Nature Walk Along Hocking Valley Rail Line in Spring
A spring walk from Lancaster to Sugar Grove reveals bird life and early bloom along the old rail bed. Yellow warblers and redwings dominate the fields, with swallows skimming the Hocking River and canal banks.
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Lancaster
Sugar Grove
Deeds Mill
Prindle House
Hocking
Prindle Mill
Hocking River
Pleasant Run
Sharp Crook
Fairfield County
Horn Town
Ream
Postal Fund Fight Looms Over 1958 Budget
Postmaster General Summerfield warned Congress that unless the Senate restores up to 90 million dollars in 1958 funding, substantial postal service cuts may begin July 1. The Senate vote backed restoring 32 million of 58 million cut, while House panels discussed rate hikes for newspapers and magazines.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Capitol Hill
Summerfield
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate Appropriations
House
Post Office Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
The
Treasury
Tax Court
Law To Abolish JP Courts Seen Speeded In Ohio
Ohio House expected to move swiftly on a bill to abolish justice of the peace courts after the state Supreme Court ruled JP salaries set by county commissioners unconstitutional. House Judiciary Chair Kenneth Robinson calls the ruling an emergency, with plans for county courts to take JP duties.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Justice of the Peace
Ohio Supreme Court
General Assembly
House Judiciary Committee
Kenneth Robinson
Marion
Robinson
Ohio House
House
Beck Jr Called “Overgrown Spoiled Boy” by Senate Panel
Senate Rackets Committee evidence includes an interoffice Anheuser-Busch memo describing Dave Beck Jr as an overgrown spoiled boy. The elder Beck faces charges of misusing union funds while his son held beer distribution rights in Washington and Alaska.
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Dave Beck Jr
Washington
Senate Rackets Committee
Anheuser-Busch Co
Beck
Seattle
Dwight D. Ingamelis
Anheuser-Busch of
St. Louis
Young Beck
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Senate
Teamsters
Dave Jr
Alaska
Armed Services
St. Brewing Company
Ingamells
Anheuser-Busch
Jay R. Rideout
Earl H. Memory
Beck Sr
Beck Jr
Irving J. Levine
K&l
Levine
Becks
K&l Company
Lavine
Ohio Men Named For Special Awards
Eldridge R. Hanning of Oak Grove Ohio Thom as Riley Jr of Nelsonville Ohio and William Stephenson of Glouster Ohio were among 18 men from seven states awarded medals of honor by the Joseph A Holmes Safety Assn The trio entered an oxygen deficient auger mine to try to save two miners who crawled into a 30 inch diameter hole.
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Washington
Eldridge R. Hanning
Oak Grove
Ohio
Thomas Riley Jr
Nelsonville
William Stephenson
Glouster
Joseph A. Holmes Safety Assn
Hanning
Riley
Stephenson
Teamsters Win Hot Cargo Fight
The U S Court of Appeals sustains the hot cargo clause allowing Teamsters to refuse handling nonunion or struck goods. Judge Walter M. Bastian states workers merely urged against handling freight from unfair companies, aligning with carrier agreements and clarifying no illegal strike occurred.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
Teamsters Union
Walter M. Bastian
Teamsters
Pauley Secures $10 Million Loan From Chicago Bank
Edwin W. Pauley, Los Angeles oil man and Democratic leader, has negotiated a $10 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago for general purposes.
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San Francisco
Edwin W. Pauley
Los Angeles
First National Bank of Chicago
Auto Collision Takes 7 Lives in Ohio Pileup
Seven people died in a three car crash on Ohio 7 near Middleport. Two survivors remained in Meigs General Hospital with one in very critical condition. The dead include John Charter Smith and the Halley and McCoy families from Cheshire.
