India’s Menon to Seek Talks With Eisenhower and Dulles
V K Krishna Menon arrives in Washington to brief President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles on possible peace talks with Red China. He has a step by step plan to ease Formosa tensions and lay groundwork for a US China conference. Officials expect a courteous but noncommittal reception.
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Krishna Menon
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Red
China
Washington
V. K. Krishna Menon
Peiping
United States
Red China
U.S
Formosa
Far East
New York
White House
Dulles
New Parking Signs Rise in West Washington Greenwood Area
Town reports new No Parking signs on West Washington near Greenwood traffic light to curb frequent violations and traffic tie ups. Readers note an aging Oak Avenue sign still reads Oak Street, and gardeners suffer heavy rains slowing cultivation as Harlandsburg road section sees early traffic and potential speed enforcement.
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West Washington Street
Greenwood
Parkers
PaNene
Ray Street
Oak
Oak Avenue
Oak Street
Daily Weather Report Cloudy and cool with showers
Cloudy and cool with occasional showers today and north tonight. High 58 to 65, low 46 to 52. Wednesday partly cloudy and a little warmer. US weather stats for 24 hours ending 7 am: max 68, min 52, precip 0.20 inches, river 6.2 feet. Same date last year: max 90, min 53, precip 0.0.
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United States
President Eisenhower atom peace ship plan blocked
The Joint Atomic Energy Committee rejected Eisenhower s request for 21 million dollars to fund the atom powered peace ship. It quickly approved five million dollars for another atoms for peace project to help free nations build reactors with half the cost.
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Eisenhower
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
United States
Clinton P
Policeman Kills Payroll Bandit in Downtown Shootout
In New York a payroll bandit was fatally shot by a quick-triggered policeman after a wild gun battle on a crowded street. A $4,000 payroll was recovered and at least two others were wounded, including an elevator man who was shot while aiding a 19-year-old woman messenger from whom the payroll was stolen.
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New York
British Rail Strike Talks Reach Critical Stage
London reports negotiations to end Britain's 17 day rail strike at a critical stage with settlement chance brighter. Talks resumed at the Labor Ministry under Industrial Commissioner Sir Wilfred Neden. The National Union of Railwaymen offered tri partite involvement when appropriate.
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London
Britain
British Transport Commission
Labor Ministry
Wilfred Neden
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
Death Notices Gather Historic Local Losses
Obituaries list Bert H. Baker aged 61 of 723 Court Street and Mary A. McLaughlin age 83 of 2416 West Grant Street. Also listed are Sue Ellen Edmiston age 10 of A D 1 New Wilmington Ernest William Gallagher Sr age 52 of Pulaski John R. Humphrey age 88 of Portersville Elizabeth Ann Wignall age 73 of 909 Maryland Avenue Mary Elizabeth Plonka age 58 of 126 Oakland Avenue and C Leroy Shira of 122 Englewood Avenue.
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Bert H. Baker
Court Street
Mary A. McLaughlin
West Grant Street
Sue Ellen Edmiston
A. D
New Wilmington
Ernest William Gallagher, Sr
Pulaski
John R. Humphrey
Portersville
Elizabeth Ann Wignall
Maryland Avenue
Mary Elizabeth Plonka
Oakland Avenue
C. Leroy Shira
Englewood Avenue
Las Vegas Floods Strike Desert City After Cloudburst
Las Vegas Nevada faced its worst cloudburst in over 30 years with heavy hail and floods washing streets and a rail line near Sulphur washed out a track. The California Zephyr derailed at 80 mph but 259 passengers and 30 crew were not injured.
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United Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Las Vega
Sulphur
Western Pacific
California Zephyr
Chicago
Mock Atomic Attack Set For Wednesday
President Eisenhower and about 15,000 federal workers will participate in a 48 hour civil defense drill beginning Wednesday. Sirens will signal the mock attack and key government operations will relocate to secret centers within a 30 to 300 mile radius of Washington. The exercise, Operation Alert 1955, aims to test defense readiness and essential federal functions.
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John L. Cutter
United Press
Washington
Eisenhower
10 Minute Civil Defense Test Drill Set Wednesday
A 10 minute civil defense test alert will be held in Lawrence county and the state starting at 2 05 pm Wednesday. The drill will sound sirens in the city and 18 county fire departments with traffic halted and pedestrians taking cover in buildings. Drivers are to pull to the roadside and stay in vehicles as police coordinate traffic control. Governor Leader urges full participation to practice survival techniques and obey police commands or evacuate to the cellar if in a street or home.
