U S Sabrejet Wing Sent To Formosa
U S Sabrejets from the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing landed on a Nationalist air base south of Taipei to support Formosa defenses. The move backs evacuations of the Tachens and strengthens the 7th Fleet as U S carriers and forces gather in Formosa waters.
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Funeral Services Held For Arthur R. Miller
Funeral services for Arthur R. Miller 79 of Logan were conducted at Heinlein Funeral Home with Rev. Stanley T. Benton leading. Miller a retired railroader served 52 years with Hocking Valley and C&O railroads leaving a son William S. Miller manager and editor of the Logan Daily News. Pallbearers included Walter Blosser Clifford Duffy Frank Eberst Kenneth Bright Harold Cruise and Ned Gabriel. Burial followed at Fairmount Cemetery Jackson O.
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Armand Houk
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William S. Miller
Logan Daily News
Hocking Valley
Chesapeake & Ohio
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Clifford Duffy
Frank Eberst
Kenneth Bright
Harold Cruise
Ned Gabriel
Fairmont Cemetery
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Treaty Aims to Clear Great Lakes of Lampreys
President Eisenhower sent to the Senate a U S Canada treaty designed to remove lampreys threatening Great Lakes fisheries. The pact seeks coordinated action to curb the fish-killing parasite and protect regional aquatic resources.
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Eisenhower
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Serge Rubinstein Slain In Mansion
Serge Rubinstein a 46 year old financier and former draft dodger was found strangled in his Fifth Avenue mansion. A butler discovered the bound and gagged body on the third floor with a venetian cord and tape over the mouth. Police said the scene suggested murder or robbery amid a ransacked room and overturned premises. Rubinstein had long battled deportation and faced legal scrutiny over his finances.
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Serge Rubinstein
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Wall Street
Rubinstein
United States
Emanuel Lester
Bronx
Bitter cold grips Hocking County with icy roads
The county saw a four degree low last night rising to thirteen by late morning as sleet and freezing drizzle iced area highways. Forecasters warned of further cold and possible snowfall with subzero to ten degree readings expected tonight.
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Midwest Faces Extreme Deep Freeze From Arctic Air
Cold wave grips the region as Canada originate blasts push temperatures more than 30 degrees below zero in Minnesota and across the north central area. Arctic air covers the Northern Plains and Great Lakes with clear skies and snow on the ground in many sections while northwest winds exceed 20 mph.
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Tot 3 Determined To See Choo Choo
Plainville Connecticut. A three year old boy named Tommy Frac wandered three miles from home in freezing weather after waking from a nap with a wish to see a train. After a seven hour search by three police and a 200 member crew he was found asleep on a railroad tie. A hospital spokesman said he was fine.
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Coast Guard Rescues Fliers After Ditch in Atlantic
The Coast Guard cutter Coos Bay rescued six crewmen and two passengers from a four engine Air Transport Service plane that ditched 800 miles east of Bermuda. The rescue occurred in 13 foot seas and 40 knot winds as night approached, with no injuries reported.
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President To Stay Close To Capital
President Eisenhower will limit travel to two hours from Washington for two to three months. The White House stresses this is not an emergency measure and aims to stay close to Congress to push through much of the administration's legislative program.
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Eight Ohio Soil Districts Named Superior for 1954
In Columbus Ohio eight county soil conservation districts earned the superior tag for 1954 honors from the Ohio Federation of Soil Conservation Districts. The named counties are Adams Champaign Greene Hancock Monroe Preble Shelby and Wayne. Adams County district was singled out for a decade of activity.
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Logan Armory Might Rank Near Seventh On Priority List
Brig. Gen. Kenneth Cooper says Logan armory is not guaranteed and would be seventh on the priority list. Rep. Rolland Bright has introduced a $280000 appropriation bill for a Logan armory, with 75 percent federal aid possible under a 1950 act. Local backers welcome the funding but caution action will take time for the Ohio National Guard unit activated last September.
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Rolland Bright
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ONG
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Urbana
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Barberton
Defeated Democrat Attacks Lausche Hanhart After Loss
Robert W. Reider, a defeated Democrat candidate for Ohio secretary of state, urged party members to "tread Hanhart and Lausche out." Eugene H. Hanhart, Dover, heads the state party executive committee. Gov. Lausche was the sole Democrat to win in last November's election. Reider, 37, Port Clinton publisher, blamed Lausche and Burke for the party's losses.
