House Panel Blasts Ike Farm Program
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 3.964 billion dollar Agriculture Department bill, critiquing farm policies and urging new production controls to reduce surplus. It proposed government surpluses be offered to farmers in exchange for cutbacks and recommended authority to push production cuts up to 25 percent with matched surpluses, aiming to restore farm income.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
Department
Commodity Credit Corp
Congress
Taxpayer Stuck In Elevator After Tax Payment
Mrs. Robert Mohler paid real estate taxes in the courthouse and was trapped when the elevator halted a foot above the ground floor. Treasurer Ralph Moorhead freed her using the emergency key after about ten minutes. The elevator was functioning again the next morning.
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Robert Mohler
Third St
Ralph Moorhead
Elmer Jones Wins Committee Race in 10th District
Elmer Jones of Athens was elected Republican state central committeeman from the 10th district on the basis of almost complete returns. He led BE. L. Jones of Thurman 12 214 to 11 003 with Vinton pending. Mrs. Maxine Charlton of Lancaster won the district’s state central committeewoman seat without opposition. R. Kenneth Kerr and Mrs. Mary C. Gallagher were elected Democratic state central committeeman and committeewoman without opposition.
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Elmer Jones
Athens
Fairfield County
Eisenhower hints at canceling Russia trip over Khrushchev stance
President Eisenhower suggested he might cancel his planned visit to Russia if Khrushchev pressing anti American moves continues. He added he would bring a nonpropeller boat as a gift, a remark made in casual conversation with AFL CIO leader George Meany at a union exhibit.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Khrushchev
George Meany
Moscow
Meany
Afl-Cio
Union-Industries
James C. Hagerty
Aid for distressed areas sails through Senate vote
The Senate approved a 251 million dollar package to aid chronically distressed rural and industrial regions with federal loans and grants to create jobs. Dems may push the veto as a campaign issue if Eisenhower rejects the bill. Dirksen signals veto odds and opposition to concur in House changes.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
West Virginia
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Capitol
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Everett M. Dirksen
R-I
Johnson
Dirksen
Eisenhower Signs Civil Rights Bill in Historic Step
President Eisenhower signed the 1960 civil rights measure into law aiding Negro voting rights. He called it an historic step forward toward equality under law, while noting Congress did not accept all his recommendations. The ceremony was simple and low key.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
AFL-CIO Chief Raps Ike's Aged Health Plan
AFL-CIO President George Meany criticized the administration's old age health care proposal as worse than no plan and predicted it will struggle in Congress. He noted the AFL-CIO Executive Council urged the plan serves political needs of an election year rather than urgent needs of the aged.
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Washington
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Congress
Meany
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Princess Margaret Weds Antony Armstrong Jones in London
Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong Jones in a grand ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The couple then traveled by horse drawn coach to a Caribbean honeymoon as crowds cheered, marking a historic union of royal blood and commoner.
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London
Margaret
Antony Armstrong Jones
Westminister Abbey
Tony
Prince Philip
Armstrong-Jones
Roger Gilliatt
Abbey
Britain
England
Ohio Weather Outlook With Showers and Storms
Official Weather Bureau summary for Ohio notes fair skies overnight then increasing clouds. Showers and scattered thunderstorms expected this afternoon, especially in the west, with winds and rain late-day ending five days of near perfect spring in the Hocking Valley. Temperature 80 at 11 am, 46 low. yesterday high 84.
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Columbus, Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Ohio
Hocking Valley
Front to sweep across Midwest and Ohio with showers
A cold front extends from Wisconsin to Oklahoma this morning and moves toward western Ohio tonight bringing showers and scattered thunderstorms across the state. The Saturday outlook calls for occasional rain ending by afternoon and cooler temperatures with highs near 80 and lows upper 50s to low 60s. Morning readings include Toledo 55 Cleveland 58 Columbus 60 Marietta 61 Cincinnati 62.
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Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Ohio
Toledo
Cleveland
Columbus
Marietta
Cincinnati
Firestone Scion Leaps To His Death In Havana Hotel
Harvey S. Firestone II, disabled heir to the rubber fortune, died after leaping from a 20th floor Havana Hilton balcony. The 30-year-old sufferer, a wheelchair user from St. Petersburg, checked in with an attendant and cousin David M. Firestone. Police found his body on a parapet near the hotel entrance. authorities ruled it a self-inflicted death.