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Pomeroy
Ohio 7
Middleport
Ohio
Meigs General Hospital
John Charter Smith
Middleport Rt
George William Halley
Cheshire Rt
Halley
Elizabeth
George Ray McCoy Jr
Nancy McCoy
Charles McCoy
Marshall McCoy
Ruby McCoy
Ruth Ann Halley
Halleys
Ohio Highway Patrol
Smith
Hubert Boyd Fulton
Cheshire Rt. 1
Halley Headon
McCoy
Stroke Kills Ezio Pinza At Age Of 64
Ezio Pinza, 64, retired musical comedy star and former Metropolitan Opera bass, died at his Stamford home from a stroke suffered April 30. His wife and children were present as he passed away at 2 a.m. The doctor said he passed quietly in his sleep. Pinza rose to fame in South Pacific with Mary Martin and had a famed yet paradoxical career spanning operatic and popular stages.
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Stamford
Conn
Ezio Pinza
Metropolitan Opera
Pinza
David H. Fogel
South Pacific
Mary Martin
United States
Michigan Firefighters Contain 750 Acre Huron Blaze
Fire crews held a hard fought line around a 750 acre wildfire in the Huron National Forest near Lake Huron. About 400 people battled the blaze for a half day before it was brought under control. The flames also threatened Wurtsmith Air Force Base at Oscoda during the day.
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Detroit
Michigan
Big Huron National Forest
Lake Huron
Wurtsmith Air Force Base
Oscoda
Mich
Mercury Hits 81 As Hocking County Warms
Temperatures in Hocking County climbed into the 80s for the third straight day. The mercury rose from 43 degrees at 5 am to 81 degrees by 11:30 am with yesterday’s high at 81. Partly cloudy skies and warm weather persist with scattered thunderstorms forecast for tonight and Friday.
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Hocking County
U S Moves Toward Resuming Military Aid To Yugoslavia
Washington reports say the United States is near lifting the arms embargo on Yugoslavia and would restart shipments of jet fighters and heavy weapons. A final decision awaits President Eisenhower approval amid congressional pressure and cautious phased delivery over years.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Eisenhower
Senate
Knowland
Calif
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Congress
Diem Warns Congress on Peril to South Vietnam
South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem told U S Congress that his country, barely two years old, faces greater danger than any free Asian nation but vowed to continue the fight against Communism. He spoke after meeting President Eisenhower and urged continued Western aid while urging rapid economic development at home.
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Hocking Valley Hospital
Hubert Lappen
Hocking County
George Johnson
Duffey
Roy Kelch
East School
Kelch
Claybank Hill
Spring and
North Sts
Washington
Ngo Dinh Diem
Congress
South Viet Nam
Diem
Eisenhower
White House
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
Eisenhower Reduces Foreign Aid Plan To 3.8 Billion
Congressional leaders report President Eisenhower trimmed the foreign aid program from 4.4 billion to 3.8 billion for the coming year. About 2.9 billion is for military aid and 1.08 billion for economic aid with long term low interest loans. Senate figures suggest broad support for a further half billion cut, while Eisenhower defends no major reductions until tensions ease.
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Washington
Congressional
Eisenhower
White House
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Bridges
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Lima Citizens Publishing Company Incorporation News
The Lima Citizen Publishing Co. obtained incorporation papers from the Secretary of State to publish a Lima newspaper. Authorized to issue 20,000 shares of 25 value stock, with incorporators Leslie Reid James A Howenstine and Sam Kamin of Lima and agent Wayne G Current listed.
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Columbus
Lima Citizen Publishing Co
Ted W. Brown
Lima
Leslie Reid
James A. Howenstine
Sam Kamin
Wayne G. Current
AEC Aide Arrives At Piketon For Goodyear Strike
John Deitz of the Atomic Energy Commission travels to Piketon to help mediate a potential strike by about 1,500 Goodyear Atomic Corp employees. Local 10 689 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers union threatens a Friday morning walkout if no contract deal is reached.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Piketon
Goodyear Atomic Corp
John Deitz
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers of America
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