Salvation Army to Start Portsmouth Building Construction
The Salvation Army expects to begin work within days on a new building at Ninth and Findlay Streets in Portsmouth. Maj. Arthur B. Hill announced the project after accepting a 137,809 bid package from four contractors, with J. L. Cunningham Construction Co. as general contractor and approvals from the advisory board, architect Charles M. Donaldson, and bidders. The project faces funding gaps, with 32,498.14 raised toward a 35,000 target, and a total estimated cost of 175,000 covering construction, architect services, site and equipment.
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Portsmouth
Salvation Army
Ninth
Cer
Maj. Hill
J. L. Cunningham Construction Co
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Charles M. Donaldson
James K. Lee
A Ee Ete Cone
11Th and
River City Council
United Commercial Travelers
Charles E. Moore
UCT
Moore
Lee
Chillicothe Sts
Engineer Is U S Casualty In Argentina
The first American casualty in the Buenos Aires clash was Graham E. Tune, a Detroit industrial engineer for Kaiser Motors Argentina. His body was identified in a city morgue after a bomb nearby. Reports from travelers to Santiago, Chile, estimate about 2,000 killed and 3,000+ injured in the fighting.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Graham E. Tune
Detroit
Kaiser Motor Corp
Santiago
Chile
FBI Called In On Hunt For Jail Escapee
FBI agents joined Scioto County and tri state law officers in a manhunt for Wilbur Jeffords who escaped from the jail early Monday. A Times reporter sighted him near the courthouse around 7 am, and deputies traced a car seen by Jim Joseph to a Charleston area owner. Jeffords, awaiting trial on burglary and larceny, slipped from the jail through an opening above a toilet and escaped via the maintenance catwalk and a visitors booth before leaving through a gate left open for a trusty.
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FBI
Wilbur Jeffords
Scioto County
Sheriff's Department
Tri-State
C. R. Burns
Jeffords
Times
Jim Joseph
Sixth St
Sixth and
Court Sts
Mr. Joseph
Court St
Charleston Rt. 3
Driver Dies After Crash On Gallia St
A Scioto County man, George Easter aged 51 of Friendship, died after his auto struck the rear of a parked tractor-trailer on Gallia Street near Damron Road in rainy conditions. The crash occurred at 9:42 p.m. and the sedan burst into flames. Driver Mervin Gorby and John Shockley assisted in removing Easter from the burning car before ambulance crews arrived. Easter died at Mercy Hospital a few minutes later. Police noted the truck was improperly parked and traffic was diverted as the investigation proceeded.
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Scioto County
Gallia St
George Easter
Friendship
Easter
Mercy Hospital
Damron Rd
T&t
Mr. Easter
Mervin G. Gorby
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
John Shockley
Buena Vista
Mart Glynn
Traf
William Huels
Howard Thompson
Huels
Thompson
R. Cook
New London
Mr. Gorby
Matt Glynn
Melcher Ambuances
Ohio House Advances Korean Veterans Bonus Vote
The Ohio House planned final action to place a 99 million dollar bond issue for a Korean veterans bonus on the 1956 ballot. The measure heads to voters next year after Senate approval, with changes to avoid clashing with a 150 million dollar state buildings bond. Also up were a four year term for senators, long term lake shore leases, and 39 bills advancing toward a tentative Thursday quitting date.
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Art Parks
Ohio
Director of Public Works
Lake Erie
St. Lawrence Seaway
Senate
Summer Solstice Signals Start of Warmer Weather
The article notes summer begins at 11 32 tonight with typical July warmth in the Ohio Valley forecast. Portsmouth records 79 degrees at 11 am, 89 high Monday, 60 low, and a heavy thundershower cooling the night. The Weather Bureau predicts near normal 84 63 for five days with scattered showers by Friday. The sun reaches its northernmost point at 11 32 pm signaling the solstice as it moves northward before eventual southward retreat.
