Key System workers vote for walkout after wage dispute
Key System employees backed a strike 1091 to 41 with a five day extension for talks. The seven member Local 192 AFL panel can call a walkout at the period end or extend negotiations. A 20 cent hourly raise is sought from the current 1.88 wage. Talks resume Monday with Federal Conciliation Service. The contract expired May 31 and has underpinned a 72 day transit strike in the East Bay. The Legislature gave the State Toll Bridge Authority new power to run trains and buses.
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Aughis LO
Car- Oo —'Men's Local 192
AFL
Arthur Viat
Vern Stambaugh
Local 198
East Bay
State Toll Bridge Authority
Settlement Seen in GM Wage Spat
DETROIT reports growing likelihood that any GM wage settlement before Sunday midnight will mimic Ford’s guaranteed wage plan. Negotiations stretched Friday with no new contract offer from GM as Walter Reuther and UAW leaders met. With 34 hours left, talks resume at 3 p.m. EDT as unions seek a wage framework similar to Ford’s approach.
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Detroit
General" Motors
Ford
General Motors
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
CIO Electrical
Livingston
Berkeley Man Hurt in School Bus Crash
Berkeley businessman Joseph Breesten, 56 Crescent Street Oakland, suffered a fractured right leg and multiple lacerations when his sedan collided with a southbound school bus near Washington Union High School on Highway 11. Bus driver Raymond Brandt was uninjured. Breesten was taken to Kaiser Foundation Hospital Oakland.
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Centerville
Berkeley
Washington Union High School
Kaiser Foundation Hospital
Oakland
Joseph Bresteen
Crescent Street
Olympic Press Company
Bresteen
Highway 17
Raymond Ralph Brandt
South Main Street
California Highway Patrol
Trabert Wins Kent Singles Crown in Beckenham
Tony Trabert of Cincinnati won the Kent Tennis singles title at Beckenham, defeating Herb Flam of Hills, California. The match moved quickly, with Trabert breaking Flam in the ninth game of the opening set and taking the first set after close attacking play.
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Beckenham
Ens
Tony Trabert
Cincinnati
Kent
Herb Flam Hills
Calif
Trabert
Traber
Flam
Couple Injured In Hayward Motorcycle Crash
Mr and Mrs Robert Ramers of 1123 Patricia court Hayward were injured when their motorcycle left Tennyson road and East 11th street and crashed into a ditch last night.
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Robert Ramers
Patricia Court
Hayward
Tennyson Road
East 11Th Street
Eisenhower to Visit Paris London If Talks Go Ahead
President Eisenhower is expected to stop in Paris and London en route to the planned Big Four summit in Geneva, Switzerland, next month. No visits are set until Russia approves invitation, but French sources say a Paris stop is highly likely if the parley proceeds.
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Paris
Eisenhower
London
Geneva
Switzerland
Russia
Lonsons
Ike Asks Atom Aid For Free Nations
President Eisenhower proposed that the United States fund half the cost of building research reactors for free nations and provide the know how to construct and operate power reactors for peaceful uses. He unveiled the dual atoms for peace plan at Penn State, after inspecting a campus reactor and receiving an honorary degree.
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University Park
Eisenhower
United States
Congress
Pennsylvania State University
Milton
United Nations
Soviet Russia
Week-Long Rains Cause Death From Virginia To Colorado
Rains and fog blamed for a series of fatal and near fatal incidents across several states. Lewis Jones 25, of Clermont Indiana, and his two young sons Theodore 3 and Perry 3, were killed when their panel truck was struck by a passenger train near Clermont. A Brewster New York couple and their baby escaped injury when a single engined Cessna crash landed on a farm in Hebert Indiana after fog and rain reduced visibility. A Florence South Carolina flying great grandmother, racing from Washington to Cuba, was guided to a safe landing by a competitor as her craft ran low on fuel.
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Appy United Press
Thelin
New York
Central Nation
Clermont
Ind
Lewis Jones
Theodore
Perry
Dakotas
Virginia
Colorado
Jones
Brewster
N.Y
Hebert
James Leland
Muriel
Civil Aeronautics
End of Truck Strike Seen By Monday
Los Angeles unions and trucking firms approved a collective bargaining agreement and expect trucks to roll in 11 western states by Monday. Three Los Angeles locals approved the contract by large majorities, with ratification reported quickly by the California Trucking associations. The contract includes raises of 23 to 29 cents over two years and $2 weekly employer pension contributions for drivers, with talks ongoing in other western states.
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Los Angeles
Iss
AFL Teamsters
Mondey
Teamster
California
Oregon
John Fenton
Incas
Catholic Bishop Says Communists Suppress Religion in Red China
Hong Kong reports that Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy of New Bedford mass says Communists are eroding religious freedom in Red China. Expelled from Wuchow diocese for alleged subversive activities, he describes officials pressuring homes after midnight to deter mass attendance and a drop in church participation from pre regime levels.
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Hong Kong
Frederick A. Donaghy
New Bedford
Mass
Red China
Donaghy
China
Maryknoll
Wuchaw
Reregime
Dom
Wuchow
United States
Bones Found at John Muir Junior High Site
Workmen digging for a foundation at the John Muir junior high school site uncovered many bones. Dr Linre Campbell of Fairmont examined the remains and identified them as cattle bones, dimming hopes of a major discovery.
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San Lzandro
John Muir Junior High School
Linre Campbell
Fairmont, Hospital
Cattie
Twenty Die in Le Mans Race Crash
At Le Mans France a spectacular crash of two sports cars in the 24 hour endurance race killed twenty spectators and injured between fifty and sixty others. Pierre Levech driving a Mercedes died on impact while Lance Macklin in an Austin survived with minor injuries as Karl Kling in another Mercedes continued racing. The tragedy occurred during a leader duel between Juan Manuel Fangio and Mike Hawthorn with Fangio setting lap records and Hawthorn pressing ahead in a Jaguar.
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le Mans
France
Ins
Mercedes
Pierre Levech
Austin
Lance Macklin
Levech
Macklin
Karl Kling
Kling
Argentina
Juan Manuel Fangio
Britain
Mike Hawthorn
Jaguar
Fangio
Hawthorn
Doctors urged to use cabbage juice to defeat ulcer
SAN FRANCISCO doctors urged to trial cabbage juice before surgery for gastric ulcers. Dr Garnett Cheney of Stanford Medical School reports Vitamin A cabbage juice therapy heals benign ulcers in about three weeks versus six with standard care, with most patients not bedbound and no noted cancer risk.
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San Francisco
IHS
Garnett Cheney
Stanford Medical School
Stanford Medical Bulletin
Cheney
Huge Plane Crashes in German Alps During Training Flight
A U S Air Force SB-29 on a non stop instrument training mission from England crashed into a Swabian Alps mountain near Owen southeast of Stuttgart killing all 10 crew. Rescue teams found the burned wreckage and bodies at dawn. Authorities cited low visibility and a possible faulty altitude estimate during the blind climb.
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Germany
U.S
Britain
Molesworth
Air Force Base
Nazi Germany
Mer
England
Swabian Alps
Japan
U.S. Air Force
Owen
Wurtemberg-Baden
Air Force
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