Ohio education delegates call for fewer but better districts
Three thousand delegates at the State House Conference on Education in Columbus heard a statewide effort to define needs. Gov. ONeill opened the event, urging minimum quality for elementary and secondary education and outlining four morning reports on school program, finance, personnel, and district organization.
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State House Conference On Education
Veterans’ Memorial
C. William O'Neill
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Orville Jones
Ohio Afl-Cio
Charles A. Mosher
Alliance
Wellston
LSU
Army
Hocking County
Athens
Glouster
Chauncey
Loganee
Teeeene
Gallipolis
Nelsonville
OU Oro
Neem
Road Chief Starts Tour From Here
Charles M. Noble Ohio director of highways began a day long Southeast Ohio tour starting at the Ohio University airport. He will inspect routes 50 682 33 and 75 plan meetings with county engineers and boards of trade in Logan and other towns. The trip aims to review new projects and proposed jobs across the state.
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Charles M. Noble
Athens
Athens County
John W. Dowler
J. C. Kendle
Marietta
State Highway Department
Ohio University
Division 10
John Dowler
Pomeroy
Final Atomic Tests Scheduled For Today
The final phase of a 13 year test series is due today at the atomic test site. Two tower shots and two tunnel shots are planned with one of each type scheduled for today before the Friday deadline set by President Eisenhower.
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Atomic Test Site
Eisenhower
Athens to be Ohio capital in civil defense trial run
About 750 state officials will descend on Athens December 5 for a civil defense drill to test relocating Ohio government to Ohio University in an emergency. Officials will move into 18 designated buildings and shuttle typed files from Columbus, with police and civil defense coordinating the arrival of 150 to 200 cars.
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Athens
Laverne F. Lausche
Ohio University
Ohio
Columbus
Lausche
Civil Defense Commission
Department of Public Works
C. William O'Neill
Cardinal Roncalli Becomes Pope At 76 In Vatican
Vatican City announces Angelo Cardinal Roncalli is elected pope, becoming the 262nd leader of the Roman Catholic Church and its roughly five hundred million followers. He is 76 years old.
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Vatican City
Angelo Cardinal Roncalli
Roncalli
Venice
ONeill Denies Teamsters Aid In 1956 Campaign
Governor C William ONeill rebutted DiSalle claims that Ohio Teamsters financed his 1956 bid. He denied appearing on radio or TV ads and said any such use, if real, happened without his knowledge. Democratic Chairman William Coleman noted DiSalle did not prove personal appearance.
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William O’neill
Teamsters Union
O'Neill
Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio Teamsters
William
Presser
George Bender
DiSalle
William Coleman
di Salle
Metmarks 75th anniversary with Tosca opening
The Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 75th anniversary with Puccini's Tosca opening the 1958 59 season in the old Broadway house. Te Baldi Del Monaco and London led the cast as diplomats, stars, and celebrities filled the opening night audience.
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Metropolitan Opera
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del Monaco
London
Opera
Broadway
Asi
Postponed Guam Weather Rocket Launch To Next Week
The firing of the first Guam based weather probe rocket was delayed to today, then postponed to next week due to damp weather. The Nike Cajun rocket aims to collect wind and temperature data from 30 000 to 300 000 feet above the earth.
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Guam
Campaigning Shifts as 22 Miners Die Probe Opens
Eisenhower tours New York rallying supporters amid a renewed Democratic critique. Truman warns against overconfidence as Gallup polls hint at big Democratic gains while Nixon questions poll accuracy. In Chicago Adlai Stevenson condemns White House leadership vacancy, Butler accuses anti-Semitic appeals, and Princeton Senator Smith attacks Green on foreign policy.
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Eisenhower
Nelson Rockefeller
Rep
Kenneth Keating
GOP
U. S
Connecticut
New Jersey
Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Congress
White House
Los Angeles
Paul M. Butler
Princeton
N. J
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Theodore F. Green
D-Ri
Mine Site Of 1957 Disaster In Virginia
Investigators descend 300 feet into a gas filled tunnel at the Pocahontas coal mine to probe the cause of a second blast in 21 months. Twenty two miners were killed and 188 were underground at 8 28 am as rescue teams and families waited near the shaft in Bishop Virginia. By 6 15 pm all victims were recovered.
