Lausche Signs Bill to Create Ohio Toll Roads
Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche signed legislation authorizing toll turnpikes to link with a western Pennsylvania extension. Bonds will be private financing repaid from tolls, with the law taking effect in 90 days unless voters intervene. The plan envisions routes near Akron and Cleveland toward Indiana, plus a future Ohio Turnpike Commission.
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Ohio
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Herbert S. Duffy
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Youngstown
Akron
Cleveland
Lorain
Fremont
Toledo
Indiana
Ohio Recreation Board
Lake Erie
Sandusky Bay
West Hands Russia Plan for Berlin Rule
Paris June 2 The West presented its four power plan for Berlin to the Soviet Union after a 90 minute Foreign Ministers Council meeting. The session was the shortest in a 10 day series. Ministers meet again in secret to work on opposing East and West plans while agreeing in principle on reunification under a single governing body.
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Paris
Russia
Berlin
Soviet Union
Foreign Ministers Council
Chambers Identifies Hiss At Perjury Trial Today
Whittaker Chambers testified in the Hiss perjury trial in New York indicating he first met Alger Hiss in 1934. He named Harold Ware and J Peters as the introducers as Hiss sat with his wife in the front row. The judge sustained defense objections during the questions about identification.
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Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
New York
Whittakeft Chambers
International
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Harold Ware
J. Peters
U.S
Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Samuel H. Kaufman
Charles Yeager claims 50 passes at invulnerable B 36 bomber
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Air Force speed pilot Charles Yeager achieved 50 out of 50 destructive passes against the allegedly invulnerable B 36 bomber. A House armed services committee member holds a letter from a friend claiming secret test films show Yeager atop an F 86 fighter attacking bombers in simulated combat. Yeager, first to break sound barrier, has been a Wright Patterson test pilot for three years.
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Philadelphia
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Air Force
Charles Yeager
House
Armed Services Committee
the Inquirer
Yeager
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Rev Sydney Browne to Leave Athens for Attleboro
The Rev Sydney J Browne rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd Athens and in charge of Episcopal work in the Hocking Valley resigns effective end of July. He will leave Athens July 1 on vacation and become rector of All Saints Episcopal Church Attleboro Massachusetts where he will also serve as chaplain of Wheaton College.
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Sydney J. Browne
Church of the Good Shepherd
Athens
Hocking Valley
Logan
All Saints Episcopal Church
Attleboro
Mass
Browne
Wheaton College
Judges Tighten Rules On Mental Hospitals
Ohio probate judges agreed to tighten patient-commitment standards to state hospitals with emphasis on screening residents aged 70 plus who show no clear insanity. The move followed a conference with Welfare Director John H. Lamneck who cited severe overcrowding largely from elderly non insane commitments. Plans include state or probate staff investigations of each commitment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Association of Probate Judges
John H. Lamneck
Police Rule Out Car Fault in Cleveland Traffic Death
Officers probing the June incident in Cleveland said the police cruiser that struck Mrs. Julia Hammond, 42, was not at fault in the traffic death.
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Cleveland
Julia Hammond
Public Information Key to Survival at Denison University Convocation
Denison University hosted a five day convocation where Science Service director Watson Davis urged public information media to report the evolving facts of science. He warned of threats from resource depletion and atomic and biological warfare and stressed a scientific attitude and knowledge as essential to life.
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Granville
Science Service
Watson Davis
Davis
Denison University
Denison Science Service
Health Offices To Be Part of New Hospitals
Ohio will establish health departments in seven communities as part of new hospital based public health facilities. In Nelsonville no health office exists, so the tri county district covering Hocking Athens and Vinton counties will locate offices at Mount St Mary Hospital.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
Nelsonville
Porterfield
Tri-County
Hocking
Athens
Vinton Counties
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Public Health Plan Links Hospitals and Departments
Director John D. Porterfield announced a regional plan to place health department offices within new hospital campuses. Existing sites Memorial Hospital in Washington D. H. Mount St. Mary in Nelsonville and Wooster Community in Wooster will host health offices with separate hospital entrances. Future hospitals include Xenia Cambridge Marysville and Dover New Philadelphia Union Hospital. The arrangement merges laboratories and technical facilities while preserving department and hospital entrances.
