Railroads move to new work rules may trigger nationwide strike
AP reports railroads will enforce new work rules Friday, amid a five year labor dispute. Union leaders call it a national lockout if injunction blocks a 14 state Illinois Central tie up. Midshipmen at Maine Maritime Academy defy a liberty order, return to class as controversy swirls around Superintendent Rodway.
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J. E. Wolfe
National Railway Labor Conference
Washington
Illinois Central Railroad
Zimmerman
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Order of
The
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Switchmen’s Union of North America
Congress
Wolfe
Castine
Maine Maritime Academy
Frank C. Rodway
Academy
Rodway
Bagley Market Sold to Richard T Russell in Saco
Bagley s Market on Storer Street Saco is sold to Richard T Russell of Winterport. He will take over operations April 20 with Bagley policies retained. Russell, a Hannaford supervisor for four years and former A P meat manager, plans to move to Saco after school dismissals in June with his wife and seven children.
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Storer Street
Saco
Richard T. Russell
Winterport
Newman Bagley
Russell
Hannaford Bros
Food Distributors
Portland
New York Bids Farewell To General MacArthur
Thousands in rain mourners line streets of New York for General MacArthur as a special train carries his coffin to Washington. The city honors ailing hero with 35,000 passersby at the 7th Regiment Armory and a public farewell amid wet flags and royal-like military pageantry.
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Washington
MacArthur
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7Th Regiment
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USS. Military Academy
Harold Paul Kindleberger
el Paso
Tex
West Point
Arthur
Norfolk
James I, Muirel
Alexandria
John L. Richards
Little Silver
N.J
John J
Black Jack
67Th Street
Belgium May Draft Its Striking Doctors
Belgium weighs drafting its 12,000 striking doctors as an eight day walkout nears two weeks. Premier Theo Lefevre warned the government might call up the army reserve amid a $20 million deficit in the health insurance fund and protests over planned changes to fees and medical record access. Doctors resist the measure, argue it harms duties and patient privacy, while emergency care continues in major cities. Confusion grows as some urban doctors resume house calls and threats against physicians surface.
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Brussels
Belgium
Theo Lefevre
Brugge
Arthur Gilson
Gemini Shot is Success in Opening Gemini Mission
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP an unmanned Project Gemini capsule soared into orbit marking a major milestone for the United States second man in space program The Titan II rocket delivered 430000 pounds thrust and produced a rose colored glow as the craft began its first of two unmanned flights ahead of a two astronaut three orbit mission planned for late year The launch drew applause from astronauts and space officials awaiting a second unmanned flight in the summer to confirm readiness for manned flight
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Fla
United States
Governor appoints five to Status of Women panel
Gov Reed announced five new appointments to the Commission on the Status of Women. The slate includes Frances Hapgood of Portland a Maine Federated Labor Council executive board member, Portland High School guidance director Mrs Scott Damien, and W Bradford Cushman of North Waterboro former president of the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Augusta
Reed
Commission On the Status of Women
Frances Hapgood
Portland
Maine Federated Labor Council Executive Board
Scott Damien
W. Bradford Cushman
North Waterboro
Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs
Walace Leads Wisconsin Primary Rally Despite Civil Rights Focus
Governor George C. Wallace wins 20 percent of the vote in Wisconsin’s Democratic presidential primary, branding his campaign as a grass roots message for Congress and both national parties on civil rights. Thousands attend Gen. MacArthur funeral rites in New York. processional to Washington for lying in state. White ministers killed during civil rights protest in Cleveland trigger night rioting. A jet airliner from Puerto Rico lands off runway in New York, no major injuries reported. Navy says it cannot outrun Midway Island sea birds staging walk-ins from the runway areas. U S pressure on Europe to bolster aid against Communist expansion in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Belgian government plans to call doctors into a potential army as an eight-day strike looms.
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Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wisconsin
Congress
New York
Gen. MacArthur
Washington
Cleveland
Puerto Rico
U.S. Navy
Midway Island
Gooney Birds Protest With Jay-Walking On Midway
At Midway Island the gooney birds known as Blackfoot or Layson albatrosses have begun jay-walking to aid paving work near Navy runways. Seabees and sailors guide and escort the birds away from heavy equipment as a two year effort to clear nesting sites progresses. Despite prior culling and hardtopping, birds still cross paths with graders and tractors, delaying operations but hopeful the runways will stay clear once paving is complete.
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Pearl Harbor
Midway Island
mid-Pacific
Navy
Midway
Audubon Society
Wallace Exceeds Vote Goal In Wisconsin Primary
Milwaukee results show Wallace winning ten times his stated goal with 246,275 votes to Reynolds 483,066 and Byrnes 287,632 as Reynolds carries all 46 Democratic National Convention votes. Reynolds surpasses Kennedy’s prior Democrat primary record while Wallace argues the vote was a grass roots referendum.
Airliner Bounces Off Runway At JFK Airport
A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 from San Juan carrying 136 passengers and nine crew ended in a swamp near JFK after a light fog landing. At least 48 treated, 15 hospitalized, injuries ranged from cuts to broken bones. No fire. foam used. Passengers escaped via life rafts and hatches as the plane rested about 1,000 feet from the runway end. Captain Herbert H. Dunker, 47, Milwaukee native living in Coral Gables, Fla., piloted the jet.
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John F. Kennedy International
Pan American World Airways
San Juan
Pr.r
Sidney i Seidman
Lawrence
N.Y
Rockaway Boulevard
Queens
Herbert H. Dunker
Milwaukee
Coral Gables, Fla
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