House Democrats face first test of solidarity on tax program
Readinger said the 400 million dollar temporary tax program will pass in the Pennsylvania House despite GOP opposition. Democrats hold 111 seats to 99 and need only five votes beyond a 108 majority. The package continues the 5 percent corporate net income tax for two more years as Gov. Leader pushes for late 1930s style revenue.
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Readinger
Associated Press
Harrisburg
House
Albert S. Rendinger
George M
GOP
Commonwealth
Uch
Senate
State Liquor Control Board
Liquor Control Board
Fingerprint tests in Rubinstein bedroom probe killer
The New York story reports fingerprints from Berge Rubinstein's bedroom were checked in the Rubinstein murder probe. Six matched the victim and two were smudges. Investigators compare 10 prints against 6,000 club entertainers on file.
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New York
Berge Rubinstein
Thander
Dodger
Alexander Herman
Vicim
Herman
Rubinstuln
Rubin
Sthavendie
Plain Mar
Pat Wray
Rubinutatn
Fire Claims 12 Lives in Tenement Blaze
In Amsterdam New York a tenement fire killed eleven children and the father of five, with eight bodies recovered and five others injured. Police attributed the blaze to an overflowing oil stove as residents fled in night clothes into a snowstorm. Most occupants were believed Puerto Rican.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Four Farview trustees face loss of posts
Governor George M. Leader fired four Farview State Hospital trustees at the request of Welfare Secretary Harry Shapiro who cited intolerable conditions and political domination. Shapiro described fights between guards and patients, three brutal patient beatings, and one death, urging removal of H Russell Behback Alfred Williams Lester Bertain and seminel Creater. A separate note mentions a broader push to clean up state hospitals and a separate Allentown hospital leadership shake-up.
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Harrisburg
Farview State Hospital
George M. Leader
Harry Shapiro
George M. Lender
Instituton
Shapiro
H. Russell Behback
Bushkill
Republican
Pike County
Alfred Willums
Scranton
Lester F. Burtein
Honesdale
Seminel Creater
Mayfield
Roy W Goshorn
Allentown State Hospital
John R. Kistler
Allentown
Goshorn
Leader
Repubicarn
Institutium
Farview
Pratt Deficial Dies in Pittsburgh Area Train Incident
WN Myers 41 division engineer of the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Trail Road died of a heart attack after boarding a train in Wilkinsburg early today. This major officer, a longtime railroad official, passed away on a weekday morning leaving colleagues in shock. The Pennsylvanian Trail railroad company mourns the sudden loss of a veteran engineer and leader.
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PRR
Pittsburgh
W. WN. Myers
Pennnsylvania Trailroad
Wilkinsburg
State Sewage Aid Continues Under New Bill
Harrisburg considers a bill to extend the Clean Streams program with a $2,000,000 appropriation to the state Health Department to aid municipalities including Corry for sewage treatment facilities. The program has paid 2 percent of project costs since 1953, with refunds scheduled over 50 years and funding rising to $2,000,000 for the next two years. By 1954 more than $1,000,000 had been distributed and 85 projects were active since 1951.
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State Health Department
City of
Corry
Harrisburg
Senate
General Assembly
Commonwealth
M. Harvey Taylor
R-Daughis
January Fire Damage Surges in City and Outlying Areas
Fire officials report January fire calls rose sharply with seven city and out of city alarms, triple the prior year. Total losses reached about 1950 dollars, led by a $1200 shed fire behind Colonial Terrace Motel. An elderly hotel guest suffocated in nearby Hooversville fire.
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Charles Collier
Callier
Lawrence Alport
Colonial Terrace
Somurset
Hooversville
Ms. Ta. Brottmn
Coat Exchange
Tiouls
Yushan Island Shelled by Four Red Warships
Reports from Taipei say four Communist warships shelled Yushan Island as tensions rise near the Tachens. The Defense Ministry noted most shells landed at sea with minimal damage while Red fighters conducted eight sorties in the Tachens vicinity.
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Yushan Island
Associated Press
Taipeh
Washington
Defense Ministry
Tacheng
U.S
Karl J G. Rants
Shen Chang-huan
United States
Quemoy
Matsu
U.S. 7Th Press
Air Force Libre
Formosa
Feiping
Tokyo
Peiping
New Zealand
United Nations
Pescadores
Yushun
Tachen
Yushan
Tachens
Plot to free inmate by kidnapping warden exposed
Ossining officials disclosed a death house kidnap plot aimed at freeing Inmiates of Bing Sing Pri. Warden Wilfred Denno dismissed the plan as fantastic and doomed to fail. A death row inmate Romana Rosario provided information and a note from another convict supported the story.
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Ossining
Bing Sing Prion
Romana Rosario
New York
Worm
Roxrle
Fire Damage at Sherman Station Tops $50 000 Loss
Revised fire loss at the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station in Sherman reports more than 50 000 dollars in damage. Duplex Manufacturing lost about 30 000 dollars in custom jewelry cases. 25 more cases were salvaged. A gas motor car used by trackmen valued near 10 000 dollars was also damaged. A Pennsy official put the frame building loss at 12 000 dollars.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Sherman
Duplex Manufacturing Company
Sendy
Shipni
Chicago
Paul B. Coe
L. A. Newberg
Pennsy
Buffalo
Government 10 Speed Ibc Trial Move In Antitrust Suit
The Justice Department pursues the International Boxing Club as a monopoly violating antitrust laws. Trial likely before July 1 in New York City with DOJ Antitrust Division details. Supreme Court ruling on baseball exemption cited. gov argues Congress must decide boxing’s fate.
