Pennsylvania House Eyes Tuesday Vote On Hewitt Sales Tax
The Pennsylvania House moves toward a Tuesday vote on the Hewitt 3 percent sales tax bill but faces likely defeat in its current form. House Democrats plan debate and seek GOP support to reach the needed threshold, while Republicans back the original 2 percent proposal despite Senate support for 3 percent earlier.
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House
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Albert S Readinger
D-Berks
Earl E. Hewitt
Indiana
Senate
New Postal Guides Issued For Free Public Distribution
The Post Office Department released two free publications to aid mailing. Publication No 2 offers packing and wrapping instructions while No 3 lists domestic postage rates. Shoppers face heavy slush from melting snow as cars splash pedestrians. Deadline nears for vehicle inspections January 31 with strict enforcement after.
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Post Office Department
POD
Friends Laud Mayor DeCarbo In Testimonial
A testimonial dinner honors Mayor Edward A. DeCarbo on his second term at Christopher Columbus Hall. About 400 guests praised his leadership and city hall colleagues while he credited immigrant roots and community support for his rise.
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New Castle News
Edward A. DeCarbo
Joe Medure
DeCarbo
Frank Jovanella
Christopher Columbus Auxiliary
Christopher Columbus Hall
Christopher Columbus Society
Auxiliary
America
Clotilda Ross
Daily Weather Report Forecasts Windy Snow Flurries
Windy and cloudy with snow flurries or light snow today. Highs 18 to 28. Tonight light snow with diminishing wind, lows 8 to 15. Tuesday partly cloudy with flurries near Lake Erie, highs 12 to 206. US weather stats show 24 hours ending 7 am: high 34, low 7, precip 0.08 in, snow 0.8 in, river 5.4 ft. Earlier 24 hours to Sunday: high 35, low 29, precip traces snow.
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Lake Erie
United States
Erie Delegation Seeks Turnpike Northwest Extension Aid
An Erie delegation led by Mayor Arthur J. Gardner traveled to Harrisburg to press state officials for a 1.7 million appropriation to extend the Pennsylvania Turnpike northwest to Erie. The group plans talks with the Turnpike Commission and Gov. George M. Leader to argue traffic studies show the project would be self sustaining and benefit the Great Lakes port. Attending will be United Steel Workers regional director John W. Grasciar and WPPA Chairman I. S. Sahli.
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Harrisburg
INS
Erie
Arthur J. Gardner
Erie Port Authority
Gardner
Pennsylvania
Great Lakes
Turnpike Commission
George M. Leader
Turnpike
Commission
Ohio
Cleveland
Ashtabula
United Steel Workers
John W. Grasciar
Western Pennsylvania Planning Association
I.S. Sahli
Shenango China Sales Meeting In Castleton
Shenango China Co. salesmen from various U.S. points gather in Castleton for a company sales meeting with sessions continuing through Wednesday.
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Shenango China Sales Meeting
Castleton
Shenango China Co
United States
Six Die in Brownsburg Truck Car Collision
Six persons perish in a truck car crash on Ind. 136 near Brownsburg. The Faulk family loses five members. seven year old Charles Faulk dies in Indianapolis General Hospital along with two other victims in critical condition. Truck driver Lloyd J. Thiry of Indianapolis is unhurt.
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Brownsburg
Ind
INS
Charles Faulk
Charles
Indianapolis General Hospital
James Faulk
Indianapolis
Sta
Edna
Johnny
Steven Faulk
John Wesley Buxton, Jr
Buxton
Pauline
Voters to Name Congressman in Pennsylvania Special
In Pittsburgh the 30th Pennsylvania District votes Tuesday to choose a successor to the late Mrs Vera Buchannan. Democratic Elmer J. Holland, a Pittsburgh official of the state CIO Council, predictions favor him over Republican David J. Smith of McKeesport amid a 3 to 1 Democratic registration. Governor Leader called the special election after Buchannan’s death from cancer.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Vera Buchannan
Elmer J. Holland
David J. Smith
McKeesport
Holland
State Cio Council
Smith
Nine year old girl admitted for leg fracture after sledding
Sally Lou Smiley aged nine of 534 Sampson Street was admitted to Jameson Memorial Hospital at 5 p m Saturday for treatment of a fracture of the right leg after she fell over a sled while coasting.
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Sally Lou Smiley
Sampson St
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Ling
Four Children Dead At Hands Of Their Parents
Four children died in two states as parents killed them and themselves. In Indiana an onetime Sunday school teacher killed his two young sons, his wife, then claimed to be the Son of God. In California a former airline stewardess was found dead with her two children in a car near a church.
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Indiana
California
Rioting Spreads in Orissa As Army Moves In
Violent anti government clashes erupt in Orissa with mobs burning stations and attacking officials in Cuttack and Puri. Riots linked to the transfer plan stir Delhi as Prime Minister Nehru's Congress vows a hard line amid unrest. Mrs Malati Chowdhury, wife of the chief minister, is among the injured.
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Britain
Orissa
Cuttack
Puri
Calcutta
Bombay
Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress Party
Nehru
Bihar
Malati Chowdhury
Six Injured In Collision On Ellwood City Road
Six persons were treated at Jameson Memorial hospital after a two car collision on the Ellwood City road Saturday night at 10 44 p m The injured include Clyde McCracken 24 of Butler road contusions to chest and right knee Carolyn McCracken wife of Clyde contusions and sprain of left arm Margarite Micco 612 Allen Street laceration of scalp admitted for further treatment Donald Anderson 24 of Park Avenue contusions and abrasions of left foot Tressa Anderson wife of Donald contusions of right knee Larry Conti 20 of Phillips Street contusions of left ankle left wrist and left shoulder Details of the accident were not obtainable.
