Senate sends jobless aid bill to House
The Senate approved and sent to the White House a bill allowing federal advances to finance a temporary unemployment benefits extension. The 80 to 0 vote kept most provisions as the House modified, permitting states to extend benefits by up to 13 extra weeks in many cases. Kennedy failed to push 16 weeks.
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Statesman's Wrong Once So Forever
AP report recalls how past legislators misread futures on statehood. Citing 1816 Mississippi admission debates and 1819 Alabama entry doubts, the piece argues political judgments can linger as enduring records of error. It notes wilderness descriptions contrasted with subsequent growth and commerce.
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Alaska
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Mississippi
14Th Congress
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Alabama
Josiah Quincey
Massachusetts
Eisenhower says recession downturn largely spent may not cut taxes
President Eisenhower said the downward force of the recession is largely spent and does not justify a federal tax reduction. He warned inflation could cause serious trouble and urged sane military spending while criticizing wage price controls as incompatible with a free economy. He defended the foreign service and discussed Middle East doctrine and Mansfield amendment implications.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
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France
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
Foreign Service
U. S. Foreign Service
James R. Reston
New York Times
Mike Mansfield
Mont
House Votes Statehood To Alaska
The House approved 208 to 166 a bill to admit Alaska as a state. The chamber rejected moves to send the measure back to committee and defeated a tentative kill vote. The bill now goes to the Senate where support is uncertain and a mid June consideration is anticipated.
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House
Alaska
House Insular Affairs Committee
Senate
Hawaii
Dr Clark Adds 3 Nurses At Pa Hospital
Dr Gerald R Clark, acting superintendent of Somerset State Hospital, announced three nurses were added to the staff as part of expanding professional care. New hires are Miss Shirley Hoar, R N, Mrs Lois E Ludy, R N, and Mrs Betty Smith, R N, all based in Somerset with training from Harrisburg General, Conemaugh Valley Memorial, and Johns Hopkins facilities.
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Miss Hoar
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Boswell
Ludy
Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital
Johnstown
State Hospital
Legion and VFW Create Memorial Day Parade Float
Somerset American Legion and VFW join to build a joint parade float for Memorial Day. The two unit display a tomb of the WWI unknown soldier with gates for unknown soldiers from Korea and WWII, plus a casket symbolizing the Korean War casualty, guarded by an honor detail. Volunteers built it in Herring Motor Co. garage.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Somerset
American Legion
VFW
Herring Motor Co
Five Year Delay Delays Russian Aid to Yugoslavia
Belgrade reports that the Soviet Union postponed for five years its promised credits to Yugoslavia, widening the rift between the two communist states. The plan envisaged 250 million dollars for an aluminum plant in Montenegro and other industrial projects, with limited cash loans. The move could affect Yugoslavia’s trade relations with the USSR under a 1958 protocol covering coal oil manganese ores machines wheat and other goods. The delay deepens tensions after a Yugoslav party meeting boycotted by Moscow and satellites.
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Stumpf to Speak at Windber Lions Dinner
Hans Stumpf of Somerset will address the Windber Lions Club at a New Palace hotel dinner tonight. His topic is Germany Then and Now.
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Hans Stumpf
Somerset
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New Palace Hotel
India Rejects U N Invitation Amid Hydrogen Test Fallout
India joins the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in rejecting a U S invitation to observe a Pacific hydrogen bomb test. Authoritative sources say Belgium and Sweden accepted the invite.
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N. Y
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Czechoslovakia
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Pacific
Belgium
Sweden
Move To Cut Accidents On Our Airways
The Civil Aeronautics Board announced a historic experiment creating three transcontinental superskyways. Beginning June 15 civilian and military flights will be directed by traffic controllers within 40 mile wide corridors at 17 000 to 22 000 feet with at least 1000 feet vertical and ten minutes horizontal separation.
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Eisenhower
Air Coordinating Committee
Memorial Day Program In Somerset Set For Friday Morning
Memorial Day events in Somerset conclude preparations with a 9 15 a m parade from the courthouse plaza. The program, led by N C Shultz, features Judge Thomas Lansberry as master of ceremonies and Frank G Millard delivering the principal address.
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Philip Holsinger
Sons and Daughters of Land
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Church of the Brethren
Mary Ann Silvis
American Legion Auxiliary
Gene Brant
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Bonita Brancher
Spanish Vets Auxiliary
Edna Marteeny
Critchfield Named Supervising Principal At Shanksville
J Geary Critchfield of Somerset succeeds Ed J Singleton as supervising principal of Shanksville Stonycreek Joint schools. A Ramsay High School veteran, Critchfield has headed the science department since 1947 and served as supervisor of student teachers and assistant principal since 1949.
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Somerset
Ed J. Robert Singleton
Shanksville - Stonycreek
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Ramsay High School
Mt. Pleasant
Critchfield
Ramsay Science
Traffic Crash Fatal Near Leechburg on Route 66
Kenneth Smail, 23, of Leechburg R D 2, died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a Route 66 traffic crash near Leechburg. The incident occurred along the highway as emergency crews responded to the scene.
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250 000 Pre Schoolers Miss Salk Vaccine
Harrisburg AP reports about 250 000 pre school children in Pennsylvania have not received the Salk polio vaccine. Health Secretary Charles L. Wilbur warns parents are taking unnecessary health risks by leaving youths unvaccinated, noting children up to age five are most susceptible.
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Pennsylvania
Department of Health
Charles L. Wilbur
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Unknown Heroes Return From Two Wars and Lie in State
Unknowns of World War II and Korea return to their homeland to lie in state beneath the capitol dome. Caskets carried from the destroyer Brandy with military rites honor the nameless warriors as Vice President Nixon and other dignitaries attend.
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Washington
Korea
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Capitol
Arlington National Cemetery
Nixon
Rayburn
De Gaulle Returns as French Crisis Deepens
Paris reports show Gen Charles de Gaulle seeking support from President Rene Coty and Parliament amid massive anti Gaullist demonstrations. Secret talks with Radical Socialist Gaston Monnerville and Andre le Troquer yielded no announced results as De Gaulle headed home to await further developments in France’s gravest crisis since the war.
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Rene Coty
Charles de Gaulle
Pflimlin
National Assembly
de Gaulle
UPI Radiotelephoto
Harvey Hudson
PARIS
Direcor
Wthout
Senate
Coty
France
Gaston Monnerville
Andre le Troquer
Assembly
Monnerville
New Presbyterian Union Formed In Historic Merger
Rain blessed the founding of the United Presbyterian Church of the U S A formed by the merger of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A and the United Presbyterian Church. The new denomination has about three million members and nearly 10 000 congregations. The Rev Dr Theophilus M Taylor was elected first moderator after a series of laudatory speeches. He serves as a New Testament professor at Pittsburgh Xenia Theological Seminary.
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Pittsburgh
Nature
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U.S.A
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Presbyterian Church
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New Church
Theophhilus M. Taylor
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Pittsburgh Xenia Theological Seminary
Dr C S Derby Honored By Congregation
Calvary Methodist in Somerset bid farewell to Dr Clark S Derby as he leaves for First Church Point Marion. The gathering honored his five year pastorate with praise for community growth, a steel filing cabinet gift, songs by the chapel choir, prayers, and refreshments served by the Women’s Society of Christian Service.
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Clark S. Derby
Lloyd C. Wicke
First Church
Point Marion
Somerset
Calvary Church
Henry B. Reiley, Jr
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Charles Dusenberry
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