Mine tragedy in Briceville claims three lives
A roof collapse at the Hershel Braden mine near Briceville Tennessee killed three miners and injured three others. The dead are Columbus Parks and Luke Williams, both from Lake City, and Hillery Olivey from Lake City. One body has been recovered and searchlights were requested to locate remaining victims.
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Briceville
Tenn
Cumberland Mountain
Tennessee
Killig
Glad Woodward
Clinton
Anderson County
Columbus Parks
Luke
Hillery (Donner) Olivey
Lake City
Here
Luke Williams
Dewell Williams
Oscar Harris
Boy Confesses Expectation Of Fights With Yankee Cousin
In Delight Arkansas Mr and Mrs Herbert Witt tell their seven year old son John that a New Jersey cousin will visit The boy replies that they will fight often since the cousin is a Yankee and he is American.
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Danny Pond
Poultney
Danny
Frank Pond
Delight, Ark
Herbert Witt
John
New Jersey
UAW votes 93.5 percent for strike authorisation at Big Three
United Auto Workers reports 168 of 220 locals accounted, 175,972 in favor and 12,129 against strike action as talks with General Motors Ford and Chrysler resume after a nine day recess. Local No. 600 at River Rouge to start voting Monday lasting five days. The union also sent a letter to Rep. