Eleven Hour Push to Avert Steel Strike
United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald urged the chairmen or presidents of 12 major steel companies to meet in New York for an 11th hour attempt to avert a strike that could paralyze the industry. Talks with U S Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel continued as negotiators sought a peaceful settlement before a deadline of midnight Saturday.
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Robert G. Shortal
United Press
New York
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
McDonald
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Weather notes and city landscape updates in early autumn
Fog pockets hindered travel from the north as daylight shortens with 15 hours 17 minutes of sun. County lawn looks its best after caretakers trimmed the grass and added flower borders. Antennas bent in last storm. residents urged to inspect roof gear for safety. Corn remains knee high and August roasts shift to September. trees may need trimming and a Norwood Avenue bush crowds sidewalk. A local firm on North Mercer Street keeps EST while DST ends.
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Our
Norwood Ave
Daily Weather Report Fair with mild tonight and warmer Saturday
United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.m. today show a maximum temperature of 80 and a minimum of 48 with no precipitation. Saturday is forecast mostly sunny and warmer with possible showers or thundershowers by afternoon or night. River stage stands at 7.7 feet. Year ago on the same date the high was 83 and the low 50.
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United States
Wave Of Rebellion In Eastern Tibet Reported
New Delhi based Tibetan sources claim a widespread uprising across eight provinces in eastern Tibet with heavy Chinese casualties reported 150 miles north of Lhassa. The盛 state claims Chinese forces bombed Litang and razed monasteries as retaliation while most of northeastern Tibet supposedly fell under rebellion.
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New Delhi
INS
Tibet
India
Darjeeling
New Delhi Statesman
Lhassa
Litang
Dalai Lama
Statesman
Wilson defends U S defense program before Senate panel
Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson tells the Senate air power sub committee the United States has a strong defense, calling the program fantastic and saying intercontinental ballistic missiles will arrive in the near future. He carries a presidential vote of confidence and faces Democratic criticism amid ongoing security debates.
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Senate Air Power
Wilson
Weather Turns Warmer With Showers Late Weekend
The weatherman promised cool spells today and tomorrow then heat returns by Sunday as northern air sweeps the state. An expected afternoon high near 80 degrees with comfortable humidity flags a cooler night into the 50s and 60s. Warm air from the south is set to lift temperatures into the 80s with scattered showers and thunderstorms across Pennsylvania, boosting Sunday’s warm and sticky outlook in the eastern half.
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Weather Bureau
Pennsylvania
Mercury
Calvert To Begin Ministry At First Methodist Church
Dr Wallace C Calvert will start his ministry at the First Methodist Church Sunday at 11 o clock with a sermon titled The Gospel The Power of Salvation He comes from Trinity Church Oil City Pa and has been in the Wisconsin conference He and Mrs Calvert will move into the parsonage on Clenmore Blvd and Highland Ave early next week after the Schulz family vacates the house.
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Wallace C. Calvert
First Methodist Church
Calvert
Trinity Church
Oil City
Wisconsin Conference of the Methodist Church
Clenmore Blvd
Highland Ave
A. Clamer Schultz
Furnaces Banked At Steel Plants On Imminent Strike
Pennsylvania steel plants accelerated furnace shutdowns as a nationwide strike loomed, with U S Steel pledging to idle 26 Pittsburgh area furnaces by the deadline. Duquesne and Edgar Thompson works began cooling furnaces, while Bethlehem Steel and others moved to bank operations in Steelton and Monessen.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
U.S. Steel Corp
Duquesne
Eisenhower Signs 32.9 Billion Highway Bill
President Eisenhower signed into law a 32.9 billion 13 year highway construction program creating a 41000 mile interstate network linking states and capitals. New taxes include a one cent per gallon federal gasoline tax and a three cent per pound tire tax set to take effect this Sunday. He signed the bill in Walter Reed Hospital where he recovers from abdominal surgery.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
New Castle Hinges On 10 Billion Industrial Corridor
Carl Gangloff executive director of the Greater Youngstown Area Foundation told GNCA members at a first business men luncheon in The Castle ton that New Castle sits in a new 10 billion dollar corridor from Akron to Youngstown and into western Pennsylvania. He urged local effort to seize prospects such as the Chevrolet Fisher Body plant. Roy W Walters Jr district manager of Bell Telephone Co chaired the event. Mur ray S Stephens executive director of the Greater New Castle Association introduced the speakers. Gangloff former Lutheran minister with United Engineering and Foundry Co spoke of renewed enthusiasm and movement ahead.
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New Castle
Carl Gangloff
Greater
Youngstown
Bell Telephone Co
Walters
G. B. Zahnizer
GNCA
Zahnizer
Murray S. Stephens
Greater New Castle Association
Gangloff
United Engineering and Foundry Co
Chevrolet-Fisher
State Takes Ownership of 2000-Acre Park Tract
The 2000 acre McConnell’s Mill area along Slipbery Rock Creek becomes a state park. Thomas Darlington announces transfer from Harrisburg and says no deed presentation is planned. Surveys will start to assess needed improvements including parking roads and drinking water. No swimming signs to be posted within three days pending water testing.
