Probers Ready To Reveal Graft In Military Buying
Senator McClellan says the Senate Investigations subcommittee will expose higher ups in a nest of grafters profiting from armed forces contracts though not yet seeing big scale procurement corruption. Witness Porreca admitted gifts in 1952 while Rubin denied payoffs as a fixer amid ongoing hearings.
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McClellan
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Clifton
N.Z
Debated Bill Aims to Double Federal Road Aid
The Senate opened debate on a Democratic bill to nearly double federal aid for road construction and maintenance across highways and interstates. flooding near four states killed five, with evacuations in Colorado and Texas amid rising waters. The measure would authorize about 17.94 billion over five years, shifting heavy emphasis to interstate links and high speed corridors.
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Troops Withdraw From Saigon Expected by Vietnam France
Vietnam official Tran Trung Dung announced that France and Vietnam agreed to withdraw all French forces from Saigon. About 35,000 troops including French and Foreign Legion units would move to Cap Saint Jacques, leaving Saigon free of French influence for the first time in 80 years and under Vietnamese national army security.
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Viet Nam
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Diem
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Mother of Eight Delivers Own Child at Home
In Titusville Florida Mrs Ruth Carter delivered her eighth child at home without a doctor as her husband Ellerbe Carter Sr worked at his office. A neighbor and a journalist note the mother remained calm while the newborn slept, with a housemaid present and a drink of whisky for relaxation.
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Ruthie Lee
Daytona Beach News Journal
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Five Day Forecast Summary With Variable Temperatures
Five day forecast notes average temperatures around two degrees below normal. Gray conditions indicate cooler days with a warmer Sunday and a late Wednesday. Showers expected south Saturday or Saturday night and across all sections Sunday. Dry weather indicated Monday through Wednesday.
Japanese doctor reports new polio drug rapid improvement
Dr Hideo Sato of Kitami Hokkaido told Kyodo News he used a new tablet drug on nine patients. An 11 year old boy and a 4 year old girl with polio walked within a month of treatment, aided by adreno cortical hormones and vitamins from B2. Sato cautioned the effectiveness may not be permanent.
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Kitami
Hokkaido
Kyodo News ‘Agency
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Hoover proposes plan to save billions for taxpayers
Former president Herbert Hoover addressed the National Industrial Conference Board’s 40th annual meeting on a Thursday night, outlining recommendations to save billions and help the Federal Treasury recoup funds. He urged reforms and fiscal measures to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
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New York
Herbert
Federal Treasury
National Industrial Conference Board
Detroit Tailor's Widow Leaves Large Estate
The widow of a Detroit tailor died March 7 and left a fortune of $300,000 to be shared by the Michigan Humane Society and the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research. Executors were surprised to find the amount in her safe deposit box when opened Thursday.
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Emma McKen
Michi [Gan Humane Society
Detroit Institute For Cancer
Mystery ends as youths confess track bar placement
In Middletown Ohio two second year boys admitted placing steel bars along an 18 mile stretch of New York Central tracks last Saturday. A westbound freight traveling about 60 mph struck the barricade but did not derail. The boys, questioned with about 200 pupils, will appear in Juvenile Court next week. A girl friend’s report helped crack the case.
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Ohio
New York Central
Iad
Pedestrian Injured by Auto in Lebanon Incident
Charles Banks of Loveland, previously struck five months ago, was leaning on crutches at a Lebanon filling station when a car backed up and knocked him, inflicting a fractured hip. He previously suffered a skull injury.
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Lebanon
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Loveland
Ex Prisoner of Russians jailed by U S Army court martial
Ex prisoner Pvt Marchuk of Norristown Pa held captive in Russia for six years sentenced by an Army court martial to 12 years in prison for passing U S military secrets to the Soviet Union. He also receives a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay. He pleaded innocent and his trial faced closed testimony on West Berlin intelligence activity and alleged coercion-related evidence.
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Marcha
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Detroit
William A. Verdine
Starks
Stusslan
Ohio Senate Faces Hiking Officials Pay
Ohio officials seek broad pay raises in a single bill linking governor lieutenant governor secretary of state auditor treasurer attorney general and judges salaries. The measure proposes governor 25000 from 20000 and other raises including supreme court justices appellate judges county officials prosecutors engineers and coroners with pay ranges tied to population and term start dates.
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Argentina Moves to End Catholicism as State Religion
Argentina's Peronist dominated Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to end Catholicism as the state religion, voting 121 to 12 to form a national convention to amend the constitution. The move, backed by Peronists, targets church funding, religious education in public schools, and clerical salaries, amid a broader anti church drive that has led to priest arrests.
