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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1955
Page
1
Phyllis Rosenfeur's Week-End Dividend Pages offer travel tips on hosteling. A reader details a year spent in Japan, gaining insight into Oriental life, with a special picture and story page promised on page 14.
In 1955 Opal Operation Alert tested Civil Defense machinery with Lorain County evacuee drills from Lorain to Amherst. The Week-End Chronicle-Telegram features leisure, auto news on Pg 25, business on Pg 22-23, church reports on Pgs 5-7, with many other features throughout.
Elyrian Jess Stevens is named secretary of Norwalk's Chamber of Commerce. The notice appears in the Today’s News column, with subsequent briefs noting Boy Scouts heading to Camp Firelands for a five week summer program and a Wellington horse show featuring riders from a wide area.
Western foreign ministers from the United States Britain and France prepared for a Geneva summit with Russia's Molotov after two days of talks in New York. The ministers coordinated plans for NATO consultations in Paris before the Geneva talks and discussed Germany, prisoners of war, eastern frontiers and reunification with Soviet invites to Adenauer.
Federal police patrolled Buenos Aires under siege to curb looting and violence toward Catholic sites as naval officers allegedly tried to overthrow President Juan Peron. Reports from Montevideo cited rebels rising in provinces. border alerts and stalled travel followed. Philippine? No, ignore.
Communist authorities in northern China admitted widespread unrest and announced the breakup of two anti Communist underground rings targeting Peiping. The disclosures were broadcast from Tokyo via INS and cited by Ri.
Two Argentine prelates exiled by President Peron visited St. Peter's Basilica to pray at the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles before talks with Vatican officials on the church state dispute in Argentina. Msgr Manuel Tato and Msgr Ramon Novoa also reported to Pope Pius XII on the situation and then met at the Palace of Congregations as relations with Peronist authorities remain tense.
Police in Peiping area report the arrest of a man linked to a youth killing. A religious sect operating as cover in Hopei province led a ring involved in anti Communist activities and derailment plots. Authorities say several conspirators have been tried and punished, with death or prison sentences issued. In Manchuria’s Chihlin province, Red propaganda networks and police actions continue, while Bangs in New York note the crackdown on Communist broadcasts amid the turmoil.
The State Department confirmed three American Army officers attached to the U.S. embassy in Moscow were expelled by Russia. Officials had kept silent while London reports circulated. Russians accused the officers of espionage and declared them persona non grata.
Red China announced three American war prisoners who chose communism at Korea end have renounced it and will be freed with two Belgian deserters. Names included Otho Bell of Olympia Washington and William Cowart of Monticello Arizona, plus Lewie Griggs of Jacksonville Texas. Two Belgians Roger Devriendt and Louis Van Dycke also asked to be sent home. Bell’s wife said the decision moved him to return, despite communist threats. The five Americans are dishonorably discharged. the Red Cross said they may leave anytime with Red China’s permission. The move follows earlier cases of Americans who changed minds and were punished.
An array of brief items covers clashes and escapes in the United States and abroad. Reports touch religious sect tensions in the United States, diplomacy with China and freed airmen, Roger Babson predicting a third industrial revolution, a Tokyo mental hospital fire killing 18, and a boat collision near Columbus causing drownings.
Northeastern Ohio reports sunny and warm today with highs around 88 to 92. Tonight and Sunday remain fair with a low near 60 to 64. Friday temperatures around the mid fifties with no precipitation in the past 24 hours ending 8 p.m. Friday and humidity rising from 7 percent to 34 percent by 2 p.m. Moonrise early Saturday morning, sunset at 9 03 p.m., and moonset Saturday evening. Lake Erie winds variable from south to southeast 10 to 15 mph, otherwise calm. Advertisements note geraniums at 3 4 relative price per dozen and dry-cleaning services available locally.
The manslaughter trial of Richard Kluckhohn in Raleigh was to be charged to the jury today after Judge Clawdon L. Williams ruled on a point of disagreement. A hotel room pistol shot killed Bernice Sea well, 42, a government clerk from Arlington, Virginia, who was a stranger to Kluckhohn.
Washington AP reports government planners agree the nation isn’t prepared for an enemy atomic strike. Eisenhower backs a compulsory reserve bill, Flemming and Peterson caution manpower limits, as the mock attack tests continuity from secret locations across 31 sites. In 61-city simulation 24 million would be killed or injured and 7 million left homeless.
Ronald J. Tressler, 17, of near Lock Haven, died Friday evening after a farm tractor he was operating overturned on a hill on Paul Brongard’s farm. Authorities say he was driving diagonally up the slope when the tragedy occurred.
A fragmented Chest of ads mocks fine fashion and used car hunting in Chronicle Telegram. It promotes the classified section and mentions Resar Florist with 5 cent potted plants.
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