Drug makers claim big rivals overcharge medicines
A New Jersey drug firm executive told Congress that large manufacturers use patent control and blitz advertising to press higher prices, harming buyers and pharmacists. He urged a drive to cut prescription costs while warning about the impact on small firms and doctors.
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Washington
New Jersey
Blackman
Premo Laboratories Inc
South Hackensack, N.J
Omega Precision Medical Instrument Co
Passaic
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Rand Dixon
Subcommittee
Premo
Pharmaceutical House
Merck & Co. Inc
Decadron
Burglary call sparks city county mix up in Lexington
Stella Starkey alerted police when burglars struck a drug store beneath her apartment. City cops thought the store lay in the county while county police assumed it was in the city, causing 18 minutes and 14 hours of delayed response before the safe were recovered abandoned with 1700 dollars missing. In Fort Worth a ceiling collapse at city court left Judge Gilmartin briefly injured yet unruffled, joking about the fine.
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Lexington
Stella Starkey
Fort Worth
Tex
W. H. Gilmartin
Ottawa Stores Open Saturday Evening
Ottawa shoppers will find stores open Saturday evening for Christmas shopping. Tomorrow evening mirrors a later Friday opening pattern with extended hours, letting customers browse after the usual early Saturday closing time.
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Ottawa
County Forecast Partial Clearing This Evening
Partial clearing occurs this afternoon or evening with partly cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday. Highs reach the upper 40s this afternoon, a low near 30 tonight, and highs around 50 to 55 Saturday.
Last Civil War Veteran Walter W Williams Near Death
Walter W Williams 117, the last Civil War veteran, faced likely hours or a day or two more as doctors said his condition was critical. He remained on oxygen and incoherent, with weak respiration and irregular pulse after multiple pneumonia episodes since June.
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Houston, Tex
Walter W. Williams
Williams
Standards for Journalism Education Formed in Illinois
EVANSTON Ill AP The American Council on Education for Journalism approved formation of a committee to draw up standards and objectives in journalism education.
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Evanston, Ill
American Council On Education For Journalism
Guardsmen disperse strikers at Wilson Packing Co plant
National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets dispersed a crowd at the Wilson Packing Co plant in Albert Lea Minnesota to back Gov. Orville Freeman's martial law in Freeborn County. The plant was shut to all but non union workers as 80 guardsmen guarded entrances and orders limited gatherings.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Wilson Packing Co
Orville Freeman
Freeborn
Wilson Gates
Wilson
Minnesota
Paul V. Meyer
Mankato
Leader of 20 Escapees Caught
Charles W Yank Stewart 62 ringleader of Tuesdays escape from Ivy Bluff Prison North Carolina was caught in Martinsville Virginia after a high speed chase. His car failed to negotiate a curve at the Smith River bridge and flipped about 30 feet to the riverbank leaving six escapees at large. Two others possibly with Stewart were being sought in the Lynchburg and Roanoke areas.
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Martinsville, Va
Charles W
Yank) Stewart
North Carolin
Ivy Bluff
Wilmington
N.C
Smith River
Stewart
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Sales dip in West Missouri department stores
Kansas City AP reports Western Missouri department store sales fell 5 percent last week from the same week a year earlier. The Tenth Federal Reserve District posted a 3 percent decline while the national index rose 2 percent.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Federal Reserve
Nation
Braves to host Bethel Gray Maroons at Wilson Field House
Ottawa University basketball hosts Bethel College Gray Maroons of Newton this evening at 7 30 at Wilson Field House on the Ottawa campus.
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Bill Frear
Ottawa University Braves
Bethel College Gray-Maroons
Newton
Wilson Field House
Ottawa University
Ike's Position Grows Stronger For Summit Talks
President Eisenhower gains credibility for the East West summit with Khrushchev as his Asia goodwill tour draws massive support. The reception across Turkey Pakistan Afghanistan and India boosts his leadership image and may influence Paris negotiations opening December 19 with a later Soviet confrontation in April.
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Ike
New Delhi
India
Eisenhower
Asia
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Turkey
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Paris
Man Arrested Near Death Scene At Clutter Farm
Jonathan Adrian, 36, of Wichita, was arrested near the Herbert Clutter farmhouse where four family members were slain. He told officers he visited out of curiosity and admitted entering the house through a water pipe tunnel but denied taking anything. He was found with a .32 caliber pistol, a shotgun, and a hunting knife.
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Garden City
Kan
Herbert W. Cluster
Jonathan Adrian
Wichita
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Adrian
al Dewey
KBI
Clutter
Dewey
Topeka State Hospital
Nehru Says Ike Discussed India China Border Dispute
New Delhi AP Prime Minister Nehru said he and President Eisenhower discussed India's dispute with Communist China at a reception. He told reporters they talked about it broadly but not in great detail.
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New Delhi
Nehru
Eisenhower
India
China
Reds And US Agree On Space Cooperation
United States and Soviet Union reach a plan to establish a 24 nation United Nations body for peaceful space uses. Agreement finalized by Henry Cabot Lodge and Vasily Kuznetsov after weeks of talks, to be presented to the UN Political Committee for swift action.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Soviet Union
U.N
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
General Assembly
Kuznetsov
FBI captures one of nation s most wanted fugitive
Joseph Lloyd Thomas, long sought by authorities, was captured by FBI agents after surrendering at a service station. Indicted on federal charges for the February 13, 1958, robbery of Commercial National Bank in Shreveport, Louisiana, he had been living under an assumed name in Terre Haute area with his family. Two other bandits were arrested. the third escaped. Thomas formerly ran a Terre Haute restaurant and later a used car business under the alias George Clark Ashley.
