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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1958
Page
12
In 1958 the Chronicle-Telegram reports on regional events in Piyrin Ohio, noting local balances and community updates. The brief mentions County activities and residents engaged with civic matters during the year.
Margaret Putnam, 19, of Ada, an OSU student with green eyes, won Miss Ohio 1959 over 11 contestants in Wooster. She earned a $1,000 scholarship and a wardrobe, will represent Ohio at Miss America in Atlantic City in September, amid a city parade and pageant intrigues. First alternate was Rose Marie Bostanci. second alternate Lois Ann Wollenhaupt.
Arthur S. Flemming, former Ohio Wesleyan University president, is sworn as secretary of health education and welfare in a White House ceremony. Chief Justice Whittaker administers the oath as President Eisenhower notes the return of a familiar official. Flemming succeeds Marion Folsom and becomes HEW’s third head since 1953.
Robert Herndon Fife, 8, longtime head of Columbia University's Germanic languages department and acclaimed author on Germanic studies, died on a Friday in New York according to UPD.
Financial notices list nominal quotations for bonds and securities as of Friday August 1. The page lists prices and issuers including Ohio Turnpike and other regional bonds with firm contact details for Pierre R. Smith & Co of the Midwest Stock Exchange.
House investigators said a forthcoming report will detail Sherman Adams influence peddling linked to millionaire Bernard Goldfine. The probe notes material about Adams was excised, while the SEC warned Goldfine of action for missing a year end report.
Ike's brother, Ike, returns from a two day Latin American tour and urges bankable loans not grants, steadier commodity prices, and a clear US policy understanding across the hemisphere. He spoke from the White House after meeting President Eisenhower at the airport in Baltimore.
Western civilians in Baghdad reportedly advised to stay indoors as a wave of anti foreign sentiment leads to arrests. Among those detained are Marine sergeants and other Westerners tied to an oil blaze at a British operated Janik farm on the city outskirts. Philips Smith of West Palm Beach and George Hamilton of Century, Florida, are named among the detainees as roughly 50 people are rounded up in connection with the three day fire.
A UPI led report describes a chaotic scene near Baghdad as a motorist helps quell a fire linked to oil, while diplomats and embassy staff, including U.S. Ambassador Waldemar Magnuson, await release. Rebels hold Marines amid tense negotiations at the Golden Gate Bridge context.
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana police say Minnie Connie Nicholas 43 a divorcee charged with the murder of Forrest Teel 54 Eli Lilly executive remained in a coma after a suicide attempt and a vial of sleeping potion. Ballistics tie a pistol found to the killing. investigators say a love triangle and a younger secretary Alura Mawrer 29 reveal Teel's secret life. Nicholas faced charges and possible motive linked to her belief Teel was ending their friendship.
Nations divided on weapons unite in humanitarian drive led by the World Health Organization. For ten years WHO has cut malaria deaths, treated yaws, trachoma and leprosy, and improved infant survival through vaccines and sanitation. Dr. M G Candan calls the era a major historical milestone in global progress.
UPI reports on the 1921 decision by Winston Churchill to reward Lawrence of Arabia with the creation of Transjordan and Iraq under British mandate. It traces the Hashemite kingdom’s growth, Palestinian settlement shifts, and rising Arab nationalism under King Hussein’s guarded rule amid ongoing Western involvement.
Senate anti monopoly subcommittee plans brief hearings next week on suspected anti trust violations as steel makers raise prices. Chairman Estes Kefauver says government witnesses will be questioned and urges action to hold the wage price line and intervene to curb inflationary pressure. He warns of impact on cost of living defense budget foreign trade and economic recovery.
The duchess Miss Kostya wore a black princess dress with an embroidered bodice and puffed sleeves. Miss Kostye, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerry Kostye, will be a OSU sophomore. The queen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward A Gilles, was crowned by J Clare George. Mayor J Grant Keys crowned the queen. Princess Barbara DeFazio placed third. Proceeds from princess book sales totaled many copies. The coronation occurred during an outdoor dance in the Elyria Telephone Co parking lot before thousands, with Rocco Trombello’s orchestra funded by the Music Performers Trust Fund through Local 146 of the American Federation of Musicians.
Tack Smith 50 of Wooster drowned Friday night while rescuing his son at Camp Luz lake. The boy went into the water to retrieve a fishing pole, was pulled under, and both were saved when the father pulled the child to safety before being pulled under himself.
A chain of blasts at an army powder magazine near Dea , suburban Rio de Janeiro, killed at least ten and trapped others. Emergency teams led by Gen. Odile Denis raced to the scene as President Juscelino Kubitschek pledged swift aid.
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