Self-Reliance Awards honor 8 teens for hard work and talent
At the third annual Self-Reliance Awards dinner in Middletown, eight teenagers earned prizes totaling 1500 dollars. Sharon Lee Moore, Gene Young, Judith Fink, and Rich ar d Wendt won top honors for leadership and achievement while others received 200 and 100 dollar prizes. Finalists balanced school, work, family duties, and community service, with many contributing hours weekly and supporting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Debald
Armco Steel Corp
Sharon Lee Moore
Lemon-Monroe High School
Sharon
Rainbow Girls
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Middletown
Gene
Oxford
Middletown Civic Symphony
Conservatory of Music
Cincinnati
Manchester
Gene Young
Judith Elaine Fink
Fenwick High School
Richard L. Wendt
Middletown High School
Judy
Dick Wendt
Chester Wendt
Sebald
Mery Sullivan
Phoebe
Miss Moore
Raymond A. Moore
Industry and education linked for progress in panel talk
Cincinnati panel at UC marking cooperative education’s 50th anniversary heard Mason M. Roberts of General Motors urge a close tie between industry and education as keys to future management. Raymond Loewy warned that advancing tech strains human senses and urged teamwork among management, science, engineering, and design to reduce noise, fatigue, and ugliness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Mason M. Roberts
General Motors Corp
Roberts
General Motors
Frigidaire
Dayton
University of Cincinnati
Raymond F. Loewy
New York
Court Restores Vet James Kutcher to VA Clerk Job
The U S Court of Appeals ruled 2 1 that James Kutcher a legless World War II veteran was improperly fired from the Newark VA office on grounds of reasonable doubt about loyalty. It reversed a lower court ruling and ordered reinstate for the 44 year old clerk who served in Italy and drew $42 weekly before firing.
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Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
James Kutcher
Veterans Administration
U. S. Dist
Burnita Shelton Matthews
Kutcher
E. Barrett Prettyman
John A. Danaher
Newark
N. J
Socialist Workers Party
Guilty Plea Ends First Degree Murder Trial
DAYTON Ohio The first degree murder trial of Barney Morgan 47 of Harlan Kentucky was paused as he pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Common Pleas Judge Robert L McBridge sentenced him to life in Ohio Penitentiary for the killing of Helen Love alias Hazell Lovell 41 of Lawrenceburg Tennessee. Miss Love was shot Aug 21 in a Vandalia motel.
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Dayton
Ohio
Barney Morgan
Harlan, Ky
Common Pleas
Robert L. McBridge
Morgan
Ohio Penitentiary
Helen Love
Hazell Lovell
Lawrenceburg
Tenn
Miss Love
Vandalia
Syndicate of gamblers hit by nationwide IRS raids
IRS agents raided betting venues in Pittsburgh and other cities as part of a cross country operation led by U.S. Attorney D. Malcolm Anderson. Eighteen people were arrested and several locations seized as authorities traced more than 3000 long distance calls to a New Kensington layoff headquarters used to balance bookmaking bets.
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Pittsburgh
Internal Revenue
D. Malcolm Anderson
U.S
Pennsylvania
Rec Audareen
New Kensington
Chicago
Fort Worth
Tex
Boston
Newport
Anderson
Eden Opens Full-Scale Talks With Soviet Leaders
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Khrushchev meet Prime Minister Eden at Claridges and Downing Street for secret talks on the Middle East. UK and US officials anticipate UN arms limits as a path to peace amid Egyptian arming fears and East-West tensions.
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London
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Eden
Middle East
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Claridges Hotel
No. 10
Downing St
Kremlin
Downing Street
Andrei Gromyko
Jacob Malik
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Egypt
Israel
West Germany
United Nations
Eisenhower
U.N
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Russia
Eden’s
Sir Winston Churchill
Labor Party
Hugh Gaitskell
Daily Mail
Churchill
Mail
Dag Hammarskjold Opens Final Talks With Israel
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold meets Israeli officials in Jerusalem for last talks on Palestine border rules amid an unconditional cease fire with Egypt. Discussions focus on UN investigators regulations and patrol timetables as both sides mark pauses in hostilities and observers consider troop redeployments and expanded monitoring.
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Jerusalem
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Palestine
Middle East
Beirut
Israel
Egypt
Cairo
Gaza
Mixed Armistice Commission
St . Hamina
Jordan
Kharas
Hebron
Nechusha
Lachish
Hammarskjold
Freighter Sinks After Lake Crash
Two Great Lakes freighters collided at the St Clair River entrance to Lake St Clair. The A M Byers sank in 17 minutes with decks awash, while the E M Ford went aground yet later secured to shore. About 70 crewmen were aboard. only one sustained severe injuries requiring medical aid.
