Floods Threat Across Nation Amid Snow Melt
Rivers swollen from melted snow threaten eastern areas while a polar front moves toward the Atlantic Coast. Tornadoes kill at least 12 in Oklahoma and Louisiana with eight deaths in Gans Okla and four in Bellvue Princeton La. Oil Creek ice jam floods Oil City Pa. other creeks rise in New York and western regions. Temperatures fall sharply, up to 40 degrees, with heavy snows in Great Lakes and Rockies.
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Shenango River Rises Four and a Half Feet
The Shenango River rose four and a half feet since yesterday due to melting snow and rain and remained rising slightly this morning. The level sits about five and a half feet from flood stage, with a cooling trend likely bringing a recession. Neshannock Creek, which rose faster, was falling this morning.
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Groundhog Day Forecast In Weather Shifts Noted
Old man groundhog's day nears with tentative prognostication in about nine days. Residents report 50 degree temperatures yesterday and sub freezing today, while local streams rise after recent rains and melting snow. A caterpillar sighting near 1207 West Washington St. is recorded as a minor incident.
Cold Wave and Snow Flurries Forecast Tonight
The daily weather report notes a cold wave with snow flurries and diminishing wind. Lows range from five below zero in the northeast to five above in the southwest, with continued cold and mostly cloudy skies Thursday. United States statistics show 24 hour high 55 and low 28 with .45 inches precip and river stage at 11.7 feet.
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Credit dispute over final clue in Manhattan bomber case
Reports from New York say police and Consolidated Edison both asserted credit for providing the final clue that led to the arrest of George Metesky. Metesky, a 54 year old Waterbury toolmaker, confessed to being the mad bomber who injured 15 people with home made pipe bombs since 1930. Authorities differ over who first spotted the file that matched the clues, with police dispute lingering.
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Manhattan
Consolidated Edison Company
George Metesky
Waterbury, Conn
Gas Pipeline Blast Near York Pa.. No Casualties
A thunderous explosion on the Little Big Inch gas line near Marietta about 15 miles north of York at 3:30 a.m. caused a bright fire but no injuries. Workmen sealed the 20 inch line and the blaze was under control with repairs planned and no service interruption expected.
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Carl Sison
Texas Transmission Corp
E. R. Cunningham
Elderly Couple Killed In Mercer County Crash
A 70 year old man, George Seiple, and his wife Bertha, 69, of Greenville RD 3, were killed when their car was struck broadside by a tractor trailer loaded with aluminum near Sheakleyville, 12 miles north of Mercer, during rain. The truck driver, Lydie Keller, 33, Hampton, Pa., was treated for shock and lacerations.
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George Seiple
Bertha
Greenville RD 3
Greenville Hospital
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Here
Sheakleyville
Lydie L
Deaths in Ellwood City Area
Obituary notices list Ida G Johnson 127 Elm St Anthony Koscevic 74 14 Charles St Andrew Leech 76 Smiley Stop Rd Mrs Elizabeth Carinci 62 Ellwood City page dated Wednesday January 23 1957.
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Elm St
Anthony Koscevic
Charles St
Andrew St. Leech
Smiley ‘Stop Rd
Ellwood City
Elizabeth Carinci
More Military Equipment For Middle East
Administration sources say Asian and Middle East allies will receive more U S military equipment this year than NATO nations. The trend mirrors last year with Asia and the Middle East taking the bulk of American economic aid under the mutual security program.
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Two Renamed As College Trustees At Slippery Rock
Gov. George M. Leader sought Senate approval for the reappointment of two Slippery Rock State Teachers College trustees Emma Guffey Miller of Wolf Creek Farm Slippery Rock and Florence F. Murrin Butler. Terms run until January 1963.
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George M. Leader
Senate
Slippery Rock State Teachers’ College Board of Trustees
Emma Guffey Miller
Wolf Creek Farm
Slippery Rock
Florence F. Murrin Butler
Bomb threat dismisses 9 000 city students
More than 9 000 city school children were sent home early after a terse anonymous call to city police at 8 25 a m stating there is a bomb in one of the buildings. Police and janitors checked 20 schools but found no explosive device. students spilled onto busy streets around 9 a m as the alert spread.
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Freihout
Mad Bomber To Undergo Sanity Tests
The 53-year-old George Metesky described as a delinquent little boy was to undergo sanity tests. Police believe Metesky, who confessed to planting 34 bombs in New York, will be observed after being seized in Waterbury Connecticut and sent to Bellevue hospital for evaluation following court-appointed counsel’s doubts about his sanity.
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NEW York
INS
George Metesky
Metesky
Waterbury, Conn
Bellevue Hospital
President Eisenhower to urge curb on inflation in economic report
President Eisenhower will again warn Congress that inflation must be checked to preserve prosperity. He will reference his January State of the Union remarks, urge wage and price restraint, defend tight money, and note three straight balanced budgets and a $71.8 billion defense for the next fiscal year.
