From A Strange Shooting Two Investigations
St Louis amid bribe allegations in a masssage parlor case. Police officers named by a former employee as recipients of monthly payoffs are under investigation along with a grand jury inquiry. The affair follows a fatal shooting linked to a day’s crime surge and a state move to reform police oversight.
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ST. Louis
Jeremiah
Dowd
O'Connell
Louis
Missouri House of Representatives
June Alma Lutz
Pauline Croin
Miss Cloin
West Point reunion music chairs graduates at banquet
A presidential version of musical chairs entertained West Point graduates of the class of 1915 during a private banquet at Point Peekskill New York. The reunion was spread out and attended as a private affair.
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Tke
Peekskill
N. Y
West Point
Canada Plans First Atomic Power Plant
Ottawa reports internal government plans to fund seven to eight million dollars toward Canada’s first atomic power plant. The experimental facility, estimated at thirteen to fifteen million, would be built beside the Ontario Hydro plant at Des Joachims on the Ottawa River, with construction details partially leaked.
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Ottawa
Howe
Canada
Ontario Hydroelectric Power Commission
Des Joachims
Ottawa River
Panel Okays $1 Pay Floor
The Senate Labor Committee approved a $1.00 an hour national minimum wage by voice vote, boosting from 75 cents. The move followed votes opposing Eisenhower’s 90 cent proposal and rejecting CIO AFL 1.25. Hearings featured CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL President George Meany decrying 90 cents as inadequate. the U.S. Chamber opposed any raise. About two million workers, many in the South, would gain pay raises.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Eisenhower
CIO
AFL
Hill
D-Ala
Senate
House Labor Committee
Walter Reuther
George Meany
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
South
Putnam County DPA District Conference Planned at Winfield
The Putnam County Department of Public Assistance will host the district staff meeting in Winfield on Thursday June 16. The district includes Cabell Lincoln Mason Putnam and Wayne Counties with a 10 15 a m panel discussion in the Circuit Court room and an afternoon session at the Club House. Participants include Velmer Knapp County Agricultural Agent JW Jahmston Public Health Nurse Mrs Guy Pickens and Merle Faulkner. Lunch by Kanawha Valley Farm Women’s Club. A second note highlights alumni banquet June 11 at Winfield High School and a Lions Club auction at the Volunteer Fire Department June 11 to raise funds for civic improvements.
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Winfield
Putnam County Department of Public Assistance
Cabell
Lincoln
Mason
Putnam
Wayne Counties
Katherine Ranson
Circuit Court Room
Gladys Lapole
Velmer Knapp
JW. P. Jahmston
Guy Pickens
Merle Faulkner
Farmer's Home Administration
Kanawha Valley Farm Women's Club
Ing
Lapole
Janet Beard
Win ‘Field High School
Karleen Rifffle
Target of CIO In GAW Fight In Midwest Farm Industry
The CIO United Auto Workers said it will seek a guaranteed annual wage for about 60,000 members in Illinois and Indiana amid Ford era gains. Negotiations open in Moline with Deere & Co., whose contract expires August 1, affecting Deere plant workers. A separate contract for International Harvester plants covering 50,000 workers expires August 23.
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Chicago
CIO J
United Auto Workers
Ilinois
Indiana
Ford
Pat Greathouse
UAW
Moline
Deere & Co
Greathouse
International Harvester Co
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TisCinteon
Secret Service
Old Stone Inn
Eisenshower
Ice
Vely
Good Housekeeping
Lin Laboratory and Kennel
Sage
ATRL
Good Housekeeping Guaranty
Putnam County News
DPA
Caroline H. Frazier West
Buffalo
The
Lion's Club
John Stiles
Parkersburg
Arnold R. Hodges
Sea ‘Son
Winfield’ Athletic Field
Paul Jefferson
Charleston Social Security
Presbyterian Church
Tom Richards
Winfield Road
John Wright
Clifton Moses
Forrest Reed
A. M. Brown
Tallahassee, Fla
University of Florida
Ben
Paradise Church of God Mission
Jim Davis
Moses Quartette
Ohio
Lone Oak Church
Jeanor
Leslie Sams
Joe Notch
Ellen J Louise
J. G
Robert Bottimore
New London
Robert Holloway
Mary Ann
Ted
Eleanor Farm Women's Club
Leslie Frazier
Kent Lewis
P. m
J. E. Casebolt
L. R. Birkett
Bettie Cochran
Walter Pittman
Columbus
Bree) Fellure
Mear
Lester Fellure
Brice Chapman
Jimmie Wolfe
Emma Lee Hammond
PTA
Sam Workman
Iva Matthews
Terrace Park
Otis Cottrell
Gene Barnett
Donald King
Mary Jane Barnett
Miss Barnett
Charley Barnett
Pvt
Oren R. Booth Jr
0. R. Booth
U. S. Army
Ft. Knox
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Bob Hess, Inc
Atlantic Greyhound
Jmeeting
Field Enterprises
Farm Bureau Insurance Co
Charleston Board of Realtors
Koon
Children's Home Society
West Virginia Grand Cross of Color
Charleston Retail
Credit Assn
Raffier Kroger Co
Charleston Assa
of Credit Men
Davy Crockett
Hudson
Walt Disney
Lorenti Mater Sales Ahowrsam
Washington St
East
Rambler
Charleston
Carl
Lucenti Motor Sales
Washington Street
Hudson Hornet
Hollywood
W. Va
Hudson Hornets
WASPS
Ramblers
American Motors
Disneyland
California
Chesapeake and Ohio
C&o
Detroit
Pullman
AAA
Depot Ticket Office
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Seagram
U.S.A
Seagram Distillers Company
New York City
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