William G Eckles Is Named Young Man Of The Year
William G Eckles II, 30, of New Castle receives the 1955 Young Man of the Year award from Richard Anderson at a 900-person ceremony. Eckles credits the Jaycees for enabling his community work including drives for the Presbyterian Church Boy Scouts YMCA Girl Scouts and the Cancer Society.
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New Castle News
William Eckles
Ogden Nash
Richard Anderson
DSA
Eckles
Nash
George Reid
Jaycee
Nicholas Binder
Reid
New Castle
William G Eckles II
Chamber of Commerce
W. G. Eckles
Jaycees
First Presbyterian Church
Lawrence County Boy Scouts of America
YMCA
Girl Scouts
The
Cancer Society
Lawrence County Council
Robin Sighting and Road Safety Warnings Across County
Mrs. Joseph Riff of West Pittstown notices a robin in her yard amid reports of many red breasted birds sighted recently. Local streams reflect light rain and snow, aiding farmers as wells fill. Residents consider enforcing bus stop license checks to curb speeding near stopped school buses amid rising concerns.
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Joseph Riff
West Pittsburg
Daily Weather Report Cloudy with light snow flurries
Cloudy with occasional light snow flurries possibly mixed with light freezing rain today. High near 30. Tonight mostly cloudy and a little colder with more snow flurries. Low in the lower 20s. Saturday partly cloudy with a few light snow flurries and little temperature change. River stage 5.9 feet. 24 hour period ending 7 am today. Max 34, min 25, precip traces rain and snow. Year ago: max 36, min 27, precip 14 inches.
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United States
U S Plans Record Nuke Tests at Eniwetok This Spring
The United States will resume nuclear testing at Eniwetok Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands with more than five devices slated for spring operations. Officials confirm the tests will begin on or before May 1, aiming for the largest series to date.
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Joseph L. Myler
United Press
Washington
United States
Eniwetok Proving Ground
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Department
Marshall Islands
Eniwetok
U. S. Atomic Arsenal
School Aid Plan Seen Likely To Pass With Caveat
Senate education chair Lister Hill says a big federal school aid bill aligned with President Eisenhower has a good chance of passage but warns the measure could fail if an anti segregation amendment is added. Northern lawmakers reportedly may pursue such an amendment.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Lister Hill
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Four Held for Nine Burglaries in Jeannette Area
Four Westmoreland County men including University of Pittsburgh freshman Joseph Martinelli were held on charges of nine burglaries in the Jeannette Irwin Export area. The suspects Rae Gebrosky and Mierer confessed to thefts valued around $200 during October to December. Rae's Sunday arrest at a Somerset service station led to the others' arrests.
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Greensburg
Westmoreland County
Jeannette-Irwin-Export
Joseph Martinelli
Harrison City
University of Pittsburgh
William Rae
Jeannette
Joseph R. Gebrosky
John Mierer Jr
Rae
Somerset
Kirk Douglas Home Robbed While He Vacationed
Police search for a burglar who broke into actor Kirk Douglas's Hollywood home and stole about 50 000 dollars worth of clothing jewelry and art. The actor and his wife were away on vacation.
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Hollywood
INS
Kirk Douglas
Thompson elected president at 41st township meeting
Harry Thompson of Pulaski Two was elected president of Lawrence County township officers at the 41st annual convention held Thursday at the Court House. About 100 delegates attended the all day session with four resolutions adopted and several committees formed.
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Harry Thompson
Pulaski
Lawrence County
Court House
H. A. Thompson
State Assn. of Supervisors
Kerry McAmbley
State Education Board
Edward E. McConahy
Andrew M. Dodds
Richard Beers
Robert Peebles
Scott Two
Chester Leslie
Little Beaver
Clyde Hutchenson
Neshannock
John Pherson
Washington
Ralph Maxwell
Plain Grove
Richard Kalajainen
Shenango
Dulles Thompson
Death Record for Anna Wade and Joseph Mescall
Miss Anna Mary Wade, 82, of Al mira Home, and Joseph D. Mescall, 40, of 10 Spring 1St, are listed in the death record for Friday January 13 1956.
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Anna Mary Wade
Almira Home
Joseph D. Mescall
Communist Police Fire Shots To Warn British
In Berlin Communist police fired six warning shots over British soldiers heads to stop a British repair crew from removing a wrecked military jeep at the East West border. Maj Gen Cottrell Hill protested to Maj Gen Dibrova. No casualties. The jeep was allowed to be towed after 50 British soldiers arrived and a Soviet officer intervened.
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Berlin
R.A. Cottrell Hill
P.A. Dibrova
Peoples Police
Thhe
Red Police
Bodies Of Four Missionaries Located In Ecuador Jungle
A U S Air Force helicopter recovered the severely harmed bodies of four of five missionaries in the Amazon northeast of Guayawail Ecuador. They were last heard from Sunday after landing their light plane on a riverbank in Auca tribal territory. The fifth missionary remains missing as wreckage of their plane had been spotted earlier.
