Pact Ends NYC Transit Strike Threat With 2 Year Pact
New York city leaders announced a tentative two year contract settlement between Michael J. Quill's Transport Workers Union and the City Transit Authority, avoiding a New Year's eve transit walkout. The deal provides wage increases from 18 to 24 cents an hour over two years plus immediate 15 cent and January 1959 10 cent increases, sick pay restoration, four week vacations for long service, and a special fund to adjust skilled wage schedules.
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City Transit Authority
Harold Felix
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Red Skelton Nearly Dies From Asthma Attack
Santa Monica AP drama of Red Skelton nearly suffocating from a severe asthmatic attack. doctors say pulmonary edema caused heart strain though no preexisting heart disease. wife notes long history of asthma. son 9 ill with leukemia adds family stress amid Crosby TV plans.
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Bankruptcy Claim Filed by Contino
LOS ANGELES AP A voluntary bankruptcy petition listing debts totaling 51983 has been filed by Accordionist Dick Contino 27 said his debts include legal expenses fees to booking agencies back union dues a 1300 gambling loss in Nevada and nearly 8000 in back income taxes. He filed the petition Monday. The handsome accordionist spent nearly five months in prison in 1951 on draft evasion charges but later served in the U S army in Korea.
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Los Angeles
Contino
Nevada
U. S. Army
Korea
Jencks Case Dropped After Supreme Court Order
The Justice Department drops its case against Clinton Jencks a former union official previously convicted of filing a false affidavit with the National Labor Relations Board. The Supreme Court ordered a new trial ruling that FBI witness reports should have been supplied for defense cross examination.
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Washington
Justice Department
Mayor Seeks Iowa Help to Prevent Strike Violence
Centerville mayor Harold Fowler asked Gov. Herschel Loveless to place the Iowa National Guard on standby due to a strike at Baxter Box Company. State officials sent a deputy to Centerville for a firsthand report as the AFL CIO union described violence claims as exaggerated. The strike stemmed from a dispute over re hires on seniority after a brief shutdown.
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Harold Fowler
Herschel C. ‘Loveless
Iowa National Guard
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Loveless
Des Moines
el Paso
Texas
Baxter Box Company
United Packinghouse
Robert Johnson
Iowa
Don Lowe
Lowe
INS
United Packinghouse Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Russell Bull
Memorial note and stray figures from Iowa camp page
In memory of Don Burleson from D.L.B. and Cer Oh deivab sates dis Anonymous. A small line shows $110.20 10.00 in an unclear enclosure.
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United Pees
Don ‘Burleson
D.lb
Injunction Bars Union Reprisals Over Non-Strikers
New York Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Pette issued a permanent injunction against an International Association of Machinists lodge. The order blocks reprisals against 2,800 members who did not strike during the 1956 Republic Aviation dispute ending a six week walkout. The decision marks a rare similar ruling following a 1953 California case.
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Supreme Court
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Reope
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Chrysler Building and Two Adjacent Structures Sold in NYC
New York buyers under the Prentice Development Corp acquired the 71 story Chrysler Building its 32 story annex and the 30 story Graybar building from Webb and Knapp headed by William Zeckendorf. Webb and Knapp will continue to operate the properties. No price disclosed. The deal follows prior negotiations asking 66 million dollars.
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Prentice Development Corp
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William Zeckendorf
Empire State Building
Wilson defends Eisenhower on arms budget and space pace
Former Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson apologizes for no criticism of President Eisenhower over defense cuts and Vanguard satellite funding. He blames both the public and Congress for reduced spending, defends missile program as healthy competition, and criticizes Gaither committee comments on U.S. space progress.
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Detroit
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Eisenhower
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Defense Department
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Rowan Gaither, Jr
Ford Foundation
Gaither Committee
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Air Force
Retiring but He's Stuck Til Spring
Colorado Springs AP reports Clyde McReynolds retires after 59 years with city government yet remains on duty as caretaker for two city reservoirs. Snowbound with his wife at a 9000 foot cabin on Pike's Peak, awaiting spring thaw to leave his post.
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Clyde McReynolds
McReynolds
Pike's Peak
Municipal Workers To Get Raise in Cedar Rapids in 1958
Cedar Rapids city council announced a 1958 pay raise plan for about 428 hourly and monthly paid workers and officials. The package includes seven cent hourly increases for street park and sanitation staff, $12 monthly for most monthly staff, longevity pay for police and fire, a $10 uniform allowance for police, a $15 monthly temporary boost for police, and chief pay increases to about $600 monthly with longevity. Overall cost is estimated at 65,000 to 70,000 dollars for 1958.
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Cedar Rapids
Park
Jim Meaghan
Stewart Shank
Eisenhower Budget Aims No Tax Increase Expected
President Eisenhower moved toward a peacetime budget for the next fiscal year with no anticipated tax hikes. The White House said he will present the spending plan to Congress on January 13 in a domestic program message and will deliver a shortened January 9 State of the Union focusing mainly on national security.
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Eisenhower
White House
Congress
White House budget outlook hints at higher defense spend
President Eisenhower presses for a balanced budget for the year starting July 1 with a likely rise from 72 billion, driven by defense. Budget Director Brundage and James Killian sit in on talks, space age weapons cited as key cost drivers. Hagerty notes no tax hikes or cuts, State of the Union slated for about 30 minutes to outline military, economic and foreign policy priorities.
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Percival Brundage
James R Killian, Jr
Science and Technology
White House
James C. Haglerty
Hagerty
Cedar Rapids approves water department building move
Cedar Rapids city council authorized buying a 25 by 100 foot structure on Seventh avenue SE for 25000 to relocate the waterworks meter shop and office from city hall. The plan shifts spaces among several departments and opens room for a broader city reorganization after title delivery and escrow arrangements.
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Cedar Rapids
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William S. Kuba
Marjory E. McCrea
Clarissa A. Christie
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Third Street
Jim Anan
Water Department
Federal dog ban sparks eviction threat at three Rock Island housing sites
Federal Housing Administrator Allen Duncan orders dogs banned from Arsenal Courts Rock Island Manor and Victory Homes with residents to comply by Wednesday or face eviction. About 75 owners replaced pets. a dozen resist, while some plan defiance. Local officials say they cannot intervene despite public sympathy for dog owners.
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Allen Duncan
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Victory Homes
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