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Pocahontas Fuel Co
Crawford Wilson
West Virginia Bureau of Mines
Virginia Mountain
Wilson
Reds Reject Latest Plan On A Tests
Western diplomats at the United Nations fear the Soviet Union plans to scuttle Big Three talks on a one year suspension of nuclear tests. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin told the UN that Moscow would not accept an unconditional suspension and pressed for immediate and permanent ban. He signaled readiness to cooperate with talks but kept to demand for verification and an end to testing forever.
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N.Y
Soviet Union
Geneva
Valerian Zorin
81 Nation
Kremlin
Zorin
Eisenhower
United States
Britain
Blankenship Appeals Death Sentence To Ohio Supreme Court
Blankenship appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court from his death sentence for the 1957 slaying of Loren Borden in Gallia County jail at Gallipolis. He wrested Sheriff Oscar Baird’s pistol, wounded prisoner Arnold Cooper, and then surrendered. Execution stayed pending appeal.
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Bell Blankenship
Ohio Supreme Court
Loren Gus Borden
Gallia
Gallipolis
Oscar Baird
Blankenship
Arnold Cooper
Baird
Ohio
Gov. C. O'Neill aims two year Ohio tech institute in Cleveland
In Columbus on Tuesday Governor William O'Neill announced plans to push creation of a two year state technical institute to be built in Cleveland. The move signals a broader effort to expand vocational education and train skilled workers in northern Ohio.
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Columbus
William O’neill
Cleveland
Bus Strike Vote Set in Hamilton Ohio
Hamilton Ohio union bus drivers will vote today on a strike over ongoing stoppage that has halted city buses for two days.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Eisenhower says six years of progress frame his legacy
In Pittsburgh a rally speaker President Eisenhower hailed his administration's gains and called the six years of progress the finest in U.S. history. He attacked Democrats in Charleston at an airport crowd urging voters to repudiation of what he called phony doctrines. In Cleveland Stephen M. Young secured support from the Cosmopolitan Women's Democratic League as Jane Lausche pledged her vote. Middletown officials reported Orrin Bricker noting a smaller dollar decline under Eisenhower versus Truman, while Alliance Michael V. DiSalle said polling reports on his governor bid were surprisingly strong.
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Pakistan Presidency Handed To General
Gen Mohammed Ayub Khan now rules Pakistan in fact as Iskander Mirza resigns and transfers all powers after a peaceful military revolution that ended democratic government. Ayub, former army commander in chief, had joined Mirza on Oct 7 in the transfer of power.
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Iskander Mirza
Ayub
Canadian GM to Recall 8000 Workers in Oshawa Strike Settlement
General Motors of Canada Ltd. says it will begin Wednesday recalling 8000 workers laid off in the past two weeks. A spokesman cited settlement of a Fisher Body strike freeing parts needed for production.
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Ont
General Motors of Canada Ltd
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Three Soviet scientists win 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics
Stockholm awards P A Cherenkov I M Frank and Igor E Tamm for Cherenkov effect discovery and interpretation. A cosmic ray counter based on the trap circles the globe aboard Sputnik I while other traps reside in nuclear labs worldwide.
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Sweden
P. A. Cherenkov
I. M. Frank
Igor E. Tamm
Moscow
Royal Swedish Academy
Bids Opened For 78 Job On Route 78 Through Hollister
A McArthur firm was the apparent low bidder for Route 78 through Hollister and Glouster. Engle Construction Co. bid $349,014.99, the lowest of six bids opened by Ohio's director of highways. Shelly Co. was second at $349,458.38, followed by F. H. Brewer Co. and Sidwell Brothers. All bids were below the engineer's estimate of $417,800.
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Glouster
Engle Construction Co
Ohio
Shelly Co
Thornville
F. H. Brewer Co
Lancaster
Sidwell Brothers
South Zanesville
Legion Head Cites Hoover Smear Campaign
Preston J. Moore national commander of the American Legion charges a deliberate smear campaign against FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. He compares it to a Communist party effort in 1940 and says reporters for the New York Post are digging up material for a character assassination. Editor James A. Wechsler says the Post aims for a factual, balanced study with diverse sources. Moore notes issues of The Nation and Rights magazines devoted to critical Hoover/B I coverage.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Preston J. Moore
Hoover
Communist Party
New York Post
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the Nation
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The
Treacherous Behavior' Pasternak Ousted From Soviet Union
Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, is expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union by a majority vote of the presidium. The move follows hostile press coverage after the Nobel prize announcement and may bar him from continuing work in the USSR.
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Soviet Writers’ Union
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Zhivago
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Soviet Union
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