Ohio adopts two cent gasoline tax hike and five dollar license increase
Governor DiSalle signs the act boosting the state gasoline tax from five to seven cents a gallon and adding a 50 cent to 90 percent federal match for highway funding. A separate across the board auto license fee rise from 10 to 15 dollars is urged, expected to raise about 20 million dollars yearly.
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Columbus
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
House Highways Committee
House
Sugar Grove Youth Denies Rape Charge
James Cox a 21 year old Sugar Grove man is held in city jail awaiting arraignment on a statutory rape charge. He admitted picking up the 14 year old Logan girl after school and driving her into the county but denies assaulting her. The girl was returned home around 5 p.m. Her father alerted authorities and Cox was arrested by state highway patrol near Sugar Grove about 10 30 p.m.
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Sugar Grove
Logan
James Cox
Francis Myers
Hubert Lappen
Cox
State Highway Patrol
Playing The Stock Market No Longer Rich Man's Game
Logan Kiwanis heard that stock market investing is no longer exclusive to the wealthy. Merrill Lynch’s Richard Roederer cited two thirds of American firm stockholders earn under 7500 annually and urged stocks as a savings form beating inflation.
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Logan Kiwanis Club
Richard Roederer
Columbus
Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
Roederer
Ohio Senate to decide on 1.8 billion budget and taxes
The Ohio House approved a two year budget of 1.8 billion dollars plus about 240 million in new taxes. Senate action hinges on the governor’s tax measures. If the tax bills stall the budget stalls.
Hoffa Denies Nationwide Strike Threat
Teamsters Union President James F. Hoffa denied threatening a nationwide strike over proposed restrictive labor laws. He told the Houston Chronicle that reports of his Brownsville speech were distortions, insisting there is no national strike plan.
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Houston, Tex
Teamsters
James F. Hoffa
Houston Chronicle
Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Washington
John McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
Hoffa
McClellan
Senate
Teamsters Union
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Gulf Coast
Four More Honor Students Highlight Hocking County Graduates
Biographical sketches profile South Bloomingville and Rockbridge honor students Sharon Whitcraft and Larry Reynolds as first and second honors. Patti Poling and Robert Woodson are valedictorian and salutatorian at Rockbridge with top county scholarship standings and varied activities in athletics, music, and student government.
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Hocking County
South Bloomingville
Rockbridge
Sharon Gayle Whitcraft
Lester Whitcraft
Sharon
Larry Eugene Reynolds
Samuel Reynolds
Larry
Ohio University
Patti Poling
Robert Poling
Robert Woodson
Virgil F. Woodson
Brief World and U S Political Highlights
The House voted a 50000 limit on farm loan credits in a 261 to 165 roll call as part of a 3.939 billion dollar Agriculture Department funding bill. President Eisenhower awarded John Foster Dulles the Medal of Freedom at Walter Reed while Dulles battled illness. Secretary Ted W Brown of Ohio withdrew a bid for a new trial in an intoxication case. Transport Workers Union members crossed carpenters picket lines in a defense related action at Cape Canaveral. Harold Stassen won the Republican nomination for major in Philadelphia. House Republicans opposed a 2.1 billion housing bill. The Soviets claimed a TU114 set a 4225 mile air distance record Moscow to Khabarovsk.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Department
Senate
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Walter Reed Medical Center
Dulles
Cape Canaveral, Fla
Transport and Teamsters Union
Transport Workers Union
Ex Fairfield Medic In Deep Coma In Newark Ohio
Dr Joseph A Geer a 45 year old former Fairfield County coroner was found unconscious at his home in Alexandria and taken to Newark Hospital where doctors report a deep coma Authorities investigate sleeping pill overdose with a small pill box found at his bedside Geer had pleaded guilty in 1957 to 13 counts of falsifying narcotics prescriptions and received two years probation
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Newark, Ohio
Joseph A. Geer
Fairfield County
Newark Hospital
Alexandria
Here
Geer
Fairfield County Grand Jury
Ohio Governor calls three labor bills not acceptable
Gov Michael V DiSalle clashed with labor leaders as he rejected three major bills labor sponsors backed including the minimum wage rise jobless pay and workmen compensation measures He said his reform bill remains a good measure and will pass before adjournment in Columbus. He also announced plans to push a state government reorganization bill giving the governor new power to alter departments subject to legislative veto.
