Tanker Blast Kills and Maims Crew in Lake Charles
At least 22 crew members remained missing after an explosion gutted the S. S. Salem Maritime in Lake Charles Louisiana late Tuesday night. Four men were injured two critically with heat and shock. Fire hampered rescue as three men escaped. W H McCurley Sr of Cities Service Oil and John Klepadlo were named among the injured.
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INS
Lake Charles
S. S. Salem Maritime
W. H. McCurley, Sr
Cities Service Oil Company
John Klepadlo
Klepadlo
West Cameron Hospital
McCurley
GSA Plans to Seek Congress Backing on Plant Sale
GSA administrator Edmund F. Mansure said the agency will accept United Engineering & Foundry Co. offer to buy the New Castle plant if Congressional committees raise no objection. He will submit the proposal and data to Senate and House committees with a history of the plant and prior negotiations.
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General Services Administration
United Engineering & Foundry Co
New Castle
Edmund F. Mansure
GSA
Mansure
Congress
United
Senate
House
Roger W. Rowland
Citizens Committee
Contiverd
Page & Column
Mulberry Street Sign Hope Delights Newc Residents
Newc residents on Mulberry Street complain of no street sign since Court Street labeling. Guards keep order for school kids at three crossings daily, aiding safe home arrival. Clock reliability varies. only Western Union clock was accurate until removed. National Civil Service Week marks 73rd anniversary of the Civil Service Act with awards to Federal workers.
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Mulberry St
Pa Nene
Court St
Mulberry
Croton Ave
E. Washington St
Western Union
Weather Summary of Cloudy Cold Night and Snow
United States weather statistics report a 24 hour period ending today at 7 am with cloudy and cold conditions. Snow is expected tonight and Thursday with a low around 20 to 25. Maximum temperature 27 and minimum 22 with traces of snow. River stage 5.4 feet. Year ago highs 29 lows 20 with no precipitation.
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United States
Massive reminder to Communist China over Quemoy Matsu islands
Secretary Dulles warned Peiping at a news conference that the United States would meet any attack on Quemoy and Matsu with force if China moves on Formosa. A Washington official said the reminder aims to prevent Chinese incursions and to reinforce past warnings amid the brink of war controversy.
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Howard Handleman
I.N.S
Washington
INS
China
Quemoy
Matsu
John Foster Dulles
U.S
Formosa
Dulles
Peiping
Life Magazine
Red China
Eisenhower
Nixon Warns Of Economic Offensive By Russia
Vice President Richard M. Nixon warned at a Bellevue-Stratford banquet that a sinister Soviet economic offensive poses a deadly danger to U S security. He called it potentially as dangerous as military action and urged imaginative bold action to preserve freedom amid Franklin birthday observances.
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Richard M. Nixon
Soviet Union
Nixon
Bellevue - Stratford
Richard Club
Benjamin Franklin
Central Church Plans Expansion Fund Program
Trustees of Central Presbyterian Church on Wilmington Road vote to launch Expansion Fund a far sighted stewardship program starting next week The drive seeks finishing furnishing and equipping the education wing paying the mortgage providing a church office secretarial help increasing parking and landscaping and building a manse The Loyalty dinner to open the program will be held January 24 at 6 30 p m in the Scottish Rite Cathedral
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Central Presbyterian Church
Wilmington Road
Six Alarm Fire Destroys Pittsburgh Warehouse
A six alarm blaze gutted a three story brick building in Pittsburgh housing a produce and grocery warehouse causing an estimated $125 000 in damage. The fire began on the second floor and spread to storerooms feeding on packaging materials. Firemen later fought smouldering ruins in the Squirrel Hill district where seven business buildings had burned earlier Tuesday. damage placed at $200 000.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Squirrel Hill
Bus Hit-Run Damages Shenango Valley Vehicle
Dale Lundy a bus driver for Shenango Valley Transportation Co reported his bus on E Washington Street was struck by a hit and run driver. He said the car struck the left front of the bus causing considerable damage and he gave police the license number he believed belonged to the culprit.
