Record Christmas Highway Toll Tops 600 Lives
Traffic deaths during the Black Christmas weekend total 602 with 69 fires and 125 other accidents. Ned H. Dearborn of the National Safety Council calls it a national tragedy and urges a New Year’s resolve to drive safer. Looting is reported in Webster City Iowa and Yuba City California as floods ravage a three-state area.
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United Press
Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Webster City
Iowa
Yuba City
Calif
Feather River
Army Engineer
Marysville
Stanley Pierson
Civil Defense
Army
Violence Flares At Sharon Pickets Amid Widening Strike
Pittsburgh reports show 44,000 Inter unions and 11,000 United Electrical Workers at Sharon plant in a street battle as 200 non-strikers clash with strikers. Federal mediator efforts faltered. Separately, a burglary at M O Neil Co. Store in Sheffield Center looted $30,000 to $40,000 with fingerprints sought by Sheriff Finegan and deputies.
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Pittsburgh
Tony Westinghouse Electric Corps
Intermula
National Union of Electrical Work
Sharon
Matage Lers
United Electrica Pa
John R
Murray
Sheriff's Department
M. O'Neil Co
Sheffield
Homer Clark
East North Ridge Rd
Burglary Loot Totals Estimated At 30 000 To 40 000
East and west store doors tampered with and tumblers removed inside. Large safe, six feet by four feet, opened after being tipped. Two smaller safes also opened. Losses include currency, records, checks and other papers.
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Gawlik
L. L. Kinsey
Akron
M. O'Neil Co
Lorain County
London
Washington D. C
O'Neil
J. C. Penney Co
Middlebore Heights
Youngstown
Weather report for Northeastern Ohio with weekend shifts
Partly cloudy and cold today with highs around 27, tonight partly cloudy and cold. Wednesday brings increasing cloudiness and warmer, with temperature range around the mid 20s to low 30s for the week and no significant precipitation in 24 hours. Winds from Lake Erie easterly to northeasterly at 10 to 20 mph, then tonight shifting east to southeast.
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Ohio
Lake Erie
U.S. Sees Growth Outlook for 1956 Amid Flood Losses
Washington reports a Commerce Department forecast that most industries will rise in early 1956 with continued gains for small manufacturers. The survey cites iron and steel momentum, record aluminum shipments, autos, electronics, and construction spending, while flood impacts threaten regional recovery.
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Commerce Department
Business and Defense Services Administration
Yuba City Flood Toll Rises in Northern California
Sixty seven people are reported dead or missing as floodwaters devastate vast areas in northern California and southern Oregon. The disaster response focuses on救援 efforts amid widespread damage and mounting casualties.
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San
Hit By Auto Greenwich Man Killed
NORWALK A Christmas Eve victim of a pedestrian automobile accident was Lyle Hall 36 of RD Greenwich. He died on arrival at Willard Hospital suffering a broken neck. The report notes a serious injury to a victim in Far West and mentions storms and floods across California Oregon and Nevada causing multiple fatalities and damage. A landslide in southwestern Oregon buried a farm family including Marion Neal and three children Tommy 18 Mary 16 and Becky 2 months.
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Norwalk
Greenwich
Lyle Hall
R.D. J. Greenwich
Willard Hospital
Hall
Yuba
Clarence Miller
California
Oregon
Nevada
Marion Neal
Tommy
Mary
Becky
Fire destroys Cleveland offices.损失 estimated at 55000
Fire swept through the Thompsons Products Division offices in Cleveland causing an estimated fifty five thousand dollars in damage. Cause of the blaze was not determined as investigators examined the scene. Local authorities reported the fire damaged the Kobcast Industries offices housed in the same building.
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Cleveland
Kobcast Industries
Thomps
Son Products
Latealens Eet
Automobile crash injures Miller and Hall
State Highway Patrol report states Miller traveled at high speed, lost control, crossed the road striking Hall. Miller suffered a fractured left leg and a dislocated right shoulder, rolled onto the highway, and was admitted to Willard Hospital. No arrest made pending Miller's hospital release.
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State Highway Patrol
Miller
Hall
Saki
Willard Hospital
State Patrol
He Wants To Help
Cincinnati police recall a four year old in a Christmas uniform who said I want to catch burglars and robbers while walking in a patrol area.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnnati
David Kemper
Oil output rise reported by Soviet officials
Evseyenko told the Supreme Soviet oil output in eastern regions was rising, with 58 percent of total production now from the area. He forecast a substantial year over year increase and noted defense cuts and new atomic power projects were part of the budget session.
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Moscow
Evseyenko
Soviet Union
Council of the Soviet
Supreme Soviet
U.S.S.R
Ohio High School Athletic Rule Changes Approved
Ohio principals approve six major changes to the OHSAA constitution effective next Sep. Football camps outlawed. basketball practice dates set. age limit cut to 18 with limited exceptions. Class B groups redefine membership and schedules. districts add representation changes.
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Columbus
Ohio High School Athletic Association
Cine A
Proex
H. W. Exschier
C. A. Jones
Wellston
John Miller
Oak Hill
Representa
Tax forms arrive as IRS mails cutbacks inform holiday season
UPI reports the Internal Revenue Service mailed new income tax forms and restrictions for the season. Texas officials urged residents to receive the form by January 4 and warned the government postal deadline is April 15.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Tex
Ike Confers With Dulles And Twining
President Eisenhower held a confidential meeting with Secretary Dulles and Gen. Twining as White House aides avoided specifics. Hagerty described the talks as a broad national security discussion and noted no comment on Pope Pius XII’s atomic ban proposal.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Nathan Twining
Air Force
White House
James C. Hagerty
Dulles
Pius XII
Hagerty
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