Erie Snowstorm Paralyzes City Drives 2 Feet Deep
A massive lake effect storm dumped two feet of snow on Erie Pa paralyzing transport and business. A state of emergency was declared by Mayor Arthur Gardner who asked Gov. Leader for National Guard aid as Routes 5 and 20 were blocked. Snow halted all public transit and many industries with over 2000 people stranded in Erie County.
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Erie
Lakeport
Arthur Gardner
George M. Leader
National Guard
Weather Bureau
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
Cleveland
Gardner
Erie County
Ashtabula
Ohio
Lake Erie
N.Y
William J. Pope
Second Planeload Of Refugees Lands In U S
A second Freedom Flight brought 75 Hungarian refugees to America at McGuire AFB and CAMP Kilmer New Jersey. An anonymous ex postal inspector described the Budapest massacre of Oct 23 and 24 by secret police and Russian tanks. The group includes Karoly Wunder and family among 35 men 25 women and 15 children aboard.
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Camp Kilmer
N. J
America
Budapest
McGuire Air Force Base
Immigration and Welfare Agencies
McGuire
Kilmer
Karoly Wunder
Johan
Gabrielle
Wacs
Vienna
Traffic Deaths In Area Rise To Six In Six Days
The Monroe area records its sixth traffic fatality in six days as Gus Harris 48 of Bastrop dies when his car hits a tree on state highway 139. Earlier deaths include Louis Mariche 48 of Oak Grove on highway 80 and Richard Wright 40 of Richland parish, with ongoing hospitalizations for others involved. Wrights wife Sarah Wright recovers after leg amputation.
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Monroe
Gus Harris
Bastrop
Harris
Louis Mariche
Oak Grove
John G. Edwards
St. Francis
Richard Wright
Richland Parish
Highway 80
Sarah Wright
Conway Memorial Hospital
87-Year-Old Flies 5,000 Miles To Claim Young Bride
An 87-year-old Australian grandfather, P. A. C. Kay, flew 5,000 miles from Melbourne to Colombo and married 48-year-old Ceylonese nurse Dorothy Beatrice Elias five hours after arrival. They met while she holidayed in Melbourne. Kay sat during the service but stood for the vows in a Colombo Methodist church.
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Colombo
Ceylon
P.A. C. Kay
Melbourne
Kay
Dorothy Beatrice Elias
Hungarians vanish after leaving embassy safe conduct
In Vienna and Belgrade tensions rise as Imre Nagy and 42 Hungarians disappear after leaving the Budapest embassy with a Yugoslav guaranteed safe passage. Yugoslav and Hungarian officials warn that any interference would breach international law and endanger relations.
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Vienna
Yugoslavia
Imre Nagy
Budapest
Maa Linnea Wniane
Ant Maanh
Lic Flumnbalianys Mauw Mul
Belgrade
Dobrievje Vidic
Stanolind Poised to Bring Parker No 1 Wildcat
Stanolind Oil and Gas plans to bring Parker No 1 wildcat in the Tina Parker area west of the Olin Mathieson Paper Mill. The well is drilled as a commercial gas well with casing perforated between 9603 and 9611 feet in a sand showing potential production around 850000 cubic feet per day. Total depth reached 9931 feet.
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Tina Parker
Olin Mathieson
State Conservation Department
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
Ike to Seek Taft-Hartley Injunction Over Dock Strike
President Eisenhower prepared to ask for a Taft-Hartley injunction to halt the Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock walkout. A fact finding board was set up to report by late afternoon, with the injunction potentially lasting 80 days. The strike idled about 60,000 workers and tied up 265 ships, costing roughly $20 million daily.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Thomas W. Holland
White House
Herbert Brownell Jr
New York
International Longshoremen’s Union
ILA
Louis Waldman
Harry Bridges
West Coast Union
San Francisco
Maj
John Eisenhower
Ft. Belvoir
Portland
Brownsville
Tex
U N Demands Immediate Suez Troop Withdrawal
The General Assembly moves toward a clash over British French and Israeli troops in Egypt. The United States backs an Asian African resolution to force withdrawal and to authorize Hammarskjold to negotiate Suez Canal clearance.
