State Bridge Ruling Is OK
ST PAUL The Supreme Court ruled the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission had authority to apportion the cost of a new Minneapolis bridge without a local hearing when division of cost was the sole issue. The city argued the order was invalid for lack of an Minneapolis hearing. The decision upheld one third shares for each rail line and the city.
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ST. Paul
Supreme Court
Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Minneapolis
First St
Minneapolis Eastern Railway Co
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co
Third Ave
Fourth Ave. S
Farm Prices Rise 3 Percent in May
The Agriculture Department reports farm product prices jumped 3 percent from mid-April to mid-May led by hogs potatoes tree fruits lambs and cattle while strawberries cotton eggs and wheat fell. Prices paid by farmers rose about one half of one percent and overall farm prices sit about 22.5 percent below the February 1951 peak.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Arabs Might Block New Day Mission At UN
United Nations debate focused on Britain's peace proposal for Israel and Arab neighbors. Arab leaders insisted on qualifying good offices to limit Hammarskjold to enforcing armistice provisions, not final settlement. Iran Syria Egypt Jordan and Lebanon officials urged changes citing vagueness and risk to Jerusalem resolutions.
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U.N. Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Hammarskjold
Pierson Dixon
Britain
Dixon
Djalal Abdoh
Iran
Council
Ahmed Shukairy
Syria
Middle East
Omar Loutfi
Egypt
Abdul Monem Rifa’i
Jordan
Shukairy
Pair Fined in Gull Lake Night Club Melee
At least two men were fined 100 each and a third charged with second degree assault after a Gull Lake area club melee. Thomas Dwyer, 22, Minneapolis, was stabbed in the stomach and is hospital. Spiczynski charged with the knifing, others tied to the scuffle. All involved from Minneapolis.
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Dwyer
Spiczynski
Breinerd
Minneapolis
Jon Meyer
St. Paul
Farm Tot Drowns After Falling Into Stock Tank
In Clearwater Minnesota an 18 month old farm girl Karen June Sonsteby died after falling into a stock tank on the family farm. The child, daughter of Harold and Mrs Sonsteby, was playing with others and pulled from the tank after playmates heard a cry. She died before reaching the house. Clearwater lies about 12 miles south of St Cloud.
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Clearwater
Minn
Karen June Stonsteby
Harold Sonsteby
Karen June
St. Cloud
Assailed for Using Foreign Policy Cliches
Senator Mansfield criticized President Eisenhower for using outworn cliches instead of facts on foreign policy and warned the nation faces dangerous times with no easy way out. Senator Aiken backed the administration's record and cited shifts in Soviet tactics as due to firm American policy. Representative Judd denounced alleged pro Communist influence in lower State and Defense departments.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
Mansfield
D-Mont
Eisenhower
Russia
Aiken
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Soviet Union
Judd
Rep
R-Minn
State
Defense Departments
State Department
Secretary of State
Dulles
Old Guard
Dean Acheson
Truman
Baptists Vote on Autonomy in Convention Action
The Southern Baptist Convention moves to decide on local church autonomy. Rev. James W. Bulman, denied a hearing, proposes a constitutional amendment and a resolution. The amendment advances to 1957. the resolution awaits committee study for a potential vote reaffirming local church self government by congregational vote.
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Kansas City
Southern Baptist Convention
James W. Bulman
East Spencer
N. C
Bulman
Resolutions Committee
SBC
North Carolina Supreme Court
Rocky Mount
Minnesota five day forecast with regional temperature shifts
The forecast shows temperatures near normal in the east and 3 to 5 degrees above normal in the west. Maximums range from the upper 60s to mid 70s, with mornings in the 40s to 50s. Warmer weekend followed by cooler days, with 1 to 10 percent precipitation in scattered thundershowers in the north Saturday and elsewhere early next week.
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Minnesota
Stevenson targets elder vote in California primary
Adlai Stevenson campaigns on old age benefits arguing for a stronger social security program as he seeks California delegates. Kefauver counters Stevenson by slamming his RCA antitrust defense, accusing him of politicizing a major monopoly issue while campaigning in Inglewood.
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Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
California
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Stevenson
Radio Corp. of America
Zenith Radio Corp
San Diego
America
RCA
Inglewood
Price of Progress Clash at Defense Conference
Secretary Charles E. Wilson leads a four day Quantico gathering with President Eisenhower to ease Army Air Force Navy disputes over roles and missions. The Key West framework is debated as missiles and nuclear weapons redefine strategic and tactical warfare. Wilson notes progress brings trouble in interservice rivalry.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Serenity
Eisenhower
Army
Air Force
Navy
Key West
Newport
Defense
James Forrestal
Forrestal
Florida
Rhode Island
Wilson
Quantico
Pentagon
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mayor Seeks Funds for Visit to Soviet Union
Aurora mayor Paul Egan asked the city council to allot 1500 for him and Mrs. Egan to visit Russia in the interest of world peace. The council, which had previously asked Egan to resign over a Russian official letter, took no action on the request.
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Aurora, Ill
Paul Egan
Aurora
Egan
Russia
United States
Ground apricot pits used to clean armature cores
Ground apricot pits are employed to clean armature cores for new electric motors.
Formosan student wins Samuel Goldwyn creative writing award
Miss Lee Hwa Ya from Formosa won UCLA's Samuel Goldwyn Award for creative writing, receiving a $1,000 prize from producer Samuel Goldwyn. Her story “The Sorrow at the End of the Yangtze River” was chosen from 80 submissions. she arrived in 1953 as a Taiwan University exchange student and spoke no English.
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Los Angeles
Formosa
Samuel Goldwyn
UCLA
Goldwyn
Lee Hwa Ya
Lee
Yangtze River
Taiwan University
Peacock varieties traced to India Ceylon and Malaya
The article notes two varieties of peacock originate from India and Ceylon and from Malaya, identifying geographic sources for plumage and breed differences.
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India
Ceylon
Malaya
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