Lockbourne Base Expands Survival Training In Hocking Wilds
Instructors at Lockbourne Army Air Base plan a major upgrade to Operation Survival expanding from two days a week to five to seven days. Prefabricated shelters will be built in Wayne National Forest, Hocking County, with new weekly classes teaching airmen to set up refuges and endure desolate terrain.
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Wayne National Forest
Hocking County
Lockbourne Air Base
Lockbourne
Hocking Wilds
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Dorr Run
Lockbourne Air Force Base
City council weighs site for disposal plant and staff needs
The council discussed a four acre Dougherty farm site for a sewage disposal plant and a previously planned 2.36 acre site on the Fred Graham property for 5020 dollars. A part time bookkeeper for the mayor’s office was authorized with funds transferred from the general fund. Parking and traffic issues on Hill Street and near alley intersections were raised. Fire hazard from dead vines on Railroad Avenue embankment was noted for action.
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Harry Shaw
City Service
John Dougherty
Dougherty
Frank Mantor
Joe
Lancaster
Roger Friend
Morris Hummel
Mantor
Ed Eberst
Logan
Hill Street
William Knapp
Richard Gerken
Railroad Avenue
Sam Bright
Shaw
Summer Weather Ranges Across Regions Along With Snowfall
The report notes summer-like warmth in Southern Florida and the Far West while the Midwest endures winter conditions. Temperatures drop near zero in Minnesota and Michigan, with light snow in Northern Indiana, Lower Michigan, Northern Missouri, Western Iowa, the Dakotas and central northern Rockies. San Francisco records 83 degrees.
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Chicago
Florida
Far West
Midwest
Minnesota
Michigan
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Dakotas
Rockies
San Francisco
Military backs diplomats in anti red battle of ideas
The State Department seeks 170 million dollars for its overseas Campaign for Truth doubling last year’s 85 million. Gen J Lawton Collins urged full effort to win minds while lawmakers pressed for how the plan would counter Soviet propaganda and a shift toward targeting individuals rather than systems.
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Washington
State Department
Rep
Clevenger
Ohio
Collins
U S Jets Raid Red Troop Center
U S Thunderjets bombed east of Kaesong destroying 18 buildings and six troop revetments near the Communist armistice negotiators headquarters. Fifth Air Force said emplacements lay outside the neutral area. Twelve enemy troops were killed in the air assault and a company size Communist attack on the western front was repelled in an hour-long skirmish.
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Seoul
Kaesong
Fifth Air Force
Tunnel Explosion Kills 39 Near Caserta Italy
The Caserta tunnel blast near Caserta Italy killed 39 people and injured 40 as rescue teams searched for bodies. A dynamite store exploded midway through the three mile hydroelectric tunnel, sparking continued recovery efforts and identification work.
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Caserta
Italy
Here
Air Force to inventory 300000 reservists this summer
The Air Force plans a yearlong project starting in early summer to inventory 300000 reservists from World War II era. Twenty five teams will interview each man to update records, confirm current skills, and notify possible active duty delays.
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Washington
Air Force
Senate Banking Committee Extends Controls One Year
Washington bulletin reports the Senate Banking Committee voted on Wednesday to extend price wage and other controls for an additional year. The move aims to stabilize the economy during ongoing inflationary pressures and maintain regulatory oversight through the next year.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Wilson
WSB
Murray
General Electric Co
Maybank
D-Sc
Talks Grow Frank in MUNSAN Prisoner Exchange Debates
Truce negotiators in Munsan report much frankness as talks move toward prisoner exchange. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols notes slight progress amid a news blackout and shifts UN strategy from voluntary repatriation to no forced repatriation. The issue of Russian involvement remains central while four neutral nations would police an armistice.
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Munsan
William P. Nuckols
Nuckols
Nickols
Russia
Norway
Anti TB Pill Price Slashed In Half
A drug maker announces that the anti tuberculosis pill nicotinamide hydrazide will cost hospitals 244 cents each, about half the earlier estimated price. Millions of tablets have been supplied to hospitals for experiments, but none have been sold to the public yet.