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Washington D. H
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nelsonville
Wooster Community Hospital
Wooster
Xenia
Cambridge
Marysville
Dover-New
Philadelphia Union Hospital
Porterfield
City Hall
Police Chief Warns Motor Bike Riders
Chief Sol Ellinger issued a city wide alert to motor bike and bicycle riders to obey traffic laws. He bans riding on sidewalks and double riding and emphasizes hand signals traffic lights and proper lane use. State law requires operators permits and licensing for motor bikes and minors will be referred to juvenile court for violations.
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Sol Ellinger
Ellinger
Tornadoes Strike Four Midwest States
Fourteenteen teen injured as tornadoes cut through farm areas in four Midwest states damaging multiple homes and property. Authorities report injuries and ongoing assessments after the storms swept across Chicago and surrounding rural regions.
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Chicago
Midwest
Markets At a Glance Main Lines Drift and Steady Bonds
Today s Markets At a Glance notes stock leaders drifting while bonds hold a fractional gains edge. Wheat shows easy gains from new crop harvesting expansion. Corn steadies after early losses. Hogs mostly 25 cents lower to a top of 22.25. Cattle range steady to 25 cents higher with a top of 29.25.
Senators Mum On Pension Bill
Washington reported that senators offered little comment on a veterans pension bill passed by the House by a 365 to 27 vote. The scene focused on cutting nearly 13 million dollars from State and Justice operating funds and on potential cuts to Truman spending plans as the Budget Bureau testified.
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House
Appropriations Committee
State
Justice Departments
Senate Expenditures Committee
Budget Bureau
Truman
Former Logan Woman Burned in Gas Stove Explosion
Mrs. Harold Little former Mary Hamilton of Logan was critically burned when a gas stove exploded at her Reed City Michigan home. She suffered extensive third degree burns and received seven blood transfusions at Reed City hospital. Her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Wesley Cannon of Logan were summoned to her bedside.
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Harold Little
Mary Hamilton
Logan
Reed City
Mich
Reed City Hospital
Wesley Cannon
Maxville Phone Sale Petition Filed Today
The Logan Home Telephone Co and the Maxville Telephone Co filed a joint petition with the State Utilities Commission to sell the Maxville concern to the Logan company. Maxville serves 37 subscribers in Perry County. No sale terms were disclosed and no hearing date set.
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Logan Home Telephone Co
Maxville Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission Today
Maxville
Logan Company
Maxville Company
Perry County
Prisoner Escapes From Chillicothe Federal Reformatory
Virgil Lee Wilson aged 25, serving 18 months for auto theft after sentencing in Columbus, escaped yesterday from a prison farm work gang at the Chillicothe federal reformatory.
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Chillicothe
Virgil Lee Wilson
Federal Reformatory
Columbus
Lancaster Citizens to Probe Police Charges
Six citizens were named by Mayor Fred Von Stein to probe Lancaster Ohio police troubles. The panel will review Chief Sam H. Hutsler conduct and the demand from twelve officers that he resign. Also noted are extortion charges against Hutsler and former Lt. Everett J. Brown with Brown, Capt. Laurence Bauer and Lt. Merrill H. Martin dismissed. Patrolman Lester Crook faces 15 days suspension.