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Pelzer
8.C
Joseph Lloyd Thomas
FBI
Thomas
Terre Haute
Ind
Commercial National Bank of
Shreveport
George Clark Ashley
Fatal Turnpike Crash Claims Delbert Hill
Delbert Hill 29 of Fairway Kansas died after a car struck a bridge pier on the Kansas Turnpike west of Kansas City. Hill, sales manager for a drug firm, sustained fatal injuries and died in a local hospital about four hours later.
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Kansas City
Kas
Delbert Hill
Fairway
Kansas Turnpike
Here
Hill
Eisenhower Urges War Against Hunger and Famine
AP dispatch notes strong Christmas spending across 24 cities with forecasts of a record season. Shoppers chase high priced luxury items and gear toward fashion and quality amid steady prices and easier credit. Across the country merchants report robust demand for furs, $40 sweaters, expensive jackets, and space age toys as the steel strike has minimal impact on buying.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cleveland
Raleigh
N.C
New York
St. Louis
Miami
Fla
Indianapolis
North Carolina
Marshall Field & Co
Chicago
Farmer Injured By Corn Picker Near Pomona Reservoir
An Osage County farmer Elmer L. Shultz was seriously injured yesterday when his right hand became mangled in a corn picker east of the Pomona reservoir dam. Neighbor John Ashwell and Corps of Engineers project manager C Hale West freed him after he hours trapped. He was taken to Overbrook and then Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka.
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Osage County
Elmer L. Shultz
Pomona Reservoir
Shultz
John Ashwell
C. Hale West
West
Corps of Engineers
Ashwell
Schultz
Overbrook
Stormont Vail Hospital
Topeka
Three Living in Car for Months in Detroit Suburb
Delores Zamoscin 30 said she and her two daughters ages 6 and 7 had lived in a 1953 automobile since July after being turned down for aid. She reported working as a waitress, babysitter, and laundress to provide food and gas, and that they slept in public parks on warm nights and kept the car heater running on cold nights.
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Detroit
Grosse Pointe Shores
Delores Zamoscin
Pennsylvania
Open House at 1911 S Maple This Weekend
Pel Construction advertises an open house at 1911 South Maple Street this Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 PM. The event showcases home features and building options for visitors.
Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree lights glow in New York
About 5,000 people watched as the 70 foot Norwegian spruce on Rockefeller Plaza lit up with more than 4,000 red, white and green globes. The annual display marks the start of the city’s holiday season.
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New York
Rockefeller Plaza
Three Are Safe After Rough Trip
Three Kentuckians returned to Lincolnville Kansas after a harrowing journey that began with a missing private plane. Laban Jackson Kentucky conservation commissioner and the Reverends Harold Hazelip and L Wesley Jones of Bowling Green were safe after a route that included Evansville Indiana Lawrenceville Illinois Kansas City Missouri and Overland Park Kansas. Mrs Jackson reported a 3 30 a m telephone update confirming the plane overdue.
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Lincolnville
Kan
Kansas
Laban Jackson
Kentucky
Harold Hazelip
Louisville
L. Wesley Jones
Bowling Green
Evansville
Ind
Lawrenceville
Kansas City
John T. Hannah
Overland Park
Kansas Town
Shelbyville
Jackson
Auto crashes into Miami duplex killing two occupants
At dawn an auto veered from a highway, struck a duplex house in Miami killing Lee Bembroy 50 and Ne groes 48. A third resident, Mrs Tukes 45, was rescued from flames as driver Harold Guthrie 26, charged with manslaughter and drunken, speeding and reckless driving, was found drunk.
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Miami
Fla
Fred Fuqua
Harold Guthrie
Guthrie
Lee Bembroy
Neal Tukes
Bear rider crashes into trainer during circus act
In Miami Beach a trained bear on a motor scooter collided with trainer Walter Klauser during a nationally televised Ringling Bros. show. Klauser suffered a fractured leg but the performance continued without interruption.
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Miam! Beach, Fla. (Ap
Walter Klauser
Klauser
Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey
Eisenhower urges world war on hunger at New Delhi fair
President Eisenhower called for a genuinely noble war against hunger, saying nations must unite to end famine as crowds cheered in New Delhi. He praised India as a force for world peace and pledged U.S. help to solve India’s food shortages, stressing shared goals of food, family, friendship, and freedom.
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New Delhi
Eisenhower
India
Fair
Rajendra Prasad
Nehru
United States
America
U.S
Delhi University
Ten Pairs Of Tonsils Out At Kansas City Hospital
The Sopher family underwent a tonsillectomy marathon at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City. Ten children aged 3 to 16 were brought to surgery one after another, with Carla Sopher, 3, first and three hours later the rest followed. Mrs James Sopher, 36, escorted each child to the operating rooms while her husband, 37, an appliance serviceman, split time among four rooms. Two Sophers did not undergo the procedure. Michael, 10, had the operation five years earlier, and Pamela, 3 months, was deemed too young.
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Kansas City
Sopher
St. Joseph Hospital
Carla Sopher
James Sopher
Michael
Pamela
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