Campaign Extends as New Castle Drives Toward Shell Building
Greater New Castle Development Corp reports $183 460 raised toward a $225 000 shell building campaign. Executive VP Thomas W Morris says 166 potential investors remain to be contacted and review meetings will seek added funds while site surveying and development begin this year off U S 422 near Harbor Road Union and Mahoning townships. The drive runs beyond June 28 with a July 13 meeting scheduled in The Castlet on.
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Greater New Castle Development Corp
Thomas W. Morris
Greater New ‘Castle
Shell
GNCDC
U.S. 422
Harbor Rd
Union
Mahoning
Gncdc Drive
Castleton
Bevan Mourned as Historic British Leader at 62
Aneurin Bevan a Welsh miner rose to deputy leader of Labour and the nation mourns his death at 62 after illness. Prime Minister Macmillan praised him as a personal friend while tributes poured in from around the world for the man who helped shape the National Health Service.
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UPI
Labor Party
Aneurin (Nye) Bevan
London
Bevan
Tredegar
Wales
Aneurin Bevan
Winston Churchill
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
House of Commons
Aneurin
Nye
Daily Express
William Barkley
Express
National Health Service
Churchill
Weather summary for Western Pennsylvania
Sunny and cool today with a high in the mid 70s. Fair tonight with a low from 45 to 55. Friday mostly sunny and warmer. 24 hour period ending 7 am shows a max 74 min 44 and no precipitation. River stage 5.3 feet. A year ago the high was 79 with a 41 low and river stage 6.2 feet.
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Pennsylvania
Classified page overview and sections
The page lists sections including Comics Cross Word Editorial Ellwood Obituary rn 26 TV Log 20 Society BROT inceccens 21 Stocks 2 Theaters tones NEWS PHONES NEWS-OL 4-6651 WANT ADS-OL 8-8511. The scan shows a directory style layout with page references and department titles for reader navigation.
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Cross Word
Ellwood
Death notices list several local residents
Death records include Margaret Mastrantonio 65 of 211 Friendship St Ronald Dorr 1 day of 2933 Mercer Rd Mary Naessner 58 Chicago Ellwood Page Paul Rowland 65 2712 Carlisle St Robert Irwin 55 Lima Alfred McLaughlin 63 Ellwood City.
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Margaret (Masiren) Mastrantonio
Friendship St
Ronald Wayne Dorr
Mercer Rd
Mary T. Naessner
Chicago
Ill
Ellwood Page
Paul L. Rowland
Carlisle St
Robert Irwin
Lima
Alfred W. McLaughlin
Ellwood City
Special Senate Group To Probe Philly Voting
A Senate committee led by Sen. William Scott will begin an inquiry into alleged Philadelphia vote frauds in early August. The panel will gather information next week but wait for conventions before full action, with Scott planning to contact the Committee of 70 and locate staff and a hearing room in Philadelphia. He may call District Attorney Victor Blane to testify as the Senate pursues an independent probe after the House declined a joint investigation.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Senate
Philadelphia
William Scott
R-Carbon
Scott
Lansford
Republican State Committee
Committee of 70
Quaker City
Democratic platform writers push civil rights plank
In Los Angeles the 108 member platform committee heard demands to write iron clad civil rights guarantees into the 1960 platform and expel segregationists. Liberals pressed for a southern sit ins plank and more federal action, as other witnesses ranged from Walter Reuther to a World Population Emergency Campaign representative.
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Democratic Party
Democratic Platform Committee
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
World Population Emergency Campaign Committee
American Council On Judaism
Israel
Alaska
Helen M. Fischer
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Martin Luther, King Jr
South
A. Phillip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Afl-Cio
Californians Being Wooed at Democratic Convention
California delegates face pressure as Gov. Edmund G. Brown weighs endorsing Sen. John F. Kennedy. Kennedy leads the field as Speaker Sam Rayburn arrives to back Lyndon B. Johnson, with Gov. David L. Lawrence and Mayor Richard J. Daley also arriving to influence the convention.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
Edmund G. Brown
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Sam Rayburn
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Cornerstone Ceremony Set for New Wilmington Church
The New Wilmington Methodist Church will lay the cornerstone of a new education wing after Sunday worship at 11 a.m. Dr. Arthur B. Colley will preach with Rev. Ralph Martin assisting. A time capsule will hold church records, donor lists, bulletins, and historical materials. Parking restrictions apply on S Mercer Street from 9:45 a.m. until after the ceremony.
