Dixon Yates suit seeks 3.53 million in private power row
Mississippi Valley Generating Co. sues the U S government in the Court of Claims for 3 534 778 45 claiming repudiation of the Dixon Yates private power contract. The case centers on Adolphe Wenzell and questions of conflicts of interest as the administration defends then repudiates the deal. Senate action may seek a special attorney to pursue the suit.
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Mississippi Valley Generating Co
TVA
Washington
Dixon-Yates
U. S Court of Claims
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley Authority
New York
Adolphe Wenzell
Budget Bureau
First Boston Corp
Dixon- Yates
Wenzell
Mississiori Valley Generating Co
West Memphis
Ark
Hilt
Sen. Anderson
D-Nm
Congress
Justice Department
Anderson
New Centerville Fire Dept Names New Officers
New Centerville's six year old fire department elected new officers at a Tuesday evening meeting and paid off building and equipment debts. Cramer remains chief as Theodore Sipe becomes president. New board members Spangler and Weimer join the five member board as truck drivers and officers are all local residents. A celebration will burn the debt judgment at a December 27 joint meeting with the auxiliary.
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Centerville
C. L. Cramer
Rockwood
R.D
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Cramer
Theodore Sipe
Frank Eckman
Karl Weimer
Tra Shultz
Merle Spangler
Karl Sipe
Dale Cramer
George Spangler
Ream Walker
Dale Spangler
Earl Weimer
Spangler
Weimer
Earl Sipe
Donald Reese
George Cramer
New
Boro Police Seek Salary Increase for 1956 Budget
Somerset borough police vote to seek higher salaries in the 1956 budget and for funding to replace worn uniforms. The eight man force earns 230 dollars monthly, with potential annual income exceeding 3000 if approved. Uniform replacements and council actions loom at January reorganizational meeting.
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Somerset
Lester G. Wagner
Torough
Probe follows Saylor release and injures in jail case
An investigation by Somerset county authorities probes the hospitalization of Ross Bo Saylor age 54 of Somerset after he was released from the county jail and suffered a severe head injury. He was taken to Altoona Hospital before transfer to Pittsburgh Veterans Hospital for surgery and remains in serious condition.
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Ross
Bo) Saylor
Somerset
Saylor
Pittsburgh Veteran's Hospital
Altoona Veteran's Hospital
Somerset County
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Working Too Hard Dismissed Employee Tells Arbitrator
Greensburg reports Cecil E. Greek testified at an arbitration hearing that his firing over complaints about heavy workload stemmed from him challenging the foreman. Seventeen other workers were dismissed during the District 50 United Mine Workers strike at Kennametal plants Latrobe Kingston. The strike ended November 1.
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Greensburg
Kennametal, Inc
Cecil E. Greek
Greek
Kennametal
Latrobe
Kingston
District 50
United Mine Workers
Breegle Guilty on One of Three Charges in Assault Case
Daniel Adrian Breegle Jr., 25, of Rockwood faced a Somerset County court jury and was found guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill among three charges, the first charge having been dropped. The incident occurred July 30, 1955, in the Circle 219 tavern parking lot near Somerset, when Breegle said he misread his car gear and panicked, striking Hostetler and a parked station wagon.
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Daniel Adrian Breegle, Jr
Rockwood
Somerset County Court
Breegle
Harold Hostetler
R. D
Garrett
Circle 219 Tavern
Somerset
Breezle
Hostetler
Commonwealth
Gary Beckner
Bonnie Lou Yutzey
Boswell
French kill 42 in clashes with Algeria rebels
In Algeria clashes kill at least 32 rebels and leave four French soldiers dead. A major fight 11 miles east of Nemours near the Moroccan border yields 17 rebel fatalities and 14 taken prisoner while eastern Constantine reports further skirmishes. In Morocco the new cabinet pledges friendship with France.
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Algiers
Algeria
Weet
Constantine
French
Morocco
Mohammed Bekkar
France
Nemours
Cambria County hunter collapses and dies before deer hunt
Elmer Simmons 69 of Conemaugh R D 1 Pennsylvania railroad engineer died of a heart attack at a camp 20 miles west of Warren just before starting a deer hunting trip with his three sons. The incident occurred in Cambria County.
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Warren
Cambria County
Elmer Simmons
Conemaugh R. D
Simmons
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pentagon rejects plan for atomic powered supercarrier
The Defense Secretary ruled out asking Congress in the next budget for a nuclear powered surface ship. The decision comes after navy officials proposed including the first atomic powered carrier in the next defense program.
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Washington
Pentagon
Congress
Navy
Defense
Charles E Wilson
Russia and Nationalist China veto package for United Nations addition
At the United Nations the Soviet Union and Nationalist China vetoed a plan to admit 18 new members in a single package. Andrei Sobolev vetoed 13 Western-backed candidates while T. F. Tsiang vetoed Outer Mongolia, with abstentions and later votes leaving four candidates supported by Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania in question.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
China
U. N. Assembly
T. F. Tsiang
Outer Mongolia
U. N
Arkady A Sobolev
Sobolev
South Korea
Viet Nam
Tsiang
Moscow
France
Italy
Ceylon
Jordan
Ireland
Portugal
Austria
Finland
Nepal
Libya
Japan
Laos
Cambodia
Spain
Red
Albania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
United States
Council
Leslie Munro
New Zealand
Peru
Turkey
Brazil
Britain
Iran
Belgium
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Munro
Cyro de Freitas-Valle
Assembly
Gossard seeks commutation from death to life
Harry Gossard 40 of Conemaugh asks the state pardons board to commute his death sentence for the Halloween killing of 6 year old Karen Mauk to life imprisonment on grounds of severe mental illness. He pleads guilty and cites a psychiatric report recommending commitment to a hospital for treatment.
