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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1959
Page
3
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Khrushchev’s San Francisco stay features a sunlit day with fireworks and jovial views, a reserved reception at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and a banquet chaired by Mayor George Christopher. No outsiders attended the meeting with Soviet workers and union leaders, amid canceled plans for a Stanford visit.
Khrushchev tours a political visit with photographers present as he moves between cars and interacts with crowds at a rail stop. He remarks on missile centers and claims Soviet superiority while avoiding mention of protective conditions.
Washington reports Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B Johnson faces pressure from liberal Democrats to push progressive bills in January. Key figures like JFK, Hubert Humphrey, and Stuart Symington weigh in on civil rights, housing, farm policy, minimum wage, and education funding as they shape the coming session.
The Soviet Central Committee announced workers will move to a seven hour day and a 40 hour week, with future general wage increases. The change, timed for Khrushchev's meeting with U.S. labor leaders in San Francisco, raises the minimum wage to 450 rubles a month from 300. Most workers have been on an eight hour day, six days a week.
Twenty two people were left homeless by a fire that destroyed four double frame houses in Beaverdale Cumbria County yesterday. No one was injured. Fire officials said an explosion in a kerosene stove touched off the fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Stombaugh. The blaze then spread to the other dwellings.
Federal mediators push toward settlement in a 69 day strike by United Steelworkers of America. About 175000 workers in related industries idle as 90 percent of steel production halts. Union seeks wage increases and benefits. industry calls for a one year wage freeze to curb prices and inflation. Prestrike earnings averaged 2.11 dollars per hour per government figures.
In Mason Michigan authorities confirm three women died of asphyxiation inside a closed house trailer. The Eaton County sheriff says a coroners report found the oxygen exhausted by a heater. Delores Anthony of McLelllandtown among the deceased. the others were attending a religious encampment at Camp Yuh.
Washington reports about 10,000 more people began drawing Social Security in the year since a 1958 act. Secretary Flemming said total beneficiaries under old age survivors and disability insurance reached 73,400,000 by August. An additional 2,100,000 qualified under earlier provisions, while many eligible under the amendments have not filed for benefits.
Sir Anthony Eden 62 a former British prime minister is reported seriously ill with a fever. Doctors have confined him to bed at his Pewsey home in England.
State Police charged migrant worker manuvinus Lee Kelly with aggravated assault and battery after a Friday night gunshot at the Gallant Bros farm in Edinboro. James Lee Grimes of Baltimore was wounded in the left elbow and hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Grimes and Kelly were migrant workers at the Gallant farm.
Fragmentary report depicts tense scene with crowd shouting and security forces pushing back a group near a parade or protest. A figure was raised high by a leader, cameras captured the moment, and security moved the party away toward the Ural region.
The executive board of classroom teachers in northeastern Pennsylvania voted to protest the ban on Bible readings in public schools. The 12 county board met Saturday and condemned the restriction amid protests and calls for policy clarity.
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