County Board Weighs Bonds for New Hocking County Hospital
County officials and hospital trustees met with the Trade Club to study issuing bonds next November for a new 60 bed county hospital. State health officials urge action. Hill Buron funds could cover about 466000. Bond plan hinges on Rachelmacher estate funds and legal steps.
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Logan Trade Club
Hocking Valley Hospital
Hocking County
Ohio Department of Health
William Wolfe
Hospital Facilities Division
Trade Club
Trade Club Committee
Probate
Rachelmacher
Kachelmacher
Don Russell
J. Ward Doering
Otto Shaw
Thomas VanCuren
Walter North
Lavon Goodlve
Ford Hack
B. G. Greenman
Don Braun
Art Gasser
Burr Nixon
Bill Miller
Robert Keynes
Refugees Stream into Hong Kong From China Reports Say
Hong Kong newspapers report hundreds of refugees including soldiers and militiamen crossing from Communist China. Some carried weapons and white flags while seeking to join Chiang Kai shek's Nationalist army in Formosa.
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Hong Kong
China
Morning Post
Peiping
New University President Installed at Ohio U
Ohio University will formally receive its 15th president this afternoon. Gov. Michael V. DiSalle will present the key of office and original charter to Vernon R. Alden at inauguration ceremonies. Alden, formerly associate dean at Harvard Business School, became president Jan 1.
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Athens, Ohio
Ohio University
Michael V. DiSalle
Vernon R. Alden
Alden
Harvard University Graduate School of Business
University
House Agriculture Committee OK's Kennedy's Big Farm Bill
The House Agriculture Committee approved the administration’s farm bill by 18 to 17 after four weeks of work. Chairman Harold D. Cooley touted broad backing and expected swift House floor action. The measure adds mandatory wheat and feed grain cuts, with a dairy section turned voluntary, plus a new conservation and recreation clause for retired croplands. President Freeman praised the vote as a turning point for farm income and consumer prices. The Senate is expected to accept the core principles.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Kennedy
Harold D. Cooley
Dn.c
Cooley
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
House
Senate
Striking Students Arrested In Portugal
Police swept the University of Lisbon at dawn arresting 87 student hunger strikers and more than 900 sympathizers in a crackdown on university demonstrators. Hunger strikers vowed to continue their fast until Premier Salazar yields to demands.
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Lisbon
Portugal
University of Lisbon
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Depreciation Tax Relief Moves Nearer for Businesses
The Kennedy administration announced an imminent liberalization of tax depreciation write-offs aiming to save about 1.25 billion dollars for businesses in 1962. Secretary Douglas Dillon indicated the revisions will take effect late next month or by July, with broader write-offs for machinery and equipment both in use and new purchases.
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Hot Springs
Kennedy
Business Council
Roger M. Blough
U.S. Steel Corp
Big Steel
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
Washington
Henry H. Fowler
Fowler
Treasury
U.S
Ohio Weather Outlook With Showers and Mild Temperatures
Official Weather Bureau summary notes a few showers in the southwest near the Ohio River Thursday night, mainly gray skies elsewhere. Dawn readings show upper 40s to low 50s across Columbus Toledo Cincinnati Zanesville and Bellaire with little temperature change expected through Saturday.
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Columbus, Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Ohio
Ohio River
Chesapeake
Toledo
Zanesville
Columbus
Cincinnati
Bellaire
Southwest
Five Day Outlook for Southern and Central Ohio
Temperatures will run four to eight degrees above normal with highs around 70 to 75 and lows near 37 to 51. Little change tonight and Saturday, warming Sunday through Wednesday. Rainfall expected about one inch in showers tonight and Saturday then again Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Ohio
Preston OKs Close-In Logan Rt. 33 Bypass
The Logan Rt. 33 bypass route, 14.25 miles, is approved as a limited access highway with four lanes. The project runs from .29 mile south of the Hocking Fairfield line to the Haydenville bypass, between the C&O Railroad and the Hocking River, bypassing Logan. Support came from City Council, the Logan Trade Club, and Division 10 engineer Max Farley.
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Logan Rt. 33
Everett Preston
Hocking Fairfield
Haydenville
C&o
Hocking River
Logan
Logan Trade Club
Max Farley
Division 10
Ohio Air National Guard to return by August 31
The Ohio Air National Guard will bring most activated personnel home by August 31 with a few volunteers remaining on active duty to close records. An advance echelon will return from Europe at least 15 days early to prep for the return. Guardsmen will be reassigned to their parent state units on return.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Air National Guard
Adjutant General's Office
Europe
Athens Attorney Named State Bar Vice President
Earle Bridgewater an Athens attorney was elected vice president of the Ohio State Bar Association in Toledo. His election marks the first since 1902 for an attorney from the 17th district which covers six Southeastern Ohio counties to hold a high state bar office.
