Westminster Welcomes Freshmen at Friday Reception
Westminster College welcomed its class of over 300 freshmen during a Ferguson Hall reception marking Freshmen Week. Dr. Will W. Orr and wife led the welcome line with John H. Ferry and John Edwards Jr. on the committee. New faculty and international students Sook Kyong Kim Insook Han John Machado and Gustavo Machado attended.
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Westminster
Will W. Orr
Westminster College
Ferguson Hall
John H. Ferry
John Edwards
Sook Kyong Kim
Insook Han
Venezuela
John and
Gustevo Machado
Large summer tomatoes and garden notes in Wampum
Ernest Hennon of Wampum sent in samples of oversized tomatoes he raised this summer. The large fruits measured well over a pound each and were canned by his wife into pints. Also noted were lima bean pods. Church work on Highland avenue advances with St. John’s Lutheran men hard at it for the new edifice. Attendance rises as vacation ends and rally day looms. Local squirrels are active as autumn nears.
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Ernest Hennon
Wampum
Newe
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Highland Avenue
Weather stats for 24 hours ending 7am today
The period recorded a maximum temperature of 75 degrees and a minimum of 55. Precipitation totaled 0.17 inches. River stage was 5.3 feet.
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United States
Prize Bull Gores Farmer To Death
In Plainfield township near Easton a 75 year old farmer was killed when gored by his prize two year old bull during a neck chain placement on the farm. The bull tossed him five feet into the air and then turned on his son Wilbur who subdued it with a pitchfork and dragged his father’s body away.
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Easton
INS
Plainfield Township
Stewart Uhler
Uhler
Wilbur
GSA Chief to Meet UE&F Over New Castle Plant Issue
Edmund F Mansure head of the General Services Administration will meet United Engineering and Foundry Company officials to settle the operation questions at the New Castle plant. Senator Edward Martin and Congressman Louis E Graham arranged the contact and informed Roger W Rowland of the development. The federal agency oversees leased government plants and the meeting may occur next week in Washington.
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Edmund F. Mansure
General Services Administration
United Engineering and Foundry Company
New Castle
Roger W. Rowland
Edward Martin
Louis E. Graham
Rowland
Mr. Mansure
United
Mansure
Washington
Whitesville Bank Cashier Defended After Cashing Bad Checks
Whitesville Kentucky residents vow to defend bank cashier Bernard Barrett who was jailed on $25,000 bond for cashing bad checks totaling 417000. Barrett says he aided customers out of habit and earned no profit, admitting he underestimated the total.
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Whitesville, Ky
INS
Whitesville
Bernard Barrett
Barrett
Bank of Whitesville
Typhoon Lorna Aims At Japan Industrial Heart
Typhoon Lorna with 90 mph winds bears down on Osaka and Kobe then may sweep toward Nagoya and Tokyo. Heavy rain and strong winds lash southern Japan as the storm approaches industrial centers.
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Tokyo
INS
Japan
Pacific
Osaka
Kobe
Nagoya
U.S. Plan To Block Red China Seating At U.N.
The United States with Britain maps quick action to curb a Soviet drive at the United Nations to seat Peiping. The plan proposes suspending discussion on seating the Chinese regime for the three month session. The move targets blocking Andrei Vishinsky from leading a propaganda motion at the Assembly opening.
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Pierre J. Huss
United Nations
N. Y
INS
United States
China
UN Assembly
U. S
Britain
Assembly
Peiping
Missing Nancy Plummer Feared to Have Met Foul Play
Cambridge authorities fear Radcliffe student Nancy Lee Plummer 23 of Warren Pennsylvania may have vanished with foul play. She left with only the clothes she wore and papers for the Germanic museum, planned to return to her room after a museum visit, had a new telephone, and a one year lease.
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Cambridge
Mass
INS
Radcliffe
Nancy Lee Plummer
Warren
Oberlin College
Nancy
Germanic Museum
Nixon Appeals St. Louis Critics at Republican Dinner
In St Louis Vice President Richard Nixon blasted the Truman era as rife with scandal and praised the Eisenhower GOP for a climate of honor. He called the administration a beacon of reform and urged a voters to choose a return to Trumanism rather than mere conservatism.
