Egypt Threatens Israel over Syria Attack
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser told the United Nations that Israel’s assault on Syria last Sunday is also an attack on Egypt and vowed to act with armed force if needed. The message arrived ahead of a UN Security Council session as tensions rise across the region.
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United Nations
N. Y
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
U. N
Syria
Nasser
Dag Hammerskjold
Security Council
Omar Loutti
Council
Sea of Galilee
Israel
U. S
Defense Department
Britain
Cairo
Nine Story Fall Injures Worker at Harrisburg Building
Philip Barletta a 28 year old Scranton man was critically injured when he fell from nine stories while working on the Labor and Industry Building near Capitol Park. He slipped while setting stones in a stairwell on the 12th floor and fell to the third level, witnesses said.
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Harrisburg
Philip Barletta
Scranton
Labor and Industry
Capitol Park
Barletta
Snow and Cool Greeting for Reds in Kabul
In Kabul on December 15, Soviet Premier Bulganin and Communist Leader Khrushchev arrived to a muted welcome. Afghan Premier Daud and a guard met them at the airport as flags were belatedly displayed. Bulganin stated Afghanistan seeks neutrality and aims to expand Afghan-Russian ties amid a cautious public reception.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikitai Khrushchev
Mohammed Daud
India
Burma
Bulganin
Russia
Jaycees Abandon Air Post Project in Somerset
Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce votes to drop the air observation post project after a vandalized building on Catholic church property becomes unsuitable for a headquarters. A joint Jaycee and Somerset fire department banquet for the high school team is planned for mid January.
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Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
William Lambert
Jaycees
Jaycee-Somerset Fire Department
Somerset Joint
Manor Hill Hotel
Somerset
R. D
Orlo
Russell
Ross
Wilbur Miller
McCormick Jailed On Fraud Charge in Confluence
A 29 year old former Greene county man, Jack McCormick, jailed after admitting walking out of a Confluence hotel without paying. Fayette County places a detainer on him for fraud relating to car deals including a 125 dollar deposit for a promised 1955 Plymouth. McCormick, held on a 500 dollar bond, faces further investigations into rubber checks. Also jailed Thursday was 47 year old Harry Boden of Rockwood awaiting sentencing on morals charges.
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Greene County
Somerset
Confluence
Fayette County
Jack McCormick
McCormick
Adam R. Humbert
Dodd
Humbert
Thomas A. Courtney
Confluence Justice of the Peace
Harry Boden
Rockwood
Boden
Somerset County Court
Transport Aultman Arrives in San Francisco
The transport Gen. D. E. Aultman arrived from Guam and Hawaii with 750 passengers. Included were 344 army men 166 air force 25 navy 12 marines and 2038 dependents and government employees.
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San Francisco
D. E. Aultman
Guam
Hawaii
Air Force
Navy
Boden Found Guilty On Two Morals Charges
A Somerset county jury convicted Harry Boden of two immoral relations charges with his 15 year old step daughter. A new trial may be sought if juror Velma Ellingss worth of Paint township was excused after her father’s death. Boden’s attorney has five days to decide on a new trial. Separately, Peter Boncoski Jr. faced an involuntary manslaughter trial for the Jenner Cross Roads crash that killed Miss Marie Shaffer. The trial featured testimony from James Griffith and Officer John Loftus.
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Somerset County
Harry Boden
Blackfield
Velma Ellingssworth
Paint Township
Boden
Boncoski
Peter Boncoski, Jr
Jerome
Marie Laverne Shaffer
Friedens
Frank A. Orban, Jr
Jenner Cross Roads
Marie Shaffer
Griffith
Loftus
Thomas M. Walker
Shanksville
Temperatures Dip Across Somerset County Thursday Night
Temperatures in Somerset County fell sharply Thursday night with Rockwood recording a zero reading in the south central area. Somerset reported eight above zero at 9 p m as the mercury continued to drop. Despite heavy morning snowfall, roads remained generally good and a 40‑truck night crew worked to treat slick spots.
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Somerset County
Rockwood
Somerset
Pennsylvania State Highway Department
Maple Ridge Chorus to entertain Somerset Rotary at noon
The Maple Ridge grade school chorus will present a Christmas program for the Somerset Rotary club at the Somerset Country club today Friday at noon.
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Maple Ridge Grade School
Somerset Rotary Club
Somerset Country Club
Western NATO Plans Unified Air Defense Screen
NATO ministers backed Gen. Alfred Gruenther's plan to merge air defenses from Norway to Turkey into four regional commands and to install a jam proof communications network funded initially by the United States. The move follows John Foster Dulles warning that Russia has re entered the cold war and faster jet bombers.
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Joseph E. Dynan
Paris
Norway
Europe
Turkey
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
U. S S
John Foster Dulles
Russia
NATO
Dulles
Gruenther
Alfred M. Gruenther
Ous
Britain
Johan W. Beyen
Beyen
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
SHAPE
Hearing Set For Onstead Parole In December
Judge Lanshberry scheduled a December 23 parole hearing for John Joseph Onstead 25 of Windber. He pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 1954 and has served fourteen months of a two year sentence. Onstead cites a dependent child, intent to live lawfully, and health concerns as parole grounds. His mother Kathleen Onstead was slain in a bathroom incident. the jury member Mrs. Onstead convicted another man of second degree murder shortly before.
