House Approves Big 28 Billion Defense Bill Amid Debate
Washington reports the defense appropriation bill totaling 28.7 billion dollars moves toward the Senate after near unanimous House backing. Debate focused on a Colibert amendment to curb U.S. troop deployments without Congress approval, which failed 214 to 27, while a ban on overseas actions was rejected 377 to 0.
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Associated Treas
Washington
Senate
Defense Department
Tess Uhsn
Eisernhower
Corryite Held On Check Count
Richard Skinner of Lite Phoenix Hotel faced an Erie County warrant after forging a nine dollar check to the Winter Company. He admitted working for the Erie firm and said he had fled to Corry. Skinner was jailed in default of 300 bond to await hearing next Tuesday.
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Richard Skinner
Lite Phoenix
Winter Company
Tile
Alderman Heister
Skinner
Stoney
Erie
Sidinner
Ccal
Corry
Skinner Dld
Erie County
Canadobte Lake riding stables sold after major sale
A major real estate transaction at Canadobte Lake concluded with the sale of a riding academy. Townville proprietor Durtee announced the sale of stables and related facilities, including structures and equipment, noting the longtime operation will be terminated and rental arrangements will follow.
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Canadobte Lake
Durtee
Townville
Acad— Cong
Dorees
Bart ‘Bernard
Doulemy
Corry Father Held In Beating Son With Hose
A Corry man, Robert Snodgrass, 34, was arrested on assault and battery after a serious beating of his own son, allegedly with a garden hose. The case, tied to a custody dispute with the boy’s mother, is before Judge Samuel Rossiter with a temporary custody arrangement and a pending hearing.
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Corry
Rober
West Main Street
Antassius and
Battery Bar
West Way
Snodgrass
Dom Galleny
Aldermat Mt
Cobbet
Willy
Dun House of Erie
Heaping
Eng
Concord
Beng
Samuel ¥. Rossiter
Roger Brown
Snodjurass
Wnd
French Planes Renew Attack On Dien Bien Phu
French aircraft roared over Dien Bien Phu renewing air assaults on Viet Minh positions as transports resumed reinforcement drops. A French communique said the siege remained relatively calm with heavy Viet Minh mortars and artillery pounding French defenses. French commandos raided rebel gun positions, while truck convoys from Red China arrived with supplies.
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Asa
Hanot
Indochina
Dien Bien Ph
Borriondes
Red China
Felling
Strike Of Craftsmen May Not Halt Local School Job
Rumors of a builders strike threatening the local school project fade as officials say no walkouts are anticipated. The Ludwig Co. has a retroactive pact with unions and the Erie dispute limits glaziers from Jamestown, delaying window work but main structural and steel tasks near completion.
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Joest Corry
Ludwig
Projet
Berio
Ludwig Company
Brie Construetony Council
Unien
Wluniers Ub Brie
James' Town
Erie Union
Une
Glaziers
Jamestown
Erle Union
Sun Ranainnye
Philip M Waite Dies Here Today At 63 In Cory
Philip M Waite of 04 Wright street died in Cory Memorial Hospital at 12 16 this afternoon after six weeks illness. He was 63 and a chief estimator at Aero Supply Mfg Co for 27 years. He and the late Frank Ames organized Precision Products in the former Ames building. He held several patents including some automatic controls. Born November 7 1851 in Jamestown, he married Elva McDevilla and lived in Butler Elmira before moving to Cory in 1927. Survived by wife and one son Robert of Cory, three brothers Ralph Reed and Raymond of Jamestown, and many nieces and nephews. daughter Rita died in 1935. Friends may call Bracken Funeral Home starting tomorrow at noon. Service announcement to be published tomorrow.