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Robert W. Reider
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Eugene H. Hanhart
Dover
Frank J. Lausche
Reider
Port Clinton
Thomas A. Burke
United State
Gene Hanhart
Feared Victims of Black Frost Off Iceland
Forty British seamen aboard two trawlers the Roderigo and Lorella were feared lost off Iceland in a hurricane and snow storm. Each vessel carried about twenty men. Distress signals poured out for seven minutes before silence. Black Frost, a cloud of icy haze, coats decks and can capsize small ships if crews cannot hack away the ice.
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Ohio Misses Quota in 1954 Savings Bond Sales
Washington reports that Ohio reached 329.761 million dollars in 1954 savings bond sales, 96 percent of its quota. The state still failed to exceed the target set for the year.
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Lausche Proposals Move Toward Ohio Assembly
Ohio lawmakers receive seven more Lausche administration bills as the session nears a Feb. 14 introduction deadline. Measures would curb obscene literature sales, end segregated school subsidies, strengthen protections for business, regulate strip mining, reform film censorship, expand aid to the blind, and overhaul workmen’s compensation benefits.
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Compulsory School Subject Bill Eyed
Ohio lawmakers considered but took no action on identical bills to require basic subjects in schools including reading writing arithmetic geography U S and Ohio history science and music. The debate touched optional versus mandatory status for certain subjects with focus on aiding poorer districts and expanding non core areas such as first aid safety and arts. Renner argued some subjects could be optional for underfunded schools while committees waited to revisit the measure.
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Sam Jailed By Logan Patrolman A Drunk Claims He’s Sam Sheppard
Logan police detained a drunken man from the Courthouse to a local clinic for two days. He repeatedly cried that he had friends and insisted he was Sam Sheppard, and was eventually released from town, likely headed toward Cleveland.
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Sam Sheppard
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Navy to unveil new all purpose destroyer USS Forrest P Sherman
The lead ship of a new line of destroyers will be launched next week in Bath Maine with the widow of Adm. Sherman christening the vessel February 5. Ten more ships are under construction, five at Bath and five at Quincy. The class promises speed flexibility and larger size with aluminum superstructures and improved habitable spaces for about 350 crew.
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Bill Offered For Operation of TB Hospital
Hocking County representative Rolland Bright and Rep. Don Campbell introduced a bill to operate the Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital in Hocking County near Nelsonville. The $1,150,000 100 bed facility would serve multiple counties and open to Ohio residents with TB or suspected TB under state oversight.
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Rolland Bright
Don Campbell
Athens
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Nelsonville
Hocking
John D. Porterfield
Limited GI Bill Eyed By Solons
House leaders moved quickly on a limited GI schooling bill to let about one million armed service members continue postservice education benefits beyond January 31. The cutoff follows President Eisenhower’s order which also ended certain Korean War veteran benefits for those entering service after that date.
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Washington
House
Congress
Eisenhower
Trial airs slaying of Kingston man
IRONTON The trial of Ray Miller 30 and his wife Annabelle 23 of Ironton on second degree murder charges moves into its fourth day. They are charged in the Nov 21 1953 death of Herbert Wolfe 21 of Kingston who died of head injuries inflicted by an unknown instrument. Medical experts began presenting reports. Jury selection occupied the first two days.
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Ray Miller
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Herbert Wolfe
Kingston
Injured 69-Year-Old Man Found After Three Weeks
Victor J. Killiany, 69, was found badly burned in his Cambridge country home after three weeks of helplessness. He told authorities the kerosene stove explosion left him with burns over his body and he survived by eating bits of bread until a neighbor discovered him yesterday.
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Victor J. Killiany
Guernsey Memorial Hospital
Senate foes challenge Truman war power claim
Washington lawmakers debated a war power resolution as Republicans insisted President Eisenhower does not seek authority for preventive war against Communist China. Senate critics warned amendments could limit U.S. options while leaders predicted swift approval without changes.
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Senate
Knowland
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White House
Eisenhower
Air General Warns of Russian Nuclear Stockpile Threat
DAYTON The Air Force vice chief of staff Gen Thomas D White warns Russia has a tremendously destructive nuclear weapons stockpile and a bomber fleet capable of striking North America He says the threat is real today and cites a shortage of trained airmen with reenlistment under 30 and experienced technicians below 15 percent.
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