Eisenhower Reduces Foreign Aid Request to 3.88 Billion
President Eisenhower cuts the administration foreign aid request from 4.4 billion to 3.88 billion. The revised plan calls for 2.9 billion for military assistance and 1.08 billion for economic aid, leaning on long term low interest loans for the latter. Democratic leaders welcomed a prudent review of nonessential spending and pledged not to politicize the aid program.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Uproar in Prospect as Colombia Backs Rojas Term
In Bogota the Constituent Assembly voted 76-1 to extend President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla’s four-year term starting August 1958 after suspending articles on electing a pope chief executive. Protests led by students and business groups followed the decision, with troops guarding the capitol.
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Bogota
Colombia
Gustavo Rojas Pinila
Constituent Assembly
Rojas
Trespass Case Is Dismissed in Trimble Court
County Juvenile Probation Officer W. O. Kail faced trespass charges after entering Mrs. Icel Hollingshead’s home to fetch her son for school. The case was withdrawn after a pre hearing conference in Mayor Richard Carey’s Trimble court. Separately, Communist China’s cities face rising unemployment as farm laborers seek urban work.
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W. O. Kail
Court of
Hollingshead
FHA Bill To Lower Loan Rates Gains House Support
The House moved toward passage of a housing credit bill to ease FHA down payments across the board. GOP and Democratic plans both reduce down payments for mid range loans with a 52 percent rate and FHA insurance. The GOP proposal cuts a $16 000 loan down payment from 2200 to 1000, while the Democratic plan sets 1600 plus veteran concessions. In Stamford Connecticut Ezio Pinza 64 former Met Opera bass died after a stroke at his home with family nearby.
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Washington
Rep. Talle
Iowa
House
House Banking Committee
Stamford
Conn
Ezio Pinza
Metropolitan Opera
Pinza
David H. Fogel
Verona
Italy
Greenwich
Doris Leak
Clelia
Gloria
Peter
Education Bill Gets Pruned
The House Education Committee unveiled a revised 144 billion dollar school construction bill aimed at a five year program providing 300 million dollars yearly in grants, matched by states, to build classrooms. The White House favored a four year 325 million per year plan totaling 1.3 billion, while Rep Kelley proposed six years at 600 million annually totaling 3.6 billion.
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Washington
House Education Committee
Congress
White House
Rep
Kelley
D-Pa
Ohio Senate Debates Tax Ceiling Proposal
The Ohio Senate weighs a Dirksen Gwinn Amendment to cap federal income taxes at 25 per cent with wartime authority to reach 35 per cent. If approved, Ohio would become the 32nd state to act. Also, the House is set to consider a pay raise for about 31 000 state workers in the under 300 a month bracket effective July 1. There is talk of a statewide year round Eastern Standard Time amendment.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
General Assembly
Congress
Senate
House
Lowell Fess
Greene
David McK. Ferguson
Guernsey
Dirksen - Gwinn
Ohio
Ohio House
Baker Goes To Conclave
Ohio University President John C. Baker leaves Athens for St Louis to attend the Midwest ern Regional Conference on Education Beyond the High School. He chairs Ohio's commission on the same topic with Montgomery O Connor and Seltzer among its members. The St Louis meeting aims to address college growth as enrollments are expected to triple by 1970 and will draw about 300 leaders from 12 states.
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Ohio University
John C. Baker
Athens
St. Louis
Eisenhower
Baker
William O'Neill
Ohio
Robert N. Montgomery
Muskingum College
Paul O’connor
Xavier University
Louis B. Seltzer
Cleveland
AEC Moves To Halt Piketon Strike Threat
A representative of the Atomic Energy Commission arrives at Piketon to help settle a proposed strike by about 1500 Goodyear Atomic Corp. employees. The AEC announced from Washington that it is assuming jurisdiction in the dispute.
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Waverly
Atomic Energy Commission
Piketon
Goodyear Atomic Corp
AEC
Washington
Churchill to retire from House of Commons
The Daily Herald reports Sir Winston Churchill plans to retire at the end of the current Parliament. No date is given for his departure.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Weather Highlights Across Ohio and Nearby States
Partly cloudy and warm in Ohio with scattered thundershowers possible south tonight and Friday. Lows near 60 tonight, highs in the 80s on Friday. In West Virginia, lows around 60 tonight and Friday partly cloudy warm and humid with possible scattered thundershowers. Other cities report various conditions including cloudy, clear, and rain across the region.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Bismarck
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Fort Worth
Indianapolis
Ransan Cy
CeiMonc
Lam Angeles
Miami
Aden. Ters
Mpla
St, Paul
Phoenix
Lowin
Foi
San Diego
Tampa
Meigs County Wreck Claims Seven In Head On Crash
Seven people died and two were critically injured in a head on collision on State Route 7 near Middleport near the Dana Gate station. Victims include John Carter Smith and George Halley with others named from Cheshire. The crash involved a racing incident with a northbound station wagon and a truck towing farm equipment.
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Middleport
Dana Gatewood
Meigs County
John Carter Smith
Bradbury
George William Halley
Elizabeth
George Ray McCoy
Marshal McCoy
Nancy McCoy
Charles
Judy) McCoy
Cheshire
Marshall
Ruby) McCoy
Meigs General Hospital
Ruth Ann Halley
George Halley
Smith
State Highway Patrol
Route
Hubert Boyd Fulton
Lindsey Hill
Fred Smith
Marine Corps
Vanadium Corp. of America
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Halley
Downington
Elizabeth Halley
Charles McCoy
Navy
Cheshire High School
Rawlings-Coats
Nazarene Church
Beckt Jr Labeled Spoiled Boy by Senate Panel
Senate Rackets Committee presents an interoffice Anheuser Busch memo calling Dave Beck Jr an overgrown spoiled boy. Testimony links Beck Sr to beer distribution favors and alleges misuse of Teamsters funds totaling about 320000. Investigators cite telegrams and memos showing rise of Dave Beck Jr in Washington and Alaska markets after 1946.
