Ford Motor to Sell Seven Million Shares to Public
Ford Motor Co plans to issue about seven million new common shares with voting rights via the Ford Foundation after the first of the year. The sale may raise 400 to 500 million dollars at 60 to 70 dollars a share, with 60 percent of voting control to transfer to the new stock and 40 percent staying with the Ford family.
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Ford Motor
New York
Ford Motor Co
America
Ford
Ford Foundation
Henry Ford
Henry Ford II
The
Ford Co
H. Rowan Gaither Jr
Ernest R. Breech
Ford Board
Ford Family
New York Stock Exchange
Keith Fun
Fo Foundation
Wall Street
Servicemen News: Finch and Others Return to Duty Highlights
A.3. Homer R. Finch reports to Misawa Air Base in Japan as photo lab technician with the 45th Squadron of the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. Other Mason and area servicemen participate in amphibious exercises on the U.S. Southeast coast, river crossing drills in Germany, and Army re enlistment honors at Camp Chaffee Arkansas.
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Homer R. Finch
West Middletown
George H. Donahue
Margery T. Hodgson
Pattison Avenue
Morrow
10Th Infantry Division
86Th
Germany
Donahue
Army
Ft. Riley
Kaw
Billy E. Page
Fannie Page
Mohawk St
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Page
81St
Famed Sea Diver Gunderson Dies at 87 in Chicago
Charles Gunderson a veteran deep sea diver who aided the Eastland disaster death toll recovery died Sunday at age 87. He helped retrieve bodies over four days, recounting he passed 100 recovered, in the 1915 Eastland sinking of 812 lives on the Chicago River. Born in Norway, he began diving in 1910 and last dived in 1945 at age seven?
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Chicago
Charles Gunderson
Gunderson
Eastland
Norway
Madison Township Seeks Bid For Fire Engine and Equipment
Notice to bid on a fire engine and equipment in Madison Township Butler County Ohio bids due 10 a m November 26 1955 at the board offices West Middletown Ohio specifications on file with Carl Sigel Clerk. Township reserves right to reject any or all bids.
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Board of Township Trustees
Madison
Ohio
Board of Trustees
Madison Township
Butler County
Old Bible Records Eisenhower Family History
A family Bible recording six generations of President Eisenhower's family, including the birth of his father David J. Eisenhower, has been presented to the Eisenhower foundation in Abilene Kansas. Ed gar Langsdorf of the Kansas State Historical Society received it as a gift from L Anna Eichelberger of Glenwood Iowa. The Bible, at least 200 years old, is in German and printed in Switzerland.
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Eisenhower
David J. Eisenhower
Eisenhower Foundation
Edgar Langsdorf
Kansas State Historical Society
L. Anna Eichelberger
Glenwood
Iowa
Switzerland
Plane Crash Site Probed in Colorado Tragedy
In Longmont Colorado investigators probe a United Air Lines DC6B crash that killed 44. A federal official reports signs of possible sabotage and objects that appear unusual, while authorities confirm the plane was at about 11 000 feet and climbing when it exploded after takeoff from Denver, with wreckage scattered over five miles.
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Longmont
Colo
United Air Lines
James N. Peyton
Civil Aeronautics Board
Peyton
Denver
Here
Vermont mill destroyed as new fire engine idle
CTHESTER Vermont Vermont Mineral Products Inc suffered a devastating fire last night wiping out its main mill. Fire chief Albert Damore reported the brand new fire engine, still on a railroad flat-car in nearby Gassetts, was not yet ready for delivery. Unofficial loss was placed at about $50,000.
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Cthester
Vermont Mineral Products Inc
Gassetts
Albert Damore
Grease burns hospitalizes woman and child in town accident
Two people sent to Middle town Hospital after spills of hot grease. Mrs Pearl Vanica 75 Carlisle suffered second degree burns on left hand. Donna Gail Roberson 11 months old suffered burns on left shoulder ear and neck. Seventeen year old Betty Lou Miller fell from a tractor and was treated for back injuries. Additional injuries included cuts from an electric mixer a spill from a moving auto and a football injury. Seventeen and fourteen year olds were treated for minor injuries.
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Middletown Hospital
Pearl Vanica
Carlisle
Donna Gail Roberson
Jack Roberson
Buena Ave
Vanic
Betty Lou Miller
Somerville
Rt. 1
Arthur Moore
Robert Knorr
1St Ave
Gerald Meehan
Robert Meehan
Carolina St
Honeybear's Back From Honeymoon in Las Vegas
Beverly Hills couple Nina Warren Brien and Dr. Stuart Brien returned from a five day Las Vegas honeymoon. The former Miss Warren age 22 and her Beverly Hills obstetrician husband age 33 wed last Tuesday after a three month courtship. She said her mother will visit in two weeks while her father is delayed.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Nina Warren Brien
Earl Warren
Las Vegas
New
Miss Warren
Honeybear
Stuart Brien
Oakland
Dr. Brien
Pittsburgh
Secrecy In Government Troubles ASNE Members
ASNE officials warned a House subcommittee about growing categories of information withheld by government. J. R. Wiggins of the Washington Post and Times Herald urged action, citing secrecy across local to federal levels and the rise of secret administrative agencies. He acknowledged needed secrecy for national security but criticized widespread nonclassifiable data being kept from the public.
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Washington P
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
House
J. R. Wiggins
Washington Post and Times Herald
Freedom of Information Committee
Rep
Moss
D-Calif
Wiggins
Eisenhower
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By Warren Bennett
Ston
Exchange
General Assembly of
State of
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Court of Probate
Court of Common Pleas
Committee For
Russell Weatherwox, Sr
Mason
Donald L. Wyatt
James A. Putman
United States
Wyatt
Roy Wyatt
Island Forest Avenues
Carol J. McGriff
Germantown
Putnam
Bill Putnam
Pvt
Ronald W. Dailey
Ottis Dailey
Mason Rt. 1
Armored School
Ft. Knox
Uni
Dailey
Carl Sige
Lemon Township Board of Education
Middletown Board of Education
Board OF Education
Charles J. Reuthe
Robert Krause
Bronx
New York City
Krause
Old
Abilene
Kan
Reelect
William C. Miller
Lemon Township
Empiaste
Vance Russello
Middletown
HFC
Household Finance
Central Avenue
Harold L.agee
Pol
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Pol. Adv
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