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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
3
Four stockings will hang on the White House mantel this Christmas Eve. Mamie Eisenhower confirmed a stocking for her newborn granddaughter Mary Jean, born Wednesday at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
The article notes a crowded Republican slate for Ohio governor in 1956 with ten delegates pledged to President Eisenhower via Sen. John Bricker as state law requires written consent. It also covers Mrs. Eisenhower’s hospital visit, the White House Christmas visit for Eisenhower children, and reflections on the new baby. Also covers UN Security Council efforts to ease Israeli Syrian tensions over Lake Tiberias, with Hammarskjold planning visits.
In Columbus the Ohio Turnpike Commission hints at leadership changes with Chairman James W. Shacknessy entertaining retirement within weeks and former executive director Frank C. Dunbar resigning to return to private law practice. No successors named yet.
A strike by 22 560 non operating Pennsylvania Railroad employees scheduled for last midnight was postponed indefinitely after an all day conference in Philadelphia. John F. ODonnell said negotiations would resume January 4 and no new deadline was set. The union cited progress and cited private business pressures as reasons for postponement.
Fires nationwide claim 23 lives on the eve of Christmas, mostly children. St Louis and New York tenements each raise child fatalities. Davenport Iowa and Indianapolis reports add to the grim toll. The National Board warns winter is the peak fire season and Christmas raises risk.
In London, Santa Clauses clash at Speakers Corner with a pro Communist Santa getting knocked down while another Santa flees an elevator mishap as a busy day unfolds. In Columbus, city council reviews Ford rezoning to allow a new plant on the north side, while a boy named Ricky Salomon, 8, receives a traffic summons after a door mishap with a car.
Col Alfred L. Booth USMC plans two and a half years with NATO. He will depart Jan 19 from New York for Bremerhaven then Paris for NATO War College and later Supreme Headquarters. He is 39, a 1932 Elyria High School graduate, with wife Betty and two daughters.
The Ohio Democratic race for governor grows ahead of the February 8 filing deadline as Governor Lausche backs a U.S. Senate bid. Cleveland Mayor Celeste, Port Clinton publisher Reicher, and others including Burke DiSalle Reams Ward are likely contenders. past unopposed runs by Bricker and Rhodes are noted in a laborious party history.
A double vehicle collision at Routes 15 and MA 1 eight miles north of Bryan killed two women. Mrs Mariion Peck 22 of Waldron Michigan and Mrs Dorothy M Koons 41 of Morrowville Kansas died Thursday afternoon raising Williams county death toll to 23.
Cleveland report says no homes will be affected by a new spur for a proposed Chrysler stamping plant at Twinsburg Ohio. The Pennsylvania Railroad described a 600 car yard plan near Macedonia with eight tracks and diesel operations after a residential fire damaged a frame factory building.
Westinghouse Electric Corp rejects a plea by Pennsylvania congressmen Augustine Kelley and Herman Eberharter to arbitrate the 68 day IUE strike. The company cites obligation to stockholders and argues arbitration would affect its competitive standing for years. The governors had proposed arbitration and IUE leadership signaled negotiators were not empowered to end the walkout of about 44,000 members.
A four man team robbed a downtown Cleveland bar of cash and the wallets of six patrons in five minutes. The exact amount stolen was not released. Police investigated the daylight robbery as customers fled the scene.
New branch printing plant of the R J Donnelly and Sons Co of Cincinnati will be built on a Meacre site. Announcement made today states the facility will expand regional production and create local jobs.
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