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New Education Unit
New Wilmington Methodist Church
Arthur B. Colley
Grove City
Ralph Martin
Circuit Rider
Lawrence County
Joseph Eckels
Methodist Magazine
Pittsburgh
RSV
Myrta McGinnis
George Robinson
Walter Shaffer
Walter Damon
Youngstown
George Stevens
New Castle
S. Mercer St
E. Neshannock
Navy Blimp Collapses Trapping Seventeen in Gondola
A Navy ZPG-3W blimp collapsed over the Atlantic near Barnegat Light New Jersey. Seventeen crewmen were believed trapped in the gondola after the gondola sank in 66 feet of water. One dead and three injured were confirmed with the rest presumed lost. The blimp had been searching for overdue yachts from Newport to Bermuda when rescue lines failed and the vessel went down.
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Barnegat Light
N.J
UPI
Atlantic Ocean
New Jersey
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
Jersey Shore
Newport R.i.-To
Public Health Survey Planned Across Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports a statewide public health survey will begin this month. Gov. David L. Lawrence announced the study, the first in 12 years, with Health Secretary Charles L. Wilbur and Johns Hopkins dean Dr. Ernest L. Stebbins signing the agreement. The survey targets radiation, air pollution, and safe water supplies as major issues facing communities.
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David L. Lawrence
Charles L. Wilbur
Ernest L. Stebbins
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Lawrence
Commonwealth
Tax Setback Hits City and School Budgets
The U S Court of Appeals reversed a federal ruling and voided about 117 000 in 1954 taxes owed to United Engineering and Foundry Corp affecting City and School District budgets. The city faced 45 000 and the district 60 000 in back taxes, reducing anticipated income and increasing expenses.
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United Engineering and Foundry Corp
U.S. Court of Appeals
Federal District Court
William J. Wallace
Castro Claims Real Fight With United States Is Beginning
Fidel Castro accused the United States of slashing Cuba’s sugar quota in a speech to the Metal Workers Union calling the real fight with the U.S. just starting. He warned of resisting aggressions as expropriation of U.S. property in Cuba looms. He spoke amid sugar quota cuts and desertions in the Cuban foreign service.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Metal Workers Union
Eisenhower
Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
CTC Labor Federation
Unite States
Harmony Short Line Seeks Permission To Abandon Service
Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Co. asked the state Public Utility Commission for permission to cease operations. The Allegheny Valley bus service between Pittsburgh and Erie has been strike bound for six weeks, with losses continuing for two and a half years.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Co
State Public Utility Commission
Allegheny Valley
Erie
PUC
William P. Roan
David I. McCahill Jr
Religious Sect Members Hide From Soviet Attack
About 100 members of the Full Gospel Assembly in Benson Arizona remain hidden in bomb shelters and cellars fearing a Russian nuclear strike within two days. City officials obtained a warrant to check on children’s safety and gained access to Elder Wilbur Williams home after residents opened doors and apologized. Williams says the sect’s belief is divinely inspired and vows to come out Saturday if no attack occurs. The area has a ghost town air as members stay secluded with stocked shelters.
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Wilburt William
Assembly
Talmadge
Williams
Arizona
Congo violence erupts as prison break follows mutiny
Chaos sweeps Stanlyville as prisoners break from Stanleyville Central Prison and flood the town after a Force Publique mutiny. Belgian troopers guard Europeans in Leopoldville as unrest spreads across the Congo with calls of independence echoing amid protests and fears of broader violence.
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Leopoldville, Congo
UPI
Congo Republic
Stanleyville Central
Force Publique
Conegalese National Army
Leopoldville
Stanleyville
Congo
July Heat Wish From Arthur Mometer
A quirky readers note laments cool mid July weather. The author hopes for hot nights and July warmth, contrasting early May warmth with current chilly evenings and spoiled blooms. The piece playfully urges sun and heat as a remedy for crops and comfort.
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Sol
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