Big Delegation Of Steel Men At Local Plant
Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation hosted about 75 steel industry representatives for an onsite demonstration of a 35 ton oxygen process vessel and related equipment built for McLouth Steel of Detroit. The display showed charging cars and duplexing ladles, plus the vessel concept comparing with Bessemer converters.
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Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation
McLouth Steel Corporation
Detroit
Bessemer
County workers unload food as surplus arrives
County employees unload boxes of foods noted by Pa. Newe as surplus shortening and dried milk arrive with shipments of beef and gravy cans expected in Butler County to be sent to Lawrence County. When orders are complete, foods will be dispatched.
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Pa. Newe
Butler County
Lawrence County
Dedicate New Youth Center At First U P
Dr. James M. Ferguson praised the First U P church members at the opening of their new youth center and church parlor. The project cost about 13 000 dollars in facilities plus hundreds of hours of labor, illustrating a mind to work as a path to church growth.
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James M. Ferguson
U. P
Dr. Ferguson
Nehemiah
Truck Driver Held After Attack on Pittsburgh Officers
Pittsburgh police hold 43 year old truck driver Stanley Prose who attacked two officers with a three pound hammer outside Gimbels during a strike. Patrolman Albert Martin was head injured and Lt. Thomas O Connors chest struck. both were treated and returned to duty. Prose belonged to AFL Teamsters Local 249.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Gimbels
Stanley Prose
Albert Martin
Thomas O'Connor
Prose
AFL
Gimbel's
Weather Outlook With Warmth and Clouds
Cloudy and warm with highs near 85 to 92 today. Scattered thunderstorms possible Saturday over northern areas. Tonight, warmer with lows 64 to 76. US weather stats show maximum 79, minimum 57, no precipitation, river stage 5.1 feet.
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United States
Smoke Delays Start of Airlines Flight
Forty passengers were forced off an American Airlines plane at Philadelphia International Airport due to cockpit smoke. Mechanics suspect defective wiring. the passengers reassigned to another aircraft and resumed the trip shortly after.
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Philadelphia
Sns
American Airlines
Remodeling Underway on Jameson Ward at Memorial Hospital
Work started today at Jameson Memorial Hospital to remodel the children’s ward on the first floor. Roger W. Rowland, board president, said the project will modernize the area with new cubicles and a nursing station. During construction children are temporarily cared for on the second floor after being moved there yesterday.
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Jameson Memorial Hospital
Roger W. Rowland
United States Brazil and Colombia Demand Guatemala Be Left Alone
At the United Nations Security Council, the United States Brazil and Colombia assert that Guatemala’s revolt is a regional issue. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. convened the 11 nation group after Brazil and Colombia pledge to share notes from steps by the Inter American Peace Committee. The IPC will send observers to Honduras and Guatemala to monitor fighting and border air raids.
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Brazil
Colombia
Russia
UN Security Council
Americas
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
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Inter American Peace Committee
I.P.C
Business edge upward seen in Pittsburgh week
Pittsburgh area business inched higher last week with the University of Pittsburgh bureau noting the highest level since May. The steel ingot rate held at 70 percent capacity and blast furnace activity was unchanged while bituminous coal production reached a February high.
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Pittsburgh
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University of Pittsburgh
Bureau of Business Research
Churchill May Propose Global Atomic Powers Pact
Paris dispatch says Prime Minister Churchill may propose to President Eisenhower a world peace plan among the four atomic powers United States, Soviet Union, Britain, and Canada. The pact would vow immediate retaliation with nuclear force against any nation that commits open military aggression, with limits on force size and a ban on large scale volunteer troops. It expands Locarno concepts to a global framework, aiming to crown Churchill as a savior of peace.
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Kingsbury Smith I.N.S
Paris
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
London
Churchill
U. S
Russia
Great Britain
Canada
Southeast Asia
Europe
Britain
Russians Tanker Seized Near Formosa in UN Embargo Violation
The Chinese Nationalist government says the 10,000 ton Soviet tanker Tuapse was seized south of Formosa for carrying jet fuel to Red China in violation of a UN embargo. It was escorted to Kaohsiung port after being apprehended by a nationalist gunboat. The vessel was en route to Shanghai when seized. U S Navy denied any seizure by its forces, clarifying the incident.
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Formosa
Red China
United Nations
Tuapse
Formosan
Kaohsiun
Red China Petroleum Consignee
Shanghai
Tass
United States Navy
U.S. Navy
Far East
Wu Nanju
Auxiliary Police Force In Upper Darby Is Dissolved
Upper Darby Pennsylvania fired the entire 36 member auxiliary police force on June 14 for failing to report for duty during the nationwide air raid alert on Flag Day. Samuel H. Walker said regular officers will assume duties and that auxiliaries sought insurance coverage, which they deemed too costly.
