Local Man Dies in Early Morning House Fire
Firefighters found the front half of the Stewart home engulfed in flames at about 4 a.m. The victim, Stewart, was found near the living room wall after the fire penetrated that area. Fire Chief William Simpson said an investigation will determine the cause. Medvide, realizing the blaze, alerted his wife and tried to reach the home with Duriansi to break through a door. Neighbors noted Stewart and his family recently moved in, with Stewart returning to Indiana only months ago.
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Teer
Stewart House
Stewart
William Simpson
Medvide
Indiana
Roy E. Coates
Costes
Duriansic
Rev. Coates
Coates
Duriansi
Ammonia Fumes Force Evacuation Near 1OWA Park
More than ten people evacuated from a 15 block area after deadly hydrous ammonia fumes filled the district. They returned home after workmen drained a leaking 6,000 gallon tank. Police Chief Ross Chapman said the alert ended when firemen civil defense workers and chemical staff attached a line and pumped the liquefied gas into a second tank.
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1Owa Park
Tex
Ross Chapman
Civil Defense
Dot Damages Kauai From Hurricane Storm
Hurricane Dot moved away over the Pacific but lashed Kauai with 75 mph winds flooding and tearing roofs from homes. Widespread destruction included wrecked buildings and downed power lines. About 1,000 people sought high ground. No deaths. Acting Gov Edward Johnston asked President Eisenhower to declare Kauai a federal disaster area to secure aid loans. Johnston estimated damages over a million dollars with Hawaii officials reporting up to six million in total damages.
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Honolulu
Dot
Hawaiian Islands
Kauai
Edward E. Johnston
Washington
William F. Quinn
Eisenhower
Steel Strike In United States Faces Long Weeks
About half a million United Steelworkers and 107000 allied industry workers have been off the job. Negotiations in recess until Monday in New York with Federal Mediation Chief Finnegan noting some encouragement but little progress. Thirty one Democratic senators urge speeding settlement as industry loses 300 million dollars weekly while workers forego 70 million in wages. Union seeks 15 cent hourly wage rise plus benefits. industry rejects fearing inflation in steel prices.
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Associated Press
United Steelworkers
New York
Joseph F. Finnegan
Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Fire claimed life in resident home. investigation continues
Fire Chief Simpson could not estimate damages at the scene due to unknown furniture. State Trooper Hadock and County Coroner Gard ner joined the investigation. The blaze started in the living room where Stewart was found and he was overcome before escaping. Funeral arrangements are by Sutila Funeral Home. a full obituary appears Monday in the Indiana Evening Gazette.
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Simpson
Thomas Hadock
Russell Gardner
Stewart
Sutila Funeral Home
Indiana Evening Gazette
The Boy Friend Ends Season With Musical Comedy
The Summer Theater Guild concludes its eighth season tonight at 8:30 in Theater-by-the-Grove with The Boy Friend a Sandy Wilson musical. Indiana State Teachers College plans a five week tour under USC and American Education Theater Association for Defense in the North East Command beginning February 1960. The production recaptures twenties entertainment with flappers, Charleston, and the tuneful satire featuring Joy DeSimone Tobin as Polly Brown and Charles Baird as Tony.
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Summer Theater Guild
Sandy Wilson
Robert W. Ensley
Charles A. Davis
Indiana State Teachers College
USC
American Education Theater Association
Department of Defense
North East Command
London
Charleston
Hip - Flasks
Coonskin
John Held, Jr
Scott Fitzgerald
Joy DeSimone Tobin
Polly Brown
Julie Andrews
New York
Charles Baird
Tony
Nancy Donnelly
Janet Comstock
Judy McCormick
Sylvia Jones
Velma George
Mme DuBonnet
James George
Frank Clark
Edwin Tobin
Phyllis Weprin
Donald Ficco
Robert Guldin
James Kensinger
Carol Mazza
Whites Arrested in Negro Blast Case Continues
Six white men were arrested in Wilmington on charges tied to Sunday's blast that damaged a $13,500 home of the Rayfields. Five suspects from Collins Park and Overlook Gardens were released on bail of 5,000 to 15,000, while William V. Charlton was nabbed in Venice Florida.
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Rayfields
Rayfield
Geraldine
Delaware
Venice
Fla
Wilmington
Gilbert Minnick
Francis Conley
Albert L. Reverdito
David Emory
Ronald Thorkildsen
Collins Park
Melvin Downing
Overview Gandens
Delaware Superior Court
William V. Charlton
Charlton
Herter Leaves For Chile For Ministers Conference
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter departs Washington for Santiago Chile to attend a Western Hemisphere Foreign Ministers meeting called by the OAS amid Caribbean tensions. Officials anticipate a three day stay beginning midweek.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Santiago
Chile
Organization of American States
Caribbean
U.S
Herter
Clark Seeks Butter Cheese and Pork for Surplus Food
U S Sen Joseph S Clark pledges to push for adding butter cheese and pork to surplus food during the steel strike after Gov Lawrence asked. He said the Agriculture Department told him these items are not now available and he requests current inventories to argue for immediate distribution in Pennsylvania.
