Rule by Minority Warns of Rule by Minority
Des Moines report on reapportionment debate as Sen. Jack Miller cites 28 percent current majority and argues for 60-member senate 99-member house under Stanley plan with commission redistricting and court fallback. Nolan counters urging House reset. Continued on Page 6.
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Des Moines
Jack Miller
Sioux City
Miller
House
Senate
Stanley
Supreme Court
Nolan
Sen
David O. Shaff
Clinton
Shaff
Cost of living unchanged for March in government report
Washington reports the consumer price index at 123.7 of the 1947 49 average, marking the longest stretch of price stability. Food costs fell while transportation rose with used car prices up 1.6 percent and gasoline up 1 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bishop's secretary rewrites filing system in humor
The article notes a bishop's new secretary, formerly with the defense department, reorganizing church offices. She creates labeled drawers named Sacred and Top Sacred to reflect a lighthearted administrative overhaul.
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Defense Department
Escapees Hold Man In Car for 20 Hours
Henry Landry 52 from Ashburnham Massachusetts was abducted by four mental hospital escapees who forced him to drive to the Canadian border and across New York for 20 hours. With knives visible one captive pressed into his side. Landry fled during a gas stop in Amherst and alerted a bystander who called police. Officers quickly captured the four suspects.
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Buffalo
Henry Landry
Ashburnham
Mass
New York State
Amherst
Meg and Mother Visit Pope John
British Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret met Pope John XXIII in a 25 minute audience at the Vatican. Some British Protestants criticized the visit in advance.
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Vatican City
Elizabeth
Margaret
John XXIII
Senator Green Quits Hospital to Return to Washington
Providence AP reports Senator Green 91 from Rhode Island walked from a hospital on Wednesday and flew to Washington. He said there is a lot of work for him to tend to and he must depart immediately after healing from back and hip bruises from a stair stumble.
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Providence
Seni Green
D-R.j
Washington
Green
Allis-Chalmers reports 77 day strike costs and losses
MILWAUKEE AP The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co said the 77 day strike by 14 000 United Auto Workers cost the firm 36 million dollars in lost sales and a net loss of 3 729 174. Sales were 84 million versus 120 million a year ago and earnings per share 43 cents on 8 650 780 shares. Strikes shut eight plants Feb 2 to Apr 20 with two smaller strikes at Independence Missouri and St Thomas Ontario. Wages totaled 14 million dollars. UAW strike assistance exceeded 2 million. Dealers moved inventories during the strike and orders as of March 31 stood at 239 million up 46 million from Dec 31 1958.
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Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturiing Co
United Auto Workers
R. S. Stevenson
Allis-Chalmers
Stevenson
Allis- Chalmers
Nothing Unusual At All Officers
SALT LAKE CITY AP Police investigated a report of a suspicious person in a phone booth for over an hour. They found a woman on the phone talking with a friend. no threat or foul play was found.
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Salt Lake City
Brothers Meet After 40 Years in a Kiev-US Reunion
In New York a dramatic reunion in a hotel room connects Yuri Faier, 68, famed Bolshoi dancer, and his brother Myron, 66, now a Miami Beach hotel owner and Chicago drugstore operator. They had not seen each other since before the 1917 revolution. They communicated via interpreter as Myron hopes for a visa to visit Russia.
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New York
Kiev
Yuri Faier
Bolshoi Ballet
Myron
U. S
Miami Beach
Yuri
Mosow
Chicago
Russia
Two Couples Mark 50th Wedding Anniversary in Ill
In Effingham Illinois two couples Mr and Mrs George Grunloh and Mr and Mrs Henry Dust celebrate their 50th anniversary at the church of their double wedding. The Grunlohs wed April 27 1909 and have 12 children 57 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren while the Dusts have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
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Effingham, Ill
George Grunloh
Henry Dust
Grunlohs
Dusts
Humphrey Slams U S Forest and Water Development Neglect
In Eugene Oregon on Tuesday night Senator Humphrey from Minnesota criticized national policy for neglecting forest range land and water development needs.
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Eugene, Ore
U. S. Forest
Range
Sen
Humphrey
Bufalino Demands Senate Expel His Accusers
William Bufalino asks the Senate to expel rackets committee members he says misused inquiries and to investigate the committees. He claims the investigation and questions violated his rights and filed a petition for redress with the Senate secretary, challenging Chairman McClellan and counsel Robert Kennedy.
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Washington
William Bufalino
Senate
Bufalino
Detroit Teamsters
House
Rackets Committee
Robert Kennedy
Felton Johnston
McClellan
Dark
Kennedy
McClellan Pushes Labor Rights Bill Amid Kennedy Reform
Sen. McClellan proposed a labor rights bill to protect individual union members, arguing current Kennedy reform falls short. The measure aims to require unions to codify member protections, as the Senate defeated Ervin’s attempt to strip Kennedy changes and rejected Dirksen’s Taft-Hartley substitution. Iowa senators Hickenlooper and Martin backed both amendments.
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McClellan
Senate
Sen. Ervin
D-N.c
Sen
Dirksen
R-Ill
Iowa
Hicken‘looper
Martin
Ervin
Wyoming Crash Claims Third Life
Allen Weiss 36 of Anamosa died at University Hospitals from injuries suffered in a two car crash near Wyoming Iowa Monday. He was the third victim. two Wyoming residents Mrs Arthur Luke 50 and Millie French 65 were passengers in his car. Jack DeVore 20 of Wyoming and two other Weiss car passengers remained hospitalized. Services for Weiss were being arranged in Anamosa.
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Anamosa
Allen Weiss
University Hospitals
Weiss
Wyoming
Arthur Luke
Millie French
Jack DeVore
DeVore
M. H. Weiss
McNamara Funeral Home
Three Die As Dynamite Explodes In Dam Tunnel
Three men were killed Tuesday when dynamite exploded in a tunnel at a dam site near Oroville California. Authorities investigated the accident and identified the victims.
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Oroville
Calif
Escapees Hold Woman Hostage At San Quentin
Two inmates Billy Wright and William Werner escaped from San Quentin and held Mrs. Walter Gschwend at knifepoint for six hours on a wharf by the prison before surrendering. They claimed they bluffing for a car and did not intend harm. Prosecutor William Weissich promised no action against them.
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San Quentin
Calif
Billy Wright
William Werner
Wright
Werner
New State Department Head Sworn In
Christian Herter was sworn in as secretary of state in a White House ceremony attended by President Eisenhower Vice President Nixon and most of the cabinet. Dulles, ill with cancer, countersigned from his hospital bed after Senate confirmed 93 to 0.
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Washington
Christian Herter
Secretary of State
Eisenhower
Nixon
U. S
White House
The
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Allen
Central Intelligence Agency
Herter
Senate
Ulcer Misidentified as Bullet Found as Historic Remnant
Richmond AP reports Malcolm Pitt a junior high principal was hospitalized with severe abdominal pains thought to be an ulcer. X rays showed no ulcer but a calcified barbine slug nestling near the river, a 1944 Norman invasion relic left in place as a historic memento.
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Richmond
Malcolm Pitt
Normandy
Ninety Five Scientists Escape to West Berlin
Ninety five scientists fled East Germany to West Berlin in seven weeks. They say the government has improved living conditions for professionals to halt the exodus, but the escape continues due to interference in work and private life by the regime.
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