Jimmy Smith Story: In a Fourth Year of Living Death
Jimmy Smith, 20, remains in a coma since a March 1952 auto crash that shattered his cerebral cortex. He is fed and kept alive with basic reflexes, with doctors saying he shows no emotions or voluntary movement. His mother, once his sole caregiver, now faces relocation to a hospital while visiting endlessly.
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Michael] Oates
St. Joseph's Hospital
Hamilton
Ont
Julie Mulvaney
Jimmy
Jimmy Smith
Ben Smith
Dulles Faces Senate Inquiry On Middle East Arms Policy
Secretary of State Dulles returns from the Bahamas to face questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about U S arms deliveries to the Middle East and the embargo on such shipments. The 18 light tanks bound for Saudi Arabia are en route as Democrats press for explanations.
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Washington
Dulles
Vaca
Congress
Middle
Bahamas
United
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
George
Dga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Life Magazine
Edwin Goldman Dies Bandmaster and Composer
Edwin Franko Goldman, 78, renowned bandmaster and composer, died Tuesday in New York. He was seen as Sousa's successor and wrote over 100 marches. His band gave free open air concerts in the city for nearly four decades and his "On the Mall" ranked second to Stars and Stripes Forever. concerts aired on NBC for 29 years.
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New York
Edwin Franko Goldman
John Philip Sousa
Goldman
Hig
Sousa
National Broadcasting Company
Europe Endures Severe Winter Amid War and Aid Drops
Yugoslav air force raids strike icebound Adriatic routes as Europe endures a 23 day subzero spell with 762 dead. Italians face floods and crop losses. Britain fears potato stockouts while Majorca relief planes reach stranded climbers aided by an American group planning a U S radar site.
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London
Adriatic
Europe
Italy
Britain
Lincolnshire
Majorca
Mediterranean
Balearic Islands
U.S
Winter Crisis Grips Central Europe With Severe Cold
German weather experts warn of a historic freeze as February temperatures run below long term norms. Berlin faces heavy snowfall while Bavarian valleys plummet to ten below zero and ice blocks halt river traffic. Northern Europe endures a sea ice link, with ships trapped in Baltic routes and floods affecting Nis.
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Central
Europe
East
West
Germany
Berlin
Belgrade
Nis
Keck Gifts Tied To Eisenhower Campaign Probed
Senate investigators report indications that Howard B. Keck the president of Superior Oil Co California made his largest political contribution to the Citizens for Eisenhower Committee. Keck's checks and bank records have been subpoenaed as part of a probe into a $2,500 contribution offered by Superior attorneys to Sen Francis Case. The gas bill fight spurred a special eight member committee to probe campaign contributions lobbying and influence with a plan to report by January 1.
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Washington
Senate
Howard B. Keck
Citizens For Eisenhower Committee
Keck
Superior Oil Co
California
Francis Case Case
Eisenhower
Special
National
George ‘D-Ga
Special Committee
Infant Dies as Father Is Burned in Fire
In Cincinnati a 28 year old father Eugene Johnson was severely burned in a blaze that killed his 11 month old son Michael. Hospital reports labeled Johnson in critical condition hours after firemen rescued the child from the apartment. Investigators say Johnson slept while smoking and held the infant on a bed in the sisters apartment where he was staying separate from his wife.
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Cincinnati
Eugene Johnson
General Hospital
Johnson
Michael
Akron Doctor Admits Abortion Practice Since 1934
A 72-year-old Akron physician admitted in court he performed about 300 abortions yearly since 1934, charging roughly $200 each. He pleaded guilty to an abortion charge and asked for mercy due to age and health. The case awaits medical testimony with potential prison time up to seven years. He stated none of his abortions caused death.
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Akron
Ohio
Roy L. Knapp
Common Pleas
Ray B. Watters
Dr. Knapp
Watters
Knapp
Medi
Humphrey Says He Has No Idea Ike Will Run Again
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, after a week with President Eisenhower, says he has no idea if the President will seek a second term. He notes they did not discuss the big question during their quail hunting visit at the Cabinet officer’s Georgia home.
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Thomasville
Humphrey
Eisenhower
Washington
Spence
Moultrie
Gale
New York
James C. Hagerty
Six Die In Dual Florida Military Plane Crashes
In south Florida two military crashes killed six men. Five aboard a Boeing KC97 Stratofreighter of the 1740th Air Transport Squadron died when it crashed and burned at Palm Beach Air Force Base. A Marine Corps pilot died when his Skyraider crashed near Miami at Opa-Locka Marine Air Station. Names were withheld. Witnesses reported an engine fire as the Strato freighter landed.