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Eisenhower
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Close Watch On Diplomats In Hungary
Western diplomats in Hungary are under constant surveillance by Soviet-backed authorities. Refugees report Red agents shadow diplomats, with Western legations largely off-limits to Hungarian civilians under martial law. Violations of visits risk death, as terror campaigns intensify and freedoms shrink.
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Vienna
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Red
Princess Grace Delivers First Child in Monaco
Princess Grace gave birth to a girl at 9:27 a.m. during a heavy rainstorm. Prince Rainier announced the birth on Radio Monte Carlo to about 2,500 subjects, noting immunity from French taxes and military draft, while celebrating with the capital in a festive, rain-soaked scene. The baby, named Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, is the couple’s first child.
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Three Children Missing in Cranford Search
Police and volunteers in Cranford New Jersey conducted an intensive search for three children missing since Tuesday afternoon. Philip Harrington Jr seven Richard Johnson nine and his sister Martha seven were last seen leaving Sherman School at 3 p m they did not reach home by 5 p m. Search teams including about 200 officers auxiliary and civilians combed nearby woods and the Rahway River with searchlights and river drag planned at daybreak. Family connections include Malcolm Johnson an attorney and Philip Harrington Sr superintendent at the Bethlehem Steel Co plant in Staten Island New York.
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Sherman School
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Lester W. Powell
Powell
Philip Harrington Sr
Bethlehem Steel Co
Staten Island
N.Y
One Killed Six Injured In Plane Crash
A Navy transport plane crashed near Willow Run airport in a blinding snowstorm, killing Coast Guard Lt Cmdr William E. Sale and injuring six Navy personnel. The craft hit a gravel pit edge two minutes from the airport and burst into flames on the way to University of Michigan hospital.
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San Diego
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Ann Arbor
Probe Slaying Of Two Girls In Chicago
Chicago law officials marshaled all resources to solve the brutal slaying of two teenage sisters Barbara and Patricia Grimes ages 15 and 13 Their nude bodies were found Tuesday stuffed under a culvert in Willow Springs The case evokes Chicago s horror crime from 15 months earlier and authorities fear a serial or group offender may be involved with a large-scale search and early post mortem examinations underway by three pathologists.
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Cook County
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Pretty Sisters
Robert Peterson
John Schuessler
Anton
Bemidji Records 33 Below Zero as Nation Notes Warmth
The U S Weather Bureau reported Bemidji Minnesota at 33 below zero this morning, while the day’s high reached 84 at Key West Florida. The temperature spread shows extreme cold in the north and heat along the southern coast.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Key West
Fla
Investigation Sought Into Dismissal in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg Democratic leaders call for full inquiries into John R. Torquato's dismissal as Labor and Industry Secretary. House former speaker Hiram G. Andrews urged a bipartisan board to probe the firing while Senate members push for a probe of the Labor and Industry Department fund since 1936 amid accusations of mismanagement and extravagance.
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Gary
George M. Leader
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Hiram G. Andrews
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Johnstown
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Westmoreland
Chamber
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Dent
John N. Pomeroy
Philadelphia
House Committee
George M
David V. Randall
Randall
Fire destroys Bellefield Girls Vocational High School in Pittsburgh
A six alarm blaze in the 88 year old Bellefield Girls Vocational High School in Oakland caused about 125000 dollars in damage. The three story building housed some 400 students who were evacuated before the third floor fully burned. Fire Chief Stephen Adley blamed possible spontaneous combustion from accumulated dust in a turret under the roof near the University of Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Bellefield Girls Vocational High School
Stephen Adley
Oakland
University of Pittsburgh
Middle East Doctrine Under Consideration
The House Foreign Affairs Committee convened behind closed doors to shape a Middle East doctrine. President Eisenhower is expected to secure swift, largely unrevised action authorizing military and economic aid to deter communist influence. Pending amendments may let Congress end aid via concurrent resolution, though the plan itself would not be law.
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Insi
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
House
Thomas S. Gordon
John Vorys
Ohio
Vorys
Congress
John Foster Dulles
Ellwood Classifieds Offer Local News and Ads
Local page compiles wants ads and notices across trades and services. Includes obituaries, radio and TV listings, theater notes, sports and editorial briefs. Ellwood readers find cross words and comics alongside stock quotes and classified opportunities.
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Miss Spring Brings Cheer After Long North Wind
Arthur Mometer depicts the shy figure of Miss Spring as she lingers amid winter, briefly smiling before Old Man Winter again asserts his cold reign. The playful struggle between seasons unfolds with a hopeful forecast of spring’s eventual arrival.
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