06 Sep 1955
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1955
Page
1
Mexico City officials launch a four year anti malaria drive targeting the 2 million affected in a 40 million population. DDT will curb mosquitoes in worst centers while patients are protected. If transmission halts for three years the parasites may disappear from humans and insects.
The column discusses why doctors may seem unsympathetic, arguing sympathy often appears in actions not words and that constant pity could hinder medical judgment. It also defines trauma, explains a rectal fistula and its noncancerous nature, and describes lipoma as a noncancerous fatty skin tumor with possible surgical removal.
A Wright-Patterson team led by Arden Smith Shelley Wing and Harry Jerison found loud noise lengths time perception. In two tests with 14 college students, quiet intervals of 30 minutes yielded nine minute button-press estimates while near deafening noise produced seven minutes. The study links hearing mechanisms to time judgment.
Gino Prato, famed New York cobbler and $64,000 Question winner, arrives in STATALE Italy after a 33 year journey. He climbs a mule trail to his birthplace as church bells echo welcome. His 92-year-old father Giovanni greets him in the square, joined by Prato’s wife Lorraine and son-in-law Eugene Joannides.
France presses plans for Moroccan self rule and regency while pressing Sultan Moulay Arafa to quit the throne. Ben Youssef in Madagascar negotiates living in France. Nationalists call a September 12 strike as violence spikes in Casablanca and elsewhere.
Prime Minister Nehru and Congress urged a halt to peaceful marches into Portuguese India Goa drawing sharp opposition from Communist and Socialist lawmakers and Hindu nationalist groups. MPs accuse Congress of bias while opposition plans a mass march on Oct 2 Gandhi’s birthday, amid past clashes that left at least 22 dead and 225 wounded.
In Hicksville New York water pressure failed due to a hydrant leak just as the 27th annual Labor Day firemen's tournament began. Fifty fire departments from Long Island were assembled awaiting action but most events were postponed because water could not be supplied.
Wilham Fr Lydon a 39 year old private turned himself in at 1st Army headquarters Governors Island after deserting in 1928. He enlisted in 1928 at Boston and served Ft Scott. Army officials expect to grant a discharge with no punishment due to peacetime desertion limits.
The Associated Press reports Los Angeles endures a 100-degree-plus heat wave with a 89 high today after five days over 100. A 98 is forecast downtown as breezes ease temperatures. Heat deaths in Los Angeles County reach 51 since last Wednesday while Gladys brings heavy rain to Texas coast then moves toward Mexico City. Cool air lowers temps in the plains and Midwest as another mass moves in from Canada.
In a yesterdays accident at Lake Chautauqua a 12 foot outboard chartered by REMUS POINT sank with six aboard. Laverne Cooke age 62 from North East Pennsylvania drowned while Malvern Cooke 36 Erie Pennsylvania his son plus David Coole 12 Helen Cooke 16 and Gordon Applegate 18 North East were rescued. The craft filled with water about 100 feet offshore and went down quickly.
A National Geographic note traces the cat’s long history from worship in ancient Egypt to modern domestic life. Cats have been revered, feared, and adapted as human society changed, with today’s 21 million cats in the United States and about 20 percent of households keeping pets.
Philippine army planes and navy ships were ordered to search for three unidentified submarines moving southward off Itbayat Island near the Philippines. Earlier submarine reports have not been confirmed. Albemarle Sound in North Carolina is noted as the United States' largest freshwater sound.
Eight persons were injured yesterday in two separate crashes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. In the eastbound collision about 10 miles east of the Somerset Interchange three cars were involved injuring Clayton Nagle 23 of Haddonfield New Jersey Nancy Summers 21 of Morrisville Pennsylvania Josselyn Edwards about 25 of Perryburg Ohio and his wife about 23. Nagle’s car struck the left tire of another and crossed the median strip to crash head on into the Edwards auto according to state police. A four car pileup about eight miles west of the Donegal Interchange sent the following to Frick Memorial Hospital Mt Pleasant Joel Petigo of Akron Ohio Michael B Buchanan 20 of Pittsburgh John Pushing 19 of Cleveland and William J Nagy 19 of Cleveland. Petigo’s auto struck the rear of a car that had stopped after another car had crossed the median strip, triggering a four car pileup.
Allegheny County's 18th annual fair ended after a five day stand drawing an estimated 750000 people. Fair director George Kelly said visitors enjoyed events including a state police rodeo chariot races fireworks and numerous farm and industrial exhibits.
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