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West Palm Beach
Filia
South Florida
Palm Beach Air Force Base
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Air
Opa-Locka
Miami
Youth Trains Wreck Account Turned Over for Action
In Kokomo Indiana an 11 year old boy said he threw a switch that derailed a Pennsylvan ia Railroad passenger train injuring thirteen people. The boy told officers he did not know the action would cause a wreck and was released to his parents. Prosecutor Darrell Hodson will review possible action.
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Kokomo
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Darrell Hodson
Ohio River to Recede to 43 Feet by Friday
Weather officials predict the Ohio River will fall slowly this week reaching about 43 feet by Friday. The crest reached 50.6 feet at Cincinnati on Tuesday, with flood stage listed at 52 feet.
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Cincinnati
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Dayon Bus Strike Threatens Across City Transit Lines
Dayton faces a looming bus strike as drivers and maintenance workers of City Transit Co threaten action March 7 after a 21-20 vote. The union seeks 25 cents more per hour and a 40 hour week, with mergers tying three lines to suburb routes potentially paralyzing transport.
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Dayton
Ohio
City Transit Co
Howard G. Steele
Amalgamated
Assn. of
Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Employee of America
City Transit
Oakwood City Railway Co
Dayton Suburban Bus Line Co
City
Oakwood
Dayton Suburban
Steele
Iran
Cold extends through Thursday with fair skies ahead
The outlook remains cold and pleasant with a high pressure area over Hudson Bay guiding the Miami Valley. Partly cloudy and cold today with a high near 30. Tonight and Thursday will be fair and cold with a low around 13. Middletown reached 36 yesterday at 2:30 p.m. and 16 this morning at 6:30 a.m. The record low for today is 0.9 in 1885.
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Hudson Bay
Miami Valley
Middletown
Auto Crash Fatal in Cincinnati Walnut Hills
Calvin A. Lambert, 62, of Cincinnati, died last night when his car struck a pole in the Walnut Hills area. Police said the driver was alone in the vehicle and the crash occurred on a city street.
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Cincinnati
Calvin A. Lambert
Walnut Hills
Prairie kidnapping ends in dramatic capture and rescue
In Pueblo Colorado a 28 year old gunman Eugene C Hurst was captured following a two and a half hour kidnapping ordeal of Nancy Jackson 27 wife of Robert A Jackson. Police and vigilantes including Tony Fortino and Robert Mayberle pursued and engaged the kidnapper in a prairie standoff. Hurst was wounded, Nancy escaped unharmed, and Jackson Fortino and Mayberle assisted in the final arrest and transport to hospital.
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Colo
Jackson
Hurst
Mayber
Fortino
Mrs. Jackson
Canon City
Here
Herman R. Huskins
Carroll Powers
U. S. 50
Huskins
Powers
For
Tino
Father Krusling Dies In Cincinnati
The Rev. Julian O. Krusling 34 pastor of St. Peter Claver Church and Fenwick High School principal died at Good Samaritan Hospital Cincinnati of cancer after a long illness. He had recently hoped his remains be brought from the hospital to St. Peter Claver Church for in state before Requiem High Mass and burial at St. Lawrence Church Price Hill.
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Julian O. Krusling
St. Peter Claver Church
Fenwick High School
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Buckie Pu
fFawer Krusling
Middletown Hospital
Florida
Larry Krusling
Father Krusling
Middletown
Cincinnati Elder High School
Fenwick
Paul Golembiewski
St. Peter Clever
James Krusling
St. Francis DeSales Church
Lebanon
St. Helen's
Dayton
Mt. St. Mary's Seminary
Norwood
St. Peter and Paul Church
John T. McNicholas
St. Aloysious Church
Elmwood Place
Elder High School
St. Lawrence Church
Price Hill
Holy Trinity Church
Talks Continue Despite Holiday in 129-Day Westinghouse Strike
Mediation talks pressed on despite Washington's birthday holiday as representatives of the strikers International Union of Electrical Workers joined sessions. Company negotiators prepared to join, but a close source said no progress occurred in the two days since a government push for a settlement began.
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Washington
Westinghouse
International Union of Electrical Workers
Smolan bank closes amid cashier fraud probe
Smolan State Bank, a 51 year old institution with less than 370000 in deposits and no federal insurance, faces closure after cashier Raymond Holmquist admitted falsifying records. Assistant state bank examiner G W Lindley noted serious shortage and unlikely reopening, while owner Albin J Carlson is hospitalized and Nelson sought bonds withdrawal. Residents fear loss of life savings.
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Smolan
Kan
G. W. Lindley
State Bank
Raymond Holmquist
Lindley
Holmquist
Philip Nelson
Kansas
Carl Oleen
Bank
Nelson
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