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McConnell’s Mill
Slippery Rock Creek
State of
Pennsylvania
Thomas Darlington
Department of Forests and Waters
Harrisburg
Darlington
Barge Blast Kills Two Men in San Francisco
A gasoline barge exploded while pumping fuel at Tidewater Associated Oil docks in San Francisco. Two workers died, the barge and tanks disappeared, and fire destroyed AAA shipyards. Navy and Coast Guard moved to protect the ammunition ship USS Whitehead loaded with 107 tons of explosives.
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United Press
San Francisco
Calif
Tidewater Associated Oil Company
Oil Company
Tidewater Associated Oil Co
AAA
Navy
Coast Guard
New High In Traffic Deaths Seen For Year
The nation faces a rising traffic toll with May 3,170 highway deaths the bloodiest month yet. Through May the year totals reach 14,720, about 9 percent above 1955’s five month figure, signaling a possible year end record.
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United Press
National Safety Council
Safety Council
President Eisenhower to Leave Hospital Saturday
President Eisenhower will exit Walter Reed hospital Saturday after three weeks since surgery. He spent Thursday showing recovery by conferencing with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson for 45 minutes, fueling speculation on his political plans.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Gettysburg
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Believe Soviet Grip On Satellites Has Slipped
U S officials read riots in Poland as evidence the Soviet hold on East European satellites is weakening. Poznan unrest shown as result of anti Stalin campaign and broader criticism of Moscow rulers. Dulles said Moscow's influence abroad is greatly impaired.
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Washington
INS
U.S
Poland
Poznan
John Foster Dulles
Moscow
State Department
Rus
Forest Fire Battle Rages in Costilla New Mexico
Thundershowers aided firefighters battling a 2000 acre blaze in the Costilla land grant northern New Mexico. About 250 men worked to prevent renewed growth as rain slowed the wildfire. The Costilla fire was the worst in a string of timber fires across New Mexico and Arizona. A separate incident killed Alan Wilson Jr., 27, crushed by a falling tree.
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Costilla Land
New Mexico
Costilla
Arizona
Alan Wilson, Jr
Peers elected national vice president of junior chamber
Ralph E. Peers of Camp Hill Pennsylvania was chosen national vice president of the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce. Wendel Ford of Owensboro Kentucky won the presidency after ten ballots.
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Kansas City
Ralph E. Peers
Camp Hill
U. S
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Wendel Ford
Owensboro
Super Sale Leads With a News Want Ad
An inexpensive ad published for Mr. Robert Price at 1412 Jackson Avenue reports a quick sale. Two beautiful black and ten 9 week old male Dachshund puppies AKC registered from champions. Dial OL 4 0794.
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Robert Price
Jackson Avenue
AKC
Classified Ad Promotion and Low 9 Day Rate
Dial OL 8 8511 to place your ad and ask about a low nine day rate with cancellation privileges.
City Attorneys File Answers In Court Case
City officials deny most charges in a legal action brought by four township school districts. The city and two solicitors claim no oral wage withholding agreement existed in 1949 nor any payment of funds to townships or a ten percent service fee. They also state the city collected taxes only under its own authority and deny taxing residents for district levies.
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Richard C. Davis
Robert White
Robert E. Jamison
New Castle
Quake Shock Felt In Japan Across Northern Honshu
A weak earthquake shock was felt along an east west belt across northern Honshu. The Central Meteorological Observatory located the tremor at 1 10 p m local time with readings in Maebashi Utsunomiya Mito Niigata on the Pacific coast and Sea of Japan shore areas.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Central Meteorological Observatory
Maebashi
Utsunomiya
Mito
Pacific
Niigata
Japan Sea
French Troops Kill 300 Algerian Rebels
Algiers AP report says French paratroopers aided by a destroyer flotilla landed near Philippeville to end a three day battle. A pincer encircled a large rebel unit and the assault ended with three destroyers delivering troops ashore under covering fire.
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Algiers
Algeria
Philippeville
Mrs Regina Teckelt Weber Listed With Address
Mrs Regina Teckelt Weber, 71, of 104 East Euclid Avenue is noted in a brief society notice. Further details are not provided in the fragment.
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Regina Teckelt Weber
East
Euclid Avenue
Poznan Uprising Heightens Polish Crackdown Fears
London report cites August Zaleski predicting a broader Communist clampdown on Poles gaining limited freedoms. Berlin dispatch notes Poznan violence with 38 killed and 270 wounded as anti-Communist protests spread to Latvia Estonia Lithuania and Tibet. Warsaw radio claims most workers return to normal life after jet overflights and troopFilled streets warning rioters.
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London
INS
August Zaleski
Poznan
Joseph EF. Fleming
United Press
Berlin
Poland
Baltic
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Tibet
Warsaw
Poland seals borders to halt anti-Communist outflow
East German reports say Poland closed frontiers with Germany and Czechoslovakia and halted all traffic to stop anti Communist fugitives after Poznan riots. Sporadic unrest reported in Warsaw Cracow Danzig Lodz and along the Polish Russian border as security forces reinforce frontline patrols.
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Morton von Duyke
Berlin
INS
Poland
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Poznan
Warsaw
Cracow
Danzig
Lodz
Modern Songs Lose Zest While Old Melodies Endure
The piece contrasts new quick, dissonant songs with enduring older tunes. It notes modern tunes fade after a few months, while classics like Sweet Adeline persist, appealing to barbershop singers, as the author hangs onto tradition and also mentions a 75 degree forecast.
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Adeline
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