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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1955
Page
1
Britain’s striking railwaymen rejected Prime Minister Eden’s broadcast call to return to work. Leaders accused him of twisting facts and said the appeal changes nothing as 67,000 engineers, firemen, and cleaners prolong a nationwide walkout.
Ohio Republican Vorys plans to force loan based foreign aid and to attach loan requirements to 165 million development aid. Hoover Commission and Senate oppose. House Foreign Affairs resumes work on 3½ billion dollar foreign aid program as Tito Kremlin talks influence Yugoslavia funding.
In Pittsburgh the CIO United Steelworkers will open bargaining with U S Steel and five other major producers to seek a substantial wage increase. President David J. McDonald and top officers lead the talks, with observers predicting a front figure near 25 cents an hour, likely trimmed to 10 to 12 cents.
President Eisenhower and 1915 classmates revisited their cadet days at the United States Military Academy on the Normandy invasion anniversary. He traveled from Washington to Stewart Air Force Base then to West Point with his wife. He will deliver the commencement address to 469 first classmen commissioned as second lieutenants, with national TV and radio coverage.
Mrs. Otho Bell of Olympia says her 24 year old husband, an American POW who stayed behind the Iron Curtain, now wants to come home. Military officials warn passports may imply citizenship as she plans to visit a prison if needed.
A repentant robber confessed to a priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Dayton. He handed over $1200 in cash and $1600 in checks from Duesey's Market, saying he could not sleep and wanted the funds returned to the rightful owner. Police identified the suspect as a gunman masked with a nylon stocking.
In EAST PROVIDENCE ILL A two year old boy took his father’s car keys and started the ignition. The infant backed the car from the driveway in reverse and struck a parked car owned by Raymond Brouillard. The child was not hurt.
Government sources say hundreds of Hoa Hao rebels surrender as Ngo Dinh Diem’s forces hammer west Viet Nam. About twenty thousand men in thirty infantry battalions pressed an attack on Tran Van Soai’s private army on Bassac River ferry posts. Lam Thanh Nguyet brings 2500 troops to the national army.
Three of the four Korean War veterans freed by Chinese forces in Hong Kong depart for home with their families aboard a special Air Force plane. Capt Harold Fischer Swea City Iowa Lt Lyle Cameron Lincoln Neb JA Roland Parks Omaha depart. Lt Col Edwin Heller Wynnewood Pa stays 10 to 12 days for physiotherapy after a leg injury from a North Korea bailout.
Idaho reports a polio outbreak with six deaths as Dr. Louis Gebhardt of Utah discusses vaccine trials. He notes no live virus found in samples by tissue culture, but one of four monkeys died after exposure to a different Lot. Annabelle Nelson, 33, Montpelier mother of two, died of bulbar polio, unvaccinated though her children were vaccinated.
Secretary of State Dulles told the University of South Carolina graduates that the Geneva summit involving Eisenhower and the Soviet, British, and French leaders will not by itself reduce global tensions. He warned the United States must maintain strong security policies and national unity while hoping the meeting proves useful.
ATLANTIC CITY N J Lewis P Strauss chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission says it is irresponsible to claim atomic tests poison the air and create future monsters There is no evidence that weapons testing has raised ion levels enough to justify such statements. He spoke at the American Medical Association meeting opening.
Rep Thompson of New Jersey jokes that fans come to see a congressman hit by a fly ball as Tuesday's congressional baseball game draws a crowd for charity. He says half the crowd supports the event, the other half hopes for a close call.
By The Associated Press a Memorial Day summary notes Ohio saw two traffic fatalities from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday while 26 died overall in the nation. The piece also reports three drownings and a stock car pit crewman crushed at Deyton Speedway during racing events.
Washington announced a Western alliance plan to hold a summit with Eisenhower and the leaders of Great Britain France and Russia. Russia must approve the time and place after agreeing in principle to a Geneva meeting this summer. The proposal faces possible Vienna as the site per Russian suggestion.
Ford Motor Co. employees walked out early today in Cleveland Canton and Cincinnati amid CIO United Auto Workers demands for guaranteed annual wages. Ford said no violence and noted 60 to 75 pickets at Brook Park and Walton Hills with some payroll staff admitted. Pickets carried signs saying On Strike.
State liquor stores in Ohio raised prices following a sales surge after an earlier May announcement. Liquor Director William C. Bryant projects a 15 percent weekly sales rise through June 4, with many buying ahead. The increase aims to generate about five million dollars yearly for a mental health program.
The American Cancer Society reports a study showing ex smokers have about half the lung cancer death rate of current smokers among over 8000 men. Critics note small sample sizes prevent proof beyond doubt and warn the study ignores environmental and occupational factors.
Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Auto Workers moved toward a tentative contract to avert a general strike. The deal would provide wage protections, an increased annual improvement factor, and continuation of the cost of living wage system. Walkouts spread from Massachusetts to Chicago with federal mediators on standby.
Robert Elliott Burns author of I Was a Fugitive From Georgia Chain Gang died Sunday night at a Veterans hospital in East Orange New Jersey. Burns, once a Georgia chain gang prisoner convicted of a 1922 five dollar holdup, later escaped and rebuilt his life as a writer editor and civic figure in New Jersey New York and Chicago. His case sparked extradition battles and drew state officials into lengthy debates over his civil rights and potential full pardon.
U S sergeant Geo P Waidhau s and two companions were stopped near the West German border by Czech frontier guards on a sightseeing trip. The sergeant allegedly stepped a few yards into Czech territory to photograph a border hut and was arrested, then seen being taken toward interior Czech lands.
Columbus report of the second national Operation Alert exercise by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. An imagined atomic device and dispersal scenario will test civil defense readiness with nuclear fallout brought to over 50 cities June 15.
In Cairo Libya's 66 year old King Idriss wed Alla Abdel Kader Lamloum daughter of an Egyptian cotton planter. The ceremony followed a reported sulk from Queen Fa five miles northwest of Cairo. The dowry was 1 pound 00 shillings to the bride's family.
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