Flood Crest Threatens Cincinnati and Ohio River Towns
The Ohio River flood affects 2658 families across four states including Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and Indiana. Manchester Ohio reports 250 riverfront families and 64 businesses suspended as the crest nears Cincinnati. Ohio highway patrol notes about 1000 families evacuated and nearly 400 businesses affected from Pomeroy Meigs County to Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
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Streat
Weather Bureau
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Manchester
State Highway Patrol
Portsmouth
Ohio Highway Patrol
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Hamilton
Faure's Government Wins First Parliament Battle
Paris reports Premier Edgar Faure's government won its first parliamentary test on a budget issue. The Assembly initially rejected the measure when Mendes-France led it. The plan proposes a yearly raise of about 25.71 dollars for civil and military personnel both active and retired.
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Faure
Piss National Asb
Paris
Edgar
Pierre Mendes-France
Princess Margaret to marry Air Ace Townsend reports say
A royal informant and press reports claim Princess Margaret intends to wed RAF Group Captain Peter Townsend a divorced war hero. The palace silent amid church opposition to divorce remarriage, while rumors of a planned abdication and public reaction swirl through London tabloids.
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London
Margaret
Peter Townsend
Townsend
Church of
Edward VIII
Wallis Simpson
Margaret Townsend
Daily Mirror
Brussels
Ed Wagping
Princess
Church of England
Bloomcraft Press Formed In Bloomington Printing Buy
R Willard Doores of 1725 Barker Ave and Richard E Wilson of Mound City bought a Bloomington commercial printing plant and formed Bloomcraft Press. Doores, ex Kansas University journalism assistant professor, taught 1950 43 and earned a 1952 master's in journalism. Wilson, a 1953 journalism school graduate, plans to stay in Lawrence with family until school ends.
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R. Willard Doores
Barker Ave
Richard E. Wilson
Mound City
Bloomington
Ind
Bloomcraft Press
Doores
Kansas University
Wilson
Lawrence
Flier Receives Medal for Aiding Shark Attack Swimmer
Orlando based airman Duane E. Hall of the 82nd Air Division at Smoky Hill Air Force Base earns a bronze medal from the Royal Humane Society in London for aiding Sub Lt. Michael Marks of HMS Sheffield during a rescue off Hamilton Bermuda last July. Marks was bitten by a shark and pulled from the water with civilian assistance.
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Orlando, Fla
Duane E. Hall
82Nd Air Division
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Kansas
Royal
Rescuer Squadron Aids Marks Then Beach Arrival
Rescuer Squadron and civilian Sthuanen Smith assisted Marks to the beach and supplied first aid until doctors arrived. Lt Gen Sir Alexander Hood, Bermuda governor, will present the Royal Humane Society award to Hall, first Air Force member outside the United Kingdom to receive it. Hall lives in Auburn, California.
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Sthuanen Smith
Marks
Sir Alexander Hood
Bermuda
Royal Humane Society
Hall
United Kingdom
Auburn
Callf
Vinland Groups to Meet at Grange Hall
A joint meeting of the Vinland Cemetery Association and the Improvement Club is planned for Saturday at the Vinland Grange Hall. The event will discuss local cemetery upkeep and community improvements.
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Vinland ‘Cemetery Association
The
Improvement Club
Vistand Grange Hall
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