Wheaton Club Hosts Annual Neotoma Nature Outing
The Wheaton Club met at Neotoma with 44 members and friends to study the Ohio nature area in Clear Creek Gorge. Members included botanists and entomologists, observed dickcissels, warblers, and salamanders, inspected a weather station, and gathered grasses and fungi before planning next year’s visit.
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Wheaton Club
Neotoma
Nectomarty
Edward S. Thomas
Ohio State Museum
Ohio
Ohio State University
Clear Creek
Horn’s Mill
Rush Creek
Sponagle Church
Chickadee Hill
Bill Walker
Rockbridge
Neotoma Valley
Floyd Bartley
Oe Bartley
Bourges Maunoury Installed as France's 22nd Postwar Premier
Paris confirmed Maurice Bourges Maunoury as France's 22nd postwar premier by a narrow vote. He formed a 14 member cabinet led by 37 year old Felix Gaillard as finance minister and pledged vigorous action in Algeria, tax increases, and cuts to nonmilitary spending to balance the war effort.
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Paris
National Assembly
Maurice Bourges- Maunoury
France
Radical Socialist Party
Middle Road
Assembly
Lone Wolf
Pierre Mendes-France
Bourges - Maunoury
Felix Gaillard
Wartime secret weapon blamed for damage to ex soldiers
A Connecticut attorney claims at least a dozen soldiers from a wartime experiment suffered sterility or produced deformed children. He cites four clients with miscarriages and birth defects after exposure to powerful arc lamps mounted on tanks. The Army denied complaints while investigations are sought.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Raymond Lyddy
Connecticut
Lyddy
Tank Ordinance Company
New York Daily News
Army
Wilber Brucker
Marshal White
Chicago
New Boston Taverns Seized Pinball Machines
State liquor agents raided three New Boston taverns and removed nine pinball machines to Columbus. Liquor Enforcement Chief Ripberger said the statewide total of confiscations in the last month runs about 24 or 25. Scioto Novelty Co seeks injunction against further seizures. Judge Vernon Smith granted a temporary restraining order. Gov. ONeill had previously flagged New Boston for gambling reports.
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Portsmouth
New Boston
Columbus
R. J. Ripberger
Ripberger
Liquor Department
Scioto Novelty Co
Scioto County Common Pleas Court
Vernon Smith
William O'Neill
Shortage Found in Hunting License Office Scandal
State Auditor James A. Rhodes reported an $888 shortage in Harold Goodrich's accounts, a former license clerk in the Department of Natural Resources. Goodrich resigned April 30 after audits began, made full restitution May 24, and admitted using agency receipts to cover a prior year's shortage.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
Harold Goodrich
Department of Natural Resources
Goodrich
Abolishment of Justice of the Peace Courts Impacts Hocking County
Ohio lawmakers end 170 year JP era affecting Hocking County where JPs may serve rest of year without pay. Sheriff cases move to Logan mayor court as county plans a new county court by Jan 1 1958. Salary set at 1500 dollars and three cents per capita. first judge elected for one year, later terms four years. non attorneys eligible initially, but attorneys may be required later.
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Justice of the Peace Courts
Ohio
Hocking County
Jp’s
General Assembly
Sheriff's Department
Logan
William O'Neill
Girard Claims Army Putting On Pressure
William S Girard, an Army specialist, tells his brother that the Far East Command is applying pressure during his combat trial in Japan for the fatal shooting of a Japanese woman. In Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Kishi says the Girard case will be resolved as Americans see fair treatment.
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Girard
Ottawa
Ill
William S. Girard
Army Far East Command
William
Louis
Vane
Levin
Stanley Levin
Far East Command
Tokyo
Nobusuke Kishi
Washington
Kishi
Joint
Japan
Michigan soldier implicated in Girard case in Japan
A Japanese police officer said Specialist Mc Victor Nickel of Inkster Michigan told authorities he scattered empty shell casings at Girard’s suggestion before a Japanese scrap collector was shot dead January 30. Nickel’s statement is in a secret police file. Girard faces bodily injury resulting in death charges.
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Maebashi
Japan
Michigan
William Girard
Mc Victor Nickel
Inkster, Mich
Girard
U. S. Army
Tokyo
Kaname Watanabe
District Court
Commies Fire At US Plane Near Formosa Strait
Navy says an American plane from the carrier Hornet was fired on and slightly damaged by a Communist Chinese shore battery in the Formosa Strait area during a routine training flight. Peiping radio claimed incursions by US and Nationalist planes, while the Nationalist Air Force called the Peiping claim groundless. The incident prompted talk of possible diplomatic protests and heightened tension in the Far East.
