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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1955
Page
13
A White House report from an Eisenhower appointed emergency board urges a 1.445 dollar hourly wage rise and 2 cent per hour health welfare payment for 750,000 nonoperating railroad workers, effective December 1 and March 1 for welfare costs.
The Indianapolis Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants will host a December 14 panel at the Severin Hotel. The subject What I Expect From My Accounting Department will feature Neil D. Skinner of Hoffman Specialty, Eugene B. Hibbs of Dura-Crates, and Stanley J. Rousch of Borg-Warner. J. C. Waymire of Eli Lilly will chair the meeting open to businessmen and others in accounting.
In Wichita Falls Texas oilman J S Bridwell paid 255 employees of Bridwell Oil Co 50 each to quit smoking. Thirty two signed and received 1600 total with about 40 who quit earlier getting 20 checks. A Christmas party featured a film by the American Cancer Society and a lung cancer talk by Dr Kenneth Babb. Bridwell says he seeks employee well being not reform the world.
C W F Christmas meeting at Summitville church opened with song and prayer led by Mrs Chesney and Rev Gearhart. Mrs Leer gave the Christmas lesson, with vocal solo by Mrs Louise Redding. Union Circle Club held a carry in dinner, exchanges, and next meeting set for Jan 4 at Mrs Wooley with attendance prize awarded. Merry Makers hosted by Mrs Connery with games and prizes. Also notes on medical training debate by Alexander Ruthven and Brazil airport growth from 140 to 270 in five years.
Russell Murdock the Anderson magician headlined the Booster Club annual formal dinner at the Top Hat. Music was arranged by Dave Turn er with F. Dale Bengston organizing. W Shirell Fox hosted with Lima C. presiding over 10 new member installations.
Notices announce final settlement for John Amos estate docket H-8948 and Alice Newcomb estate docket H-8947 with appearance dates December 11, 1955 in Anderson Indiana Superior Court. Executors and clerks require heirs to prove heirship and claim distributive shares. Also Dorothy Carol K Macedo appointed executrix for Dottie P Keesling estate with six month claims deadline.
A Reed College student committee led by Sheldon Lynn of Hammond Indiana and John Ramsay-Hill of Los Angeles California circulated petitions in Portland Oregon urging Adlai Stevenson's presidential bid. If Stevenson agrees the petitions would place his name on Oregon's 1956 primary ballot requiring 1000 signatures.
The Supreme Court agreed to rule on the legality of fair trade price fixing between manufacturer owned and competing wholesalers. The Department of Justice asked for oral arguments, arguing these agreements deny price competition and violate federal antitrust law.
Pittsburgh minister Rev. Irving R. Murray of the First Unitarian Church predicts a shift from Sunday to Thursday services within about 15 years due to automation and longer leisure. He says planes will enable travel and that blue laws will fade as urban life changes.
The California high court upheld a Justice Department contention that could nullify key fair trade laws since many large manufacturers also act as wholesalers. The court also agreed to review Smith Act convictions of Steve Nelson and four Pennsylvania Communist leaders on charges of conspiring to advocate violent overthrow. They face up to five years in prison amid claims of no evidence supporting revolution. The court will decide if unions may inspect a company’s books when wage demands fail due to inability to pay, a right the NLRB says unions have but which the 3rd Circuit reversed in Richmond Virginia.
The U S funded Veterans Memorial Hospital in Manila near Quezon City opens as the most modern facility in the Far East with 336 beds for tuberculosis patients 336 for general medical cases and 50 for mental patients on a 135 acre site. Construction began in August 1953 under the U S Veterans Administration amid unfavorable climatic conditions for a factory nearby.
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