Blissfield Voters Reject City Form of Government
Lenawee county voters keep seven villages after Blissfield defeated a proposal to become a city. Turnout totaled 681, highest of the day, while other towns elected new village presidents and kept incumbents in Addison Clayton Deerfield Onsted and Blissfield. Local officials state results include Dr Ray V Tubbs’s third term as Blissfield village president and multiple trustee and clerk races across the area.
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Lenawee County
Blissfield
Ivalid
Ray V. Tubbs
Lester Proctor
George Bowman
Clinton
Ralph Pelham Sr
Clayton
Charles, Newton
Deerfield
Glen MecCaughey
Onsted
Robbers Kill 2 Captors in Chicago Shootout
FBI and police hunted three mail thieves who shot and killed two post office investigators on the southwest edge of the Loop. The robbers fled after the surprise attack as the inspectors tried to drive them to a station. both victims, Ben Spizzirri and John McAuliffe Jr., were fathers.
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Chicago
FBI
Andl
Todas
Loop
Ben Spizzirri
Hye Young
John McAuliffe Jr
Lava
Will Ask Sugar Import Authority and Immigration Changes
President Eisenhower plans to seek congressional discretionary power to adjust sugar import quotas and to push immigration legislation to roughly double the annual 154000 allowed, with timing unclear. GOP leaders say the proposals, discussed after a weekly meeting, may be sent in special messages. authority would apply to most nations except the Philippines and is not tied solely to Cuba.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
GOP
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Philippines
Rescued Russians Receive Welcome in San Francisco
Four young Soviet sailors rescued at sea and adrift for weeks were greeted in San Francisco by Soviet embassy official Anatole Kardashev. Helicopters from the carrier Kearsarge brought them to Marina Green then to the Caravan Lodge for two days rest before heading to New York.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Marina Green
Golden Gate
Kearsarge
Anatole Kardashev
Washington
Kardashev
Caravan Lodge
New York
Fire drill at Detroit Western High after basement blaze
A small fire in a basement drain at Western High School in Detroit prompted a drill for 1,800 students. TheCleaning compound ignited but was extinguished before an alarm. students returned to class within ten minutes after evacuating as a precaution.
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Detroit
Western High School
Adenauer to Press Berlin Case Ahead of Summit
West German Chancellor Adenauer met with President Eisenhower to urge safeguarding West Berlin self determination as a key issue at the forthcoming summit. He pressed for a united Western front and discussed disarmament, with talks at the White House and with Secretary Herter and other officials.
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Eisenhower
Adenauer
West Berlin
Berlin
Khrushchev
Herter
West Ber
U. S
Princeton University
Anj
Moscow
Adenauér
East Germany
United States
Europe
Africa
Asia
Washington National
Capiital
Nixon
Heyster
Bonn
Heinrich von Brentano
National Press Club
Lynch
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Los Angeles
Union Officials Face Appeal Over Convictions in 1949 56 Case
Nine present and former officers of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers were convicted in a federal district court of conspiring to defraud the federal government by attesting nonmembership in the Communist party on affidavits filed with the NLRB. Sentences ranged from 18 months in jail and $1,300 fines to three years and $2,000 fines, with seven defendants receiving the longer terms. The defendants said the convictions will be appealed.
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Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Communist Party
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
NLRB
Land
February jobs hit a new monthly record at 64 520 000
The February employment total rose to 64 520 000, a monthly record, with unemployment dropping to 4.8 percent, the lowest since October 1957. Labor officials say the job picture brightens as seasonal factors lift payrolls and expect further gains in coming months.
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Washington
Uuv
Labor
James P. Muttratio
Cell
Seymour Wolfbein
Sistant
Wolfbein
Consumers Strike Talks Wednesday
Jackson Michigan reports that contract negotiations resume tomorrow to end a two week strike by the Utility Workers of America against Consumers Power Co. about 5,600 hourly employees across 64 Michigan counties idle since March 1. In Flint, a worker faces a charge of malicious destruction of property after allegedly throwing oil into a company car. Prosecutor Jer om e F. O'Rourke issued a warrant. The firm continues to provide gas and power with supervisory staff keeping services. Meanwhile Nixon cannot attend Tulip Time events in Holland due to presidential travel, and West wins a battle with Russia over new East German travel passes for Western missions.
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Jackson
Mich
Consumers Power Co
Utility Workers of America Union
Lower
Michigan
Flint
Calvin A. Russell
Davison
J. L.gillie
Genesee County
Jerome F. O'Rourke
Gilie
Lower Peninsula
Major Test On Civil Rights Bill Due In House Today
In Washington civil rights advocates pressed for House approval of a voting referee plan as the House moves toward a final vote on the civil rights bill. The plan would appoint court officers to intervene when state officials discriminated against minority voters, while the Senate continues to haggle over its provisions. The House quickly discarded two administration proposals not closely tied to the main bill, including a commission for minority employment rights on government contracts and financial aid to districts desegregating schools.
