Global Briefs Highlight strikes mine disaster and clashes
SINGAPORE workers at two plants including Firestone Rubber Co. walk out for higher pay and better conditions. NEUNKIRCHEN miners die and 16 remain trapped after a cave in at Heinitz colliery with eight freed. In Malaya guerrillas blow up an armored train injuring five policemen. In Formosa minor shelling occurs with no casualties. In London Krishna Menon meets Eden on Formosa settlement before a trip to North America for talks with Canadian and U S leaders.
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Firestone Rubber Co
Hume _ Industries
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Saarland
Heinitz
Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Johore
London
V. K. Krishna Menon
Eden
Formosa
Public Housing Move Clears Big Hurdle
Washington scene shows a Democratic push advancing public housing construction at nearly four times the pace of the president. The measure signals a major shift in housing policy and could reshape urban development nationwide.
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Washington
Eisenhower backs housing aid as Senate approves four year plan
A Senate vote authorized 135 000 low rent public housing units annually for four years as part of an omnibus bill. Eisenhower sought 35 000 units per year for two years, matching the current year's figure. The text notes upcoming talks on egg law, candling and grading of eggs, a July 1 effective date, and a campus banquet with a broiler barbecue for Friday.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Kansas
Quality Egg Conference Planned at Kansas State College
The first annual Kan sas Quality Egg Conference will be held at Kansas State College Thursday and Friday. Mahlon Mor ley, county agricultural agent, announced today. Nationally recognized authorities in quality egg production and marketing are among the speakers.
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Erie
Kansas State College
Mahlon Morley
Fourth Grade Supervisor Named for Horace Mann School
Erie area news lists Joy R Sample named fourth grade supervisor at Horace Mann Pittsburg State Teachers College. note about prior Coffeyville ties and spouse teaching there. Cites family updates, travel, and local activities including relief for Mercy Hospital patient Buford Jacobs and Rainbow for Girls plans.
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Joy R. Sample
Horace Mann
Pittsburgh State Teachers College
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Joe
Cleo Wheeles
Charles Gambrill
Sam Maphies
Ozarks
Thornburg district expands as Fairview joins
Thornburg Fairview school district has joined Thornburg due to insufficient enrollment. Victor Coats elected director of the board. Mrs. Matt Wiltse improved after a stroke. Charles Wiltse and family visited from Great Bend. Florence Freidline and Sam Sturdevant called on each other recently. The High Prairie 4-H club toured judging Holstein cattle at Gordon Wiltse and pigs at A. D. Wiltse. Community members visited Ladd and Bradford families. Funeral of Don VanVickle attended by many. Lee Bradford helped move lambs to Parsons Market for Wayne Trichler. Dennis Frye visited Ronald Wiltse.
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Thornburg
Fairview
Victor Coats
Matt Wiltse
Charles Wiltse
Great Bend
Florence Freidline
Sam Sturdevant
Alex Liby
Wichita
L. R. Kuntz
High Prairie Pioneers 4-H Club
Gordon Wiltse
A. D. Wiltse
Walter Bradford
Floyd Ladd
Humboldt
Aldin Price
Leo Huffman
Ralph Black
Cigarette Sales Rise in 1954 Amid Shifts in King Size Use
A Chanute Tribune report notes a 3.7 percent rise in U S cigarette sales from 1953 to 1954 and a 3 percent drop in king size cigarettes from 1952 to 1953, a trend attributed in part to remarks by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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United States
United Nations Food and Tbut
in-Agriculture Organization
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