Eisenhower to stress socialism and taxes in GOP drive
President Eisenhower plans a stepped up congressional campaign stressing the dangers of socialism and higher taxes. He defends the Quemoy and Matsu crisis and pledges a vigorous tour to rally Republican voters while criticizing Democratic critics of his handling of foreign policy and domestic policy.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White ‘House
GOP
Quemoy
Matsu
Meade Alcorn
Alcorn
Congress
Supreme Court Justice Burton Retires Monday
Washington AP Justice Harold H Burton will retire next Monday after 12 years on the Supreme Court opening the way for an Eisenhower appointed majority. The White House said Burton requested retirement Monday night after the court opened its fall term. Eisenhower praised Burton for devoted public service as he considers a successor. Burton cites medical advice and best interests in his resignation. The move marks Eisenhower’s fifth court appointment, with Warren Harlan Whittaker Brennan among the other picks. The court will then sit five Democrats and three Republicans.
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Harold H. Burton
Supreme Court
White House
Eisenhower
Burton
Republian
Warren
California
Hisenhower
John M. Harlan
Charles Evans Whittaker
Appeals Court
Wiliam J. Brennan
New Jersey State Supreme Court
Harlan
Whittaker
Spartansburg Hunters Bag Pair Of Moose
Emmett Young and Bruce Bailey of Spartansshore returned from a Canadian hunt with a pair of massive moose. They trekked a week into the north and watched a herd of five moose, then both killed the cow and the bull. The bull weighed about 1500 pounds with a 5 1/8 inch antler spread. the cow roughly 1000 pounds. Both men are local farmers and this was their first trophy moose.
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Canadian
Emmett Young
Bruce Bailey
Spartanshore
Iicely
Young
Bailey
Spartansburg
May Make City Weighs Tax Collection Gaps
May Make city council and school board tax policy reps discussed wage earner coverage last night. A house to house canvass was considered to catch self employed and multi job workers. The special tax committee will meet later this month to decide on next steps.
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Survey City Council
Council
Board of Education
Couneil
City Council Hears Sewer Plan Proposals
City Council discussed sewer system issues with Hill and Hill engineering outlining a two phase program. Phase one would study Hare Creek outlet feasibility at about 600 dollars. Phase two would survey facilities back to the business district costing around 1500 dollars. No decision made. next steps deferred. J R Dearing proposed a bypass line from South Center Street to East Main Street via Maple Avenue for storm water. Continued on Page Eight.
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Hill and Hill Engineering
Willams
Hill and Hui
Hare Creek
J. R. Dearing
Streets
South Center Street
East Main Street
Maple Avenue
Dearing
Health Group Okays York Street Home
York Street issue resurfaces at City Council with Thomas Clark chairing a residents group seeking progress on a September 2 request to fix alleged conditions at 196% York Street. Erie County Health Department found ten sewage violations in the trailer camp and other health code breaches near several homes.
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York Street
Thomas Clark
Third Ward
Yorktreet
J. Fred Kinley
Erie County Health Department
Kinley
Finley
Health Department
Clark
Crallers
Roger Brown
Tokyo court upholds suspended sentence in drunken driving death
The Tokyo Higher Court upheld a 10 month suspended sentence for Sgt. J. C. Paul J. Webber a 39 year old from Haver town Pa. He was sentenced for drunken driving that killed four Japanese while driving into a group repairing a truck tail.
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Tokyo
Sgt
J.C Paul J. Webber
Havertown
Webber
Hunters Bag Big Moose in Canadian Woods
Bruce Bailey and Emmett Young, farmers, returned home with a 2 1 500-pound moose and a 1 000-pound moose after tracking them under a guide's instruction. The Spartansburg team displayed a trophy as proof of the hunt. The foot of the Gull and the Lorns measurements are noted. The pair reportedly spotted a herd of five in distant Canadian woods during the chase.
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Spartansburg
Sedom Ween
Ares
Halley
Communists’ Guns Silent As Navy Escorts Continue
Reports from Taipel Formosa indicate Communist antiaircraft batteries posted no fire during a second day of the cease-fire as U S Navy ships escorted Nationalist supply convoys to Quemoy and the offshore islands. Nationalist gunners also held their fire while the cease-fire held, with supplies dropped from Nationalist transports. Intelligence sources say the Reds expect no extension beyond the initial week and factions along the China coast are seen moving motorized guns for a potential invasion scenario.
