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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1950
Page
1
Mass exodus from Taegu, city besieged as fear sweeps half a million residents. Chaos rules the streets while civilians stream southward under pressure from advancing Red Army forces along the Seoul to Taegu corridor. Continuous sheltering near a mission school highlights turmoil in this provisional South Korean capital.
Washington Aug 18 The government ordered a freeze on sale of surplus property including war plants supplies equipment and material civilian and military all previous disposal authority aside Property declared excess must be screened by all federal agencies before disposal Jess Larson in charge of surplus property said agencies may acquire what they need while the war emergency lasts and will recheck needs before selling any surplus
Entries for the Indiana County Fair set for August 29 to September 2 may be made August 24 to August 28 at the secretary’s office. Secretary Bertha EB Jones said livestock entries are arriving quickly and most local concession space is sold. Final entry time is 7 p.m. on August 28. Divisions open include horses, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, swine, farm produce, clothing, homemade goods, and horticulture.
Sergeant First Class Lero C. Wolf, husband of Mrs. Mary K. Wolf and son-in-law of Mrs. Nancy Pickup of Alverda, Indiana County, is reported wounded in action in Korea. The notice notes his Far East Command service amid local mentions of community events and ads.
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania begins a 107000 project to add trunk lines between Indiana and Clymer and expand subscriber service in the Indiana exchange area. The plan runs 20 miles of aerial cable, two thirds mile underground, 361 poles to be removed, and 472 miles of open wire to be dismantled.
New York news reports on Fred Snyder, a University of Wichita psychology graduate student, who has worn upside down glasses for 30 days to study perception. He prepares to remove them, hoping to see the world as others do. Dr. N. H. Pronka notes value in the experiment without aiming to prove a specific result.
Democrats gained the edge in a Homer City registration yesterday with a tally of 42 Democrats 19 Republicans and two nonpartisans. A second registration is planned at Ernest today then White Station Conemaugh Township and Clymer on Tuesday August 32 in the sequence.
Indiana Borough will lose $200 a month in rent as the Pennsylvania State Employment Service moves from the Municipal Building to a new two story structure on North Fifth Street. John M. Shaffer said the lease below the old Eagles Home was approved, construction started this week, and Nick Pagano will own and lease the building for five years. Occupancy hoped by late November.
The Justice Department announced the arrest of Morton Sobell, 33, a New York electrical engineer and former Navy civilian worker, on charges of giving defense secrets to Russia. He was taken into custody at Laredo, Texas, after fleeing to avoid arrest, and faces possible extradition to New York.
Principal R. Lesle Simpson, longtime Saltsburg Public Schools head, was named to a Blairsville supervising principal post yesterday. He replaces Ronald M. Coulter, elected county assistant superintendent, and is a Westminister College and University of Pittsburgh graduate. Simpson is the third Blairsville supervising principal in two months after Paul Maxwell resigned for Etna.
Three violators of state fish laws in Indiana County have been fined a total of 65 dollars. David C. Anderson of Lucerne Mines paid 20 for creel limit overage. Eugene Boggie of Blairsville paid 20 for not having rods under immediate control. Robert L. Kline of Mary land Pa paid 25 for fishing without a license.
Eileen Kline six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry E Kline of Cherry Tree was admitted to Clearfield Hospital Wednesday with a fractured right arm. She was injured in a fall at her home on Sunday.
U S Army reports 36 American bodies recovered from hill 303 in Korea after Red forces killed 39 mortar and tank crews. Survivors identified two Red prisoners as participants. a third was implicated. Slaughter described with bound hands and feet and arson against corpses. War crimes charges anticipated.
Circus Model Builders and Owners Association holds its annual picnic at Indiana airgrounds Sunday. Miniatures of all kinds will be displayed on a concrete platform in front of the grandstand. Municipal Band will play circus numbers. Display hours are two to four PM.
At the Malins town Fair in Dallastown Pennsylvania a live baby pig was announced as a gate prize but the pig turned out to be a real live pig. Police welfare agencies and newspapers received protests after fair officials promised a real prize valued at thirty but the announcer inadvertently gave away a young pig instead.
Washington officials report President Truman’s proposed first installment wartime tax bill could reach his desk by September 1. The measure would raise individual income taxes by about 3 billion and lift corporate levies by roughly 1.5 billion annually, with additional revenue from closing loopholes and new excises on TVs and freezers. Senate Finance Committee backed the plan, while a major battle over excess profits taxes looms. The bill would start affecting taxpayers October 1 with higher withholdings and a top 87 percent rate for the highest incomes. It also includes full tax exemption on GI service pay and incentives to speed military production retooling.
Tokyo dispatch reports Allied forces checked a 30 000 strong North Korean advance near Taegu, with Marines and U S infantry driving back Reds at Changnyong while evacuations stripped the city to a fortress. The South Korean government moved its refugee capital inland as civilians fled.
Washington August 18. In the wage hour dispute over 300,000 railway trainmen and conductors, unauthorized strikes intensified as union leaders were to be summoned to the White House for talks with John R. Steelman. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors planned a five day token strike on two major steel and coal lines starting next Tuesday at 6 am, aiming to pressure a settlement without a national emergency.
In a meeting with B T Hain of National Radiator Company the Industrial Relations Committee reviewed an expansion plan. Hain argued York’s advantages including proximity to Eastern markets a skilled labor pool and a trucking terminal with 600 daily trucks, claiming potential savings for the company and jobbers.
Edward L. Gibbs a 25 year old ex GI and Franklin and Marshall College senior from Pitman New Jersey was sentenced to death by electric chair for the murder of Marion Louise Baker a 2 year old secretary at the college in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Judge Joseph B Wissler announced the death sentence and set the date as the Governor shall fix with Gibbs offering no remark and his attorney W Hensel Brown indicating an appeal to the state supreme court.
Philadelphia City Councilman Richardson Dilworth, a Democratic candidate for Governor and City Treasurer, is named in a $20,000 libel suit filed by Republican James G. Clark. Clark accuses Dilworth of false and defamatory campaign remarks and vows to prove the charges.
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