Ohio Memorial Day Traffic Toll Tops Nation
Ohio led the nation in accident deaths during the first 30 hours of the Memorial Day weekend with ten highway deaths five drownings and one fire death. Nationwide totals counted 1344 traffic deaths 45 drownings and 24 miscellaneous as safety officials noted the pace toward last year’s three day record.
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Ohio
Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Belmont County
Piedmont Lake
Mary Pyle
Martins Ferry
Ronnie Blair
Rt. 3
Cambridge
Guernsey County
Castalia
Robert Scherz
Sandusky Bay
Williams County
Edgerton
Russell Riker
Jackson, Mich
David Bangard
Bryan
De Gaulle Wins Broad Assembly Support for Powers
Paris reports Gen Charles de Gaulle won a wide majority in the National Assembly to grant him sweeping powers after a tense deadline. Socialist deputies swung to back him, while President Coty accepted Premier Pflimlin's resignation paving the way for de Gaulle to form a cabinet. Civil unrest flared on the Champs Elysees as anti Gaullists clashed with supporters.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
French National Assembly
Socialist Party
DeGaulle
la Perouse
de Gaulle
Arc de Triomphe
Rene Coty
Pierre Pflimlin
Coty
Pflimlin
National Assembly
Algeria
France
Champs Elysees
Seek Injunction Against Strikers At Bremen Plant
Modiglass Fibers Inc of Bremen seeks a court injunction against Local 655 and related parties in Fairfield County Common Pleas Court. The petition claims strikers block the plant entrance with groups of 10 to 15 workers hindering movement and threaten entrants with hammers. The Bremen plant strike has persisted for five weeks.
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Modiglass Fibers, Inc
Bremen
United Brick and Clay Workers of America
AFL — Cio
Fairfield County
Memorial Day Traffic Quiet in Hocking County
No fatal or major crashes reported in Hocking County over Memorial Day. Logan and Athens posts logged minor incidents. Lancaster post handled four investigations with three minor injuries. A Lancaster man, Sherman Williams Jr., 26, was injured in a one car crash on Dorr Run Rd near Nelsonville. Farley cited for speeding.
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Hocking County
Logan Police
State Highway Patrol
Lancaster Patrol Post
Athens Post
Lancaster
Dorr Run Rd
Nelsonville
Sherman Williams Jr
George Farley
Columbus
Williams
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Farley
Francis Myers
E. Main St
Weiser E. Hughes
Harrod
Logan High School Alumni Schedule Eight Reunions Tonight
At least eight Logan High School classes plan pre and post meeting gatherings ahead of the LHS Alumni Association annual session in the senior high auditorium. Events include Class of 1908 golden anniversary dinner at First Presbyterian Church and a 10 p.m. dance with Al Horsky's orchestra in the auditorium.
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Logan High School
LHS Alumni Association
First Presbyterian Church
Brandt's
Blosser’s
Sportsman's Dining Room
George Spackey
Jean Duffy
Lake Logan Rd
Rising Park
Lancaster
Elkshall
George van Fossen
Columbus
LHS
Glenn Hemsworth
Glass City Four
al Horsky
The
Ohioans
Escape Of Seamen Labeled Miracle
A naval officer called it a miracle that eight officers and 84 crewmen escaped the submarine Stickleback before she sank after being rammed by the destroyer escort Silverstein. Captain Paul C. Stimson praised both ships for saving all hands with no injuries. The Stickleback, valued at $10 million, sank in two miles of water, 19 miles southwest of Honolulu.
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Honolulu
Silverstein
Paul C. Stimson
Submarine Squadron Seven
Here
UAW Seeks Breakthrough as Auto Talks Stall
Detroit reports the United Auto Workers push to end deadlocks with Ford and Chrysler while GM prepares to run 300000 workers without a contract. Union demands center on wage and productivity increases amid stalled negotiations and no most firms pledging extensions.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
UAW
Atlanta
Azores Volcano Spouts Lava. Islanders Sheltered
Jets of lava rose 12 000 feet from De Capelinhos Volcano as Faial Island endures aftershocks. Calderia Volcano earlier erupted for ten days, casting ash and lava. Refugees fled to Horta for food and shelter as tremors rang out across the mid Atlantic island chain.
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Horta
Azores
de Capelinhos
Faial Island
Calderia
Hocking Lakes See Heavy Memorial Day Attendance
Lake Logan hosted a weekend of fishing boating swimming and picnicking as 700 people in eight units filled Old Man's Cave area. Bass fishing yielded several large catches including an 18 inch largemouth by Gene Sheline. A Hebron youth suffered scalp lacerations after a fall from the Lake Logan dam.
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Lake Logan
No. 2
Gene Sheline
Union Furnace
Bremen
Jerry Hutchison
Don Tucker
Lancaster
Eddie Nelson
Logan
George Spackey
Logan Rt. 2
Tate Howdyshell
Ed Reichley
Hocking State Parks
Hocking
Old Man's Cave
Old Man’s Cave
Ash Cave
Hebron
Charles van Dyke
Hocking Valley Hospital
Memorial Day Parade Draws Logan Residents to Honor Fallen
Approximately 1,000 persons lined North Market Street for Logan's Memorial Day parade led by the Logan High School band. Veterans groups and scouts joined ceremonies at Oak Grove Cemetery Soldiers' Plot and Worthington Park benediction by Rev. Peyton D. Reed.
