GOP scoffs at Butler forecast on Eisenhower resignation
Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler predicted Eisenhower would resign before finishing his term, but Republican leaders dismiss it as speculation. Meade Alcorn calls the claim nonsense while Senator Knowland defends the President as vigorous and on the job. Butler admits the forecast rests on uncertain talk in official circles.
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Washington
Paul M. Butler
Eisenhower
Meade Alcorn
William Knowland
R-Calif
Butler
Washington Press Corps
Beserk janitor opens fire in San Francisco housing project
In Potrero Hill, a janitor fired a 12 gauge shotgun into a crowded neighbor- hood apartment wounding three adults and six children. William Breeze, 37, fled then called police and was detained on assault with deadly intent charges as the feud escalated. His wife Mary, 29, was seen crying near the scene, and witnesses say she briefly aimed a revolver during the incident.
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San Francisco
Beserk
William Edward Breeze
Potrero Hill Negro
Breeze
Mary
Aline Herbert
Ohio Man Found Dead on Dirt Road in Kentucky Case
A Portsmouth Ohio man, Joseph Wiley Bentley, 34, was found Monday night on a dirt road near Lode in Greenup County with a gunshot wound to the head and a blunt force impact to the forehead. Coroner Milton Evans ruled it murder. No weapon was found. Bentley’s wallet was empty. Sheriff Beckham Montgomery and Kentucky State Police investigate.
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Greenup
Portsmouth
Ohio
Lode
Joseph Wiley Bentley
Milton Evans
Bentley
Beckham Montgomery
Kentucky
Novelist James Branch Cabell Dies at 79
James Branch Cabell a Virginia author known for refined yet provocative novels of disillusion and escape died Monday night in Richmond at age 79.
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Richmond
James Branch Cabell
Virginia
Lost Bill Returned Boosts Old Fashioned Honesty
Mrs. Harry Elkins advertised a lost $10 bill in The Messenger Classifieds between her home and Carpenter Street. The next day the bill was returned, reinforcing faith in old fashioned honesty. To recover valuables, place a lost ad in the Want Ads by dialing 31242.
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Harry Elkins
Carpenter Street
Messenger
Heavy Rains Close Rural Schools After Slides Near Ironton
Heavy rains trigger another landslide on U S 52 four miles east of Ironton. High water blocks rural roads around Waterloo and closes two Black Fork area schools until Wednesday. Three rural schools with 1092 pupils remain unopened due to slides and high waters.
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Ironton
Here
U. S. 52
Waterloo
Blackfork
Trash Fire Smell Triggers Sitdown at Detroit Suburb Dump
About a dozen Warren housewives staged a protest at a refuse dump, blocking access with chairs to object to a pungent odor. Police urged them to move, but the women remained seated throughout the day in what a spokesman called direct action.
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Detroit
Warren
Ohio University raises fees and board for 1958
Ohio University will raise fees by 20 dollars per semester and board by 18 dollars per semester starting September 1958. The comprehensive semester fee rises from 115 to 135 dollars, and room charges stay the same. Non‑resident fees will go from 260 to 285 dollars per semester.
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Ohio University Today
John C. Baker
Ohio University
University Board of Trustees
Baker
Patrol Looks For Missing Training Jet
Civil Air Patrol units resumed a search for a missing T33 jet trainer that disappeared Monday after leaving Langley Air Force Base Virginia. CAP efforts shift between land and air operations in the Norfolk and Virginia peninsula regions under Richmond authorities with weather delaying aerial search.
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South Charleston
Civil Air Patrol
Langley Air Force Base
CAP
Richmond
Norfolk
Virginia
Glenn Sprouse
West Virginia
Air Force
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Miami University Dean Proposes Split for Public Schools
Dr. D. S. Ward, dean of the Miami University education school, urged Cincinnati parents and teachers to separate public schools into a Study Division and a Youth Services Division. The plan would place instruction in the Study Division and move guidance welfare parent education recreation and athletics to the Youth Services Division.
