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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1955
Page
9
Article by Don G. Mitchell outlines three key site criteria for industry: economic factors such as wages, utilities, taxes and housing. political factors including progressive government and local support. and social factors like culture, recreation, housing, schools, safety and hospital services. It stresses that firms seek stable, affordable communities with facilities to attract skilled workers and ensure safe, livable towns.
Two more Southern Democrats, Holland of Florida and Robertson of Virginia, announced they would vote against the Senate Democratic compromise on income tax cuts. The plan would grant each taxpayer a 3 dollar cut next year and ten dollars per dependent, offset by higher taxes on business and stockholders. Administration opposition remains and defeat seems likely unless Republicans desert the plan in larger numbers.
Senator Henry A Jackson said the new fallout risks from nuclear weapons prompted Eisenhower to press leaders for more realistic civilian defense tests. He urged a clear evacuation plan and specific survival information for individuals as tests consider protecting cities from fall-out while authorities evacuate blast zones. Beggars are under attack by Russian newspapers in Moscow, claiming they haunt streets and squander earnings.
Sen. Homer Capehart urged the Senate Banking Committee to probe for new methods to manipulate stock prices. He said the current hearings only yielded yes, no, or maybe answers and called for a thorough examination of Wall Street practices. Capehart also backed calling Walter Winchell to testify about stock tips that prompted unusual activity.
In Elyria a reader recounts a missive from Gerald S. Martin seeking the river office, funded by special delivery stamps, then reveals his campaign mascot a rescued possum. The note hints at political double talk and questions discretion in campaign spending as local officials adjust offices and discuss Civic Service exams and city hall quirks.
An estimate shows U S daily and weekly newspapers carried 613 816 797 classified ads in 1953 equal to four insertions per person. Millions found that inserting classified ads solved various problems at the Chronicle Telegram ads desk phone 4751 for help.
The red rain that fell in Baltimore on Friday prompted fears of radioactivity but the Weather Bureau reported it was from a Texas dust storm dampened on its eastward journey. Hundreds telephoned in near panic over reddish brown pea sized splotches in a light rain. A radioactivity test proved negative.
Federal authorities hold 59 year old Tommaso Argento on suspicion of a 1920 Sicily murder. Arrested in Lima in 1931, he lived on a farm near Celopolis in Auglaize County for three years and faced a habeas corpus bid denied by a Cleveland marshal. Indications point to extradition to Sicily to answer for the killing of Giovanni Cammerilii on June 3, 1920. Two accomplices are serving life terms. Argento, speaking little English, was identified at a Lima tavern by Police Chief Donald F. Miller.
Indochina reports famine threatens North Viet Nam with up to a million people at risk of death from starvation. Peasants arriving in Haiphong suffer beri-beri due to vitamin shortages. Refugees cite extreme hunger in the region south of Haiphong, with Phat Diem peasants receiving only meat a day for political officials.
A Columbus judge denounced the city's crime wave after the murder of Otio State University student Donald Keyes and pledged full prosecution. Police records show 14 armed robberies, 49 house break ins, 13 auto thefts, and 207 offenses investigated the week ending Friday, with Keyes' murder amid the violence.
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