Garden Groups Discuss Future Plans At Ohio Meeting
Reports on progress and future plans dominated yesterday's Ohio Association of Garden Clubs sessions. Dr. Donald T. Ries spoke on rare plants, Dr. John Creech discussed plant explorations in Japan, and a five member panel outlined work done and long range goals. Mrs. Walter Burton announced the Johnny Appleseed Highway naming and roadside tree program with 3500 crab apples planted to date. Delegates heard about radio and television garden programs, conservation efforts, and junior gardener initiatives as essential to the clubs' educational mission.
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Donald T. Ries
Illinois State Normal University
American Horticultural Society
John Creech
Japan
Helen Hoffman
Walter Burton
R. C. Allen
OAGC
Kingwood Center
Mansfield
Thomas Wolfe
Athens
Frederick Wassman
Burton
Hoffman
Funeral services for Frank Nixon father of vice president
Ernest Nixon of Ohio University notes Frank Nixon died at 77 last Tuesday. Services set for 2 p.m. PDT at East Whittier Friends Church with immediate family attending. Dr. Ernest Nixon, 1912 Ohio University graduate, later led farms in Athens County and taught at Penn State, retiring in 1948 after 25 years. Contributions to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation are requested in lieu of flowers.
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Frank Nixon
East Whittier
Columbia University
Penn State
Nixon
Doering Chosen to Fill Logan Council Vacancy on 118th Ballot
In a lengthy special session the Logan city council elected Kay Doering to fill the vacancy left by Wayne Todd. The decision broke a deadlock between B Greenman of General Electric Logan Glass Plant and G R Robinson of Hocking Valley Brick Co, with Rolland Schorr also receiving scattered votes. Doering, previously appointed last year, will take seat at the September 11 council meeting.
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Logan
Kay Doering
Wayne Todd
Doering
B. Greenman
General Electric
Logan Glass Plant
G. R. Robinson
Hocking Valley Brick Co
Grandma Moses Turns 96 in Simple Style
Eagle Bridge New York famed artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses is 96 today. No big celebration planned as she prefers simple living. Daughter Winona Fisher notes her mother still paints daily, eyesight and health strong, with works hanging in major galleries worldwide.
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Eagle Bridge
N. Y
Grandma Moses
Grandma
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Winona Fisher
Shots Fired At US Agent in Cleveland Incident
Angela Filicia, 40, held in protective custody with his wife Nancy 25 after a gunman fired into their car on Cleveland East Side night. One bullet struck upholstery and another hit the fender as the assailants fled. Filicia, once a narcotics suspect in a federal crack down, said he chased the car though unarmed. He revealed he had served 15 months as a government special employee during the trial.
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Cleveland
Angela Filicia
City
Filicia
Nancy
East Side
Jin
Japanese Astronomer Reports Mars Canals Observation
A Japanese astronomer today reported seeing several canals in Mars northern hemisphere under close scrutiny by stargazers. The existence of canals has long been debated among astronomers, with earlier reports fading as others at telescopes failed to confirm them.
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Associated Press
Mars
Blondes and Brunette Lead Miss America Pageant
Atlantic City reports three frontrunners entering the third preliminary round of the Miss America pageant. Miss Hawaii Jere Wright, Miss Arkansas Barbara Banks, along with two blondes Miss California Joan Beckett and Miss Alabama Ann Ariail, led in swimsuit and talent divisions. Final winner to be named Saturday. judges continue three-night scoring including personality.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Miss Hawaii
Jere V’right
Honolulu
Miss Wright
Miss Arkansas
Barbara Banks
Conway
California
Joan Colleen Becket
Sacra
Dark Horse
Sharon Kay Ritchie
Denver
Colo
Anne Stuart
Aman
Miss Alabama
Joan Colleen Beckett
Miss California
GOP Muffed School Crisis Adlai Reports
Adlai Stevenson charged the Eisenhower administration failed to address a school crisis involving classroom and teacher shortages. He cited a Democratic program to meet the need and spoke from Libertyville Illinois after a California swing. Senator Estes Kefauver joined him, while Nixon warned at the Los Angeles convention that communism remains the top threat to freedom.
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Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Democratic Party
Libertyville
Ill
California
Estes Kefauver
Washington
Stevenson
San Francisco
Nixon
American Legion National
Los Angeles
Police Near Kidnap Solution in Ruotolo Case
New Haven police press for breakthroughs in the Cynthia Ruotolo kidnapping as the FBI exits the probe. The six week old was found dead in a Hamden lake after being seized from a Sears foyer. Authorities shift to Ullman’s office as autopsy and FBI lab tests proceed.
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FBI
Ruotolo
New Haven, Conn
Hamden
Office of State
Abraham S. Ullman
Cynthia
Lake Whitney
Eleanor Ruotolo
Sears Roebuck
Uliman
Nixon Leads Legionnaires To Crusades
In Los Angeles Vice President Nixon frames the fight against communism as the era's major freedom threat. Wilbur C. Daniel, from Danville Virginia, is elected national commander of the American Legion, pledging to root out subversives. Daniel won 3024 votes to Blackburn 114.
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Los Angeles
American Legion
Richard M. Nixon
Wilbur C. Daniel
Nixon
Daniel
Legion
Charles M. Blackburn
Versailles
Blackburn
Pilot Who Flew 58 Missions Dies in Crash Near Wright
Lt. Col. Robert Lowell Northrup, 40, a Yellow Springs native and director of all weather testing at Wright Air Development Center, died Thursday in a plane crash near Wright Patterson AFB. A World War II veteran, he flew 58 combat missions in the China India Burma Theater and held the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
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Dayton
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Robert Lowell Northrup
Yellow Springs
Wright Air Develent Center
Five Day Forecast for Ohio Temperatures Dip Below Normal
The forecast shows average highs 3 to 6 degrees below normal with normal highs from 77 to 81 and lows from 56 to 58. Cooler Saturday, gradual rise Sunday through Monday, then cooler again Tuesday and Wednesday. Precipitation averages two tenths of an inch as scattered showers, mainly Monday in the north.
