Eastern Kentucky Fierce Coal War Threatens Small Mines
In Whitesburg Kentucky clashes erupt between 750 small nonunion coal mines operators and the United Mine Workers Union as gunfire dynamite and arson scar eastern Kentucky hills. Lonzo Collins a two-mine operator recounts threats and losses while blaming a sweetheart contract and fearing large mines would squeeze out the small operators.
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Whitesburg
Kentucky
United Mine Workers Union
Lonzo Collins
Lonesome Pine
Collins
Fr Om
John L. Lewis
UMW
Czech Painter Lands In Jail
Czech painter Viktor Zemplenyi, once a state favored genius earning about $10,000 yearly, plotted counterfeit originals by selling student works as his own. After authorities exposed the scheme, he is jailed for seven years and may lose his stature and market glow.
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Vienna
Nana
Viktor Zemplenyi
Zemplenyi
Chechoslovakia
Cezhoslovakia
Zempleys
Zemplenyis
First Arab Rocket Test Reported Successful
CAIRO Al Akhbar reports the first Arab made military rocket designed by an Arab engineer was successfully tested. No further details were provided.
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Cairo
al Akhbar
Fire Station 7550 Seeks New Telephone After Fire
Good Reason Muskogee Oklahoma reports Fire Station 7550 requested a new telephone after the old line burned in a recent fire. The incident prompted a replacement request to the tele phone company as crews responded to the blaze and secured damaged equipment.
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Muskogee
Okla
Polio Epidemic Threat Grows Amid Vaccination Gap
New York AP report warns polio could rise again in 1959 with 12,000 plus victims. Despite Salk vaccine being 90 percent effective, about 98 million Americans lack a shot and nearly a third of children under five are unvaccinated. Officials cite outbreaks in Detroit Chicago and Boston and urge summer vaccination.
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Associated Press
NEW York
Detroit
Chicago
Boston
National Foundation
U.S. Public Health Service
Gabriel Stickle
Foundation
Stickle
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