Rail unions seek to save 65000 railroad jobs in talks
Five rail unions representing 210000 workers plan March 13 bargaining in Chicago after the Supreme Court upheld railroads right to overhaul work rules. They warn a strike if changes go into effect first, as talks aim to save about 40000 firemen from diesel locomotives and revise pay structures.
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Chicago
U.S. Supreme Court
Association of American Railroads
Ture
National Mediation Board
J. E. Wolfe
National Railway Labor Conference
Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
U.S. Circuit Court
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Overflowing Rivers Threaten Four States During Floods
Hundreds forced from homes as rains and melting snows swell the Ohio and Monongahela rivers. Ohio reports worst flood in four years with evacuations in Wheeling Newark and Morrow. High water closes plants and isolates towns as more rain is forecast.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Cincinnati
Wheeling
W.va
Vienna
Wellsburg
McKinleyville
Moundsville
Louise
Wheeling Machine Products
Newark
Licking River
Newtown
Steubenville
Morrow
Springfield
Bourneville
Akron
Monongahela
Pittsburgh
Carnegie
Canonsburg
Marianna
Rockefeller Says Rights Program Two Years Late
Gov Rockefeller criticizes Kennedy civil rights proposals as incomplete and two years late while praising some steps. He cites failure to meet Democrat platform promises and warns of continued Republican efforts in Congress. Separate note cites Fulbright on Eisenhower wildlife trip as not boosting conservation efforts.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Kennedy
Congress
Rockefeller
New York State
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Federal
Civil Rights Commission
Deep South
Department of Health Education and Welfare
South
Labor Department
Mississippi
Washington
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fulbright
Congressional Record
Eisenhower
Polish Premier Heads to Mexico in Bid on Cuban Crisis
Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz travels from Warsaw to meet Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and discuss calming the Cuban situation. Polish observers expect Lopez Mateos to urge Cyrankiewicz to remind the Russians of Western Hemisphere resistance to outside interference. Cyrankiewicz will be in New York tonight then a week in Mexico. Lopez Mateos plans trips to Poland and Yugoslavia in April.
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Warsaw
Poland
Joseph Cyrankiewicz
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Fidel Castro
Lopez Mateos
Cyrankiewicz
New York
Mexico
Yugoslavia
Me nands blaze destroys main building of Topp's Market
A large fire torn through the single story main building of Topp's Market at a shopping center in Menands near Albany. The unofficial damage estimate runs around 1 million dollars as firefighters battled the blaze for hours and water froze on surrounding streets delaying traffic.
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Menands
N. Y
UPI
Discount House
Albany
N.Y
Topp’s Market
Coattail Ride Sinks Nurse Bus. 7 Dead on East River
A hospital bus on Welfare Island plunged into the East River after the driver, John Alberts, suffered a heart attack. Seven of 11 aboard are dead or missing, including four hospital staff. Survivors describe a frantic escape as tides carried the sunken vehicle away.
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New York
East River
Welfare Island
Elizabeth Newton
Richard Haas
John Alberts
Manhattan
Queens
Department of Hospitals
Haas
Alberts
Catherine Quann
Rosie Taitt
Alexander E. Reichelt
Robert Perez
Gertrude Porter
Red Cross
New York City
Reichelt
Metuchen,n.j
Beatrice Sturdevant
U.S. Army Engineers
Bennington Voters Ok 3.04 Tax, Plan Airport Runway
Town residents vote to eliminate a four percent tax discount and set a 3.04 General Fund and 95 cent highway tax while approving town reports and official pay levels. Voters consider extending Bennington Municipal Airport runway to 4000 feet with regional planning and sewer unification. Kenneth R. Clayton urged approval citing favorable rates and state federal grant balance. Polls close at 7 p.m. with eight ballot items and no major contests.
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Kenneth R. Clayton
Bennington Airport
McCullough
North Bennington
Bennington Municipal
Bennington
Clayton
Norton Barber
Federal Aviation Agency
Shaftsbury Votes On Town Manager Plan And Tax Rate
Shaftsbury voters approve a 3.09 tax rate with a 348000 budget as talks push for a five year trial of a town manager system. Officials discuss dump cleanup, ditch work, and potential savings from managerial efficiencies while electing town officers.
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Shaftsbury
Kenneth Thomson
Cole Hall
Thomas W. Hall Jr
Trumbull Hill Road
Hall
Walter E. la Grange
Arthur S. Faris
Jean Henry
William E. Dailey
Thomson
Dorset
John W. Browne
Dr. LaGrange
Special Finance Committee
Herbert H. Leonard
Leonard
Selectmen
Merton Snow Jr
Mansfield challenges GOP charges on Cuba policy
Sen. Mike Mansfield disputed Republican claims that President Kennedy misled the public and hid intelligence on Cuba. He defended Kennedy and noted leadership meetings had discussed Cuba while denying persistent accusations. Meanwhile, sources cited troop withdrawals from Cuba and talks of a Senate probe into bi monthly payments to widows of the 1961 Bay of Pigs mission.
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Mansfield
Gop
Cuba
Washington
Sen
Mike Mansfield
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Arends
Caribbean
Strategic Air Command
Navy
Army
French Miners Ignore De Gaulle Back To Work Order
Paris AP reports on a nationwide coal strike as 90 to 95 percent of France's 200,000 miners refused to return. De Gaulle's decree drafted workers into service with fines or prison terms, yet 31,000 miners in Lorraine and others in southern mines stayed out.
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Paris
France
Charles de Gaulle
Lorraine
de Gaulle
Bidault TV Interview Strains Franco British Ties
In London AP reports Georges Bidault, exile former French premier and head of the outlawed CNR, used a BBC appearance to threaten De Gaulle’s ouster. French officials expressed hurt, while Parliament demanded an explanation of Bidault’s Britain entry through security.
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London
Georges Bidault
Britain
France
British Broadcasting Corp
Charles de Gaulle
Bidault
National Council of the Resistance
CNR
de Gaulle
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Churchill
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