Menon heads to Peiping to plan U S China talks on Formosa
Indian UN delegate V K Krishna Menon left Delhi for Peiping to arrange immediate talks between the United States and Communist China on the Formosa crisis. He met Nehru and Communist diplomats after Bandung talks and may visit Washington and London as part of the plan.
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New Delhi
India
V. K. Krishna Menon
United Nations
Peiping
United States
China
Formosa
Krishna Menon
Chou En-lai
Red
Bandung
Jawaharlal Nehru
Chou
Nehru
U.S
John Sherman Cooper
Washington
London
City tests plastic crosswalk strips downtown
City experiments with new plastic crosswalk strips on North Jefferson Street near Sycamore Way to test durability. High school seniors sport blue and white hats at New Castle High. Route 422 east park sees heavy use as touring season begins. Drivers urged to cautious. Walk and Wait signals prompt longer delays. Pedestrian box near Cochran Way and West Washington moved causing traffic tangles.
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Pa Nene
Jefferson Street
Sycamore Way
New Castle High School
West Washington Street
South Jefferson
Cochran Way
West Washington
Daily Weather Report Forecast and Stats
Some cloudiness and warmer with showers and scattered thunder storms this evening. Fair and mild tonight. Fair and not as warm Sunday. High today 76 84 and low tonight 50 57. United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at seven a m today. Maximum temperature 75 Minimum temperature 38 No precipitation River stage 5 7 feet. Statistics for the same date a year ago follow Maximum temperature 57 Minimum temperature 40 No precipitation.
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United States
Senate Committee Rejects President's Highway Plan
Senate Public Works Committee largely backed a Democratic sponsored roads bill and adjourned until Monday. Sen. Edward Martin plans to retry the Eisenhower plan financing with 30 year bonds, while the panel favored direct appropriations over the bond approach. The Gore bill would authorize a 17.809 billion program over five years amid a broader 101 billion national road need.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Republicans
Eisenhower
Senate Public Works Committee
Edward Martin
Martin
Albert Gore
Tenn
Missing crews in Aleutian shipwrecks prompt search
Coast guard and search vessels comb Aleutians near Agatta Island for 31 missing crew members from two ships Hatsushio Maru and Koko Maru. Fourteen Japanese bodies found on Agatta shores. Hatsushio Maru had 24 aboard and Koko Maru 21. Tokyo sent seven ships to aid in the search.
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Kodiak, Alaska
Aleutian Island
Agatta Island
Alaskan Sea Frontier
Tokyo
Aleutian
Maritime Safety Board
Body Of Man Found In Burned Home Ruins
William Henshaw is discovered dead beneath a bed in his charred residence on New Salem Road. His sister Lulu Henshaw, 70, is hospitalized with facial burns and says he initially escaped Friday morning but re entered to fetch water and fight the flames.
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Uniontown
William Henshaw
New Salem Rd
Lulu Henshaw
Uniontown Hospital
LON Strikers To Return To Work Monday
About 29,000 Louisville and Nashville Railroad workers will resume duties Monday ending an eight week walkout. Federal mediation officials said a formal agreement would be signed within hours though final settlement details remained unclear.
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Atlanta
Louisville and Nashville
Washington
L&n System
Legislature To Honor Dr Salk In Joint Session
In Harrisburg the Pennsylvania Legislature will pause budget studies to honor Jonas E Salk. Gov George M Leader will join both houses in a joint session next Tuesday. A resolution creating a chair of preventive medicine at the University of Pittsburgh will be signed, honoring the polio vaccine developer.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Jonas E. Salk
George M
Salk
University of Pittsburgh
Michigan Won't Halt Salk Polio Vaccines
Michigan Health Commissioner Dr. Albert Heustis refused to halt the Salk polio vaccination program despite a U S Surgeon General recommendation. Heustis said no specific reasons exist to postpone inoculations and urged communities to keep current programs, while promising to follow any NIH directive.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Albert Heustis
U.S
Heustis
State Health Department
National Institutes of Health
Dulles Arrives in Paris for Diplomatic Conferences
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived in Paris to attend major talks on the Indochina crisis and Vienna Austrian state treaty. He expected a Big Three and Big Four meeting with the Soviets and hailed NATO and Western European Union developments including Germany's entry. He said the Vienna talks were progressing and expressed confidence in achieving détente tests through upcoming conferences.
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United Press
Paris
John Foster Dulles
Washington
West
Russia
Dulles
France
Indochina
Germany
NATO
European Union
Eisenhower
Columbine
West Germany
Vienna
Dulles Seeks Austrian State Treaty in Paris
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said he hoped to sign an Austrian state treaty to test Russia’s stated desire to ease tensions. He arrived in Paris to shape Western policy for potential Big Four talks and to discuss South Vietnam. A diplomatic source cited Bulganin as ready to discuss other European issues after the treaty.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
John Foster Dulles
Heins L. Krekeler
Paris
Dulles
West Germany
Russia
Ins
South Vietnam
Europe
Nikolai Bulganin
Louis Joxe
Joxe
NATO
New Flareup in Haiphong Sparks Injuries
In Haiphong a fresh protest against the Viet Minh detention of political prisoners led to clashes with French troops. Demonstrators hurled bottles and stones. troops used tear gas to disperse them as armored cars patrolled the city following a prior outbreak with about 10,000 protesters.
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Saigon
Indochina
Haiphong
Viet Minh
Open Gas Line Catches Fire in City Apartment
An open gas line caught fire in the apartment of Rose Gay at 337 East Washington Street Friday evening. Firemen said the line was disconnected to move a stove and had not been shut off. The resident extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived with no damage reported.
