Steel Strike Legal Truce Continues
Philadelphia API reports the steel strike enters a new phase as three federal judges weigh the legality of the government back to work injunction. The union argues the injunction is unconstitutional and seeks its cancellation while the government asserts the walkout threatens national safety and economy. Judges delay enforcement to rule early next week. Leaders of United Steelworkers accept the court mandate and meet in Pittsburgh with a 171 member wage policy committee to plan the next step.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
API
U.S. District Court
Pittsburgh
America
John Bikes JR
Herbert FP
Goodrich
William Hastie
Income tax revenue tops last year in city and school district
Income tax receipts up 24,000 in nine months boost city and Corry school district finances. If momentum holds through year end, total disbursements will exceed 1958 by about 32,000. Year to date school district has 49,933 and the city 54,144, with further outlays for fees, forms, refunds, and handling.
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Rugueriryes
Symentaire
Corry
R. Elwin Puller
Swift Strikers Vote On Contract
Chicago AP reports nearly 1,000 Swift & Co meat packers will vote this weekend to ratify an eight‑item tentative contract ending a seven‑week walkout. If approved in 34 cities, workers gain wage increases up to 15 cents an hour over two years and improved fringe benefits. The tentative agreement was announced by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and union officers. Unions involved are United Packinghouse Workers of America with about 13,009 workers and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen with about 5,000 workers.
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Swift
Chicago
Swift and Co
Federal Mediation and Conciiliating Service
United Packinghoue Workers of America
Attis
UF drive reports progress with dividends to quota
The third United Fund breakfast reports show two quota busting divisions and several 100 percent contributors. Mrs. R L Gatlin heads wards with 131 percent of goal. Olin Bracken Jr leads professional division at 102 percent. Total collections reach 342813.23 with a week left. drive runs through month end and next breakfast is Monday.
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United Fund
R. L. Gatlin
Olin Bracken Jr
Citizens Nations Bank
G. ¢. Murphy Co
General Telephone Co
Atticlgls
George Orcutt
Cliff Buesink
Russell Clark
Butters
Sam Baressi
Olin Bracken
W. Rodemeyer
Sparta Firm Expands Output Under New Ownership
Spartansburg leather goods company Osmo Tanning and Manufacturing Co. was bought three months ago by local businessmen. Employment rose from two to 13 and is expected to reach 25 or 30 after a 1,600 square foot plant expansion. New officers are Joseph F. Jandy, president. A C Benninger, vice president. J. E. Daugherty, secretary treasurer. Oscar Most remains technical consultant. Sales have doubled over the last two months as a national sales force is built and products including wash mitts and buffers are marketed with new items like Handee Buffers. A recent order went to a national airline with gold stamped logo.
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Sparta
Spanias
Spartansburg
Osmo Tanning and Manufacturing Co
Joseph F. Jandy
Franklin
Ac, Benninger
Tioneste
J. E. Daugherty
Planning Firm Completes Land Use Survey Here
The engineering firm Michael Baker Inc. has completed the first milestone in an 18 month Corry planning survey. Reed J. Dun Jr. said his team finished the land use survey and will work in Rochester Pa. to finalize the land use map. The map will show each building, its current use, condition, and proposed changes. It will serve as a basic tool for other survey phases and for economic and retail studies, including industrial development planning.
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Michael Baker Inc
Corry
Reed J. Dun Jr
Rochester
Dunn
Boston Banner Dies Former City Censor John Casey
John N. Casey, 97, longtime Boston city censor, died yesterday. Casey, who helped popularize the term binned in Boston, led the city licensing bureau from 1904 to 1882, later resigning from his post.
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Boston
John N. Casey
Matty
Compensation Award Upheld for Corry Woman in Disability Case
Edith R. Miller of 116 East Main Street Corry won a Workmen's Compensation Board ruling affirming a referee's decision for disability payments after a work accident. Elgin Laboratories, Inc appealed, arguing about loss of a substantial part of the left middle finger. The board noted a prior case finding 28 percent of a distal phalanx as a substantial loss and upheld the appeal's dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stale Wormmens Compensation Board
Edith R. Miller
East Main Street
Corry
Elgin Laboratories, Inc
Erie
Bax
Workmen's Compensation Board
Milk Strike Expands to Kroger In Meadville
Milk Producers Local 733 of the Teamsters picketed the Meadville Kroger today over Beverly Farms products sold at the store. Twenty nine union members who supply Greenville Dairy Co. have been on strike against the dairy and Beverly Farms Dairy of Pittsburgh for fourteen days. Two men and two women carried placards urging customers not to buy Greenville Dairy Co. products and to oppose the Beverly Farms arrangement.
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Meadvill
Teamsters Union
Kroger
Beverly Farms
Greenville Dairy Co
Beverly Farms Dairy of
Pittsburgh
Meadville Kroger
Beverly Farine
U S Weighs Timetable For Summit Parley
Washington officials discuss a two heading summit plan with France's de Gaulle and Khrushchev. A Western meeting early December would precede NATO foreign ministers talks on December 15 with Eisenhower De Gaulle MacMillan and Adenauer. An East West Geneva summit could occur in March with Khrushchev Eisenhower MacMillan and De Gaulle.