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Jameson Memorial Hospital
Ellwood City Road
Clyde McCracken
R. D
Butler Road
Carolyn McCracken
Clyde
Margarite Micco
Allen St
Donald Anderson
Park Ave
Tressa Anderson
Donald
Larry Conti
Phillips St
Strange Mixture Served Up By Winter Today
Winter brings dense fog to the South and a bright icy North with subzero temps in Minnesota and Wisconsin. A truck crash near Brownsburg, Indiana kills five and injures seven as weather triggers multiple accidents and road closures on U S 66 and beyond.
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Cross City
Fla
Colorado
Midwest
Bemidji
Minn
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Brownsburg
Ind
Oklahoma
U.S. 66
Clinton
Southland
East West talks open on Eisenhower open skies plan
United Nations disarmament commission begins 1956 sessions with 12 nations meeting at 3 p.m. under U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to pursue Eisenhower open skies proposals and allied arms control plans. The five nation subcommittee will resume work after London meeting.
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Gabriel de Sabatino
United Nations
N.Y
INS
UN Disarmament Commission
Eisenhower
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Lodge
Commission
Disarmament Commission
Britain
France
Russia
Canada
London
Eisenhower Seeks Bipartisan Patch on Foreign Policy Split
President Eisenhower plans a White House meeting with Sen. Walter F. George to heal a growing two party rift over foreign policy. The Georgia Democrat chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and opposes expanding foreign aid while urging a high level, personality free congressional review.
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Warren Duffee
United Press
Washington
Eisenhower
Walter F. George
Georgia
Anthony Eden
George
Dulles
Senate
Eden To Leave For U S Tuesday Amid Trade Embargo Clash
Prime Minister Anthony Eden heads to New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth for talks with President Eisenhower as the Labor Party presses the UN embargo on Communist China. Socialists seek advance Eden commitments and have filed questions in the House of Commons to be answered before departure.
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Eden
U. S
William C. Sexton
United Press
London
British Labor Party
United Nations
China
Anthony Eden
Washington
Eisenhow
New York
House of Commons
Auto Skids On Icy Highway Injuring Six
Six persons were injured when an auto skidded on a snow covered Route 224 west of the city at 4 a.m. Sunday and overturned. They were taken to Jameson Memorial hospital for treatment. Included are George Palmer 29 with left eyebrow contusions Sally Stoner with head laceration and knee contusion Walter Hammill 25 with multiple abrasions Ralph Hartzell 23 with right eyebrow laceration Jake Williams 34 listed among the injured.
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Route 224
Jameson Memorial Hospital
George Palmer
Harbor Street
Sally Stoner
W. Washington Street
Walter Hammill
East Street
Ralph Hartzell
Harbor Road
Jake Williams
Snow Flurries Forecasted Across Pennsylvania
The weatherman expects two low pressure areas to influence conditions in and around Pennsylvania today and tomorrow. A Gulf of Mexico low pressure system may reach the state by tomorrow bringing snow, while central Pennsylvania faces snow flurries today from a trough centered over the region and western Virginia. Cloudiness covers most of the state with tonight's lows in the mid-20s in the southeast and 16 to 24 degrees in the central and northeast regions.
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Pennsylvania
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Slick Ice Clamps New Castle and Lawrence County Roads
Ice coated highways bedeviled New Castle and Lawrence County drivers as state crews fought the worsening conditions. Cinders and salt failed to stop rapid refreezing, turning roads into mirror like surfaces and forcing slow commutes all morning.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
Mother Nature
State Highway Department
Still Hunting For Escaped Murderer In Midwest Area
The manhunt for escaped killer Leslie Irvin shifts focus to Illinois and Missouri, with Indiana FBI chief Leonard Blaylock noting most sightings come from those two states. Irvin, 31, escaped from a county jail Wednesday night while under death sentence for one murder and indicted in five others.
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Princeton
Ind
Leslie Irvin
Illinois
Missouri
Leonard Blaylock
Indiana
FBI
Ohio
Kentucky
Irvin
Little Maid on a Sled Delights as Dad Guides Ride
A nostalgic verse depicts a young girl enjoying a sled ride with her father and family figures. Names and ages intermingle with street glimpses, hinting at small town life and aging parents watching children grow.
Fainting Spell May Have Been Wreck Cause
A Santa Fe two car diesel train bound for San Diego toppled on a Los Angeles curve after a veteran engineer fainted. About 29 dead and 137 injured, with many in critical condition, as officials warned the toll could rise. Frank B. Parrish, 61, says he blacked out. speed reached about 50 mph before the wreck at 5:42 p.m. in the east Los Angeles industrial area.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Calif
INS
Santa Fe
San Diego
East Side
Fred G. Gurley
Chicago
California
Frank B. Parrish
Raymond D. Shelton
Coast Lines
Parrish
Engineer Is Killed In West Virginia Train Wreck
A Cincinnati bound Norfolk Western passenger train derailed on a bluff above the Tug River at Cedar West Virginia early today killing the engineer and injuring about 40 passengers and crew. The engine plunged down a 40 foot embankment into the river as seven other cars stayed upright. Engineer Walt Willard of Bluefield West Virginia was buried under cinders in the cab and believed to have suffocated. Fireman Ernest Hoback sustained serious injuries.
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Here
Walt Willard
Bluefield
W. Va
Ernest Hoback
Obituary and Classified Comics Highlight Page 19
A compact page features Ellwood obituary notes and cross word and editorial items alongside classified style notices. The section spans radio and TV listings and social news with brief sports stock references and theater notes.
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Cross Word
Ellwood
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