France launches Operation Truth to curb inflation
Paris reports the government orders broad price increases and creates a three member watchdog to defend purchasing power. The plan raises bread, newspapers, electricity, gas, rails, flour, chocolate, pork, sugar and many items while boosting a cost of living index and wages for workers tied to it. An action committee gains broad powers over imports and selling conditions as Gaillard presses tax and budget moves.
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Paris
France
Pierre Pflimlin
Top lawmen deem boy killing justified in chase
Cambria and Indiana counties officials said the shooting of 14 year old Paul Misen cik was undoubtedly justified after he allegedly swerved a stolen car toward Trooper Homer Redd near Armagh following a pursuit from a Pittsburgh gas station. The youth died after being hit by three shots.
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Johnstown
Cambria
Indiana
Armagh
Cambria County
Richard Gray
Homer Redd
Greensburg
Misencik
Redd
Harry Ewing
Gray
Monroeville
Anthony Machi
Pittsburgh
Santa's Bargain Shop ad offers $5 white elephants
Quick pin money tip advertised to sell white elephants for under five dollars. The line cash want ads quote a price of 90 cents for placing listings. No further details provided.
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Santa’s
Youths held on suspicion of burglary and theft
Two youths were committed to Somerset county jail Tuesday on suspicion of theft of gas oil tires wheels and batteries. Eugene Lambert 19 Holsapple and Earl J Behr 21 Boswell were stopped by Johnstown police who noticed a heavily loaded 1949 Ford. State police investigate the alleged theft.
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Somerset County
Eugene Lambert
Holsapple
Earl J. Behr
Boswell
Johnstown
Pittsburg Firm Sued For Fraud
Charles and Amanda Pritts of Rockwood sue Pittsburgh contractor CC Stickler owner of Coleman Developers for fraudulent misrepresentation over home improvements. They paid $2590 in advance on Aug 7 and say work remained unfinished since Aug 8. They seek $150 promised for referrals. case bound over to February Criminal Court. Stickler released on $2000 bond. Assumpsit action also planned.
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Pittsburgh
Charles
Amanda Pritts
Rockwood
Justice of the Peace H
Pritts
Stickler
Squire Whipperman
A M. Matthews
Gas Co Plans Open House For Three Day Program
Manager Guy Silvis announced a three day open house program at Manufacturers Light and Heat Company's new Somerset center. The kickoff includes a 7 30 tonight open house for 14 county employees, with officials from Pittsburgh offices and western managers expected. Gerald E. Wilson will address about 25 community leaders at a lunch at West Union Orch ard street office. The building houses a collection room home service auditorium offices and storage rooms. Builders were N Mangne and Son of Somerset.
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Guy Silvis
Gas
Manufacturers Light and Heat Company
Utility
Somerset County
Manufacturers
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Union
Orchard Street
Silvis
Gerald E. Wilson
Gas Company
N. Mangne and Son
Somerset
First U. S. Moon To Go Aloft At 12 Noon Today
The Vanguard rocket ready at Cape Canaveral with a 22,000 pound payload aims to place a six inch satellite in orbit about 300 miles up. If successful the United States would join Russia in space, ending the red monopoly in space and launching a new era for the free world.
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Ben Funk
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Vanguard
Office of Naval Research
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Free World
Russia
Space
America
U. N
Three deaths and a strike headline from Pennsylvania
In Luzerne County James J Capuschin 27 was found dead from a gunshot while hunting near Dorrance. In Pittsburgh striking bus and trolley workers proposed a 31 cent an hour raise to 2 45 by March 1959. proposal rejected. In Millerstown truck driver James Edward Hampton 46 was arraigned after wounding William G Geedy 24, Geedy in hospital in satisfactory condition. Hampton claimed he did not know Geedy and cited his wife’s alleged infidelity.
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Wilkes-Barre
James J. Capuschinsky
Harwood Mines
Dorrance
Here
Luzerne County
Capuschinsky
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Railways Co
Millerstown
William G. Geedy
Newport R. C
Polyclinic Hospital
Harrisburg
James Edward Hampton
Millerstown R. D
Justice of the
William D. Smith
Newport
Hampton
Geedy
U N Secretary General Talks In Jerusalem On Mt Scopus Clash
Dag Hammarskjold met Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Meir in Jerusalem to discuss the Israel Jordan armistice dispute as a convoy blockade threatens Hadassah hospital and Mt Scopus supplies. a regular convoy is planned and tensions remain high with Jordan accusing Israel of fortifying the area.
