GE reports record first quarter earnings and industry growth forecast
The General Electric Co reports its highest first quarter earnings in history with net income up 58 percent and sales up 39 percent from 1952. Parole petition for ex Kellogg officials denied. Kellogg and Margeson each sentenced previously for false pretenses in auto financing. A nine month old dies of monoxide poisoning in Summersville trip to Ashtabula. authorities await final coroner ruling. Lewis A. Yerskey named justice of the peace for Girard. Church and fire company bingo legislation discussed by Rep. Baker Royer. no immediate action anticipated.
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General Electric Co
Ralph J. Cordiner
Saies
E. L. Kellogg
R. E. Margeson
Kelloge Motor Co
Franklin
Lee A. McCracken
Venango County
Fraklin Heights
Kellogg
Margeson
Baker Royer
Lancaster
General Assembly
Royer
T. Luke Toomey
Perry
House
Law and Order
Gary Vaughn
Junior Lee Vaughn
Ashtabula
Summersville
W. Va
Ashtabula General Hospital
Roller
Waroner
Bloomfield
Trumbull County
Trumbull
Bloommere
City Obligated On Playground Protection
The Allegheny County Court ruled the city must keep public playgrounds reasonably safe. Judge Clarence B. Nixon upheld a $21,000 verdict for the family of James Edwards Jr. after a ground‑level window incident at a school yard. A real estate transfer from Alexander Jrux to Paul B. Sonaskial in Erie County was recorded, and no new trial was granted.
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al Xander Jrux
Paul B. Sonaskial
Erie County
Clarence B. Nixon
James T. Edwards
Nixon
Eight Divorce Complaints Filed at Erie County Court
Eight divorce complaints were filed Monday and yesterday at the Erie County Courthouse. Beatrice L. McChesney from William McChesney seeks a divorce on grounds of cruelties indignities and desertion. The report notes confusion in names and addresses and references an unidentified R. D. J. Corry. In other local action a bill in the House would require Gilles and boroughs to pay the cost of improvements in annexed areas from second class townships, a measure already passed unanimously by the Senate.
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Robert Muedjo
West Pleasant Street
Columbus Avenue
Corry Memorial Hospital
Erie County
Beatrice L. McChesney
R. D. J. Corry
William McChesney
Gilles
Senate
George B. Stevenson
Clinton
Charles R. Malory
Blair
Lewis protests over Bureau of Mines director pick
John L. Lewis protests White House choice of Tom Lyon to head the Bureau of Mines. McKay backs the nomination, which would pay $14,800 yearly if approved by Eisenhower and the Senate. Lyon, a former geologist, lacks coal mining experience, prompting prior UMW protests and a historic Senate delay in 1949.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
White House
Interior
McKay
Tom Lyon
Salt Lake City
Bureau of Mines
Eisenhower
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lyon
Senate
J. J. Forbes
Forbes
Anaconda Copper Co
Mines Bureau
Truman
James A. Boyd
Boyd
UMW
Troast Trials Nominee for Jersey Governor Nomination
New Jersey GOP names Paw Troast as gubernatorial nominee with attorney Robert B Meyner as campaign attorney amid a tight statewide primary. Troast, 58, chairs the Turnpike Authority and edged Malcolm Forbes by over 59,000 votes. Meyner leads Democratic efforts in a close race with Elmer Vineland, trailing by 3,163 votes with most districts reported.
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Troast
New Jersey
Newark
Paw B. iTroast
Robert B. Meyner
New Jer
Meyner
Vineland
Elmer
Wene
Auto Dealer Fined in Pennsylvania Embezzlement Case
Canonsburg dealer Frank DeCio was fined 95,000 and placed on three years probation for involvement in an 1.8 million embezzlement at Cecil National Bank in Washington County. The case centers on a Canonsburg auto dealer linked to the theft from the bank.
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Pittsburgh
Frank DeCio
Canonsburg
Cecil National Bank
Washington County
Allies Demand Reds Free More POWs
Repatriates marching along a dusty road toward the Bamboo Curtain after being coached to display happiness at returning to communism. A U N interpreter said they were trained to shout slogans while the Red prisoners, looking unkempt, paraded before Communist cameramen and reception committees. An Allied witness spoke of harrowing blood filled stories of their experiences.
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U. N
Commmunist
Congressman Demands International Inspection of North Korea Camps
Months behind Communist lines in North Korea prisoners tell of hundreds dying on long marches and disease. Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri urges international inspection of Red prison camps as a prerequisite to resuming truce talks.
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North Korea
U. S
Dewey Short
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Girard
Harrisburg
Fine
Topumui
Allegheny
Fogle Lumber CO
Franklin St. Corry, Pa
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Moise
Fogle
Dial Corry
Fadever
Suit Club
Egos AY
VanCise
Appointment
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Odges
Connie’s Delicatessen
West Main
Canon
Se Far
Barbasol
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Larve
Runoel Steven
Aiall
Russell Stover
Pam
Guba Paspring
Al's Clothes Shop
CTU
Meerdink’s
Carreur
Los WA
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