Congress Faces Slow Start in 83rd Session Amid Shifts
Analysis notes the 83rd Congress’ first three months yielded little legislation. It cites the transition between administrations, changes in party control, and new heads across executive departments. The piece compares 1945, 1929, and 1923 shifts, and discusses budget posture under Eisenhower versus Truman.
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Legislative Shifts Mark 1953-54 Session Adjustments
The text outlines changes in leadership and committee chairs since 1927-48, noting nine of twenty House standing committees have new chairs and twelve of fifteen Senate standing committee chairs are new. It highlights confirmations, pending appropriations, and early acts like extending the reorganizat ion act to 1965, suspending the copper import tax, and new HEW department creation. It also mentions a House bill on marginal seals, Harwell statehood, and tax reform bills awaiting action.
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Fatal stabbing as resident stops youths in Fittsburgh
Donald Wright, 22, died early Easter morning while attempting to stop hoodlums from throwing stones at nearby homes in Glen Hazel. Police hold nine youths aged 16 to 19 for questioning in connection with the incident.
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Donald Wright
Glen Hazel
How Smart Are You A Boren era trivia challenge
A quiz asks 10 questions to rate intelligence from Genius to Poor. It covers military command, aliases, oceanography, mayors, Cubism, presidential nicknames, calories, the Fourth Estate, a voyeur incident, and a missing word from a proverb.
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Frank Hague
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Mayor assumes duties of slain police chief
Arnold Pa. Mayors office reports Mayor Michael Horn took over police chief duties as the town mourns two officers killed in a gunbattle with millworker Virgil Backus. Police Chief Michael Peltz, 48, died after being shot while persuading Backus to surrender. Ernest Johnson, 48, also died, two other officers wounded, and Backus killed by state police.
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Erie May Approve C10 Assessment Demand
Erie city officials, Streets Director Thomas McCarty and Finance Director Michael Cannaging, moved closer to scrapping the current full value assessment in favor of 1941 values. McCarty urged a council inquiry into Cole Layer Trumble figures, noting the contract he signed and court guidance led to shifting to current values. He spoke to officers of the Home Improvement League of Erie.
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Five Die In Home Blast And Fire In Duplex
In Uniontown Edinboro a 95 year old mother Ruth Johnson and four of her nine children died when an oil stove exploded in their duplex. Carter Jolson, the father, rescued the remaining five children with help from a neighbor. All saved sustain burns. The dead include Rebecca aged 1 month Carolyn 18 Catherine 1 and Robert 3. Jolson suffered severe burns and shock and passed the five children out a window to a neighbor.
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Edinborn
Ruth Johnson
Rebecca
Carolyn
Catherine
Robert
Carter Jolson
Resignations at Corry Hospital and local beer issue
Miss Adelaide Bartlett dietitian superintendent at Corry Hospital and three other Corry Nurses resign, fueling talk that Corry Nurses' Alumnae Association may take over operations. Legislature debates beer control as unlicensed flow continues statewide. Corry High School debate team eyes next Wednesday clash with Rocky Grove High School. Chemist Joseph Haggeman leaves A W & A P Howard Co. for Westport Conn. Two Scarlet fever cases reported in Third Ward families.
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Corry Hospital
Anne. Berry
Mary LaMere
Genevieve Green
Corry Nurses’ Alumnae Association
Corry High School
Rocky Grove High School
Allegheny College
Man stabbed by wife in Uniontown incident
Anthony Vertosi, 42, of Masontown, is in serious condition at Uniontown Hospital after a stab wound. Fayette County Detective Frank Kane is investigating the case.
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Anthony Vertosi
Masontown
Fayette County
Frank Kane
Wife accused in chest stabbing during family row
Margaret Vertosh reportedly told police she stabbed her husband in the chest during a heated argument. She remains jailed in Fa etie Courtly Jail as authorities review the case.
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