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Philip
Waite
Wright Street
Cory Memorial Hospital
Ten Aan
Aero Supply Mfg. Co., Inc
Was & Veteran
Frank Ames
Precision Products, Inc
Ames
East Pleasant
West Malin Street
Ajax Tron Works
Ajax
Walte
Jamestown
Elva McDevilli Wd
Buttain
Elmira
Corey
The
Aero Supply
Corry Love of Elks
Society of Automotive Enginests
Aero Employes Benefit Associations
Foremen’s Glut
Corry
Robert
Ralph
Reed
Raymond
Rita
Bracken Funeral Home
Lincoln University Celebrates 100th Birthday
Oxford Pa Lincoln University the world s oldest Negro university marked its centennial with dramatic campus events. Dr Horace M Bond Lincoln s president read messages from President Eisenhower and Albert Einstein among a flood of greetings from the United States and abroad.
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Aasgenves
Oxford
Lincoln University
Camypus
Horace M. Bond
Lincoln
Eisenhawes
Albert Einstein Heatt
United States
Akron Picket Line Breaks After Riot Act Reading
Police in Akron broke up a strike picket at the Motor Cargo freight dock after Mayor Leo A. Berg read the riot act. The dispute centered on owner operators objecting to a plan to pod trailers, and the firm had obtained an injunction against further picketing.
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Akron
Ohio
Motor Cargo, Inc
Leo A. Berg
Clean-up Days Set Next Week
Residents are reminded that the city spring clean-up days will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday. Streets department crews will collect rubble and debris placed at the curb. Containers and items must be at the curb by Tuesday night.
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City Streets Department
Grid Light Fund Reaches $6 000 With Campaign Progress
The Henver Chit fund drive reports six thousand dollars raised toward the Corry Area High School football field project. Fourteen thousand dollars remain to meet a goal of nineteen thousand. Directors approved forming a non profit and planned raffles and a two door sedan giveaway at a fall home game. Barbershop singing and wrestling events were proposed to boost donations. Additional items include a Teener League donation of one hundred dollars and eight five dollars for seven basketball backboards across the city. A resolution praised Thomas Burkhart for his service as Beaver Club director.
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New Corry
Cub
TMA
Becaue
Meadville
One Society For the
Barber Shop
Ti Iy
Teener League
Arlouk
Thomas Burkhart
Beaver Glub
Forty Indicted In Pittsburgh Gambling Tax Case
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicted 40 persons from Allegheny Beaver Washington Westmoreland Fayette Mercer counties on gambling tax violations. The charges allege operation of numbers lotteries without proper wagering tax registration under the Internal Revenue Code.
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Amuse
Pittsburgh
Westerly
Pennsylyania
Allegheny
Beaver
Washington
Westmoreland
Payette
Mercer Oickhen
Senate Banking Probe Pauses as Housing Debate Tightens
Senate Banking Committee wrapped a preliminary session on government insured housing loans. Witnesses from the FHA highlighted loopholes in the Housing Act as lawmakers weighed Eisenhower’s proposals to raise loan limits and extend repayment, with calls to curb nonessential repairs and restrict risky lending.
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Senate
Dais Toy LO
Eisenbowar
Sul Hwaring
Federal Housing Administration
Tovale
Chatmas Capehart
Eisenhower
House
FHA
Butsis
Eisenower
Uwe
Len Bricker
Ohio
Bush Cori
Capehart
Clinic for crippled children held at Emmanuel Church
Approximately 1 percent of Corry area children were treated at the State Crippled Children's Clinic held in the undercroft of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Doctors in corrective treatment for disabilities conducted the event arranged by State Nurse Ona Harper. Other children originally scheduled could not attend.
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Corry
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Ona Harper
Wien
Aim~ Fd Ab
Senate testimony details altered military photo dispute
A McCarthy committee investigator testified he ordered prints from a larger photo showing Stevens and Bebine with Bradley, and arranged enlargements of the pair with Sohine. He admitted delivering the single image to the committee and said the cropping was his decision, amid broad controversy over the altered photographs and witnesses.
