Ike Expected To Call End To Foreign Tours
Washington AP Congress members welcomed the apparent end of Eisenhower foreign tours. The President, in a televised address, said he might not embark on a new trip in his last seven months but would not hesitate to travel again if needed to promote free world unity and curb communism. He cited Japan’s ratification of a security pact as a major victory for the free world despite the Tokyo disorders.
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Medical Care For Aged Slaws Passage Of SS Bill
The Senate Finance Committee will work on the House passed social security bill a key step toward adjournment. Democratic senators want to broaden medical care for the aged, aiming to cover a majority of the 16 million Americans over 65. The plan would integrate medical benefits into social security with other methods to reach all. The day includes consideration of a tax extension and debt ceiling measure to preserve revenue and raise the debt limit temporarily. The Senate also allowed radio time for candidates, while the House rejected a broadcast licensing proposal and prepares to vote on payola and quiz show rigging. Also sent to the House is a bill for 100 million dollars in federal loans to modernize urban transit systems.
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Hinday
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Corryite Arrested for Illegal Tap on Cable Lines
Gerald Sweet of 34 Snyder Circle was arrested after the Corry Cable Company charged him with illegally tapping into its TV lines. He pleaded guilty at arraignment before Alderman M. J. Cobbett and was released on $1,000 bond for a hearing. The company cited state law giving similar penalties to other utilities.
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Corry
Gerald Sweet
Snyder Circle
Sweet
M. 8
Cobbett
Air Tanker Crash Kills Five During Refueling Exercise
Five crew members perished when a four-engine air tanker crashed and exploded after fueling during a training drill near Jonathan Smith Mountain. Police described witnesses seeing the plane burst into flames and dive before the wreckage on a five-acre site. State police and Oxford County sheriff’s deputies received numerous calls. officer Joseph Perry recalled watching the tanker explode as it connected to the fuel line.
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Jonathan Smith Mountain
Oxford County
Family loses three children in Arkansas flood tragedy
Roy Branscum and his Japanese-born wife Motuko and son Carl were rescued after clinging to tree trunks as a flood swept Highway 65. Marilyn, 8, was recovered from the Branscum car, while Daniel Ray, 5, and Gray, 2, remained missing. The Branscum family had been returning to New Orleans after visiting the mother’s home in Harness, Arkansas.
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Ark
Set
Roy Branscum
Branscum
Motuko
Carl
Rallswollen Creek
Highway 65
Here
Marilyn
Daniel Ray
Gray
New Orleans
Roxie Branscum
Harness
Reds Refuse To Renew Talks On Disarmament
In Geneva AP Western powers ended the collapsed disarmament conference. Western delegations held a rump session, sent conference records to the UN Security Council and General Assembly. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin walked out Monday accusing the West of hiding rearmament. British Minister David Ormsby-Gore tried to persuade Zorin to return as talks continued in theory despite the walkout.
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Geneva
U. N. Security Council
General Assembly
Valerian Zurin
Marian Naszkowsk
Ilegal
David Ormsby-Gore
Zorin
Johansson Says Next Fight Will Be Absolutely Fast
Ingemar Johansson announced in OPENHAGEN that his next bout would be "an absolutely fast one." The former heavyweight champion, dethroned by Floyd Patterson in New York on June 20, said the plan stands even if he loses his third fight with Patterson.
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Ingo
Openhagen
Denmark
Sweden
Ingemar Johansson
Floyd Patterson
New York
Johansson
Waterford Electric to Cut Rates in Erie County Area
The Public Utility Commission said Waterford Electric Light Co. will reduce annual rates by 2,672 dollars for 874 of 985 customers in Erie County. The move follows similar PUC actions, consolidating urban and rural rate schedules into a single charge with a 5 cent monthly decrease for rural use and, for urban customers using 13 or more kilowatt hours monthly, an average 10 cent cut. No changes for large quantity customers.
