GM Closes 20 Plants Amid Idle 60,000 Workers
GM halted 20 assembly and body plants idling about 60,000 workers nationwide due to parts shortages tied to wildcat strikes. Negotiations with the CIO United Auto Workers paused as GM seeks a contract bid to counter Ford's settlement and avert a Sunday strike deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Walker
Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Southgate
Los Angeles
Fridley Boy Drowns in Creek Near Home
Eight year old Clive C Wright Jr son of Mr and Mrs Clive C Wright of Fridley drowned after falling into Rice Creek near the family home. Anoka County officers recovered the body after the mother reported the boy missing for some time.
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Minneapolis
Clive C. Jr
Clive C. Wright
Fridley
Rice Creek
Anoka County
Mass Vaccine Production Faces Unseen Dangers, Scheele Says
Washington Public Health Service officials report new safety standards are needed after mass production of Salk polio vaccine revealed live viruses in final mixtures. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele remains hopeful that the vaccine will prove a major advance in preventing polio. The service review calls for tighter manufacturing records and notes the potential for future biologics to address virus diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Health Service
Special Health Service
Health Service
Scheele
New York Times
Auto Crashes Take 4 Lives
Four people die in two Minnesota crashes late Thursday night and today. In Brainerd area, James Shields and Walter Koepel, both 22, die when their car hits a tree after leaving U.S. 371. Chester Johnson, 23, dies later at St Joseph’s Hospital. Near Aldrich, William Anderson, 55, dies in a collision with a semi on Highway 10. Lloyd Anderson, the truck driver involved, escapes injury. Minnesota’s 1955 traffic toll rises to 223, compared with 258 last year at this time.
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Minnesota
James William Shields
Walter Koepel
Brainerd
U.S. 371
Chester Johnson
St. Joseph’s Hospital
William Anderson
Aldrich
Staples
Lloyd Anderson
Wadena
Northern Co-op
Anderson
Southwest Heat Wave Breaks Across Regions
A broad low pressure system east of the line brings rain across the Plains and Mississippi Valley while the far Southwest endures an early heat wave. Temperatures run from the 30s to 70s from the Plains to the Atlantic coast with Needles, California at 118 degrees. Cooler Pacific air cools Washington and Oregon to normal levels after two days of heat.
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Associated Press
Continental Divide
Plains
Rockies
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
New England
Florida
Gulf Coast
Texas
Needles
Calif
Pacific
Washington
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Two more firms join quota busting for St Olaf Hospital fund
Don Grangaard reports First National Bank and Austin Fur Shoppe join the Buck A Month drive for the $350000 St Olaf Hospital Building Fund. John Treef of the Austin Fur Shoppe and Ethel M. Kock join the Buck A Month Club as union efforts expand, with office staff and Hormel workers being solicited in the near term.
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St. Olaf Hospital
First National Bank
Austin Fur Shoppe
Don Grangaard
Hospital
John Treef
Austin
D. E
Duke) Gray
Burt Plehal
Ethel M. Kock
Treef
Grangaard
Plehal
Wage Talks Open In Steel Industry For Higher Pay
The CIO United Steelworkers press for a sizable wage rise for 600000 workers in the steel industry. Talks with In land Steel Corp mark the last major company to hear demands as unions seek 12 to 15 cents an hour, possibly up to 25 cents. If no deal by midnight June 30 a strike could follow.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Inland Steel Corp
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Republic Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Pay Rise for 500000 Postal Workers Approved
President Eisenhower signed a law boosting postal salaries by 8 percent on average, totaling about 164 million dollars yearly for 500000 workers. The bill includes a 6 percent retroactive raise to March and a 2 percent increase from reclassification, with broader authority to reshuffle jobs for efficiency and equity, benefiting supervisory staff over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Department
Dulles Seeks Swift Senate Backing for Austrian Pact
Secretary of State Dulles appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to obtain quick approval of the Austrian peace treaty signed in Vienna on May 15. Committee chairman Senator George says no opposition exists and a smooth passage is expected, with Dulles as the sole witness. The treaty, long sought with the Big Three, faced Soviet opposition until this spring.
