Aid Slash Restored By Solons
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a four and a half billion dollar foreign aid program and called for a sweeping review of overseas assistance. The panel backed an Air Force boost of 1.26 billion to strengthen air supremacy, restoring 703 million of the House’s slash. The panel recommended no further deep cuts and sent a $34.939 billion defense bill to debate, while noting total Senate aid around 4.457 billion with carryover and admin requests differing.
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Washington
INS
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U. S
Eisenhower
U.S
House
Senate
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Lyndon Johnson
Senate Symington Subcommittee
Air Power
Russia
Curtis. E. ‘LeMay
Strategic Air Command
Appropriations Group
Carl Hayden
D-Ariz
Armed Services Committee
George
Congress
Nixon Visits Chief Ike Silent On Candidacy
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon met privately at Walter Reed as Ike recovers. Nixon said there was no hint about a 1952 bid and that the president’s future was not discussed. Eisenhower’s vital signs remained normal and he continued to progress.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
Fisentower
Walter’ Reed Army Hospital
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Cannibalism Said To Big Business Takeover Risk
The Democratic Digest charges large scale cannibalism in business, aided by the Eisenhower administration. It accuses big firms of swallowing smaller ones via mergers, warns consent decrees legalize monopolies, and criticizes policy for favoring giants over free enterprise. The piece links antimanagement rhetoric to broader corporate consolidation.
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Washington
Democratic Digest
Eisenhower
Yale
Demic National
Department of Justice
Howard Pyle
February Wont Adv 6-06 Dietioy Ades Oar Ali Othera
Fragmentary OCR reads as a local notice or ad item listing names and numbers. Details are unclear but several proper nouns appear and a date pattern suggests February. The readable portion hints at an agricultural or trade context with names and figures.
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Dietioy
Center Contract Okayed Amid City Financing Debate
A $1,550,000 contract for a new civic center was awarded to Kenhill Construction Co. of Charleston after Moyer Bros. was ruled ineligible on a technicality. Construction starts July 1 with a planned completion by October 1, 1958. The plan was trimmed after the State Tax Commissioner restricted the building fund. No new tax financing was discussed for the upcoming fiscal year. The city clerk did not receive the issue for discussion.
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Kenhill Construeion Co
Charleston
Moyer Bros
Pineau Fails To Sell Plan To Channel Aid
French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau met with Secretary of State Dulles in Washington to pitch routing a portion of U S foreign aid through the United Nations. Dulles showed little enthusiasm, while Pineau said his idea would limit U S aid to about six percent via the UN, with 94 percent still distributed directly by the United States.
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Washington
Christian Pineau
Dulles
United Nations
Pineau
State Department
Russia
West
United States
U. S
Breezy Times in Hurricane
In Hurricane on June 18 a scene of alarm and embarrassment unfolded as water works staff, firemen, and residents searched the reservoir for a presumed drowning victim after a pile of a young woman’s clothing appeared at MHL Creek Lake. The girl later confessed she was intoxicated and swam near the reservoir, prompting the mistaken rescue effort.
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Putnam County
City Water Works
Mhl Creek Lake
Someeone
Hurricane
Womnan
Maine voters pick Willis A. Trafton Jr for governor bid
In Maine primaries Republicans nominate House Speaker Willis A. Trafton Jr to challenge Democratic Gov. Edmund Muskie. Trafton, Yale-educated Auburn lawyer, led a three-way race with 37,518 votes from 600 precincts. Muskie, unopposed, seeks a second term as the first Democrat in two decades.
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Portland
Maine
Willis A. Trafton Jr
Edmund $. Muskie
Trafton
Yale
Auburn
Muskie
Bothy
Chapman
LaFleur
Robert Hale
James C. Oliver
Young
Hale
James. V. Day
William D. “Veazie
Oliver
Hancock
Dr. Scolen
Charles P.nelson
James L. Reid
Frank M.coffin
Sex Slayers Kill 2 Girls Two Jailed
Wire dispatches report two girls murdered and another gravely wounded in western states. In Seattle a 13 year old boy confessed to strangling Kathryn Ruoff daughter of Washington State Sen. Richard Ruoff. In Vernal Utah Norma Rodebeck a high school senior was found murdered after months of missing. A 38 year old man wanted for a rape knife attack in Oregon was captured near Regge Pitt California after a two day search and extradition waiver. In Seattle Ray John Barker confessed to strangling a girl he met near her home.
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Seattle
Kathryn Ruoff
Washington State
Richard Ruoff
Vernal
Utah
Norma Rodebeck
Oregui
California
al Cottar
Luis Palisado’ Garcia
Regge Pitt
Klamath Falls
Garia
Grenade injures 17 in barroom in Munich
In Munich the Seventh Heaven nightclub bar was struck by a hand grenade just before midnight injuring 17 people including eight American soldiers. One more American was held for questioning as German police said two of the nine injured Germans remained in critical condition. The grenade was thrown by a man in an American uniform who had entered after MPs ordered soldiers to disperse for a curfew.
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Munich
Germany
Seventh Heaven
City Scenes and Stolen Cash in Pennsylvanian Block
A scene on a busy city block shows a diapered infant in the street while a West Side service station reports a customer rushing a 50 cent purchase and a missing 50 cents from a $20 bill. Police note no further details.
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West Side
Strike Vote at Westvaco Today in South Charleston
About 1,000 union employees at the Westvaco South Charleston plant vote today at the Charleston Recreation Center on whether to strike or accept a 12 cent-an-hour offer. If accepted, a two-year contract would be signed. if rejected, a strike would begin at 7 a.m. tomorrow with no contract extension.
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South Charleston
Westvaco
Ruffner
Wright
South
Charleston
Food Machinery
Teaumegl
Fire protection tax urged as best revenue source
Council Finance Panel Chief A C Kinniman backs a fire protection tax to fund municipal operations, arguing gross sales tax would be unfair to businesses. President John A. Shanklin supports the idea as a means to finance purchases, with council likely to decide after next month’s budget work.
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Don Searle
Gazette
Tha
A. C. Kinniman
Kinniman
Council
John A. Shanklin
Shanklin
Big Firms Won't Up Pay Offer
NEW YORK June 18 The 170 member policy committee of the United Steel Workers framed a strike ultimatum against U S Steel Republic Bethlehem calling their wage proposals shockingly inadequate The contracts expire June 30 and the committee authorized president David J McDonald to take action The statement denounced industry demands as a condition precedent to settlement and said the union will not yield to this ultimatum saying the industry refuses to bargain in good faith
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New York
United Steel Workers
U. S. Steel
Republic
Bethlehem
David J. McDonald
Roosevelt Hotel
McDonald
United Steel Workers of America
Bor
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Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett Resigns in Israel
In Jerusalem on June 18, Moshe Sharett resigned as foreign minister and was replaced by Golda Meirson, a Milwaukee schoolteacher and Israel’s first ambassador to Moscow. The move, seen as strengthening Ben-Gurion’s stance toward Arab states and Western powers, followed a lengthy cabinet meeting.
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Jerusalem
INS
Moshe Sharett
Golda Meyerson
Milwaukee
Sharett
Ben-Gurion
Mapai
Frg
Myerson
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