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Dale Lundy
Shenango Valley Transportation Co
E. Washington St
Lundy
Two Sales Tax Plans Move Toward Votes In Harrisburg
As the General Assembly moves two sales tax proposals toward votes in the Senate and House, prospects of passage fade. Governor Leader’s 3 percent plan faces opposition from Senate Republicans who seek a 3 percent rate with no Leader plan and House Republicans push a 2 percent version under the 50-30 split. Senate illness narrows their votes, while Democrats withhold support. The Hewitt 3 percent bill clears the House Ways and Means Committee with only essential exemptions.
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United Press
Harrisburg
General Assembly
Senate
House of Representatives
House
George M. Leader
Joseph M. Barr
House Ways and Means Committee
Earl J. Hewitt
Indiana
Westminster Professor E Nixon Dies in Iowa Crash
Miss Elizabeth Nixon 42 former associate professor of journalism and English at Westminster College died in a head on collision near Clarinda Iowa. Her sister in law Mrs Glen C Nixon also died. her brother Glen C Nixon injured. The party was traveling from Omaha to Buck Hill Falls for a niece’s ordination. Nixon had resigned her Westminster post and had been a State Department host lecturer for foreign newspaper men.
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Elizabeth Nixon
Westminster College
Clarinda
Iowa
Glen C. Nixon
Amy M. Charles
William Erlick
Sioux City
Nixon
Omaha
Neb
Buck Hill Falls
Miss Nixon
Methodist Church
U. S
Department of State
Westminster
Northwestern University
Syria Seeks U S Halt to Aid Israel Over Raid
At the United Nations, Syria demands the United States and other nations cease all economic and military aid to Israel following the December raid on a Syrian outpost. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. declined to answer, saying the issue is for Washington.
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Syria
U.S
Israel
United Nations, N
Ton
Ahmed Shukairy
Shukairy
Sea of Galilee
Lodge
Snow Storm Forecast Hits Western Pennsylvania
A snow storm was expected to move into Western Pennsylvania tonight and spread across the state by Thursday night. A low pressure system from Northern Texas is likely to bring rain then snow as it encounters cold Canadian air, with temperatures dropping to the low 20s and 20 to 26 degrees overnight across the state.
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Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Texas
Mississippi Valley
Canada
Death Record for Paul M. Gilbert
Paul M. Gilbert, 72, of 1302 Delaware Ave, passed away on Wednesday, January 18, 1956. Burial details and funeral arrangements will be announced by the family.
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Paul M. Gilbert
Delaware Ave
Effort to End Strike at Westinghouse Presses On
Pittsburgh reports the Westinghouse Electric strike at 94 days as federal mediator John Murray probes with Westinghouse VP Robert Blasier and IUE President James Carey after dark sessions. Both sides keep a news blackout and a full bargaining meeting remains uncertain pending select issue deals.
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Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
John R. Murray
Robert D Blasier
James B. Carey
International Union of Electrical Workers
Blasier
Carey
Baby Burns From Hot Air Register Incident
Bruce Baxter aged 14 months of 307 Galbreath Ave was treated at Jameson Memorial hospital Monday at 8 05 p m for first and second degree burns on both hands and left leg after contact with a hot air register in his home. A previous paper misnamed him as Ruth Baxter.
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Bruce Baxter
Galbreath Ave
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Ruth Baxter
Crippled Plane Lands Safely With 24 Aboard
A Boston to New York airliner lost all radio and instruments in a snow storm and landed safely at La Guardia with 19 passengers and three crew unhurt. Nearby disasters included a DC3 crash in Canada with 18 aboard and a Green Bay belly-landing saving 12, plus two jet trainer collisions near Troy, Ohio.
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United Press
New York
N. Y
Robert Francis
Northeast Airlines
la Guardia Field
Boston
Canada
Green Bay
Wis
Troy
Ohio
New York City
Police Battle Red Mobs In Bombay Area
In Bombay Province police with rifles and tear gas fought Communist led labor mobs as a dusk to dawn curfew was imposed. At least seven dead and twenty wounded with nearly 400 arrests that week. Red strike disrupted 47 of 62 textile mills and paralyzed transport.
