Ohio Farmers Face Scrutiny Over Crop Loan Benefits
Washington debates whether large Ohio wheat and corn producers gain an unfair edge from government loan programs. Rep. Polk and Rep. Bow urge ceilings, citing Department of Agriculture data showing Walton & Case Farms and Orleton Farms as top borrowers. Eisenhower officials oppose caps, arguing small farmers would lose access while big sellers prosper.
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Washington
Cora
Ohio
Walton & Case Farms
Prospect
Orleton Farms
London
Delta and Pine Land Co
Mississippi
Chaswil Farm
Sabina
Dunlap Co
Williamsport
Landen Farms
Foster
Dale Roe
Rudolph
Eisenhower
Don Paarlberg
Benson
Communist China Free Nine U.S. Civilians in Shanghai Talks
China announced at their thirteenth ambassadorial meeting with the United States that nine American civilians, including six women, were free to depart. Two more Americans could leave with exit permits, and a third may follow soon. The release follows talks ongoing since August 1 on freeing 41 Americans imprisoned or denied exit. Names listed include Emma Barry, Ralph Boyd, Juanita Huang, Robert Parker, Howard and Missus Ricks, Eva Dugay, and Irene Romanoff, among others. The fate of 29 others remained unclear while negotiations continue.
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China
United States
Wang Ping-nan
U. S
U. Alexis Johnson
Wang
Johnson
Emma Angelina Barry
Shanghai
Juanita Byrd Huang
Southern Baptist
Mount Olive
Miss
Robert Howard Parker
Philadelphia
Howard Lischke Ricks
Bills Motors
Boscobel
Wis
Eva Stella Dugay
Sister Theresa
New York City
Nadesha M. Romanoff
Harbin
Irene N. Romanoff
Edward Walsh
Peter Huizer
Bank of America
Walsh
William C. Walsh
Cumberland
Charles Sydney Miner
Boy 12 Unhurt After Car Bicyclist Collision
A bicycle and a car collided at East Street and Zanesville Avenue around 11 30 a m today. Dwight Sigler 12 was thrown onto the car hood but remained uninjured. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Roy Sigler of 464 Oak Street. The Cline vehicle driven by John W Cline 29 of Logan Route 2 sustained damage to the fender windshield and hood while the bicycle received damage to its light wheel spokes and tire.
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East St
Zanesville Ave
Dwight Sigler
Young Sigler
Roy Sigler
Oak St
John W. Cline
Logan Rt. 2
Cline
Suicide verdict in Hocking farmer Eddie Carstens death
The body of Eddie Carstens 50 was found at his Rt 75 home near Scott's Creek Falls. Coroner Dr Owen F Yaw ruled suicide by a .22 rifle likely Friday after he had been in poor health and mentally depressed. Sheriff A J Waldron noted no note was found. Carstens had recent divorce actions and a pending suit by his second wife Irene from Germany. The Rev Earl F Schottke alerted authorities after a second church visit. Funeral arrangements are pending at Leonard Funeral Home.
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Eddie Carstens
Rt. 75
Scott’s Creek Falls
A. J. Waldron
Mr. Carstens
Earlene
McVey Carstens
Irene
Germany
Mr. Carsten
Earl F. Schottke
Waldron
Carstens
Walter
Ernest
Delano
Calif
J. B. Sigman
Calexico
Canada
Leonard Funeral
Langer Attacks Eisenhower At Prohibition Rally
Senator William E. Langer charged President Eisenhower with failing to reform the GOP and aiding private power interests. Speaking before the Prohibition Party convention at Camp Mack he attacked Wall Street dominated firms, the Great Snake River project, and Idaho Power Co. He called campaign promises on public power rural electrification and Taft Hartley a deceitful swindle.
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Warsaw
Ind
William E. Langer
R-Nd
Eisenhower
North Dakota
Prohibition Party
Camp Mack
Great Medical Trust
Langer
Snake River
West
Hell's Canyon
Idaho Power Co
Wall Street
Idaho
New Floods Hit Eastern India
Floods swept eastern India as the International Red Cross airlifted 20 tons of relief supplies. Indian Red Cross officials estimate 25 million people homeless across east India and neighboring regions where monsoon rains and Himalayan snowmelt caused rising waters.
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New Delhi
India
International Red Cross
Indian Red Cross
East India
Pakistan
Survey shows six of ten Americans are church members
New York 1955 figures from the National Council of Churches report 97,482,611 Americans are church members representing 60 percent of the population. Growth continues with 1954 membership up 2.8 percent from 1953 as church construction reaches a record 588 million dollars and congregations total 300,056.
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New York
U. S
National Council of Churches
United States
Benson Y. Landis
Weathermen Track Pair Of New Storms Flora And Gladys
U S weather experts monitor two tropical storms named Flora and Gladys. Flora moves open Atlantic away from the coast while Gladys weakens over Mexico near Tampico threatening floods in the Rio Grande region.
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New Orleans
Flora
Gladys
U. S
Atlantic
United States
Miami Weather Bureau
Cecil Gentry
Mexico
Tampico
Texas
Weather Bureau
Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande
Mexico City
Five Day Weather Outlook Shows Mild Seasonal Drift
Temperatures will run about four degrees below normal with highs near 78 to 80 and overnight lows around 56 to 59. Expect a cooler Wednesday, a warmer Friday, and cooler weekend. Rainfall totals average about a quarter inch on Friday or Saturday.
Red Satellite States Announce Secret Military Cuts
London Poland and Albania join Russia in declaring reductions of armed forces. All three kept the total number of troops secret, continuing a pattern of undisclosed force levels amid the broader pullback.
