Did Reuther Really Gain Big Victory
Article analyzes Walter Reuther and the Ford and General Motors guaranteed wage plans. It argues the plan costs the companies little direct cash over three years and that wage increases and fringe benefits dwarf the guaranteed wage, with pensions and insurance costs rising steeply. It contrasts take-home pay under the plan with state unemployment subsidies and concludes the guaranteed wage may be a fringe benefit rather than a major victory.
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Detroit
Walter Reuther
Ford
General Motors
Henry Ford II
Reuther
Michigan
Difficult To Get Rid of Rubbish
In New London Wisconsin on April 5 Mr and Mrs Harold Behnke left junk at the city dump. A windstorm blew items to a farm 35 miles southeast of St Louis where Cletus Apke mailed back a light bill a Behnke travel souvenir and an old letter to the Behnkes found in a field.
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New London
Wis
Harold Behnke
Behnkes
Cletus Apke
Cattawissa
Behnke
St. Louis
Apke
Congress Not To Adjourn Before July 31 Johnson
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson said Congress will be lucky to adjourn by July 31 and likely will. He insisted he never set an earlier date and noted the timing depends on finishing work, not Geneva talks. The Senate moves to pass a 31.8 billion defense bill and basin foreign aid and public works measures amid battles over overseas aid and Dixon-Yates.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Congress
Texas Democrat
Johnson
Geneva
Senate Foreign Relations
Walter F. George
Dga
District of Columbia
Drake U Hosts Town and Country Church Institute
Drake University in Des Moines will host the tenth annual Town and Country Church Institute from July 5 to 7. Sponsored by the Drake divinity school the Iowa Society of Christian Churches and the United Christian Missionary Society the event targets laymen ministers and their wives. Speakers include Dr Edward K Ziegler secretary for evangelism for the Church of the Brethren based in Elgin Illinois and Mrs George C Frey wife of a Christian church minister in Owingsville Kentucky and president of the Kentucky ministers wives association.
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Des Moines
INS
Drake University
Town and Country Church Institute
Drake Divinity School
Iowa Society of Christian Churches
United Christian Missionary Society
Edward K. Ziegler
Church of the Brethren
Elgin
George C. Frey
Owingsville
Kentucky
Solicitations Review Committee Prepares For Meeting
Two requests will come before Cedar Rapids Solicitations Review committee at the regular monthly luncheon. The noon Wednesday session at the Roosevelt hotel will consider a proposed Cedar Rapids Art Association fund campaign and United Cerebral Palsy request to move next year’s event to February. Yellowstone National Park was nicknamed Coulter's Hell by early West settlers.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids Art Association
United Cerebral Palsy
Yellowstone National Park
Hell
Investigator's Wife Slain From Ambush
Virginia Armijo a 33 year old wife of a district attorney's investigator was killed on her front porch in LA JABA Colorado by a single shot from an alley. Police believe the attack aimed at her husband Jerry Armijo 32 an investigator for District Attorney John Ira Green and part of a local grudge. The couple's three children were inside with a babysitter. Armijo had served seven years as a special investigator for the DA's office across six counties in the San Luis Valley.
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LA Jaba
Colo
Virginia Armijo
Jerry
Lnter
George Lipencott
Armijos
Armijo
John Ira Green
Colorado Judicial District
Virginia
Samuel
Lipencott
Alamosa
District Attorney’s Office
Colorado
San Luis Valley
Cedar Rapids Adds 18 Thousand TV Sets by 1955
Cedar Rapids gained 4 874 television sets in 1954 for a total of 18 192 as of Jan 1 1955. City Assessor Jim Scolaro and his field crew compiled the figures from personal property assessments. About 10 900 sets are on the east side and 7 300 on the west side.
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Cedar Rapids
Jim Scolaro
Scolaro
Symphony Fund Appeal Passes Fourth of Goal
Cedar Rapids Symphony fundraiser nears goal with 2 281 raised of 8 783 target. General Chairman Robert H. Taylor optimistic rest of drive will succeed if volunteers complete pledges and contacts. Campaign supports next season costs including music guests hall rental instrument maintenance.
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Symphony Fund Appeal
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Robert H. Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Taylor
Girl Plunges to Death After Quarrel with Dad
New York AP report: a 15-year-old girl, Daisy Homs, died after a quarrel with her father about her hours. Police said they were summoned Friday night, left, and were called back two hours later to find she had jumped from the apartment window.
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Dad New York
Daisy Homs
Durban City Electric Shock Plays Luck With Thief
In Durban East Harlem a thief barely escaped with his life after contact with a 4,000 volt electrical line. A city electrical engineer described the scene as the thief being lucky to survive the shock and flee the scene.
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Durban East Harlem
City
Durban
INS
Carrie Durban
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