Adrian Plant to Close April 30 at Bridgeport Brass
Bridgeport Brass announces the Adrian, Michigan plant will shut permanently on April 30 after drastic military aircraft cutbacks and a Department of Defense shift to guided missiles. About 750 workers affected as the leased site from the Air Force is declared surplus. Plant manager Harry VY May says the company will aid employees in finding new jobs.
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Bridgeport Brass Company
Bridgeport
Adrian City Hall
Richard W. Summiey
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A.r Force
Bridgeport Brass
Summey
US. Air Force
U.S. Air Force
George Meader
Washington Today
Air Force
Harry Vy, May
May
Defense Department
Adrian Plant Closure Shocks City Officials and Union Members
Bridgeport plant manager Harry May and Richard Summey told Adrian officials and UAW-CIO Local 387 members that the Adrian plant would close. They attributed the decision partly to local taxes, noting community and union relations were satisfactory and not the cause.
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Adran
Chamber of Commerce
Harry B. May
Bridgeport
Richard W. Summey
Adrian
May
Uaw-Cio Local 387
Walcome
Union Local 387
Car jumps curb and stops at market after crash
A car with defective brakes ran a red light, sideswiping a second vehicle and breaking a parking meter before stopping at the Foster Market door in Hudson at 1 25 p.m. No injuries reported. Driver William Gahagan, 75, of Route 2 Pittsford, was charged. Police also report drunken driving arrest of George Shutters, 37, of Inkster after a separate Fairfield Highway crash. Shutters held for arraignment. speed and stop-distance charges issued for others.
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Hudson Market
William Gahagan
Route 2
Pittsford
Gahagan
Main Street
Ghureh Street
Maynard Townsend
Hudson
Foster Market
George Shutters
Inkster
Blissfield
Fairfield Highway
West Horton Road
Shubers
Power outage blamed on striking workers at Consumers Power
Adrian suffered a 45 minute outage for 800 customers early Sunday as workers on strike likely opened a switch at the Maumee Street substation. Glenn Avis, manager, said the lock and switch were undamaged and service was restored by 5 a.m. Officials reported the disruption to police.
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East Maumee Street
Waldo Blair
Morenci
Myrten
Adrian
Utility Workers Union of America
CIO
Telegram
Glenn Avis
Maumee Street
Avis
Maumee
Church Streets
Consumer Power Company
Chiang Kai-shek Re-Elected Leader in Formosa Vote
Chiang Kai-shek was re elected without opposition to a third six year term as president of Nationalist China. The electoral college gave him 1 481 of 1 509 ballots cast with 28 blank ballots as protest. Chiangs margin reached 98.14 percent, surpassing his prior elections in Nanking 1948 and Taipei 1954.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Republic
National Assembly
Chiang
Nanking
Jin Taipei
Long Separation Ends Tuesday in Detroit Family Reunion
A Detroit area mother and daughter, separated 21 years by war and Soviet rule, will reunite in Detroit on Tuesday. Olga Zagrodzki, 23, has lived in Moscow while Marie Tkacz, now an American citizen, resided in Dearborn. Tkacz was taken to Europe as a child, grew up there, married, and had three children before returning to Michigan in 1939. Her son and daughter remain in the United States, and the family was planned to be together for spring.
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Olga Zagrodzki
Moscow
Marie Tkacz
Dearborn
Tkacz
Europe
Associated Press
Michigan
United States
Olga
Helen Keller companion Polly Thomson dies in Bridgeport
The Associated Press reports Polly Thomson, Helen Keller's companion, died at Bridgeport Hospital after a long illness. The death follows Keller's passing, with eight traffic related fatalities and three non-traffic fatalities noted in the weekend count. Thomson, 75, lived with Keller at the author's home in Easton, Conn.
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Polly Thomson
Helen Keller
Bridgeport
Miss Thomson
Associated Press
Pital
Miss Keller
Salary Proposal Goes To Board Meeting Advised
The Adrian school board will meet at 7 30 p m in the hearts of education offices. The finance committee of the Adrian Teachers Association will offer a proposal for salary increases. The boards of directors of the Chamber of Commerce also will be guests. Members will speak on economy measures and appoint auditors for 1960 61.
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Adrian School Board
Hearts of Education
Adrian Teachers Association
iChamber of Commerce
Police Fire On Africans in Vereeniging Protests
Twelve thousand African Natives protested the pass system near Vereeniging and besieged a police station. Police opened fire with rifles and machine guns, with eyewitnesses saying front ranks fell. Reports estimate fatalities around 34, with Brig. C. J. Els citing 30 dead and 1100 wounded as a conservative figure. Armored cars and fighter planes were used to disperse demonstrators. Ambulatory services rushed casualties to hospitals, whose officials withheld figures two hours after the shooting.
