Petition Campaign Fights State Utility Rate Hikes
Consumers Inc a new nonprofit plans plant worker petitions to oppose gas and telephone rate increases and will protest at Public Service Commission hearings. The group led by Allen E Brown seeks cost breakdowns and to block passing expansion costs to customers. It urges legal representation for counties schools and municipalities at PSC hearings.
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Consumers Inc
Allen E .Brown
Charleston
Public Service Commission
PSC
Amere ‘Gas Co
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Godfrey L. Cabot Inc
United Fuel Gas Co
Harold A. Bangert Jr
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Brown
Charleton
Carl A. Carey
D-Kan
Petitio
White Clergy In South Aid Negro Cause
Seventy-four Atlanta Protestant clergymen issued a six point, interdenominational declaration urging obedience to law preservation of public schools protection of free speech and unity between white and Negro leaders They rejected the idea that school integration equals racial amalgamation and affirmed all Americans right to full citizenship while opposing intermarriage claims The signers include leaders from Baptist Methodist Presbyterian Episcopal Lutheran Congregational and Christian churches
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Atlanta
Supreme Court
South
Atlanta Christian Council
British see Zhukov dismissal likely to toughen Soviet policy
British officials expect the dismissal of Marshal Georgi Zhukov to lead to a tougher Soviet foreign policy, though an immediate hardening is not anticipated. The assessment was conveyed in London amid ongoing Cold War tensions and shifts in top military leadership.
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London
Georgi Zhukov
Pact Okayed For Missile Launch Site
NEW YORK, Nov. 27 The United States moves toward a Snark intercontinental missile launch site. The Air Force SAC awarded Grad Urbahn Seelye a contract to plan multi million dollar facilities on an undisclosed East Coast site. The Snark is a jet powered missile with a booster rocket, designed to deliver an atomic or thermonuclear warhead over thousands of miles.
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New York
United States
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Grad, Urbahn & Seelye
Railroads Mull Merger Amid Economic Pressure
The Pennsylvania and New York Central study a possible merger as earnings fall and debt costs rise amid competition from air barge and autos. Independent audits, stockholder and ICC approvals, antitrust concerns, and labor opposition loom large in a plan that faces a murky path ahead.
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NEW York
Navy
United States
Pennsylvania
New York Central
The
Central
Interstate Commerce Commission
Justice Department
H. E. Gilbert
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Pennsylvanias
Gift Gifts from foreign powers to be distributed
The State Department lifts secrecy on its gifts from foreign powers stored in a warehouse. Congress will be asked to authorize distribution to retired personnel. Newsmen will be allowed to inspect the warehouse housing thousands of decorations and medals and other items dating back 40 to 50 years.
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Washington
INS
State Department
Congress
Department
U.S
Lincoln White
Charles Spraks
Eisenhower
Harry. Truman
State’ Department
Capitol
Pole to Pole Congressional Jaunt Covers 38000 Miles
Washington November 2 The House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee will embark on a month long pole to pole expedition beginning in New York and Copenhagen then over the North Pole with a route through Anchorage Tokyo Manila Sydney New Zealand Honolulu and back. The trip aims to study activities of the International Geophysical Year focusing on the Antarctic project and aviation progress.
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South Pole
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Interstate’ and Foreign Commerce Committee
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North Pole
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Copenhagen
Anchorage
Alaska
Tokyo
Manila
Sydney
New Zealand
Honolulu
Harris
International Geophysical Year
Textile Union Chief Resigns
Washington November 2. Anthony Valente resigned as president of the United Textile Workers after the AFL CIO demanded a housecleaning due to alleged corruption. The 22 member executive board accepted the resignation without severance pay, while Auditor Lloyd Mienert had already quit. The AFL CIO ultimatum requires ouster of implicated officials and a convention to elect new officers and continue the clean up.
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INS
Anthony Valente
United Textile Workers
Afl-Cio
Valente
Lloyd Mienert
AFL Textile Workers
Zhukov Admitted Sins. Ousted From Soviet Power
Moscow dispatch reports Marshal Georgi Zhukov, once the war hero and top Soviet commander, accused of creating a cult of personality and dismissed from the Central Committee Presidium. Pravda claims he admitted errors and voted for his own expulsion. The communique indicates potential purge of other marshals and a shift of power away from Zhukov, with his whereabouts presently undisclosed.
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Georgia Zhukov
Red Army
Soviet Union
Communist Party Presidium
Zhukov
Stalin
Pravda
Communist Party
Party
Ivan
Konev
Central Committee
Thukov
All Powerfu
Marshal Zhukov
Lenin
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Tucker Citizen Bearly Wounded on Hunting Trip
Citizen Joseph A. McCown of Falling Waters Tucker County was mistaken for a bear during a hunt at Back Bone Mountain. He was shot in the left arm and admitted to Charleston Memorial Hospital with no immediate danger to the limb. The shooter’s identity was not disclosed.
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Falling Waters
Tucker County
McCown
Backbone Mountain
Charleston Memorial Hospital
McCoy
Climax of Drinking Bout Ends in Gunfire
Two Triangle District men were hospitalized after a daytime shooting that followed an afternoon drinking bout. Edward King, 25, of 816 Young St, was admitted to Charleston General with a wounded hand and forearm, and Sam Fincher, 37, of the same address, suffered a gunshot wound to his right thigh. Detectives R L Smith and J A Taylor said they did not know the type of guns used and that weapons had been removed before arrival. Both victims were listed in satisfactory condition. Publicity note comments on freedom of the press versus a press agent.
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King Saud
Saudi Arabia
White
Xhukov
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Albania
Rodian Makovsky
Triangle District
Edward ‘King
Young St
Charleston General’ Hospital
Sam Fincher
Smith
Zhukov Fall Held Sign Of Red Rift
United States officials described Zhukov’s ouster as evidence of strains within the Soviet bloc. The State Department labeled Zhukov a distinguished military leader and questioned the party line that blamed him for unpopular foreign policy. Washington noted Khrushchev’s apparent willingness to send Zhukov to Washington on a high trust mission.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Georgi Zhukov
State Department
Zhukov
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
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