Train Kills Man Lying On Tracks At Nelsonville
Arthur Bernard Hilt 47 was struck by a freight train near the Watkins Street crossing in Nelsonville at 2 40 a m and dragged 150 feet before the body was thrown to the roadway. Engineer H D Thie said he stopped the four car freight after spotting Hilt four car lengths away. Hilt, born in Athens County, a WWII veteran, lived with his mother Clara Ossman and had a wife Evelyn, a son Bernard, and a daughter Mrs Jean Markowitz surviving.
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Arthur Bernard Hilt
W. Tian
A & Ohio
Nelsonville
Hilt
Watkins St
Myers St
H. D. Thie
Columbus
Parsons Ave
Athens
Hill
Arthur Miklos
Athens County
Clara Ossman
Robert Ossman
Evelyn
Bernard
Jean Markowitz
Weather Outlook for Ohio With Warm Humid Conditions
Official Weather Bureau summary notes scattered showers and thundershowers across Ohio with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s and lows around the 60s. Rainfall reported in Columbus Toledo Findlay Mansfield and Akron. more thundershowers expected this afternoon and evening.
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Columbus, Ohio
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ohio
Youngstown
Zanesville
Columbus
Toledo
Findlay
Mansfield
Akron
Five Day Forecast For Southern And Central Ohio
Temperatures will average 4 to 7 degrees above normal with normal highs 79 to 84 and lows 57 to 62. Expect minor daily changes. Rainfall around half an inch in scattered afternoon thundershowers on the weekend and again around mid week.
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Ohio
Cambridge Seeks Disaster Area Designation After Floods
Gov. James A. Rhodes and four cabinet members inspected flood damaged Cambridge after seven inch rain. City officials seek disaster area status as roads including U.S. 21 and U.S. 40 face severe flooding. Red Cross reports 200 homes heavily damaged, 20 hurt with five hospitalized, 11 commercial buildings damaged. Nearby Pleasant City and Eyesville also affected.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Guernsey County
Cambridge
James B. Peters
Ohio Highway Patrol
U.S. 21
U.S. 40
Red Cross
Pleasant City
Eyesville
Roberts Bill Advances Sunday Sales Reform in Ohio
Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee backs a bill by Sen. Kline L. Roberts to modify Sunday sales and labor restrictions. The measure raises first offense penalties to 50 to 200 dollars and broadens the definition of common labor to include seasonal work and government contract operations while excluding certain processing activities.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee
Kline L. Roberts
Franklin
House
Roberts
Nine days of mourning begun for Pope John XXIII in Vatican
The Roman Catholic Church started a nine day mourning period for Pope John XXIII with daily Requiem Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. His body lies in state in the basilica and was moved to the grottoes near Pope Pius XI's tomb. Cardinal Mindszenty is absent.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican Basilica
Pope John
Pius XI
Trinity
Corpus Christi
States
Vladimir Kotliarov
Rome
College of Cardinals
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Budapest
U.S
Two Ridgeway Women Die In Headon Auto Crash
In Ohio 292 four miles north of Ridgeway two Ridgeway women Reba Bailey and Pauline Shroyer were killed when their car collided head on with another vehicle. Passenger Larry Dana Kerns of Ridgeway was 18 and survived. driver Darrell Cummins of West Mansfield was hospitalized in serious condition along with the other driver.
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Kenton, Ohio
Headon
Ohio
Ridgeway
Reba Bailey
Pauline Shroyer
Larry Dana Kerns
Darrell Cummins
West Mansfield
Seven youths arrested after Lexington race riot leaves man dead
In Lexington North Carolina seven youths age 16 to 23 were arrested on open charges after a Thursday night race riot that killed a white man and wounded a newspaper photographer. The riot followed attempts by Negroes to use segregated facilities. Police reported gunfire from a nearby apartment building and shots that killed Fred Link, 24, while Art Richardson, 25, a photographer, survived. Security forces deployed, with 20 troopers rushed in from Greensboro to restore order amid widespread damage and a later mass Greensboro protest unrelated to Lexington.
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Lexington
N.C
Piedmont
North Carolina
Johnson
Latalee
Art Richardson
High Point Enterprise
Fred Link
Link
Winston-Salem
Richardson
James Comer
Davidson County
Homer Lee Cox
State Highway Patrol
Greensboro
200-Ft Fall Kills Boy At Rock House Park
A boy died after a 200 foot fall at Rock House Park. The incident prompted officials to investigate safety conditions at the site and surrounding areas.
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Fall Kills Boy
Rock House Park
Iran to Try 15 Religious Chiefs in Riots Trial
Prime Minister Assadullah Alam announced that 15 senior religious leaders and 50 key agitators will be tried for riots that killed at least 79 people. The mullahs face possible death penalties for opposing land reform and women’s emancipation amid unrest following the arrest of Ayatullah Khomaini.
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Tehran
Iran
Assadullah Alam
Alam
Ayatullah Khomaini
Navy To Show New Weapons To President Kennedy
The Navy unveils its latest land and air weapons in a final display for President Kennedy at China Lake California before he shifts focus to politics and civil rights. Kennedy will tour the 1200 square mile testing area after visiting Point Mugu and Kitty Hawk, then attend a $1000 class dinner in Los Angeles with Democratic contributors. He ends the trip with a civil rights address in Honolulu.
