Second Brush Fire Spreads In California
A second fire broke out in the Santa Monica mountains near Malibu on December 28, threatening Lake Sherwood area and fanning three wildfires across tinder dry brush. Evacuations were ordered as about 200 homes face danger around the lake, with the Malibu blaze already destroying about 60 homes. Fire officials warn the new outbreak could erase days of firefighting progress.
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Malibu
Calif
Point Dume
Santa Monica
Lake Sherwood
Ventura County
Los Angeles County
Keith Klinger
Ickes Appointed Justice of the Peace in Boswell After Ballot Flaw
Comfrey S. Ickes Jr. of Boswell was named justice of the peace by Governor George Leader after a November 6 ballot was found invalid. The move follows the vacancy caused by his father’s death. Harold W. Donges of Davidsville is already a JP, and another Boswell JP post remains open after John Kircher’s death.
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Comfrey S. Ickes, Jrr
Boswell
George Leader
Squire-To-Be
Harold W. Donges
Davidsville
Pennsylvania
Justices of the Peace
Ickes
Boswell Squire
John Kircher
Donges
Squire
Conemaugh Township
Harold Tripe
UN Hobbled as Suez Canal Clearing Delays Persist
U N and Egyptian officials failed to start clearing the southern entrance of the Suez Canal as planned. An Egyptian official said no orders had arrived to begin, while U N canal-clearing chief Gen Wheeler and ships awaited instructions. The 108 mile waterway remains blocked by sunken ships since the recent war, affecting Europe’s oil supply-chain.
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Suez
Egypt
United Nations
Suez Canal
U. N
Ismailia
Raymond A. Woeeler
US N’s
P. W. Dekoe
Tyne
Ertranes
Wheeler
Port Said Harbor Seen Quiet Amid Canal Work
No U N salvage fleet activity elsewhere along the canal. At Port Said harbor three British and French ships continue work begun during the occupation of the canal by British and French forces. They are authorized by Egypt to finish initiated tasks.
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U. N
Port Said
Three Injured In County Accidents Friday
At least three people were hurt in Somerset district accidents on Friday. Ira R. Raymond 55 of Keystone Street suffered chest and rib injuries and was listed in fair condition at Meyersdale Community Hospital after his Mercury sedan collided head on with Clyde W. Christner Jr.’s Chevrolet pickup on Route 219 near Garrett. Sally Kay Firestone 13 from Greensburg received severe brush burns after falling from a car near New Centreville and was sent to Greensburg for further care. Timothy Thomas two from Somerset received a lip cut treated at Somerset Community Hospital Dispensary.
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Somerset
Meyersdale
Route 219
Garrett
Ira R. Raymond
Keystone Street
Meyersdale Community Hospital
Raymond
Clyde W. Christner, Jr
Sally Kay Firestone
Paul Firestone
Greensburg
New Centerville
Somerset Community Hospital
Timothy Thomas
Dennis Thomas
North Center Avenue
New Year's Weekend Toll Begins Amid Ike Plea
President Eisenhower urged motorists to be cautious as the New Year holiday toll began with the first traffic death reported in Michigan. A 65 year old woman from Ottawa Lake was struck near her Monroe County home. The four day Christmas toll set records with 706 traffic deaths, 54 fires, and 124 other accidents totaling 884. The NSC predicted 490 motor fatalities for the New Year period, a potential new record.
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Eisenhower
Michigan
Louise Woodbury
Ottawa Lake
Mich
Monroe County
Detroit
Massachusetts
National Safety Council
NSC
Boro Seeks Federal Aid for $800,000 Sewage Plant
Somerset borough seeks up to 200000 in federal funds to aid an 800000 sewage treatment plant south of Somerset. The project, designed by Neilan Engineers, aims to discharge a safer odorless liquid with rapid-rate filtering, part of a broader water pollution control act program extending over ten years.
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Somerset
Richard Pile
Health Department
Pile
U. S
Sonsa
Neilan Engineers
Progam
Pennsylvania
Snowstorm Heads East From Indiana Toward New York
A new snowstorm moved east from Indiana toward New York with up to six inches possible in northern Iowa Pennsylvania and western New York. Snow and rain mix south of the system as it ends mild eastern seaboard warmth and ushers in colder air from Central Canada.