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Public Utility Commission
Waterford Electric Light Co
Waterford
Erie County
Puc
Harveys Lake Light Co
Tagerne County
Commission
Union Skepticism Grows Over Voluntary Health Plans
A union medical spokesman, Dr. Lorin B. Kerr, says labor unions are increasingly skeptical of voluntary health insurance programs. He cites widespread dissatisfaction and the inability of most plans to adequately meet the medical needs of retired miners.
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United Mine ‘Workers
Lorin B. Kerr
Hunger for better goods under Khrushchev in Moscow
William L. Ryan reports from Moscow on Khrushchev's domestic pressures as shortages persist. A casual Muscovite market for clothing and trinkets reveals inflation and unsatisfied demand. The piece contrasts Soviet supply issues with wartime American controls and notes repeated cycles of monetary adjustment.
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William L. Ryan
Associated Press
Soviet Union
Sfort
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Ussr
Stalin
Khrushchev
Slump in steel orders cuts jobs across regions
About 25,000 steelworkers have been laid off with thousands more on short weeks as orders slump. Production this week is projected at 1,560,000 tons, the lowest since 1959, with major mills like U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson and Jones & Laughlin pausing during the Fourth of July period. Uncertainty dominates while analysts expect a rebound in August as automakers begin 1961 model orders.
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New York
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
American Tron and Steel Institute
Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Edgar ‘Thomson
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Detroit
Chicago
Ind
Inland Steel Co
U. S. Steel Ohion
Youngstown
Sparrows Point
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Corry's Fund and City Planning Meet For Tonight
Corryites and planners gather at Corry Area High School tonight for the City Planning Steering Committee session. Michael Baker Engineering reports near completion will be reviewed in workgroups before a general session tomorrow to draft ordinances guiding industrial expansion and housing, utilities, and subdivision rules.
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Corryites Industrial Deveelopment Corporation
Corryltes
Baker Firm
Anderson
Planning Commission
Corry
Wen
Raven
John Mohr
Commission
Mohr
Molir
Baker
Two Car Crash Hurts Serviceman in Munhall Area
A Route 29 collision near Jeannette Westmoreland County injured a U S Air Force serviceman and two others. Jerome Smith 2 RD Jeannette was listed in critical condition at Westmoreland Hospital. State police reported driver by Smith and Edward Krushingkl 43. Expark were travelling weet on Route 22 where the accident occurred.
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Munrsystan
Westmoreland County
Jerome Smith
Jeannette
UB Air Force
Westmoreland Hospital
Cary
Smith
Edward Krushingkl
Expark
Indians Take Over Bureau Office In Tribal Funds Protest
A small Indian faction seized the U S Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal office in Duchesne Utah in a bloodless sit down strike. About braves and squaws occupied the building to protest alleged mis spending of tribal funds. Officials say the intruders have no authority and left plans unclear. The incident follows dissatisfaction with travel programs development and recreation funding.
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Utah
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Martin M. Zollar
Zollar
Youth Killed As Powerboat Hits Wall
SUNBURY Pa AP Jerry Wilson 17 of Selinsgrove was killed when a powerboat struck a concrete water intake in the Susquehanna River. Riders Russell Martin 15 and Robert Long Sr 40 were thrown overboard. Martin Long and Long Jr were rescued. Two 15 year old Sunbury boys nearby were injured by the cat. Richard Sage and Richard Reichenbach were treated and released. Autopsy ordered to determine cause of death.
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Sunbury, Pa
Jerry Wilson
Selinsgrove
Susquehanna River
Here
Wilson
Russell A. Martin
Robert L. Long Sr
Martin
Long
Robert
Sunbury
Richard Savage
Richard Reichenbach
Sunbury Community Hospital
Sayin
Prisoner Flees Dentist Appointment in Tampa
Roscoe Boatwright, a 35 year old inmate serving six years for forgery, entered a Tampa dentist office for an adjustment. While the dentist attended another patient, Boatwright rose and slipped out the back as a guard waited outside.