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Kennedy
Navy
China Lake
Calif
Point Mugu
Los Angeles
Honolulu
California
JFK and Macmillan to Confer in Europe June 29
President Kennedy will meet British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for informal talks on June 29 during his Europe trip after visiting Ireland. The leaders last met in the Bahamas in December and discussed equipping NATO with a multinational nuclear force including Polaris missile ships.
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Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Europe
White House
Pierre Salinger
Macmillan
Ireland
Italy
Bahamas
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Polaris
New Lexington Strike Keeps Plant Idle
No new developments reported in the strike that shut down production at the Ludowici Celadon tile plant in New Lexington on May 15. Only office personnel and foremen are on the job.
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Ludowici- Celadon
New Lexington
Logan Mother Ranks 3rd Among Ohio U. Graduates
Jean Ann Brown mother of two and Ohio University student of the year graduates with honors and a 3.83 average in the largest class ever. She started in 1958, joined Kappa Delta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi, taught in Logan schools, and plans a post graduate teaching career after 1965.
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Central Elementary
Lancaster Branch College
University
Brown
Kappa Delta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
West School
Senate Ends Week With Transfers to Attorney General
The Ohio Senate nears completion of a bill to move full operation of the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation from the Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction to the attorney general. The body also advances an increase in school bus liability from 100000 to 500000 and other measures.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Senate
State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
The
Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction
Weg
Senate
House
Death of Mrs. Bessie V. Mutchmore at 85 in Grove City
Mrs. Bessie V. Mutchmore 85 widow of Frank Mutchmore died unexpectedly at 6 a.m. at her daughter Amy Sigman's home in Grove City from a stroke. A Logan native, she worked for Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, later a receptionist for Dr. Rauch and cashier at Brandt's Restaurant. Survived by daughter Mary Mollard of Columbus son William Mutchmore of Canton five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral Monday at Leonard Funeral Home with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation Saturday 3–5 and 7–9 p.m. and Sunday 2–4 and 7–9 p.m.
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Columbus
Effie Stover
Guysville
Sylvia Ossman
Johnson Funeral Home
Nelsonville
Greenlawn Cemetery
Bessie V. Mutchmore
Frank Mutchmore
Amy Sigman
Grove City
Mary Mollard
William Mutchmore
Canton
Leonard Funeral Home
Robert McQuilkin
Oak Grove Cemetery
Funeral
Rockefeller Candidacy Backed by Dewey Support Pushes Nomination
New York AP reports Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller secures strong political and personal backing from former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey says Rockefeller is the logical nominee to oppose President Kennedy in the next election.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Thomas E. Dewey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dewey
Rockefeller
Kennedy
Graduates Told Silence Is Sin At OSU Commencement
Ohio State University alumnus and playwright Jerome Lawrence urged 2,494 graduates to stay in intellectual orbit and resist becoming copies of themselves. He warned that the only sin may be silence and stressed the power of one vote and one person standing up.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University
Jerome Lawrence
De Gaulle Opens 25th International Air and Space Salon
President Charles de Gaulle inaugurates the 25th International Air and Space Salon at Le Bourget Airfield in Paris. Officials and aerospace leaders attend the ceremony marking the exhibition’s opening.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
le Bourget
Tragic 16 Year Old Killed At Rock House State Park
Lynn E. Neuhauser of Napoleon Ohio, 16, died at 1 45 p m Thursday after slipping from a wet mossy spot while descending into the Rock House gorge. The group of visitors included cousin James Neuhauser 34 Norman Landis 15 Bill Franze all of Napoleon and Jerry Hord 20 of Florida Ohio. Sheriff Paul Hartman said the lip to bottom drop exceeded 200 feet. The body was taken to Napoleon for services under Wesche Funeral Home. Park warnings urged observers to stay on marked trails.
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Lynn E. Neuhauser
Napoleon, O
Rock House State Park
James Neuhauser
Norman Landis
Bill Franze
Napoleon
Jerry Hord
Florida
Eding Home
Old Man’s Cave
Rock House
Paul Hartman
Newhauser
Roger Armstrong
Park
Wesche
Hartman
Earthslides Trap Pair In Rail Tunnel
Two young workers were trapped in a Baltimore and Ohio tunnel near Walker on the Wood-Wirt County line after a cave in blocked both ends. A third man was rescued and hospitalized for shock and possible broken leg. One trapped man is seriously injured. the status of the other is unknown. Earth and debris hindered rescue attempts.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
F. L. Blair
Baltimore & Ohio
Walker
Wood-Wirt
Secret Service Nabs Boy 11 For Theft and Forgery
An 11-year-old Logan boy pleaded guilty in juvenile court to stealing forging and cashing a $40 Treasury check. Special Agent Robert A Till said the youth took the check from acquaintances home on Jan 3 forged an endorsement and cashed it at a local drug store. Authorities said he used the money for ice cream and skating and he was placed on probation with weekly $5 restitution payments.
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Logan
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Treasury
Robert A. Till
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Sun Glow
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Ramseur
U. S
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Adm
William A. Schoech
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Air
U.S. Navy
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Ohio U
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