Hope Dims For 12 Trapped Miners In Flooded Pa Underground
Eleven nearby anthracite mines were ordered closed as a precaution after a Susquehanna River flood breached the Knox Coal Co. mine at Port Griffith trapping 12 miners. Thirty-three escaped as rescue costs rose, with officials warning it could be days before the hole is blocked. The Wyoming Valley disaster area declaration enables federal aid.
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Pittston
Wyoming Valley
America
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
Knox Coal Co
Port Griffith
Sion
Daniel H. Connolly
State Mines
Enterprise
Henry Colleries
Eisenhower
David L. Lawrence
Pittston Hospital
Meadville
State Armory
Susquehanna River
Ken Pa
Babysitter Sat After Bath Room Paint Incident
A Edina babysitter aged 16 sat in a bathroom after being sprayed with plastic bath room paint that supposedly would not rub off. The doctor treated her, then tripped and knocked himself out, prompting an ambulance. Both recovered. Two lawsuits were planned but will be settled out of court via the insurance firm.
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Minneapolis
Edina
Eisenhower Orders Fresh Look at Economy and Prices
President Eisenhower created a special committee to study how federal operations affect prices and costs aiming to curb inflation. The move follows declines in living costs and rising factory wages, while Congress debates housing and anti inflation hearings. Raymond J. Saulnier chairs the new panel with other departmental officials.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Kefauver
Sen
John Sparkman
Dala
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Raymond J. Saulnier
Economic Advisory Council
Saulnier
Eisenhower Reaches Catoctin Lodge For Weekend Rest
President Eisenhower arrives at his Catoctin Mountain lodge near Thurmont Maryland for a weekend of relaxation. He is joined by longtime friend George E Allen and White House physician Maj. Gen. Howard M Snyder as part of the diplomatic and ceremonial entourage.
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Thurmont, Md
Eisenhower
Catoctin Mountain Lodge
George E. Allen
White House
Howard M. Snyder
Cuba War Crimes Trial Ends With Batista Officer Sentenced To Death
In Havana a public war crimes trial concluded with Maj. Jesus Sosa Blanco, 51, condemned to die by firing squad for murder and related crimes. Lt. Col. Ricardo Grau, 45, and Capt. Pedro Morejon, 38, faced charges of assassination homicide and robbery as protesters jeered outside. Morejon’s trial was postponed due to his lawyer’s illness. Sosa Blanco may appeal.
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Havana
Cuba
Sports Palace
Batistan Army
Castro
Jesus Sosa Blanco
Revolutionary Tribunal
Ricardo Luis Grau
Pedro Morejon
Morejon
Grao
la Cabana
New York
Madison Square Garden
Sosa Blanco
Aristides Dacosta
Humberto Lori Marin
Lori Marin
Frigid Weather Continues In West Virginia
West Virginia faces continued cold through Wednesday with rain or snow early next week. Temperatures will run four to five degrees below normal, with north and south areas at 32 and 36 respectively. A cold weekend, a slight warm-up Monday, and return of cold by Tuesday or Wednesday are forecast. Rain or snow early next week totals about half an inch.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Huntington Weather Bureau
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Wheeling Island
House of Delegates
Moundsville
W. C. Steele
U. S. Engineers
Martinsville
Ohio River Flood Moves Down From Wheeling
The Ohio River cresting at 43.3 feet near Warwood Dam forced about 1,000 people to evacuate over a 23 mile area. Ice packs and hundreds of loose barges caused widespread damage and closures in Wheeling and surrounding communities with Red Cross aid operations underway.
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Wheeling
Warwood Dam
The
Red Cross
Warwood
Ohio
Wheeling Island
Tyler
Wetzel
Marshall
Brooke
Hancock
Lock 12
Ohio Valley Yacht Club
Ohio and Pennsylvania Flood Toll Surges Amid Historic High Waters
Floods blamed on the worst rise since 1913 devastate parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Gov Di Salle and President Eisenhower declare emergencies as 25 to 30 deaths are reported in Ohio, with hundreds of millions in damage and thousands idle or homeless. Rescue efforts continue in Meadville and along the Susquehanna.
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Meadville
Ohio
Michael V. di Salle
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Scioto
di Salle
New York
Indiana
Sharon
Pittston
Buffalo
N.Y
French Creek
Fred Carman
Arlington school ordered to admit four Negro students
A federal appeals court in Richmond upheld an earlier ruling ordering Arlington County to admit four Negro children to the all white Stratford junior high school next month. The court said the transfer was denied on the basis of race and reviewed additional transfer requests. The decision comes amid broader desegregation clashes tied to Virginia’s massive resistance laws and Norfolk school closures.
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Richmond
Arlington County
Stratford
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Albert V. Bryan
Alexandria
Bryan
Arlington
Potomac River
Washington,d. C
Federal District
J. Lindsay Almond
Norfolk
Norfolk City
Walter E. Hoffman
Charlottesville
Warren County
Federal
Virginia Supreme Court
Abducted 23 Day Old Baby Boy Sought in New York
Police and FBI hunt for a pregnant looking woman who abducted the ailing infant John Tavarez from a West Side tenement after befriending the mother at a hospital clinic. The case, described as a Latin American origin kidnapping, involves a staged relocation to a Bronx address that led to a post office.
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New York
West Side
FBI
John Tavarez
Boraliza Tavarez
Metropolitan Hospital Clinic
97Th St
First Ave
Mrs. Tavarez
Bronx
Tank Car Blast Rocks Louisiana
A derailed Missouri Pacific freight train near Monroe Louisiana sparked a large fire in rubber and chemical cars. The sheriff reports three dead and 40 to 50 injured as a Friday night explosion followed days of burning and a Thursday derailment five miles south of Monroe. Firefighters and volunteers worked to contain the blaze and build a fire break.
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Monroe
Sheriff's Department
Missouri Pacific Railway
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