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Korea
Nixon
Resignation of Piccioni Accepted
Rome reports Premier Scelba accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni to clear his jazz-loving son Piero in the Wilma Montesi scandal. Reliable sources say the cabinet would accept the resignation if offered by Piccioni to defend his family’s honor as a private individual.
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Rome
INS
Mario Scelba
Attilio Piccioni
Piccioni
Piero
Wilma Montesi
Gibbons backs 11 p.m. curfew for youths in parts of Philadelphia
Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons endorsed a proposed 11 pm curfew for residents under 17 in restricted Philadelphia areas. City Council member Paul DOrtona introduced the measure, which Gibbons said could be enforced locally but not citywide.
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Philadelphia
INS
Thomas J. Gibbons
Paul D’ortona
Gibbons
League to Elect Officers Today Dinner Tonight
Delegates at the League of Third Class cities convention will elect officers and choose a next year’s convention city this afternoon. A seven pm cathedral banquet will feature David R. Perry of the state liquor control board as principal speaker.
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League of Third Class Cities
David R. Perry
State Liquor Control Board
Castleton
Shenango Pottery
Walter H. Grove
Altoona
Edward A. DeCarbo
New Castle
Earl E. Schaffer
Bethlehem
Donald M. McNeill
Pittsburgh
New Kensington
Sewickley
Butler
George S. Schmidt
State Planning Board
William M. Huggins
Philadelphia
William H. Markus
Pennsylvania
Harry Lightstone
Pottsville
Grove
Walter E. Greenwood
Coatesville
Polio cases in Pennsylvania May Hit Peak Next Week
Harrisburg based health official Dr. William D Schrack Jr says polio cases in Pennsylvania should peak in the third week of September with a decline expected after the first week of October. Through September 17 the year-to-date total is 610 cases versus 716 by Sept 17, 1953.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
William D. Schrack, Jr
State Health Dept. Bureau of Communicable Diseases
Schrack
Selective Service Plans October Registrant Quota
Harrisburg announces 1705 registrants to be summoned in October to meet a 1555 quota. Quotas by city: Harrisburg 345 Philadelphia 548 Pittsburgh 562 Wilkes-Barre 185 Buffalo 65. Buffalo station covers Erie and Bradford counties.
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Harrisburg
INS
Harry M. Gross
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Wilkes-Barre
Buffalo
N. Y
Erie
Bradford County
Two Airmen Die In Crash Near Harrisburg
Two airmen were killed when a T-33 jet trainer crashed and exploded in a ravine near the West Shore Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Witnesses said the plane dove after a low pass over Harrisburg airport in New Cumberland before failing to pull up. Officials at Olmstead Air Force Base in Middletown confirmed the accident.
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Harrisburg
INS
Air Force
West Shore
New Cumberland
Olmstead Air Force Base
Middletown
Nine Power Conference on West Germany Plan
Western capitals prepare for a nine nation conference in London to address West German sovereignty and rearmament. Churchill calls a cabinet meeting to set dates with September 27 or 28 floated for the opening. A compromise plan is urged to France via Mendes France. if rejected, alternatives may be presented.
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London
INL
Winston Churchill
Foreign Office
France
West Germany
John Foster Dulles
Anthony Eden
Churchill
Pierre Mendes- France
United States
Numbers Barons Reported Profiting Big In Philadelphia
District Attorney Richardson Dilworth says numbers barons generate about 60 million dollars yearly in Philadelphia. He claims much of the revenue goes as payoff to corrupt politicians to sustain the operation and that syndicates now flood the city with narcotics and crime.
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Philadelphia
INS
Richardson Dilworth
Dilworth
Death notices for several residents in local area
Miss Mary T Deely aged 79 of 125 Park avenue Mrs Herb D McGoun 75 of 325 East Wallace avenue Charles C Rassey 59 of 11 Oakwood Mrs Sarah Daisy Smith 73 of 120 North Crawford avenue and Nunzio Veluso 67 of Struthers Ohio are listed in the community death records with addresses.
