Two Boys Rescued From 100 Foot Bridge Pier
Ronald eight and Billy six spent a night on a 100 foot bridge pier in Pittsburgh's Westinghouse span. Veterans Regis Cusick and Bill McNally climbed a catwalk and arch to reach them, lifting the barefoot, dirt covered brothers into a boatwain's chair and to safety. Police declined to release how the boys reached the perch as spectators cheered.
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Hillel Black
Pittsburgh
Ronald
Billy Hughes
Regis Cusick
Bill McNally
Westinghouse
Billy
Dan
Shivers Calls for Tax Returns if Yarborough Discloses
Gov. Shivers in Dallas urged President of the Texas Assn. of CPAs to publish his tax returns if Ralph Yarborough does the same. Yarborough challenged Shivers to release sworn tax records for the last decade. The governor argued about finances and campaign tactics as Democratic delegate quotas face court action from Beaumont.
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Shivers
Associated Press
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Ralph Yarborough
Dallas
State Supreme Court
Texas
Beaumont
9Th Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
The
Accountants’ Association
Denton
C. T. Johnson
Waxahachie
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Cio-Pac
NAACP
Shivere
Enid
Wisconsin Storm Strikes Wide Region Injuring Six
A severe windstorm and scattered small tornadoes hit southeastern Wisconsin. injuries tally at least six. Damage spanned about 100 miles by 150 miles, with ruined buildings, downed trees and wires, and power and communications outages. Union Grove gas lines broke and telephones failed as storms touched Bristo Sun Prairie Cambridge Elkhorn and Kenosha areas.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Bristo
Sun Prairie
Cambridge
Elkhorn
Kenosha
Racine County
Atomic plant workers strike to press wage rise
About 4,500 CIO atomic production workers in Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky plan a strike tomorrow despite a Taft Hartley board order. They demand a 15 cent hourly wage increase. The plants produce all the nation’s fissionable uranium 235 for atomic weapons.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
CIO Atomic Production
Paducah
Eisenhower
Taft-Hartley
CIO United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union
Wheat Harvest In Full Swing In 1954 Kansas City
Wheat harvest peaked as 2,420 grain cars moved through Kansas City terminals over a three day weekend, totaling 7,177 cars with 4,749 cars already on track. Trade sources cite strong government support keeping much of the crop in storage, with prices around 2.13 to 2.44 dollars per bushel for high protein varieties.
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Kansas City
Suport
Wreck kills two near Hereford in ditch crash
Near Hereford Texas a car driven by Paul Albert Zehringer skidded after a tire blew out. He and Linda Marie Davis, six, died from injuries. Mrs. Waldrop, injured, remained hospitalized. Both victims were employed on the J. B. Snead farm. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Hereford
Linda Marie Davis
Annette Waldrop
Paul Albert Zehringer
Zehringer
Waldrop
J. B. Snead
Ike to Meet Press at 10:30 A.M. Tomorrow
President Eisenhower will hold a news conference at 10 30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow. The briefing will be arranged in Washington with press attendance possible.
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Ike
Washington
Eisenhower
Senator attacks King Ranch over drought relief funds
Sen John J Williams of Delaware blasted King Ranch for accepting emergency feed stocks under last year’s drought relief program at an alleged cost of 32 585 to taxpayers. He said officials should be censured though no illegal act was found. The case recalls debates over pauper’s oath eligibility and relief distribution across the board for cattle raisers.
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Ernest Conine
Daily News
Washington Bureau
Washington
John J. Williams
Republican
Delaware
Delaware Republican
Senate
South Texas
Agriculture Department
King Ranch
Williams
Senate Agricul
Allan Shivers
W. R. Poage
Waco
Eisenhower
K. L. Scott
Directo of Agricultural Credit Series
Russia asks UN to halt US H-bomb tests in Pacific
Russia submitted a draft UN Trusteeship Council resolution demanding the United States stop H-bomb and A-bomb tests in the Marshall Islands and other Pacific areas. It argues tests violate the U.N. trusteeship and seeks damages and restoration of lands, noting islanders burned by radioactive ash earlier this year. Council sources call the move mild and largely academic, given prior U.S. compliance.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
U. N
United States
Pacific Island
U.N. Trusteeship Council
U.S
U.N
Marshall Islands
Council
Air Force reveals new daylight jet fighter the XF1M
The Air Force announced the Lockheed XF1M daylight jet fighter is flying successfully at Edwards Air Force Base. Reports say it weighs half as much and could be twice as fast as current jets, with a claimed level flight speed near 1,500 mph and a 28 foot wingspan.
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Vern Haugland
Washington
Air Force
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Lockheed
French Planes Bomb Rebels Near Hanoi Amid Cease-fire Talks
French planes flew 150 sorties to strike Vietminh forces near Hung Yen and Lekhu about 40 miles southeast of Hanoi. A mobile group clashed near Vinh Yen Viet Tri, killing 40 rebels. Vietminh raided Nam Sach on the Hanoi Haiphong road kidnapping about 20 villagers. Delegates met again after a 2½ hour cease-fire planning session at Trung Gia.
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Paris
Hung Yen
Lekhu
Hanoi
Rene
Vinh Yen-Viet Tri
Vietminh
Hanoi - Haiphong
Nam Sach
Trung Gia
French Union
Mother of Heir Vows To Solve Son's Death
In Chicago July 6 AP a coroner physician said Montgomery Ward Thorne did not die by normal means while his mother vowed to spend every dime to uncover the truth. Tests found traces of wood alcohol morphine and barbiturates in the 20 year old's body and suspicions of foul play linger. Thorne stood to inherit nearly two million dollars from his late father and left most of it to his sweetheart and her mother in a will revised shortly before his death. The coroner reported no murder evidence but could not confirm the exact cause of death. DETECTIVE Michael J Murphy testified Thorne once said he hated his mother.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward Thorne
Harry Leon
Young Thorne
Thorne
Dune
Maureen Ragen
Aleen Ragen
Marion
Kichenmeister
Parma
Raymond
Raymond Sr
Mrs Murray Sixth in Race For Governor
Oklahoma City July 6 AP Sen Robert Kerr held a small lead in the Democratic primary for a second term with 14 671 votes to 10 601 for Roy J Turner from 1 048 of 3 155 precincts Five counties were under martial law after election law violations Gov Johnston Murray directed plain clothes officers in five more counties Mrs Willie E Murray Kerrs wife trailed in sixth with 1 137 votes and four congressmen led their races with scattered returns showing a potential run off July 27 for Kerr Turner and Gary Coe and Logan were also contesting the governor nomination and vice presidential style contest with no law and order trouble reported
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Dayton Blair
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Kerr
Roy J. Turner
Turner
Raymond Gary
Madill
William 0. Coe
Gary
Coe
Bill Logan
Lawton
Johnston Murray
Murray
Willie E. Murray
Craig Belcher
Enid
Ed Edmondson
Muskogee
John Jarman
Carl Albert
McAlester
Ted Steed
Shawnee
Victor Wickersham
Pilot shoots teen attempting to commandeer AA flight
Raymond Kuchenmeister, 15, weighed 260 pounds, tried to seize an American Airlines plane at Cleveland airport with an empty .38 revolver. Captain Bonnell fired, the boy died shortly after. 58 passengers watched as the plan continued to St Louis.
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Cleveland
Raymond Kuchenmeister
American Airlines
New York
Mexico City
Raymond
Mexico
William F. Bonnell
Berea Community Hospital
St. Louis
Bonnell
Ray
Donald
Montana
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