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Lawrence County
County Civil Defense Auxiliary
Pennsylvania
George M. Leader
Greece to Receive Further U S Aid After Earthquake
The United States plans an additional 30 million dollars in economic aid to Greece to aid earthquake damaged areas. Greece's Panayotis Papaligouras stressed the need to prevent a leftist revival in an IS interview with Seymour Berkson of International News Service.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Greece
Panayotis Papaligouras
Seymour Berkson
International
Russia uneasy over China's rise and GM strike closures
Western diplomats link Soviet unease at Communist China’s rapid rise to power with a new campaign of Western friendship. In Detroit, more than 40 of General Motors 119 plants closed after CIO United Auto Workers strikes over local issues. About 175,000 workers stayed off the job despite a new three year contract, with plants idle in 11 states including Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio.
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United Press
London
China
Far East
Peiping
Kremlin
West
Detroit
Bessemer Limestone Plant Breaks Ground for Major Expansion
Groundbreaking at the Bessemer Limestone and Cement plant marks a 3.6 million dollar expansion. Frank B. Warren, company president, turned the first sod with officials from the company, union, and borough in attendance. The project includes nine storage silos and a rotary kiln with grinding facilities, slated to be operational by May 1956.
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Bessemer Limestone and Cement Company
Bessemer
Frank B. Warren
Union
Harry E. Reed
New Castle News
Bell Telephone
Penn Power Companies
Broomall Construction Company
Salem
Ohio
Poland Avenue
Le Mans Race Disaster Prompts Nationwide Auto Ban
France halted all automobile road racing after the Le Mans crash. The death toll rose to 82 with 73 more injured, as Premier Faure’s cabinet met to draft racing rule changes. Le Mans paid final respects with services in the cathedral.
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Paris
France
le Mans
Edgar Faure
Man Burns Himself While Lighting Furnace near New Wilmington
Benjamin Earnest, 44, of A.D. 5, suffered severe burns to the chest arms and back when he tried to light a coal furnace with oil at a three room cottage about a mile southeast of New Wilmington. He was taken to Jameson Memorial Hospital in poor condition. Fire Chief W Filmore Campbell described the incident as a coal furnace fire preparation.
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Benjamin Earnest
New Wilmington
Earnest
Jameson Memorial Hospital
W. Filmore Campbell
Narcotics Squad Arrests 17 in Pittsburgh Marijuana Ring
Pittsburgh narcotics squad arrests 17 persons, 14 accused of operating a marijuana ring that supplied high school pupils at South Hills over the last two years. The break came after 18 year old Bernard Cravetta, a South Hills student, provided a four page statement following an assault by gang leaders. Three men linked to the attack are detained.
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Pitsburgh
INS
South Hills
Bernard C. Cravetta
Cravotta
CIO seeks extension of GAW principle in auto talks
The CIO United Auto Workers opened preliminary contract talks with American Motors to extend the guaranteed wage principle won from Ford and General Motors to the rest of the industry. The Nash-Hudson group negotiations will not climax until August, and American Motors has warned against a pattern settlement. President Walter Reuther signaled non-forceful pattern spread but upheld wage guarantees for employers.
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W. Brune
United Press
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
American Motors Corp
Ford
General Motors
American Motors
Nash-Hudson
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Reading man dies of heart attack while scraping roof
Steven Wompielski 83 of Reading was found in an alley after apparently suffering a heart attack while scraping paint from the roof of his two story home on Monday.
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Reading
Steven Wompielski
Wompielski
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Adenauer Seeks Western Unity for Big Four Talks
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer pressed for a common Western lineup in the Big Four summit talks with the Soviets and urged a bold disarmament plan. He met with Secretary Dulles and will attend a White House lunch before meetings with Western foreign ministers and Eden.
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United Press
Washington
Konrad Adenauer
John Foster Dulles
White House
Adenauer
Dulles
Eisenhower
New York
London
Bonn
Anthony Eden
United States
Salk Vaccine Hearings Reopen With Testimony Today
The Senate Labor and Welfare committee resumes Salk vaccine hearings at 10 am with Welfare Secretary Hobby and Surgeon General Scheele among witnesses. Discussion centers on government endorsement of a free inoculation plan versus relying on private doctors and local officials for parental decisions.
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Arthur Kranish Washington
INS
Senate Labor and Welfare Committee
Oveta Culp Hobby
U.S
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
The Flag and Fifty Four Years of Freedom
A reflective note on the flag as a symbol of freedom justice and democracy. It honors the men who made possible today and remarks that the flag stands for shared values beyond personal ownership. It mentions cool fifty four today.
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