State Treasurer Projects $3 Billion Ohio Government in 1950s Report
State Treasurer Roger W. Tracy released an annual report showing total state transactions of $2,834,768,501 for the year ended June 30, with a 73 percent rise since 1951. The document notes all-time high receipts of $1,421,874,934 and expenditures of $1,412,893,657, plus a general revenue deficit of $45,600,552, eased to $28,389,416 after utility tax transfers. Sales tax revenue declined due to road recession, totaling $227,351,376 versus $326,096,469 the prior year.
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Columbus
Roger W. Tracy
Tracy
Anat Vsic
Etata’e Fi
Jury Hearing Caril's Story in Starkweather Case
Lincoln Neb January murder rampage trial opens with Caril Fugate aged 15 accused as Starkweather accomplice in ten deaths across Nebraska and Wyoming. Starkweather convicted and sentenced to death. Caril claims she was a hostage and not an accomplice as attorney Charles McArthur argues she was immature and cowed.
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Lincoln
Neb
Caril Fugate
Charles Starkweather
Nebraska
Wyoming
Caril
Starkweather
Robert Jensen
Bennet
Jensen
Charles McArthur
Prevention system proposed to curb death by own action
Dr Edward Press of New York suggested a nationwide prevention framework at the American Public Health Association meeting. A round the clock community crisis center would coordinate reports and involve local agencies to deter further attempts. A network of state and local societies would manage crisis reports and rehabilitation after hospital care.
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ST. Louis—I
Edward Press
New York
American Public Health Association
Press
Association
Jury Trials Set For Seven UM Students
ANN ARBOR Mich Two star Michigan athletes Tony Rio and Jack Lewis plus five other UM students face jury trials next month on campus football gambling charges. All seven stood mute at arraignment and requested juries. plea of innocent is entered automatically for muting defendants.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Michigan
Tony Rio
John Herrnstein
Jack Lewis
Wolverine
Chicago
Fritz Crisler
George Stauch
Ohio's Oldest Active Physician Dies At 96
Dr. Robert Clifford Pau aged 96 died at his Wooster home after a long career as Ohio's oldest practicing physician. Born in Port Washington he spent 43 of his 66 years practicing medicine in Wooster.
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Wooster
Robert Clifford Pau
Ohio
Port Washington
Twelve Miners Rescued After Weeklong Mine Squeeze
Twelve men trapped in a pocket two miles from the mine entrance after a roof collapse recount prayers and hymns while awaiting rescue. They survived on crusts, rationed lights, and coffee with sugar through a copper tube, amid deteriorating air until belated extraction began.
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Associated Press
Springhill
N. S
Hugh Guthry
Caleb Rushton
Rushton
Gorley Kempt
Nobel Prize Row: Pasternak Refuses Award Under Soviet Pressure
Three Western laureates and others react to Boris Pasternak turning down the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature citing pressure from the Soviet government. Camus Russell and others debate whether the refusal reflects free will or political coercion amid the Kremlin’s stance on Doctor Zhivago.
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Associated Press
Boris Pasternak
Kremlin
Doctor Zhivago
West
Soviet Union
Nobel Committee
Pasternak
Royal Academy of Letters
France
Albert Camus
Earl Bertrand Russell
Campaign Leaders Trade Charges In Final Election Push
Vice President Nixon travels from the Corn Belt toward Alaska campaigning for a Republican Congress. Meade Alcorn attacks Democrats as radical while Paul Butler urges exit for pro civil rights plank opponents. AFL CIO President Meany accuses labor critics of pro-Communist framing ahead of Eisenhower nationwide address in Baltimore.
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Nixon
Corn Belt
Alaska
Chicago
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Wichita
Kan
California
Paul M. Butler
Greenwich
Conn
GOP
Meade Alcorn
Republican Party
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Washington
America
Eisenhower
Baltimore
Birmingham Bus Segregation Challenge Faces Court
A group of 22 Black residents sue Birmingham officials and the transit company in U S District Court over a newly replaced bus segregation ordinance. They argue subterfuge after the city repealed the old law and now leaves seat assignment to drivers without a race designation. Federal Judge H Hobart Grooms may dismiss since the original ordinance is gone.
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Birmingham
Ala
U.S. District Court
Birmingham Transit Co
H. Hobart Grooms
Law Supports Young in Senate Bid With UAW Contribution
Stephen M. Young a Democratic candidate for the U S Senate receives a 2500 dollar campaign donation from a committee of United Auto Workers Union officials.
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LAW
Detroit
Stephen M. Young
U. S. Senate
United Auto Workers Union
City Council Deadlock Delays Meeting While Boys Pick Mayor
During Boys Week nine high school pupils acted as city councilmen and elected a mayor. After 11 ballots no candidate had six votes. At lunch James Dakin Hughes High School senior won on the fourth ballot. Real councilmen waited to begin business.
