Wool stockpile criticism cited at Farm Bureau meet
Howard Vaughn retiring president of the National Wool Growers Association told reporters at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention that the United States failed to stockpile woolen cloth, forcing purchases from Australia in competition with Russia. He warned Russia aims to undermine the U S economy and noted wool's wartime importance at Stalingrad.
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Dallas
America
Russia
Howard Vaughn
Dixon
Calif
National Wool Growers Association
Amfrica
Vaughn
American Farm Bureau Federation
Len Lyndon Johnson
Australia
Stalingrad
Two Verdicts Favor Defendants In Turnpike Collision
On the last day of a long civil session the court returned two verdicts in favor of the New Holland Machine Division of Sperry Corporation. Plaintiffs William Tosh and Triangle Shoe of Wilkes-Barre sought about 3100 in damages from a March 1950 truck collision on the Pennsylvania turnpike.
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New Holland Machine Division
Sperry Corporation
New Holland
William Tosh
Triangle Shoe Company
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Tosh
Robert Holman
Charles Kimmel
C. T. Saylor
Rockwood
Kimmel
Saylor
Lansberry
Pennsylvania
M. Krivoski
Turnpike Division
Question Suspects In Murder Of Boy In Ft. Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale police questioned several individuals in the murder case of 10 year old Roger Folwell whose battered body was found in a shallow grave near an upscale area. Police Chief George Hanna said no motive is yet established and the hammer believed used has not been found. The search drew more than 150 volunteers after the boy was last seen Wednesday with his bicycle.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
UNS
George Hanna
Roger Folwell
Hanna
Young Folwell
False alarm fires up local volunteers Sunday
Somerset volunteer firemen rushed to the hall after a Sunday afternoon alarm but a later call said they were not needed as the fire was already out. A Harrison home had caught fire, but the tenant extinguished it before responders arrived. the tenant’s name was not released.
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Somerset
Harrison
Attlee Sees Harmony With Canada on World Outlook
Ottawa dispatch reports Prime Minister Clement Attlee telling reporters there is a general identity of feelings between British and Canadian governments on world affairs. He met with Prime Minister Louis St Laurent and Canadian cabinet members after two hours of talks, and said the goal was open discussion with President Truman on long term positions and NATO defense plans.
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Ottawa
Clement Attlee
Louis St Laurent
Attlee
Washington
Truman
East
West
North Atlantic Organization
Don t Have a 50-50 Chance With Russia Says Sen. Thomas
Sen. Elmer Thomas warns the United States cannot fight the world alone and urges using manpower from Spain Formosa Western Germany and Japan to counter Soviet satellites. He says the nation faces a serious situation and stresses not a Korean war but broader stakes.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
Thomas
United States
Appropriations Committee
Spain
Formosa
Germany
Five Die In Headon Collision Near Pontiac
Five persons were killed and another seriously injured in a head-on crash near Pontiac Michigan. Deputy Sheriff Robert Benedict said evidence of drinking was found in both cars and empty beer bottles were in the wreckage. Victims included Harold Mackey 19 Shirley Harman 20 both Waterford Russell Gale 27 and Susan Price 20 both Pontiac Marvin Rathburn 19 Detroit. Edward A Kolsum 20 Detroit is in critical condition. Kolsum reportedly drove one car Gale the other.
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Pontiac
Mich
Robert Benedict
Oakland County
Harold Mackey
Shirley Harman
Waterford
Russell Gale
Susan Price
Marvin Rathburn
Detroit
Edward A. Kolsum
Kolsum
Gale
Portland Oregonian sold for over five million dollars
The 100 year old Portland Oregonian, billed as the great newspaper of the west, was purchased today by publisher Samuel I. Newhouse for more than five million dollars. He disclosed the deal tonight.
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New York
Portland Oregonian
West
Samuel I. Newhouse
Christmas Sentence Handed Down In Somerset Court
Judge Lansberry presided over 26 cases in a Saturday session. Harry Bechtel received three years parole and costs after a December shooting, aided by a Bethlehem Steel letter of service. Clyde Miller and Clark Shaffer faced jail terms and restitution. other defendants earned delays or suspended sentences amid a mix of assaults, driving offenses, and a not guilty verdict for William Tosh in a truck collision.