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Indiana
New York State
Fureau
Iowa
Pennsylvania
New York
Seaboard
Massachusetts
Virginia
House Group Calls for Racial Segregation in Washington Schools
A Washington group urges restoration of segregation in district schools. The report lists attacks on civil rights and recalls ongoing debates over school desegregation amid rising political pressure and community tensions.
Subcommittee Recommends Racial Segregation in D C Schools
A House subcommittee dominated by Southerners urged reestablishing racially separate public schools in the District of Columbia deeming integration harmful to educational opportunities. The four man majority rejected the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, drawing immediate fire from the Washington committee for the public schools which supports integration.
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Washington
House
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Washington Committee For the Public Schools
Millers Place First in Rockwood Lighting Contest
Mr and Mrs Charles Miller of Rockwood south side won first place in a Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Judging occurred Friday Two second place entries came from Mr and Mrs John Young and Mr and Mrs Emrys Jones at Highland addition Third place went to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Younkin of East Main street Honorable mention went to Rockwood Reformed church for a nativity scene and judges praised Rockwood firemen for their lighting display and giant Star of Bethlehem on Station hill
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Charles Miller
Rockwood
South Side
Chamber of Commerce
John Young
Emrys Jones
Highland Addition
Kenneth Younkin
East Main Street
Eisenhower appoints Sprague and McGuire as assistant defense secretaries
President Eisenhower announces two recess appointments for defense undersecretaries Mansfield Sprague of Connecticut and Edward McGuire of Ohio. Sprague will lead manpower and reserves. McGuire will handle supply and logistics. Both will seek Senate confirmation.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Thomas J. Herbert
Subversive Activities Control Board
Mansfield D. Sprague
Defense Department
General Caurer
Carter L. Burgess
Trans-World Airlines
Sprague
Bridgeport
Conn
Connecticut
House of Representatives
Edward P. McGuire
Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas P. Pike
Defense
Wilson
McGuire
Allied States of Ohio
Congress
Senate
Herbert
Ohio Supreme Court
Indictment of Stalin Purgers Faces Hungarian Court
Budapest December 25 The state prosecutor announced an indictment against Mihaly Farkas and his son Vladimir longtime Stalin era purgers and several former AVH officers The bill seeks to expose the Rakosi Gero Farkas ruling clique and may place the defendants before civil or military court The case could be used to partially appease the rebelling Hungarian public and avenge Janos Kadars mistreatment under purgers
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Budapest
Hungary
Mihaly Farkas
Vladimir
Secret Police
Matyas Rakosi
Communist Party
Laszlo Rajk
Kadar
Vladimir Farkas
AVH
Janos Kadar
Mihaly
Farkas
Ermoe Geroe
Rakosi
Russia
Bloodmobile at Somerset Church Sees 62 Pints Donated
R B Barner of the Somerset County Chapter American Red Cross reported 62 pints of blood collected Thursday afternoon when the Red Cross bloodmobile visited the First Christian church in Somerset. Thirty people donated to replace units used by local patients. Volunteers included doctors Ayvazian Hay Coffroth nurses Ayvazian Ream Crowley aides Specht Shannon Fridy Buelman Gnngey Saylor Weyand Schrock Scull Winters Ferner Rhoads and organizer Barner. Donation next stops at Stoystown Lutheran church January 3, 1957 under recruit organizer William D. Floyd.
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R. B. Barner
Somerset County
American Red Cross
Red Cross
First Christian Church
Somerset
Edward A. Ayvazian
Harold 8. Hay
Leroy W. Coffroth
Eileen Ayva
Bomb scares sweep New York city amid false alarms
A five inch pipe device wrapped in a sock was found at Madison Square Garden as a surge of bomb threats flooded New York. Police halted responses after numerous false reports disrupted theaters and transit. The midtown mad bomber struck Paramount theater last night, leaving 2500 patrons watching Hitchcock film.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Queens
Staten Island
Macy’s
Walter Leroy
Yorktown
James Leggett
Midtown
Paramount
Times Square
Alfred Hitchcock
Grace Mylott
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Boro
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Robert L. Parks
Decatur
Parks
Turnpike
Pittsburgh
Baldwin Borough
Alfred Daugherty
Dorothy Salmon
Mary Alice Healy
Stanley F. Puchalski
Fuchu
Japan
Palm Beach
Fla
Charles Francis (Locker) Coe
Coe
Buffalo
N. Y
Palm Beach Post and Times
Freedom Foundation
Subcommittee
High Court
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Lowell T. Coggeshall
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Supply and Logistics
Stalin
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N.Y
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