Nixon Lists Five Roadblocks to World Peace
Boston August 29 Vice President Nixon outlined five obstacles to world peace citing German division armament inspections Iron Curtain colonial status of satellites and Moscow directed subversions. He warned Russians must act or their cordiality will prove a sham. Maj. Gen. Hershey predicted an increase in draftees and a larger reserve obligation. Gov. Clement credited the VFW with pioneering anti communism efforts.
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Boston
Nixon
Germany
Europe
Moscow
Lewis Hershey
National Selective Service
Newsment
Hershey
France Plans New Moroccan Government Within Two Weeks
Paris reports France will establish a new Moroccan government within two weeks with or without the Istiqlal party. Pierre July announced after a cabinet session on Moroccan policy, noting continued talks with Moroccan leaders and potential reshuffles in the resident general post.
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Paris
France
Istiqlal
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Sultan
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Madagascar
Gilbert Grandval
Morocco
Edgar Faure
Committee of Five
Faure
July
Antoine Pinay
Defense
Gen
Pierre Koenig
Justice
Robert Schuman
de Latour
Pierre Boyer de Latour
Tunisia
Grandval
Boyer de Latour
Pinay
Koenig
Aix Les Bains
C Of C Survey For Extension DST To Oct 30
The Somerset Chamber of Commerce will survey residents on extending daylight saving time to October 30. President Charles E. McLaughlin notes neutrality and serves merchants and officials. About 100 cities in the state favor the extension. nearby towns already approved.
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Somerset
Somerset Chamber of Commerce
Charles E. McLaughlin
Chamber
McLaughlin
Somerset Merchants, Borough Council
State Chamber
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
Indiana
Latrobe
Ligonier
Mt. Pleasant
Greensburg
Confluence Men Face Larceny and Auto Violations
State police filed larceny and receiving stolen goods charges against Lee G. Bittinger and Alfred Lee Shipley both 31 and 27 as Confluence A C 1 men jailed on motor code violations. Bittinger and Shipley pleaded not guilty to larceny and receiving stolen goods at a hearing before Justice Thomas A. Courtney.
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Confluence A. C
Lee G Bittinger
Alfred Lee Shipley
Confluence
Adam R. Humbert
Justice of the Peace
Thomas A. Courtney
Bittinger
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Shipley
Somerset County
Friedens
Wayne Shaulis
Friedens R. D
Shaulis
Justice of the Peace O
Wayne Hay
Somerset Township
Lewis Trent
Trent
Route 53
Frank R. Troy
Somerset
Justice of the Peace Vo
Troy
Harrisburg
Nevin Shaffer
Friedens, R. D. 1
Ellis M. Pyle
Young GOP II Lead Aid In Flood Relief
Somerset County Young Republicans offer to aid Red Cross flood relief. Norman A. Saaulis Foster Heckler and Tom H. Geenen named to a relief coordination committee. Robert H Halverson and Joseph R. Edwards appointed to Somerset County GOP committee. Workshop planned September 24 at the William Penn Hotel Pittsburgh led by Tom Geenen.
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Somerset County
Confluence
William Penn ‘Hotel
Pittsburgh
Tom Hi Geenen
Buick Breaks 1955 Production Record
Buick divisions of General Motors built their 552,828th car of 1955, surpassing the previous annual record of 522,827 set in 1950, at Flint Michigan.
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Buick
Flint
Mich
General Motors
Flower Show Cancelled by Somerset Garden Club
The Annual Flower Show in the Church of the Brethren area has been canceled due to illness in several committee families. The Somerset Garden Club had planned the event for Thursday September 1.
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Somerset Garden Club
Church of the Brethers
Assignments For Pupils Of Somerset Joint School District
Officials of the Somerset joint school district issued assignments by building and grade for the upcoming term. The schedule lists Sipesville and Friedens areas with grade ranges, plus Maple Ridge and Union Street zones. School hours and lunch arrangements are announced along with changes for kindergarten and elementary sessions.
