Sheriff’s department asks citizens help in missing explosive devices
Sheriff’s deputies urge residents to assist in locating several bone shaped explosive devices taken from San Leandro Rock and Gravel Co. last Friday. Capt. Frank Madigan and Detective Larry Walds described the charges as six to ten inches long, weighing about 100 ounces, copper lined and in a funnel shaped black plastic container with no markings. Authorities fear juveniles may possess the devices and risk lethal harm.
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Sheriff's Deputies
San Leandro
Larry Walds
Madigan
Conspirators May Lose U S Citizenship
The House Judiciary Committee approved Eisenhower’s plan to strip citizenship from conspirators who advocate overthrow by force or violence. The measure ties to the Smith Act and would apply to native and naturalized citizens. a substitute creates a 12 member commission to study ridding defense plants of subversives and preventing Communist infiltration in labor unions.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Eisenhower
U. S
Congress
Unite States
House Committee
Herbert Brownell
Brownell
House
NLRB to Curtail Jurisdiction Over Labor Disputes
The National Labor Relations Board announces curtailment of its jurisdiction in certain disputes including defense industries retail stores utilities and transportation. The changes take effect immediately and apply to cases ready before the board as well as future cases. The board also specifies industries it will no longer handle for unfair labor practices and management disputes and notes the effect on smaller businesses and public services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Relations Board
Cus
Transboard
Seattle
Mander
trans-Canada
Africa
Gece Ir Faen
Gener
NLRB
East
Inquest Called After Hayward Child Dies
A Hayward child died at Children's Hospital after a plane incident at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Vivian Sullivan, 2, reportedly died from aspirin poisoning, while Lorenzo Williams of Vancouver was injured. The pilot reportedly attempted to move the child before he was struck by a passing car on Maud Avenue. The stewardess Isabel Abra of San Lorenzo was also injured. Investigations proceed as authorities seek causes and accountability.
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Edmond Andrew Marmur
Tacoma
Seattle-Tacoma International
Isabel Abra
SAN Lorenzo
Lewelling
Maud Avenue
Hayward
Abraham
Warmur
Boulevard
Children’s Hospital
Young Prittendon
East Bay
Africa
Solda
Dolly Fauhart
Fruala Floe Hall
San Francisco
Oakland
GOP Moves to Block McCarthy Chairmanships in Senate
Senate GOP leaders unanimously pledged to oppose any immediate moves to strip Sen. Joseph McCarthy of committee chairmanships. The resolution, announced by Homer Ferguson, allows Sen. Knowland to table any move to bring the issue to a floor vote. McCarthy’s subcommittee session aimed at potential hearings faced pressure from Dems for staff reforms.
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Washington
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Homer Ferguson
GOP
Ferguson
Ralph E. Flanders
Sen
Knowland
Flanders
McCarthy
Rules Committee
Charles E. Potter
Mich
Valley Line Among Key System Transit Service Cuts
Oakland Castro Valley line among 15 Key System routes tentatively approved for service cuts by the State Public Utilities Commission experts. No. 91 Castro Valley Lower Road would be affected. Key seeks to cancel night turns and end service between 7 am and 6 20 pm with Saturday service cut. Conditional approval to merge K and RY lines and end K service after 7 pm on weekdays and Saturdays and 9 pm Sundays. Hearings continued in Oakland.
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Oakland
Castro Valley
Key System Transit Lines
Vases State Public Utilities Commission
Havenscourt
Hayward
End of Hayward area home project strike after talks
Work resumed on a 3,500 home Branden Construction project south of Hayward after a one day labor dispute. A picket line near Alma Ceia Village was removed following a morning conference with the Building Trades Council of Alameda County. About 250 workers across multiple crafts are on site. 300 frames already up with occupancy hoped next week. Dispute centered on working conditions including worker parking, facilities, and craft sequencing. Non union drivers were previously turned away from two lumber trucks. The company and unions say the dispute is settled and trades are back on the job.
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Hayward
Alma Ceia Village
Mammoth
Branden Construction: Company
Tennyson Road
Branden
Building Trades ‘Council
Alameda County
Wor
J. L. Childers
Childers
Russians readied H bomb test series in Siberia and Mongolia
Intelligence notes Russia plans a new thermonuclear test sequence for next month in eastern Siberia with a second range in northern Mongolia. Past tests include three August 1954 detonations, hydrogen devices not weapons, and a March 1, 1955 air drop bomb. Dr Edward Teller supports new tests as Congress eyes the matter. President Eisenhower froze H-bomb size and canceled fall tests following Strauss and Bolles.
