Textile leader urges $0.25 wage hike for all industries
Spencer Love of Burlington Industries urged raising the federal minimum wage from $1.00 to $1.25 an hour, saying it would require a law for industry-wide adoption. Textile leaders and unions weighed in with varied views on feasibility and consequences for competition and imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Love
J. Spencer Love
Burlington Industries
William Pollock
Textile Workers Union of America
New York
South Carolina
Love
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
F. E. Grier
Abney Mills
Greenwood
S.C
Ted M. Forbes
Cotton Manufacturers Assn
Georgia
Greensboro
Pollock
Farrell testifies he was bitten by Chinese poodle in damages suit
In Coronado California retired Maj. Gen. Walter G Farrell testified he was bitten by a Chinese poodle owned by retired Navy Capt Theodore J Schultz in a $100000 damages suit. Schultz's lawyer argued Farrell was bitten by his own Labrador retriever while separating the dogs. The jury awarded no damages.
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Coronado
Calif
Marine Corps
Walier G. Farrell
Navy
Theodore J. Schultz
Schultz
Farrell
Copernicus Proposes Sun-Centered Cosmic Model
The 16th century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus argued that Earth rotates on its axis and orbits the sun among the planets. He prefaced his claim as an idea not a fact, yet his theory laid the foundation for modern astronomy.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus
Winston-Salem Boy Kills Self Over Game Denial
Fifteen year old Garrell Wilson McMillan Jr. known as Buddy killed himself with a shotgun in his room after his parents refused permission to attend a Griffith High School basketball game in Winston-Salem. The coroner and police described the motive as punishment for staying out late the night before.
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Winston-Salem
Garrell Wilson
Buddy) McMillan Jr
W. M. Long
Forsyth County
Griffith High School
Texas Group Seeks Pardon for O. Henry From Eisenhower
A Texas Heritage Foundation urged President Eisenhower to grant a posthumous pardon to O. Henry born William Sydney Porter. They argue the novelist was innocent of embezzlement from an Austin bank in 1898 and served his sentence. The notice cites his literary legacy including The Gift of the Magi.
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Washington
William Sydney Porter
North Carolina
O. Henry
Texas
Eisenhower
Heritage Foundation
Austin, Tex
Foundation
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Davis Patrol & Detective Agency
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Bedford Sales Company
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