Incident Near Alaska Forces Crash Injures 11
The Navy Neptune aircraft was attacked by two Soviet MIG-type jets near Alaska during a U N anniversary event. One engine burned and a fuel tank exploded on landing, injuring several crew members who received aid from Eskimos. The incident prompted White House and Senate reactions as officials sought Russian response and considered impacts on the Big Four talks and Geneva conference.
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U.N
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Mototov
Dulles
U. N
L Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Whitefield
N. H
New England
Hagerty
Navy Department
Navy
Armed Forces
Alaska
Joseph H. Atkinson
Kodiak, Alaska
Naval’ Station
Richard H. Fischer
Pittsburgh
Russ
Fischer
Eisenhower
Chittenden, Vt
Herbert Hoover Jr
Defense Wilson
Robert Anderson
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
San Francisco
Congress
Sen. Russel
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mansfield
Russia
Sen. Purtell
R-Conn
Sen
Morse
D-Ore
Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Holland
D-Fla
U.S
Western Pacific
Bering Strait
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Polio Shot Program Delayed by Vaccine Shortage Details
Polio season may delay mass immunization as vaccine supply remains tight. Only 1.2 million ccs released. six million more needed for the two shot series. Manufacturing firms report varied timelines from mid to late July and August, with safety checks extending production. Parke-Davis and Lilly discuss protocols and testing, while NIH and Health Service offer no precise supply figures.
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National Foundation
van Riper
Wisenhower
el Lily & Co
Indianapolis
Lilly
Pitman-Moore Co
Wyeth Inc
Marietta
Washington
Parke-Davie & Co
Detroit
Public Health Service
Parke- Davis
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Sharpe & Dohme
NIH
Health Service
Welfare Department
Record High Vehicle Registrations in Pennsylvania 1954
Harrisburg reports 1954 motor vehicle registrations reached a record 3,803,017, surpassing 1953’s previous high of 3,631,488. Secretary of Revenue Gerald A. Gleeson announced the figures from the state Revenue Department.
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Harrisburg
State Revenue Department
Secretary of Revenue
Gerald A. Gleeson
Jaycees Cite Warren and Lansdale for General Achievement
U S Junior Chamber names Warren Pennsylvania and Lansdale Pennsylvania among cities honored for the most impressive year in general achievement. The awards come as the group closes its 35th annual convention in Atlanta. Lansdale appears in the under 10 000 population class while Warren is in the 10 25 000 group.
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Atlanta
Lansdale
Warren
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Clarence H. Howard
Gov signs fund measure for Laurelton State Village probe
Harrisburg announces a new law authorizing an appropriation of $7,128 to cover the cost of a legislative investigation into conditions at Laurelton State Village in Union County.
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Harrisburg
Laurelton State Village
Union County
Strategists Meeting In Philadelphia on Tax Trap
In Philadelphia yesterday 42 Republican county leaders warned of a Democratic tax trap that could blame Republicans for any tax passed by the 1055 state Legislature. Horst gave no comment as leaders gathered, while signatures listed county chairs or vice chairs. The group urged no new taxes and economy aims, contrasting with a voter verdict against tax hikes last November.
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Horst
GOP
Republican Party
Allegheny
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Cambria
Cameron
Carbon
Centre
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Fulton
Huntingdon
Indiana
Juniata
Lackawanna
Lebanon
Lycoming
Mercer, Mifflin
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Snyder
Somerset
Toga
Union
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Westmoreland
Senate
House
Sen. Barr
Commonwealth
Martin
Eisenhower
Truman
Bazin
Philadelphia
Seaman and Wife Complete Globe Sail on 30-Foot Boat
Thomas Steele and Joyce Steele sailed from Newport Beach on a five year round the world voyage aboard their 30 foot sailboat Adios. They logged 35000 miles across the Pacific to Australia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the West Indies and the Panama Canal then returned broke but happy and planning another trip. They lived ashore in Australia, South Africa and Florida to meet expenses.
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Newport Beach
Calif
Thomas Steele
Joyce
Steele
Log
Pacific
Australia
Isles
Indian Ocean
South Africa
West Indies
Panama Canal
Mexican
Florida
Actor Dan Arnold and Joanne Gilbert wed in Glendale
Actor Dan Arnold and night club singer Joanne Gilbert honeymoon in Glendale after marrying at the Little Church of the Flowers. They toured to Las Vegas and plan future honeymoons in Hawaii and Mexico. Gilbert is the daughter of songwriter Ray Gilbert.