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Cincinnati
Miami University
D. S. Ward
Miami Education School
Chesapeake Telephone seeks$291501 securities for improvements
Columbus The Chesapeake Telephone Co in Lawrence County asks the Utilities Commission for permission to issue 291501 dollars in securities to reimburse its treasury for past expenditures on improvements.
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COLUMBUS—_The _Chesapeake Telephone Co
Lawrence County
The
Utilities Commission
Treasury
Tropical Isle Near Paradise Lures Men to Nuclear Tests
Los Angeles reports promise of $10,000 yearly for workers on Parry Island with 25 cent meals and guaranteed overtime. Men see only a portion of earnings as most wages are deposited or sent home. If employed 18 months the income is earned abroad and untaxed. A company executive notes men are happy without women.
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Los Angeles
South Seas
Tropic Isles
United States
Paradise
Parry Island
Voters Cast Ballots in 3 States for Primary Contests
Voters cast ballots in Ohio Indiana and Alabama in primaries for governor and other offices. Alabama featured 14 Democratic hopefuls, with segregation as a key issue. Ohio saw seven contenders for governor and two mayoral candidates. Congressional primaries in Indiana drew challenges to Reps. Harden and Brownson. Meanwhile, the NLRB rejected a trial examiner’s recommendation to drop unfair labor practice charges against the CWA over the Ohio strike, citing misconduct directed at employees and supervisors alike.
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Ohio
Alabama
Congress
Indiana
Abama
John W. Bricker
Stephen M. Young
Cecil M. Harden
Charles B. Brownson
Harden
Robert S. Webb
Brownson
Donald C
Bruce
Washington
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Communications Workers of America
CWA
Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co
Whittemore
Mock Test To Gauge CD Skills
The United civil defense forces about 500 000 strong prepare for a mock air and sea attack to test readiness in a nationwide exercise named Operation Alert 1958. Public awareness will come via newspapers radio and TV as alarms sound in New York New Jersey and Connecticut. Michigan and Indiana abstain from participation. FCDA chief Leo A Hoegh oversees the operation from Washington.
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Battle Creek
Mich
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Michigan
Indiana
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Leo A. Hoegh
FCDA
Iowa
Washington, D. C
Licking Floods Roads Close Rural Muskingum Counties
More than a dozen highways in Muskingum County flood from the Licking River surge after heavy rains.
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Zanesville
Muskingum County
Licking River
Defense seeks authority to build Reserve training facilities
The Defense Department has asked Congress for authority to construct Reserve training facilities costing 10,140,000 dollars, including 118,000 dollars allocated for Ohio projects.
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Washington
Defense Department
Congress
Ohio
NATO Ministers Push for Summit Talks Without Weakening Stance
Foreign ministers of Italy Denmark Canada Norway Portugal and Belgium urged resuming top level talks with the Soviet Union in Copenhagen while warning against a prestige overstrike. They called for conditional moves toward a nuclear test halt and opposed any Soviet withdrawal of Western troops from Europe. The group questioned Moscow’s willingness for a meaningful conference.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
NATO
Soviet Union
Italy
Canada
Norway
Portugal
Belgium
Kremlin
United States
Britain
West
Moscow
UN Security Council
GM Ford Appeal To Rank And File In Bargaining
GM and Ford bypassed UAW leadership and appealed directly to hourly workers to study each company wage proposal. GM published a Currier letter urging 350 000 workers to evaluate the wage formula amid talks. Ford followed with Patterson stating the Ford offer was rejected twice by the union negotiating group.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
UAW
Harlow H. Curtice
Ford
Henry Ford
Four Die As Small Plane Crashes Near Medina
Civil Aeronautics Administration officials say a structural failure caused a single engine plane to crash near Medina Sunday night, killing four Cleveland residents. Victims include Dr. William R. Moore Jr., 32, his secretary Ann Fike, 29, Clinton Bassett, 27, and his bride Mary Anne, 20.
