Resolution Urges GI Case Change
Washington Rep Haley introduces a nonbinding resolution urging the Eisenhower administration to reconsider allowing Army Specialist William S. Girard to be tried by Japanese authorities for the death of a 46 year old woman in Maebashi Japan. The case has sparked broad controversy and protests in Ottawa Illinois and Congress.
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Washington
Rep
Haley
D-Fla
Eisenhower
Army
Mc William S. Girard
House
Ottawa, Ill
Congress
Louisville
Sen. Morton
Louis
William
Itsuro Hayashi
Hayashi
Maebashi
Akikichi Sakai
Japan
Kaname Watanabe
Girard
Haru Sueyama
William Girard
Kagehara
Eisenhower Attacks Democrats At GOP Conference
President Eisenhower launched a sharp attack on the Democrats during a two day Republican conference. He called Democrats “easy spending” and “inflationists” and warned of a party split while urging GOP leaders to back his 71.8 billion budget and program. He hinted at a fight with Knowland and Bridges over policy and warned of renewed efforts by Democrats to pressure the budget.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Knowland
California
Sen. Bridges
Bridges
Gov O Neill Tries To Salvage Pension Bill
Two huge muskies and other fish catch at Lake Logan highlight a day of state fishing nets. Division of Wildlife agents harvested a 30 inch muskie and 29 inch muskie from net sites linked to John Geiger and Leroy Conkle residences. Also taken were a 14 inch largemouth bass and large numbers of bluegill, crappie and catfish. Nets have been checked daily since Monday. muskies and other fish were stocked in May 1955.
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Lake Logan
Division of Wildlife
John Geiger
Leroy Conkle
Ohio
Two U.S. Students Lose Visas After Hungary Trip
Mike A. Gilbert of Walterboro and Warren William Hair of North Augusta had their passports revoked by the U.S. consulate after a foray into Communist Hungary. They were jailed in Hungary from May 26 until Friday and released in Austria, where they awaited State Department guidance on future travel.
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Bienna
Austria
South Carolina
Hungary
Mike A. Gilbert
Walterboro
Warren William Hair
North Augusta
Vienna
State Department
Europe
Hair
Lake Neusiedl
Sopron
Budapest
Ohio legislators push pension reform before adjournment
Ohio lawmakers press to salvage an old age pension bill and act on funding before the 102nd General Assembly adjourns on June 18. Costs for lifting the $65 ceiling are debated, with estimates ranging from about 3.2 to 7 million dollars annually, as officials seek a budget-safe path.
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Columbus
Ohio
O'Neill
102Nd General Assembly
C. William O'Neill
Second Pipeline Job Planned By Ohio Fuel
Washington Ohio Fuel Gas Co. seeks authority to build 4.7029 million dollars of natural gas pipeline facilities in Jackson Lawrence Fairfield and Licking counties. The company also asked to build 3.594 million dollars of facilities in Richland Seneca Sandusky and Lucas counties.
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Washington W — Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Power Commission Authority
Ohio
Jackson
Lawrence
Fairfield
Licking
Richland
Seneca
Sandusky
Lucas
Ohio Hog Prices Rise in Interior Markets
Prices at interior Ohio hog markets averaged 20.50 per hundred pounds, up 81 cents from the previous week, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
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Columbus
Interior
Ohio
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Senate Panel Sharpens Foreign Aid Bill by 227 Million
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Eisenhower’s foreign aid bill with 3.637 billion in new authority after cutting 227.3 million from the initial request. The panel also authorized 500 million for military re appropriations and a two year loan program of 2 billion for economic development abroad.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Morse
Oregon
Long
Louisiana
Langer
North Dakota
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
Treasury
Cooler Weather To Continue Over Weekend
A sharp dip in temperatures was noted in Hocking County today after a high of 88 degrees Friday. By 5 a.m. the thermometer read 60 and six hours later only two degrees higher. Cloudy and cool conditions with scattered thundershowers are forecast for the weekend.
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Hocking County
State
Senate Page Boy and Girl Eloping Sparks Search
A Swedish air attaché's teenage daughter Christina Wennerstrom, 16, and a Senate page boy Hueaf een 17 possibly eloped. Authorities in eastern states were alerted as Col. Stig Wennerstrom said they may have run off to marry. Christina had not discussed marriage.
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Washington
Senate
Christina Wennerstrom
Col
Stig Wennerstrom
Christina
Clark County Boy To Head Ohio's FFA
Stan Augustus of near Springfield is elected state president of the Future Farmers of America at the 29th annual meeting in Columbus. New officers include Larry Terrell and John Rengert. sectional VPs named for multiple districts. Donald Schiefer won the horseshoe tournament. Hamlet led in the farm equipment contest with Ronald Gerken as top individual in farm mechanic skills and safety.
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Columbus
Stan Augustus
Springfield
Future Farmers of America
Augustus
Northwest Clark High School
Larry Terrell
New Vienna
John Rengert
Mount Gilead
Henry van Poppel
Hamlet
Charles Coates
Lafayette
Victor Lucas
South Salem
Sentinel
John Wellman
Delphos
Northwest
Larry Studer
Whitehouse
North Central
Ronnie Hodgwhell
Bremen
Northeast
Glenn Hoffman
Dublin
Central
Kent Brown
West Milton
South
Donald Schiefer
Bucyrus
Rodney Meelnturf
Pennsville
Mike Graham
Triad
Galen Holtrey
Ronald Gerken
Roop Infant Found Dead in Logan Home
The three week old Dorothy Magdaline Roop was found dead in her crib this morning. Coroner Dr. Owen F. Yaw reports suffocation from aspiration of vomitus with death at about 6 30. Survived by parents Charles and Betty Roop two sisters Deborah Elizabeth and Lucinda Jane and grandparents Joseph Krannitz Oliver Roop. Graveside rites set for Oak Grove Cemetery at 10 a m Monday conducted by Rev Fr Charles P Foy. Burial by Roberts Funeral Home.