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Glendale
Calif
Dan Arnold
Joanne Gilbert
Little Church of the Flowers
Las Vegas
Nev
U N Confab Cold Over Plane Incident
U N conference moves past a tense plane incident as Western diplomats resist a peace declaration. Soviet Arkady Sobolev seeks a formula pleasing both sides while Dulles Molotov head to Geneva talks. Truman urges progress in talks with Bulganin Eden Faure as Menon calls for broad UN program including disarmament and decolonization.
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Arkady A. Sobolev
Dulles
Washington
Molotov
New York
Geneva
Harry S. Truman
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Truman
San Francisco
Opera House
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
India
V. K. Krishna Menon
Nehru
France to mark soft drinks with Tricolor to curb alcohol
Paris officials unveiled a campaign framing soft drinks under 1 percent alcohol with the national flag on labels and the word approved to reassure the public. Health Minister Bernard Lefay said the plan targets safer beverages and denied any prohibition, noting alcoholism costs 614 million dollars yearly while alcohol taxes bring in 177 million. He cited alcoholism linked to 73 percent of sexual crimes and 51 percent of personal crisis reports in France.
State Wheat Farmers Vote On Price Curbs
About one million farmers were eligible to vote on wheat price controls as polls closed at 6 pm local time. An unofficial canvass was to follow, with officials noting broad dissatisfaction over reduced income and possible substitute programs from Secretary Benson to address surplus and grower returns. Major farm groups varied: American Farm Bureau proposed a 62 million acre allotment with parity over 1.53 dollars per bushel, National Grange urged a dual price plan, while National Farmers Union pressed for highlevel supports restored after last year.
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Groavers
Benson
Congress
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Farmers Union
Eisenhower
Indiana Band Wins Again in Firemen's Parade
Indiana's Municipal Band won first prize in the Vanderavist Firemen's parade last night per director C David McNaughton. Rocky Grove took second place and Arnold third. The band plans a free concert tomorrow at 6 30 p m on the college campus with public invitation.
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Indiana
Vanderavist Firemen
C. David McNaughton
Rocky Grove
Arnold
Injured In District Road Wrecks (Continued from Page One)
A wife sustaining injuries to her elbow and knee when a car driven by her husband Ralph King 37 collided with a car driven by Francis Voyten 20 Lucernemines. Voyten skidded on gravel at Graceton Road and Route 119. Damages were 450 to the King car and 400 to Voyten’s car. Earlier, a two-truck crash near Indiana on Route 422 caused 200 in damage. James Marshall 26 Shelocta slowed to turn and Eugene Hale 31 West Decatur struck his halted truck. Both trucks were eastbound, damage about 100 each.
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Ralph
Francis Voyten
Lucernemines
Voyten
Graceton Road
Route 119
Indiana
State Police of
James E. Marshall
Shelocta R. D
Eugene Hale
West Decatur
Marshall
Nehru Attacked Over Soviet Policy Blame
Secretary of State Dulles in San Francisco said Bandung talks hint that war danger may ease while Senate Minority Leader Knowland attributed any lull to Soviet and Chinese belief that Nehru and Menon can secure aims without fighting. V. K. Krishna Menon met Eisenhower and Dulles on June 14 after visiting Peiping.
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Dulles
San Francisco
Knowland
Nehru
Mr. Menon
V. K. Krishna Menon
Peiping
Eisenhower
Steel wage talks optimistic after Page One report
The article reports optimism in steel wage talks with workers set to gain less than 10 cents an hour and the proposed steel offer equaling about half of automobile industry settlements. McDonald says if an acceptable new offer emerges, the entire steel industry could move quickly. negotiations with other producers hinge on this. Under a two year contract ending June 30 1956 McDonald may discuss wages only in the current year.
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McDonald
Eisenhower Dines at Cat Bow Farm After Berlin Visit
President Eisenhower motored from Whitefield to Lancaste r for a dinner in his honor by Secretary Weeks at Cat Bow Farm. He planned informal talks in Berlin N H and a trout lunch at Dartmouth forest Wentworth NH, with a wood cutting contest nearby and a clambake with Senator Margaret Chase Smith in Maine before returning to Washington.
