Compromise Seen in Kaesong Parley Amid Korean Talks
United Nations and Communist negotiators hint at a possible compromise on buffer zones as Kaesong talks resume. The fifteenth session yielded no progress, with both sides clinging to positions on the 38th parallel and a demilitarized zone.
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Stan Carter
U. N
Korea
United Nations
Kaesong
U. N. Command
38Th Parallel
U.N
Battle Lne
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
United States
Peng
Chu Teh
Red Armies
William Nuckols
Nuckols
Jenner Fair Opens With Throngs and Daredevil Show
Over 3000 attend the Jenner Fair opening on Tuesday evening as Jose Chitwood and his Daredevils thrill crowds with death defying stunts including two wheel driving. Flowers are judged Tuesday with more entries to be judged Wednesday. A track pulling contest features two classes dealers and farmers.
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Jennerstown
Jose Chitwood
Tito Protests To U N Extermination Of Folks In Romania
Yugoslavia lodged a formal protest with the United Nations accusing Romania of forcing Yugoslav minorities from their homes, seizing property, and inflicting indignities. The complaint urged restoration of homes and property and cited violations of the UN rights declaration and a peace treaty. It warned of hostilities and heightened international tension.
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Tito
U.N
Romania
Flushing Meadow
N. Y
INS
Yugoslavia
United Nations
Ales Bebler
Belgrade
People's Republic of Yugoslavia
New High School Underway in Hyndman
Ground was broken Thursday for a half million dollar Hyndman High School to serve about 360 students in the Hyndman Londonderry joint district. The building, designed by Hunter Caldwell and Campbell of Altoona, will convert the old auditorium into classrooms and a library with new rooms for agricultural education.
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Hyndman
Hyndman-Londonderry
Hunter, Caldwell and Campbell
Altoona
Kopper Company to Produce New Road Material Komace
Koppers Company Inc announced it will produce in limited quantities this fall a new road material named Komace. The blend of bituminous materials with aggregate claims weather tolerance and compatibility with standard repair equipment with no heating. Production will occur at Chicago and Utica plants with additional facilities likely by fall 1952 53.
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Pittsburgh
Koppers Company, Inc
Koppers
Chicago
Ill
Utica
N. Y
British Defense Minister Leaves for Arms Standardization Talks
Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell departed by plane for the United States to participate in arms standardization talks, as reported from London.
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London
Emanuel Shinwell
The
United States
Truck Bill Advances After House Committee Vote in Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania House motor vehicles Committee approved a bill raising weight limits for tandem and semi-trailer trucks from 45 000 to 60 000 pounds with a new graduated overload fine. Critics say higher weights strain roads. supporters cite economic necessity and neighboring states’ rules. A floor vote is expected next week amid anticipated heated debate.
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Harrisburg
House
Motor Vehicles Committee
Samuel B. Dennison
Jefferson
Dennison
Republiccan
Assembly
John
Fine
James S. Berger
R-Potter
M. Harvey Taylor
Senate
Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
Pennsylvania
Speedy prosecution proposed for relief chiselers in Harrisburg
A Pennsylvania bill to speed prosecutions of relief fraud would shift case handling from grand juries to the Department of Public Assistance and a local justice of the peace. Rep. William R. McMillen sponsors the measure, citing yearly losses to relief payments.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
William R. McMillen
Indiana
Department of Public
McMillen
Department of Public Assistance
New House
Russell Reece
D-Washington
Hershberger Youth Dies In Accident Near Summit Mills
Raymond Hershberger Jr. age 16 of Meyersdale died after being thrown from a car driven by his brother Pat Hershberger 22. The car rolled multiple times on Route 99019 near Summit Mills. Raymond’s body was recovered in Elk Run. his brother sustained only bruises. Police investigated. private Hilliard and Glenn led the inquiry.
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Raymond Hershberger, Jr
Meyersdale
Summit Mills
Somerset
Pat Paul Hershberger
Raymond
Elk Run
Paul
William Hershberger
Raymond Hershberger, Sr
Price Funeral Home
Raymong
Meyersdale High School
Camp Pickett
Robert Hilliard
Kenneth Glenn
Somerset State Police
Janet Elaine Blough
Harold James Blough
Holsopple
Highway 601
Boswell
Mike Lichvar, Jr
R. Dr
Samuel Lowry Assigned as Charlotte Depot Commander
Mrs J Calvin Lowry learns her son Col Samuel Newlin Lowry has been installed commander of the quartermaster depot in Charlotte North Carolina Special ceremonies marked the occasion He succeeds Lt Col Frederick M Dennis named executive officer of the New Cumberland general depot near Harrisburg Dennis gave a brief farewell address Lowry a Somerset native is father of four and widens his service after a last assignment on Eniwetok where he led army units as chief of staff He is married to Anne Kutz of Johnstown.
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J. Calvin Lowry
South Edgewood Avenue
Samuel Newlin Lowry
Quartermaster’s
Charlotte
N. C
Col. Lowry
Frederick M. Dennis
New Cumberland General
Harrisburg
Dennis
Lowry
Somerset
Anne Kutz
Johnstown
Eniwetok
Red Cross Flood Appeal Sets $950 Somerset Goal
Somerset chapter of the American Red Cross aims for 950 dollars in the flood disaster appeal as part of a national goal of five million. A survey of destruction in Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas shows widespread home devastation. local workers urge oversubscription and contributions from businesses, clubs, and civic groups.
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Somerset
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Oklahoma
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Arrest trio for drunk and disorderly conduct
Three men were arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct by Constable Ed Peck Tuesday and held in county jail. They were William Rush of Confluence, Leonard Lape and George Shaffer of Somerset. Information was filed before Squire H. S. Whipperman.
