29 Sep 1955
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1955
Page
1
President Eisenhower continues to recover from a heart attack with doctors reporting a very good night. He slept under an oxygen tent from 9 p.m. to 6:15 a.m. and may hear mystery and western recordings plus Shakespeare during the next ten days to aid his rest.
Hurricane Janet, a 125 to 150 mph storm, nears Vera Cruz as it moves toward the Gulf Coast with potential to cause more fatalities after devastating the Yucatan. Winds extend 60 miles ahead, with gale force across a wide area and dangerous tides from Vera Cruz to Tampico.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon prepares for his first White House meeting since Eisenhower’s heart attack. He will chair the National Security Council session and a full Cabinet meeting, signaling his expanded duties while the President recovers. Nixon also signed a White House message on Eisenhower’s behalf.
Article notes residents should donate usable clothing to Rescue Mission or Salvation Army before cold weather. It warns homeowners about gutter clogs from leaves and advises letting experienced workers handle the job. New Wilmington traffic will use four way stop signs at Market and Neshannon Ave to protect school children, prompting travel habit changes.
Showers and a few scattered thunderstorms tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Lows tonight 56 to 64, highs near 74, 45 at dawn and 0.2 inches expected. River stage around 5.5 feet, no precipitation noted year ago on this date.
Typhoon Lou battered Amami Oshima islands 115 miles south of Kyushu with winds near 125 mph. Forecast tracks show it moving toward Kyushu, likely striking Kagoshima late Thursday night or early Friday morning if current path holds.
Washington officials rejected Britain's protest over hydroelectric equipment contracts for the Chief Joseph dam. The U S kept the award with two Pennsylvania firms despite lower bids from an English company, citing American preference for domestic bidders.
Death notices list Milton H. Hogue 73 Pearl at Woods Street, Arthur J. Reamer 71 1132 Hemlock Street, Mrs Amalia Keliner 75 Ellwood City, Wallace Ardell Wright 29 R D 6 Mercer, George Kilgore 56 R D 7 Mahoningtown, Mrs Elizabeth Nye Miller R D 9 Old Savannah Road.
France presses the United Nations to require Moscow to back its smiles with action. Antoine Pinay vows real independence for North Africa within voluntary association and condemns foreign interference. Molotov walks out as talks unfold and the West denounces East Germany.
New Castle’s Harry W. Lockley Elementary was vandalized Wednesday night. Principal John N. Cornelius reports two doors destroyed and several damaged while papers lay scattered in the principal’s office. The safe door was damaged but no money was kept at the school. Police are investigating a possible entry through a library window.
British police and commandos used tear gas in Nicosia's Meatzas Square while troops with fixed bayonets halted a 5,000-strong mob at Limassol. The island-wide 24 hour general strike saw Cypriot unions staging clashes, but no shots were fired.
The Presidium of the Soviet Supreme Soviet ordered the return of 9,626 German prisoners held by the USSR. Eight thousand eight hundred seventy seven will be released to East or West Germany, while 749 will be handed over as war criminals. The decree follows Adenauer and Grotewohl’s Moscow visits.
The Peiping Radio said today six Chinese Communist volunteer divisions will be withdrawn from North Korea next month. The broadcast gave no further details.
Vice President Nixon assured the nation that government business is proceeding normally in Eisenhower's absence. Arriving at the White House for a National Security Council meeting, he said he would review routine matters and prepare subjects for a Friday cabinet session as the council plans to meet about two hours.
Ousted Argentine leader Juan D. Peron has been granted asylum in Spain and may depart today. A safe conduct pass is arranged, with Peron to be picked up by seaplane from a Paraguayan gunboat in Buenos Aires and taken to Paraguay before moving on to Spain. A police inventory lists about 30 million dollars in gold and currencies from his decade in power.
A presidential fact finding board will open an inquiry today into a dispute between the CIO Transport Workers Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. The probe follows a threatened strike and comes amid a PRR management reorganization announced after Eisenhower set up the three man board. PRR and union officials previously met to discuss a 13 page demands list including a 30 hour week and a 3342 percent pay increase.
Wealthy Mrs. Idonah Slade Perkins, 69, was jailed four hours after she talked out of turn in a court hearing over attorney fees. She remarked about the jail meal saying it saved her lunch costs.
The National Safety Council reports 23,470 people killed in highway accidents from January through August, up 1,040 from the same period in 1954. Council president Ned H. Dearborn warns the worst months are still to come as darker days and bad weather raise driving hazards.
State police filed informations charging Richard Lee Bauer and Jack Leroy Busher with involuntary manslaughter before Alderman Dorothy Howley after a coroner's jury recommended bringing the case to county court. The deaths of Frank Anthony Russo and Joseph Habib on Route 37028 in Union township were blamed on alleged illegal racing.
Gov. George M. Leader commuted the death sentence of Alfonso LaRue of Philadelphia to life imprisonment. The order came five days before his scheduled electric chair execution at Rockview Penitentiary next Monday, following a Pardons Board recommendation.
Betty Jean Benedicto 27 admitted taking baby Robert Marcus from Mount Zion hospital on Sept 19. After arrest in Stockton she was placed in a San Francisco psychiatric ward for observation as the 12 day old infant was released to his mother Hana.
George M. Leader signed a law reenacting about 272.4 million dollars of temporary taxes for two more fiscal periods. The package extends the 5 percent corporate net income tax and adds a 5 percent corporation income levy, a 14 mill gross receipts tax on utilities, and defers the manufacturers capital stock exemption. The governor noted no substantive changes from House proposals, which would raise rates further if approved by the Senate Finance Committee.
The United States reports that Communist arms shipments have left Antwerp and Odessa for Egypt. Officials are checking the claims as a U S envoy heads to Cairo, Lebanon, and Athens to press Egypt over its deal with the Soviet bloc amid fears of shifting Middle East power.
Cloudy skies precede showers and possibly thunderstorms in Pennsylvania tonight and Friday as an eastward moving low pressure system passes. The weather bureau expects the system to weaken by Saturday with cooler, drier air possible and a return to fair conditions.
The piece evokes autumn as harvest time with cider, popping corn, and wholesome schoolhouse or Grange gatherings. It notes farmers enjoying the season as crops are in and weather sits at seventy one degrees, reflecting rural life and seasonal pride.
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