Officials urge counties to form planning commissions
State highway officials pressed Southeast Ohio counties to create county or regional planning commissions to guide development around new highways. They cited 21 existing commissions and urged localities to plan for Route 33 and future interchanges while utilizing federal funds.
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Ohio
Marietta
Ohio Department of Highways
Logan
Hocking County
Francis Myers
Ralph Helb
Neeper
John W. Hagan
Division of
Max Farley
Fairfield County
Columbus
Franklin County
Hamilton Rd
Lancaster
Canal Winchester
Census Takers To Begin Hocking Count Tomorrow
The 1960 census starts in Hocking County with enumerators canvassing rural areas and a transient count called T Night to include those without a permanent residence. Teams will work day and night, with forms at hotels and motels and crews ready to assist transients in Logan and surrounding areas.
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Hocking County
Logan
A. E. Harmony
Census Bureau
Jay Cole
Phone Repair Wires Crossed Blare Air Sirens
In St. Petersburg Florida a repairman’s wire mix up caused all city air raid sirens to blare for 10 minutes. An official apologized as a downtown band conductor urged City Hall to stop the noise promptly.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
City Hall
Equal Opportunity Vision Highlights U S Shortfall Says Justice Edwards
Justice George Edwards told the White House Conference on Children and Youth that equal opportunity remains a vision. He cited 11 percent of children from broken homes 15 percent facing discrimination and poverty, urging renewed adherence to the 14th amendment and a return to traditional family roles.
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Washington
Michigan Supreme Court
George Edwards
White House
Supreme Court
Edwards
Brief Strike Ends At Plant In Lancaster
About 3 300 Anchor Hocking Glass Corp employees in Lancaster returned to work after a one day walkout by Local 73 moldmakers of the American Flint Glass Workers Union. The union withdrew picket lines before noon and ordered strikers to resume duties amid arbitration talks.
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Anchor Hocking Glass Corp
Lancaster
American Flint Glass Workers Union
Hocking County
Anchor Hocking
East
West Side
G. F. Miller
Police Smash Burglar Gang In Toledo Case
Toledo man John F. Lamb 25 admits involvement in a gang that stole about 15000 in burglaries across northern Ohio and a related bad check scheme. Lamb implicates four others and a young woman. five are in custody, with Robert L. Oliver 30 of Toledo arrested Tuesday night.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo
John F. Lamb
Marion
Edward Clancy
Lamb
Robert L. Oliver
Midwest Floods Threaten Nine States After Severe Winter
Early spring floods menace the Midwest from Nebraska to the Dakotas after a harsh winter. Army and National Guard helicopters rescue trapped families in Nebraska while cities evacuate residents. Several deaths and widespread property damage are reported as rivers swell and highways close.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraka
Omaha
Platte River
Army
National Guard
Fremont
Valley
Columbus
Castro aide denies role in Flynn flight plot
An aide to Fidel Castro denies helping plan a Cuba flight by two Americans aimed at discrediting the U.S. government. Juan Orta, a Castro secretary, says he knew nothing of the alleged conspiracy with William Schergales and others.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
U.S
William Schergales
Florida
Juan Orta
Schergales
Orta
Castro
U.N. Security Council Takes Up South Africa Rift
The United Nations Security Council decided to begin an immediate discussion on the South African racial conflict despite protests from the South African government. The move signals mounting international scrutiny of Pretoria's policies.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
Civil rights bill advances after House judiciary revisions
The Senate moves to a new phase as major changes are approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The revised civil rights legislation shifts the Senate debate toward differing provisions and potential votes.
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Washington
Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
Ohio weather outlook shows warm overnight temperatures
Official Weather Bureau summary reports Ohio stayed in a warm air mass with temperatures well above normal. Skies were mostly fair in the north and across the state as conditions remained tranquil.
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Columbus, Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Ohio
Spring Day Raises Hocking Valley Temperatures
The Hocking Valley enjoyed a sunny day with temperatures near 73 degrees at 11 am and a high of 78 yesterday. Cloudy skies and a chance of showers later raise the prospect of colder weather while flood risk remains low as the Hocking River nears but stays below flood stage at Logan.