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Washington
Senate
Anheuser-Busch Co
Dave Beck
Young Beck
Seattle
Dwight D. Ingamelis
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
Teamsters Union
Beck
Teamsters
Dave Beck Jr
Alaska
Armed Services
St. Louis Brewing Company
iImgamells
Anheuser - Busch
Jay R. Rideout
Earl H. Memory
High Court Bars J of P Pay System
Ohio Supreme Court declares a 1955 law that let county commissioners set salaries for justices of the peace unconstitutional. The ruling invalidates the fee system and places JP pay on a salary, leaving justices with no clear payment method. Belmont County decisions upheld.
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Columbus
Justices of the Peace
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Belmont County Courts
House Judiciary Committee
Diem Seeks U S Aid as Viet Nam Faces Communist Threat
President Ngo Dinh Diem told Congress South Viet Nam, barely two years old, is in a critical free Asian position. He thanked the United States for moral and material aid and pledged to continue the fight against communism after meeting President Eisenhower at the White House to discuss safeguards.
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Washington
Ngo Dinh Diem
Congress
South Viet Nam
United States
Diem
Eisenhower
White House
Service Specialists To Get Pay Boosts
Secretary of Defense Wilson ordered pay boosts for 350000 enlisted specialists. Changes will start next year as the Army Navy and Air Force determine which technicians qualify for increases ranging from twelve to fifty dollars monthly. Boosts will affect about 15 percent of enlisted personnel.
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Washington
Wilson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Yugoslavia Likely to Resume Some U.S. Military Aid
The United States appears close to ending an embargo and resuming military aid to Yugoslavia. President Eisenhower would approve the plan, delivering a limited number of jet fighters over several years with ships of heavy hardware following previous schedules.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Eisenhower
Senate
Knowland
Calif
Plane With 7 Down at Sea
The British Air Ministry reported a U S Air Force KC97 aerial tanker with seven airmen aboard ditched in the Atlantic about 300 miles west of the Azores. Three U S Navy ships raced to the scene after leaving a convoy 100 miles away. All area shipping was alerted and the pilot reportedly held the aircraft to choose a ditching point, with some crew believed to have reached life rafts.
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London
British Air Ministry
Atlantic Ocean
Azores
Air Ministry
U S Seeks Secret Formula From Goodrich Rubber Co
The Justice Department filed suit to compel B F Goodrich Rubber Co to disclose its secret formula for producing synthetic rubber described as chemically equivalent to natural rubber. The government aims to make the process available to the entire rubber industry.
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Washington
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co
Justice Department
Forest Fires Threaten U.S. Timberlands
Fires across the northeast and Midwest threaten parched woodlands. Michigan battled a 750 acre blaze in Huron National Forest near Lake Huron with 400 firefighters after New York reported 350 fires during a dry spell. Wurtsmith Air Force Base at Oscoda faced the fire risk.
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Associated Press
Michigan
New York State
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
New Jersey
Big Huron National Forest
Lake Huron
Wurtsmith Air Force Base
Ascoda
Mich
Influenza Epidemic Sweeps East Asia Without Deaths
A sweeping influenza epidemic across East Asia is reported as the largest in years. No fatalities have been confirmed, with cases rising in multiple nations and health authorities monitoring the spread.
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Singapore
East Asia
Post Office Faces Possible Cuts Amid Senate Fight Over Funds
Postmaster General Summerfield warned Congress that unless 70 to 90 million dollars in extra funding is approved, postal services face cuts starting July 1. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee restored 32 million of 58 million cut from the 1958 request, while considering rate hikes for newspapers and magazines.
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Washington
Post Office
Capitol Hill
Summerfield
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate Appropriations
House
Post Office Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Post Office Department
Treasury
Tax Court
Auto Strike Vote Looms At Chrysler Plant
Detroit reports a two day strike vote among Chrysler stamping plant workers after a $5,000,000 damages suit and Walter Reuther appeal for restraint. Reuther offered UAW mediation over Chrysler moves to its Twinsburg Ohio plant. Chrysler pressed two suits including $5,000,000 for contract violations by Local 212 and $500,000 daily damages if interference with equipment removal continues.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Walter Reuther
Reuther
United Auto Workers
Twinsburg
Ohio
UAW
Local 212
Three Area Men Receive Awards for Heroism
Three Hocking Valley men, Eldredge R. Hanning Thomas Riley Jr and William Stephenson of Glouster Nelsonville and Oak Grove, were among 18 in the U S mineral industry awarded Joseph A Holmes Safety Association medals for heroism at an auger mine October 12. They entered an oxygen deficient borehole to save two trapped miners, with Riley guiding Hanning by rope and Stephenson aiding before collapsing. Two miners later died in the incident.
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Hocking Valley
U. S
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association
Thomas Riley, Jr
Nelsonville
Eldredge R. Hanning
Oak Grove
William Stephenson
Glouster
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Hanning
Riley
Stephenson
Lawrence Newsom
Murray City
Paul Cherniak
Buchte
Messenger Ads Promote Work Horses and Personal Property Sales
A report from Mr. Vincent notes a work horse sold via Messenger Ad. The piece argues Messenger Classified Ads remain effective for selling other personal property by tapping a market of ready buyers on Want Ad pages.
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Mr. Vincent
Messenger
Want
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