Erie Stabbing Underpass Killing Shocks City
Vernon Paddock, about 55, living at the Salvation Army in Erie, was found dead at 9:25 p m on the steps of the Schlosser Lumber Co office after a knife attack by a drinking companion. Detectives sought a white man described as medium height with dark hair seen with Paddock earlier. A witness reported the struggle under an underpass and police feared the killer fled via a freight train.
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Erie
Vernon Paddock
Salvation Army
Frank Finanks
Earker
Paddock
Salvation’ Army
Sassafras
Figaski
Charles Franklin
Chautauqua TB Hospital Up For Bids
Mayville NY Newton Memorial Hospital in Cassadaga is to be sold to the highest responsible bidder. The Mayville board voted after a welfare committee report found conversion to welfare use unsuitable economically and for patient care. Bids are to be opened around December 1, 1958 with a minimum bid of $100000.
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Mayville
Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors
Newton Memorial Hospital
Cassadaga
Board of Supervisors
Pike Deer Kill Record Report
Harrisburg RP A record number of deer have been killed by vehicles on Pennsylvania highways so far this year the Pennsylvania Game Commission says It reported Sunday that 3280 deer were killed during the first six months of the year A much higher figure than usual for that half of the year It said most of the highway deer kills occur in the late summer and fall months Last year 9262 deer were killed by vehicles
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Crash Kills Couple Near New Alexandria
A tractor trailer and an elite vehicle collided on Route 22 near New Alexandria Pennsylvania. Andrew Mitre age 57 of Braddock near Pittsburgh and his wife Mary age 52 were killed. The truck driver Robert G Eyes of Crafton escaped injury.
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New Alexandria
Westmoreland County
Andrew Mitre
Braddock
Pittsburgh
Mary
Robert G. Eyes
Crafton
Methodist Laymen Retreat Planned at Wesley Woods
Harold Burns announces an annual Methodist Laymen Retreat for lay leaders from 880 Erie Conference churches. The two day gathering at Wesley Woods Camp near Grand Valley will be led by J P Brafford of Cary Mississippi and features music by the Sunset Four from Grace Methodist Grove City. Dr H L Knappenberger Jr Jamestown district superintendent will give the Sunday morning devotional.
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Harold @. Burns
New Wilmington
Erie
Methodist Church
Wesley Woods Camp
Grand Valley
J. P. Brafford
Cary
Miss
Sunset Four
Grace Methodist Church
Grove City
H. L. Knappenberger Jr
Jamestown
1957 Prison Population Breaks Record
The Federal Bureau of Prisons reports the 1957 total of 195,414 inmates in state and federal jails and reformatories, up 3.1 percent from 1956, with 43,357 paroles granted and 2,306 prisoners escaping. Recapture totals reached 2,222, including 83 federal fugitives.
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U. S
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Bureau
James V. Bennett
Bennett
Senator Propert Calls Probe Into Pennsylvania Relief Payments
Harrisburg Senator Henry J. Propert proposes a legislative inquiry into state relief disbursements. He aims to determine rising costs, spending specifics, centralization versus county administration, and policy on aid to unwed partners with illegitimate children, amid calls for a $99 million relief boost.
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Harrisburg
Henry J. Propert
Montgomery
Pennsylvania
Associated Press
General Assembly
Joint
Propert
Harry Shapiro
Public Welfare
Shapiro
Mrs. Millie Burch Dies at Bear Lake After Long Illness
Mrs. Millie Burch of Bear Lake died at age 88 after a long illness. Born April 6, 1870 in Bear Lake, she lived in Spring Creek after marrying William Burch in 1890, then returned to Bear Lake after his death in 1934. Survived by one brother Kenneth Martin and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev. Burkett Smith officiating. interment in Spring Creek Cemetery family lot.
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M. Burch
Bear Lake
Millie Burch
Burch
William Burch
Burkett Smith
Spring Creek
Watermelon death in Portage man dies choking at home
James A. Smerk twenty of Portage died after choking on watermelon at his home in Johnstown area. Coroner said particles lodged in his throat caused the suffocation Saturday night. Deputy Cambria County officials reported the incident.
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Johnstown
James A. Smerk
Portage
Cambria County
Richard Wilkinson
Smerk
Khrushchev Flip Flops Under Pressure at Summit
AP News Analyst James Marlow argues Khrushchev shows dangerous unpredictability in rushing to a summit and then backing off. He contrasts Khrushchev with Stalin, notes patterns of reversals in foreign policy, and cites letters with Eisenhower as the sequence leads to cancelling the talks.
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Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Stalin
Khrushchev
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Tito
Hungary
Mideast
Eisenhower
U.N. Security Council
State Dulles
Council
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Red China
China
Peiping
Food poisoning hospitalizes 15 in Spangler church event
Fifteen people were hospitalized with food poisoning after a St Lawrence Roman Catholic Church picnic in Spangler Cambria County. Dozens more were treated by private doctors with about 50 cases seen in one office and six in another. Most victims reported eating butterscotch pie.
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Spangler, Pa
Fair Conditional Miners Hospital
Cambria County
St. Lawrence
Presque Isle State Park to Get $200,000 Highway Link
Proposed connecting road around Presque Isle State Park in Pennsylvania aims to cost $200,000. Two lane one mile loop includes a 100 foot bridge over an inland waterway. Bids to be requested this month with construction possibly starting later this year.
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Presque Isle State Park
State Department of Foresta
Waters
Pennsylvania
State Department of Highways
Maurice K. Goddard
Department of Forests and Waters
Erie Harbor
Goddard
Congress Speeds Remaining Work on Major Bills
The House passed the debt limit increase to 288 billion dollars and sent it to the Senate Finance Committee. House measures include small business tax relief and a 5.131 billion supplemental appropriations bill for the Atomic Energy Commission, now before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Omnibus housing bill cleared by Senate but stalled in Rules.
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House
Senate Finance
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Atomic Energy Commisssion
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Banking Committee
Rules
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Herbert Hoover
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Briggs & Stratton
Clinton, Lauson and Jacobson Small Motors
Cady & Collier
E. South St
Marlow
James Marlow
AP News
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N. Center St
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