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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1954
Page
5
The Agriculture Department reported this year's harvest as the fifth largest on record with high quality crops. Wheat cotton tobacco and peanuts faced controls while corn faced looser limits, keeping total output below a 1958 peak but with strong soybean and livestock feed grain production and ample wheat reserves.
A unidentified about 30 year old woman died leaping from a flame filled fifth floor room 512 at the Biltmore Hotel in Baltimore. Witnesses recall her scream as she jumped after hesitating on the ledge. Firefighters confined the blaze to the fifth floor. 75 guests fled unharmed.
Paris reports the fate of 20 861 French Union troops from the Indo Chinese war is undecided. Some held by Vietminh, others possibly deserters or dead. Jacques Chevallier told the National Assembly that most prisoners should have been returned under the armistice. France has exchanged prisoners with Vietminh, returning 59 700 internees and 000 war prisoners in exchange for 19 181 prisoners and 710 civilians.
Washington reports the United States will pay Panama a four fold increase in annual canal rent. Officials said a new treaty would raise payments from 430000 to 1930000 dollars, arguing the old figure from 1938 was out of line with toll income.
Leonard W. Hale, Republican national chairman, stated before the Oyster Bay Township Republican committee that he believes President Eisenhower will be the Republican candidate in 1956. He described his remark as a flat prediction and repeated that Eisenhower will be the nominee.
Kenneth Tolliver a 20 year old airman who stole a 6500 dollar yacht and began a round the world cruise pleaded guilty to grand theft and received six months in Los Angeles County Jail as part of a 10 year probation sentence. He had absented from Sampson Air Force Base near Geneva New York and with his wife Vida 18 and friend Patricia Malone left Los Angeles to circle the globe. The craft was spotted in Mazatlan Mexico and Miss Malone’s parents will handle a juvenile court hearing in Los Angeles. Tolliver had graduated from the University of Chicago at 18 worked in Los Angeles hospitals and enlisted in the Air Force last September.
J Willard Durden a 36 year old Orlando contractor was convicted of conspiring to kill a wealthy widow in a murder for money scheme. A six member jury found him guilty of conspiring with late Emmett Donnelly a Lake Wales lawyer. Durden sentenced by Judge Roy H Amidon to one year in prison and a $500 fine plus trial costs. Donnelly died by suicide after charges. Durden faces separate trials in cases involving two other targets.
Herold police entered the home of a man and found a smashed piggy bank. The thief took $500 in dimes saved over nine years for his epileptic son Paul, age 9.
Answers explain Social Security disability benefits and the disability freeze option for those aged 65 or older. Guidance covers when to apply, documents to request from the SSA, and how monthly benefits are computed from average earnings across pre and post 1950 work periods.
A federal grand jury indicted Dr Joranho Cart Cort for failing to report for induction on Sept 14 1953 after leaving the United States with his wife Ruth to England in 1952 and then fleeing to Poland and Czechoslovakia seeking political refuge. Cort registered as a medical student at Yale in 1948 and later taught at Birmingham University before being denied permission to stay overseas.
In Philmont, a youth drowned after breaking through the ice on Philmont Reservoir. Robert Colbecks, 17, of Hudson, was recovered about 90 minutes later as a life line slipped from his grasp while helpers tried to haul him from the water. Ralph Johnson, 15, summoned aid after the accident.
Denver reports wind caused more than 1 million dollars in damage to winter wheat across eastern Colorado. Lawrence Phelps of the Agriculture Department described the situation as serious, noting wind and dust stripped shallow-rooted wheat and dried moisture. Damage stretches from Prowers County to Yuma County as drought pressures farmers’ fall planting gamble.
The New York Central Railway seeks to control three leased lines the Boston and Albany the Pittsfield and North Adams and the Ware River with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Alleghany Corp supports the plan and Central asks authority to issue bonds to swap for the lines stock. Bonds totaling 271 million dollars 377 800 dollars and 937 500 dollars would be issued for the three lines with different exchange rates per share.
The 31 pound turkey from Hope Kansas arrived at the White House as a gift from J. J. Hartman. President Eisenhower plans to take the bird to the Augusta Georgia golf resort for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
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