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Cincinnati
Donald F. Clancy
James Dakin
Hughes High School
Trial Goes to Jury in East Liverpool Burglary Case
In Lisbon Ohio the trial of two former East Liverpool police officers on burglary charges is expected to go to the jury today.
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Lisbon
Ohio
East Liverpool
Ohio versus Michigan in campaign talk
Gov. C. William ONeill framed re election as Ohio State versus Michigan in a televised talk from KYW TV. He compared tax burden unemployment and finances, urging Ohio voters to avoid becoming a Michigan satellite. He planned further remarks on WBNS TV and WSAZ later Friday.
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Cleveland
William O'Neill
Ohio State
Michigan
Kyw-Tv
Aflcio
Walter Reuther
Cincinnati
O’neill
Ohio
Bricker
Taft
Lausche
Hoffa, Reuther and Co
Marietta Republican
O'Neill
Water Main Break Cuts Columbus Supply
A 36 inch water line burst in an open field near Grandview Heights, draining an estimated three million gallons per hour and leaving Columbus and suburbs with little water. Crews shut off most flow by morning and expected near normal pressure by mid morning. cause not yet known.
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Columbus
Grandview Heights
Teenage gamblers arrested in Cleveland Heights suburb
Four teenage boys were arrested by Cleveland Heights police for handling football pool betting slips and are being questioned about the supplier behind the operation. Detective Elmer Infornarro said the youths were reluctant to name the source of their customers.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Heights
Elmer Infornaro
Actress Maureen O'Sullivans Son Among Three Victims
A collision of two light planes in the San Fernando Valley killed three men, including 19 year old Michael D Farrow son of actress Maureen O Sullivan and John Farrow. Also killed were David H Johnson 21 and Donald W Preneville 39.
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Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Maureen O’sullivan
Michael D. Farrow
John Farrow
London
Farrow
Michael
David H. Johnson
Pacoima
Donald W. Preneville
Glendale
Eastern Star To Install Worthy Grand Matron
Mrs Elizab eth Foster of Granville will be installed in Cincinnati as worthy grand matron of the Grand Chapter of Ohio Order of Eastern Star. Foster was elected Wednesday at the lodge two day convention to succeed Mrs Betty M Johnson of Columbus.
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Cincinnati
Elizabeth Foster
Granville
Grand Chapter
Ohio
Order of Eastern Star
Foster
Lodge
Betty M. Johnson
Columbus
Playwright Zoe Akins Dies After Illness in LA
Pulitzer winner for Drama in 1935 Zoe Akins died in Los Angeles after a three week illness at age 72. The author and poet was renowned for stage works and literary contributions.
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Los Angeles
Zoe Akins
Bachelor party ends with chained bowling ball rescue
In Jersey City a bachelor party for Donald Bloomer featured a 16 pound bowling ball chained to his leg. The key to release the chain was lost and Bloomer had to be freed by police.
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Jersey City
N. J
Donald Bloomer
Bloomer
DiSalle Attacks O'Neill On Campaign Costs And Truths
Democratic candidate Michael V. DiSalle challenged Gov. C William O Neill on two points in Dayton. He said federal reports refute Ohio leading in road building and mental health efforts. DiSalle claimed current program funding came from prior administrations and urged public campaign finance disclosure before election.
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Dayton
Michael V. DiSalle
William O’neill
DiSalle
O'Neill
Ohio
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Child undergoes second heart operation in three years
An 11 year old Oak Harbor girl was reported in satisfactory condition at St Vincent Charity Hospital Wednesday night after a heart operation, the second in less than three years.
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Cleveland
Oak Harbor
St. Vincent Charity Hospital
Jet crashes in Arkansas kill three at cotton field
Three men died Wednesday when an RB47 jet from Little Rock Air Force Base plummeted into a cotton field and burst into flames.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Little Rock Air Force Base
Nuclear tests wind down at Nevada site with two final detonations
At the Atomic Energy Commission range in Nevada, President Eisenhower's Friday suspension ends a 1951–present testing era. Two shots mark the curtain, capping a record-fast schedule that included three explosions on two days, the 89th and 90th since 1951. Col. Ernest Tinson laments the end of an era as Los Alamos lab marks its final detonation.
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Atomic Test Site
Nev.p
Nevada Proving Ground
Eisenhower
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Atomic Energy Commission
Ernest Tinson
Defense Department
Los Alamos, N. M
News Nob
Irwin Elected Head of Central Ohio Valley Industrial Council
Portsmouth resident John Irwin becomes president of the Central Ohio Valley Industrial Council a group aiming to attract more industry to the central Ohio valley. Elected officers include Walter Windsor of Marietta as first vice president and Robert Boyd of Ashland Kentucky as secretary.
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Portsmouth
John Irwin
Central Ohio Valley
Reds Pledge Support At Nuclear Test Ban Talks
Geneva reports that Moscow broadcasters pledged Soviet support to back the Big Three talks on limiting nuclear tests as negotiations open Friday.
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Geneva
Moscow
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