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Upper Darby
INS
Samuel H. Walker
Poison Angle In Death Of Young Thorne
Chicago report suggests Montgomery Ward Thorne may have died from poisons such as cyanide or potassium hidden in a cigarette or drink. Coroner and investigators pursue autopsy findings while Illinois toxicology staff prepare a July 10 or 11 report. Thorne, 20, heir to a $2 million family firm, was found dead in his Gold Coast apartment with needle marks on his right arm and clothed only in shorts. The case remains one of Chicago’s most mysterious deaths as police and private investigators continue their probe.
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Chicago
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Montgomery Ward
Thorne
Walter E. McCarron
University of Illinois
McCarron
Dr. Leon
Fourth Anniversary of Korea War Outbreak Warns of Southeast Asia
Ernest A Gross reflects on the four year anniversary of the Korea War outbreak and warns that unrest and poverty aid Communism. He cites lessons from 1950 and identifies Southeast Asia as the new battleground in the global struggle against communist expansion.
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Free World
United Nations
Korea
Ernest A Gross
U. S
UN Security Council
1Lnation Group
Gross
Southeast Asia
Hurricane Alice Nears Texas Coast
Hurricane Alice moving through the Gulf of Mexico is nearing the Texas coast around Brownsville and Port Isabel at 80 mph winds. The storm, 12 mph forward, extends gale winds about 100 miles from its center and is forecast to bring heavy rains into the Rio Grande valley up to Laredo and Del Rio.
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New Orleans
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Texas
Brownsville
Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Port Isabel
Rio Grande Valley
Laredo
del Rio
Steel Wage Talks To Be Resumed In Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corp and the United Steelworkers union are expected to resume 1954 wage contract negotiations in Pittsburgh. Talks had been in recess since last week after USW President David J. McDonald and the policy committee rejected a management offer worth less than five cents per hour. McDonald aims to restart bargaining immediately to secure a settlement before the contract expires next Wednesday at midnight.
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United States Steel Corp
United Steelworkers’ Union
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David J. McDonald
Wave
McDonald
Murder suicide leaves six children orphaned in Milton
In Milton Pennsylvania a coroner ruled murder and death by own action in a double killing. Bruce Reich elderfer 47 shot Lena Margaret Reich 46 with a .22 rifle then killed himself after a quarrel. None of the six children were present when the bodies were discovered by a 17 year old Boyd who alerted police. The father was unemployed and had recently served a jail sentence for assault charges filed by his wife.
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Milton, Pa
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Milton
Northumberland County
James Harris
Bruce W. Reichelderfer
Lena Margaret
Boyd
Congress grills DC officials over street violence by teens
Indignant lawmakers pressed top District of Columbia officials after a teenage mob attacked a man near the Capitol. Rep Henry Talley Talle urged immediate action while others urged stronger measures and police presence to curb recurring assaults in the district.
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Washington
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District of Columbia
Henry Talley Talle R Lowa
Capitol
Thomas B. Curtis
Mo Curtis
Toledo
Ohio
Frank Mitchell
Curtis
Mitchell
Maryland
Congress
House
Senate
Cleveland Bailey
Erie Doctor Named 1955 56 AMA President
Dr El mer Hess of Erie was unanimously elected president elect and then named 1955 56 president of the American Medical Association at the 103rd annual convention in San Francisco. He defeated Dr Harvey B Stone of Baltimore and Dr Edwin S Hamilton of Kankakee for the post.
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Elmer Hess
Frie
American Medical Association
Organization
Physicians and Surgeons
House of Delegates
AMA
House
Hess
Harvey B. Stone
Baltimore, Md
Edwin S. Hamilton
Kankakee, Ill
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Churchill Arrives in Washington for Weekend Conference
British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill landed in Washington with Anthony Eden for talks at the White House. Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles greeted them. Eden raised a Southeast Asia security plan that has met U.S. skepticism.
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D. C
Britain
Winston Cherehill
Elecehower
White House
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Eisenhower
British Overseas Airways
Winston
Anthony Eden
London
Richard M. Nixon
John Foster Dulles
Churchill
Atlantic
Nixon
United States
Land
Eden
Dulles
Southeast Asia
U. S
Roger Makins
No U S Warship Seized Russian Ship Off Formosa
Admiral Felix B. Stump CINCPAC said no US warship seized any Russian ship off Formosa. The Soviet government reportedly protested to the US claiming an American destroyer seized the tanker Husain off the Formosan coast on Wednesday. He offered no further details.
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Felix B. Stump
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Formosan
Stump
U. S
I am a small town guy I admit it
Arthur Memeter celebrates turning 87 amid fond reflections on small town life. He loves expansion room and the grand town folk, yet enjoys visiting big cities for seasonal sights but prefers the close knit community where blue birds sing and everyone knows each other.
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