United Fund Campaign Opens With 400 Volunteers
The 1960 United Fund Campaign kicked off at the Hotel Syracuse with 400 volunteers. Speaker Ray R. Eppert urged selling the product of community agencies rather than touting money, highlighting needs for the needy, youth, and elderly across 61 agencies. He stressed the cost of running human services and urged consideration of value over price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Fund
Ray R. Eppert
Second Left
Burroughs Corp
Syracuse
Detroit
Eppert
United Community Funds and Councils
Soviets Mum on What Lunik Found on Other Side of Moon
Soviet space craft Lunik continued its planned orbit after circling the moon but Moscow offered no details on what might be observed on the far side. Data transmissions were due today from 9 to 16 a.m. EST as British scientists noted unusual signal patterns during the craft’s pass behind the moon.
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Lunik
Preston Grover
Moscow
API
Soviet Union
Lumik
Moon
Earth
Atlantic Ocean
Tunik
Jodrell Bank
England
John Davies
Sonmin Law Feld in Fetal Stabbing
Newport man John J Egan 53, laundry owner and real estate operator, was found dead in his yard in what police call a grudge attack. His son in law Charles E Cook 26, a Harvard graduate and Navy Reserve lieutenant, is booked on suspicion of murder. Cook married Egan’s daughter Elizabeth, they have two children, and Cook has worked for Egan the past six months. Egan was active in Democratic party affairs and formerly served on the Jamestown Ferry Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
CAPJ
John J Egan
Charles E. Cook
Egan
Elizabeth
Cook
Julian A. Cook
Birmingham
Illa
Harvard College
J. G
U. S. Navy Reserve
South
Sarasota
Fla
Police Patrolman Pleads Guilty in Parking Meter Theft
Oneida County village patrolman Louis F. Grieco Utica 45 admitted petty larceny after state police traced nickels from meters to his car and to coins found in the firehouse. He received six months suspended jail and three years probation.
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Boonville
Louis F. Grieco
Utica
Grieco
Oneida
Donald Went Sidhe
Charles Scherz
Seventeen Year Old Mother Has Four Children
South Charleston, W Va AP report says Betty Sue Eplin, age 17, who gave birth last December 25, now has four children. Her husband is a golf course caddy. She also had triplets born six weeks early, with twins anticipated previously.
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South Charleston
W. Va
Betty Sue Eplin
Brenda Sue
Boonville Hit With Heavier Rainfall Then Syracuse
The weather report notes Boonville received 3.14 inches overnight and 9.80 inches for the week, while Syracuse logs about 4 inches this week. Weatherman Andy Kelier calls it a wet October with tomorrow expected rainless but mostly cloudy conditions and scattered showers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonville
Arpaia
Andy Kelier
Syracuse
Keller
Frustrated mother vents about love lost in chaotic home
A young mother, distressed by her crying children and a dirty house, sighs that she sometimes wishes she had loved and lost. The wry line captures her fatigue and unintended humor amid daily struggles.
Buffalo Boy, 8, Dies of Polio in 1959
An eight year old Buffalo boy died October 3 at Meyer Memorial Hospital from bulbar polio, becoming the fourth polio victim in Erie County in 1959. Health officials said he had received the full Salk vaccine series. The county total includes five polio cases, of which fourteen are paralytic.
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Buffalo
VPD
Erie County
New
Meyer Memorial Hospital
Nixon warns Reds against subversion at CENTO meeting
Vice President Richard M. Nixon told CENTO leaders in Washington that subversion against free nations would threaten peaceful competition. He urged continued hard defense of the free world while noting Khrushchev’s overtures and possible Berlin talks. He welcomed Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Britain to CENTO.
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Washington
Richard M
Nixon
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S
Central Treaty Organization
Peise
Turkey
Iran
Pakistan
Britain
CENTO
United States
Khrushchev
Berlin
Five Die as Train Strikes Auto in Anna Illinois
Five persons were killed when an Illinois Central Railroad freight train struck their car at a downtown crossing in Anna Illinois. Victims identified as Lolo Minton 54 assistant farm superintendent at Anna State Hospital Barbara Brown 24 Mrs Iva Myers Peter Marks about 20 and a woman believed to be Marks sister all residents of Alto Pass Illinois.
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Anna
Ill
UPI
Ilinois Central Railroad
Lolo Minton
Anna State Hospital
Barbara Brown
Iva Myers
Peter Marks
Marks
Alto Pass
Fifteen Injured In Stamford Train Crash
In Stamford Connecticut a slow-moving branch-line New Haven Railroad commuter train rammed an empty parked train at the station. Fifteen people were injured with ten treated at Stamford Hospital and two held for observation. none seriously hurt.