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Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio
Organized Labor
DiSalle
House Industry Labor Committee
Senate
Columbus
Frank W. King
D-Lucas
Sen. King
Scarlet Fever Case Reported In Hocking County
A 23 year old Logan man sickened May 18 prompted the Hocking County health department to record the 47th scarlet fever case this year. It is the first since April 27 after monthly totals of 12 in January 14 in February 13 in March seven in April and one in May along with reports of related toxic rash and septic throat cases.
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Hocking County
Logan
Ruling On Athens Man Expected Next Week
U S Commissioner Robert W Newton may rule early next week on the case of David Elmo Landis 40 of Athens charged with sending obscene movie film through the mails Landis appeared May 5 His attorney William J Abraham of Athens filed a brief arguing Landis did not know his films were mailed to processors
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Columbus
Ohio
U.S
Robert W. Newton
Athens
David Elmo Landis
William J. Abraham
Newson
Landis
Plane Plant Blast Kills 5 Workmen
An explosion in a Martin Company seaplane hangar in Baltimore killed five workers and injured at least five others. Names of the deceased are John Savage 33 Charles Buchanan 43 James Washington 27 George King 36 and Frank Krawczyk 25, all from Baltimore. Injured include John Dunn 27 James Holly 36 and Jacob Goldstein 42. The blast occurred while hulls were being cleaned with a solvent. cause is under investigation.
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Baltimore
Martin Co
Martin
Melvin Davis
Maryland
Martin's
Air National Guard
John Savage
Charles Buchanan
James Washington
George King
Frank Krawczyk
Washington and
Krawczyk
University Hospital
John Dunn
James Holly
Jacob Goldstein
Holly
Bahamas House Calls for New Probe Into Oakes Slaying
The Bahamas House of Assembly voted to urge Scotland Yard to reopen the 1943 murder of Sir Harry Oakes. Detective Raymond Schindler claimed new information could crack the case tied to Count Alfred de Marigny, with Duke of Windsor having previously brought in American investigators.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Sir Harry Oakes
House of Assembly
Scotland Yard
Oakes
Raymond Schindler
Harold C. Christie
Sir Harry
Count Alfred de Marigny
Duke of Windsor
de Marigny
Nancy
West Germany and France Slow Secret Talks on Berlin Crisis
Geneva reports say West Germany and France are cautious about quick secret talks with the Soviet Union as the Big Four discuss a possible summer summit. Couve de Murville and Von Brentano urge care, arguing the Soviets should lead while Western allies negotiate, delaying earlier plans for talks with Gromyko.
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Geneva
West Germany
France
U.S
Soviet Union
Berlin
Maurie Couve de Murville
Heinrich von Brentano
Christian A Herter
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Couve de Murville
von Brentano
Heat Wave Puts Hocking County In 90 Degree Mark
A sweltering 90 degree high was recorded in Hocking County at 3 p m Tuesday and the heat continued today. The day began with a low of 55 after which temperatures rose to 89 by noon. The forecast calls for a slight chance of scattered showers with hot weather expected to continue through the weekend.
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Hocking County
Mercury
Khrushchev Says Russia Won’t Fire First On U S
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told Florida business leaders that the USSR will not launch the first missile against the United States. He warned grandchildren may face communism, urged calm, and commented on the Geneva Four conference and the Berlin issue, opposing a united Berlin under East German control.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Florida
Soviet Union
United States
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Ralph A. Renick
WTVJ
Miami
Radio-Tv
Assn
Thomas F. Fleming
First Bank of
Boca Raton
Fla
Geneva
U.S.S.R
Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
Mars
Jupiter
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Lloyd Zimmerman
Herschel Bensonhaver
James Johnson
Roger Humphrey
Joe Thomas
Richard Pansing
Bruce Fickel
Ohio Senate
Ohio House
Roger Cloud
R-Logan
William O'Neill
DiSaille
House Finance Committee
G. D. Tablack
D-Mahoning
Com
Associated Press
Whitey Sawyer
Sawyer
Hoff
ILA
Teamster
Sharon Whitcraft
Larry Reynolds
Ted W. Brown
Upper Arlington
Philadelphia
Harold Stassen
London
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Fairfield
Health Department
Germany
Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference
Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Khrush
Russia
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