Bishop Deardon to Officiate at St Joseph Dedication
Bishop John Francis Deardon of the Pittsburgh Diocese will officiate the dedication of the new St Joseph's school and temporary church on Seamans Street near Cascade. Two days of ceremonies start Sunday with a 1 a.m. blessing service and Pontifical Mass, followed by a 1:30 p.m. dinner for visiting dignitaries hosted by the Mary Martha Guild of St Joseph's.
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John Francis Deardon
Pittsburgh Diocease
St. Joseph's School
Seamans St
Cascade St
Deardon
Mary Martha Guild
St. Joseph's Church
Eden to shake up cabinet before US trip
Prime Minister Anthony Eden plans sweeping changes in the cabinet between Christmas and the New Year. Rumors center on Chancellor R. A. Butler potentially becoming deputy premier and Harold Macmillan possibly moving to Foreign Minister as Eden reshuffles before a visit to President Eisenhower.
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London
Anthony Eden
United States
Eisenhower
Tusday
R. A. Butler
Harold Macmillan
Eden
Butler
House of Commons
Treasury
Britain
Enon Valley Adds Dial Equipment In County Telephone System
The Enon Valley exchange now uses dial equipment leaving only two independent local firms with manual operators. People’s Telephone Co serves Plaingrove Volant and Portersville areas and the Princeton exchange remains operator manned. Christmas ecards should carry three cent or first class postage with return address to ensure delivery if undeliverable. Street crews have been kept busy salting and cindering roads with few dispatch calls so far.
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Enon Valley
Peoples Telephone Co
Plaingrove
Volant
Portersville
Princeton Exchange
Weather Report Cloudy With Snow Flurries Tonight
Cloudy and colder with occasional snow flurries tonight and Friday. Low tonight to 20s. United States weather statistics show a 24 hour period ending 7 a.m. today with a maximum of 27 and minimum of 28, trace snow, river stage 7 feet. A year ago for the same date the high was 30 and low 14 with .05 inches of precipitation and about half an inch of snow.
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United States
States Fiscal Deadlock May Be Cracked Soon
Harrisburg Pennsylvania moves toward solving the budget stalemate as Senate leadership negotiates Gov George Leader s 3 5 percent manufacturers excise tax with bipartisan tax talks to raise over 300 million dollars in new revenue. Senate President Pro Tempore Harvey Tailor joins the discussions with more sessions planned this week or next Monday.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Senate
George M
Harvey Tainlor
Dauphin
Democrat
John H. Dent
Westmoreland
GOP
Tax Reduction Plan Possibly Delayed Into Spring
President Eisenhower and his top financial aides discussed postponing any tax cut recommendation until mid spring. Treasury Secretary Humphrey and Budget Director Hughes favored delaying the move, signaling congressional action may be deferred from January.
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Thurmont
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Rowland R. Hughes
National Security Council
Congress
Treasury
Humphrey
St. Louis
Gaitskell Seen Likely Labor Leader After Attlee Resigns
London reports indicate Hugh Gaitskell, 49, leads in race to replace Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader after Attlee’s resignation to become an earl. He faces Herbert Morrison and Aneurin Bevan with unions backing him. nominations close Friday and results could come by next Wednesday.
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Allen R. Dodd, Jr
London
INS
Hugh Gaitskell
Labor Party
Clement R. Attlee
Gaitskell
National Party
Herbert Morrison
Aneurine Bevan
Daily Telegraph
Attlee
Not A Bad Idea Let's Mail Early
A Tyler Texas post office lobby sign urges sending gifts early to ease mail handling and give the recipient a chance to reciprocate.
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Tyler. Tex
Tyler, Tex
Navy Patrol Plane Crashes Off Kauai. 7 Missing
A U S Navy Neptune P2V with 10 aboard crashed 26 miles east of Kauai during training with seven submarines. Three crew members were rescued including Lt K C Guedel of Dover Ohio. Two Hawaii based planes also went missing, marking eight Hawaiian air incidents in two weeks with one death previously reported.