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Washington
U.S
Charles de Gaulle
Nikita Khrushchev
State Department
NATO
Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Harold MacMillan
Konrad Adenauer
Geneva
Khrushchev
Macmillan
Germany
France
Camp David
Thunderstorm blamed for Capital Airlines crash over Maryland
The Civil Aeronautics Board linked a violent thunderstorm and severe turbulence to the Viscount turboprop crash near Chase Maryland on May 12, killing 31. Weather data failing to reach the crew and a late weather warning are cited, with reconstruction from fragments and eyewitness reports guiding the finding.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Capital Airlines
Maryland
Chase
Baltimore
New York City
Atlanta
CAB
Weather Bureau
New York
Ask Execution In Fatal Beating Trial Heads Toward Verdict
A first degree murder verdict was being sought today in the trial of three Cambria County men accused of fatally beating James Lau, 34, of York. Assistant District Attorney Frante Waffle asked the jury for the verdict yesterday.
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AvLuArson Te IP
Cambria County
James Lau
York
Frante Waffle
Mystery financier leaves $17 million to Boston charity
Albert Stone Jr., an 82 year old multimillionaire bachelor, died May 10 and left his entire estate, about 17 million dollars, to the Permanent Charity Fund in Greater Boston. The bequest is the largest ever made to a community trust.
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Mystery Financier
Boston Charity
Oity Chaily
Albert Stone Jr
Stone
Greater Boston
Formmunity Trust
Italian Plea For Disarm Pact Expected In UN Today
Italy seeks a staged East West disarmament pact and supports five core principles including gradual steps and parallel controls. Italian ambassador and Geneva talks frame a decade of negotiations with the 10 nation committee, while the U S and USSR push for a UN backed resolution.
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United Nations
Nir
Italy
Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Moscow
U.S
Nikita Khrushchev
Teens Fined and Jailed After Wattsburg Beer Spree
Three Wattsburg youths arrested after a beer party brought from New York into Pennsylvania. Michael Phillips, Eric Cooney, and William Bender faced four counts for reckless driving and related acts after cans were thrown from a car. Cooney and Phillips were jailed for five and ten days respectively after failing to pay fines. Bender paid $25 and was released. Information sent to the Liquor Control Board for further action.
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Wattsburg
Erie County
Corry
Pennsylvania
New York State
Michael Phillips
Eric
John G. Cooney
William C. Bender
Phillips
Arkles
Bender
Cooney
Justice of the Peace
Arthur E. Watson
Amity Township
Liquor Control Board
Siamese Twins Off Critical List
In Portland Oregon the Stubblefield twins Jednett and Denelt, separated October 6, are no longer in critical condition. A University of Oregon Medical School Hospital spokesperson said their status is now satisfactory with a favorable outlook. A surgical team of 17, led by Melina, carried out the separation from chest to navel. Parents Mr and Mrs James Stubblefield of Parma Idaho.
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Portland
Ore
Stubblefield
University of Oregon Medical School
Tech
Melina
Jednett
Denelt
James Stubblefield
Parma Tdaho
Castro warns militia threat amid Cuba turmoil
Fidel Castro in a five hour televised speech threatened to raise an armed militia of laborers and peasants if opposition bombings persist. He urged a demonstration of a million citizens against aerial raids he blamed on counter revolutionaries based in the United States. The broadcast followed leaflets over Havana and rambling anti Castro violence as police detain a man amid questions of assassination plots.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
United States
Pulgencio Batista
Castro
Revolutionary Army
Camaguey
Fidel
Robert Salas Hernandez
Salas
Public Health Board backs fluoridation and anti smoking push
Atlantic City reports the 87th meeting of the American Public Health Association. A resolution urges a broad educational effort to curb teenage smoking, linking it to lung cancer and urging collaboration with health bodies and schools. A second resolution strongly supports water fluoridation as a public health measure, noting fluoride benefits for tooth enamel and noting opposition in some communities.
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Public Health Board
United States
U. S
Living Costs Soar To New Record High
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports consumer costs climbed three tenths of one percent in the latest month, reaching 125.2 percent of the 1947-49 average. Most budget items rose, saving purchasing power. About 1.236 million workers will see hourly pay boosts due to index-linked increases, including 850,000 railroad and railway express employees and 470,000 in electrical equipment and aircraft industries. Forecasts suggest further rises in autos, gasoline, fuels, and related goods. Food prices show a slight decline in the October index.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Hershey S. Riley
BLS
Beltin
Railroad
Pullman Company
Railway Express
General Electric
Sylvan‘a
DouRas, Northrop, McDowell’ and
Hayes
Girl describes kidnapping during six day captivation
LYNDONVILLE, Vi. A 14 year old Maine girl missing six days was found and recounts being abducted at knife point by ex convict Rodney Austin. She says they traveled through Maine New Hampshire and Vermont with limited food and sleep, staying in a vacant home owned by the Austins in Franklin VI before police stopped them. Sharon Simmons of Damariscotta was injured during captivity and later returned to her home.
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Lyndonville, Vi
API
Maine
Sharon Simmons
Damariscotta
Sharon
Rodney Austin
Newcastle
New Hampshire
Vermon
Etel
Austisi
Pranklin
Austin
Tyndenyilie
Bin
P to P Severs Ties With CBS
New York AP reports producers John A. Aaron and Jesse Zousmer announce they are ending their contract with CBS after Frank Stanton accused their program of slurring the show. They seek an amicable release from the $2 weekly deal as CBS bans quiz shows and pushes honesty.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Frank Stanton
Stanton
John A. Aaron
Jesse Zousmer
Edward R. Murgow
Charles Collingwood
Aaron Sind Zottsmer
Woman Dies at 101 in Indiana Pennsylvania
Mrs Mary 4 Dilts Indiana Countys oldest resident died yesterday at her home. She was 101 years old and had lived in Indiana County for many years. Survived by four daughters, 49 great grandchildren and a brother. details incomplete due to OCR.
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Indiana
Mary
Dilts
Indiana County
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