Senate Acts For Travel Tax Repeal
The Senate approved a bill to repeal the transportation tax while keeping other excises and the 52 percent corporate tax. The measure, already passed by the House, could still be altered in conference to restore or remove the freight and passenger tax repeals. Final passage was by voice vote amid broader anti-recession tax-cut stance.
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Washington
Senate
House
Sen. Smathers
D-Fla
Douglas
Sitdown Strike at Leavenworth Inmates Refuse Meals
Federal penitentiary inmates at Leavenworth staged a sitdown strike refusing to eat with no violence. Warden Looney called it a concerted effort by a few to cause trouble. The strike began Thursday night with 300 of 2200 inmates in the dining room and 100 at breakfast Friday.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Federal Penitentiary
C. H. Looney
Looney
Fall Pig Crop Boost Predicted By Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1956 fall pig crop at 41,500,000, up 14 percent from 1957, with the 1958 spring crop at 52,745,000, a 2 percent rise. The surprise gain could lift hog prices this fall but may signal a sharp price drop next spring.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Sad Farewell Party Ends in New York Tragedy
Annie Visconti 64, retiring after 28 years with a cable and radio firm, dies of a heart attack while preparing for a farewell dinner planned by 13 coworkers in Greenwich Village. The party guests found her late, and the group left with gifts after the grim discovery.
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New York
Annie Visconti
Greenwich Village
Mrs.Visconti
Mrs. Visconti
Test Talk Explores Multinational Atomic Test Talks
The U S notified Russia that a Canadian scientist along with American British and French experts would join Soviet bloc negotiators on policing an atomic test suspension. Western participants include four countries while the bloc contemplates additional researchers from possibly China to seek parity in talks.
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Washington
U. I
Russia
U. S
China
Device Converts Heat to Electricity at GE Lab
A thermionic converter, about the size of a quarter, uses metal and ceramic disks around a vacuum to generate electricity when heated by a blow torch flame. GE researchers say it could convert nuclear heat to power for aircraft missiles and satellites, with Dr. James E. Beggs credited as inventor.
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Ithaca
N. Y
General Electric Research Laboratory
Schenectady
James E. Beggs
Sugar Sabotage Halts Chrysler Crane Work
In Detroit Chrysler Corporation reports sabotage by unknown employees placing sugar in gasoline tanks of two cranes. The Seger shipping department at the go truck plant suspended operations, forcing 85 workers to take a day off for repairs.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Seger Shipping Department
Swope dies at 76 former editor and crusading journalist
Herbert Bayard Swope 76 longtime New York World editor and Pulitzer winner died Friday after pneumonia post surgery. He led World campaigns against the Ku Klux Klan and peonage, earned a 1923 Pulitzer for foreign correspondence, chaired the New York State Racing Commission, and authored a storied journalism career alongside family survivors.
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New York
Herbert Bayard Swope
Sportsman
New York State Racing Commission
Gerard
General Electric
Swope
Herbert, Jr
Jane Brandt
Amana Refrigeration Implements Nine Hour Day
Amana Refrigeration, Inc. of Amana Iowa has shifted to a nine hour workday due to rising demand for air conditioners and freezers. Executive vice president George C Foerstner cites a 48 percent rise in air conditioning unit demand and a 10 percent rise for freezers over 1957, viewing this as a general economic upturn signal.
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Chicago
Amana Refrigeration, Inc
Amana
Iowa
George C. Foerstner
Desegregation Plan Approved For Nashville Schools
U S District Judge William F E Miller approved a gradual desegregation plan for Nashville city schools on a grade by grade timetable. The plan starts with second grade next fall and progresses yearly through the 12th grade, following the first grade desegregation last fall amid sporadic violence. Eleven Negro pupils remained enrolled in five previously all white schools.
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Nashville, Tenn
U. S. Dist
William FE. Miller
Nashville
Miller
Canada approves pact creating North American air defense
Ottawa reports Canada's parliament on Thursday endorsed the air defense agreement with the United States. The plan sets up a unified North American air command to protect against aerial attack.
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Ottawa
Canada
U. S
North America
Amnesia Victim 27 Years Briefly Recognizes Family
Augustine N. Hulse, long known as Essig, briefly recognized his son Earl and daughter Lucy after 27 years apart. Doctors caution that he may not sustain recognition as memories flicker in and out following a 1931 fall and years of amnesia.
