Merging Erie and Lackawanna to form Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Co
Directors of two Eastern railroads finalize plans for a 3119 mile merger valued at 737 million dollars linking Hoboken to Chicago. ICC approval and stockholder votes required with hearings in September. Erie, Lackawanna executives and Elmira area leaders named among proposed board members.
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Quadruplets Born to Columbia Couple in New York
A Columbia University student couple welcomed quadruplets three boys and a girl born at Public Service Hospital on Staten Island. The father Alex Kajouras 30 works nights as a taxi driver and summers as a truck driver while studying law. The babies Leon Paul Anthea and Michael arrived over an hour in incubators with the largest weighing 4 pounds 22 ounces.
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Retired Rochester Chief Dies After Long Illness
T Herbert Killip age 70 a former police chief from 1949 to 1953 died Wednesday after a long illness in Rochester. He retired in 1953 and had served the city for many years.
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T. Herbert Killip
House Republicans Help Pass Rights Bill
Washington AP report notes House Republicans joined Southern Democrats to pass a states rights bill 225-192 after a three day debate. Opponents warned the measure would foster uncertainty between federal and state laws while supporters called it a constitution reaffirmation amid civil rights and labor law tensions. The bill moves to the Senate for action.
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Ohio
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Steve Nelson
Pennsylvania
Senate Approves 4 Billion Budget Bill For Agencies
The Senate approved a 4 056 764 581 dollar bill funding Health Education and Welfare and Labor and other agencies for fiscal 1960, by 83 to 10 after earlier testing votes. The package totals 365 million more than the president asked, with a 206 million larger House vote. A conference committee will reconcile differences.
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Marilyn Monroe Shows Improvement After Operation
New York AP reports screen actress Marilyn Monroe, recovering from an operation, was out of bed and receiving visitors. Dr Mortimer Rodgers said her condition is most satisfactory after a Tuesday operation. Monroe is expected to leave the hospital Friday.
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Starkweather Executed in Nebraska Electric Chair
Charles Starkweather, 20, was executed at 12:05 a.m. in Nebraska State Penitentiary for an 11 kill spree spanning 18 months. Witnesses saw a brief, emotionless end after five 2,200 volt charges, with no last words.
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Charles Starkweather
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Washington
Starkweather
John Greenholtz
Chaloor
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Steel Industry Urges Report 31 Extension of Contracts
NEW YORK AP The steel labor crisis deepened as industry demands an indefinite extension of current union contracts and rejects any labor cost increase. David J McDonald of the Steelworkers Union will meet his Wage Policy Committee to decide a course. R Conrad Cooper of U S Steel Corp outlined the industry stance and warned of possible shutdowns if no extension is agreed.
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David J. McDonald
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R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
Cooper
Strike Ends for St Louis Stereotypers at Two Papers
After fifteen days the St Louis Stereotypers' strike ended with an overwhelming vote to accept a settlement. Stereotypers return to work at dawn as the union president Leroy Selby announced the agreement resolved the base material issue and was hammered out during a seven hour conciliation session.
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Afternoon Post-Dispatch
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Argentina reshapes cabinet with Alvaro Alsogaray
President Frondizi installed Alvaro Alsogaray as economy czar and temporary Labor Minister to salvage the faltering program. Alsogaray, leader of a small civic party, gains power to appoint six secretariat heads and may later choose a full labor minister, amid growing military threats accusing the government of weakness toward Communists and Peronists.
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Arturo Frondizi
Alvaro Alsogaray
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Frondizi
Juan D. Peron
Congress Faces Road Plan Stall Over Gas Tax Increase
President Eisenhower warned Congress that the national road program faces a 4.2 billion jam without boosting the gasoline tax. A Commerce Department poll shows ten states may stop new contracts by summer, fifteen more plus D C by year end, and eleven by July 1960, unless federal funds are released.
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Bertram D. Tallamy
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California
Unit Backs Shrine At Uncle Sam Grave
Washington House Interior Committee approved a resolution recognizing Samuel Wilson's grave in Oakwood Cemetery Troy New York as a national shrine and calling him the progenitor of the Uncle Sam symbol.
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Uncle Sam
Dominican Plane Fires Warning and Forces U S Air Force Down
At PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE Florida an Air Force C47 carrying seven men landed in Ciudad Trujillo after a Dominican Republic plane fired a warning burst of machine gun fire. Maj. George A. Williams said Dominican officers appeared confused about the interception amid possible orders to intercept unidentified aircraft within a 30 mile restricted Caribbean zone.
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Caribbean
Hearings Planned on Atomic Energy Deals July 12
Washington The Senate House Atomic Energy Committee announced public hearings will be held July 12 on atomic energy agreements with Great Britain France Canada West Germany the Netherlands Turkey and Greece.
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Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Great Britain
France
Canada
West Germany
Netherlands
Turkey
Greece
Inside The Tiser Bridge 10 Television 10 Comics 10 Theaters
Inside The Tiser Bridge section covers television, comics, theaters and regional news. It lists multiple pages including deaths markets radio sports and area notices with brief items across sections.
Rebels Crushed in Eight Hour Battle Near Bone
French forces backed by jet planes and tanks repelled a rebel attack on Bone in eastern Algeria. A communique said 31 rebels were killed and 15 captured after an eight hour fight, with six French soldiers killed and many wounded. The strike began at dawn after rebels breached frontline posts and barbed wire, then were routed with incendiaries and infantry assault.
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Bone
Mediterranean
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Kayblie
Judge Denies Goldfine Case Motion
A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the contempt of Congress indictment against Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Judge James W. Morris rejected the claim that questions posed to Goldfine by a House subcommittee were based on information illegally obtained by the subcommittee's chief investigator Baron Shacklette and newsman Jack Anderson. The ruling allows the 18 count contempt case to proceed to trial.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
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Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Archie Gottler Dies Composer of Musical Hits
Hollywood AP reports Archie Gottler died at 63 from a heart ailment. He wrote long titled songs including Would Yous Rather be a Colonel With an Eagle on Your Shoulder or a Private With a Chicken on Your Knee and other numbers like America, I Love You and I Hate to Lose You, I’m So Used to You Now. He composed music for Broadway revues and musicals such as Broadway Brevities Ziegfeld Follies Winter Garden Revues and Tattletales.
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Archie Gottler
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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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