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Rose Gay
East Washington Street
Delay In Salk Vaccine Use Is Recommended
Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele advised states and cities to postpone polio vaccination pending Sunday’s announcement on whether the Salk vaccine should undergo stricter safety testing. The call followed an urgent two day inquiry by top polio experts into the Cutter Laboratory vaccine production after 38 inoculated children.
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Washington
U.S
Leonard A. Scheele
Cutter Laborate
Chicago Drive to End Fires in Cheap Hotels
Mayor Daley and Chicago officials press a campaign to end deadly fires in cheap hotels after 51 deaths in three months. A Skid Row flophouse fire at the Comfort Hotel killed nine and injured 13 in ten minutes, with victims reportedly in deep alcohol sleep. Earlier blazes killed 29 on Feb. 12, five two weeks ago, and eight last week.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Comfort Hotel
Daley
Four Firemen Injured in Pittsburgh Armature Fire
A blaze at Crown Armature Co. caused about 15000 dollars in damage and disrupted rush hour traffic. eight fire companies battled the flames for over two hours. Four firefighters were injured, three slightly. Deputy Chief John Regina remained hospitalized after a 20 foot ladder fall.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Crown Armature Co
Armature Repair
John Regina
South Side Hospital
Death notices list five residents and two in Hillsville
Obituaries report Antoinette Nettie Mediate aged 16 in Hillsville and five other local names Mrs Elenore Corey 77 of Conkle avenue Mrs Ethel Guy Davis 64 of Wampum Chauncey Kaufman 64 of New Wilmington Lorraine Bonnell Hughes 58 of Elmwood avenue Miss Fannie Perry 85 of RD 5 Pamela Marino 834 Beckford street.
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Elenore Marie Corey
Conkle Avenue
Ethel Guy Davis
Wampum
Chauncey M. Kaufman
R. D
New Wilmington
Lorraine Bonnell Hughes
Elmwood Avenue
Fannie Perry
Pamela Marino
Beckford Street
Senate expected to approve Eisenhower foreign aid plan
Senator Walter F. George predicted Senate approval of President Eisenhower’s 1956 foreign aid request of 3.53 billion dollars with little change. He said hearings may continue briefly and that approval hinges on later appropriations. carryover funds from seven to ten billion dollars could face opposition. Harold Stassen spoke to the committee.
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Washington
INS
Walter F. George
Senate
Eisenhower
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Appropriations Committees
Paul Douglas
Harold E. Stassen
West Germany to join NATO in Paris ceremony
NATO will formally admit the Federal Republic of Germany as a full member in a ceremony at NATO headquarters in Paris. The move follows West Germany’s acceptance by the United States and makes Germany the 15th member of the alliance as the council opens a three day session.
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Paris
NATO Council
Lord Ismay
NATO
Premier Diem accuses France of aiding gangsters in Vietnam
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem charged the French with openly aiding the Binh Xuyen gangsters as government troops fought a bloody civil conflict last weekend. General Paul Ely rebutted, accusing the Diem government of a hatred campaign and imposed a curfew and strict security in Haiphong to quell riots against French troops.
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Saigon
Indochina
Ngo Dinh Diem
Paul Ely
Diem
France
Ely
Haiphong
Viet Nam
State Awaits Polio Vaccine Decision Sunday
Dr. Ber Wyn F. Mattison, state health secretary, says Pennsylvania will decide Sunday or Monday on delaying polio inoculations for about 45,000 Philadelphia first and second graders after the Sunday experts report. About 350,000 PA children have been inoculated with no ill effects. 2 percent parental refusals noted.
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Harrisburg
Berwyn F. Mattison
Pennsylvania
Mattison
U.S
Jonas Salk
Philadelphia
Health Department
Brother Separated Siamese Twin Near Death in Chicago
Rodney Dee Brodie 3% remained in a coma with a brain hemorrhage at the University of Illinois hospital in Chicago after surgery failed to stop the bleeding. His headless twin brother Roger Lee died 34 days after their separation in December 1952.
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Chicago
INS
Rodney Dee Brodie
Iris Brother
Roger Lee
Rodney Dee
University of Illinois Education and Research Hospital
Rodney
Teen-Ager Fatally Injured In Hillsville Crash
Antoinette Mediate 16 of Hillsville died at New Castle hospital after a collision on Route 224 west of the overpass. Gail Feo 17 remains in poor condition at Jameson Memorial with facial injuries and shock. Esther Grilli 16 is in fair condition with multiple contusions. The truck driver John Amon 22 of Polk, escaped with minor scalp laceration as investigators continue.
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Antoinette Mediate
Hillsville
Gail Marie Feo
John B. Amon
Polk
New Castle Hospital
Feo
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Esther Grilli
Charles F. Allen
Miss Feo
Amon
Japanese Girls Headed to New York for Plastic Surgery
Twenty five Japanese girls depart Honolulu for California then New York to undergo plastic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital to erase scars from Hiroshima. They were greeted by about one hundred Honolulu Japanese residents including relatives. The girls travel to Travis Air Force Base then proceed to New York for operations.
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Honolulu
California
New York
Hiroshima
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Mount Sinai Hospital
Sees Page Highlights Local Events Across City
Page 21 item highlights a town meeting, school board notes, and a charity bake sale. It lists dates and venues for each event, inviting residents to participate and support community efforts.
Red Job and a Compromise Ride
Arthur Mometer recalls an old car with four wheels and a motor that ran well but faced a hill in high. The wife urged turning it in, leading to a compromise and a cooler red car, as the day marks seventy one degrees today.
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Lady Fair
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Nettie) Mediate
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