Big Steel Producers Sign New Pact in Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers union leaders announced a historic contract with Big Steel and Bethlehem Steel Co. giving workers a five cent hourly wage hike and pension and insurance improvements. The deal, effective July 1 for wages and November 1 for benefits, aims to end fears of a strike as major producers align with this agreement. The pact totals about 12 cents in hourly package increases and raises pensions to 140 a month for 30 years of service, with insurance costs rising for both sides.
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Pittsburgh
Ues. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Bethlehem Steel Co
David J. McDonald
Joseph M. Larkin
Bethlehem
UIW
New, York
McDonald
Ucts
Copany
Farm price support bill moves to House debate
The House Rules Committee sent the farm bill to the House floor for debate starting tomorrow. It continues price supports with a sliding scale and aims to curb overproduction. Chairman Hope faulted Benson’s plan as misleading and argued flexible supports would widen surpluses. Rep King opposed the plan, favoring the administration option as the lesser evil.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Avhot
Rules Committee
Hope
R-Kan
Agriculture Committee
of Agriculture
Benson
Body of Fifth Boat Mishap Victim Found
The body of Duane Wilmer Hedges, 19, identified by a wallet, was recovered near Lake Breeze Resort on May 28 after an excursion boat capsized at the Lake of the Ozarks. The lake disaster has now yielded five victims, with Mrs. Alice Lamberty and Hodges among the dead.
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Lake of the Ozarks
State Highway Patrol
Duane Wilmer Hedges
Missouri Valley
Iowa
Lake’ Breeze
Arlie Milton Friedley
St. Louis
Alice -Lamberty
Fremont
Bagnell
Hodges
Millions Await Total Eclipse Of Sun Today
The forecast calls for favorable weather as a total solar eclipse approaches. A swath from Nebraska across South Dakota Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan will experience totality for 76 seconds starting at 5 07 36 a m Local observers expected prime viewing with partial visibility in many eastern states and through Canada Greenland Iceland and beyond.
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Minneapolis
Nebraska
Michigan
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Boston
Savannah
Jacksonville
Miami
Lake Superior
Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Russia
Middle East
India
Weather Bureau
Border Flood Ravages Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras
A 56.3 crest on the Rio Grande threatened Eagle Pass Texas and Piedras Negras Mexico with severe flooding. The surge forced mass evacuations from Laredo Nuevo Laredo while towns upstream reported massive homelessness. The disaster killed at least 14 in Ozona and left 2 missing, with 20,000 to 30,000 homeless across the border area.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Piedras Negras
Mexico
Texas
Laredo
Nuevo Laredo
Ozona
Rio Grande
State Disaster and Relief Control Headquarters
Dynamite in Car Shocks Washington
Washington police say two sticks of dynamite under a car hood caused a dramatic blast that shattered the vehicle and damaged a nearby home. The explosion left a deep crater and parts of the motor 25 feet away. No suspects identified and Susie Key and her 17 year old son Jibe were unharmed.
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Washington, N. C. UO
Susie Key
Powell Refuses to Aid U N Probers in FHA Activities
A New York grand jury notes tightening security at the United Nations over 18 months, praising a Truman and Eisenhower executive order clamping down on Soviet spies among 3400 U N staff. It warns the issue remains ongoing and cites a U S citizen abroad for dubious Red ties. Miss Austine Veit from Osage Bend is cast in CMSC summer theater, in A Doctor in Spite of Himself, July 15.
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U.N
Powell
FHA
New York
Federal Grand Jury
United Nations
Jeaney
Truman
Eisenhower
U.N. Ce
Austine Veit
Frank Veit
Osage Bend
Central Missouri College
Miss Veit
CMSC
F B Griesedieck Dies At 54 In St Louis
Frank B Griesedieck advertising manager at Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. died at St John Hospital after a heart attack. He was 54 and a nephew of Henry L Griesedieck founder of the brewery.
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F. B. Griesedieck
ST. Louis
Frank B. Griesedieck
Griesedieck-Western Brewery Co
FBI Arrest Record Sent to British Railways Special Civil Service
The document mentions the FBI arrest record sent to British Railways and the Civil Service Commission. It notes tickets sold to workmen in 1941 and 1948, trains used before 8 a.m. at a penny per mile, and references Powell and Billy's testimony before a committee, with Powell giving only his name and stating no current business activity.
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FBI
British Railways
Ithe
Civil’ Service Commission
Iti
FHA
Billie
Powell
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Gibson
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