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Thomas F. Lanshberry
John
Jack) Joseph Onstead
Windber
Onstead
Joseph N. Cascio
Paul Kk. C. Fike
Court House
Somerset
Kathleen Onstead
Carol Stump
Johnstown
Commonwealth
Somerset County
Frank Novotny
Wilbur
Western State Penitentiary
Dun and Bradstreet Forecast Population Rise Across Nation
Dun and Bradstreet projects a 21 percent population increase west of the Mississippi and 15 percent in the eastern half by 1956. California is expected to grow from 12.6 million to 17.8 million, while New York rises from 15.4 million to 17.5 million, with Illinois Texas Pennsylvania joining over ten million milestones.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Mississippi
California
Empire State
Illinois
Texas
Pennsylvania
PRR Strike Looms If No Agreement Reached Thursday
Michael J. Quill announced a 22,560 non operating Pennsylvania railroad workers will strike at midnight next Thursday if no contract settlement is reached. The TWU leader said talks with railroad negotiators are scheduled for Thursday and noted this could test AFL-CIO unity. The fact finders proposed a welfare plan and seven paid holidays, but the union says talks are deadlocked with no money offer.
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Philadelphia
Michael J. Quill
Afl-Cio Transport Workers Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quill
PRR
Andrew J. Kaelin
George Meany
Afl-Cio
TWU
Fact Finders
Farmers' Net Income Seen At 10.5 Billion This Year
The Department of Agriculture reports realized net income for farmers in 1955 at about 10.5 billion dollars, roughly 10 percent below 1954, with gross income down 3 percent while expenses rise slightly. The 1956 outlook foresees further declines in gross income and sustained high expenses with a possible small drop in net income.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Marketing Service
Lobbyists Beat Leader Tax Says Gov Leads on Tax Clash
Harrisburg December 15 Gov Leader blamed lobbyists for defeat of the manufacturers excise tax. He rejected a sales tax, warned the excise tax is dead, and said he may invite corporate leaders to a tax conference while pledging to press on with a year end effort to resolve the fiscal deadlock. He urged GOP lawmakers to show responsibility as he consults leaders before Christmas.
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Harrisburg
Senate
House
People
Democratic Party
State Police Force Grows Under New Pennsylvania Law
Harrisburg December 15 Governor signed a law increasing the Pennsylvania state police by 126 men immediately. A second law aims to curb false and misused oil and gas revenues on state forestland for conservation recreation dam building and flood control projects.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Leader
Mill Worker Killed in Grain Mill Accident at Buffalo
James R. Weaver aged 26 a bin cleaner at a Buffalo grain mill was fatally injured when a cable parted while lowering him into a storage bin causing him to fall 35 feet and be crushed by a moving conveyor belt. Police said the boatswain's chair toppled and he was thrown out as the cable parted.
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Buffalo
James R. Weaver
Federal School Aid Seen Passing House in New Session
Speaker Rayburn predicted the House will pass a bill to provide 1.6 billion dollars for school construction over four years, with early action hoped. The measure would underwrite state and local financing of construction amid debates over racial segregation amendments.
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Washington
Rayburn
Tex
House
House Education Committee
Congress
Rep
Powell
New York
Rep. Smith
D—Va
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Sudan to Proclaim Independence After 56 Years of Rule
Prime Minister Ismail El Az nari told Parliament he plans to proclaim independence for the Sudan on Monday after 56 years of British Egyptian rule. He expects Sudanese parties to agree on the plan by tomorrow. The country spans from the southern Egyptian border toward the equator with about nine million people. The move challenges a British Egyptian agreement that the Sudan’s future be decided by a vote on independence or merger with Egypt.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Ismail el Aznari
Equator
el Azhari
Egypt
British say no advance notice on Sudan independence plan
London reports indicate the British foreign office has received no advance notice of Sudan’s plan to declare independence Monday. A spokesman said the government will consult with Egypt on next steps and noted a Khartoum report was unclear. prior steps for self determination had been agreed with Egypt, with El Azhari advocating parliamentary decision.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Japan
United Nations
State Department
Lincoln White
White
London
China
Outer Mongolia
United Nations Organization
International Peace Organization
Foreign Office
Sudan
Khartoum
Cairo
Britain
Egypt
el Azhari
Hold Statler For Removal To Cleveland
Louis C. Statler 68 of Altoona Pennsylvania waived a hearing and was held for U S District Court in Chicago for removal to Cleveland on murder charges involving 18 year old Gloria Ann Ferry. His bond was left at 25000 by the U S Commissioner despite a request for reduction. FBI arrested Statler on a Cleveland warrant alleging crossing state lines to evade prosecution. The body of Gloria Ann Ferry was found October 9 in Brookside Park Cleveland.
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Chicago
Louis C. Statler
Altoona
U. S. District Court
Cleveland
John Gannon
U. S
Bentley Pike
Statler
Pike
FBI
FTC to Rule On Health Insurance Advertising
The Federal Trade Commission plans a trade conference with state insurance officials and industry representatives to set rules guarding the public from deceptive health and accident insurance ads. FTC has pursued 41 companies, four have consented to stop the ads, others deny FTC jurisdiction.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Gg Goon
Lowell B. Mason
National Assa of Insurance Commissioners
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