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Harrisburg
U. S
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Lawrence
Clark
U. S. Agriculture Department
Department
Pennsylvania
Developing Long Range Navy Radar
The report outlines a plan for a long range radar using four paddle vanes to harvest solar energy to power space radio transmissions across 20 to 50 million miles. It also notes earth cloud studies, cosmic dust measurement, magnetic field mapping, and radio wave research to aid distant space communications. Explorer VI is expected to orbit over a year with several artificial moons.
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Space
Russia
Moscow Radio
Washington
New Satellite Uses Back Scatter Radar For Missile Detection
The New York Times reports a new high frequency ionospheric back scatter radar system in development to detect and locate ballistic missiles and nuclear tests. It could beat the BMEWS range and reveal launch sites, with operation possible within a few years if fully funded. Thaler, a former Project Argus Navy scientist, explains the method and timing.
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United States
South Atlantic
Johnston Island
Pacific
New York Times
Times
Continental
Air Force
Thaler
Navy
the Times
Baltimore
Loyola High School
Obituary notices of WHERRY FREW HART and others in Indiana PA
Byron P Wherry died August 7 at home 415 Flint Street Apollo born June 6 1878 in South Bend PA. Survived by widow Jeannette Owens, children Bessie Noe Paul Wherry Louise Prescott, siblings and many grandchildren. Services Monday 1 30 p m Vandergrift Cemetery. Randy Kim Frew died August 7 Blairsville born December 22 1054 survived by mother Grace Frew sister Candy Jane and Ivan Ragan. Irene Sutter Hart died August 8 Topeka Kansas born May 14 1889 survived by four children ten grandchildren siblings. Agnes Hastings Gunter died in Indiana Hospital born March 31 1892 survived by husband five sons three daughters two brothers one sister and many grandchildren. Melvin E Bingaman 75 of Koppel died August 7 at son Lawrence’s home after lingering illness survived by children and grandchildren. services Monday 2 p m at McCardell Pyock Funeral Home. Interment in Fairsiew Cemetery Jefferson County.
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Byron P. Wherry
Flint Street
Apollo
South Bend
John N
Sarah Walker Wherry
Sara Rudolf
Jeannette Owens
Bessie Noe
New York City
Paul A. Wherry
Vandergrift
Louise Prescott
Spring Church
King Brothers Funeral Home
Randy Kim Frew
Blairsville
Indiana Hospital
Latrobe
Grace Frew
Candy Jane
Ivan Ragan
Ferguson Funeral Home
Irene Sutter Hart
George P. Hart
Overbrook
Kans
Topeka
Sgrange
Jefferson County
Lafayette
Ella Gourley Sutter
James
Eleanor) Wharton
Garden City
W. J
Margaret Nell) McMeen
Kansas City
Max
Agnes Hastings Gunter
Lewis L. Gunter
Indiana R.D
Philipsburg
Mary Edwards Hastings
Indiana
Lewis
Shelocta
Merle
Raymond
Diamondville
Crasmer
John
Lesster
Violet) Shankle
Robert
Dolores) Erle
Youngwood
Wade
Blanche) Croushore
Frank Hastings
Palisade Park
N.J
Herman Hastings
Worcester
Olive Perks
Robinson - Lytle's
William Sutherland
Greenwood Cemetery
Melvin E. Bingaman
Koppel
Gipsy
Lawrence Bingaman
Jonathan
Abbie Shambach Bingaman
Snydertown
Cora Bair Bingaman
Ruby Bair
Clarence Bingaman
Aston
N. Y
Ernest
Arcadia
Leonard
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Trudell Gromley
Glen Campbell
Lawrence of
Louie Ya@kimovicz
Glen Campbell RD
Ira Bingaman
North Dakota
Harry
Chicago
Jsese
Merdie Bingaman
Canada
McCardell
Trailways Buses Back In Operation Across Nation
Continental American Trailways resumes most routes after a 396 day strike ending last Saturday. Cross country service from eastern points starts tonight with about 90 percent of alterations restored. Westbound buses will depart from Washington, D. C. before moving to major hubs like Waynesboro, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Omaha, Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
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New York
Continental American Trailways
Midwest
Mid- ‘West
Assn
Street, Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employee of
America
Lincoln
Neb
West Coast
Washington, D. C
Waynesboro
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Omaha
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Erie Coach Co Seeks Fare Increase on School and Child Tickets
The Erie Coach Co asked the Public Utility Commission for approval to raise school fare to 12.4 cents and child fare to 1.3 cents with 10 trip school tickets at $1. The current 10 cent fares have stood since 1956. The rise would add about $22,700 in annual revenue but still leave the firm about $5,000 in the red.
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Harrisburg
Erie Coach Co
Public Utility Commission
Erie Coach
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Steel Strike
Phila. St
Roseburg
Paris
Hero
Heroine
Pop
Indiana Motor Co., Inc
Max C. Sutter
Homer City
Hamilton L. Sutter
Punxsutawney
Frank
Lenora
Trailways
Erie Bus Firm
Anderson's
Satake
Ehgania
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