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Bombay
India
Thakurdwar
Technical Center Survey Outlined For Area Educators
Educators from Lawrence Mercer Beaver and Butler counties met at The Castleton Tuesday evening to hear how a Technical Center survey for New Castle could be organized. Penn State representatives explained services of a land grant university and how the survey would avoid duplicating others work. The meeting was led by Walter A. Kearney with aides S H Campbell and college officials presenting preliminary plans and goals for a local center.
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Lawrence
Beaver
Butler
Mercer
Castleton
New Castle
Walter A. Kearney
Kearney
FE. L. Keller
Pennsylvania State University
F. B. Fischer
Division of
K. L. Holderman
College of Engineering
Penn State University
S. H Campbell
Keller
Pennsylvania State U
Commonwealth
Penn State U
Seven Injured In Auto Crash Near Greensburg
Seven teenagers injured while returning from a basketball game when their car skidded and hit a house on Route 66 nine miles north of Greensburg Pennsylvania. Alice Lentz 16 Tarentum the only one hospitalized in satisfactory condition at Westmoreland County Hospital with possible fractured left leg. Treated and released were Earl Cormet 18 Brackenridge Patty Stahl 16 Betty Bowser 17 Donna Lee Harmon 17 Virginia Reese 15 and Judy Glod 15 all of Tarentum.
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Greensburg
Alice Lentz
Tarentum
Westmoreland County Hospital
Earl Cormet
Brackenridge
Patty Stahl
Betty Bowser
Donna Lee Harmon
Virginia Reese
Judy Glod
Candidates File For State Court Vacancy In 1956 Race
Harrisburg notes a vacancy on the State Superior Court after the death of Judge F. Clair Ross. Democratic and Republican candidates may file by February 20 for the $23,000-a-year post, with Gov. Leader authorized to appoint until January 1957. Ross died at 61 in a Philadelphia hotel after a term election.
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Harrisburg
INS
State Superior Court
F. Clair Ross
George M. Leader
Ross
Philadelphia
State Elections Bureau
Kekkonen poised to become Finland president in 1956
Finnish elections yield strong Agrarian Party showing as Urho Kekkonen edges toward a presidential victory. The Agrarians win 89 of 300 seats, Communists 57, with Kekkonen likely to secure the needed 151 votes. Retiring President Juho Paasikivi is not seeking another term.
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Helsinki
Finland
Urho Kekkonen
Russia
Kekkonen
Agrarian Party
Peoples Democrats
Moscow
Car hits pillar on public square injures resident
A truck driven by William M. Engle of Sharpsville struck a stone pillar on the southeast corner of the public square Tuesday night. Richard Miles, 34, was treated at Jamestown Memorial Hospital at 11:30 p.m. for a scalp laceration after falling in the cellar of his home.
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William M. Engle
Thirteenth St
Sharpsville
Richard Miles
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Earl K. Long Wins Louisiana Governorship in Primary
Earl K. Long, 60, wins a landslide Democratic primary in Louisiana, defeating New Orleans Mayor Delesseps Morrison by about three to one and avoiding a runoff. Long will succeed incumbent Governor Robert Kennon. Morrison nets 156,942 votes while 1,648 of 2,038 precincts report. Kennon’s candidate Fred T. Preaus finishes third.
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New Orleans
INS
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Huey
Long
Delesseps S. Morrison
Huey P
Ellwood obituary and society notes in MN De Veane edition
Obituary and society items from the MN De Veane paper include Ellwood death notice and local social notices. Feature brief on obituary while brief society happenings reflect community events and personal milestones.
Postcard Letters From The Florida Sun
A correspondent notes few post cards from Florida amid chilly inland weather. He mentions absence of photographs of beach life and maidens in halter and bra, describes palm trees and fruit as Florida traits, and records the temperature as thirty two degrees.
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Florida Sun
Florida
Tod.y
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