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Harrisburg
Karen Mauk
State Pardons Board
Harry Gossard
Conemaugh
Gossard
Cambria County Court
State Supreme Court
Gov
Robert L Leopold
Philadelphia
Leopold
Western Late
Butler Soldier Aboard Fated C54 Crash in Morocco
Staff Sgt. George R. Haug of Butler right now listed missing after a C54 transport crash in Tetuan Morocco. Eight airmen aboard were killed when the plane struck a 5,000 foot peak in the Rift Mountains near the French Spanish Morocco border.
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Butler
Dec
George R. Haug
Butler R.D
U. S
Tetuan
Spanish Morocco
Air Force
Edward Haug
San Antonio
Tex
Rift Mountains
Gormora
Dr Otto John Turncoat Returns to Bonn After Escape
Dr Otto John former chief of West German counterintelligence arrives in Bonn from West Berlin where he fled to the Communist side. He is branded a traitor and his return may renew criticism of Chancellor Adenauer's cabinet for appointing him to a top security post.
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George Boultwood
Bonn
Germany
Otto John
West Germany
Federal Criminal Police
West Berlin
Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
John
Adenauer
East
Man Fined One Dollar Each For Two Slaps At Wife
In Hagerstown Maryland Reginald Scott twenty five was fined one dollar for each slap he admitted giving his wife Betty Scott after she tried hitting him with a lamp when he questioned her late return. The magistrate added court costs totaling one dollar and forty five cents citing unemployment and four children.
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Hagerstown
Reginald Scott
Betty Scott
Paul Ottinger
Scott
Ottinger
Leader Tax Bill Faces Narrow Passage in State Senate
In Harrisburg on December 13 the House approved a school construction ceiling raise to 625 million and 925 million by 1959. Senate debates over Gov. Leader’s 3 percent manufacturers' excise tax fracture party lines as Sen. Bane resigns and leaves caucus amid questions of the bill's fate.
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Harrisburg
Sen
Bane
D-Fayette
Senate
Wolfe
R-Union
van Sant
Lehigh
Sen. Dent
Pane
Dent
House
Welfare Department
Justice Department
State Department
Sen. Wagner
Schuylkill
Atlantic City Trolley Ends as Buses Take Over
Atlantic City announces a last trolley riders roundup for December 28 when buses replace street cars. A train of 20 trolleys capable of 800 passengers will run the final trip through the city, ending 90 years of streetcar service in Atlantic City and marking the last surface trolley operation in New Jersey.
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Atlantic City
N J
Atlantic City Transportation Co
New Jersey
West Virginia Miner Quits The $64,000 Question with 82000
Stanley Skeens a 26 year old coal miner who works for the Lord decided to stop on the CBS show after winning 82000. He said he would take the money home to tuck in a bank at Danville.
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New York
Stanley
Eisenhower Plans Billion Dollar Defense Expansion in '56
President Eisenhower aims for a roughly 35.5 billion defense budget for the year starting July 1, 1956, with a heavy emphasis on airpower and guided missiles. White House discussions with congressional leaders touched on defense, foreign affairs, disarmament, and trade cooperation amid optimism and warning of possible tax cuts.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Army
Navy
Congress
Air Force
Department of Defense
Gettysburg
U. S.S. Information Agency
Organization For Trade Cooperation
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Dulles Leaves for Paris to Shape Atlantic Pact Strategy
Secretary of State Dulles flies to Paris with nine aides to join 14 Atlantic Pact foreign ministers for talks on Russia zig zags and how to heighten defense and cooperation. Wilson and Humphrey accompany him to aid the four day mission focusing on nonmilitary collaboration and Middle East pressure.
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Washington
Dulles
Paris
Russia
Wilson
Humphrey
Treasury
United State
Geneva
Atlantic Pact
Dudes
Middle East
Joe Magnetto Re-Elected Listie Fire Chief
Joe Magnetto was re-elected chief of the Listie volunteer fire company at a Monday reorganization meeting in the Listie fire hall. New officers include William Urban as first assistant chief John Gasperine as second assistant chief Gilbert Spangler truck foreman Homer Paxton first assistant truck foreman Tony Gasperine second assistant truck foreman Thomas Hill chaplain Paul E Wolford alternate chaplain Walter Miller and Ted Pugh on publicity. The debt was cut from 3000 to 1500 with plans to pay half by year’s start aided by the auxiliary. The group will erect a Christmas tree decorate the hall and provide treats for Listie children the Saturday before Christmas. A taste supper and Friday meeting were planned and Harvey Mull presided with about 30 members present.
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Joe Magnetto
Listie Volunteer Fire Company
Listie
William Urban
John Gasperine
Gilbert Spangler
Homer Paxton
Tony Gasperine
Thomas Hill
Paul E. Wolford
Walter Miller
Ted Pugh
Harvey Mull
Surplus Food Distribution At Edgewood Grove
Surplus food will be distributed today between 9 and 11 a.m. at Edgewood Grove. Bring containers and identification. Cars should drive in and park in a single line on the road to avoid blocking the roadway. A spokesman urged cooperation.
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Edgewood Grove
Paratyphoid Fevers Rise With New Lancaster Cases
Lancaster health authorities report two new paratyphoid cases bringing total to 164, as autry studies pause milk processing. State officials say investigation continues, with 69 raw milk producers and families affected losing about 140000 dollars in earnings.
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Lancaster
Autry
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Shanksville
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Cambria Co
Hunter
Red China
Francis W. Carpenter
Pardon Board
Psychiatist’s Report
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Potsdam
Frankfurt
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