Tranquilizer Drugs Have Wide Medical Uses
Doctors report meprobamate known as Miltown calms anxious patients and relaxes muscles. It aids sobriety during withdrawal from alcohol and helps some alcoholics stay off liquor. The drug induces sleep by reducing physical and emotional tension, relieves tension headaches, and aids in treating premenstrual tension and muscle spasm. It shows noted value with cerebral palsy and petit mal and as an adjunct to electroshock therapy.
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Miltown
Convict Escapes Deputies To Attend Uncle's Funeral
Two Allegheny county deputy sheriffs face a hearing after allegedly neglecting duty at Western Penitentiary when they removed handcuffs from Gilbert Waters during a funeral visit for his uncle at a Pittsburgh funeral home. Waters, 29, a burglar serving 1.5 to 3 years, fled. Relatives had secured a court order permitting the leave.
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Western Penitentiary
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Timothy Toomey
Ralph Mancuso
Gilbert Waters
Waters
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County 4 H Clubs Announce Schedule For Week
County 4 H clubs publish their weekly meeting times across multiple locations including Mt Hermon Shenango Wayne Hickory Pulaski and Weigletown with sessions on Monday through Friday plus an agriculture update. New York state allocates 50000 dollars to train teachers for the mentally retarded with grants of up to 300 dollars to qualifying teachers and senior year teacher college students.
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Shenango Fire Hall
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Knowland Tells Khrushchev to Swap Hungary Exit for Norway Neutrality
Senate minority leader William F. Knowland on CBS Face the Nation urged Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw Soviet troops from Hungary in return for Norway’s neutralization. He warned against trusting Russia on disarmament inspections and said a brass bound agreement is essential to security of the free world.
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Pitt Raises Tuition 43 Percent at Pittsburgh University
The University of Pittsburgh announced a 43 percent increase in most tuition rates effective June 14. Also noted was an invention: a 250 pound collapsible helicopter deployable by parachute and assembled by a single person for Navy use.
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The
University of Pittsburgh Today
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Peterson joins program to boost science education
The initiative highlights the need for more scientists and engineers and aims to raise high school instruction levels and spark student interest with Peterson participating in the effort.
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Local Teacher Wins Science Study Award at Penn State
John Kenneth Peterson a Memorial School teacher in Neshannock Township wins a National Science Foundation Academic Year Science Institute stipend at Penn State this September. A U.S. Army veteran with a B.S. from Penn State he has taught since 1951 and is praised by Superintendent Walter Kearny and Principal Thomas Smathers for the grant aiding national science efforts.
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Neshannock
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New Castle
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New Castle Hospital to cap first nursing class
Thirty five years ago the New Castle Hospital planned to graduate its initial class of nurses. A memorial table was to mark the site of Lawrence County’s first church, built by Moravians in 1770 at Friedensstadt near Chewton.
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New Castle Hospital
Lawrence County
Friedensstadt
Chewton
Raymond Swenk to Lead Pennsylvania Railroad Here
Raymond Swenk will replace J. A. Appleton as head of the Pennsylvania Railroad here. The Boro Volant Power Co. has received its charter from the state. L. B. Round is one of the incorporators.
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J. A. Appleton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Boro Volant Power Co
L. B. Round
Highland church pastor receives honorary degree
Twenty Years Ago Rev. D. L. Ferguson of Highland UP Church is awarded an honorary D.D. at Muskingum. Emergency crews of nearly 300 restore a costly wreck in Mahoningtown where 10 of the 59 ore cars derailed on the Pennsy line.
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Highland UP Church
Muskingum
Mahoningtown
County Officials Say Court Records Secure at Courthouse
County Commissioners P. O. Eld er and A. E. Conner assert courthouse records are adequately protected. The note highlights a need for more space at the local library, especially during peak periods.
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P. O. Elder
A. E. Conner
Court House
Council member Woolcock resumes duties after hospitalization
Woolcock collapsed during a council meeting on May 27 and was released after a week. He returned to work today following a reunion at Lafayette College, visiting City Engineer Dan Woolcock Aston, Pa., before resuming duties.
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Dan Woolcock Aston
Lafayette College
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