Kosygin previously led light industry and finance and replaces Iosif Kuzmin as planning minister.
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Alexei Kosygin
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Iosif Kuzmin
Rescuers Fail To Free Youth From Cavern
Neil Moss of Oxford University became wedged 40 feet down a funnel shaped cleft near Peak Cavern in Buxton England when exploring with a party from the British Speleological Association. Three attempts by a 70 man rescue team to extract him failed as ropes snapped and rescuers feared he was near death.
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England
Neil Moss
Oxford University
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British Speleological Association
Textile Strike Talks Move to Governor Hodges Office
Negotiations in the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mill strike shift to Gov Luther Hodges office in Raleigh as company and Textile Workers Union of America representatives meet. Hodges urges settlement of the four month old Henderson strike and says he will simply discuss the issues without offering definite proposals.
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Harriet-Henderson
Luther Hodges
Hodges
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Textile Workers Union of America
Henderson
Party Sweeps Election in Dakar as 80 Seats Claimed
A single party in Dakar appears to have won all 80 legislative seats in the Senegalese Republic after a vote in which one person was killed and about twenty injured. The result follows a rapid election process under the new French West African republic.
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Dakar
Sawmill worker eyed in Virginia family killings
Anne Arundel County police pursue the theory that an itinerant sawmill worker may be the killer who wiped out a Virginia family of four. The investigation centers on an outsider whose movements are being traced as authorities seek a motive and connection.
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Anne Arundel County
Virginia
Ike Mae Agree On Three Point Summit Formula
United States and Britain propose a three point plan for a Khrushchev summit this summer. The plan urges a Geneva foreign ministers meeting May 11 to advance German issues, then a heads of government meeting if warranted, with ministers guiding time and subject for the summit. Authorities say the proposal, drafted by Macmillan and Eisenhower, will be sent to Moscow this week.
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Four Escape Mahoning Jail
Four inmates and a woman overpowered two guards at Mahoning County jail in Youngstown early today. They kidnapped a jailer as a hostage then released him seven miles away. the escape used pistols and a car owned by a guard. One guard was locked in a cell after a head injury. a escapee threatened to shoot. Names given: Robert Herman 35 Joseph Orville 23 Donald Sweet 24 all of Youngstown and Lola Gordon of Toledo. The six story jail opened in 1957 and was believed escape proof.
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Youngstown
Mahoning County
O. W. Heldman
Robert Herman
Joseph Orville
Donald Sweet
Lola Gordon
Toledo
Boy Kneeling in Prayer Killed in Car Crash
In Nashville Tennessee a two year old boy kneeling in prayer in the front seat was killed when a head on collision with another car occurred. Seven others were injured. The father Gordon Roberts 21 said he was driving with his wife to work during evening devotionals.
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Tenn
Philip Dwayne Roberts
Here
Gordon Roberts
Air Force Abandons Search for Lost ICBM Nose Cone
In Cape Canaveral the Air Force said the highly advanced nose cone fired 5000 miles into space is lost after a two day Atlantic search ended without results. The device vanished despite efforts by military vessels and aircraft.
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Atlantic
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