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Guayawail
Ecuador
Amazon
Air Force
Caribbean Rescue Service
Panama
Leader Tax Split Proposal Faces GOP Skepticism
Harrisburg, UP) Senate Republican Leader Rowland B. Mahany said Gov. George M. Leader's 50-50 tax responsibility plan would not solve Pennsylvania's budget crisis. The governor proposed Republicans accept half of the needed 465 million dollars in new revenue, with Democrats taking the other half, and no strings attached.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Rowland B. Mahany
George M. Leader
Pennsylvania
Gov. Leader
Sen. Mahany
President Seeks Faster Start for Atoms for Peace Plan
President Eisenhower summons five top advisers to accelerate the atoms for peace program. The group will find ways to energize the stalled plan after his UN address on December 8, 1953. They seek an international agency and an atomic material bank for peaceful uses.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Atomic Energy
Lewis L. Strauss
Dillon Anderson
United Nations
International Atomic Energy Agency
Action Expected On North Route Of Turnpike
Plans for a north extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike were outlined at a luncheon in The Castleton to urge action by the Turnpike Commission and Governor George M Leader. A January 24 Harrisburg meeting with five Western Pennsylvania counties including Lawrence, Beaver, Mercer, Crawford and Erie is scheduled to discuss the Beaver Valley Interchange north to Erie route.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike
Castleton
Beaver Valley
Erie
Turnpike Commission
George M. Leader
Pennsylvania
Lawrence
Beaver
Mercer
Crawford
Governor and Turnpike Commission
Harrisburg
Atlanta Jail Escape Foiled By Prisoner Help
In Atlanta, a floor full of prisoners helped foil a jailbreak as four inmates overpowered two guards but were halted before escaping. Chief Jailer Hugh Cromwer said the inmates’ shouts woke deputies and forced the escape attempt to fail after two brothers, once from McKees Rocks, Pa., were involved.
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Atlanta
Hugh Cromwer
McKees Rocks
Westinghouse Strike Parley On Saturday
In Pittsburgh talks between Westinghouse Electric Corp and the AFL CIO International Union of Electrical Workers resume after a nine hour Philadelphia session. Federal mediator John R. Murray oversees bargaining between Robert D. Blasier and James B. Carey as workers press demands while Washington says no government intervention is needed in the 89 day old strike.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
Philadelphia
John R. Murray
Robert D. Blasier
James B. Carey
Washington
James P
United Officials Visit Mayor Here
United Engineering & Foundry executive vice president K. C. Gardner Jr met with Mayor Edward A DeCarbo at city hall in a brief visit. Gardner did not disclose the visit’s purpose. He said talks with the General Services Administration remain in the same status as reported earlier about contract discussions in Washington.
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K. C. Gardner, Jr
United Engineering & Foundry Company
Edward A. DeCarbo
City Hall
Gardner
United
United Engineering
General Services Administration
GSA
Washington, D. C
Missionaries Bradshaw Leave Honolulu for San Francisco
Dr and Mrs Homer Bradshaw American missionaries who spent five years as prisoners of the Chinese Communists left Honolulu by air Thursday night for Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco. They had stayed at Tripler Army hospital and were released in Hong Kong three weeks earlier before medical care at Clark Air Base in the Philippines and their return home.
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Honolulu
INS
Homer Bradshaw
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Bradshaws
Tripler Army Hospital
Hong Kong
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
UN to Censure Israel Over Dec 11 Syria Outpost Attack
United Nations Security Council moves toward unanimous censure of Israel for the December 11 assault on a Syrian outpost near the Sea of Galilee. The vote, expected next week, would condemn Israel and threaten further measures if hostilities persist.
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United Nations
N.Y
INS
UN Security Council
Israel
Sea of Galilee
U-Nation Council
China
Australia
Syria
Attendance Surges at 1956 Pennsylvania Farm Show
Attendance at the 1956 Pennsylvania Farm Show topped half a million with 160,000 on Thursday, bringing four day total to about 520,000. Youth from Elwood County won the 4 H baby beef contest with Champion “Champ” a 1075 pound Hereford entered by Harry Lee Hoar, 14, of Gap. Reserve grand champion went to “Amos,” a 1020 pound Angus owned by Kenneth Miller, 18, of Nazareth RD 1. Hoar aims to run a beef ranch.
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Harrisburg
Ellwood
Champ
Harry Lee Hoar
Gap
Amos
Kenneth Miller
Nazareth
Northampton County
Hoar
Pequea Valley High School
Page Radio
Society
FBI Reports Noted Holdup Gang In Jail
Boston dispatch reports a grand jury hearing the story of the Brink’s robbery as Joseph O Keeffe 49 who escaped a machine gun attack provides key tips. FBI raids net six suspects in the Boston area with $670000 bail set for hearings while the 1950 crime nears the statute limit.
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United Press
Boston
Mass
Joseph “Spees
O’keefe
Garrett Byrne
Suffolk County Grand Jury
FBI
David Pickman
Joseph
Specs) O’keefe
Elmer
Trigger) Burke
Massachusetts
Adolph
Jazz) Maffie
Quincy
Anthony Pino
Vincent Costa
Pembroke
Michael V. Geagan
Milton
Rainfall Persists Across Pennsylvania With Snow North
A southeastern coastal storm continues to bring intermittent rain to southern Pennsylvania while snow falls in northern counties as colder air moves in. The Weather Bureau forecasts snow changing to freezing rain in the north and mixed precipitation in the southwest, with mainly snow flurries in mountains Saturday. Temperatures are expected in the 30s to 40s today, dipping to the 20s and 30s tonight, and a cooler Saturday.
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United Press
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Small town lad yearns for peaceful life with roses and ground
Arthur Memeter describes preferring a quiet town where he can know neighbors, walk freely, and feel king of his own plot. He contrasts small-town calm with big-city bustle and notes it is thirty six today.
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New York
L.A
Bulganin Skips Duties for Second Day
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin Missed official engagements for a second day in a row in Moscow. No official statement issued, but illness or rest is suspected. The 60 year old leader was last seen at a public function January 3 at the East German embassy.
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Moscow
INS
Nikolai Bulganin
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Jackie) Smith
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Pijuan
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