Flying saucer captured by Irishman ends in cloud
Thomas J. Hutchinson of County Derry claimed he seized a flaming red egg shaped saucer near his bog roadside. The device spun free as he carried it toward Loup and vanished into rain clouds after a hedge pass and a brief police inquiry.
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Moneymore
Northern Ireland
Thomas J. Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Derry
Maud
Loup
Royal Air Force Station
Aldergrove
RAF
Air Force
GOP Accused Of Trying To Buy Way In
Democratic State Chairman William L. Coleman charged the GOP with trying to buy access to Washington and Columbus. He cited Ohio figures from 1952 showing Republicans outspent Democrats and warned about a planned $5 million spending this year to defeat Gov. Lausche, with Democrats predicted to spend far less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gop
Columbus
William L. Coleman
Republican Party
Washington
Coleman
Ohio
Senate
White House
Frank J. Lausche
Democratic Party
Helber Family Fund Reaches 1400 Total
The Karen Mae Helber Fund reached 1400 with 128.61 collected in three departments at North American Aviation in Columbus by the local UAW. The fund, a small portion of the plant’s 16,000 workers, supports the Kenneth Helber family with a benefit set for tomorrow at Lake Logan Speedway and other collections ongoing at Logan Clay Products Co and the Carbide plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Mae Helber
Daily News
North American Aviation
Columbus
United Auto Workers
Kenneth Helber
Lake Logan Speedway
North American
Logan Clay Products Co
Logan Man Injured In Rt. 33 Crash
Logan man Richard C. Peppers 25 suffered shock and minor cuts when his car left Rt. 33 and struck a guard rail and telephone pole 3 1/2 miles south of Logan at 1 30 a m He was treated and released from Hocking Valley Hospital He was ordered to appear in Mayor Francis Myers court at 8 p m on charges filed by the patrol The patrol also noted a minor two car collision at Hunter and Elm outside the city limits involving Charlotte Anders 22 and Florence Lanning 68
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Rt. 33
Richard C. Peppers
Weldy Ave
Hocking Valley Hospital
State Highway Patrol
Peppers
Francis Myers
Hunter and
Elm Sts
Corporation
Charlotte Anders
Logan Rt. 1
Elm St
Florence Lanning
Hunter St
Suez Canal Talks Continue Despite End Claim
Cairo reports a five nation mission led by Robert Menzies remains in talks with President Nasser. Delegates met two hours, plan to resume Sunday, contradicting an earlier claim talks ended. Egypt favors cooperation not international control. US may intervene to prevent forceful action by Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Menzies
Nasser
Suez
Suez Canal
Egypt
Robert G. Menzies
Mohammed Hassanein Heikal
Akhbar al Yom
State Dulles
Washington
London
Britain
France
Suez Canal Co
England
Mediterranean
Cyprus
Menzies Committee
Court Dismisses Charge Against D. Ray Hartman
The Common Pleas Court dismissed a charge of threatening to kill against D. Ray Hartman of Nelsonville Rt. 2. The motion came from the prosecuting witness his wife who alleged Hartman threatened to kill their son with a rifle on Aug. 12. Hartman had pleaded guilty and was free on bond after being bound to the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Ray Hartman
Nelsonville Rt. 2
Common Pleas Court
Hartman
Geer Death Attributed To Heart Ailment In Autopsy
Lancaster authorities disclose Jeane Geer of the Geer family died of a heart ailment per autopsy findings. She passed away January 14, 1954. The case links to the exhumation prompted by autopsy results on Dr. Joseph Geer’s second wife Constance who died June 28 from drug intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Jeane Geer
Joseph A. Geer
Fairfield County
E. Raymond Morehart
Prosperity Peace Theme Hit By Adlai
Adlai Stevenson challenged the 1956 debate on peace and prosperity saying the issue is how to achieve them not merely holding what exists. He spoke in Springfield Alabama criticizing the GOP theme as incomplete. President Eisenhower and Nixon planned a Gettysburg Campaign kickoff with 500 workers. Truman accused Eisenhower of passing buck while praising the era’s gains. Howard Pyle urged reflection on post 1952 changes during a talk to the American Political Science Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adlai Stevenson
Springfield
America
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Nixon
Howard Pyle
American Political Science Assn
Pyle
Korea
Stevenson
Truman
Mayor Myers' Mother Dies at 71 in Logan
Ida V. Myers mother of Mayor Francis E. Myers died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 8:15 a.m. at 421 E. Second St. She had been in failing health. Services will be held at Leonard Funeral Home with Woman's Relief Corps and Rebekah Lodge participating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by Mayor Myers, Mrs. Don Brandon, a Urbana daughter, six grandchildren and four great grandchildren, and several siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida V. Myers
Francis E. Myers
Edward Myers
E. Second St
Myers
Don Brandon
Logan
James
Sarah Baird Allen
Hocking County
Logan First Methodist Church
Woman's Relief Corps
Queen Vasti Rebekah Lodge
Leonard Funeral
Brandon
George Reuss
Urbana
Ill
John
Frank Allen
Fred Allen
Columbus
T. E. McFadden
R. B. Wilson
Oak Grove Cemetery