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Somerset Joint School
Patriot Street
Somerset Borough
Maple Ridge
Union Street
Somerset Township
Walch
Pine Grove
Cupps
Walker Grove
Listie
Friedens
Franklin and West
Railroad
East Main and Plank Road
Engineer Struck by Rifle Bullet in Bethlehem Train Incident
Cletus Schilling 59 an engineer for the Lehigh and New England railroad was hit on the left arm by a rifle bullet while guiding a freight train in Bethlehem. The injury occurred near a quarry used for target practice. he continued to the freight yards and the bullet was removed at St Luke's hospital.
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Bethlehem
Cletus Schilling
Lehigh and New England Railroad
Schilling
Coaldale
St. Luke's Hospital
Browns In Critical Condition After Somerset County Crash
Mrs Edna Mae Brown of Johnstown and her husband Allen R Brown were seriously and critically injured in a weekend car crash five miles south of Johnstown in Somerset County. Emma Sanderson of Lorain Ohio was listed fair with a fractured vertebra. The vehicle driven by Eugene T Sanderson of Lorain Ohio veered off Route 219 and struck a utility pole.
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Edna Mae Brown
Johnstown
R. D
Johnstown Memorial Hospital
Somerset County
Allen R. Brown
Emma Sanderson
Lorain
Ohio
Eugene T. Sanderson
Girl Recovering From Copperhead Bite at Red Rock Club
Judy Barkemeyer a 16 year old from McKeesport is hospitalized in McGinnis hospital Ligonier after a copperhead bit her Saturday while walking along a path at the Red Rock club near Ligonier Her mother Mrs Betty Barkemeyer says it may be the first snakebite in the area in thirty years a bulldozer clearing brush near cottages stirred up the snakes.
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Ligonier
McKeesport
McGinnis Hospital
Judy Barkemeyer
Red Rock Club
Berrty Barkemeyer
Indict Icardi For Denying Part In Holohan Murder
A federal grand jury indicted Aldo Lorenzo Icardi for falsely denying involvement in Maj. William Holohan's 1944 murder during a World War II mission in Italy. Icardi faces up to five years if convicted of perjury.
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Wilmot Hercher
Washington
Aldo Lorenzo Icardi
Maj
William Holohan
Italy
Icardi
Pittsburgh
Holohan
House Armed Services
Office of Strategic Services
House
Carl Lo Dolce
Lo Dolce
Rochester
N. Y
Lodge Urges Approval of Disarmament Plan At UN
U S Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr urged the UN disarmament sub committee to approve Eisenhower’s aerial inspection plan as a step toward arms reduction and world peace. The session, opened in Geneva atmosphere, considered Eisenhower Eden and Russian proposals plus Faure’s budget cut plan for peaceful development.
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United Nations
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. N
Geneva
Arkady Sobolev
Russia
London
Anthony Nutting
Britain
Jules Moch
France
Paul Martin
Canada
Denver
Eisenhower
Eden
Europe
Nutting
Premier Faure
Edith Not a Threat to American Mainland Now
Hurricane Edith’s danger to the U.S. mainland has ended as it weaker and moves farther from Bermuda. Forecasters say the storm, with top winds near 85 mph, is about 150 miles east of Bermuda and remains over open Atlantic waters. Chief Storm Forecaster Gordon Dunn stated the threat to the American mainland is absolutely gone.
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Miami
Fla
Edith
Bermuda
Gordon Dunn
Flood Cleanup Progress Aided by Volunteers and Aid
Needing 25 million dollars in U.S. aid for reconstruction Pennsylvania receives 1 million from Eisenhower plus Red Cross support. Mennonite and Brethren volunteers from several counties arrive to help in East Stroudsburg as 93 dead and 10 missing are tallied and a 57 million relief fund is debated.
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Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Keystone
Army Corps of Engineers
Val Peterson
U. S
Red Cross
East Stroudsburg
Army of the Lord
Bucks
Montgomery
Brethren
Lancaster
Berks
Allegheny
Ohio
John Hopkins
National
Gov. Leader
Sinatra Sued for One Million Damages
Frank Sinatra was served a summons on a one million dollar damage suit by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. The company accuses the singer actor of breaking his contract to star in Carousel and of abandoning a company of 125 performers who began shooting last week in Boothbay Maine.
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New York
Frank Sinatra
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Boothbay
Man charged after attempting to crash car into stone fence
Denver police charged a 40 year old man with driving intoxicated after he tried to ram his car through a stone fence. The suspect was identified as John S Stonebraker.