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Jerusalem
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
David Ben-Gurion
Golda Meir
Jordan
Israel- Jordan
Mt. Scopus
Israel
Hammarskjold
Mandelbaum Gate
Mt. Mukabbir
Man’s Land
U. N. Truce Supervision
U. S
Byron Leary
Truce Organization
Leary
Middle East
Hadassah Hospital
Hebrew University
Blood Emergency In County Helps Save Life This December
Somerset County blood program director Maude W Currie urges December donations to meet high demand during holidays. A hospital patient in Confluence required two pints of B negative blood, unavailable locally and transported from Johnstown. The bloodmobile will operate at the Christian Church on December 4 from 12 30 to 6 15 p m with walk ins welcome.
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Johnstown
Maude W. Currie
Somerset County
Confluence
Somerset
Meyersdale
Christian Church
Snow and Ice Glaze Roads Across District
Extreme hazard described for district roads as melting snow forms glazed ice. Route 219 from Somerset to Jennerstown listed as treacherous by state police. Cinder crews will work as more snow is forecast through today. Turnpike conditions fair with temporary speed limits due to intermittent snow. Tonight’s low expected around 15 to 20 and Thursday may warm to 44 to 48 with clouds.
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Somerset
Jennerstown
Vocational Education Conferences This Month
Two Pennsylvania conferences on vocational education will be held in Harrisburg on December 5 and 6 and again December 19 and 20. The Department of Public Instruction will conduct both events via its Division of Trade and Industrial Education.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Instruction
Department
Division of Trade and Industrial Education
Two Billion Hike In Defense Spending
Eisenhower aides outline a plan to boost defense and mutual security spending by about two billion dollars for the next fiscal year. The White House briefed 31 congressional leaders on missiles antisubmarine gear and a broader foreign aid push while keeping overall federal spending near current levels.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Defense Department
White House
Sen. Bridges
New Hampshire
Republican Policy Committee
Senate
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services
Dulles
Secretary of
State Dulies
Congress
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Bridges
Stevenson declines bid to attend Paris NATO summit
President Eisenhower invited Adlai Stevenson to the Paris NATO meeting but Stevenson declined saying he would be without authority to influence policies. He cited risks of being identified with decisions he might not agree with and stated he would not attend unless there were compelling developments.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
NATO
Paris
Stevenson
L Eisenhower
State Department
Hooversville Fire Dept Elects New Officers for 1958
Hooversville Fire Department held its annual election Tuesday naming Leo Bender as president for a second term and Howard C. Hahn as fire chief for a second term. The November report listed four alarms, two flue fires, one grass fire, and one false alarm with no damage. The next meeting is set for January 7.
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Hooversville
Charles Sanders, Jr
Joseph C. Rosey
Leon Kubas
Howard C. Hahn
Alfred M. Strang
Chaplin
Rare Type Blood Delivered To Save Woman And Child
Wisconsin Air National Guard fliers delivered two pints of a rare blood type to Youngstown Ohio to aid a Caesarean birth for Mrs Albert a Higgins 37 at St Elizabeth s Hospital. The infant would need about a half pint of the same rare blood. Donors Arthur Bacon and Emery Patterson from Milwaukee provided the type Neg a tive, a blood group found in about three of 1000 Negroes and not in whites.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Wisconsin Air National Guard
Alberta Higgins
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
V. Squicquero
Squicquero
Dr. Squicquero
Milwaukee
Arthur Bacon
Emery Patterson
Dmitor J Greenwalt
Milwaukee Blood Center
Pilot Found Safe After Virginia Farm Landing
A 32 year old Arlington pilot Robert S. Tyler an instructor at Falls Church airport disappeared from a farm in Myersville Maryland after a southerly diversion to avoid a storm. He landed to refuel and later reached Falls Church airport. Meanwhile pupil Bruce Walton 27 of Washington piloted the plane from Washington to Somerset where engine trouble forced a rough landing causing 50 damage.
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Ole Virginny
Arl
Virginia
Pilot
Robert S. Tyler
Fal Church
John Shelley
New Centervn
Somerset County
Bruce Walton
Wton
D. C
Tyler
Myersville
Cumberland
Falls Church
Set County
Walton
Somerset
Shelley Farm
Washington
New Centerville
Two Building Permits Issued In November
Somerset Borough issued two building permits in November. I Klat skin district North Center avenue to add a floor and start on the front of the building and Earl Baclay district 134 Missouri street for a two car garage and an additional room to a one family residence.
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Somerset
I. Klatskin
North Center Avenue
Earl Baclay
Missouri Street
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Mittee
Hooverville Fire Dept
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