Platform Eyed By Ohio's Dems
Democrats in Columbus consider a party platform to fund highways in municipalities with 18 proposed planks including a Korean War bonus and a state labor department. A contentious plank would require cities to cover 10 percent of interstate expressway costs, with the federal government covering 90 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Robert N. Gorman
U. S. Supreme Court
George Hook
D-Brown
State Highway Department
Bonus Offers 5 Percent Boost to Soil Bank Exchanges
Agriculture Department announces soil bank certificates used to reduce wheat corn and rice acreages are valued at 105 percent of cash value for exchange with CCC grain or price support loans. Cash redemption remains at 100 percent. Certificates tied to grain types dictate eligible swap options among grains and sorghums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Soil Bank Plan
Ohio Hog Prices Dip 25 Cents This Week
The Ohio Department of Agriculture reports market hog prices 25 cents lower than last week. Demand was fair to good at most points with steady weekly low prices. Receipts at 12 major terminal markets reached 300,000 head, up 10,000 from last week and 36,000 above last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Ohio Democrats Open State Convention
Columbus Mayor Sensenbrenner kicks off the one day convention urging Democrats to wake up and push the party forward. He cites Adlai Stevenson’s upcoming appearance and endorses gubernatorial candidate DiSalle and Senatorial hopeful Lausche. Stevenson to address at 5 pm. Lausche to close the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Maynard
Jack) Sensenbrenner
Circleville
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ohio
Stevenson
New York
Lausche
Dad Refuses to Attend Rites in Kidnaped Tot Case
In New Haven Conn Stéph en Ruotolo refuses to attend funeral services for Cynthia the six weeks old girl found in a Lake Whitney plastic sack authorities and family insist the remains are hers while Ruotolo disputes identification Coroner James Corrigan confirms the body belongs to Cynthia with corroboration from Eleanor Ruotolo Anna Monte and medical staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Stéphen Ruotolo
Lake Whitney
Ruotolo
Cynthia
Sears Roebuck
Hamden
James J. Corrigan
Corrigan
Eleanor Ruotolo
Anna Monte
Smoldering lint triggers alarm at Church Street building
Assistant Fire Chief Robert Courter answered a silent alarm at 11:55 a.m. yesterday at 684 Church St. where lint smoldered in an automatic dryer. He disconnected the electricity and removed the lint with no damage reported. The building owner is Frank Helber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Courter
Church St
Frank Helber
First Frost Hits Low Areas in Hocking County
The first frost of the season touched scattered low lying areas of Hocking County overnight with a 35 degree low reported at the Rt. 75N state highway garage. No crop damage expected as warmer conditions return Sunday with fair weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking County
Rt. 75N
Trail Blazer Derailed In Indiana Injuring 37
The Penn sylvania Railroad Trail Blazer out of Chicago toward New York derailed near Warsaw Indiana injuring 37 none fatally. A defective wheel journal on the diner end caused the wreck. nine cars left rails and 272 passengers were redirected by charters to Fort Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Warsaw
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
New York
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania
Plymouth
Troops Alerted as Kentucky Segregation Tensions Rise
In Sturgis and Clay Kentucky FBI agents and hundreds of National Guardsmen were mobilized after threatened desegregation protests. Gov Chandler warned martial law could be declared on short notice as 12 Negro students return to Sturgis High and small groups resist integration. The National Guard planned 500 troops at Camp Breckinridge and officials eyed civil rights violations amid tense community fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sturgis
FBI
Kentucky
Clay
Sturgis High
National Guard
Camp Breckinridge
Don Sturgill
Public Safety
A. B. Chandler
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Clinton
Tenn
Clinton High School
Seven Men Indicted Over Acid Blinding of Victor Riesel
New York federal grand jury charged labor racketeering figure John Dio Guiliardi and six associates with conspiracy in the acid attack on labor columnist Victor Riesel. Named defendants include Leo Telvi Charles Tuso Charles Carlino Domenico Bando Joseph Carlino and Gondolfo Miranti. Arraignment date not set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John
Johnny Dio
Mylar Balloon Sets High Altitude Record
University of Minnesota scientists report a record balloon flight reaching 142 900 feet. A pyramidal 180 foot long Mylar balloon carried 1 million cubic feet of helium with cameras and timers aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
DuPont
Circleville
Ohio
Edward P. Ney
John R. Winckler
University
Vier Val Research
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Helber Family Fund
Atlantic City
Anne Stuart Ariai
California
Joan Colleen Beckett
Geer
Adlai
Dem
Associated Press
Mayor Myers
Resolutions Committee
United States
Michael V. DiSalle
Toledo
U. S. Senate
Sensenbrenner
U. S
George H. Bender
Tot
West Kentucky
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