Traffic Fatalities Mount Over 400
United Press International reports Labor Day weekend brought the nation a record traffic toll but stopped short of the 1952 peak. The National Safety Council warned 450 deaths were possible, with California leading state totals and 71 million vehicles on the road during the holiday period. Five killed in Minnesota crashes and a sixth victim in Iowa marked weekend fatalities.
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Windom
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Iowa
Safety Council
Labor Day Weekend Toll Tops Previous Year in New England
New England states recorded 14 highway deaths over the three day Labor Day weekend, nearly doubling last year’s eight. Drownings and other causes raised total fatalities to 22, with New Hampshire the only state among six not reaching two fatalities.
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New Hampshire
Berkshire Eagle Subscription Rates and Address Notice
Prices listed for mail and in town delivery with weekly rates. Includes zones based on distance, monthly and yearly terms. Advises subscribers to report address changes at the local post office and with the Berkshire Eagle to prevent service interruption.
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Goa
Berastire Eagle
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President Eisenhower Returns from European Trip Bursting With Optimism
Washington reports that President Eisenhower, back from a 12 day West Germany Britain and France tour, told a welcoming crowd at National Airport that all Western differences had been talked out and the alliance remained united. He avoided reference to Khrushchev and noted nothing but progress in resolving small party matters. The jet landed at 1 54 pm after an eight hour fourteen minute flight from Preswick.
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United Press International
Boy Bursts Into Bank Through Roof Vent
A nine year old boy named Michael Burlin from Los Angeles climbed into the Parific Savings & Loan Bank after lifting a vent lid on the roof. He crawled inside and fell about 25 feet to the teller stage.
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Heyo
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Teen-Ager Stabs Man to Death in Lower East Side
A youth chased and fatally stabbed a 28 year old man on a Manhattan street after a minor quarrel. Police pursued the assailant as NY authorities pledge a tough crackdown on juvenile crime amid a wave of street violence.
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Ramiro Roman
Roman
Puerto Rico
Robert F Warner
Policeman Chasing Suspect Kills Bystander on Doorstep
New York patrolman Pathan James Q Connell pursued a fleeing car thief Irving Moore after Moore attempted to steal a truck. Miss Dezhi Crawford, 80, was fatally struck on her doorstep in what officials call an accidental death. Connell captured Moore following a scuffle and learned of the bystander’s death upon returning to the station.
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Phina Quearold
Sime
Dezhi Crawford
James Q Connell
Irving Moore
Connell
Moore
O Connell
Miss
Ex Rep May Dies At 84 After War Era Career
Andrew Jackson May former Kentucky congressman who chaired the House Military Affairs Committee died Sunday in Prestonsburg at age 84. He served 1930 to 1947 and was later convicted in 1947 of conspiring to defraud the government by taking a $53000 bribe related to wartime munitions contracts. He went to prison in 1949 and received a presidential pardon.
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House Miltary Affairs Committee
Andy Jack
Washington
Ashland
Harry S. Truman
New York
Murray
Henry MM Garssan
War Department
Garsson
Kentucky Lumber Company
Mayo
Ing
Senate blocks three year surplus crop plan over food stamp pilot
The Senate approved a three year extension of the overseas surplus crop disposal program with a pilot food stamp plan to aid U S. hungry, but the House rejected the Senate version and sent the bill to a war conference for a compromise. The vote followed days of amendments as the existing Public Law 480 program faces expiration December 31.
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UPI
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House
Hubert H Humphrey
Dmvnn
Cheet Reef
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Philp
Admiral Hirshfield Rebuked Over Kin Tour of Europe
Rear Adm. James A. Hirshfield assistant commandant of the Coast Guard was officially rebuked for taking six relatives on a 28 day flying inspection trip to Europe and for allowing nine civilians aboard. The rebukes were approved by Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson who has Coast Guard jurisdiction. In peace time the officers were orally reprimanded by Assistant Secretary A Gilmore Flues after a columnist revealed the trip.
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A. Gilmore Flues
Anderson
Chicken thieves dwindling in New Jersey farms
Cal Joseph D. Rutter reported to the attorney general that only two chicken thieves were caught in the last fiscal year. He noted that chicken stealing used to be a bigger problem, but not anymore, as poultry farmers enjoy calmer times.
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UPI
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Joseph D. Rutter
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