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Etty
Chittenden
Eisenhower
Whitefield
Lancaster
Weeks
Cat Bow
Berlin
N.H
Dartmouth College Forest
Wentworth
N. H
Lake Paramachenee
Maine
Frederick Payne
Skowhegan
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Me
Washington
Drowns In River
Eugene Bonetti 23 of Harmarville drowned late yesterday in the Allegheny River. Firemen recovered his body.
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Pittsburgh
Eugene Bonetti
Harmarville
Allegheny River
Western Pa Pike Backers Push Drive
In Sharon Pennsylvania boosters pressed for the western route of the northwest extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. About 150 representatives from Mercer Lawrence Beaver Crawford and Erie counties attended a dinner meeting to advocate a line from Erie through Shenango and Beaver valleys to west of Pittsburgh.
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Allegheny River
Erie
Pittsburgh
Bedford
Johnstown
Sharon
John P. Robin
Commerce
Turnpike Commission
Ohio
Ashtabula
Three Suffer Injuries In State Blast
A nitroglycerine blast in Belle Vernon Fayette County shattered windows and injured three women yesterday. Mary Stewart 39 and Margaret Shibbler 70 sustained broken arms while Bruce McDonald had severe bruises. William Cunningham narrowly escaped as rock struck her home. a rock crushed a trailer in Mrs Hickey s yard. Charles Zubik of Pittsburgh led the demolition work for the bridge razing project.
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Belle Vernon
Fayette County
Monongahela River
Mary Stewart
Margaret Shibbler
Bruce McDonald
William Cunningham
William Hickey
Charles Zubik
Pittsburgh
Admits Pushing Strike For Reds In Singapore
An 18-year-old Chinese union leader Loh Wah Lin testified in a Singapore court that he was chosen by Communists to oppose British rule. He led the Singapore Textile Mill Workers Union and faced charges over possessing Communist documents amid emergency-strike jailing on June 12.
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Singapore
Loh Wah Lin
Singapore Textile’ Mill Workers’ Union
Argentina seeks church state peace after brief revolt
Argentina moves to mend ties between President Peron and the Roman Catholic Church after a short revolt. Foreign Minister Remorino and papal nuncio Zanin are named in talks toward a concordat as a constitutional assembly weighs ending church status as state church. Authorities release most of the 800 arrested after hearings by the Supreme War Council.
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Jimmie Payne
Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Jeronimo Remorino
Msgr
Mario Zanin
Progovernment
Peron
Supreme War Council
Obituaries for William E McGeary and Harry Flickinger
Two obituary notices from a Pennsylvania paper. William E McGeary, 69, died in San Antonio Texas on June 22 1948 after a life in Avonmore Blairsville Indiana and other towns. Survived by wife Delia and many children grandchildren and relatives. services June 27 Elderton cemetery. Harry Flickinger 56 Homer City resident died suddenly at home June 1948. Survived by three children two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services June 27 at Homer City Methodist Church with Greenwood cemetery interment.
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William Emery McGeary
Delta Davis McGeary
San Antonio
Texas
Elderton
Joseph and
Angeline (Stahl) McGeary
Avonmore
Blairsville
Ida Miller McGeary
Delia Davis McGeary
Macklin
Indiana
Miller
Pomona
Calif
Earle
Pomolona
Ivan
Deane
Eugene
William
Donald
U.S. Air Force
Blair Shaffer
Bedford
Ohio
James
Mildred) Byers
Mervyn
Marian) Double
Michigan
Bernard
Gaile) Gardner
Emaline McGeary
Arthur
Laverne) Ashbaugh
Morrie
Violet) Keith
John H. McGeary
Deerfield
Susan Park
Creekside
Robinson's
Nixon
Gastown Lutheran Church
Howard Amick
Elderton Cemetery
Harry Flickinger
Homer City
Amanda Jane Peddicord Flickinger
Lisle S
H. Carlton
Virginia Neff
A. J. Flickinger
Flickinger
South Main Street
W. Lighthall
Greenwood Cemetery
Masonic Lodge
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Batavia
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Stummer
U.S. Jaycees
OK Probe Funds
Strategists Meeting
Seaman
Circle Globe
Ike
Herbert Hoover
Capitol
Robert A. Taft
Douglas W. Orr
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Conn
France
Indiana Band
Rive
Clarendon
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Scotland
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Gazette
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