Eisenhower Likely To Seek Second Term
President Eisenhower indicates a second term is likely after a test of his physical condition. He plans a vigorous Thomasville golf and shooting vacation before deciding publicly. White House sources and newspapers cite support from Sherman Adams and Leonard Hall and expect an announcement after his return.
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United Press
Thomasville
Eisenhower
Detroit News
Washington
Martin S. Hayden
Sherman Adams
Leonard W. Hall
Hayden
White House
Hall
Republican National Committee
Chicago American
Charles Finston
Paul Dudley White
White
Mother Abducted Held 22 Hours In Pueblo Capture
Nancy Jackson, 27, mother of three, was abducted outside Pueblo Junior College and held captive for 2 1 2 hours until a stout rescue by Tony Fortino and others. The abductor Eugene C. Hurst, 28, was captured after a gunfight that wounded him and Jackson’s husband Robert A. Jackson, 28. Fortino used a .22 pistol to help subdue Hurst.
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Pueblo
Colo
Battie
Eugene C. Hurst
Robert A. Jackson
Hurst
Jackson
Nancy Jackson
St. Mary's Hospital
Tony Fortino
Fortino
Revolt in Brazil Expands as Forces Move on Jungle Stronghold
Belem Brazil Feb 22 A delayed government expedition advances on a rebel jungle stronghold in northern Brazil while reports of unrest reach three cities. The riverboat President Vargas with 450 soldiers 600 airmen and 50 marines travels up the Amazon two days behind schedule. Five planes fly 300 paratroopers from Rio de Janeiro to reinforce the assault.
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Belem
Brazil
Vargas
Amazon River
Rio de Janeiro
Weather Report Notes Cold With No Precipitation
Local conditions show a high of 36 and a low of 16 with no precipitation. River stage remains at 13.3 feet and is falling. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset 5:35.
Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity
Fair and continued cold tonight and Thursday. Low 15. Friday increasing cloudiness. Indiana fair to partly cloudy and cold with a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, a little warmer. extreme west in afternoon. Low tonight 10 to 20. High Thursday 27 to 32 north and 33 to 38 south. Temperature readings at 6 am 21 and 2 pm 32.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Lake Michigan
Greasy Thumb Guzik Dies Chicago Gang Leader
Chicago police reported the death of 69 year old gangster and Al Capone associate Julius Guzik known as Greasy Thumb. He was found dead in a South Side apartment from natural causes possibly a heart attack after a 45 minute effort to revive him. He had sued police for false arrest and recently faced questioning in the Dec 8 murder case of Alex Greenberg.
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Chicago
J E
Greasy Thumb
Guzik
al Capone
South Side
Jack Arnold
Police Department
Capone
Alex
Louie) Greenberg
Terre Haute Council to Decide Thursday on Garbage Contract
Terre Haute city council members approved one ordinance in a regular session and read six others but failed to act on the garbage contract awarded earlier to Lavern Gibson by the Board of Public Works and Safety. A transfer of funds for police training and election expenses was approved, with several other transfer proposals and an annexation ordinance read for the first time.
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Terre Haute
Lavern Gibson
Board of Public Works and Safety
Police Department
FBI Training Academy
Quantico
Planning Commission
City Engineer and Board of Health
Appointment of annexation remonstrance checkers delayed
Court postponed naming the three man commission to audit signatures opposing Harrison township annexation. Attorney M Walter Bell asked for time to select a remonstrator member while Judge Edwin Long and City Attorney Ernest Zwerner discussed method and timing. A city member and a third neutral checker were to be chosen by court and remonstrators respectively.
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Harrison Township
M. Walter Bell
Indianapolis
Edwin B. Long
Greene County
Viga
Bell
Ernest J. Zwerner
Six Ministers Arrested In Bus Boycott Fight
Six Negro ministers and another Black man whose home was bombed were among the first defendants in a moonlight of arrests for taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott. E D Nixon also faced charges under Alabama anti boycotting law after an eight day probe of the protest.
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Montgomery
Ala
E. D. Nixon
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Alabama
Nixon
Ralph D. Abernathy
Negro First Baptist Church
R. James Glasco
Alabama Negro Baptist Center
Aaron Hoffman
Shiloh Baptist Church
H. H. Hubbard
Oak Street Baptist Church
W. J. Powell
Old Ship Methodist Church
L. R. Bennett
Mount Zion A.M
Addie James Hamilton
Abernathy
Veronica Hunter Fined for Drunken Driving Incident in Bournemouth
In Bournemouth England on February 22 Veronica Hunter aged 56 was fined 70 dollars after she drove through a red light struck a danger sign and two red warning lights hugged a nightwatchman knocked off a policeman's helmet and yodeled Yahoo Here we are at the police station.