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Stamford, Conn
New Haven
Stamford
Twenty One Al Ways Show Owners Deceived Network
Witness Alfred Davis testified that producers Barry and Enright and attorney Edwin Slate advised lying to authorities and hiding the truth about rigging the quiz show Twenty One. Richard Jackman, a former contestant and ILGWU organizer, also testified to crooked practices as the House subcommittee probed the scandals and prepared to examine Dotto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
TV Q
Alfred Davis
New York
Davis
Edwin Slate
Barry and Enright Inc
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
House Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Slate
Robert W. Lishman
Subcommittee
Richard Jackman
Jackman
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
House Subcommittee On Legislative Oversight
Dotto
Jack Barry
Col. J
Death of tenor Mario Lanza in Rome hospital
American tenor Mario Lanza died in a Rome hospital after about a week of treatment for a minor illness. A friend said he suffered a heart attack and died shortly after noon. He was 38. Lanza rose to fame with The Great Caruso and pursued a European film career two years earlier after controversy in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tome
Fener
Mario Lanza
Rome
Lanza
Europe
United States
Philadelphia
Great Caruso
Phonograph
Records
U.S
Dock Hearing Ends as Board Urges Talks
A fast public hearing by President Eisenhower's fact finding board on the East and Gulf Coast stevedore strike urged bargaining resumes at once. Chair Guy Farmer said a report would be filed tomorrow, potentially triggering Taft Hartley procedures and a 80 day cooling off if invoked. Both sides blamed the other as talks stalled and the panel heard accusations of illegal walkouts and job eliminations as the contract expired September 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
APS
Eisenhower
Gulf Coast
Guy Farmer
Mewsmen
Farmer
International Longshoremen's Assn
Jailed For Refusing To Reveal Apalachin Meeting Attendance
Roy Carlisi of Buffalo was ordered jailed by Supreme Court Justice John L. Flynn for failing to truthfully explain why he attended the 1957 Apalachin gangland meeting at Joseph Barbara Sr. home. Carlisi must answer questions from the State Commission of Investigation or remain jailed until he complies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Roy Carlisi
Buffalo
Supreme Court
John L. Flynn
Carlisi
State Commission of Investigation
Upstate
Joseph Barbara
Talks Fail Union's Group Disbanded
Pittsburgh reports United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald dismantled the Wage Policy Committee, signaling no quick settlement to the steel strike. He warned of potential Taft-Hartley injunctive action, while stating the union would resist if such an injunction was sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald Todas
McDonald
United Steelworkers of America
Friends Married to Same Man
Two San Francisco waitresses discovered they were married to the same man. Dorothy Mallett Lemming and Ola Fay Lemming obtained annulments Tuesday in Superior Court. Dorothy received monthly child support for Charee Ann, Ola received property and support for Carol Ann.
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San Francisco
Dorothy Mallett Lemming
Ola Fay Lemming
Superior Court
William F. Traverson
Dorothy Lemming
Charee Ann
Ola Lemming
Carol Ann
Dorothy
Ola
John T. Lemmiing
Minaker. I
National Day of Prayer Proclaimed for 1959 by Eisenhower
President Eisenhower designates a national day of prayer for 1959 under the 1952 congressional resolution. He calls on Americans to give thanks for providence and the nation’s growth and promise, with the proclamation issued in July.
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Washington
America
Eisenhower
Ile
New York Youths Call Curfews Unfair and 16 Working Age Fine
A 150-strong group of youth group leaders in Albany urged that the 16 year old working age should stay 16, curfews are unfair, and teachers should maintain respect rather than friendly "buddy-buddy" relations. They also favored premarital counseling, stricter license tests, and firmer liquor enforcement while opposing early marriages and excessive parental discipline. Names of participants include Victor K Youriizing, Martin Hart, John Ferowell, Constance Cossack, David Horton, and Elizabeth Ann Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
New York State
Victor KK. Youriizing
New York City
Martin 4
Hart of
Dalfals
John Ferowell
West Chazy
Constance Cossack
David Horton
Port Washington
Elizabeth Ann Page
Syracuse
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Niver Wynkoop
Advisory Council
Herbert G. Wright Jr
Jeroma M. Wilson
By Thomas J. Kennedy
Sonmin-Law Feld
Beas
St Nixon
Earl Wilson
Buffalo Boy
Union
White House
Rockefeller
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