State's New Mine Law Takes Effect July 1
West Virginia revises coal mining law with higher inspector pay and new civil service rules. The changes, part of a two year tax package, aim to boost revenue by 2 to 4.2 million annually while keeping inspector totals at 71 but shifting duties. Two new five member boards created to oversee the reforms.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Crawford L. Wilson
Mines Department
Civil Service
Wilson
Mine Inspectors Examining Board
Coal Mine Safety Board of Review
John A. Field Jr
Remorseless Killer Dies On Utah Gallows
Barton Kay Kirkham, 21, executed by hanging in Point of the Mountain Utah after murdering grocery clerk David Frame. He asked God to forgive him just before death, the first public sign of remorse despite a hardcase life. He had scoffed at religious comfort and declined funeral rites throughout imprisonment.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Barton Kay Kirkham
David Frame
Kirkham
Beckstead
W. C. Knott
Sorrento
Labor Bill Hit By New Abuse
Washington senators clash over a proposed labor bill with criticism from Sen. Curtis who calls it inadequate and Sen. Goldwater who calls it milk toast. Sen. McClellan supports the measure, stating it provides essential protections for workers managers and the public and curbs racketeers while proposing three Taf-Hartley Law reforms including repealing the anti Communist affidavit for union officers.
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Washington
Senate
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Curtis
Barry Goldwater
R-Ark
Labor Committee
Join L. McClellan
D-Ark
Rackets Investigating Committee
McClellan
John F. Kennedy
States Slow In Accepting Federal Jobless Aid Plan
Washington reports states show reluctance to join Eisenhower's emergency unemployment relief plan as President Eisenhower seeks 665.7 million dollars. New York Michigan Massachusetts Rhode Island Minnesota Maryland Indiana are taking steps while Connecticut Ohio Illinois may rely on own funds. Several states would need constitutional amendments or legislative action, with some governors already calling special sessions or delaying.
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New York
Michigan
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Minnesota
Maryland
Indiana
Connecticut
Ohio
Illinois
Purged Red Premier Still Running Plant in Central Asia
Georgi Malenkov, once Soviet premier, reportedly remains director of a hydroelectric works at Ust Kameno gorsk in Kazakhstan Province. Pavienko, Soviet minister for power stations, declined to elaborate during a news conference after inspecting Austrian power plants.
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Central Asia
Vienna
Georgi Malenkov
Ust Kamenogorsk
Bves
Pavienko
Soviet Union
Malenkov
Kazakhstan
Integration Order In Va. Effective
Norfolk and Newport News school boards told a federal judge the 16 month old desegregation order is in full force and will take effect at the start of the September term. Four Virginia localities are under direct federal orders this fall with a July Richmond hearing planned on Prince Edward County desegregation.
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Norfolk
Newport News
Walter E. Hoffman
Virginia
Richmond
Prince Edward County
Hoffman
National Assn. For
U. S. Supreme Court
Charlottesville
Arlington County
Khrushchev Aims Big Trade Offer With United States
In Moscow Khrushchev proposes a billion dollar Soviet U S trade deal seen as a bid to raise living standards at home and push peaceful coexistence with the West. Western observers doubt U S credits approving long term credits, while European rivals may rush to strike with Russia. Pravda and Izvestia back the offer.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Khrushchev
West
Red diplomat expelled over spy tie to Arlington writer
Washington announces expulsion of Nikolai I. Kurochkin a third secretary at the Soviet Embassy after paying US magazine writer Charles Theodore Beaumet about 25 nonclassified manuals with Beaumet later registering as a foreign agent. FBI involvement noted with no action against Beaumet planned.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Nikolai I. Kurochkin
U.S
Kurochkin
Justice Department
Charles Theodore Beaumet
Arlington
Beaumet
Nathan B. Leavin
Department
Beaumt
Lenvin
Beteen
Leavin
FBI
Kurochin
UAW Seeks to Calm Chrysler Workers amid Labor Truce
In Detroit the United Auto Workers urged 5300 stewards and committeemen to prevent strikes after Friday’s shutdowns at two Chrysler plants. Art Hughes said he expects workers to stay on the job next week as GM and Ford plants run smoothly.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Art Hughes
Ford
General Contractors Predict Futuristic City Plan In 2000
The Associated General Contractors of America premiere a forecast in Washington that in 2000 A.D. autos are banned downtown and housing will become slums. Solar power will power homes and smokeless factories while highways go double decked with automated transit removing cars to city edges.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
A. D
Associated
General Contractors of America
Nixon
Joseph Watterson
The
American Institute of Architects
Neigh
Col. W. A. Hardenbergh
Public Works Magazine
George B. Roscoe
Contractor Magazine
North America
Roscoe
Macmillan Heads to Washington for Informal Talks on Summit
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrives in Washington for informal talks with President Eisenhower about world issues including the French crisis and a possible Moscow summit. Dulles hosts a private dinner as Macmillan, bound for DePauw University in Indiana, meets U.S. officials to press Western trade and rapid summit progress.
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Britain
Harold Macmillan
National Airport
Washington, D. C
John Foster Dulles
Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Macmillan
London
U.S
Soviet Union
Charles de Gaulle
France
Paris
de Gaulle
Secretary of State
Dulles
Fsit
Dorothy Macmillan
Indiana
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Norwegian Tanker Blaze Halts Shipping in Rotterdam
A Norwegian oil tanker Artemis collided with another vessel at the harbor entrance and burst into flames halting all shipping in Rotterdam. Captain Gunna Gauslaa and several crewmen were injured. Seven crewmen were reported missing from Artemis, which had 42 aboard. The other ship Luksefjell was holed but continued to Rotterdam.
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Rotprdam
Netherlands
Artemis
Gunna Gauslaa
J. M. Lens
Hook of Holland
Luksefjell
Laukesefjell
Rotterdam
De Gaulle Wins Cabinet Backing for Unity Drive in Algeria
France's cabinet rallied behind Charles de Gaulle's unity policy after his Algeria peace mission. It promised local elections in Algeria within a month and included an Algerian Muslim in the cabinet for the first time. De Gaulle ordered restraint on public safety committees while affirming Salan's powers and sending a top civil administrator to Algeria. The situation remained unsettled amid censorship and continued safety committees.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
de Gaulle
Andre Malraux
France
Malraux
Raoul Salan
Salan
Oran
Ths
Algiers Radio
King Saud's In-Laws Given Life Sentences
A three man military tribunal in Damascus convicted Asad Ibra him Meri and his brother Majed Ibrahim Meri in absentia of plotting to assassinate President Nasser and launch a coup at King Saud's instigation. Both men received life terms as Syria asserted the plot aimed to sabotage the Egyptian Syrian merger into the United Arab Republic.
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Damascus
Syria
Saud
Nasser
Asad Ibrahim Meri
Majed Ibrahim Meri
United Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Turkish Press Office Damaged By Bomb Blast
A bomb tossed onto the porch of the Turkish consulate press office in Nicosia damaged glass doors and windows but caused no casualties.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
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America
N. I. Kurochkin
Blaze
George McArthur
King Saud
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