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Ohio
Labor secretary cites skilled worker shortage as national problem
James Mitch ell of Labor warns that a shortage of skilled workers has become a national issue. He cites industry demand and training gaps as key factors. The statement underscores a need for accelerated apprenticeship programs and targeted workforce development.
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Los Angeles
Ares of
James Mitchell
Drawer of Rip Kirby Dies in Auto Crash
Westport Connecticut cartoonist Alexander Raymond 47 who originated Flash Gordon and drew Rip Kirby was killed Thursday when his Chevrolet Corvette crashed into a tree and rolled over. Seriously injured nearby owner Stanley Drake a fellow King Features artist from Westport drew Heart of Juliet Jones.
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Westport
Conn
Alexander Raymond
Flash Gordon
Rip Kirby
Raymond
Stanley Drake
King Feature Syndicate
Juliet Jones
Government Estimates Road Building Costs
Washington reports a 1956 highway outlay of a record 8.2 billion dollars for all highway purposes with more than five percent allotted to road and street construction. The Bureau of Public Roads notes this total excludes initial costs of the new federal state highway construction program.
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Washington
Bureau of Public Roads
Ky Ready to Declare Martial Law in Sturgis
STURGIS KY AP State officials prepared to declare martial law as National Guardsmen and state police faced a predicted crowd of about 1000 aiming to bar nine Negro youths from attending Sturgis High School. Seven men were arrested for breach of peace as the mob gathered outside the all white school.
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National Guard
Pleasure Ridge
Williams
Don Sturgill
Kentucky
Gen. Williams
Sturgis
Sturgill
Sturgis High School
Suez Talks Adjourn With No Report On Failure
Cairo reports say the Menzies mission met privately for nearly three hours and adjourned without a public decision on resuming talks with Nasser. Nasser left for Alexandria as Cairo officials and Western diplomats awaited word from London and Washington amid reports Egypt rejects an 18 nation plan for canal control. The five nation Suez Committee remained silent as Cairo maintained Egypt holds full rights to canal control.
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Cairo
Egypt
Menzies
Nasser
Suez Canal
Mwamiu Lau
Alexandria
London
Washington
United States
Britain
France
U. S. State Department
U. S
London Daily Mail
Suez Committee
Australia
Iran
Sweden
Ethopia
No Charges To Be Filed In Shooting
Robert Harrison publisher of Confidential Magazine says the shooting that wounded him in a Dominican Republic jungle was an accident. Richard Weldy, jungle trapper, will not be charged. The incident occurred near Jarabacoa while Harrison hunted with A P Govoni and Gene Courtney.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Robert Harrison
Confidential Magazine
The
New Yorker
Richard Weldy
Weldy
Harrison
Jarabacoa
Here
Confidential
John Wayne
Miami
Fla
A. P. Govoni
Eitor
Geene Courtney
New York
el Embajador Hotel
Govoni
Miss Courtney
Teacher Paid For Nothing At Hazel Park
Detroit area report details Marveta Hine a 52 year old Royal Oak teacher who drew 5900 salary last year and 6200 this year without teaching a class. Officials say she was removed from assignment for lack of qualifications, but tenure requires a new contract yearly. Court action and a state tenure board review are pending.
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Detroit
Hazel Park
Marveta Hine
Royal Oak
George R. Robinson
Robinson
Hines
State Tenure Board
Girl Scalped By Machine In Bakery Accident
Janice Cory, 11, was seriously injured when her long hair caught in a dough mixer gear at a San Diego bakery. Surgeons grafted her scalp in a three hour operation. doctors say there is a small definite chance the graft will hold. Local cases of complete scalping are few, and the precise outcome remains unclear.
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San Diego
Janice Cory
Janice
Pay Roll Holdup Nets 39000 Pounds in Beeston Raid
A six man gang robbed a Beeston payroll today seizing 39,000 pounds about 109,200 dollars. Police launched a search for the attackers after the bold daylight theft.
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Beeston
England
Justice Sherman Minton to retire from Supreme Court
Justice Sherman Minton announced plans to retire October 15 citing impaired health. He will be 66 that month and informed President Eisenhower of his decision in a White House letter. Appointed by Truman, Minton joined the high bench in 1949 after eight years on the U S Circuit Court in Chicago.
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Washington
Sherman Minton
Supreme Court Today
Minton
High Bench
White House
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Supreme Court
U. S. Circuit Court
Chicago
Mixed marriages illegal Negro man white wife told to leave Texas
San Antonio reports district attorney Hubert Green advised Ollie Brown Jr and his wife Mary Brown to leave Texas after a grand jury declined action on charges tied to their mixed marriage. The couple met at Lackland AFB, wed in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and face a two to five year prison term if they live together in the state. Mary Brown is pregnant. they plan to move to California.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Hubert Green
Ollie Brown, Jr
Mary Zichterman
Brown
Lackland Air Force Base
Green
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Ollie
Fornia
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Marietta
Raymond Lee
Paul Beckley
G. H. Stansbury
Middleport
Hazel Roach
Ernest Nixon
Gop
Adlai
Flyer
News Index
Chauncey
Gallipolis
Glouster
J. J. B. Williams
A. B. Chandler
Frankfort
Suez
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