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Thomas F. Lansberry
Harry Bechtel
Zimmerman
Lansberry
Bechtel
Bethlehem Steel
Johnstown
Beachtel
Richard Knupp
Somerset
Knupp
Clyde T. Miller
Robert Miller
Clyde Miller
Clark Shaffer
Elsie Snyder
Shaffer
Snyder
Fred Feig
D . Friedens
Feig
George Jock
Jock
William Layton
Acosta
Raymond Lowery
David
Lowery
Lois
Firefighter Injured Battling Church Fire
Fireman Anthony J. Derida aged 36 fell from a ladder and was injured while fighting an $8,000 blaze that gutted the parish house of the Presbyterian church yesterday in Butler.
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Butler
Anthony J. Derida
Presbyterian Church
California Floods Threaten Stockton And Central Valleys
The San Joaquin river near Stockton and other northern California rivers flood, forcing evacuation of hundreds in lowland areas. Merced river basin and San Francisco bay tidewater areas remain danger zones as storm warnings extend along the Atlantic coast and broad U S weather conditions turn unsettled.
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Associated Press
California
San Joaquin
Stockton
Tuolumne River
Merced River
San Francisco Bay Area
U. S. Weather Bureau
Atlantic Coast
Bureau
Block Island
Delaware
Dixie
Alabama
Georgia
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Calif
Midwest
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Virginia
Carolinas
Chicago
South Bend
Ind
Snow closes roads across Pennsylvania with slick conditions
A snow storm blankets most of Pennsylvania causing treacherous highways with ice glazed surfaces. The weather bureau warned motorists to stay off the roads as temperatures dropped near freezing statewide and the central region around Altoona to Allentown bore the heaviest snowfall.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Harrisburg
Altoona
Allentown
Philadelphia
Blairsville
Mercury
Phillipsburg
Pittsburgh
Freezing Snow Sunday Slows Somer County Roads
Freezing temperatures and a light snowfall Sunday night made Somer county highways treacherous. Crews of 110 men and 43 trucks worked to make roads passable as a half inch of snow covered sidewalks in Somerset borough and traffic moved slowly.
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Somerset
George Kline
David Grove
United States Weather Observer
Turnpike Skidding Causes Collisions Near New Baltimore
A Monday night crash near New Baltimore on the Somerset county turnpike involved Francis A. Higgens Olexo of Waterville Maine after his car skidded on ice at 7 45 p m. He crossed lanes and struck guard rails as jackknifed tractor trailers and other vehicles sustained damage. Police investigated multiple accidents with limited details available.
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Tce
Somerset County
Turnpike
Francis A. Higgens Olexo
Waterville
New Baltimore
Olexa
Nobel Prizes Presented Nine Men By Kings
Nobel prizes worth nearly $200000 and prestige were presented to nine men from four nations. William Faulkner received the literature prize in Stockholm, while in Oslo Dr. Ralph Bunche won the Peace prize. Other Americans honored include Dr. Hench and Dr. Kendall for medicine, with Reichstein, Powell, Diels, and Adler among the other laureates.
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Gustav Svensson
Stockholm
Sweden
Oslo
Norway
Stockholm Concert Hall
Gustaf VI
William Faulkner
Oxford
King Haakon
Ralph J. Bunche
U. N
Bunche
Phillip S. Hench
Edward C. Kendall
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Tadeusz Reichstein
University of Basel
Switzerland
Cecil F. Powell
Bristol
Eng.) University
Otto Diels
Kurt Adler
FBI Nabs Ex Convict In Drury Slaying Case
In New York FBI says Anthony Rotondo 34 of New York City was arrested in Baltimore as a parole violator over claims he was paid 9000 dollars to kill former Chicago Police Lieutenant William J. Drury. Rotondo confessed to acquaintances he got 9000 for the Drury job and fled town to avoid being “hot.”
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New York
FBI
Baltimore
Anthony Rotondo
New York City
Chicago
William J. Drury
Edward Scheidt
Rotondo
Charles di Umberto
Trentor
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Drury
di Umberto
Ilinois
John Boyle
Underworld
Kefauver Committee
Trenton
N. J
Christmas Rush At Post Office Begins
Santa Claus keeps staff busy as packages pile up and mail flows through the post office. Postmaster Oscar F Sutliffa notes stamp sale receipts are ahead of last year as people mail early to dodge the rush.
