Old Fashioned Days Parade Opens Middletown Sales
The Old Fashioned Bargain Days kicks off tomorrow in Middletown with a downtown parade from Doty Street to Central Avenue at 8 a.m. Local merchants forecast heavy shopper traffic, with 200 merchants aiming to attract customers through 2 p.m. events a Gay 90s contest and a Monday wedding.
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Kidnaper Promised Prosecution in Bay Area Baby Case
In San Francisco Barbara Jean Benedicto faces strong legal action after abducting 2 day old Robert Marcus from Mt Zion Hospital. The infant was returned to Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Marcus in Stockton. District Attorney Lynch says the grand jury will indict for kidnapping and he will press vigorous prosecution.
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GOP Still Hopeful Ike May Lead Party Ticket
A Cabinet member told fund raisers there is no definite reason Eisenhower cannot run in 1956 and that he alone will decide his candidacy. GOP leaders cited the heart attack as light and awaited further developments while planning to keep policies and campaign support steady.
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Kyushu Braces For Typhoon Louise In Sundered Rice Region
A powerful typhoon bearing 125 mph winds neared Kyushu in southern Japan as residents prepared for impact. Initially sixteen injured reports surfaced as two small vessels sank and several homes were damaged in the feared strike.
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Truck Plows Into Airmen Killing Two at Davis Monthan
Tucson reporters recount an accident at Davis Monthan Air Force Base where a truck struck five airmen on a runway. Two men, Harold Fosnow, 19, and Richard Anderson, 25, died. Milton Martin survived uninjured and described the chaotic moment as the truck slammed through the group.
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Ariz
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Harold J. Fosnow
Liston Ave
South Beloit
Ill
A. C. Richard L. Anderson
Otsego
Mich
Mountain Home Air Force Base
Milton G. Martin
Fosnow
Marine Night Fighter Jet Crash in Yokohama Kills Two
A Marine night fighter jet crashed in wooded outskirts of Yokohama today. The pilot and radar operator were killed. names are being withheld by Marine Air Group headquarters.
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Yokohama
Marine Air Group
Kenton Harness Driver Dies After Winning Race
Miles L. Anderson, 69, of Kenton, fell from a sulky and died, apparently of a heart attack, shortly after steering a harness horse to victory at the Hardin County Fair yesterday in Kenton Ohio.
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Janet Roars Toward Gulf In 1955 Hurricane Janet
Hurricane Janet, the season's 10th storm, heads for the Mexican Gulf coast with 115 mile per hour winds. Ports from Vera Cruz to Nautla brace as the system spares few communities and causes deaths and homelessness across the Caribbean and Corozal.
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Reds To Cut Korea Troops
Peiping radio said China will pull six Red army divisions from North Korea next month. Each division roughly ten thousand men, with no count given for remaining forces. Earlier withdrawals included about thirteen divisions totaling up to one hundred thirty thousand troops. Two U S divisions stay in South Korea as four were withdrawn.
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West warns Russia on Berlin and Middle East arms
Western powers issue two strong cautions to the Soviet Union during Big Three foreign ministers meetings in New York. Moscow faces pressure over its East Germany stance and possible arms deals in the Middle East as Geneva talks approach.
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Geneva talks loom as West shapes German unification stance
Western ministers issued a communique after three sessions stressing unification of Germany as the top priority. West Germany remains the only recognized government. any move toward recognizing the East regime would halt Geneva talks. Brentano attended the final Western session, but no official line emerged.
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Peron Reported Flying to Spain from Buenos Aires
Unofficial reports claim deposed President Juan D. Peron departed by plane Wednesday night for Spain. The saga notes varied theories including Rio de Janeiro sightings and a week aboard a Paraguayan boat, amid Lonardi’s government stance on Peron’s exile location.
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Juan D. Peron
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Paraguay
Eduardo Lonardi
New Homeowners Policy Rollout Begins Across Ohio
Ohio begins sale Monday of first package homeowners policies under a new multi line law. For the first time a single company can offer complete fire and casualty coverage in one policy. Approval came from the Ohio Department of Insurance after the 101st General Assembly enacted the measure.
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Pryntel
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Showers Tonight and Cooler Weather in Miami Valley
Forecasters predict scattered thunderstorms tonight and Friday as the Miami Valley turns cloudy and cooler. Highs near 80 today with overnight lows around 50. Wednesday saw an unofficial high of 80 and a 55 degree low earlier this morning.
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Miami Valley
Eisenhower Shows Small but Steady Progress in Heart Care
A bedside bulletin reports President Eisenhower had a very good night under oxygen, sleeping from 9 p.m. to 6:15 a.m. Doctors Howard Snyder and Byron Pollock say rest and sleep aid recovery after last Saturday’s heart attack. Officials note no pain, no fever, high morale, and cautious optimism amid ongoing risk of relapse in the first two weeks.
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James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
Paul Dudley White
Boston Heart
West Point
White
France Opposes European Security System Aiding NATO
In a United Nations address Antoine Pinay rejected any European security plan that would dissolve NATO or pull US troops from Europe. He affirmed Germany should be unified under Bonn and dismissed the Soviet staged reunification, signaling France’s stance ahead of Geneva talks on reunification, disarmament, and East West barriers.
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Fernald Strike Averted At Atomic Plant
A threatened 1800 AFL workers strike at the Fernald Atomic Energy Plant appeared averted after a tentative agreement on working conditions fringe benefits and wages was reached, pending ratification by the AFL Trades and Labor Council Executive Board. The plant is operated by National Lead Co. of Ohio.
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AFL
Fernald Atomic Energy
Samuel M. Spencer
AFL Trades and Labor Council Executive Board
William C. Smith
Fernald
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National Lead Co
Ohio
Piqua Firemen Hurt in Basement Fire at Rapps Store
Four Piqua firemen were injured fighting a basement blaze at Rapps clothing store. Two were hospitalized for smoke exposure, while two others were treated and released. None of the injuries were serious.
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Piqua
Ohio
Rapp
Truck Driver Finds Lost Purse Containing 42800 Dollars
Detroit trucker Vearl Valentine found a brown purse on U S 12 east of Ann Arbor with 42800 in large bills and a note. A woman claiming ownership reappeared to verify the money and drove away after thanking him. Valentine, with 37 years on the road, says he kept nothing.
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