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South Africa
Sharpeville
Vereeniging
Johannesburg
Board of Review May Continue In Tax Objection Hearings
The city will extend board of review meetings beyond Tuesday to hear taxpayers. Mayor Roy McPhail and City Administrator Robert Fi cite the aim of giving every taxpayer a chance to be heard. The three member panel had been hearing objections to increased real estate assessments after November adjustments. Personal property assessments were cut per state guidance while real estate values rose to preserve the tax base. A city land reevaluation shifted values by area with East Maumee Street rising and South Main Street falling.
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Board of Review
Robert Fi
Roy McPhail
City Commission
State Tax Commission
East Maumee Steet
New Tax Program Is Urged
Three economists from the University of Michigan and the Upjohn Institute urge Michigan readers to develop a fair tax program for business on a nonpartisan basis. They note Michigan’s taxes, especially the personal property tax on machinery, burden industry and should be removed quickly. They warn Michigan’s reputation has suffered and could deter out of state manufacturers. The economists estimate a million new jobs by 1870 to achieve full employment. The study highlights Michigan’s trained labor force as the top asset for attracting industry, while high wages and union perception may deter plant location.
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Wiliam Haber
University of Michigan
Harold ©. Taylor
Eugene C. McKeany
Upjohn Institute For Employment Research
Mother Of 6 Survives 13 Hours After Car Plunges Into Creek
Loyal Burns 28 of Cottage Grove Oregon survived 13 hours trapped in an overturned car submerged in Elk Creek after a Thursday night crash from US 99. She clung to floorboard rings with about four inches of air, prayed, and credited her six children and her husband for giving her will to endure. State Patrolman George Scheer, discovering the vehicle with her husband nearby, pried the door and found her still alive amid shock and exposure.
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Cottage Grove
Orc
Loyal Burns
Elk Creek
George Scheer
Plumbers Union Withdraws From AFL-CIO Alliance
The Plumbers-Pipefitters Union announced it is pulling out of the AFL-CIO industrial union department, deepening rifts with the federation's craft and industrial unions. The move followed a dispute at the AFL-CIO winter sessions featuring Plumbers-Pipefitters President Peter T. Schoemann and a later executive committee meeting in Miami Beach.
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Washington
Afl-Cio Industrial Union Department
Peter T. Schoemann
Afl-Cio
Schoemann
JUD
AFL Cio
Building Trades Department
TUD
Miami Beach
1UM
Lena Clear
Lee
Hillsdale
West Carleton Road
Akron ‘Brass. Co
Wooster
Ohio
Harold Daugherty
Madison Township Fire Department
Madison Fire Hall
Postmen Deliver Census Questionnaires Ahead of 1966 Count
Postmen will distribute sixty million advance census forms to occupied dwellings to speed data collection for the April 1966 census. The U S Post Office handles the mailings at about two cents per piece, totaling roughly 1.2 million dollars. Forms reach households before census takers, who will copy information onto their own forms. The advance questionnaire asks for residents, birth year, marital status, and housing details, with confidentiality guaranteed by law.
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Washington UfThe Post Idan
Census Bureau
Post Office’ Department
Robert W. Burgess
Cen
Burgess
Spring Starts Slow Across Eastern Half of Nation
The Associated Press reports a slow spring start across the eastern half of the U.S. with chilly mornings in Florida and near freezing in parts of the south and midwest. Snow and cold stretch from the Midwest to the Appalachians while western regions see near to above seasonal norms, including a 95 in Yuma and a record 89 in Fresno.
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Associated Press
Florida
Midwest
North Central
Alexandria
Minn
Tallahassee
Fla
Atlanta
Louisville
Miami
Norfolk
Illinois
Appalachians
New York State
Michigan
California
Arizona
Yuma
Aviz
Fresno
Calif
Great Falls
Wauseon School Hit by Blast and Gas Findings
A blast rocked an elementary school in Wauseon Ohio injuring seven and damaging the building. Gas traces found near the church and probes beneath the alley behind the church led authorities to evacuate the Sunday school as a precaution. Evacuation affected about 325 attendees. services were canceled.
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Wauseon
Ohio
Clinton
A. Imhausen
William Pees
William Gorsuch
Gorsuch
Wiliam Jr
Ralph Todd
Garry Gottschalk
Westerville
Eugene
Denis
Anna Phand
Wat Wauseon
Glass
City Commission to hear opposing petitions on Love land beauty shop
The city commission will meet at City Hall tonight to hear opposing petitions on opening a beauty shop at 709 Love land Road, with a first reading of a zoning ordinance revision to residential rules. They will also consider a resolution authorizing the mayor and city clerk to sign a land contract for the sale of 18 acres adjacent to the municipal airport.
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Loveland Road
City Commission
City Hall
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