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Washington
D. C
Richard Nixon
Center
Harmon International
James F
Skeets) Coleman
Convair
Aeronaut
Navy
Marion H. Eppes
INS
Pacific
Kauai
Hawaiian Islands
Bashaw
K. C. Guedel
Chester C. Guedel
E. Second St
Dover
Ohio
Kaneohe
Oahu Island
Guedel
Barbers Point
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian
UN Expected To Admit 18 States To General Assembly
The United Nations Assembly was slated to admit 13 free states and five Soviet satellites, including Outer Mongolia, during the current session. The proposal, approved 52 to 2 by the Political Committee with five abstentions, would seat Austria Italy Finland Ireland Japan Ceylon Cambodia Jordan Libya Laos Nepal Portugal Spain and others.
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United Nations
N. Y
UN Assembly
Outer Mongolias
Special Political Committee
China
Cuba
Canada
U. S
France
Belgium
Israel
Greece
Security Council
General Assembly
Austria
Italy
Finland
Ireland
Japan
Ceylon
Cambodia
Jordan
Libya
Laos
Nepal
Portugal
Spain
The Waits Sing Carols Through England at Christmas
A rustic note recalls England's Waits who sing at doors and gates after prayers and with fiddles. Homes glow with lights and refreshments while gift exchange and holly decorate cottages halls farms and flats. Yuletide scenes.
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England
Four Missing In Crash Of Navy Bomber
The Navy Seamaster jet bomber exploded in Chesapeake Bay near Patuxent Maryland killing one crewman and leaving three missing and presumed dead. The four engine seaplane, a forerunner of atomic powered flight, sank in 55 feet of water as divers and a salvage barge searched for bodies. The Navy touted its speed and range, with production recently ordered at Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Chesapeake Bay
Navy
Patuxent
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Air Force
Senior High School Bids To Be Opened In New Castle
The New Castle Public School Building Authority will open bids on Tuesday December 13 for a proposed 2 million dollar New Castle Senior High School addition. The meeting was postponed to allow bid opening and contracts to be let. Bids may be referred to the school board on December 14 for concurrence.
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New Castle
Authority
Hatchet Slaying Shocker Ends 26 Year Feud in Pittsburgh
In Carrick an elderly man, Eugene Cromer, 75, is jailed after confessing to killing his wife, Anna, 64, with a hand ax. He says the slaying followed a slap during a quarrel over 26 years of bickering as she prepared to leave for a baby-sitting job. Officers found the body in the living room.
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Pittsburgh
Carrick
Allegheny County
Eugene Cromer
Homicide
Joseph Flynn
Anna
Cramer
Truck Driver Dies In Turnpike Crash Near Streetsboro
Kenneth A. Stull of Johnston Pennsylvania was killed when his truck drifted asleep and rammed another vehicle on the Ohio Turnpike two miles east of the Streetsboro interchange in Portage County.
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Ravenna, Uns
Johnston, Pa
Streetsboro
Portage County
Kenneth A. Stull
Fear Two U S Soldiers Held As Hostages By Reds
Western officials fear the Soviets may hold two captured American soldiers as hostages to pressure the return of a Soviet officer who fled to the West. East German Communist outlets denounced West Berlin governance and urged drastic action to end alleged Berlin corruption. The threat accompanied hints of blocking Berlin supply barges from West Germany.
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Joseph Fleming
United Press
Berling
West Berlin
Berlin
West Germany
Suspect Bomb Plot Tied to Fatal Frankfurt Blast
West German officials pursued a suspected Communist bomb plot after an apartment building explosion in Frankfurt killed at least 27. Federal authorities ordered autopsies and questioned survivors as bomb experts and police combed the wreckage for clues. Suspicions grew due to many residents being East Prussian and Sudeten refugee couples while investigators considered gas leaks heating faults or WWII-era ordnance as other possible causes.
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Frankfurt
Germany
East Prussia
Sudetenland
All Male Jury To Hear Evidence In Wiretapping Trial
An all male blue ribbon jury begins deliberations in the wiretapping case of John G. Steve Broady a lawyer and private eye charged with 17 counts including illegal wiretapping conspiracy and use of equipment. If convicted on all counts he could face up to 29 years. Testimony covers taps involving Ann Corio John Jacob Astor Clare Boothe Luce and Kyle MacDonald linking Broady to a wiretap center uncovered in a February raid on an apartment.
