Metred Parking Lifts Lot Earnings Fourfold in 15 Weeks
The first 15 weeks of short term parking in the library lot brought receipts over ten times higher than monthly parking in the same lot. Figures from Mayor Edward A. DeCarbo show 23 city meters since last February earning $2,150. Long term library parking cost $125 per month, totaling $468.75 for 15 weeks, with city paying the Library Board monthly rental. Begun as an experiment to assess self sufficiency, expenses run about $169.50 monthly including site rental and utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. DeCarbo
Feo
Library Board
Legislation Heads Toward Adjournment in Harrisburg
A bipartisan conference on the General Appropriations Bill and a $31.3 million school subsidy edge the Pennsylvania Legislature toward early adjournment. GOP leaders push to hold line while senators resist changes harming big-city districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton W. Siglin
United Press
Harrisburg
Philadelphia General Hospital
Albert R. Pechan
Armstrong
Spring Advice and Garden Notes From City Pages
Kids crowd playgrounds as the season starts and motorists are warned to slow in play areas. Spring plantings appear in backyards with lettuce emerging in Seventh Ward soil. A resident helps a baby robin but is scolded by the mother bird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventh Ward
Daily Weather Report
Partly cloudy warm and humid today tonight and Friday with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. High today 80 to 85 low Friday 60 to 65. Weather stats show 24 hours max 80 min 60, traces of rain, river stage 5.6 feet. A year ago same date max 87 min 61 no precipitation river 6 feet.
Opposition to reimbursement from motor fund proposal
Pennsylvania Motor Federation opposed in Harrisburg to using the motor license fund to reimburse relocation costs on federal aid highway projects. President John S. Giles of Reading said the measure is unconstitutional. He noted 18 states have defeated similar bills and 11 have approved them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocono Manor
Pennsylvania Motor Federation
General Assembly
Harrisburg
John S. Giles
Reading
Twisters and Heavy Rains Roil Midwest and South
United Press reports a windy storm system sweeping the midlands with tornadoes and hail in eastern Kansas and heavy rains flooding parts of Oklahoma and southern Illinois. Champaign Illinois saw 50 mph winds and damage while Shreveport Louisiana recorded a 32 inch rainfall and strong gusts.
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Oklahoma
Illinois
Kansas
Mississippi Valley
Aberdeen
D.D
Champaign
Ill
Shreveport
Mississippi River
East Coast
Plains States
Quake Shock In Aleutians Is Recorded
The Fordham University seismograph recorded a major Aleutian quake on the day with the first tremor at 6:51 a.m. E D T and a second nine minutes later. Father Joseph Lynch reported a magnitude of 7.5, marking the largest event in the Aleutian chain in about three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fordham University
Aleutian Chain
Joseph Lynch
Father Lynch
Urbach Loses Milking Contest After Stool Fall
Creston Indiana reports mayor Fred Urbach failed in a milking contest against Lenox's mayor after he toppled from an old-fashioned one legged milking stool when a Holstein kicked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Urbach
Lenox
Bourges Maunoury Named Prime Minister in Tight Vote
The National Assembly elected Maurice Bourges Maunoury premier by 240 to 194, with 73 deputies abstaining. He outlined a near unchanged austerity program and pledged a swift Algeria policy, while proposing home rule and political equality for Muslims and Europeans in North Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
INS
Maurice Bourges- Maunoury
National Assembly
Bourges -Maunoury
Bourges-Maunoury
Guy Mollet
Algeria
Stassen Returns to London Talks in Disarmament Push
Harold Stassen heads to London for informal talks with Soviet chief delegate Zorin under Dulles guidance. The plan allows limited discussion on a hydrogen test ban, fissionable material freeze, small arms cut, an open skies Arctic zone, and peaceful space aims. Allies resist European open skies and seek a Europe spanning inspection zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Singer
I. N
Arctic
U. S
Russia
America
Britain
France
Stassen
London
Europe
Moscow
Washington
Kremlin
Western Europe
China warns U S planes after alleged invasion
U S Navy reports Chinese coastal batteries opened fire on an American carrier plane eight miles from the mainland as Peiping decries the incident as an attack aimed at blocking Taiwan’s peaceful liberation. State Department silent pending Navy findings. Peiping Radio broadcasts the Communist line.
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Washington
China
U.S
U.S. Navy
Peiping
Formosa
State Department
Navy
Peiping Peoples Daily
Peiping Radio
Red China
Railroads And Trainmen Reach Three Year Pay Agreement
CHICAGO AP The nation's railroads and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen have reached a contract agreement totaling 26 cents hourly over three years, with immediate 12 42 cent hike retroactive to Nov 1 1956 and further boosts of seven cents on Nov 1 this year and Nov 1 1958.