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Detroits
Great Lakes
St Clair River
Lake St. Clair
A. M. Byers
E. M. Ford
Huron Transportation Co
Byers
Ford
Coast Guard
Weekend Forecast For Miami Valley Weekend
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with warm air from the south and a few clouds. Highs around 70 with lows near 35 tonight and Saturday, then a mostly fair Sunday with highs around 70 to 75 degrees. Middletown records an unofficial high of 6 degrees at 3 pm and a 6 am low of 31 degrees.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Butler Seeks Funds as Democrats Face Financial Crisis
Democratic National Chairman Paul M Butler warned of a financial crisis risking the party’s 1956 campaign. He contrasted a GOP treasury of five million dollars with Democrats at about one hundred thousand. He urged rapid action to raise money to fund nationwide television time and campaign efforts.
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Fig Og 1
Surpey
Paul M. Butler
Mic Sal Tung Taisinng SneYuMre
Butler
National Committee
National Guard
White House
Six Teens Arrested Over Big Dynamite Cache in Parma
In Parma police seized 49 sticks of dynamite and 26 detonator caps from a garage Thursday night and arrested six teenaged boys. Four admitted stealing the dynamite from shanties at a sewer project on Wednesday, ending a tense day for residents.
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Cleveland
Parma
Alaskans Vote In First Presidential Preference Primary
Alaskans will vote Tuesday in the first presidential preference primary under the 1955 act. Democratic ballot includes Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Republican ballot lists Eisenhower and Knowland. The contest centers on Kefauver versus Stevenson as Alaska tests national trends.
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Juneau
Alaska
Two Miners Rescued After Sunnyside Mine Collapse
In Sunnyside Utah rescuers pulled two miners from a caved in coal mine where three survived four hours entombed under mining machinery after a Wednesday collapse at 1 40 p m. Lavel Golding 42 and Joe Archuletta 43 were treated at Sunnyside Hospital with Archuletta lucid and grateful, amid families and doctors reporting good condition. The fourth miner remained missing.
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Sunnyside
Utah
Lavel! Golding
Wellington
Joe Archhuletta
Dragerton
Kaiser Coal Co
Salt Lake City
Robert Johnson
Golding
Archuletta
Johnson
Earth
Lioyv
Alien Heath
Joseph Otterstrom
Ohio farmers views asked on dairy ills
Federal officials in Columbus invited Ohio dairy farmers to share views on milk price adjustments to avoid strikes. A forum at the Southern Hotel gathered input for setting prices in regions including Toledo Akron Stark County Cleveland Columbus Dayton Springfield Cincinnati Ohio River Valley and Lima. R Stanfield of the Ohio Farm Bureau said Ohio likely avoids a strike and noted inter-farmer tension in the Detroit episode while urging legislative cure proposals from the Ohio Milk Producers Federation.
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Columbus
Ohio
Department of Agriculture
Toledo
Akron
Stark Counery
Cleveland
Dayton
Springfield
Cincinnati
Ohio River Valley
Lima
R. Stanfield
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Detroit
Stanfield
Ohio Milk Producers Federation
General Assembly
Wealthy Matron Evelyn Scott Disappearance Probed
Los Angeles investigators, district attorney staff, and a grand jury plan next steps in the six week mystery of Evelyn Throsby Scott, 63, missing since May 16, 1955. Husband L Ewing Scott, 59, faces questions though no charges filed. Police report two reading glasses buried on the Bel Air property and two sand filled envelopes amid estate records valued around 600000 dollars. The case hinges on whether Mrs Scott is alive or dead as probes center on Scott’s handling of funds.
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Los Angeles
Evelyn Throsby Scott
District Attorney
L. Ewing Scott
Dist
Atty S. Ernest Roll
Ralph Alexander
D. A
Thad Brown
Scott
Milwaukee
District Attorney's Office
D.a.’S
E. Raymond Throsby
Superior Court
William H. Parker
Roll
Scott House
Brown
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Gene) Young
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Molly) Sullivan
Fenwick High
Mike Mathews
Middletown High
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U. S
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Richard Daly
Fenwick
Monroe
Sebald Gene Young
Sharon Moore
Bill Weith
Big Syndicate Target
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Mideast
James F. King
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