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Earle Bridgewater
Athens
Ohio State Bar Association
Toledo
Ohio
Bar Association
Ohio Firm Wins $250000 Post Office Contract
The Emmy Construction Co. of Millersport Ohio has been awarded a $250000 government contract for alterations on the Maysville Kentucky post office the General Service Administration announced.
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Chicago
Emmy Construction Co
Millersport
Ohio
Maysville, Ky
General Service Administration
Rebels Advance Over 100 Miles Into Laos From Nam Tha
Rebels siege northwest Laos as Pathet Lao push beyond the cease fire and seize Houei Sai. Royal forces retreat into Thailand with Nam Tha garrison of 5,000 fleeing. Washington frets over possible U S involvement and SEATO responses as Thailand fears a wider Communist advance.
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Vientiane
Laos
Mekong
Thailand
Houei Sai
Red
Souvanna Phouma
U.S
Prince Boun Oum
Souphanouvong
Kennedy
Pathet Lao
Washington
U. S
Defense Ministry
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Red China
Nam Tha
Souvanna
France
United States
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Toledo plant blast kills nine and injures forty six
A massive explosion at Maumee Chemical Co in Toledo Ohio killed nine workers and injured 46. debris filled a five block area as flames and smoke blanketed downtown. one body unaccounted for may lie in the charred plant debris.
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Toledo, Ohio
Maumee Chemical Co
Toledo
Wilfred C. Lauer
Maumee River
Lauer
Charles Bigley
R. H. Baldwin
William Cowell
St. Charles Hospital
Chemical Company
Herbert Frisbee
Gerald W. Hickey
Providence
R.I
Carl Griesenger
Winfield Bowman
Harry Mce Cord
James Fincher
B. A. Pedigo
W. T. Hamilton
Robert Wambold
Charles Stapf
Concessions Denied County Fair Licenses Across Ohio
Ohio agriculture director Robert Terhune refused to issue licenses to concession game operators for county and independent fairs. The ruling affects more than 90 fairs and could cost over a million dollars in revenue. Blaine Sickles seeks to force licenses via suit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, citing an opinion that concession games involve price, chance, and prize and amount to gambling.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert H. Terhune
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Blaine Sickles
Ohio Showman's Association
Terhune
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Atty
Mark McElroy
Rio U S Pact Signed To Boost Brazil Training
The United States and Brazil signed an Alliance for Progress agreement to improve technical training in Brazil. Brazil will contribute 235000 dollars and the United States 85000 dollars to the program.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
United States
U.S
Former Philadelphia worker returns from Soviet trip in disillusionment
David Paul Johnson 32 and his family arrived at Idlewild Airport exhausted after a week in the Soviet Union. He said the trip proved the USSR is an evil, bad thing and cited ill fed Russians and poor housing. The family funded the move by selling possessions and faced immigration hurdles before reaching London.
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NEW York
Philadelphia
United States
Soviet Union
David Paul Johnson
Idlewild
Johnson
Johnsons
Cole
Lindsey
State Department
London
Embassy
Pennsylvania Railroad
Leningrad
Baltika
Moscow
London Docks
John Zapenas
Manchester
N.H
Kennedy to Consider Stronger Action Over Laos Crisis
President Kennedy and top advisers discussed options to prevent Laos from falling to pro Communist forces if the crisis worsens. Officials noted discouraging troop reluctance by government forces after Nam Tha fell, with Kennedy ordering a fresh review of U.S. policy and potential measures.
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Washington
Laos
Kennedy
White House
State Department
W. Averell Harriman
George H. Decker
Army
Roger Hillsman
McGeorge Bundy
Nam Tha
U.S
United States
South Viet Nam
Delay Hinted In Carpenter Orbital Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL FLA AP sources report a delay of the May 17 flight of astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter into orbit around the earth. The postponement may last several days as technicians address attitude control system troubles on the capsule atop the Atlas booster on launch pad 41. Carpenter's mission mirrors John H Glenn Jr.'s prior three orbit flight.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John H. Glenn Jr
Carpenter
Glenn
Eighth U.S. Nuclear Test in Pacific Series
The United States detonated its eighth nuclear device in the current Pacific test series. Dropped from an aircraft, the explosion had an intermediate yield between 20 000 and one million tons of TNT. The blast occurred near Christmas Island and was announced by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department.
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Washington
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Department
Christmas Island
Treasury Tightens Cuban Import Curbs
The Treasury announced tighter restrictions on Cuban goods, banning American travelers from buying items abroad and bringing them home in their luggage.
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Washington
The
Treasury
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