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Ed Peck
County
William Rush
Confluence
Leonard Lape
George Shaffer
Somerset
Squire H. S. Whipperman
Abadan Refinery Shut Down as Talks Begin
Abadan Iran July 31 The world’s largest refinery halted output awaiting possible British Iran talks on oil nationalization. Harriman urged settlement with Tehran ready to receive a British mission led by Lord Stokes. Iran optimistic, Mossadegh dined with Harriman, Fatemi predicted arrival by Saturday.
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Robert B. Hewett Abadan
Iran
Britain
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
AIOC
Tehran
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
London
Richard Stokes
Hussein Fatemi
Mohammed Mossadegh
Fatemi
Stokes
Bation
Herbert Morrison
United States
Truman
Abadan
Tranian National Oil Company
F.O.B. Aba
U S Marine Band Set for Windber City Concerts
The United States Marine Band under Major F Santelmann will tour the eastern to western states for nine weeks this fall. Windber Fire Company sponsors two concerts at Windber Stadium on September 8 and honors the band known as The Presidents Own.
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United States Marine Band
Windber
Windber Fire Company
Major F. Santelmann
John Philip Sousa
Windber Stadium
Raymond Myers
Washington, D. C
E. L. Sittler, Jr
Pennsylvania
Drowns in Quarry Near New Castle
Frank Joseph Barber a 15 year old drowned while swimming at Erskine quarry near Hillsville eight miles west of New Castle Firemen from Lowellville Ohio recovered the body
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New Castle
Frank Joseph Barber
Erskine Quarry
Hillsville
Lowellville, O
President Truman Signs Price Control Bill Amid Protests
Washington reports Truman reluctantly signs the price control law as Congress and the Federal Reserve adjust Regulation W. The act limits inflation aids while allowing some price rollbacks and credit extensions, drawing strong criticism from the president about future costs on American families. The White House also reorganizes housing offices and assigns rent controls to the ESA and HFA.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Truman
Willard H. Mobley
Congress
Office of Housing
Economic Stabilization Agency
ESA
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Ben-Gurion Mapai Party Extends Lead in Israel Election
Tel Aviv reports show Mapai with 38.63 percent of votes from 987 of 1,500 precincts for Israel’s 120 seat Knesset. General Zionists 19.89 percent, Mapam 11.85, Herut 7.45, Hapoel Hamizrachi 6.36, plus smaller parties. Final totals to be announced tomorrow.
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Eric Gottgetreu
Tel Aviv
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mapai
Socialist Laborites
Mapam
General Zionists
Israel Borach
Perez Bernstein
Loveu Mte
Knesset
Mapai Party
Ben-Gurion
Ben Gurion
Mapam Party
Meir Yaari
Agudath Israel
Workers’ Organization of Agudath Israel
Zionists
Freedom Party
Neral Zionists
en-Gurion
Attered
MACO S PHANTOM FIREBUG SETS OFF ANOTHER BLAZE
In Waco Texas the phantom firebug who warns police before striking started a new blaze at a cotton gin around midnight. He telephoned officers saying a fire would occur in minutes and then set off the alarm by lighting a can of brake fluid near the building.
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Waco
Tex
Texas
Hawaii Reds Busy 12 Years Say Jap Leader Testimony
Honolulu case outlines 12 years of alleged Communist activity in Hawaii linking longshore workers with red headquarters in New York and California. Kawano, a Hawaii-born Japanese labor leader, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington. He named Jack W. Hall as a Communist since 1937 and described a San Francisco meeting that set dispute resolution paths to ILWU International and California Communist Party. Bridges, head of the ILWU, was reportedly vacationing in San Francisco and faces perjury charges from a 1947 naturalization hearing.
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Honolulu
Communist Party
Hawaii
Islands
Red
California
New York
House on-American Activities Committee
Jack H. Kawan
Party
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
Kawano
Washington
Jack W.W. Halil
ILWU
Hall
J. R. Robertson
Louis Goldblatt
Kawana
San Francisco
Ilwu International
California Communist Party
U. S Communist
Bridges
To Stay Alive Don't Drink and Drive
The National Safety Council reports in Accident Facts 1961 that 17 percent of drivers and 22 percent of adult pedestrians killed in fatal car accidents had been drinking. The takeaway urges avoiding drinking to stay alive.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Foster Miller Named Constable of Stony Creek Township
Foster Miller of Friewens R. D. 2 was appointed constable of Stony Creek Township Tuesday by Judge Thomas F. Lansberry. He replaces Earl Meyers who moved to another district.
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Foster Miller
Friewens R. D
Stonycreek Township
Thomas F. Lansberry
Earl Meyers
Weather forecast for West and East regions
West Virginia: partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers Wednesday, highs 85 to 90, Thursday similar with little change. Maryland: partly cloudy and warm, highs 88 to 92 Wednesday, cooler Thursday. Western Pennsylvania: partly cloudy with scattered showers in southeast, highs in the mid to upper 80s, cooler at night, Thursday fair. Eastern Pennsylvania: partly cloudy with a few showers or storms, highs 87 to 92, cooler Thursday, fair next.
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West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Somerset Weather Report Summary for 24 Hours
Temperature data from 5:30 p.m. Monday to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday shows a maximum of 87 and a missing minimum value. The past year’s maximum and minimum are incomplete with a placeholder for the minimum.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Aiacieet Ee
Weather Elsewhere Temperatures Reported for July 31
The U S Weather Bureau released temperatures from July 31 with readings across several towns. Data list shows highs and lows for multiple locations, reflecting typical mid summer conditions.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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