Furniture Market Keeps Fast Pace
The summer Southern Furniture and Bug Market enters its fourth day with record buyer registration. Attendance across the first three days topped 3,600, a new record for a third day at a summer market. Most buyers plan 30 to 60 day orders while some chains place larger late summer and fall orders. Many buyers hail from Southeastern states as crop forecasts lag. More on page five A. Jones operates a local firm and more details follow.
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Morket. Jones
Goldfine Defies House Panel Over 1957 Checks
Bernard Goldfine refused to tell House investigators why two checks totaling 178 982 64 were issued in 1957 to Yale Wool Waste Co from his Northfield mill. Rep. Bennett pressed if checks were meant as a line of credit, while Goldfine claimed the checks were never used and were deposited back. The panel threatened to subpoena his books.
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Washington
Bernard Goldfine
House
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Goldfine
Boston
Yale Wool Waste Co
Northfield
John B. Bennett
R-Mich
Yale Company
Yale
Golden
Bennett
Rescued From Ledge After Five Days On Canyon Wall
John L. Sanders 35, rescued from a three by four foot shelf on Conejos Canyon after five days and nights. He refused sleep fearing a fall amid a fatal plunge by companion William E. Garver 38. Sanders was spotted, fed, and brought down by Army mountaineers then walked to a waiting ambulance with his wife.
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Conejos Canyon
Here
Sanders
Albuquerque
Carolyn
Alamosa Community Hospital
John Sanders
Antonito
Colo
Cumbres
Alaska Quake Triggers Coast Guard Rescue Efforts
A major southeastern Alaska quake last night left three dead and two missing. Coast Guard vessels from Juneau and Sitka searched Lituya Bay for distressed boats and injuries were reported though details were garbled. A tidal wave near Lituya Bay and a glacier ice collapse were noted as possible causes. Seismologists called it a major quake with its center stated as unknown.
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Juneau
Alaska
Lituya Bay
Gulf of Alaska
The
Coast Guard
Sitka
Yakutat
Goodwin
Winther
Lituya Glacier
Don Tocher
University of California At Berkeley
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hill
N. C
GM Plant Hit by Unauthorized UAW Walkout in Columbus
In Columbus Ohio the General Motors Temrdstedt plant halted production as an unauthorized UAW strike began after contract talks stalled since May 29. Only a few of 2500 workers reported for first shift with picket lines up. Local 969 president Sarah E Campbell said no strike was authorized and layoffs of 400 to 500 workers have occurred since contract expiry.
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Columbus, Ohio
United Auto Workers
General Motors Ternstedt
UAW
General Motors
Detroit
Sarah E. Campbell
Campbell
Airmen freed after Soviet Armenia incident
Nine U S airmen aboard a C118 were shot down over Soviet Armenia during a flight from Iran to Pakistan. Five crewmen were roughed up by local civilians before Soviet authorities intervened. Col. Dale D Brannon said the group received rough treatment before transfer to Soviet officials and Iranian frontier authorities. The airmen were released to an American representative and flown to Wiesbaden for medical observation. Brannon denied intent to violate Soviet territory, citing a northward deviation to avoid a thunderstorm.
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Brannon
Col. Brannon
Comest
Germany
U. S
Iran
Pakistan
Soviet
Armenia
Wiesbaden
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Air Force
Ulbricht Warns Yugoslavs Over Independent Communism
East Germany's Walter Ulbricht opened the party congress in East Berlin with a harsh warning to Yugoslav leaders. He cited the Nagy government’s fate to denounce revisionism and urged intolerance toward it while pledging to normalize ties with Yugoslavia. He also attacked U S policy and mocked space satellites in a bitter address before Khrushchev.
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Berlin
East Germany
Walter Ulbricht
Khrushchev
Ultbricht
Revi
Kremlin
Socialist Bloc
Nagy
Hungary
Janos Kadar
East Berlin
Ulbricht
Imre Nagy
Pal Maleter
Tito
Rades
Yugoslavia
Goldfine names 23 governors in wool cloth gifts
Bernard Goldfine listed 23 governors who received 100 percent wool cloth at the 1955 Chicago governors conference. He said the disclosure aims to provide balance for House hearings where he testifies. Names include Govs. Williams, Lausche, Hoegh, Lee, Foss, Brundale, Kennon, and others with notes on related gifts and comments.
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Goldfine
Washington
Bernard
Chicago
Adams
Jack Lotto
Lotto
Govs
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
George It Leader
Pennsylvania
Leo A. Hoegh
Iowa
J. Bracken Lee
Utah
Joe Foss
South Dakota
Roger Robb
Norman Brunsdale
North Dakota
Robert Kennon
Louisiana
Ford Q. Eridge
Guam
Marvin Griffin
Georgia
William C. Marland
West Virginia
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
Thomas B. Stanley
Virginia
Theodore R. McKeldin
Maryland
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
J. B. Johnason
Vermont
Arthur B. Langlie
Walter J. Kohler
Wisconsin
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Phil B. Donnelly
Missouri
J. Caleb Boggs
Delaware
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Eisenhower and Diefenbaker form joint continental defense panel
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker agreed to create a U S Canadian Cabinet Committee on continental defense. The body will supplement existing groups and will coordinate export policy and laws affecting China trade. Canadian law will prevail for entities operating in Canada.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Ottawa
Eisenhower
John Diefenbaker
Joint Defense Board
Washington
Massena
N.Y
St. Lawrence Seaway
China
United States
Canada
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Live Mouse Launched Aboard Thor Able Test Nose Cone
Cape Canaveral reports indicate a live mouse nicknamed Mia II was hurled aloft in the Thor Able nose cone as the two stage rocket launched toward space. Preliminary data suggested the mission performed satisfactorily and recovery chances for the mouse and nose cone were assessed as high. The test aims to validate stages used for future moon probes and a three stage version may be deployed for a lunar shot next month.
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Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Fla
U.S
Space
Earth
Douglas Aircraft Co
Ascension Island
Vanguard
Florida
Atlantic
Small-Town Baseball In Last-Ditch Fight
The article notes communities struggle to keep minor league baseball alive since 1958 with 268 towns losing clubs and 33 leagues folding yet some cities show civic ingenuity to sustain pro baseball. It references Family Weekly and Sun day Enterprise features including riding a surfboard and Alfred Hitchcock interviews.
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Family Weekly
With Your Sunday Enterprise
Alfred. Hitchcock
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Dean Goodwin
Goodmund Winther
L.C.D
Pelican
Dale D. Brannon
Char
Don
Aeton
Tehrah
Soviet Armenia
Bennie A. Shupe
Miami
Shupe
Hodges
Sherman Adams
Donald M. Fleming
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