Postal Hike May Follow Pay Boosts
Washington AP Rep Murray calls for further postage rate increases to accompany recent postal and civil service pay raises. He favors a four cent rate for intercity letters and supports higher base pay for 330,000 postal workers, with scale boosts of 290 to 370 dollars yearly. Senate action and broader rate proposals are under review.
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Washington
Murray
D-Tenn
House Post Office Committee
Civil Service
Senate Post Office Committee
Post Office
Summerfield
Parcel Post
Congress
Stock Tip Killings Under Study By Senate Panel
Senate investigators study about 20 alleged stock market killings caused by tips and rumors. Walter Winchell's TV report links to big market moves and losses at Amurex Oil in 1953 and Pantepec Oil after a January 9 telecast. President McCormick says tip-followers lost millions. Fulbright seeks to learn if insiders profited before the burst and quick selloffs followed.
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ED Creagh
Washington
Senate
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Banking Committee
Walter Winchell
Edward T. McCormick
American Stock Exchange
Winchell
Amurex Oil
New York
U. S
Man fined for bumper car dare in Pittsfield court
Orlando Froio, 42, offered to give his 1947 car away to anyone who could make it run 40 mph. District Court Judge Charles Alberti fined him 25 dollars for speeding at 55 mph yesterday.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Orlando Froio
Charles Alberti
Froio
Annexation costs and city taxes in Middletown debate
A Middletown businessman argues for annexation citing added local services and value, while questions rise about how much higher taxes would be. Butler County treasurer John W. Wendel provides figures from a 1954 rate report covering a 560 acre tract east of the city and south of Manchester.
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Middletown
John W. Wendel
Butler County
City
Manchester
Suburban Tax Shift and City Services Tradeoffs
City officials outline tax levy changes and costs for suburbs east of Marshall Road and North Middletown, detailing per thousand valuations and daily costs. They compare municipal costs, insurance savings from city fire codes, and offsetting factors like bus fares and lighting, plus benefits of police, fire protection, parks, and health services.
Lava Rivers Leave Heavy Loss Behind
Two lava rivers fed by fissures and fountains belching 500 feet neared the sea in Hawaii’s Puna district. Cane fields, timber, and at least nine homes were buried as a 70 home village became a ghost town. Four hundred residents homeless. Damage estimated at two million dollars.
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Pahoa
Hawaii
Puna
Manhattan
Kilauea
Kapoho
Fuller Takes Stand Today in Patterson Murder Trial
Albert Fuller, on trial in Birmingham, faces the witness stand as he seeks to show he had nothing to do with the murder of A. L. Patterson, the crusading attorney general candidate. Defense questions will fill much of today while prosecutors prepare long cross examination.
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Birmingham
Ala
Albert Fuller
A. L. Patterson
Phenix City
Roderick Beddow
Ceci Deason
Fuller
Arch Ferrell
Alabama Atty
Si Garrett
Patterson
Opposed To Ultimatum George Says WASHINGTON
Senator George of Georgia opposes issuing any ultimatum to Red China for the release of 15 American airmen. Senate leaders favor action if not freed by April 1. Diplomatic options including a sea and air blockade are discussed as U S efforts continue, with Dulles slated to report to the Foreign Relations Committee next week.
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Washington
Sen
George
D-Ga
Red China
Knowlan O Tnia
GOP
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Dag Hammarskjold
U. N
Congress
China
International Organization
Knowland
Tachens
Dulles
Dulles Les
Senate
Ohio Airman Killed in Alaska Jet Crash Identified
The Air Force named 1st Lt. Howard A. Trautwein Jr. as the second airman to die in the F89D Scorpion crash near King Salmon Alaska three days earlier. He was the son of Howard A. Trautwein Sr. of Maumee Ohio.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Air Force
Howard A. Trautwein Jr
King Salmon
Howard A. Trautwein Sr
Maumee
Ohio
United Nations Urges Calm Over Gaza Incident Clash
The U N Security Council urged Israel to defend its role in the Gaza clash that killed 39 Egyptians and 8 Israelis. The council deferred further debate until Maj. Gen. Edson Burns reports back, calling on both sides to maintain calm and abstain from force.
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United Nations, N. Y
U. N. Security Council
Israel
Gaza
Ti-nattor Council
Egypt
Eiweo
Adesia
Edson L. M. Burns
U. N
Palestine
Selim Sarper
Turkey
Council
Cairo
James J. Wadsworth
United States
Wadsworth
She Should Be Qualified
COLORADO SPRINGS COL. Sgts. Richard Lane and James McCoy of Columbus Ohio sought a ground observer corps post supervisor at Martinsburg Ohio. Mrs Hauger claimed a brother in the Air Force, Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command. Mrs Hauger will be the post supervisor.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Richard Lane
James McCoy
Columbus
Ohio
Gene Hauger
Ground Observer Corps
Martinsburg
Haugher
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Hauger
Curtis Lemay
SAC
Medical team battles to save infant bleeder in Chicago
Peggy Lee Davis, 15 months, suffers a baffling inherited-like blood disorder. Doctors at Presbyterian Hospital ruled out hemophilia after 12 days of tests, finding several leads but no clear cause. The child, her mother, sister, and brother all show related symptoms, with a life of transfusions and risk of hidden internal hemorrhage ahead.
