Blue Shield Raises Rates by Ten Million in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg AP The Medical Service Association of Pennsylvania Blue Shield won a ten million dollar rate increase from the State Insurance Department. The hike averages 21.3 percent, about eighty percent of the request, and will affect about three million subscribers statewide. A senior citizens plan was delayed, and higher doctor compensation was deferred. Insurance Commissioner Francis R. Smith urged Blue Shield and Blue Cross groups to study cost reductions and to pursue a statewide elderly health coverage program. The increases take effect immediately but may require a month to implement, with monthly premiums rising from one cent to 1.47 dollars in some cases.
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Harrisburg
Medical Service Association of Pennsylvania
Blue Shield
Francis R. Smith
Blue’ Shield
Pennsylvania Blue Cross
Medical Service Association
Relief From Frigid Spell Brings Light Warmth to Corry
Corry saw a partial thaw as temperatures rose from minus 27 to above zero with light snow. Snowfall expected to continue, highways still slippery. Wildlife seek shelter while small game hide underground. officials warn of ongoing cold and strong northeasterly winds up to 40 mph.
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Corry
Elmer Simpson
Canada Sells More Grain to Communist Bloc
Ottawa AP reports Canada completed a second grain sale with the Communist bloc this week, selling over one million long tons to Red China amid famine fears. Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton confirmed 750,000 tons of wheat and 280,000 tons of barley. 200,000 tons of ore and more sales to the Soviet Union were noted, with tentative talks on undisclosed grain to Cyvelio mlavakla.
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Canada
Ottawa
Iran
Alvin Hamilton
Red China
Cruuilit
Soviet Union
Bell
Cyvelio
Mlavakla
Pirates Yield Ship To Brazil Marines
Rebel chieftain Galvao faced Brazilian forces aboard the liner Uner as Brasi lian officials asserted New President Quadros would act under international law. With skel eton crew reduced, rebels discussed surrender while most passengers fled ashore to Recife amid Mardi Gras preparations and plans to return home.
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Hner
Henrique Galyag
Brasil
Janio Quadros
Recife
Brazil
Api—Armaed
Quadros
Galvao
Borid
Breil
Dlehuds
Antone de Oliveira Sulazs
Jorg Soule Midor
Nowsmen
Uner
Reene
Sito Harbor
Mardi Gras
Colonial Navigation Co
Mixed Feelings on Santa Maria Cruise After 12 Day Ordeal
Passengers aboard the Santa Maria endured 12 harrowing days as tensions rose on the voyage. First and second class felt minimal danger, while third class faced water shortages and scant food. American travelers from Florida expressed mixed emotions as couples formed and some fights erupted before the ship reached port.
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Santa Maria
Ut Port
John Dietz
Gainesville
Mrs. Crocker
William Vandarmeer
Amsterdam
Laura Menendes
Oviedo
Spain
Fothers
Rural Home Burns as Family Flees Snow
A fire at 8 a.m. drove James Woodworth and his family from their Carrier Road home, sending Mrs Woodworth and three children to a neighbor’s house while two others rode to work or school. Firemen arrived ten minutes after discovery as flames spread through rafters and back into the kitchen, forcing a hasty evacuation in bitter cold.
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James Woodworth
RD. 1
Columbus
Carrier Road
Woodworth
Corry Jamestown
Juck Walters
Woodworth Place
Eastern States Shudder From Long Cold Spell
A massive snowstorm battered the eastern half of the nation while Iowa and Missouri faced heavy snow. The Midwest saw foot-deep drifts and up to four feet in places with towns like Spencer reporting four feet. States from Illinois and Indiana to Pennsylvania endured blizzard conditions, multiple inches of snowfall, and at least two deaths from shoveling exhaustion amid severely disrupted travel and business.