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London
Poland
Albania
Russia
Attendance Up Eight Percent In Logan Schools
Logan city schools report eight percent higher attendance than opening day last year. Superintendent Wallace E. Blake announced a total of 1,558 students Kindergarten through grade 12. Kindergarten 94 East elementary 186 West 244 Central 278 high school 367 junior high 389. Hocking County totals were incomplete, with 3,202 expected.
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Logan City
Wallace E. Blake
Blake
Hocking County
Miss America 1956 Pageant Opens With 49 Contestants
Atlantic City hosts fifty nine beauty hopefuls leading to preliminary swimsuit, gown, and talent rounds over three evenings. Contestants from most states plus Chicago, DC, Hawaii and Canada vie for the crown, with Lee Ann Meriwether to crown the new queen and $50,000 in prizes.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lee Ann Meriwether
San Francisco
New Mexico
Wyoming
Washington
Chicago
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Canada
Physical Fitness Conference Set Seeks Youth Fitness Solutions
President Eisenhower announced a Denver conference to address the serious problem of American youth fitness. About 80 participants from sports education and government will attend September 27 28 at Lowry Air Force Base with Vice President Nixon presiding after a July Washington luncheon that started the effort.
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Denver
Eisenhower
America
Nixon
Lowry Air Force Base
Washington
Russians release three prisoners from Soviet camps to U S authorities
Frederick Charles Hopkins and two missing soldiers Pvt. Wilfred C. Cornish and Cpl. Murray Fields were handed to U S control after seven years in Soviet labor camps. Hopkins claimed to be from New York, while officials scrutinize his citizenship and past statements as doctors assess health.
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Berlin
U. S
Frederick Charles Hopkins
New York City
Hopkins
Pvt
Wilfred C. Comnish
Amesbury
Mass
Cpl
Murray Fields
Bayside
N. Y
Army
Cyprus Receives Constitutional Offer for Self Rule
London offered Cyprus a new constitution granting its 500000 residents greater self rule and the prospect of self determination in the future.
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London
Britain
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Woman dies in Nelsonville motorcycle crash near Rt 33
Mrs. Ernestine Matney Cossin 28 of Columbus died at Mount St Mary Hospital Nelsonville after a sideswipe crash 1 mile north of Nelsonville on Rt 33. Her husband Carl 33 was seriously injured and his left leg was amputated. The other driver Wilbur Walraven 32 and his daughter Londa 7 were treated and released.
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Ernestine Matney Cossin
Columbus
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nelsonville
Cossin
Carl
State Highway Patrol
Wilbur G. Walraven
Walraven
Londa
Nelsonville Hospital
Johnson Funeral Home
Roy W. Roberts
Logan
Joseph Phillips
Athens County
Highway Patrol
George C. Dial
Trimble
Roberts
Main
Culver Sts
Floyd T. Miller
Logan Rt. 4
George H. Zinn
W. Hunter St
Political Pot Boils Briskly in 1956 Campaign Talk
National political maneuvering heats up as Nixon in California hones defense and farm policy while predicting a tight Democratic nomination race led by Stevenson Harriman and Kefauver. Stevenson assails Eisenhower on Formosa and farm policy, urging change.
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Adlai Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Nixon
California
Stevenson
Harriman
Fense
Truman
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Eisenhower
Republican
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower International
Formosa
Red China
Henry Snow
Kasson, Minn
Toll of Labor Day Traffic Deaths Tops 1954 Count
Over the three day Labor Day weekend 608 total casualties were logged including 438 traffic deaths 80 drownings and 90 miscellaneous accidents. Ohio reported 40 fatalities 30 on highways while 4 drownings and 7 miscellaneous deaths occurred. A Pennsylvanian train collision near Bucyrus caused no deaths and Buckeye Lake boat sank without casualties.
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Ohio
Buckeye
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bucyrus
Buckeye Lake
Manhattan Limited
Queen of the Lake
McKinney Killed in Hillsboro Crash. Union Rep Card Found
Ora R. McKinney, 52, died when his car collided with a truck eight miles east of Hillsboro. Emerson Jones, 48, of Chillicothe, the truck driver, was uninjured and fined $15 for passing without assured clear distance. McKinney’s cards showed he was an international representative of the United Mine Workers Union with offices in Gallipolis.
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Hillsboro
Ora R. McKinney
Here
Emerson Jones
Chillicothe
Jones
McKinney
United Mine Workers Union
Gallipolis
Canadian death toll over Labor Day weekend
Seventy two Canadians died violently over the three day Labor Day weekend. Highway crashes caused 49 fatalities while drownings accounted for eleven deaths and twelve additional deaths stemmed from other causes.
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Ottawaf
Storms Kill 16 in Formosa
Severe rainstorms in Formosa caused at least 16 deaths and widespread destruction of property and crops, prompting relief efforts as fair weather arrived.
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Taipei
Formosa
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U.S
Rep
Polk
House Agriculture Committee
Bow
Department of Agriculture
J. J. Beck & Sons
Napoleon
D. G. Wing
Mechanicsburg
Heckert Bros
Charles M. Talbott
Charleston, Ill
Georgia Air Base
International Soundphoto
Envoy
Ralph Sharples Boyd
Washington D. C
Hocking
Owen F. Yaw
Gop Solon
Reds
Miller
Zinn
Miller Auto
Spurgeon Metzler
Mistletoe Inn
Rt. 327
Adelphi
Perry E. Jenkins
Robert S. Levitch
Circle
Jennings Olen Knotts
Marion
Joe Breeze
George Washington Green
Rockbridge Rt. 2
Mr. Green
Mr. Knotts
John Q
The
Associated Press
GOP
Safety Council
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