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Washington
Justice Deepartment
International Boxing Club
New York City
Justice Department
Supreme Court
TBO
Kim Norris
Arthur M. Wirts
Gregory F. Noohan
New York
Bark Warren
Congress
Bis Hess
Felix Frankfurter
Norris
Coal Community Seeks Help From Union Leader
A Washington County coal town facing economic collapse due to a potential mine shutdown invites United Mine Workers head John Lewis to a conference. Cecil's citizens' committee sent the letter to Lewis seeking aid and discussion of the town's problems.
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Ceoll
Washington County
John la. Tawis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Cecil
UMW Teader
Debate Likely Over Army Cut Plan in Congress
Washington reports show Pentagon plans to trim Army strength 140000 men. Army Chief Gen Ridgway warns it could jeopardize national security, while Sec. Stevens seeks a balanced program amid draft extension debates in Congress.
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Washington
Pentagon
Congress
House Armed Service Committee
Matthew B. Ridgway
Army
Ridgway
Stevens
Union City shoplifter spared after store managers decline charges
Union City 24 year old William Edward Allen was detained by Chief Harley Drake after officers traced him from a complaint by G C Murphy manager Richard Grimm. He allegedly took two billfolds from theaters and two balls of yarn from Woolworth but was released without charges as both stores declined to press.
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Union City
Harley Drake
Drake
William Edward Allen
Richard Grimm
G. C. Murphy Co
Smith and
Center Streets
Allen
Woolworth
Murphy
Clubs sue district over membership tax consolidated into one action
A long pending suit involving four city social clubs and Corry School District over a per member tax moves closer to a final ruling as Judge Evans approves merging four actions into a single case. Defendants include the Elks Moose Veterans of Foreign Wars and Italian American clubs. The district seeks tax enforcement while clubs call the levy unconstitutional, arguing it targets social groups not all organizations.
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Corry
Frank McKnight
William Behant
Erle
William Peltier
Uchool
Quiet Board Hearing Fails to Resolve Hepler Property Appeal
The Board of Tax Revision held a quiet session as William Peiffer and other principals appeared for multiple appeals including the Heppler property. City Solicitor Roger Brown spoke for Mrs. Cleo Brown seeking higher assessment on 108 South Center street, while Melvin Cobbett Elzabeth Martel Albert Monllerdill and others also presented appeals. M. E. Moore argued a land assessment showing the neighbor's property would be overtaxed if the error remained uncorrected.
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Board of Tax Revision
Wiliam Peiffer
Roger Brown
South Center Street
Cleo Brown
Brown
Bol
Melvin
Cobbett
E.G. Mountain
West Washington Street
Elzabeth Martel
Albert Monllerdill
Bouth Center Street
Peiffer
Wayne P. Jugal
Bouth Second Avenue
J. C. Tindsey
Third Avene
Samuel Schroeder
Liberty Trent
Mable Cone
East Washington Street
Frank Darrow
Prospect Vifeet
Florence Barton
Wayne Trees
M. E. Moore
East Congress Street
Moore
Ballots Mailed For Cory Chamber Of Commerce Directors
Ballots were mailed to more than 145 Cory Chamber of Commerce members to elect four new directors. They must be returned by February 14 and will be counted by a three judge committee. Names listed include De, Marl Amy, Waynn Artere, Itn Bracken, Thomas Cragg, Robert Galbreath, Everett Johnson, Rey Feed and Wilbir Aickers.
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Cory Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
E. F
Comemiinen
Pau! Meerdinik
Fie
Attiev
P. 1
Sonoskind
Brice Silimenville Button
Tour
U N Opposes Seating China Regime at United Nations
The United Nations Security Council debated a cease fire in the Formosa Strait as Peiping Beijing was invited to join the discussion. Dag Hammarskjold invited Peiping to participate while the U S opposed seating Red China and urged continued nonrecognition.
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Associated Press
United Nations
N. Y
U.N. Security Council
Formosa Strait
Red China
U.N
Dag Hammerskjold
New Zealand
China
U. S
Formosa
Peiping
Hammarskjold
Chinew Communist
Peiping People’s Daily
Pascadores
U- 6
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Red Ching
Indochina
Geneva
Appeal Set Monday for Dr. Sheppard Bail Rights
Attorneys for Dr. Bowie Sheppard will argue bail rights in a Monday hearing before the Court of Appeals. He seeks release while appealing a second degree murder conviction for the slaying of his pregnant wife Mwellyn. The appeal questions the denial of bail under Ohio law and cites a Belmont County case where a woman convicted of second degree murder was released on bail pending appeal.
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Cleveland
Bowie Sheppard
Court of Appeal
Sheppard
Mwellyn
Harare
Court of Anpents
Shope Paid
Ohio
Osteopath
William J. Cottigan
Belmont County
Corgan
Bellmont County
Marysville
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C. Adams
Pittsburgh Breal Co
Adams
U. N. Council
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