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N. Market St
Logan
Logan High School
Logan National Guard
Logan Army Reserve Unit
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW Auxiliary
American Legion
Oak Grove Cemetery
Worthington Park
Woman’s Relief Corps
Peyton D. Reed
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Eisenhower Plays Nine Holes At Gettysburg Golf Club
President Eisenhower, during Memorial Day weekend, started an early golf outing at Gettysburg Country Club. He arrived by helicopter from Washington and played nine holes, with Mrs. Eisenhower following by car a few hours later.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Gettysburg Country Club
Washington
Seven Murders Blamed on New York Born Man Peter Manuel
New York born Peter Manuel convicted of seven murders in Glasgow High Court. The judge sentenced him to death after a 2 hour 21 minute jury deliberation. Manuel, brought to Scotland as a child, was accused of killing three women, three girls, a man, and a boy.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Peter Manuel
Manuel
Britons Fear Shortage Amid London Bus Strike
London garages faced the largest gasoline pump run since the Suez crisis as the citywide bus strike threatened to spread to fuel delivery trucks, raising fears of fuel shortages.
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London
Algeria Crash Kills 14 Including Most French Soldiers
A commercial airliner crashed in Algeria early today killing all 14 aboard, including 10 French soldiers. French officials reported no survivors, with the disaster prompting French and Algerian authorities to investigate the cause.
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Paris
CD3
Algeria
Judges Sentence Two To Reformatory In Hocking County
Judge Meyer imposes reformatory terms on a Nelsonville man and a Logan County youth in Hocking County Common Pleas Court. John Weston, 21, guilty of burglarizing the Old Man's Cave concession stand, faces a Mansfield Reformatory term with suspended sentence. Paul E. Malone, 19, pleads guilty to theft of vending machines and other property, with a suspended sentence after prior probation violation.
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Harley Meyer
Nelsonville
Mansfield Reformatory
Logan Rt
Hocking County
Sheriff's Deputies
Longstreth Pilgrim Holiness Church
Innocent
Paul E. Malone
Malone
Oren Smith
Frasure-Helber Rd
Rioting in Ceylon Grips East and North
Rioting worsened in eastern Ceylon with three killed as police moved on Sinhalese demonstrators harassing Tamils. Authorities said violence spread to the north as about a score have been killed since last week. Schools closed and censorship imposed during the Tamil passive resistance over language policy.
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Colombo
Ceylon
United Denies Buzzing Charge Against B47 Pilot
The Air Force denied that a B47 piloted by Maj. Eugene Mathis buzzed a United Air Lines DC 7 with 62 aboard near Salina Kansas. UAL pilot M K Wolfe claimed a 500 to 1000 foot crossing was deliberate, prompting Sen. Knowland to seek an investigation. Mathis said he maneuvered to avoid collision.
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San Francisco
United Air Lines
Air Force
Eugene Mathis
Salina
Kan
Schilling Afb
M. K. Wolfe
William F. Knowland
California
CAA
Britain’s World Trade Share Falls Amid German Japanese Competition
London reports Britain's share of world trade shrinking as West Germany and Japan gain. From 1953 to mid 1957 world exports of manufactured goods rose by 14 billion dollars while Britain's share fell from 21 to 18 percent. Germany rose from 3 to 18 percent and Japan from 4 to 6 percent.
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London
Britain
Macmillan
Germany
Japan
Muggy Weather Covers Eastern Half of Nation
Warm humid air ushered muggy conditions across the eastern two thirds of the country with thunderstorms and heavy rains in the North Central states. A storm near Crawford Nebraska and a tornado warning possibility caused damage and downed lines, while upper Great Lakes saw record humidity and Madison Wisconsin reported 1.39 inches of rain.
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Associated Press
Crawford
Nebraska
Gulf of Mexico
Upper Great Lakes
Madison
Wis
Great Lakes
Continental Divide
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Colorado
Mrs. Wanda Brokaw Slain On Main St
Wanda Brokaw 39 was shot dead on Logan's Main Street as she walked from lunch to her job at Harden and Helber supermarket. Her husband Walter Brokaw 57, later died by shotgun wound near Sun Glow plant, police suspect a domestic motive with prior threats and a divorce filed.
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Wanda Brokaw
Norwood Ave
Logan
Harden & Helber
Main
Hunter Sts
Walter R. Brokaw
Sun Glow
Brokaw
Dillon
Evelyn Ishman
W. Main St
Ishman
Walter
Mt. Vernon
O. Brokaw
Miller
E. Main St
Earl Arnett
South Logan
Heinlein Funeral Home
Billy Graham Extends Crusade in San Francisco
Evangelist Billy Graham ends his fifth week at the Cow Palace with 477 100 in attendance of 16 500 seats and 17 254 decisions for Christ. He told 15 000 Friday night the six week crusade will be extended at least one week to June 15 and possibly longer.
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San Francisco
Billy Graham
U S Auto Assemblies Decline in Week
Detroit report shows passenger car assemblies at 66 285 units this week versus 86 859 last week and 82 391 in the 1957 week. Memorial Day plant closings and inventory adjustments drive the decline across the nation.
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Detroit
Automotive News
Fight at Forest Amusement Park Injures Dozens
About 200 youths, roughly equal numbers of Negro and white, clashed in a brief melee at Forest Amusement Park in Chalfont Pennsylvania. Police said they did not know the cause and around 20 youths were hurt, two seriously.
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Chalfont
Forest Amusement Park
Pennsylvania
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