35 Hour Week Drive Takes Stand From AFL-CIO Leader
Atlantic City AP Arthur Goldberg and George Meany advocate a nationwide 35 hour work week with same pay. Meany says the idea will be considered by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in August and questions current management faith in profits to solve unemployment. He criticizes NAM and recalls past labor progressive gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N.J
Arthur Gold
George Meany
Berg
Afl-Cio
Meany
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Kennedy
Dubinsky
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
House Blast Fatal to 8 in Quebec Town
An explosion in ASBESTOS Quebec demolished a two story house at 8:35 p m Friday injuring and killing eight as firemen recovered victims. Police suspect liquid heating gas caused the blast which scattered debris damaged two other homes and sent children fleeing with injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrien Larrivee
Montreal
Reynald Lambert
Weather forecast and heat wave hit Kansas with storms
Kansas posted its first 100 degree reading of the year with Wichita topping the state. Thursday into Friday brought scattered thunderstorms in northern and central areas, with at least two tornadoes reported near Webster Dam and southwest of Topeka, and an unconfirmed sighting near Leonardsville.
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Topeka
Kansas
Webster Dam
Leonardsville
Wichita
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Pittsburg
Kansas City
Bike Rider Injured In Collision In Neosho
Eddie Abbuehl six year old son of Dr and Mrs Don Abbuehl of 221 E 9th was mildly hurt in a bicycle car crash yesterday about 455 pm He had a bump on the head and minor scrapes and bruises and was treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital before being released Police said he rode from an alley in East 8th into the path of a westbound car driven by Robert J Trabue The boy was reported in satisfactory condition Two other minor accidents were noted One car owned by Deanna Nelson was hit by Keith Cochran at 1:20 pm near 5th and Highland slightly damaging the Nelson car A fender on Agnes Zimmerman s car was scraped while parked on Main at 645 pm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Abbuehl
Don R. Abbuehl
Neosho Memorial Hospital
East 8Th
Robert J. Trabue
S. Central
Trabue
Bay
Keith Cochran
Deanna Nelson
W. 2Nd
5Th
Highland
Nelson
Agnes Zimmerman
W. Main
Main
Self Discipline Urged By Casbah's Moslems
In Algiers Casbah residents urge restraint amid European attacks as FLN leaders push for calm. Moslem officials report 20 wounded daily, while the Casbah’s population swells from 80,000 to over 150,000. Foreign journalists guided to authorities, and posters call for action against terrorism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casbah
Algiers
el Kettar
Greater Casbah
Modern Living in Neosho Census Excerpt Highlights Home Features
The 1960 Neosho County census reports 7,102 housing units with 4,738 owner occupied and 1,699 rented. Televisions, radios, and telephones are common with 5,469, 5,851, and 5,394 respectively. Median value and rent are listed at 6300 dollars and 56 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neosho County
Department of Commerce
Decent Burial For Old Friend In Scotland
James Cormack watched his custom-built Cadillac plunge into the North Sea saying it received a decent burial for an old friend after vandals set a drilling rig’s elevators on fire. Three Chanute youths faced charges in the theft and were bound over to district court. The car had more than 200000 miles and Cormack kept it for decades.
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Wick
Scotland
James Cormack
North Sea
Chanute
Dallas
Cormack
Bob Rice
Kenneth
Detroit
Frank McKenzie
Mises Chanute
Traffic Fatalities Report From Topeka Brief
Kansas traffic tally shows 3 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am Saturday, May records indicate 44 deaths for 1962, compared with 204 in the same period in 1961.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Marine flier dies in jet crash near Gila Bend
Phoenix AP reports Captain Robert S. Moore a 27 year old Marine pilot from Enid Oklahoma was killed when his jet fighter crashed Friday near Gila Bend Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix, Ariz
Robert S. Moore
Enid
Okla
Gila Bend
Ariz
Explosion On Plane Crashes Continental Jet Killing 45
Civil Aeronautics Board investigators reported an explosive force of unknown origin inside a Continental Airlines jetliner caused the fatal crash that killed 45 people Tuesday night near Centerville Iowa.