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Herb D. McGoun
Wallace Avenue
Charles C. Rassey
Oakwood Avenue
Sarah Daisy Smith
Crawford Avenue
Nunzio Veluso
Struthers
Ohio
McCarthy Inquiry Upbeat on Report Completion
Two members of the special Senate committee on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy predicted the panel may finish its report by mid next week. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson said he hopes to be home by the 23rd and will not leave until the report is completed and signed. Sen. Sam Erwin voiced cautious optimism that a middle of next week delivery is possible as the Senate plans a special session to consider the findings. The Christmas deadline looms, with leaders Knowland and Johnson to decide actual timing, amid election speculation.
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Senate
William F. Knowland
Calif
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Sen
Johnson
Stevenson To Speak Tonight At Midwest Democratic Banquet
Adlai E. Stevenson will headline a $100-a-plate banquet closing the Midwest Democratic conference in Indianapolis. Gov Elect Edmund Muskie of Maine will share top billing, as labor and unemployment issues dominate planning for the November elections. Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan will speak at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association luncheon.
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Eugene J. Cadou
Indianapolis
INS
Adlai E. Stevenson
Midwest
Democratic Party
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Stevenson
Indiana
Democratic Editorial Association
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Drafting for Civil Defense Seen as Needed
Philadelphia civil defense director Paul B. Hartenstein urged drafting young men for civil defense duty. He made the recommendation after observing operations in European countries at a Civil Defense Council meeting Friday.
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Philadelphia
INS
Civil Defense
Paul B. Hartenstein
Civil Defense Council
British troops pursue Mau Mau rebels after prison raid
More than 1,000 British troops and police aided by dogs and spotter aircraft hunted 40 heavily armed Mau Mau terrorists who raided a prison 23 miles south of Nairobi and freed 200 Mau Mau convicts.
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Nairobi
Kenya
INS
Two American Soldiers Seized on Czech-German Border
Two U S soldiers were seized near Eslar n close to the Bavarian border by armed Czech guards. The Army said the men were presumably arrested in the U S zone while Bavarian police claimed they were kidnapped while peering into the Czech village of Einsendorf. The incident was the third border flare up within nine days involving Americans in the Hof region.
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Heidelberg
Germany
INS
U. S. Army
Eslarn
Weden
Hof
U. S
Eisendorf
Bus Hit by Wet Road Trucks Near Bessemer Hillsville
A bus carrying 15 passengers en route to New Castle was struck from behind by a GMC empty truck two miles west of Bessemer Hillsville on Route 224 at 4:15 p.m. Friday. The GMC, driven by Frank McKissick, slid on wet pavement due to braking, causing severe damage to the bus but no injuries to passengers. Irwin C. Gerlach of Lowellville was the bus driver. no injuries were reported.
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Bessemer-Hillsville
Irwin C. Gerlach
Lowellville
GMC
Frank McKissick
Butler
R. D
New Castle
Columbus Mayor Will Run Again
Columbus mayor Maynard EF Sensenbrenner, known for Bible selling and office supply, says he will run for a second term. He sold his store after his youngest son left for college and asserts voters deserve another chance at better administration. Elected in November 1953.
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Columbus
INS
Maynard EF. Sensenbrenner
Sensenbrenner
Dulles and Eden Reach Accord on West Germany Status
Secretary of State Dulles returns to Washington after securing British approval of West German equality in the European Allied Defense system. He notes no adequate substitute for the EDC and signals further talks before any formal Anglo American accord. Eisenhower may be briefed in Denver on the trip.
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Watertown
N. Y
INS
John Foster Dulles
United States
Germany
Britain
European Defense Community
Dulles
Robert G. Nixon
Washington
West Germany
France
Denver
Colo
Eisenhower
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Adenauer
White House Staff Secretary Paul T Carroll Dies
Brig. Gen. Paul T. Carroll White House staff secretary died at Walter Reed hospital in Washington after a long service record starting with Eisenhower in Europe. He ran the White House clearing house for presidential matters and briefed the president on national security problems.
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Fraser
Colo
INS
White House
Paul T. Carroll
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Carroll
Eisenhower
Europe
NATO
Paris
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Rainy Weather Brings Needed Relief and 64 Degree Day
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