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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1963
Page
13
London UPI reports thirteen teen girls aged 16 to 18 toured a courtroom. They heard four cases, including a wife who admitted stabbing a woman her husband hugged and an unwed mother accused of blinding her lover by eye stabbing. An 18-year-old porter faced a jilted girl stabbing charge, plus four cases of homosexual offenses. A accompanying teacher remarked it was interesting but they would study the case beforehand next time.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers announced a goal of a $40 basic daily wage for its 35,000 members. They also demand employer-paid health and welfare benefits, life insurance, and pensions. Current yard service pay is $22.09 for eight hours, with passenger and through freight rates listed for 100 miles or five to eight hours.
The Massachusetts Senate narrowly approved inear-final legislation to allow and regulate variable annuity insurance companies. The 20 8 vote faced opposition from Sen. George W Kenneally who called variable annuities mutual funds. Support came from Sen. John J Conte who said state and federal regulators would oversee the firms.
Theodore Roosevelt McElroy, once a Western Union messenger boy, built a $5 million yearly firm by 1945 as a radio telegrapher and wireless operator. He founded McElroy Manufacturing in 1935, claimed world telegrapher title since 1922, and earned a 1944 Wireless Operators Association honor for a rapid code sender used in World War I.
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