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Chicago
Leverett Edwards
National Railway Mediation Board
Finland Stays Neutral As Soviet Leaders Leave Visit
Soviet Premier Bulganin and Party Chief Khrushchev wrap a week in Helsinki signaling Finland’s continued neutrality. They agree on about 20 million dollars more in yearly trade with the USSR, with oil coal metals sugar and cereals shipped to Finland while wood chemical pulp and paper go to the Soviet Union. A call for a global pact to ban nuclear weapons closes the communique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
INS
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Finland
Soviet Union
Conn testifies he unknowingly sold stolen golf clubs
Anthony R. Conn, manager of the city golf course, testified that he sold sets of clubs to three Lawrence county residents who allegedly bought stolen items from the DuBois Country Club. He said he purchased those clubs from John R. Harris and recalled selling to Frank Ventriglia, Gene Pascarella, and Arley Ann Nord as the case proceeded.
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Anthony R. Conn
S. Mercer St
DuBois Country Club
Lawrence County
Conn
Commonwealth
Frank Ventriglia
Smiley St
Ellwood City
Gene Pascarella
Mill St
Dry Forces Gain In Primaries In 49 Municipalities
Harrisburg reporting board notes that in 49 local option elections tied to May 23 primaries the dry forces won net gains of five municipalities granting liquor licenses and seven granting beer licenses. Population figures for affected areas total 10,918, with 9.1 percent of Pennsylvania's 10.5 million residents in dry areas since 1939.
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Harrisburg
INS
State Liquor Control Board
Pennsylvania
Former Senator Walter F. George in Serious Condition
ATLANTA UP Retired Sen Walter F George former NATO ambassador to the United States was reported in serious condition with a heart ailment. George, who left the Senate last year, was admitted to Emory University Hospital Wednesday.
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Atlanta
Walter F. George
Eisenhower
NATO
George
Senate
Emory University Hospital
Three Wounded In Gun Battle In Chicago Ill
Dope operation end in a fierce exchange at the Triangle Inn in River Grove. Federal narcotics agents John Ripa and Jack Love were wounded along with gang member Carlo Urbinatti. Police fired on the tavern, believing another gunman hid inside, and later detained Tony Matas and others.
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Chicago
INS
John Ripa
Jack Love
Carlo Bananas Urbinatti
Albert E. Aman
Narcotics Bureau
Tony Matas
Triangle Inn
River Grove
Ripa
Ralph Eckhardt
Dominic Argentine
Eckhardt
Urbinatti
Agent Love
Warman
Argentine
Matas
Butler County Man Killed In Auto Crash
A Butler man, Jack Francis Desmond, 24, was killed in a head on collision with a milk tank truck in Butler. Desmond suffered a compound skull fracture and was thrown from his car. the truck driver, Chester Gilbert, 36, was uninjured.
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Butler, Pa
INS
Butler
Jack Francis Desmond
Chester Gilbert
Piiot Milk Co
Great Review Fleet Begins Dispersing
The great international fleet to day broke formation off Virginia and began dispersing for oceans. The Navy ordered 35 ships including the Des Moines to return to port before dawn. A task group led by Northampton prepared to sail for Rio de Janeiro while the rest of the 1111 ship fleet returned to Norfolk piers by sunset. Nearly 300000 watched the Jamestown anniversary celebration.
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Norfolk, Va
Virginia
Navy
Des Moines
Ccawn
Northampton
Rio de Janeiro
Norfolk
Charles E. Wilson
Canberra
Cape Henry
Jamestown
New Castle Board Silent on Social Security Bill Vote
New Castle school directors failed to vote for or against the teachers Social Security plan by the midnight deadline. Employed district workers favored the measure 226 to 207 with five not voting, while some argued it would weaken the current retirement system. If accepted the district would incur about 22 000 retroactive to July 1 1956 and 10 000 annually thereafter, with teachers possibly receiving 65 per month plus existing retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Harrisburg
PSEA
Mayflower II Completes Atlantic Reenactment at Plymouth
The Mayflower II sailed to Plymouth marking the final leg of its Atlantic crossing. An estimated 10 000 to 100 000 spectators welcomed Capt Alan Villiers and his crew, including 32 Englishmen and a 17 year old American cabin boy.
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Plymouth
Mass
Ins
Provincetown
Alan Villiers
Joseph Meany Jr
Waltham
Nancy Farr
Michael Farr
Villiers
Classified Fragments From The Paper
A fragmented OCR page lists sections such as Radio TV Comics Editorial Sports and Obituary with navigation cues and contact lines. The readable bits indicate a generic classifieds and notices page with cross words and theater listings.
Outdoor dining in the woods with steaks over a glowing coal
Arthur Mometer praises cooking steaks outdoors over red coals for a relaxing, carfree meal. He notes warm eighty degree weather makes the setting pleasant and appetites sharpened by the open air and nature.
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Mayflower
Acmited Press Facsumite
ST. Louis
Joseph Sneed
Oceanside
South Side
Nature Nature
Daily Weather Report
Mid-West
Aleutians
William Galbraith
United Press Staff
Washington, D.C
Department of Defense
Army
Washington-Baltimore
Bulganin
Khrushchev
W. F. George
Butler County
Coral Gables
Fla
William Wellens
Great Review
Plymouth Harbor
Cape Cod Bay
Province
Atlantic Ocean
England
New World
Massachusetts Bay
Cape Cod
Spencer
John "Lint
Arthur Mometer
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