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New York
Lausche Opens Columbus Communications Exhibit
Gov Frank J Lausche snips a ribbon to open an exhibit at the Ohio State Museum showcasing items from tom toms to television. The display was prepared by museum workers and Ohio Bell Telephone Co engineers.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio State Museum
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Terror and fear sweep Shanghai under Red rule in 1950s report
Dispatch from Hong Kong describes Shanghai residents facing a harsh anti corruption drive. Loudspeakers urge confessions as zone by zone the campaign reaches Nan king Road and the Bund. Merchants are removed, trains head to work camps, and families face dire choices during the third spring of communism.
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Hong Kong
Shanghai
China
Shanghai Red
Liberation Daily
Whangpoo District
Nanking Road
Bund
Caltech Reveals Secret Project Vista Completed
Caltech president Lee A. Dubridge reports to trustees that a secret military project called Vista has been completed at the California Institute of Technology. The initiative involved a large portion of senior faculty and participants from other universities and was sponsored jointly by the Army Navy and Air Force.
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Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Caltech
Lee A. Dubridge
Eee
Army
Navy
Air Force
Sanity Tests Set for Coreys in Struthers Police Killing
Two brothers John and William Corey face sanity tests before trial on first degree murder charges for the burglary killing of a policeman in Struthers ten weeks ago. They pleaded innocent to the charges.
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Youngstown
John
William Corey
Struthers
Coreys
May Takeoff Date Hints at End of Eisenhower Era
Paris reports General Eisenhower stands to see the six nations European Army treaty signed and ready for ratification before his May departure as supreme allied commander. Experts foresee the treaty to be complete by mid April with France West Germany Italy the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg to sign soon after.
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Paris
Eisenhower
France
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Europe
Truman
Politicians May Wear Blues on Televised Conventions
CBS and other networks plan telecasts of party conventions as delegates may wear blue shirts to show on television. Big Mickelson predicts the conventions could become the greatest blue-shirt events on record with television highlighting fashion and pageantry.
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New York
Big Mickelson
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Clues Sought in Danvers Armored Car Heist
Investigators search for a firsthand witness to Tuesday's $681000 armored car robbery in Danvers Mass. Three guards paused at a drugstore while the crime occurred and two relay getaway cars were used. A U S Trucking official confirmed the loot, with estimates ranging widely.
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Danvers
Mass
FBI
Danvers Square
United States Trucking Co
Budget Cuts Hit One Billion Mark in House Action
The House budget-cutting drive surpassed one billion dollars as the Interior Department appropriation of 492 434 763 was moved as the next target. Three measures, including the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency bill, have been trimmed by 1 000 000 000 and the Senate has not yet acted.
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Washington
House
Interior Department
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
Senate
Appropriations Committee
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Hotel Ignores Safety Rulings At St George Fire Tragedy
Los Angeles reports two investigations into the St George Hotel fire that killed seven. Fire Chief John Alderson said a bolted rear door, a rotten second floor hose, and a wired unusable drop ladder contributed to the disaster amid ignored safety rulings.
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Los Angeles
St. George Hotel
John Alderson
Negotiations Resume After Agency Split
In Pittsburgh on March 26 the CIO United Steelworkers push the Wage Stabilization Board plan for steel wage settlement as talks with Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp open. NSW Director John Murray warns the company to accept the plan or face possible plant shutdowns with an April 8 strike looming.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Wage Stabilization Board
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Nsw
John Murray
Defense Mobilization
Charles E. Wilson
WSB
Philip Murray
New Gas Pipeline Contract Is Let
A $1,105,000 contract for a 23 mile natural gas pipeline in Central Ohio was awarded by Ohio Fuel Gas Co to Ohio Pipeline Construction Co of Granville. Construction starts immediately and the 20 inch line will transport gas from a Mt. Vernon trunkline to storage fields in Richland County.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Ohio Pipeline Construction Co
Granville
Mt. Vernon
Ohio Fuel
Richland County
Six Formosans Executed by Chinese Nationalists
In Taipei on March 26 a Chinese Nationalist court executed six Formosans convicted as Communist agents. The executions followed rapid trials and were reported as part of a crackdown labeled anti subversive activity.
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Taipeh
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