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Bornemouth
England
Veronica Hunter
Yahoo
Body of Fort Wayne youth recovered off Carolinas coast
The Army notified Mrs. Arletta Walker that her son Terry Walker, 18, is dead after his body was recovered off the North Carolina coast. He had been missing since Feb. 1 when a landing craft overturned during an amphibious exercise. The body was recovered Monday.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Army
Arletta Walker
Terry
North Carolina
Walker
Honor Balzer Receives Civic Honors In Polio Campaign Farewell
Capt. George T Balzer longtime Terre Haute Marine Reserve joins new assignment destined for Okinawa for two years. A luncheon in the Terre Haute House Green Room honored him as a solid citizen with a Distinguished Service Medal of Honor with Silver Star replica and an honorary Blazing Stump Society membership.
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Martha Washington
George
Terre Haute House
George Balzer
George T. Balzer
Terre Hauteau
Cheir
Marine Reserve
Balzer
Okinawa
Terre Haute
Nancy Posey
Evansville
Indiana State Teachers College
Posey
Blazing Stump Society
Richard Tuttle
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
John K. Lamb
Chamber
Harold Napier
Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce secretary taken to hospital
Mrs. Pearl York Gibson long time Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce secretary was admitted to Union Hospital for observation and treatment after a three month illness at her home on South Center Street. Doctors ordered extensive tests and check-up.
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Pearl York Gibson
Terre Haute
Senate to probe lobby influence forms 8 member panel
Senate investigators plan an eight member special committee to examine campaign contributions lobbying and potential improper influence tied to the gas bill fight. The panel will issue recommendations by next January and hear witnesses including Keck associates and Superior Oil officials.
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Washington
Senate
Howard B. Keck
National
Citizens For Eisenhower Committee
Keck
Superior Oil Co
California
Francis Case
R.S. D
Case
Eisenhower
Special Committee
George
D.-Ga
John M. Neff
Lexington
Neb
Elmer Patman
Austin
Tex
Joseph Wishart
Nebraska
Republican Finance
Neff
Patman
South Dakota
Nebraska Committee
Wishart
Woman burned trying to save parakeet from fire
In Gary Indiana on February 22 a 50 year old woman, Goldie Lofgreen, returned to her burning apartment to reach her pet parakeet. She suffered second degree burns and a firefighter rescued her from the blaze. The parakeet and seven or eight other birds were killed and damage was put at eight to ten thousand dollars.
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Gary
Ind
John Massa
Goldie Lofgreen
Massa
Warns Nation To Win Race On Guided Missiles
Washington February 22 The Army magazine argues the United States could lose global parity if Russia builds a 1500 mile range ballistic missile. It criticizes Air Force claims mid range missiles in Russian hands won’t change broad conditions. German wartime V weapon chief Dornberger warns only ballistic missiles can deter future wars and predicts high speed space flight weapons by 1950s.
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Washington
America
Russia
Army
Association of the United States Army
Air Force
Walter D. Dornberger
Dornberger
Aviation Writers Assn
Washington's famed moments from the Delaware to Yorktown
At Washington Crossing Park a debate on Washingtons most remembered feat unfolds. Historians point to the Delaware crossing the Yorktown surrender as peak moments while Valle y Forge notes hard winter privation. public visitors study Leutzes painting Washington Crossing the Delaware on display.
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Washington Crossing
George Washington
Delaware River
Pennsylvania
Trenton
N. J
Valley Forge
Eisenhower Plays First 18 Holes Since Heart Attack
President Eisenhower, in Homosville Georgia, teed off on his first 18 holes of golf since his heart attack. He opened with a 240 yard drive and marked his return after recuperating at a Georgia plantation earlier. He had played nine holes last week after arriving at the Humphrey plantation.
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Homasville
Eisenhower
Georgia Plantation
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Workers Ready For Campaign On Heart Sunday
Volunteers prepare for Heart Sunday fundraising on February 26 as almost 600 workers receive campaign kits. Area chairmen will distribute to district captains and block workers with donation envelopes and heart badges. The Terre Haute Youth Center assembled the kits as part of the 1956 Heart campaign.
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Heart Fund
Heart
John A. Templeton
J. Ralph Learnard
Heart Sunday
Ohio Street
Terre Haute
President Praises Kansas Teacher Addie Over
Atlantic City February 22 1953 An 83 year old retired Abilene Kansas teacher Addie Over known as Miss Addie was lauded by President Eisenhower for decades of service to education He awarded her a Golden Key though she illness prevented attendance and the president could not attend the dinner in Georgia no.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Eisenhower
ABC
Abilene
Kans
Addie B. Over
Miss Addie
Addie
Georgia
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Lyle C. Wilson
U.P
Pueblo Junior College
Bobber
A.P. Wirephoto
Greasy Thumb Guzik
Robert T. Loughran
Jake Guzik
Honor Balzer
New World
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
Delaware
George Trevelyan
Cambridge
Emanuel Leutze
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Washington Crossing Park Commission
Ike
Youth Center
Kansas
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