Navy Soda Pop Caper Shows Waste in Purchases
A government investigator told a House subcommittee that three former Navy men oversaw a $177,660 order for a soda pop mix deemed unpalatable. The case highlights Navy procurement lapses with the GAO turning the matter to the Justice Department for possible charges.
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Navy
Washington
House
GAO
Justice Department
J E. Caraway
E. Halstead
John Moeer Caraway
Seattle
Apex Distributing
Ellis
Halstead
Iceland
Moeller
U. S. Steel Officials and Union Meet in Pittsburgh
John A. Stephens vice president and lead negotiator for U S Steel says he will meet CIO United Steelworkers president David J McDonald tomorrow in Pittsburgh to push for settlement. The union seeks a substantial wage rise for about 600 000 workers ahead of a midnight Thursday strike deadline.
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Pittsburgh
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
Tone
David J. McDonald
CIO
United Steelorkers
McDonald
Senate Passes Airport Aid Bill
The Senate approved a bill to create a half billion dollar civilian airport modernization program with 252 million in federal grants over four years. Grants require a 50 percent state and local match, and contracts with states and cities would bypass normal budgeting to accelerate construction plans.
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Washington
Senate
House
Sen. Monroney
D-Okla
Secretary of Commerce
Budget Bureau
Congressional Committees
Monroney
Argentina Moves Toward Reconciliation With Vatican
Buenos Aires sources say President Peron seeks to end the seven month feud with the Catholic Church. Foreign Minister Remorino to meet papal nuncio Mario Zanin as talks explore a possible concordat with the Holy See amid constitutional assembly debate on church status.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Jeronimo Remorino
Moe
Mario Zanin
Vatican
Remorino
Congress
Holy See
Peron
Peter
Peron Ment,ng
Polio Booster Shot Delays Slow Wider Use
Washington reports revised safety standards delaying Salk polio vaccine releases. Manufacturers expect mid July to August or later before broad supply. Public Health Service officials say no new vaccine release for now, with six million cubic centimeters needed to finish first and second grade inoculations.
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Washington
Leonard A. Scheele
Public Health Service
Eli Lilly Co
Indianapolis
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
Pitman-Moore Co
Zionsville
Ind
Scheele
National Foundation For
New York
Hart van Riper
The
Foundation
van Riper
Bus Negotiators Plan Discussion
Charleston June 24 The 11 man negotiating committee of the AFL Motor Coach Employes Union will meet here tomorrow to discuss progress from Washington talks between George Engle and Samuel B Berrong. Federal mediators reported considerable progress but no settlement in the two month old Atlantic Greyhound driver strike across 10 states.
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Charleston
AFL Motor Coach Employes Union
Washington
George 8. Engle
Samuel B. Berrong
Engle
Atlantic Greyhound Corp
Serrong
Atlantic Greyhound
Joseph C. Wright
G. Harry Young
Dulles Rejects Soviet Peace Plan At U N Meeting
In San Francisco Secretary of State Dulles rejected Molotov seven points and urged nations to observe the United Nations charter. He said the Cold War can end only through adherence to the charter, nonuse of force, and halting subversion. Dulles cited Geneva talks as a path to new procedures.
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San Francisco
Dulles
Russia
U.N
U. N
V. M. Molotov
United States
West
United Nations
Molotov
Germany
Geneva
Eisenhower
Indochina
Moscow
John Foster Dulles
U. S
Hillsborough
Calif
U. N. Bone
White House
James Hagerty
Whitefield
N.H
Washington
Navy
Kodiak
Alaska
Dulles Y
Nitroglycerine Blast Injures Three Women in Belle Vernon
A nitroglycerine blast during wrecking operations on a bridge in Belle Vernon Pennsylvania injures three women. Mrs Mary Stewart 39 and Mrs Bruce McDonald of Speers and Mrs Margaret Shibbler 70 of Belle Vernon are hospitalized after being struck by debris. Windows shattered and rocks damaged several buildings as debris showered over the area.
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Belle Vernon
Mary Stewart
Bruce McDonald
Speers
Margaret Shibbler
Pennsylvania
Triplets On Way Possible Increase Poses Problem
An American woman traveling from Europe on a Scandinavian airliner told crew she expected triplets, prompting a mid Atlantic detour to Gander Newfoundland for medical checks. Mrs Ruth Keith of Windom Minnesota was taken to hospital. doctors advised the birth could be days or weeks away. Captain Gordon Whitfield said he would handle the situation if birth occurred aboard.
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Europe
Atlantic
Gander
Newfoundland
Ruth Keith
Windom
Minn
Gordon Whitfield Ofhagen
Newark
Keith
Ingalil Carlson
Stockholm
Whittfield
Whitfield
Prest
Anywick
Scotland
Aassuring
Zander
Oslo
Norway
Eisenhower calls for strong America in quest for world peace
President Eisenhower urged a strong United States as essential to lasting world peace during speeches in Whitefield and Franconia Notch New Hampshire. He tied strength to cooperation and reaffirmed a peace goal without signaling any 1956 political plans while reflecting on American ideals and the cost of future wars.
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Feron
Franklin Lucero
Juan Ignacio San Martin
Peron
Ike
America
Whitefield
N. H
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Pinealood Bhane
Red China to let 3 US turncoats depart soon
Peiping radio said five former United Nations Command soldiers including three Americans Lewis W. Griggs C G Bell William A. Cowart and two Belgians Roger Doriendt Louis Verdyck would depart China after arrangements between the Red Cross societies. American officials in Hong Kong awaited departure via the border. The men had chosen to stay with the Communists after the Korean War.
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London
Red China Radio
China
Peiping
Thut
United Nations Command
Red Cross Society of China
Indian Red Cross
Hong Kong
Red China
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
C. G. Bell
Olympia
Wash
William A. Cowart
Dalton
Roger Doriendt
Louis Verdyck
West Diplomats In Yugoslavia Open Talks Among Allies
Western Big Three diplomats met Yugoslav officials in Belgrade for ambassadorial talks on general political questions seeking to influence future policy toward Yugoslavia. No military or economic advisers attended. Tito returned to Belgrade to review reports and may meet the delegates tomorrow.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Srdjan Price
James W. Riddleberger
Sir Frank Roberts
Francois Coulet
Marshal Tito
Brioni
State Petroleum Chief Cites Gasoline Tax Revenue Rise
West Virginia Petroleum Assn Chairman E. B. Watson says the state gas tax now raises about 25 million dollars in 1955, up from 1.277 million in the first full year after 1923. He notes the tax plus the federal two cents equals about 29 percent of the retail price of regular gasoline.
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Charleston
E. B. Watson
West Virginia Petroleum Assn
Watson
Wanton Move Threatens Peace Talks Out of Alaska Waters
A U S Navy patrol plane was attacked by two Soviet MIG fighters over international waters between Alaska and Siberia. The craft, a P2V5, crash landed on St. Lawrence Island with seven of eleven crew injured. the incident threatens the Big Four peace talks in Geneva.
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Washington
United States
Alaska
Siberia
St. Lawrence Island
Bering Sea
Congress
Hagerty
Molotov
Dulles
Nome
Elmendorf
Air Force
Geneva
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Armed Services Comittee
Navy
Neptune
Bering Strait
R. H. Fischer
del Ray Oaks
Calif
Red Hungary says arrests target American spies
Budapest radio reported the Red Hungarian government has arrested a group of American spies led by Sandor Szilard and Ferenc Jakab. Security forces seized American arms and ammunition and investigations are continuing.
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London
Budapest
Sandor Szilard
Ferenc Jakab
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