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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1958
Page
1
The Commerce Department stated the recession slump in sales and production has been arrested with May activity little changed from April. It noted slight gains in income, employment, and retail sales, but highlighted ongoing weakness in business capital investment and inventory liquidation.
Walter P. Reuther moved to end an unauthorized UAW strike at the government owned Chrysler missile plant near Detroit. Local 1245 officers were summoned to appear before the UAW executive board to show cause why a local administrator should not be named. The walkout disrupted Redstone and Jupiter missile production and injured two pickets and a nonunion worker while traffic clogged the highway.
In Santo Amaro Bahia Brazil a fireworks market blast killed 100 holiday revelers and wounded 300. Victims including many women and children were buried in mass graves after a short circuit sparked rockets and firecrackers at an outdoor fair. A broader Bahia probe follows deadly Feira de Santana factory blast with seven dead and 40 injured.
President Camille Chamoun warned of an imminent all-out rebel offensive within two days as rebels mass in three areas. Bombs exploded around Beirut injuring none of the U.S. ambassador’s staff. a time bomb killed four near Zahle. Chamoun met with Dag Hammarskjold and noted increasing infil tra tion from the United Arab Republic while discussing UN observers and potential foreign intervention.
President Eisenhower selects Leo A. Hoegh to lead the new Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization. The ODM merged with the Federal Civil Defense Administration, becoming effective at midnight. Gordon Gray will become special assistant on national security. Robert Cutler leaves July 21 to return to banking in Boston.
Aristotle Onassis, the Greek ship owner, faced questions from Rep. Herbert Bonner and a House Merchant Marine subcommittee about a trust set up for his two American citizen children. Bonner pressed whether the trust involved a recent Justice Department suit over a contract to build three tankers, and Onassis stated he had nothing to hide while acknowledging possible beneficiary payments.
Vice President Joaquin Balaguer said the Dominican government seeks only moral reciprocity in exchange for cooperation with the United States. The move follows Congress ending military and technical aid after Gen. Rafael Trujillo Jr. failed to complete the U S Army staff college at Leavenworth.
The NAACP asks the federal court of appeals to stay a district court order suspending integration at Central High in Little Rock. If kept in place, black students may be barred from attending next fall. The appeal, filed by Wiley Branton and Thurgood Marshall, seeks a summer ruling before reopening.
In Moscow the Soviet Union eased conditions for a Geneva July 1 meeting of East West technical experts to discuss policing a nuclear test ban. The delegation will include Czechoslovakia and Poland with a Romanian member likely, offsetting a Canadian on the U S panel. The United States and France maintain talks on detection options without forcing a halt to tests.
The United States pressed the Soviet Union to arrange a quick return of a U S helicopter and nine soldiers who ran out of gas and landed in East Germany after a June 7 storm. State Department spokesman Lincoln White said Washington would not accept the matter as outside Soviet responsibility.
Washington reported nearly 25 million workers in sixteen states and the District of Columbia will receive extra unemployment benefits after exhausting regular benefits. California New Jersey and West Virginia joined eleven others to extend benefits, with four states funding extensions from idle reserves Illinois Wisconsin Colorado and Connecticut. The plan uses federal advances repayable later, averaging about 30 dollars per week, and follows congressional approval over a federally funded mandator y rollout.
The Navy logged a highly successful test of the Polaris experimental rocket at Cape Canaveral, following Vanguard delays. The solid fuel powered model lifted about 25 seconds before breaking apart as planned, signaling progress toward a 1960 ballistic missile milestone.
The Soviet Union charged that U S authorities encouraged hooligans to attack the Soviet mission to the United Nations after demonstrations by Hungarian refugees around Park Avenue. Three windows were smashed and seven policemen and several pickets injured, as protests followed the execution of Imre Nagy with further demonstrations reported Thursday and Saturday.
Eisenhower will not hold a news conference this week. The White House refused to say why. Press secretary James C. Hagerty said the President has no plans to hold a news conference when pressed for an explanation.
President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary McElroy denied any threat of reprisal against Admiral Arleigh Burke over defense reorganizations. Senator Russell pressed for a clear statement on free speech by officers, while Leader Knowland and others urged clarification to resolve the dispute.
A federal court froze financier Louis E. Wolfson's activities in AMC stock and ordered him to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue. The SEC alleged Wolfson and others used public statements to imply continued holdings while he was liquidating, deceiving AMC buyers and sellers on the NYSE.
Norfolk and Western Railway posted a 26 percent decline in May net income to 2,724,052 dollars from 1957. Passenger revenue rose slightly to 587,000 dollars amid overall income declines as freight revenues and operating expenses fell.
George W. Allen told President Eisenhower he found nothing objectionable about a seminude woman etching in the American Brussels World's Fair exhibit. He also reported a favorable overall impression of the display and said he did not recommend removing the etching.
The apparent low bidder for the Pound Reservoir project on Pound River in Pound Virginia is Sprague and Henwood Company of Scranton Pennsylvania with a bid of 13932.50. The government estimate stood at 24838.50. Three other firms also submitted bids.
SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby testifies that the agency did not delay court action against Bernard Goldfine and rejects links to White House or Eisenhower inquiries. The hearing probes Adams gifts from Goldfine and possible improper favors as lawmakers press for accountability amid calls for Adams to quit.
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