Labor Dept Ruling Lets Employers Pay Layoff Funds
The Labor Department ruled that employer contributions toward privately negotiated layoff pay plans are not wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The decision clears a hurdle for conditional layoff pay plans in auto and can manufacturing. Plans typically include a five cent per hour employer contribution to a layoff fund used to supplement unemployment benefits. The ruling ensures the five cent contribution remains non wage even on overtime.
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Washington
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Ford Motor Company
Coast fires burn millions in timber lands stretch
California firefighters suffered ten burns and a missing worker as hundreds of thousands of acres burned across the Pacific coast. New fires erupted in northern California and Oregon while crews fought to control a 50,000 plus acre blaze near Santa Barbara. Yreka firefight halted a 65,000 acre front, with other Klammath fires pushing total burned area beyond 100,000 acres and causing over three million and a half dollars in damage. The missing worker was part of a four man crew near Round Butte Oregon.
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San Francisco
California
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Round Butte
David Robb
Santa Barbara
Calif
Yreka
Klamath National Forest
Klamath
Kidder Creek
Greenview
William Fisher
U. S. Forest Service
Washington
Utah
Sixth Army
Klamath Forest
Humboldt County
F Avenue Access May Be Limited In Cedar Rapids
City officials discuss potential state plan to restrict access to new highway 74 in northwest Cedar Rapids. A plan to rescind prior approvals and route through planning channels was tabled for study. State highway commission may implement controlled access tying into Avenue NW between Thirteenth Street and Edgewood Road, limiting new street entry along the highway right of way.
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Cedar Rapids
City Plan Commission
Planning Board
State Highway Commission
Avenue NW
Thirteenth Street
Edgewood Road
Hazel Johnson
Stewart
Holmes
Johnson
Highway Commission
Plan Commission
Industrialization Is the Real Tax Solution for Iowa
Iowa tax study testimony from the Iowa Manufacturers Association urges fiscal reform to spur industry and shift population and income toward manufacturing. It warns a farm‑based economy cannot finance growing government costs and outlines two policy paths: expand Iowa jobs or risk emigration. The LAB notes agricultural transformation boosts living standards but limits future rural employment.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Manufacturers Association
IMA
Towa
Adenauer in Moscow for negotiations
West German Chancellor Adenauer arrived in Moscow for talks with Kremlin leaders that could shift East West relations. Premier Bulganin greeted him while Khrushchev was absent. Molotov and Pervuhkin joined other Soviet officials at the airstrip as East and West diplomats assembled.
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Moscow
Adenauer
Kremlin
Bulganin
Nikita
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Molotov
Pervuhkin
Steelworkers Sued Over Valves Plant Strike
Rockwell Manufacturing filed a 1.1 million dollar damage suit against the CIO United Steelworkers. The claim cites losses since a union local struck on August 1 at the Nordstrom valve division in Oakland California.
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Pittsburgh
Rockwell Manufacturing Company
CIO
United Steelworkers
Nordstrom
Oakland
Calif
Wacs Stop German Sneak Thief with Bats at Dorm
Four WACs armed with baseball bats stationed in shifts nabbed a German intruder in a dormitory. He emerged from the shadows at 4 a.m. as two sentries alerted the pair on duty. The man fled after taking multiple blows, leaving him with a lacerated scalp, and the dormitory break-in thwarted.
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Frankfurt
WAC
Wacs
Cedar Rapids Voters Face Two Yes No School Finance Questions
Cedar Rapids voters may decide two ballot questions on Friday regarding funding for new high schools. Question No 1 seeks to transfer 950000 from the general fund to the schoolhouse fund to build and furnish two new high schools on the east and west sides, with bids on file. Question No 2 asks to extend a 2 mill levy for five more years to cover grounds construction and other school house costs, enabling the planned auditoriums and theaters.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Board of Directors
Independent School District of
Cedar Rapids Marion Community Drive Sets 300686 Goal
The 1956 budget goal of 300686 was approved by a broad coalition at the Montrose hotel. The 27 member budget committee, led by M. E. Felden, studied budgets of 13 agencies and noted a 110 percent rise from last year's 271085.69. Campaign chair Norman Lipsky warned that failing to reach the goal would curtail health, welfare and recreation services in Cedar Rapids and Marion.
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V Rapids Neon
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Montrose Hotel
M. E. Felden
Public Welfare Bureau
Norman Lipsky
Cedars
Rapids and
Boy Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Marian
Feiden
Mation
Red Feather
Lipsky
Sunshine Mission
Hearing Society
Linn County Mental Health Center
Puplie Health Nursing Association
Camp Fire i Girls
Campership Fund
Community House
YMCA
Ellis Community Center Ymca
Marion Branch Ymca
YWCA
Jobs Lost by Opponents of Segregation in Selma
SELMA Ala AP Several signers of a petition for racially mixed classrooms have lost jobs in a confrontation over segregation. More than half of the 29 signers have been fired, with others self employed or unemployed. White Citizens Council leaders say about 16 have been dismissed, while organizers promise further investigations and measures to ease pressure.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama
National Association For the Advancement of
Ruby Hurley
Birmingham
Southeastern Naacp
Citizens Councils
Hissische
Greeks Cut Out Role in NATO Maneuvers
Paris by Joseph E. Dsnan reports that Turkey assured NATO all steps to prevent renewed anti Greek violence as Athens reportedly canceled participation in NATO maneuvers amid Turkish Greek tensions over Cyprus. Delegates met behind closed doors while Greek and Turkish officials trade denials and vow to pursue Cyprus self determination.
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Joseph E. Dsnan
Paris
Turkey
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Athens
Greece
NATO
Istanbul
Izmir
Cyprus
Lora Tamay
NATO Council Io
Western Defense Organization
Mehmet Ali Teney
Georges Extinaris
London
Stephen Stephanopoulos
Maknarios
Enosis
union-with-Greece
Ankara
Participa Ltion
Fleftheria
Britain
Middle East
Air Force denies torture in captive prisoner training program
Air Force officials on Thursday rejected claims of torture or tests of endurance on students at a prisoner-of-war survival school. They acknowledged some rough phases inspired by Communist practices for volunteers to study pressure, but asserted limits and denied deliberate mistreatment. Newsweek had reported on the program’s operation and alleged brainwashing methods.
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Washington
Air Force
Thhey
Newsweek
Patterson and Cherry Jump Into City Judge Race
Cedar Rapids reports Judge James E. Patterson 71 and Bailiff Edward D. Cherry 71 filed nominating petitions for the October 25 primary to seek four year terms in municipal court. Patterson would be the first candidate declared for a four year term. Cherry has returned from medical leave to join early field. Incumbent Judge Charles Benesh has not yet announced. Other contenders include Deputy Bailiff Marvin Fatka 42 and J. W. Hammill 68. Nomination petitions require 250 voter signatures by October 9. Patterson, born 1883 in Waynesburg, Pa, grew up in Cedar Rapids and earned an LL.B after attending Minnesota.
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Iat Rapids News
James E. Patterson
Edward D Cherry
Mun Nicpal
Patterson
Charles Benesh
Cherry
Iilness
Marvin Fatka
J. W. Hammill
Wall
Judge Patterson
Waynesburg
Cedar Rapids
State Teachers College
West Point
Plainfield
University of Minnesota
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Michigan
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Joe Holt
Holt
U.S
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State Department
Dawson Grim
Council of Serial
United Fund of Town
W. E. Snuggs
Keith
White Citizens Council
Citizens Council
Ed Cherry
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