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Newspaper

Berkshire Eagle

Location

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 03, 1959

Page

6

Three Packers Sign With Unions Ends Taxed Strike Threat

The threat of a major strike in the meat packing industry eased as John Morrell Hygrade Food and Cudahy Packing signed tentative contracts with United Packinghouse Workers and Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen in Chicago. Armour followed with a wage increase pattern while talks with Swift Wilson and Oscar Mayer continued. At Cape Canaveral, the Operating Engineers Union settled a wage dispute, ending a three day construction walkout that idled over 800 workers.

Cape Canaveral Missile Base United Packinghouse Workers of America Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workman Chicago John Morrell & Co Hygrade Food Products Corp Cudahy Packing Co Swift Armour & Co Swift & Co Wilson & Co Oscar Mayer & Co Canaveral Settlement Cape Canavieral Vital Missile Test Center

Oil Import Program Challenged in Court

In Boston UPL reports Thurman Para of Springfield a gasoline station operator challenged the federal mandatory oil import program in U.S. District Court. He seeks a declaratory judgment arguing he cannot obtain an import license to bring in foreign crude oil and derivatives.

Boston UPL U.S Thurman Para Springfield

Defaulter Sues Over Repossessed Car and Sunken Quota

William Bolding sues for 199.50 in payments after a finance company repossessed his car and adds a 50,000 indemnity claim for a gun found inside the vehicle. The piece touches on oil import controls and a presidential proclamation about import quotas and licenses, citing Eisenhower remarks on crude and naphtha movements.

Gastonia N.C APD William Bolding Bolding

Three Americans Die In French Auto Crash Near St Dizier

In eastern France near St Dizier three Americans died in a Monday automobile crash. Names released by U S Army identify Specialist 5 C Raymond Di Carlo and his wife Hildegard as victims. Di Carlo’s daughter lives with his sister in Schenectady New York. Also killed was Specialist 5 C Gerard N Levesque of Nashua New Hampshire, survived by a wife and four children.

Paris UPD Kired St. Dizier France Raymond di Carlo Hildegard di Carlo Mafalda Tedesco Schenectady N.Y Gerard N. Levesque Nashua

Butter Surplus Vanishes. USDA Ends Sales

Washington dispatch reports the Agriculture Department has halted all butter sales after surpluses dwindled and remaining stocks are fully committed. The move ends a program once bolstered by a flood of butter needing buyers.

Washington UPN Agriculture Department Department

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A _ —— MEAT MART North St the Berkshires Mohican U.S. Choice Chuck A. L. McCarthy Eureka Eureka Williams Corporation Springside Ave Curletti Super Met., Inc Curletti’s Qwin Armour Star Wilson Jor Rath Racorn Frankfurts Shurfine Sam Kraft Frosen Foods Victor Oxford Sweet Gerkins Jar Seabrook Farms Wahconah Street Harry's Packers Pava Eisenhower Halifax N.S Electric Granda Rand Berkshire County
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