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Inoculation Uncertainty Continues In Ohio Polio Program
Ohio Health Director Dr Ralph E Dwork said the polio immunization program will restart within 12 hours of cleared Salk vaccine receipts and that a federal clearance may allow the second shot series within a week or two Ohio has inoculated all but about 4000 eligible children Meanwhile nationwide uncertainty persists as the Public Health Service delays clearances and a Senate committee mulls vaccine control powers Authorities note no proven link between the vaccine and 77 post inoculation polio cases across nearly six million inoculations with five fatalities
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Ralph E. Dwork
Ohio
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Eli Lilly Co
Wyeth
Washington
Public Health Service
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D-Ala
Senate Labor Committee
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Health Service
Sale of Gas Property Requested by River Gas and Gasco
COLUMBUS River Gas Co and Gasco filed a joint application with the state utilities commission seeking permission to sell all River Gas property in Morgan and Calhoun counties to Ohio Fuel Gas for 18000. Transfer planned for June would absorb about 300 rural customers in Amesville Chesterhill Pennsville and Stockport as Gasco rehabilitates the system to improve service.
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W. Va
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Ohio Fuel
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Frank W. Phillips
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Stocent
Coffee Prices Coming Down Amid Market Shifts
New York and Seattle reports show major distributors General Foods and Standard Brands cutting coffee prices. Maxwell House regular coffee drops to 88 cents a pound wholesale, with Kaffee Hag and San Kento reduced by five cents. Two-ounce instant coffee also falls, while bulk pricing adjusts. In Japan, Rev DeShazer, a former Doolittle Raider, returns to America after four decades abroad with his family as he studies for missionary work, aiming to spread Christianity despite Buddhist competition.
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Cotter
General Foods Corp
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Institute honors President Cleveland at ceremony
Case Institute of Technology last night honored its president Dr. T Keith Glennan and closed its diamond jubilee with a dinner attended by alumni and friends totaling many attendees.
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Cleveland
Case Intitute of ‘Technology
T. Keith Glennan
Jumble of Soviet Air Threat Statements Create Confusion
An Air Force intelligence officer Brig Gen Woodbury Burgess, chief of inten dence for the Continental Air Defense Command, warned at Selfridge Field that Russia may have fighters and bombers equal to or better than U S planes. He suggested the American air force is currently outmatched in numbers and capability.
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Air power dispute sparks claims at Washington hearing
In a tense session, Senator Symington warned the U S may have lost air superiority to Russia. General Twining countered Burgess misrepresented facts, saying Burgess exaggerated remarks and defended his prepared speech after a Defense Department security review. Burgess appeared before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, answering some questions despite earlier objections.
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Symington
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Committee
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Defense Department
Red Air Power Debate Over Soviet Threat
Senator Chavez will probe the US and Soviet air strength after a Pentagon note on Moscow air show and new Soviet aircraft. Officials cited informing the public and countering critics as the aim while Talbott defended issuing the statement to reveal the facts about Soviet bomber and fighter advances.
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D-Nm
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Russia
Pentagon
Moscow
Reds Claim Ready Air Force Within Strike Range
Taipei reports that the Chinese Reds claim about 80 combat aircraft within a 600 mile radius of Formosa. General Wang Shu mi said Red units include MIG A5s and SE MIG IT jets TU 26 and TU 2 bombers. Bases in Shanghai and Nanking could enable attacks on Okinawa and the Philippines. four new airfields are planned with improvements to others.
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Sperry Gyroscope Ends Strike After Federal Mediation
A substantial agreement was reached early today between Sperry Gyroscope Co and striking workers who shut three Long Island defense contract plants. Technical problems to be discussed at a secret meeting scheduled today to finalize the accord.
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New York
Sperry Gyroscope Co
Long Islan
British Rail Strike Called For May 28 Across Nation
Rail workers and engineers in Britain announce a nationwide strike for May 28 in response to wage disputes. A dock union also threatens to walk out at four key ports a few days before the vote. The upheaval adds to mounting labor tension amid the national election and port labor debates.
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Nelsonville TB Hospital Contracts Recommended in Ohio
Columbus announces the state Public Works Department has recommended approval of contracts for the Nelsonville Tuberculosis Hospital in Athens County. The facility serves 14 southeastern Ohio counties with a projected cost of 1.1 million dollars, funded by 1.15 million state appropriation and 350 thousand federal funds. Steinle Wolfe, Inc. Fremont submitted the lowest bid of 1.96 million for the general construction contract.
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Nelsonville
Athens County
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Steinle Wolfe, Inc
Fremont
Salk Relatives Hit by Polio
California health officials report nine polio cases among close relatives of youths who received the Salk vaccine. Dr. Merrill notes no clear link to immunization and that only one vaccinated child in these families developed polio. About 9 percent of California children inoculated have developed polio.
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Malcolm R. Merrill
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