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United Nation
N. Y
General Assembly
Egypt
United States
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Eisenhower
Washington
India
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Suez Canal
Hamarskjold
Britain
France
Israel
Temperature dips to 28 in Baton Rouge tying season low
The morning low in Baton Rouge reached 28 degrees, tying the season’s low mark previously set on November 10 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Lafayette
PAR Advises Louisiana Invest Idle Cash for Revenue
Public Affairs Research Council urged Louisiana to invest idle cash held by major state agencies to generate income without new taxes. PAR noted 40 states have such programs and California earned over 3 million dollars. in Louisiana cash balances averaged 87 to 170 million from 1951 to 1955, with 140 banks holding inactive state accounts.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Public Affairs Research Council
California
PAR
Earl Long
Antitax Group
United States Treasury
Ances of Welfare Department
The
State Treasury
Department of Highways
U. S. Treasury
Murder Indicated in Disappearance Of 2 Year Old Boy
Huntington authorities search for 2 year old William Henry Beaver as plans to file murder charges target his father James Beaver and grandmother Virginia Beaver. The grandmother, 64, claimed she killed the child stating he “got on my nerves” and offered conflicting accounts including another person involved. Elizabeth Beaver, 18, seven months pregnant, was named in statements as involved. The child disappeared from a Charley Creek area home, about 20 miles east of Huntington. investigation continues.
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Huntington
W.va
William Henry Beaver
Charley Creek
Virginia Lee Beaver
Lawrence Qualls
James
Elizabeth Beaver
Beaver
Worst Anthrax Epidemic Strikes Wyoming Herds
The worst U.S. outbreak of anthrax hit Wyoming, killing cattle and moose in 11,000 head across 22 herds in three national forests. Officials warned the headwaters of three rivers were at risk, fearing a regional threat.
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Chicago
U.S
Wyoming
Journal of the
American Veterinary Medical Association
Three Burned by Electrical Shock Near Sterling
Three men suffered burns from an electrical shock near Sterling ton Friday morning. Treated at Spencer's clinic were C. C. Frazier, Jerry Mayfield, 46, Negro, and Belton Bradshaw, 59, Negro. Frazier received burns on his knee, Mayfield on his arm and Bradshaw on his hand. Their conditions were not listed as serious.
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Sterlington
Spencer’s Clinic
C. C. Frazier
Jerry Mayfield
Belton Bradshaw
Frazier
Mayfield
Bradshaw
British Vow To Pull Back One Battalion
British commander in Egypt says one battalion will be withdrawn almost immediately from Port Said as a token move. Keightley notes withdrawal will accelerate as U.N. troops arrive. France reports already removing about a third of its forces in the Suez zone. Britain delays full pullout until U.N. police are deemed competent to reopen and keep canal open to all ships.
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Cairo
Egypt
Britain
Port Said
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Sir Charles Keightley
Cyprus
Said
Suez Canal Zone
Keightley
House of Commons
Canal Zone
Middle East
Butler
Mystery Deaths Probed By Maryland Police
HAGERSTOWN Md UP police investigated a mystery illness and possible arsenic poisoning in the Kidwell family from near Kearneysville W Va Eight children were affected with two toddlers Thomas and Charles dying and seven hospitalized The fruit picker William Kidwell died as investigators ordered autopsies and questioned his wife who was detained for questioning.
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Hagerstown
William Kidwell
Kearneysville
W. Va
Kidwell
Thomas
Charles
Washington County General Hospital
Partial agreement ends Budapest strike claim
Budapest radio reports a partial agreement with Janos Kadar's government ending the strike after Soviet backed troops and police blocked a meeting. Workers had sought withdrawal of troops and Nagy’s return, with many already on strike and food and fuel shortages persisting.
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Nagy
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Janos Kadar
Vienna
Austria
Budapest Radio
Imre Nagy
Schoolboy Seeks Christmas Help for Grandmother
A 12 year old writes to aid his seriously ill grandmother as the Good Fellows fund receives $175 from Thanksgiving services at Brown Auditorium. Treasurer Dr Ben Oliphant is away and will provide full accounting when he returns Monday.
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Union
Brown Auditorium
Ben Oliphant
Ministerial Alliance
Oil Leases In Parish Sell For Good Prices
Seven oil gas and mineral leases filed with Ouachita parish clerk cover about 4965 acres with total contracts of 74339.40 dollars averaging roughly 17 dollars per acre. Leases go five years and extend as long as oil gas or minerals are produced.
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Ouachita Parish
National Gasoline Company of Louisiana, Inc
Johnie W. Adkins
Shreveport
Duncan S. Cook
Monroe
Department of Conservation, Minerals Division
Richland Parish
Stanolind Oil Company
Fair Weather Forecast for Northeast Louisiana
Fair weather with warmer temperatures is forecast for northeast Louisiana today and Saturday. The temperature rose to 63 degrees by noon and Selman Field reported a low of 30 degrees last night. Expect fair conditions with 32 to 36 degree lows and 52 to 56 degree highs for Saturday.
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Louisiana
Mercury
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Selman Field
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Ipedeias
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Geza Losonsi
Ferenc Donat
Kadar
Ferenc Muennich
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Suez
Casablanca
Mohammed V
Maryland
Workers’ Council
Schoolboy
Township 16
LaFourche Bayou
Township 17
Bayou LaFourche
Mary Murphy
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