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Chicago
Peggy Lee Davis
Presbyterian Hospital
Peggy
Joan Davis
Lisco
Neb
Davis
F. W. Vesely
Lewellen
Alvin
Armored Division Rebuilt To Full Strength At Fort Knox
The Army announces the 3rd Armored Division will be restored from a skeleton training unit to full combat strength at Fort Knox Kentucky. When complete the four divisions will include about 14 500 soldiers and nearly 350 tanks with the 3rd to reach top strength by September and continue training until June 30.
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Tex
Germany
Ft. Knox
Tthe Army
78 Year-Old Farmwife Killed In Auto Crash
Wilmington Ohio a 78 year old Clinton County farmwife Mrs Hattie Jane Stingley was killed yesterday when her husband s car collided with a car driven by a teenage driver six miles north of Wilmington at the intersection of a county road and Ohio 134 Ivin L Stingley 81 suffered cuts and bruises The other driver John Arthur Edwards 19 of near Wilmington was hospitalized with a skull fracture
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Wilmington
Ohio
Hattie Jane Stingley
Clinton County
Ivin L. Stingley
John Arthur Edwards
Killer Ends 16 Hour Wyoming Manhunt In Green River
Ex convict Melvin Henry Gray, 27, killed after a long chase across Green River. Deputy Sheriff Ed Phillips was wounded as Gray held a hostage mother and two children, authorities said. Union Pacific agent W. G. Sherman shot Gray through a window, ending the siege. Several officers were injured in the pursuit and firefight preceding the death.
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Jude Flbi
W. G. Sherman
Union Pacific Railroad
Melvin Henry Gray
Gray
Gus Kalivas
Wyoming
Kalivas
Sherman
Ed Phillips
Rock Springs
Green River
Phillips
Frank Kulinski
Kemmerer
Frontier
Wyo
Here
Albert Maffei
Don Wagner
Evanston
Robert Durrant
Kulinski
Missing Pastor Leaves Wife Note In Hampshire Area
Police report a Hamilton pastor, Rev. Stanley Weed, 56, disappeared after his wife found a note saying he was leaving. Weed, of Lindenwald Methodist Church for about 15 years, was last seen at 10 a.m. Thursday after being driven uptown and let out. He is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, 157 pounds, with gray hair, possibly under strain due to a recent church building program.
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Hamilton
Stanley Weed
Fairview Ave
Lindenwald Methodist Church
Mr. Weed
Lendenwald
Storms Sweep Wide Area Across Nation Early March
Storms continued to plague wide areas of the country with threats of floods in Kentucky West Virginia Indiana and Pennsylvania. A tornado near the Tennessee Kentucky line injured three. Three siblings drowned in Meade County Kentucky as a flood swollen creek claimed lives. Ohio River flood danger rose as rain fell two inches in parts of West Virginia. Temperatures plunged from the Great Lakes to the Southwest with freezing readings in several locales.
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Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Meade County
Tennessee-Kentucky
Nashville
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
New England
New York State
Wheeling
Huntington
W. Va
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Glasgow
Mont
Dickinson
N.C
Great Lakes
Oklahoma
Fire devastates Marietta district causing $100,000 damage
A three hour blaze gutted part of Marietta's downtown business area, damaging the Heiby Building and Marietta Surplus store. Fire Chief Dave Drennen said damage reached $100,000 and 15 Riley block apartments had to be evacuated. A 72 year old man was rescued. cause remained undetermined.
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Marietta
Ohio
Dave Drennen
Heiby
Tiber Way
Riley Block
Red Stage Hit And Run Inlet Attack on Matsus
A Red flotilla of 40 gunboats and armed junks staged a brief hit and run raid against a Matsu island. U S officials in Taipei and Honolulu voiced concern over Chinese Communist threats as top Nationalist U S talks proceed on mutual defense and arms aid for Formosa and the Pescadores.
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Taipei
Formosa
United States
Matsu
Chiang Kai-shek
Matsus
Formosa Strait
Red China
Matsu Islands
Honolulu
U.S
State Dulles
Dulles
Southeast Asia
Peiping
Tokyo
Formoa
Tachen Islands
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Adm
Robert B. Carney
Naval Operations
Felix B. Stump
Pacific Fleet
Alfred M. Pride
7Th Fleet
William C. Chase
Pescadores
West Pacific
Carney
Stump
Pride
Chase
Defense Ministry
Breakfast neglect tied to teens sparks health warning
Public opinion analyst Elmo Roper at the National Food Conference cited a poll showing only 56 percent of teen girls report a good breakfast while 70 percent of men and boys do. He called breakfast neglect the single most dangerous spot in the nation’s nutritional picture though he said the overall eating habits trend is encouraging.
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Hollywood
Fila
Elmo Roper
Roper
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