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Washington
Navy
Formosa Strait
Peiping
Hornet
Hong Kong
South China Sea
China
Swatow
U. S. Navy
Formosa
United States
7Th Fleet
Far East
Taiwan
Peiping People’s Daily
Communist Party
Louisiana Solon Seeks New Cuts in Foreign Aid
Sen. Long of Louisiana leads a bid to slash 390 million from a 3.637 billion foreign aid bill. He targets military assistance and defense supports for the next year and asserts the administration must seek new authority next year. Other leaders caution against deep cuts prior to full review.
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Louisiana Solon
Washington
Sen
Long
D-La
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Morse
D-Ore
Congress
Father Blames Society For Child Murder
In Detroit area a six year old girl Mary de Caussin was found slain in a dump two miles from her home in Ecorse Township after an overnight search by nearly 1,000 volunteers. Her hands were tied and clothes removed, with the father blaming society for what happened and calling for moral change. The mother reported the child missing after she left home Wednesday evening.
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Detroit
Mary de Caussin
Ecorse Township
Mary
Edmund de Caussin Jr
Geraldine
Solons Criticized For Own Spending
Rep Laird criticizes Congress for authorizing a new House Office Building at an estimated cost of 100 million dollars. He argues economy starts with Congress and credits Senate and House appropriations committees for trimming Eisenhower’s budget, with nearly 5 billion to be cut from the President’s request of about 72 billion.
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Washington
Laird
R-Wis
House
Congress
Senate
House Appropriations
Eisenhower
Mayflower II Completes Voyage From England
Mayflower II the 92 foot replica of the Pilgrim ship finished a 5000 mile 54 day voyage from England arriving off Plymouth Rock Harbor. Skipper Alan Villiers led the voyage with a Coast Guard tow and a fleet of yachts as immigration customs and health officials boarded Provincetown to conduct required formalities.
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Plymouth
Mass
England
Coast Guard
Alan Villiers
Plymouth Rock
Garnet
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Mayflower Il
Provincetown Harbor
Cmdr
Villiers
Big Navy Projectile Lands in Summer Cottage Backyard
A large non explosive shell fired from Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds landed in a backyard near Erica Virginia. The projectile missed its Potomac River island target and a cottage by several yards, burrowing into a 10 foot wide hole with no injuries reported.
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Erica
Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds
Potomac River Island
Painter Killed in Fall on Inner Belt Bridge
Cleveland police report Manuel Prasionos, 60, a painter on the Inner Belt Freeway Bridge, died when a rope tangled around his neck as he fell from scaffolding Wednesday.
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Cleveland
Manuel Prasionos
Inner Belt
Welty 78 Dies in Logan After Short Illness
Alva M. Welty 78 died at 8 05 a m at his home 448 West Front Street after a two week illness. A Marion Township native he retired in 1952 after ten years as a city waterworks engineer. He belonged to Logan First Methodist Church and Mingo Lodge 171 F and AM. Survivors include wife Bess Arnold Welty a daughter Mrs Charles Arnold Jr of Logan two grandchildren and a great grandchild. Masons will hold memorial services at 8 p m Friday Leonard Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Alva M. Welty
Front St
Marion Twp
Christian
Mary Louisa Remsen Welty
Logan First Methodist Church
Mingo Lodge No
F&am
Bess Arnold Welty
Glamor Girl Peggy Joyce Dies After Cancer Battle
New York reports Peggy Hopkins Joyce a 1920s glamor figure known for her marriages has died of throat cancer at about 64. She entered Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases June 1 and died after a coma. at her side was sixth husband Andrew C. Meyer. Born Margaret Upton near Norfolk Virginia she first married at 16 and rose to fame in Ziegfeld Follies.
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New York
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Miss Joyce
Memorial Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Andrew C. Meyer
Woodbury
Senator Walter F. George Listed in Serious Condition
ATLANTA Walter F. George veteran Democratic senator and Eisenhower's ambassador to NATO was listed in serious condition today.
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George
Atlanta
Walter F. George
Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Ohio Naturalists
Hocking
Charles Goslin
Daily News
Nature
Bourges-Maunoury
Guy Mollet
Mollet
Gaillard
Bourges-Manoury
Bank of France
Algeria
John J. Zawesz
Fairfield
Peter Decerbo
Milford
Harold Saunders
Brideport
Joseph Vanacore
Hamden
Veterans Administration
9Th Armored Division
538Th Ordnnance Heavy Maintenance
Boston
Myers
Case
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
House Appropriations Committee
William Knowland
Calif
Solons
Painter
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