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Washington
Russia
Siberia
Mongolia
U. S
South Pacific
Edward Teller
Joint
Congressional Atomic Committee
Teller
Boston
Air Force
Eisenhower
Lewis Strauss
State Bolles
Strauss
U.S. Plans Huge Highway Program Regardless of Governors
Governors at the 46th annual conference signaled they will study Eisenhower's proposed 50 billion ten year highway plan but pursue state programs first. They anticipate federal coordination and financing help while avoiding a public feud over federal road policies. Byrnes and Kennon shaped leadership as they depart, with cross-party hints on 1956 conventions and potential campaigns.
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Bolton Landing
Eisenhower
Washington
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Public Service
Robert Kennon
Louisiana
Hismhower
Kennon
Byrnes
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Bej
Ausche
Stuart. Symington
Missouri
Adlai FE. Stevenson
Illinois
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Albany
White House
Dewey
No Sharp Rise In Polio Here Officials Say
Southern Alameda county health officials say there has been no above average increase in acute polio cases despite a national rise in the week ending July 10. From January through July 10 there were 22 cases in Southern Alameda, only three more than last year.
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San Leandro
U. S. Public Health Service
Alameda County
Health Department
U.S. Public Health Service
Greylantt
Wyo
Council Must Pay for Land for Old City Offices
District attorney warns the Council of Southern Alameda County Communities must buy land to relocate its old office home at 414 Foothill Boulevard. The council and affiliates share the site but cannot use district land without a sale and bidding, a ruling that prompts renewed appeals and community support efforts by chair Jimenez and the volunteer committee.
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Hayward Union
Alameda County
Nat
High School Board
Foothill Boulevard
Girl Scouts
Scamp Fire Girls
Catholic Youth
Organization
YMCA
Matt’ Jimenez
Wetare
Jooxing
Jimenez
Contract Awarded for Road Surfacing on Pleasanton Road
The State Division of Highways awarded the contract to Fredrickson Brothers of Emeryville to surface 1.8 miles of the Pleasanton Sund road on county route 1019 between Pleasanton and State Route 8. The low bid totaled 114,491 dollars.
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Sacramento
Pleasanton-Sund
Pleasanton
Fredrickson ‘Brothers
Emeryville
State Division of Ways
Mendes-France to press West peace terms with Eden ties
French Premier Mendes-France conferred with British Foreign Secretary Eden to outline Western terms for ending Indochina fighting. The plan includes a cease fire near the 16th parallel, Haiphong as a temporary base, neutralization of Laos and Cambodia, postponement of elections, and exclusion of Communist stations from the international control body.
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Monnay Geaume
Mendes-France
Jean Chauvel
Anthony Eden
Viet Nam
France
Tonkin Gulf
Haiphong
Laos
Cambodia
Indochina
V. M. Molo_tov
Menides
China
Chou En-Lai
Tran van Do
Sumanikone
Pho Ui
U. S
Walter Bedell ‘Smith
United States
City Delays Zoning Plan Request in Hayward District
Hayward industrial agent R A Dutch Derr failed to win immediate zoning for a zone bounded by Russell City coach Clawster the Southern Pacific and Mt Eden road. The planning commission voted three to two to delay for two weeks, citing tax impact to property owners and alignment with Alameda County study. Derr pressed that developers show active interest and deterred purchase until zoning is secured.
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Hayward
R.A
Derr
Russell
Clawster
Southern Pacific
Mt. Eden (Bridge
City Planning Commission
Cith
Law Development Committee
Alameda County
Derry
Hospital Board Meeting In Castro Valley Tonight
Eden township hospital district directors convene at 8 p.m. in Este hospital library to hear Administrator Harry Blythe present drafts of personnel policies wage scales and job classifications amid district updates at 20103 Lake Chabot Read.
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Castro Valley
Harry Blythe
Eden Township
Este Hospital
Lake Chabot
Decoto Home Development Seen at Trustee Meeting
Trustees of the Decoto school district heard from Superintendent Harold Schoenfeld about a 1200 home tract on Kennedy ranch in Washington township near Niles Highway. The Oliver Rousseau Construction Co would build, straddling Decoto Laurel Vista district boundaries, though 800 homes and 149 acres fall in Washington township. Site acquisition to begin immediately through planning agencies and state offices was urged.
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Decoto
Toj
Schoenfeld
Devel
Kennedy Ranch
Washington Township
Ac- Decoto
Sex
Harold Schoenfeld
Oliver “Rousseau Construction Company
Hayward
Decoto-La’ Vista
Niles Highway
Hillview Crest
Therete Ela
County Planning Commission
Subdivider
County Superintendent of Schools
State Department of Finance
Division of
State Department of Education
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Frank Madigen
Sheriff's Department
Lorenzo Boy
West
Valley Line
Robert Allen
U.s.royaly
Ee Hayward Tire Exchange
Bill Wilson
Farm Hand
U.S
Boh
Considin
Lewella
Macs
Eden
Geneva
Big Decoto Home Development
Trustee’s
Devoto Crite
Parelle
E Street
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