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Hocking Valley
State Highway
Hocking
Logan
Ohio Sees Front Move Through With Showers And Thunder
Early night shows cloudy sections with parts of Ohio already filling with cloudiness near sunrise. Light morning showers reported in Columbus and Dayton, Cincinnati recorded a brief 60 mph wind gust from a thundershower as a cold front approaches from the west. The front will sweep the state this afternoon and evening bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms, then clearing and cooler weather afterward.
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Columbus
Dayton
Cincinnati
Ohio
Eisenhower backs Nixon and hints at veep pick
President Eisenhower said Nixon should campaign on his own terms, not just administration policies. He indicated Nixon could seek a broader program and named Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as a possible vice presidential nominee among several acceptable Republicans.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Soviet Union
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Camp David
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Inmates to move to Lebanon prison by July 1
Three hundred Mansfield Reformatory inmates will transfer to the Lebanon correctional institution by July 1, as announced by state corrections chief M C Koblentz. The facility in Warren County will add six more cellblocks, two dozen workshops, a laundry and a gym, with bids sought for the final $5 million phase expected to finish in late 1961.
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Columbus, Ohio
Mansfield Reformatory
New Lebanon Correctional Institution
M. C. Koblentz
State
Warren County
Koblentz
Lebanon
Noted Surgeon Dr William C Sharpe Dies at 78
Dr William C Sharpe head neurosurgeon dies at age 78 after a career starting in 1941. He specialized in brain injury operations for children and was a pioneer in pediatric neurosurgery.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
William C. Sharpe
Sharpe
Nuclear Test Ban Talks Face Major East West Gaps
After Eisenhower and Macmillan agreed on a reply to the Soviet offer, sharp differences remain on inspections, control commission makeup, staffing, peaceful tests, and veto rights as Geneva talks drag toward a potential treaty.
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Washington
Eisenhower Macmillan
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
U.S
Geneva
United States
Britain
Control Commission
West
Moscow
Reds
DiSalle Criticizes Officials Over Gambling Harm
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle says public officials who claim gambling does no harm show a dangerous attitude. He notes Stark County probe progress, promises tools for Atty. Gen. McElroy, and hints at new powers to fight gambling while urging higher mental health funding.
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Canton
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Stark County
Mark McElroy
Stark County Mental Health Assny
Emergency Declared as 30000 March Cape Town in Racial Crisis
More than 30,000 Black protesters marched on Caledon Square police station in Cape Town under armored guards. Police and troops arrested over 150 opponents under the Public Safety Act as the government proclaimed a state of emergency across 80 magistrates districts.
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Johannesburg
Cape Town
Caledon Square
I. S. Terblanche
Terblanche
Africa
Langa
Hendrik Verwoerd
South Africa
Atlantic
Justice
F.C. Erasmus
Peter Brown
Liberal Party
Alex Lagume
South African Colored People’s Congress
Albert Luthuli
African National Congress
South African Press Assn
Worcester
Orlando Negro
Noose awaits mass slayers in hard Kansas justice
In Garden City Kansas two young felons Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were condemned to hang for the November 15 murder of the Clutter family after an aborted robbery. They admitted participation and the jury found equal guilt with no mercy, while motions for a new trial were set for ten days.
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Garden City
Kan
Richard Eugene Hickock
Edgerton
Perry Edward Smith
Las Vegas
Herbert W. Clutter
Hickock
Smith
Clutter
Bonnie
Kenyon
Nancy
Logan Green
Roland Tate
Cat Dies After Scratching Boy in Ohio Incident
A five year old Logan boy was severely scratched by a cat that later died. The cat’s head was sent to the Southeast District health laboratory in Nelsonville for rabies testing. James David Goodlive, son of Floyd and Mrs. Goodlive, was treated by a local physician. Hocking County sanitarian Lt. Warne Stark reported the sick cat died after the incident. Rabies results for a second boy, Dwight Woodward, age 12, Laurelville Route 2, were negative.
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Southeast District Health Laboratory
Nelsonville
Logan
James David Goodlive
Floyd Goodlive
Warne Stark
Hocking County
Sanitarian
Goodlive
Dwight Woodward
Laurelville Rt. 2
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