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Denver
John S, Stonebraker
Sturgis to Inspect Flood Areas in Northeast
Lt. Gen. Sturgis Jr., army chief of engineers, will fly to Scranton Pennsylvania and Waterbury Connecticut to inspect flood rehabilitation progress. He leaves Washington Tuesday night for a one day aerial survey of the disaster zone. About 60 cities are involved with 8,600 workers, and damage surveys are planned for 13 additional sites in New England.
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Washington
D. Sturgis Jr
Army Chief of Engineers
Scranton
Waterbury
Conn
Sturg
Northeast
Army
Civil Defense
Val Peterson
Army Engineers
New England
Canadian Labor Leader Sees National Health Plan Soon
Gordon Cushing of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada says a nationwide health insurance program should be in place within two to three years. He notes Ontario leads in advancing a national scheme.
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Health Insurance For Canada
Toronto
Ont
Canada
Gordon Cushing
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Ontario
Cigaret tax plan aims to raise 12 million for flood relief
A temporary one cent increase in the state cigarette tax was tentatively agreed to raise about 12 million dollars for emergency flood relief. The plan drafts a five cent per pack levy, with legislation to present soon and key details to be worked out, while broader flood aid measures include road and bridge funding and disaster relief allocations.
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Harrisburg
Albert S. Readinger
House
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
State Civil Defense Council
Secretary of Highways
New York Airman Goes AWOL After Car Breakdown
A New York airman, Arthur S. Wood 8/e, became officially absent without leave at 6 p.m. Monday after his car broke down on the turnpike near Somerset. He sought help at a county jail and later contacted Scott Air Force Base and Pittsburgh MP, saying he had hitchhiked from Illinois to Albany before the breakdown and admitted leaving pass limits.
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New York Air Force
A.W.O.L
Somerset
Air Police
Arthur S. Wood
Scott Air Force Base
Bellville
Ill
Greater Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Wood
Ilinois
Albany
Turnpike
Herring Motor Company
West Germany Film Industry Nears Prewar Output
In Wiesbaden, the West German Film Industry Association reports West Germany and West Berlin have produced 529 films since the war, with 107 released last year. The figure compares favorably to Hitler era years, noting 1930 production at 146, then declines to 92 in 1935 and never above 111 in 1939.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
West Germany
West German Film Industry Assn
West Berlin
Hitler Germany
Peaches Today and Belle of Georgia Hale Offerings
Elwood Mosholder from New Centerville announces available produce including peaches and apples such as the Hale, Alberta, Belle of Georgia, and Hale Haven varieties. Customers invited to bring their own containers.
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Hale
Alberta
Georgia
Hale Haven
Elwood Mosholder
New Centerville, Ph. Rock
Bank Robbers Gun Moll Gets 10 Years In U S Penitentiary
Lora Lee Ritenour, 17, girlfriend of bank robber Louis Teller, was sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary by Judge James Connell in Cleveland for taking part in the January 14 Cleveland Trust bank holdup. She was four months pregnant and died after the sentencing. Teller received a 25 year term. Ritenour helped drive a getaway car and was captured by the FBI in Detroit in July.
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Cleveland
Lora Lee Ritenour
Louis Teller
James Cc. Connell
Lora
Connell
West 101St Street
Detroit Avenue
Cleveland Trust Bank
Teller
Mel
FBI
Detroit
Rambo Apples at Haines Orchard Open Daily
Rambo Apples available at Haines Orchard open daily until 9 00 p m closed Sundays located opposite the Drive In Theatre.
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Haines Orchard
Three Women Kill Rattle Snake Monday in Somerset Yard
Mrs Helen Risko Mrs Clarence Ferry and Mrs Cloyd Ankeny of Somerset R D 3 killed a three foot rattlesnake in a yard near a porch with tall scrubs while returning home after 4 pm. The women feared children at swings 50 feet away and killed the snake to prevent danger.
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Helen Risko
Clarence Ferry
Cloyd Ankeny
Somerset
R. D
Flood Increases Scarcity for Steel Components
Cleveland report notes New England floods worsen shortages of structural sections and plates, two of the steel products already in tight supply, likely raising prices and delays across industries.
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Cleveland
Steel Magazine
New England
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