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Centeville
Iowa
Civil Aeronautics Board
Continental Airlines
Somebody's Goof Silences Carpenter
Cape Canaveral reports a rescue plane dropped a box over the sea 130 miles northeast of Puerto Rico after Malcolm Scott Carpenter splashed down in Aurora 7 The box supposedly held a compact radio transmitting unit but Carpenter found only a battery.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Puerto Rico
Carpenter
Stolen cash tied to break-in at Fence Knapp station
About $55 in currency disappeared from a can under a work bench at Fence Knapp filling station 820 W. Police say entry was gained by prying a west window and breaking glass, possibly accidentally. Three more recent theft reports followed, with other incidents including a cabin break-in, gasoline siphoning, and missing prescription sunglasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fence Knapp
W. Main
Melvin Allen
Poplar Heights
Neosho
Ted Gorrell
W. 4Th
Gorrell
Lester Lawrence
S. Plummer
We Will Try Again Says Two Refugees At Hong Kong Border
Two Canton youths 22 and 23 fled Red China, trudging 93 miles to reach the Hong Kong border. They were captured minutes after crossing and said they would try again, citing famine rumors and low rice rations. Communist guards urged return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fan Ling
Hong Kong Territory
Canton
Red China
Hong Kong
Senate Approves Kennedy Farm Bill With Production Cuts
The Senate passed the Kennedy farm bill 42 to 38 after debate, moving to the House. It would raise price supports while cutting production quotas for wheat corn grain sorghum and barley, with penalties for excess sales and a 25 acre exemption for farmers with own livestock. A $10 million pilot program funds recreation facilities on land removed from crop production. Oats and rye were excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Shelters Discussed For Civil Defense Meeting
A tri state civil defense meeting in Pittsburg covered leasing emergency use buildings as fallout shelters and government ration stock. Ralph Toland noted talks on expanding rations to include dry milk for children, with Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma communities represented. Toland was joined by Fire Chief C W Brennan and Police Chief Lige Matlock.
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Civil Defense
Pittsburg
Ralph Toland
Chanute Civil Defense
Toland
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
C. W. Brennan
Lige Matlock
Humboldt Appraisers Value Six Lots for New School Site
Appraisers on May 15 valued six properties at 69 975 for the site of a proposed elementary school. Earlier estimates of 35 000 were used in comparisons but involved only partial data. Board of education decisions on acceptance appeals or court review remain pending. Individual property values include Johnsons vacant lots 2 950 and home site 10 520. Lewises property 13 600. Googins property 15 720. Armel property 15 605. Larson property 11 530.
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Humboldt
Dudley Henderson
John Powell
Bunt Warren
Iola
Board of Education
W. S. Scott
Scott
Harry Johnson
Roy Lewis
A. L. Googins
Nat Armel
Lawrence Larson
Experts Debate Carpenter's Condition on Final Orbit
After the Aurora 7 landing 250 miles off target experts weighed if Malcolm Carpenter was tired confused or reflective during the last pass. Debriefs withJohn Glenn Walter Schirra and others follow as Carpenter recovers at Grand Turk and prepares homecomings in Boulder Colorado and Cape Canaveral.
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Grand Turk
B.W
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Carpenter
Cape Canaveral
Atlantic
Kauai
Hawaii
Earth
George Ruff
University of Pennsylvania
Ruff
Stanley T. White
Grand Tu
Glenn
America
Walter C. Williams
Project Mercury
John A. Powers
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Arthur Goldberg
Dave Dubinsky
ILGWU
Bill Strout
Dick Anders
Brenda Carter
Kathleen Lassman
Tom Pate
Alvin Seefeldt
Tribune
Larry Mathews
Bulletin
South China
Kwantung Province
Hong
Kong
Boulder
Colo
Woomera
Australia
Ray E. McClure
Mt. Sterling
Intrepid
J. G. William Shufelt
Catskill
N.Y
Richard A. Rink
Howard A. Minners
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