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Washington
Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vienna
Sen
George
D-Ga
Senate
Soviet Union
Woman Dies in Cleaning Fluid Fire at Home
Mrs. Mary Ouellette, 53, died in General Hospital in Minneapolis from burns suffered when cleaning fluid ignited near a gas water heater in her basement. Arson squad investigators found the pilot flame touched off the fumes while she was cleaning clothes.
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Minneapolis
Mary Ouellette
General Hospital
Jewelry Heist at South Side Apartment
Two men gained entry to a South Side apartment by ruse on Thursday then tied up the wife of a paper mill owner and escaped with jewelry and furs valued at 33 thousand dollars authorities reported.
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Chicago
South Side
Hayfield considers 30 district participation for school addition
Hayfield Board of Education studies building plans with architect Warren Kane. Aiming to add a new gym and relocate departments including vocational agriculture industrial arts and science. Cost estimated at 250000 for addition and up to 330000 with alterations. June 28 meeting invites 30 rural districts to appoint representatives. final decision pending community reaction.
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Hayfield
Warren Kane
Austin
Fritze
Citizens Committee
Freeman to Address Albert Lea Session
Gov. Freeman will be the speaker at a banquet closing the annual meeting of the League of Minnesota Municipalities in Albert Lea. Gordon Thompson won election as president by 500 delegates. George Martens was named vice president. Trustees include Arthur Stock Harold Thorforde and O. T. Boussard with four more to be chosen. Two amendments were approved to change legislative recommendation thresholds and to bar proposals affecting all cities of a class if opposed by that class.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Freeman
League of Minnesota
Gordon Thompson
Worthington
George Martens
Minneapolis
Arthur Stock
Virginia
Harold Thorforde
Crookston
O. T. Boussard
Marshall
League
Dr. Dwight Murray Chosen AMA President Elect
Dr. Dwight Harrison Murray a 67 year old physician from Napa California was chosen president elect of the American Medical Association on Thursday He will automatically assume the presidency one year from now at the AMA convention in Chicago in 1956
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Atlantic City
N.J
Dwight Harrison Murray
Napa
Calif
The
American Medical Assn
AMA
Chicago
Molotov Sails for U S Aboard British Liner
Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov sailed for New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth after a 12 hour delay from Britain's strike wave. He attends the United Nations tenth anniversary meeting in San Francisco. Molotov met Paris leaders and invited Faure and Pinay to Moscow.
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Cherbourg
France
V. M. Molotov
New York
Britain
United Nations
San Francisco
Molotov
Paris
Edgar Faure
Antoine Pinay
Moscow
Russia
Geneva
Young Woman Identified in Mississippi River Body
The body of 20 year old Alice Mae Kelledge was identified by her parents as the missing Sartell visitor. She had been missing since May 13 after visiting a local tavern and was found in the Mississippi River near St. Cloud.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Mississippi River
Alice Mae Kelledge
Sartell
Stanley Kolledge
Little Falls
Joe Giardello Sentenced for Riot Conspiracy
Philadelphia middleweight boxer Joe Giardello received a six to eighteen month county prison term on charges of riot and conspiracy to riot.
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Philadelphia
Joe Giardello
Hatmaker Denies Bribe in $2,000 Check Case
Washington and Chicago details show hat maker Harry Lev denying a $2,000 check tied to a proposed plastics venture and denying any link to a $2,000,000 naval cap contract. The Senate subcommittee probes graft and patents involved in seven million white sailor caps for Army Navy and Marine Corps.
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Washington
Harry Lev
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Mella Hart
Lev
Sailor Cap
Chicago
Robert F. Kennedy
Subcommittee
Army
Marine Corps
Mili
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James Bird
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
Santo Brocato
Leonard A. Scheele
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Hormel Union
Hormel
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H. B. Lidstone
Marvin Brill
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Formosa
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U.S. Army
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