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Iowa
Missouri
Midwest
Carolinas
Georgia
Kentucky
New York
Adirondack
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Lower Michigan
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Dakotas
Spencer
St. Louis
Tividis
Indiana
Ohio
Lower
Michigan
Pennsyl
Fine Columbus Man On Drunk Disorderly Counts
Albert Miller a 264 pound Columbus man 30 paid a five dollar fine and ten dollar disorderly conduct fine plus costs after he resisted subduing and was jailed following a drunken disturbance at the city station with James Spencer of 38 West Washington street. Miller and Spencer came to clear a parking ticket situation. He was ordered to leave and returned causing the disturbance before Alderman Gobbett.
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Albert Miller
Ureir
Miller
Columbus
James Spencer
West Washington Street
Spencer
Columbus mi
Aldermin M.S. Gobbett
Driv Chanrge
Chage
Henriie
Kennedy unemployment aid could cost $1 billion
Washington AP reports the emergency extra unemployment benefits proposed by President Kennedy could reach $1 billion, depending on unemployment levels and voluntary state participation. The plan would be funded by federal dollars and repaid from payroll tax revenue, lasting about a year with extended benefit durations and shifted costs after two weeks for states with longer regular benefit periods, a model similar to Eisenhower era programs.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Capitol Hil
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mass care drill to test Civil Defense efforts in Corry
About 500 people will descend on Corry Area High School May 12 and 13 to participate in a mass care exercise for Civil Defense and Red Cross personnel. The drill, conducted with guidance from ED and Red Cross officials, will simulate disaster conditions, including policing, feed, clothing, fire protection, and shelter logistics, with headquarters at the Corry school and accommodations arranged for overnight stay.
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Corry
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Coy Area
Fieilltes
Anderson
BV. McClintock
Schiowt Custadian
David Parmenter
Erie County Club Defense Corps
Corry Area
Une Ol
Parmenier
Parmenter
Train Derailment Kills Two Men in Maryland
LANCASTER PA AP Two men Benjamin F Good 3 and Robert B Seldomridge killed Thursday in a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailment en route to Bowie Maryland Friends drove to Aberdeen Maryland left car there and boarded the train Seldomridge wife heart condition placed under physician care Good worked for Home Life Insurance Co of America Both Lancaster born and raised Adrian Philadelphian said debris and bodies flung over the place as he saw a man moaning for help in the wreckage
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Lancaster, Pa
Benjamin F. Good
Robert B. Seldomridge
Bowie
Seldomridge
Aberdeen
Maryland
the Home Life Insurance Co. of America
Lancaster
Harold Adrian
Adrian
Raymond Ross
Paul Adelphia
Australia’s Mead Lies in Canberra
A garbled note from an Australian source mentions Canberra and a general, with unclear phrasing about Mead and Australia. Readable bits reference political figures and locations but lack coherent action or date.
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Australia
Canberra
Aaa Paeneral
Freeze Claims Two Soldiers in Alpine Blizzard
In Bulzano at 8400 feet a blizzard trapped Tritan Alpine soldiers. Two died of exposure and five survivors were hospitalized after rescue teams recovered the bodies and carried the injured on stretchers to Merana. Temperatures reportedly fell far below zero as night closed in.
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Bulzano
Merana
Plitoga
Wis
Vid Maza
U Val Senales
Cuba Purge Eliminates 120 Judges in Dictatorial Sweep
Castro regime conducts second phase of purge dismissing about 120 judges across provincial appeals courts. Cabinet decree suspends for 45 days laws shielding court officials as Castro aims to remove dissent and ensure a more revolutionary judiciary. Many judges reportedly fled or left the country. observers warn of chilling effect on legal independence.
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Havana
Fidel Dystra
Flidad
Furdover
Cubs
Remwcite
Cole
Pia
Tno Ha-Manthe
Decine
Duc
Athens
Bede
Silich Rey
Antony Nuque Tmenes
Castawarian
Vegram
Jonge
Castro
Osvaldo Carticos
Alfredo Yabur
Cuba
Justee
Goose
Joe
Te Wis
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