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Cleveland
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Medina
William R. Moore, Jr
Ann Fike
Cinton Bassett
Mary Anne
Elizabeth Busch Dies After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Elizabeth Overton Busch, 63, former wife of August A. Busch Jr., president of Anheuser Busch Inc., died Sunday from a cerebral hemorrhage in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Elizabeth Overton Busch
August A. Busch, Jr
Anheuser- Busch, Inc
Ohio's First Student Economic Meeting
The Messenger reports on Ohio students gathering for the first student economic meeting with coverage across towns. The council rejects a curfew request and notes other civic notes. Rain lies heavy as segments touch on education, sports, and local markets.
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Ohio
Point Judge
Soviets Press for Early Summit Foreign Ministers Meet
Moscow reported Andrei Gromyko urged speed in arranging a ministers conference with the Western Big Three. He said the USSR would continue talks with ambassadors and rejected the idea of adding Poland and Czechoslovakia to a round table. He insisted Western acceptance of separate talks does not fix future conference composition.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
U. S
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Eisenhower to Address Republican Dinner Tonight
President Eisenhower will speak at a downtown hotel dinner honoring GOP Congressional members. CBS television and radio will carry the address from 9:30 to 10 p.m. EST.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
CBS Television
That's My Father Ambulance Call Ends in Tragedy
Atlanta ambulance attendant Carl W. Banks Jr., 18, responded to a hotel call and found his father fatally wounded by a shotgun blast, a shocking domestic incident unfolding on a public alert.
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Atlanta
Carl W. Banks Jr
Little Rock Integration Prizes Highlight 1958 Journalism
The Arkansas Gazette earned two Pulitzer Prizes for public service and editorials on the Little Rock integration crisis. Relman Morin of the Associated Press won for dramatic eyewitness reporting of mob violence on September 23, 1957. Morin previously won in 1951.
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New York
Little Rock
Ark
The
Arkansas Gazette
Relman
Pat) Morin
Associated Press
Gazette
Harry S. Ashmore
Morin
Reserves Get New Training Program for Immediate Action
The Navy announces a new selected reserve program to train civilian sailors for wartime action. Ready reserve units at ports will be assigned training duties on specified vessels under a commander who leads crews into action as needed. Destroyer type ships will be used exclusively by officers and men in the selected reserve. 14 additional destroyers and escort vessels will be transferred to the reserve this year.
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Washington
Navy Today
Navy
Boy Dies After Bat Injury in Savageville Game
Ronald Malcolm Burns a 9-year-old from Limerick Jackson County died at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after being struck by a bat during a Savageville baseball game.
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Gallipolis
Limerick
Jackson County
Ronald Malcolm Burns
Holzer Hospital
Savageville School
Fist Fights Mark Ohio Labor Merger Vote
Merger of the Ohio Federation of Labor and the Ohio CIO Council, each with about 500000 members, was approved Monday after clashes in Cleveland. CIO delegates backed the merger by a large vote, while OFL delegates favored it by 810 to 354. A confrontation at the stage left John Breidenbach and Phil Hannah bruised in a physical altercation.
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Cleveland
Ohio Federation of Labor
Ohio Cio Council
CIO
Public Music Hall
Public Auditorium
OFL
John Breidenbach
Dayton
Ohio Building Trades Council
Phil Hannah
Columbus
Breidenbach
Ohio River Will Crest Below Flood Stage
The Ohio River is forecast to crest at 48 feet, four feet below flood stage in Cincinnati. Portsmouth reports blocked sewers and flood pumps running as officials anticipate a crest near 45.5 feet and possible impacts on some low lying roads.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Portsmouth
Canton Adopts First City Employment Practices Ordinances
City Council approved two emergency ordinances establishing the first fair employment practices machinery in Canton. The measures passed 13 to 1 in a Monday night meeting.
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Canton
Weather Report Across Regions Including West Virginia and Ohio
Cloudy and cool conditions persist with rain mainly in the eastern areas tonight. Lows range from mid 40s to mid 50s, with clearing and warmer conditions forecast for Wednesday. Other cities show a mix of clearing, rain, and cooler or milder trends.
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Albuquerque
Bismarck
Cleveland
Des Moines
Fort Worth
Indianapolis
Memphis
Milwaukee
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Richmond
Salt Lake City
Tampa
Washington
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