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Ohio Valley
Portsmouth
Weather Bureau
Steelworkers Tackle Pair in Wage Negotiations
U S Steel plans a pay raise and resumes talks with the CIO United Steelworkers as two other big producers including Jones & Laughlin and Inland Steel are set to negotiate. Basic steelworkers average $2.33 an hour. Union president David J. McDonald has not publicized demands.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
Cio-United
U. S. Steel
Big Steel
Jones & Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel Co
John A. Stephens
North Korean Fliers Surrender at Seoul Airport
Two young North Korean aviators landed at Seoul Air Port in a Yak fighter then surrendered to South Korean airmen. Capt. Lee Un Yong, 24, reported return from Kiev jet school six months earlier, and Lt. Lee Eun Song, 24, a navigator trained in Red China, were taken for questioning as asylum seekers.
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Seoul
ROK
Lee UN Yong
Kiev
Lee Eun Song
Red China
Young Russia Youth Trouble In Red Paradise
Leon Dennen reports on Soviet youths embracing religion and rebellion as traditional discipline fades. He notes similarities between Tamara Volkova and Western youth, with rising divorces, alcoholism, and a search for an easy life amid state control. If continues, article explores shifts in Lenin era youth.
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U.S
Tamara Volkova
Literary Gazette
Death Takes Mrs Atlas 66 in Mercy Hospital
Mrs. Nannett Levi Atlas of 1026 C rist Street died Monday at 4 20 p m after a lingering illness. She was 66 and admitted to Mercy Hospital May 30. A Portsmouth native, she was married May 15 1952 in Cincinnati after years there. She was a Portsmouth High School graduate of 1907 and a member of the Jewish Temple Sisterhood.
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Nannett Levi Atlas
Crist
Mercy Hospital
Cincinnati
Mr. Atlas
No Deaths In 54 New Boston Honored For Pedestrian Safety
New Boston earned the American Automobile Association Award for Excellence for no pedestrian deaths in 1954. Mayor Vernal Riffe presented the honor at a ceremony attended by John P. Irwin, manager of the Auto Club of Southern Ohio. Irwin credited residents for the record amid rising traffic exposure and vehicle use.
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American Automobile Assn
AAA
Vernal Riffe
New Boston
John P. Irwin
Auto Club of Southern Ohio
Irwin
Pedestrian Safety Cited In City Traffic Progress
The speaker highlighted a sharp drop in pedestrian fatalities from 1937 to 1954, noting 7,900 deaths in 1954 and a 49 percent reduction. While other fatalities rose 18 percent, the focus remains on saving pedestrian lives and boosting protection efforts for pedestrians. Two bomb attacks in Nicosia wounded two people as terrorists renewed strikes amid Cyprus unrest.
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Mr. Irwin
New Boston
Irwin
Nicosia
Cyprus
Mediterranean Island
Greece
Like A Dream Boy Steals Bike Then Finds New Home
In Wellston Ohio a 14 year old Jungled youth stole a bicycle from a porch. Juvenile officer Charles Dixon found the boy with the bicycle and returned it to its owners. The teen then faces a chance at a new family and a bicycle of his own.
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Wellston
Ohio
Jackson County
Charles Dixon
Dixon
Molotov To Study Series Of Proposals
In San Francisco Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov discussed Geneva talks with Western powers. He said he would study the New York agreed proposals and respond in a day or two. Diplomats noted optimism and no additional meeting was set.
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Molotov
San Francisco
Russia
Geneva
V. M. Molotov
New York
Commentators Probe U.N. Worth and Molo tov Critique
James Marlow says the U.N. has not worked perfectly but remains useful. David Lawrence labels the figure Molo tov as the arch conspirator of all times, reflecting sharp opinion pieces on international affairs.
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James Marlow
U.N
David Lawrence
Molotov
Summit plans set for Geneva talks at U.N. HQ
Harold Macmillan and Antoine Pinay proposed a four to six day summit in Geneva to ease world tension without specific issue settlement and urged U.N. to service sessions as the U.N. marks its 10th anniversary. Eisenhower praised the conference and vowed to seek world peace.
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Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
Palais Des Nations
U.N
Geneva
Macmillan
Britain
Eisenhower
FHA Tightens On New Homes in Pike County
FHA restricts insuring new houses to those under contract or with a firm buyer. In Pike County Ohio, over 400 vacant new homes prompt a directive to curb speculative building. FHA will not issue new commitments for speculative development and calls for coordination with HHFA and VA.
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Pike County
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
HHFA
Veterans Administration
Ohio
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