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Astocisted Press
Washington
James Jullant
McGarthy Committee
Stevens
David Bebine
Air Force
Jack T. Bradley
Juliana
Breweré
Sohne
Bradley
Dullun
Gxi
Sohine
Senate
McCarthy
Mundt
Apachic
Jian
Stewerts
Behine
Julian
Jullian
Don Burine
Army
Jutena
Joseph N. Welch
Welch
George Aniston
Flewald
Jack T. Brad Stey
Atevoni
Echine
Negotiators at Odds Over Pittsburgh Transit Contract
Negotiators from Division 85 AFL Amalgamated Street Elects Highway and Motor Coach Employes report talks with Pittsburgh Railways Co. are faltering as a strike deadline looms within four hours. The union plans to pull about 2,200 workers off the job unless a contract is reached.
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Pittsburgh
Stee Street
Pittabureh Failways Co
Mid
Ana
Big Labor Merger Near Speculation Grows From Meeting
In Washington and Chicago leaders from AFL Teamsters CIO United Boilworkers and Independent United Mine Workers discuss possible merger. Dave Beck announces the Chicago talks fueling speculation of a united labor movement among top unions.
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Washington
Dave Beck
AFL Teamsters
Chicago
Berk Nald
Jahr
L Lewis
United Mine Workers
David J. McDonald
CIO
United Boeelworkers
Woman Revives Five Minutes After Apparent Death
Tarentum Pa Mrs Alice Pollard who faced death for about five minutes is recovering at Allegheny Valley Hospital after an emergency procedure followed a thyroid operation. A nurse initially noted breathing and heartbeat loss, doctors inserted an oxygen tube and opened her chest to restart the heart. After five months her pulse has improved to near normal.
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Tarentum
Alice Pollard
John B. Richardson
Allegheny Valley Hospital
Polliard
Pol- Herd
Mrs. Polilard
PRR Plans Rail Trailer Service Across Major Routes
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced inaugural rail trailer service for highway trucks on June 16 linking New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Chicago. Tariffs will be announced May 17 with the service utilizing flat cars and 200 new center-fit cars to carry loaded trailers, enabling door-to-door freight transfer via existing freight trains.
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PRR
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Strike against NYC rail line postponed amid mediation talks
Syracuse New York area reports a strike called by 6000 train men and yard workers across divisions from Buffalo to New York City may be postponed after mediation board talks. Joe Anderson said a meeting with U S mediators is planned, delaying action pending national proceedings.
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Prey Syracube
New York
Buffalo
James Anderson
U.S. Mediation Board
Anderton
Ty New York
Mailroad
Rom Férun
Syracuse
Cleveland
New York City
Slo
Weetawken
N.S
Waltsmerport
Clearfield
Anderson
Britain To Ship Rubber To Reds Lifted On Monday
Britain said it will lift all restrictions on rubber shipments to the Soviet Union and its European satellites starting Monday. Ban remains in place for China, Korea, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macao. The move follows a 1951 UN resolution linked to the Korean War. officials note Russia already obtains rubber through nonstandard channels.
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London
Britain
Soviet Union
Red Chins
North Korea
Tibet
South China
Hong Kong
Macao
United Nations
Board of Trade
Russia
Nine nations set for indochina peace talks panel
An informed source says Russia seeks India's invitation to join nine nation talks in Geneva. Western powers oppose widening the circle. Bao Dai agrees to attend with Vietminh, widening potential participants to include Thailand and Burma if talks expand.
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Prem Geneva
Russia
India
Indochina
China
Indonesia
Burma
Rusalana
Lst
Korea
United States
Tidla
Nehru
New Delhi
Geneva
Viet Nam
Bao Dat
Britain
France
Red China
New Manager for Loan Co In City Transfer
Harry Hall, loan manager for the Personal Finance Company here, was transferred to Cleveland. Thomas Crag succeeds him in this city, after three years with the firm. Hall residents will move later. Crag’s family plans to return to West Pleasant Street.
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Harry Hall
Cleveland
Thomas Crag
Personal
Hall
Ben
North Center Street
East South Street
Crage
Harold Cregg
West Smith Street
Foun
Corry
Erie
West Pleasant
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Murphy General Hospital
Waltham
Mass
Rep. Collect
R-Nc
U. S
Congress
Corryite
Canadohta
Robert Snodgrass
Wells
Philip M. Waite
Negro University
Beaver Club
Ike
NYC
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