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Tampa
Fla
Roscoe Ht
Boatwright
Iyia
Capital To Withdraw Route Applications
Capital Airlines says it will withdraw several new route applications including Buffalo to Montreal. It will seek CAB action to withdraw service proposals at Wheeling and Morgantown West Virginia and Erie and request permission to abandon Harrisburg and Williamsport Pennsylvania. The airline cites markets centered on local service unable to support an economically competitive pattern. Postmasters Give OK Bedford Pa The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Postmasters endorsed Eisenhower’s peace program and his summit conference stance at its 26th annual convention. The group adjourns with officer elections tomorrow.
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Wannington
Capital Airlines
Buffalo
Montreal
Civil Aeronautics Board
Wheeling
Morgantown
W. Va
Erie
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Capital
Bedford
Pennsylvania
National Association of Postmasters
Eisenhower
Alabama Firm Seeks Corry Plant Location
An Alabama firm from Montgomery sent an inquiry to Corry Area Industrial Development Corp asking for help locating a 7,000 square foot plant in Corry. CAIDC listed at least three suitable industrial lease properties in the immediate area and relayed options to the company's president by telephone.
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Muansuvimes Ee
Matenally Knon
Corry
CAIDC
Alabama
Holdu p Trio Gets Little Use Of Loot
XUUNGSLOWN Ohio AP A wholesale jeweler handcuffed in his locked eighth floor office called for help as three holdup men fled to the first floor with 37500 in loot Police captured one man in the lobby a second blocks away and a passerby helped arrest the third They recovered 2500 in cash and a suitcase containing Mamanda and jewelry mountings valued at 5000 Names Melvin McCormick 24 William Tyon 25 James Smith 31 all from Youngstown were held without charge The victims included Louis Cvelbar and Arch ie Brown of Sharpsville Pa and Neil Brown 11 son of Arch ie
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Xuungslown
Ohio
Michael Lysphir
Lysphir
Louis Cvelbar
Archie Brown
Sharpsville
Brown
Neil
John Sobey
Sharon
Cvelbar
Melvin McCormick
William¢ Tyon
James Smith
Youngstown
Pennsylvania New Jersey agree to reciprocal license suspensions
Pennsylvania and New Jersey announced an improved reciprocal agreement on drivers license suspensions effective August 1. The pact makes suspensions for violations in one state run concurrently in both states, eliminating two penalty periods for motorists. Previously a Pennsylvania motorist convicted in New Jersey could face suspensions in both states.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
New Jersey
Upgrade Driver Training Plan Draws Barbs
LOS ANGELES AP The National Education Association proposes upgrading driver education to equal status with other high school courses. Norman Key AR executive secretary urged standards for teacher preparation and college programs. Critics argue driver ed is a frill to be done after school or by civic groups rather than in school hours.
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Los Angeles
National—Education Assn
Norman Key
NEA
Commission of Public Education
Key
Cation
U. 8
City pledges push Corry area development drive
Solid support from local and out of town businesses boosts the Corry Area Development Corp fund toward its $126,014 goal with $121,514 raised. Industrial leaders endorse DAIDC, pledges from truck lines and local firms tighten the drive as organizers contact out of town concerns to exceed the target.
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Corry Area Development Corp
Corry
DAIDC
United Fund
Robert Bracken
Bill to Tax Auto Dealers’ Sales Abandoned in Senate
Harrisburg AP notes the state Senate defeated three proposals to have auto dealers collect the 4 percent state sales tax on retail vehicle sales and receive a commission. The measure fell short of the constitutional 28 votes required for passage. Senator Weiner warned it could cost the state a million dollars yearly, while Governor Lawrence reportedly favored it if approved. The session is limited to budget and revenue matters.
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Harrisburg
Aato
Senate
Charles R. Weiner
Lawrence
J. Irving Whalley
Somerset
Robert Watkins
Delaware
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