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Formoss
U3. Navy
Quemoy
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Washington
China
Hong Kong
Defense Ministry
Amay
City Seeks State Aid for Sewage Plant and Other Actions
Corry moves to secure a 7 000 to 9 000 state aid allotment under the clean streams program by ensuring timely forms are sent and returned. The council also extended a traffic lights permit, approved curb cutting for a garage, allowed timber removal along Seneca street, and addressed a hazardous East Pleasant street runoff. Mayor Kinley warned of losing a 42 foot parking meter due to curb cut.
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Corry
Clean Streams
State Department of Health
Don Williams
Harrisburg
Phint
Williams
North Center
Bond Streets
East Main Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Theodore Goring
Seneca Street
Marise Lilley
Fountainette
Patterson
South Street
Miss Lilley
J. Fred Kinley
London Cops Hit $700,000 Record Football Pool Win
London police officers share a world record pool win nearly $700,000 from Britain's football pools. Fifteen officers and three Sicilians at Margate have won using the seven year syndicate method. Young constable James Upton, with five shares, could receive about $140,000.
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London
Margate
Britain
Happy Cops
Tom Riley
James Upton
Upton
Tam
British liner nears record with swift transatlantic flight
A British jetliner carrying 46 passengers crossed from New York to London in six hours and 32 minutes, closing in on a record. Captain James Linton of BOAC said the flight could have beaten six hours seven minutes had he been allowed to fly 10,000 feet lower, but strong upper winds hindered the attempt.
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Atlantic
New York
London
James Linton
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Che ‘Eford
Methodists Launch $110000 Fund Drive for Church Expansion
The First Methodist Church launched a $110,000 fundraising appeal with 663 pledged and 403 reported at last night’s banquet attended by 209 members. Plans call for an educational unit on the north side of the church on what is now a parking lot. Workers will dine tonight at 6 30 pm for assignments to visit those unable to attend. dinners continue through Thursday. Key speakers included Rev. George A Myers and others. Mrs Lila Poster sent a recorded greeting. Dr R Moorman Parker provided the keynote address.
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First Methodist Church
Barking Lot
George A. Myers
Hubert, Vaughn
Edmund Burr
John Wells
Paul Meerdink
Stephen Brooks
Lester Dammer
Lila Poster
R. Moorman Parker
Board of Mission of the
West Virginia Methodist Conference
Jurors Called in New Cinder Trial Case
Prospective jurors were on call in Portage Pennsylvania for the trial of two Schuylkill County men accused of shortweighing the state highways with seven thousand dollars worth of cinders delivered in 1954. Vincent Swarts of Mahonoy City and John Harris Jr of Frackville face forging weight slips charges. Swartz is the brother in law of Victor Prep, a Frackville contractor convicted of a similar charge in York and Lancaster counties.
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Omisthport
Schuyl‘ill
State Department of Highways
Mee~ Kean
Vincent Swarts
Mahonoy City
John Harris Jr
Frackville
Swartz
Harris
Victor Prep
Worth 160 Million Together Gotham Millionaire Candidates Seek Vote Of Common People
New York Evening World notes Democratic Gov Averell Harriman and Republican Nelson Rockefeller, both multi millionaires, campaign actively among the public from Long Island to Niagara. Harriman’s fortune exceeds 60 million dollars and Rockefeller’s over 100 million, signaling a shift from private wealth to public-service appeal.
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NEW YORK /AP
William H. Vanderbilt
New York Central Railroad
New York
Long Island
Niagara Pass
Averell Harriman
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Vanderbilt
Harriman
Rockefeller
Warn U S On Cease Fire
Tokyo AP reports China's Foreign Minister Chen said the United States would miscalculate any Cease-fire by treating the pause in bombardment as weakness. Chen warned Washington not to misinterpret the move and urged withdrawal of foreign forces while pledging to liberate Formosa and nearby areas. Premier Chou En-lai attended the East Germany anniversary reception.
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China
Chen
United States
Formosa
Pescadores
Qiemoy
Mars
Talvinn Canmaey
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