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Davenport
UPI
Augustine N. Hulse
Earl
Lucy
Martin Anderson
Albion
Neb
Scott County
Jolancy Essig
Edward Ruefer
Buffalo
Hulse
Essig
Scott County Department of Social Welfare
Ruefer
Forest Park Hospital
Nova Scotia
C. L. Thomson
Nebraska
Augustine Hulse
Federal Pay Raise Signed for White Collar Workers
President Eisenhower signed a bill giving about one million federal white collar workers a 10 percent pay raise retroactive to January. The move will add roughly 542 million dollars to the annual federal payroll, with back pay to be distributed starting next month. postal workers already received the raise.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U.S
Soviet to Redo Collective Farm Pricing System
Soviet officials announced a shift from fixed low-price deliveries to a unified pricing scheme for all collective farm output. The plan intends to inject competition for efficiency and lower costs. No leadership shakeup was noted, reinforcing Khrushchev’s continued control as he recommended the change.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Ahae
Central Committee
Khrushchev
Rare 1894 San Francisco Dime Fetches 3200 at Auction
An anonymous collector won the bid at a New York coin company auction Thursday night for a rare 1894 dime minted in San Francisco. Only 24 were minted. six were known to collectors, seventeen are missing.
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New York
San Francisco
Methodists Pick Pastors for 24 E. Iowa Churches
Eastern Iowa Methodist assignments announced after the North Iowa Conference session in Cedar Rapids. New budgets boost funding for St. Luke’s hospital and Cornell College. Listings include Albion, Beaman, Elberon Chelsea Milo Smith Gilman Norman Kauble Laurel Darwin Pierce Melbourne L J Faris New Hartford David Powell Anamosa Bertram Iowa City Morley Siliman Mr Vernon Oswald Sabula Miller Burr Oak Delhi Delaware Delaware Giard F ambersburg Hawkeye Alpha G A Johnson Hazleton Robert Swanson McGregor Marquette James Hearne New Albin Dorchester Clifford Isaacson Volga Christensen Winthrop Masonville Kendall Jesup Raymond Streyffeler.
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Iowa
North Iowa Methodist Conference
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cornell Colleges
Mt. Vernon
Albion
B. A. Wendlandt
Beaman
Wayne Wasta
Elberon - Chelsea
Milo Smith
Gilman
Norman Kauble
Laurel
Darwin Pierce
Melbourne
L. J. Faris
New Hartford
David Powell
Palo
Davenport
Anamosa
J. Ellis Webb
Bertram
Tom W Allen
Iowa City
Robert Engel
Morley
Charles B. Silliman
Mr. Vernon
R. G. Oswald
Sabula
Richard E. Miller
Dubuque
Burr Oak
Wayne Gjerde
Delhi - Delaware
Virgil Howard
Giard - Farmersburg
H. D. Bonath
Hawkeye Alpha
G. A. Johnson
Hazleton- Stanley
Robert Swanson
McGregor-Marquette
James
Isolation Tests Show Moon Flights Will Be No Picnic
Boston AP report on Dr. Woodburn Heron’s experiments with 60 college men in isolation as in spaceflight. Subjects lay in cubicles with restricted touch perception, constant noise, and limited vision. Results showed declines in thinking, eye fatigue, and vivid hallucinatory activity after and during isolation.
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Boston
Woodburn Heron Ofahe
McGill University
Harvard Medical School
Harvard
Earth Study Reveals Vast Cold and Warmth Extremes
The International Geophysical Year report notes 11 months of data from 10,000 scientists in 66 nations. Findings include rising CO2 warming potential, Antarctic lakes under ice, a 1000 mile by 200 mile submerged mountain range, dual ocean currents near Panama, and a record cold of minus 109F in a Russian station near Australia.
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Washington
Earth
National Science Foundation
House Appropriations
U.S
Globe
Antarctic
International Geophysical Year
Southeast
Pacific
Panama
Asia
South Pole
Australia
Caudle and Connelly Granted Stay on Terms of New Trial
Chief Judge Archibald Gardner signed a stay delaying the 2 year sentences of Mathew Connelly and T Lamar Caudle as they seek a new trial based on purported new evidence. The stay lasts until a ruling on the request for a fresh trial. Connelly, once Truman's appointments secretary, and Caudle, former head of the justice department tax division, were to report in St Louis to begin their terms for conspiring to defraud the government in an income tax case.
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St. Louis
Connelly
Truman
Caudle
Justice Department
Operation Rated Death to Corns
Dr. Lester Walsh of Midland Texas announces a new toe surgery to end corns by removing a small bone piece. The 15 minute operation relieves pressure, eliminates current and future corns, with 24 to 48 hours of bed rest and permanent results within two weeks.
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Dallas
Lester Walsh
Midland
Texas
Walsh
Adams urged to resign as Eisenhower aide amid probe
Washington AP reports Sen. Watkins urged Sherman Adams to resign and to push the President to accept his resignation. House investigators said Bernard Goldfine will testify July 1. Pentagon disclosed Goldfine textile contracts totaling over 20 million dollars since 1953 through centralized procurement.
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Sherman Adams
Meade Alcorn
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Republican National
Ray Bliss
Ohio
G.O.P
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Bernard Goldfine
Goldfine
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Sen
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Utah
Eisenhower
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Mich
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