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Santa Claus
Oscar F. Sutliffa
Dorsey to be charged in fatal party shooting
DeWayne Dorsey 20 of Century will be charged with the gun slaying of James Brock 23 at his drinking party home. Dorsey admitted firing a .32 calibre pistol during an argument Friday night. Brock died at the scene. District Attorney Fred Brothers announced the charge in Uniontown.
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Uniontown
DeWayne Dorsey
Century
Fred Brothers
D. A
Dorsey
James Brock
Brock
U S Forces Break Through Wall of Chinese Reds Near Hungnam
Spearheads of a 25 000 man American force and British marines shattered the last Chinese barrier and pushed toward Hungnam on Korea's east coast. The advance followed two weeks of rugged action near the Changjin reservoir with heavy casualties.
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U.S
Stan Swinton
Northeast Korea
Hungnam
U. S
Korea
10Th Corps
Changjin Reservoir
U. SS
Seventh Division
Doughboys
Hagaru
Koto
Arozen
U. S. Army Third Division
Webb D. Sawyer
Task Force
Armistead D Meade
Huntington
W. Va
Sawyer
Prentiss St
Toledo
Ohio
South Asia Faces Chinese Communist Threat After Korea
In Indo-China and Southeast Asia fears rise as Chinese forces push southward from Korea. Observers warn western defenses are strained as Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh and French Indo-Chinese troops brace for possible major confrontations along the Hanoi Haiphong frontier.
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Seymour Topping Handi
Indo-China
Korea
Southeast Asia
Peiping
China
West
Malaya
Mao Ze-Tung
Hanoi
Asia
Ho Chi Minh
Red China
Hanoi-Haiphong
Two Arrested Saturday Both Released
Clark Tressler 34 of Stoystown RD 3 was jailed on assault battery desertion and non support charges and released on bond after a hearing before Squire Charles J. Harrison Jr Ed Burkett of Somerset RD 1 was held then released on borough ordinance fine and costs after confinement.
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Clark Tressler
Stoystown
R. D
Squire Charles J. Harrison
Ed Burkett
Somerset
John W. Schrock
Americans Escape Red Death Snare In Korea Push
American forces broke through a Communist trap in northeast Korea and moved toward Hungnam and safety. Field dispatches place forward elements in Hamhung and report a long retreat covering over 50 miles with heavy casualties on both sides. Air campaigns and clashes near Chorwon and along the 38th parallel accompany the withdrawal amid refugee movements toward Sariwon and Chaeryong.
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Tokio
Korea
Hungnam
Tenth Corps
Hamhung
Marine Corps
Changjin
Tarawa
U. S. First Marine
U. S. Seventh Division
U.S
Manchurian
Hyesanjin
United Nations
MacArthur
Haeju
Yellow Sea
38Th Parallel
Pyongyang
Koksan
Chinnampo
Republic of Korea
ROK
Chorwon
Central Korea
Myongyang
Sariwon
Chaeryong
U. S
Weather Forecast for West Virginia and Nearby Areas
West Virginia mixed clouds with light snow flurries. Tuesday cool with possible rain or snow and rising temperatures. Western Pennsylvania cold and snowy at times from Monday into Tuesday. Eastern Pennsylvania windy and cold with Monday snow flurries and a near 30s high Tuesday. Maryland mostly cloudy windy cold with morning snow flurries in the east, then possible rain or snow Tuesday.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Astern
Maryland
Somerset Weather Report Summary for Weekend
Daily weather notes report from Somerset by David Grove. Includes 24 hour period from Saturday 5:30 p m to Sunday 5:30 p m with maximum temperature and trace of snow. Also compares to previous Friday to Saturday period.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Pune
WEAR
Uida
Simpal Eee Aut
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Canada Press of Harmony
Sen. Thomas
Farms Equipment CO
Dial
W.J. Drury
India
Lake Success
Stanley Johnson Lake
Britain
Sir Gladwyn Jebb
Sir Benegal N. Rau
Rau
Wu Hesiu-chuan
Jebbd
Kenneth Younger
Ernest A. Gross
Waa
Jebb
Gross
State Department
Department
South Asia
Berlin
Johnson
Berlin, Pa
Yalu River
Boston
Cleveland
Denver
Miami
Atlantic City
St. Louis
M’liss
Somerset Welfare League
Benefit of Children’s Aid
Somerset High School
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