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Lancaster
Fred von Stein
Sam H. Hutsler
Hutsler
A. B. van Gundy
S. G. Axline
W. F E. Willard
Charles M. Wilkins
Hocking Valley Bank
Fred Scholl, Jr
Porter Kauffman
Everett J. Brown
Brown
Laurence Bauer
Merrill H. Martin
Lester Crook
Bauer
Martin
Crook
Hero's Welcome for Eisler at Leipzig Rally
Communist fugitive Gerhart Eisler was greeted by Mayor Max Opitz at a rally in Leipzig's old market square. ADN said he would become a professor at Leipzig University as German students applauded his arrival noted as a fight for peace justice and freedom.
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Berlin
Gerhart Eisler
Leipzig
ADN
Max Opitz
Market Square
Eisler
Free German Youth Congress
Leipzig University
Farmers Reminded Of Pasture Tour In Hocking County
Harold Ruggles reminds Hocking County farmers of a pasture tour next Monday June 6 hosted by the Hocking County Soil Conservation District and extension service. The 9 30 A M start visits J B Wagoner Paul Shaw Grover Carpenter and B F Cline with noon dinner at Antioch Grange hall tickets at soil conservation or extension offices. Ohio State University specialists D F Beard H L Borst and Earl Voeller will attend.
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Harold Ruggles
Hocking County
Hocking County Soil Conservation District
Extension Service
J. B. Wagoner
Paul Shaw
Grover Carpenter
B. F. Cline
Antioch Grange Hall
Soil Conservation Office
Lausche Approves Negro Extradition to Mississippi
Governor Lausche approved extradition of Curtis Hopkins a black man charged with raping a white woman to Mississippi. Hopkins is held in Toledo Ohio and will be returned after a habeas corpus challenge in Toledo.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Missisippi
Curtis Hopkins
Toledo
Mississippi
Ohio House Votes for Veterans Pension Bill
The House passed the veterans pension bill with a roll call listing Ohio Democrats Breen Burke Crosser Feighan Hays Huber Kirwan McSweeney Polk Secrest Wagner Young and Republicans Bolton Brehm Brown Jenkins McCulloch McGregor Vorys Weichel as supporters.
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Ohio
House
Breen
Burke
Crosser
Feighan
Hays
Huber
Kirwan
McSweeney
Polk
Secrest
Wagner
Young
Bolton
Brehm
Brown
Jenkins
McCulloch
McGregor
Vorys
Weichel
Printers Vote Strike in Cincinnati Newspapers
Officials of the International Typographical Union ask printers at Cincinnati's three daily papers to approve a strike vote. The move follows negotiations and signals potential labor action affecting local newspaper production.
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Cincinnati
International Typographical Union
Frank Tremain Victim in McArthur Boxcar Accident
Frank Tremain 69 of 375 Friener Avenue Logan, a brakeman on the Chesapeake and Ohio local freight, was seriously injured in a switching accident at McArthur around 11 A M. Witness Roy Rutter said Tremain stepped from a stationary car into a moving one. Tremain was treated at Chamberlain Clinic and transferred to Grant Hospital Columbus.
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Frank Tremain
Friesner Avenue
Logan
Chesapeake and Ohio
Pomeroy
McArthur
Tremain
Chamberlain Clinic
Hocking Valley Hospital
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Roy Rutter
Baker Wood Preserving Co
Judson Shriner of
Hickenlooper accuses AEC of law violations during hearings
Senator Hickenlooper charges the Atomic Energy Commission with breaching the atomic energy act and calls for AEC chairman Lilienthal’s firing. He cites emergency clearances granted for access to secret data, listing totals for 1947 through 1949 and questions the handling of clearance procedures amid Cold War tensions.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
AEC
GOP
David E. Lilienthal
FBI
Commission
United Nations Outlines World Recovery Plan
The United Nations unveiled an 83 million dollar two year plan to boost underdeveloped nations with technical aid and higher living standards. Secretary General Trygve Lie presented the 328 page report, awaiting approval by the UN Security Council and General Assembly, likely delaying implementation to 1950.
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United Nations
U.N
Truman
U.N. Economic and Social Council
U.N. General Assembly
Trygve Lie
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