Union Extends AP Contract For 24 Hours
The AFL-CIO CTU at The Associated Press extended its contract for 24 hours to midnight. Union leader Leimbach said no further extensions would be accepted and that talks floated a one year deal with a 6.24 dollar weekly wage rise. An advisory arbitration award of 4.35 weekly plus 27 cents for deferred insurance was rejected. The strike vote tally was not yet completed.
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New York
Afl-Cio
Associated Press
Harry Leimtach
Associated Press Ctu
Leimbach
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Leimtach
Stork Club Owner Faces Trial On Assault Charge
Sherman Billingsley, owner of the Stork Club in New York, must stand trial on a misdemeanor assault count after a hearing. Magistrate Joseph A. Martinis reduced the charge from felonious assault and did not order an assault complaint against house painter Murray Beskin. The case stems from a Tuesday dispute in front of Billingsley’s East Side home where Beskin and others were ordered off Billingsley’s stoop.
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New York
Sherman Billingsley
Joseph A. Martinis
Billingsley
Murray Beskin
Beskin
Niendenere
Eisenhower urged to push Dixie drive amid Stone Age laws
Meade Alcorn and I Lee Potter told President Eisenhower that Southern and border states still have laws hindering GOP candidates in many districts. They outlined Operation Dixie planned for July 1 aiming to gain about eight House seats in 1958, noting Georgia as a prime example needing legal change.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dixie
Meade Alcorn
Republican National Committee
I. Lee Potter
South
Congress
Alcurn
Potter
Teorn
Georgia
Reds Debate Hungary’s Path Between Pro Soviet and Independence
Budapest reports a fierce intra party fight over whether Hungary should tilt toward a stronger Soviet line or pursue greater independence similar to Poland. Premier Janos Kadar’s future may hinge on the outcome as factions back a more independent stance aligned with Gomulka. Western diplomats question motives and assess the internal struggle.
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Budapest
Hungary
Poland
Janos Kadar
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Kadar
West
Moscow
Wartime Light Project Linked to GIs Defects
In Bridgeport Connecticut a lawyer claims at least a dozen soldiers who worked on a secret wartime experiment suffered sterility or fathered deformed children. The project mounted high power arc lamps on tanks to blind gunners, reportedly used by the 9th Armored Division along the Rhine. The Army says no official complaints have been filed for investigation.
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U.S
Bridgeport. Conn
Atty Raymond Lyddy
Connecticut
Lyddy
Tank Ordnance Company
New York Daily News
Washington
Army
Wilper Brucker
Marshal White
Chicago
9Th Armored Division
Rhine
State Lawmen to Receive Early Retirement Plan
Lawmakers approved a bill allowing highway patrolmen and Department of Public Safety investigators to retire at 56 after 20 years with full benefits. The measure, matching 7 percent employee contributions with state funding, targets enforcement division staff and requires no hires over age 36 to preserve eligibility. The bill awaits Gov. Folsom's signature.
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Montgomery
Department of Public Safety
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
James E. Folsom
Med Technologists Meet In Birmingham
The Alabama State Society of the American Medical Technologists held its regular meeting at the Carmichael Russell and Smith venue with Mrs Leona Lyons of Memphis president of the National Society and Southern district counselor and C W Shaw of Shaw Laboratory of Birmingham as principal speakers.
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Birmingham
Alabama State Society of the American Medical Technologists
Carmichael, Russell, and Smith
Leona Lyons
Memphis
National Society of the Amt
Southern
C. W. Shaw
Shaw Laboratory of
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