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New York
INS
General Sessions
John G
Steve” Broady
Ann Corio
John Jacob Astor
Clare Boothe Luce
Kyle MacDonald
Broady
Hushbush
Death Record Aged Residents Named in Obituary List
The December 8 1955 death record lists Gladys Mae McKain 59 of 117 W Kenneth Ave Nonie Griffith 70 of 101 N Crawford Ave Erma Herbert 53 of Wam pum Charles Knowles 65 of Fountain Inn Hotel Antonio DeSoia 59 Ellwood City John G Bender 46 of 417 Spruce St Michael Boswak 49 of 406 Denver Ave
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Gladys Mae McKain
W. Kenneth Ave
John T
Nonie) Griffith
N. Crawford Ave
Erma Herbert
Wampum
Charles Knowles
Fountain Inn Hotel
Antonio DeSoia
Ellwood City
John G. Bender
Spruce St
Lake Geneva Bank Robbery Net Draws $74293
A lone gunman robbed a Lake Geneva bank on Wednesday escaping with about $74 293 as investigators sought a motive and possible leads. Police found a taunting note but no suspect, with theories the bandit was an ex banker or bank employee. In other news Jean Sibelius turned 90 and shunned fanfare stating his music speaks for itself.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
FBI
Helsinki
Finland
Jean Sibelius
Lovlers
Sibelius
Canal Project Revived by New Castle Group Meeting
New Castle civic industrial organization plans to revive interest in the Lake Erie Ohio River canal. James Neill, Pittsburgh district chief engineer, outlined the project history and current status. The proposed route would begin near Ashtabula and pass Warren Niles Youngstown New Castle to Pittsburgh. The plan stalled in 1947 amid railroad opposition. requires congressional action to revise.
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New Castle
James Neill
Pittsburgh
Ashtabula
Grand River Reservoir
Warren
Niles
Youngstown
Mahoning River
Beaver River
Ohio River
Neill
Frank M. Clark
Harold Sprague
United Engineering offers 10 million for New Castle foundry
United Engineering and Foundry Co proposed to pay the government 500000 annually for 20 years for the New Castle plant. Roger W. Rowland in Washington reported the offer as part of ongoing negotiations with the General Services Administration.
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United Engineering & Foundry Co
New Castle
Roger W. Rowland
Washington, D. C
Government
Rowland
Greater
United
General Services Administration
Temperature yo yo across West and Midwest as cold front moves in
Temperatures surged into the 40s and 50s across much of the West and Midwest on Wednesday then plunged as much as 28 degrees with an Arctic air push and a Pacific cool front. The cooling spread eastward averaging 10 to 15 degrees into the eastern Great Lakes and central Rockies and upper Mississippi Valley.
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Midwest
Great Lakes
Rockies
Mississippi Valley
Frigid Arctic Air Mass Heads Toward Pennsylvania
An arctic air mass moves east into Pennsylvania bringing a weekend freeze after mild conditions. Clouds persist with temperatures tonight dipping into the 20s and 30s, and mountains seeing flurries as western counties feel the cold first. The cold air is forecast to grip the state through Friday and into the weekend.
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Pennsylvania
Plains
Great Lakes
Weather Bureau
Classifieds and Notices Page Highlights
A compact scan of the Elwood newspaper section shows classified ads and notices, including small listings for services and items for sale. Contact numbers and page pointers appear alongside brief descriptions typical of era layouts.
Sally on the Street for Christmas Charity in 1938
The verse describes Arthur Mometer recounting a Salvation Army style appeal as a woman named Sally asks passersby to drop a dime or a buck to ease woe and fill a kettle during a cold 1938 December street scene.
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Sally
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K. C. Thaler
Emm
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Bulletin
Merriman Smith
White House
C. R. Attlee
U.S. Navy
U.N
Fruck
U.S
Michael Boswak
Denver Ave
Bandit
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GSA
Perc Oe
Cross Word
Ee Ellwood
Arthur Mometer
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