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Logan Rt. 4
Dorothy Magdaline Roop
Charles
Betty Krannitz Roop
Owen F. Yaw
Hocking County
Yaw
Deborah Elizabeth
Lucinda Jane
Joseph Krannitz
Logan
Oliver Roop
Logan Rt
Oak Grove Cemetery
Charles P. Foy
Roberts Funeral Home
Baghdad Pact members plan permanent military planning body
KARACHI The Baghdad Pact nations and the United States will set up a permanent military planning body as part of the anti Communist alliance strategy. The United States will join as a member of the pact’s Military Committee after a four day Ministerial Council meeting that ended Thursday. No specifics on the new body were released.
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Karachi
United States
Alliance
Buckeye Boys State Elects Officers at Camp Perry
Buckeye Boys State convenes at Camp Perry to elect officers for the 20th annual event. More than 1,000 junior delegates from 88 Ohio counties participate in a 10 day model government with a governor to be inaugurated by Governor O Neill.
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Camp Perry
Buckeye
American Legion
Ohio
E. J. Sklenicka
Lakewood
Legion
Department of Ohio
Buckeye State
State
William O'Neill
Columbus
Gallipolis Boy, 17, Faces Murder Trial
Lloyd Hill, 17, of Gallipolis Ohio, will stand trial Thursday in Grayson County Virginia on murder and robbery charges in the death of his cousin John Ward 68 of Ironton. Hill was found not insane Friday. Ward’s body was found along Highway 21 near Grayson County February 21 and the medical exam said he had been dead about a week.
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Independence
Lloyd Hill
Gallipolis
Ohio
John Ward
Ironton
Hill
Grayson County
Florida
Ward
Highway 21
Cyclist 13 Killed After Grabbing Truck Ride
Bruce Byrns 13, son of Mr and Mrs Maurice J Byrns of Lakewood, was crushed when his bicycle hit a street hole and he grabbed a passing truck, suburban Cleveland report says.
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Cleveland
Bruce Byrns
Maurice J. Byrns
Lakewood
MS Society Hails Russian Scientist Finding
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society welcomed Rose Ichelson a Russian born researcher at St Luke's and Children's Hospital for isolating a live microorganism she claims causes MS The group noted a potential treatment path if verified Ichelson aged 59 trained in Poltava Russia has lived in Philadelphia since 1922 and isolated spirochaeta myelophthora in 1951
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Philadelphia
National
Rose Ichelson
St. Luke's and Children's Hospital
New York
Poltava Institute
Russia
Speedy Navy Plane Crashes During Test Flight
A Navy F8U-1 Crusader exploded and crashed at Hensley Naval Air Station in Grand Prairie Texas killing test pilot James Buckner 31 of Dallas. Buckner a Chance Vought test pilot, was aboard the world’s fastest naval plane during a pass for visiting aviation cadets.
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Grand Prairie
Tex
Hensley Naval Air Station
James Buckner
Dallas
Trinity River
Buckner
Chance Vought
Two Northern Ohio Crashes Kill Six People
Two deadly crashes in Northern Ohio on Friday night claimed six lives and left two injured. A car carrying Homer R. Smith 55 his wife and Emma Lucille Stonebraker 48 near Sandusky ran a stop sign and was struck by a truck. In Orrville a head on crash between a car and a coal truck killed three passengers Nina Waggy 24 Danny 4 and Kathryn A Neal 65 and left driver Garnet Truman 22 in critical condition while truck driver Marion L. Harper 24 was in fair condition.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Sandusky
Ohio Highway Patrol
Homer R. Smith
Emma Lucille Stonebraker
Steubenville
Lake Erie
Orrville
Nina Waggy
Danny
Kathryn A. Neal
Garnet Truman
Marion L. Harper
Strausburg
Galbreath Named New Ohio University Trustee Chairman
Columbus realtor and sportsman John W. Galbreath was elected Friday to lead the Ohio University board of trustees as its new chairman.
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Athens
John W. Galbreath
Columbus
Ohio University
Eleven Years Apart in Mountain Couple Union
In Louisa Kentucky 11 years have passed since Grandma Sprouse then 79 and Shorty Sprouse 18 hiked 25 miles from Catt Creek to wed. Now she is 90 and he 29 amid a 61 year age gap. She says she remains satisfied though he slips at waking early to build the fire. an earlier fire-wrought cabin loss was repaired with a new log home and electricity but she notes he is not perfect. Shorty was away during the interview as he was unwell.
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Louisa
Shorty
Grandma” Sprouse
Catt Creek
Grandma
Mattie Large Lyon
Delbert
Sprouse
Hit
75000 Students Said Hit By Flu
Japan's Ministry of Public Health reports 75000 students in 1200 schools and kindergartens infected by a regional influenza epidemic. It has closed 190 schools and partial closures in 800 more. Thirty two of forty six prefectures including Tokyo and Hokkaido affected.
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Tokyo
Japan
Ministry of Public Health
Asia
Hokkaido
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