Impasse Triggers Nationwide Moldmakers Strike
About 2,000 moldmakers in Pittsburgh idle as negotiations between the American Flint Glass Workers Union and the Glass Containers Manufacturing Institute collapse. The walkout may pull in up to 48,000 related glass workers. Wages and arbitration were core issues as mediator Rose failed to broker an agreement.
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Pittsburgh
UPD
American Flint Glass Workers Union
Glass Containers Manufacturing Institute
Willam Rose
Rose
Glass Bottle Blowers Assn
Blind Man Bluffed in Portland Theft After Kind Stranger
William H. Casey, 77, who is blind, trusted a passerby to guide him across a street in Portland. The stranger aided him to his door but later Casey found his wallet missing containing $34. Local police are investigating the incident.
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Portland, Maine
William H. Casey
Casey
Dowsing Prodigy Keith Beebe of Lanesboro County
In Lanesboro a nine year old boy Keith Beebe is credited with dowsing underground water using a divining stick. His father Franklin Beebe doubted at first but tests showed the stick dips over water, even locating a blind well under a pine tree. Keith remains shy and unsettled by the attention. Nearby, a local incident reports a police chief ordering removal of Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover from newsstands despite not reading the book.
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Kenneth Roberts
Henry Gross
Berkshire County
Lanesboro
Mr. Beebe
Keith
Keith Beebe
Franklin L Beebe
Dick LaBrie
K Keith
Warwick
R. I
Forrest R. Sprague
Dr. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley
Butter Dropped From Barter List in Foreign Trade
The Agriculture Department removed butter from the government barter list used for exports in exchange for foreign produced minerals. Officials cited tight stocks and weaker price support as factors. Butter output in 1959 trails 1958 by about six percent. export price adjustments were also announced for butter cheese and non fat dry milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Uncle Sam
Bees Kill At Rattlers Rate In Beelike Deaths
Dr. Henry M. Parrish of the University of Vermont College of Medicine reports that nearly as many Americans die from bee stings as from rattlesnake bites. The five year study, 1950 through 1954, covered 215 deaths from bites and stings with 40 percent from snakes and 18 percent from wasps and hornets.
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Chicago
Henry M. Parrish
University of Vernont College of Medicine
Parrish
Army to convert Arizona desert into electronic proving ground
The Army will spend millions to turn a 270 mile stretch of Arizona desert into the Electronic Environmental Test Facility near Fort Huachuca. Construction will begin after a civilian contractor is chosen to supervise the project. The study will examine interference in electronic devices caused by nearby operations.
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New York
Army
Arizona Desert
McGraw- Hill
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Signal Corps
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