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Havana
Harvey S. Firestone II
Firestone
St. Petersburg
Fla
Havana Hilton
David M. Firestone
Sarasota
Harvey
Vedado District
Indonesia Students Storm Dutch Area
About 800 Indonesian students protested outside the Dutch diplomatic headquarters and envoy residence in Jakarta over Dutch forces in western New Guinea. Police dispersed the crowd after about 30 minutes with no reported casualties.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
New Guinea
Burglaries Hit Home. Watchdog Stolen, Valued at $150
San Antonio AP reports Bobby Yow said burglars removed items valued at 150 dollars from his residence. He did not value one item, a watchdog, in the loot.
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San Antonio, Tex
Bobby Yow
Yow
Tornado toll rises in Oklahoma towns. Wilburton hit
Rescue crews dig through muddy debris in eastern Oklahoma after tornadoes killed 26 and injured about 200. In Wilburton 11 dead and 18 blocks damaged, Calvary Baptist church scene where many died. Nearby Menifee Arkansas reported one dead and 30 injured.
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Wilburton
Okla
Oklahoma
Marlin Hawkins
Menifee
Hawkins
Morriston
Ora Oliver
College Town
Moffet-Roland
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Keota
Sapulpa
Sallisaw
Checotah
Bristow
Hoffman
Henryetta
Calvary Baptist Church
Eastern A&m College
College
Henry Mooneyham
McAlester Police Department
Logan man questioned in early morning garage break in
A year-old Logan man is held by city police as a suspect in an attempted break in at the W H Chevrolet garage. Neighbors heard breaking glass at 1 30 am and police captured the suspect in the alley beside the garage. He was interrogated this morning.
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W&h
Peace Meeting Scheduled in Cleveland for May 30
A large peace gathering will be held May 30 in Sever ance Hall Cleveland sponsored by the Cleveland Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy Leaders from science labor industry and the military will attend Dr Linus Pauling Nobel laureate and General Hugh Brian Hester retired are listed among speakers.
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Cleveland
Severance Hall
Cleveland Committee For
Linus Pauling
Army
Hugh Brian Hester
Hocking County to Reappraise All Property in County
Hocking County commissioners approved a 41 000 contract with Cole Layer Trumble Dayton appraisal firm for a complete county reappraisal. The work will span Logan Laurelville Murray City and rural areas plus public utilities farms and tax exempt properties with unit costs based on January 1956 labor and material costs.
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Hocking County
Cole-Layer Trumble
Dayton
Ohio
Logan
Laurelville
Murray City
Three die in Columbus auto crash and more local notices
Three people from Columbus died when a car veered off a curve and hit a utility pole at high speed. Two others remain in critical condition. In Ironton rescue crews pulled the body of 1 year old Larthar Warren Payne from a well cave‑in after over 27 hours. Governor DiSalle urged tougher penalties for bar owners who sell to minors. Heiress Gamble Benedict and Andrei Porumbeanu announce they expect a baby early next year.
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Columbus, Ohio
William Neff
Marjorie Swank
Phyllis Henry
Columbus
Ironton
Ohio
Larther Warren Payne
Ohio School Bond Issues Fare Well At Tuesday Poll
Ohio reports bond issues and levies fared better in Tuesday elections under new rules allowing simple majority approval. Of 52 bond issues, 67.3% passed. of 102 levies, 72.5% passed, with metro areas showing tighter results and several large issues approved or defeated amid shifts in funding mechanisms.
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Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Education Alan
Berea
Wooster
Kettering
Parma
Liberty Union
Butler Co
Conotton Valley
Harrison Co
Sidney
Wickliffe
County Board Creates New School Districts in Hocking
The Hocking County school board formed two new districts, Good Hope and Laurel Two, breaking from West Hocking to let residents choose transfer options. A remonstrance could trigger a general election, with votes limited to residents of each township. Transfers planned include Laurel Two to Logan or Laurelville and Good Hope Two to Berne Union, pending petitions and contiguity issues.
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Hocking County
Good Hope
Laurel Townships
West Hocking
Lee Courthouse
Laurel
Logan
Laurelville
New Good Hope
Lowell Karshner
Elza Ringhiser
McKinley Hansen
Harley Glenn
Eliza McGrady
Benton
Salt Creek
Washington
Laurel Two
Berne Union
Green Two
James Frey
Gibisonville
Frey
Laurel-to
The
Daily News
East Hocking
Logan City
Laurel Twp
Grant Smith
Paul Fast
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Meg
Ark
OK Hocking
Rt. 3
Haydenville
Sheriff's Department
Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio Liquor Control Board
Liquor Department
Miami Beach
Gamble Benedict
Andrei Porumbeanu
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