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Potsdam
Germany
Republic
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
East Germany
Halleck
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Enely
Emanuel Celler
New York
William M. McCulloch
Ohio
House
Eisenhower backs Nixon at Gridiron Club dinner
President Eisenhower endorsed Vice President Nixon as his successor at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington. Doris Freeson reported that Eisenhower spoke clearly, sat to the right of John C. O'Brien, and referred to Nixon as his personal choice, a detail also echoed by the London Times.
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New York
Eisenhower
Nixon
Doris Freeson
Miss Freeson
John C. O'Brien
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
O'Brien
United Features
London Times
Times
Pilots Over 60 Grounded by FAA Age Rule
The FAA ordered grounding of commercial airline pilots age 80 and older, effective at midnight, after Judge Alexander Bicks denied a motion from the Air Line Pilots Association. Forty seven pilots were affected immediately. Attorneys call the order arbitrary and note it is the first time a government agency set an age limit on private industry employees. E. R. Quesada, the FAA administrator, cited progressive deterioration of physiological and psychological functions with age.
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New York
Federal Aviation Agency
Alexander Bicks
Air Line
Assn
FAA
E. R. Quesada
Air Force
Alarm traps 2 with safe alarm traps 2 with safe
A Manchester man’s garage alarm trapped two Kalamazoo youths who tried to break into a company safe. Boyd Slager 31 and Eugene O Connell 30 were jailed on nighttime breaking and entering charges. Officers recovered items linked to a prior theft at Tirh garage in Manchester.
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Manchester
Kalamazoo
Washtenaw County
Boyd Slager
Eugene O'Connell
Clinton
Washtenaw
Clarence Schaible
Slager
O’connell
Tirh
Senate approves school money bill in Michigan budget
Senate vote 32 to 2 approves 107.931 million for education, lifting the current year total and leaving a 4.123 million shortfall from Gov Williams recommendations. MSU, UM allocations adjusted. Lodge objects to MSU earmark. Beadle explains trustees may apportion within quoted totals.
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House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Elmer R. Porter
RA al Field
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Gov. Williams
John P. Smeekens
Coldwater
L. Harvey Lodge
Frankin D. Beedle
R-St. Clair
MSU
MSU-0
Beadle
University of
You'll Get Bill Despite Strike In Lower Michigan
About 5,600 Consumers Power Co employees are on strike while customers in 64 counties outside Detroit will still receive monthly bills on schedule. Bills will be based on estimated prior usage with adjustments after meters are read. Supervisors will check meters of major electricity and gas users.
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Consumers ,Power Co
Gay and Electrical Service
Michigan
Detroit
Consumers Power Headquarters
Rival blogs open new disarmament talks in Geneva
In Geneva Western and Soviet blocs prepare for the ten nation disarmament conference. The West proposes an international powers body, earlier nuclear disarmament, and space peaceful-use emphasis while the Soviets seek quicker action and oppose prearranged controls. US, UK, France, Italy, Canada join Western side. USSR, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria on Communist bloc.
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Shue
Khrushchev
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U.N. General Assembly
Uop
U.S
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Italy
Canada
Soviet Union
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
International Organization
Tass
Area Three search continues for trapped miners
One area found empty last night and another this morning while rescuers probe a third refuge room where 18 miners have been trapped since a rock slide ignited timber and fire a week ago. A back entrance remains unchecked as officials note the main passageway holds deadly fumes.
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Area Three
Paul Litigo
Lmen
Hoffa Attacks Critics At Madison Square Garden Rally
Teamster President James R Hoffa condemned rivals at a Madison Square Garden event. He denounced recent labor legislation and singled out Sen John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy while claiming Landrum Griffin reform aims to ruin the union and force strikebreakers.
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New York
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Madison Square Garden
Hoffa
John F. Kennedy
Ice Thickens on Great Lakes as Winter Returns
Detroit reports a fresh cold snap increasing ice depths in the Great Lakes and connecting waterways. Lake Superior harbors show 4 to 15 inches in Keweenaw waterways and 24 inches at Port Arthur and Ashland, while St. Marys River ice sits at 20 inches above Sault Ste. Marie and the Straits of Mackinac solidly frozen at 18 to 19 inches.
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Midwest
Great Lakes
U.S
Bureau
Lake Superior
Keweenaw Waterway Canal
Port Arthur
Ashland
St. Marys River
Sault Ste. Marie Acks
Straits of Mackinac
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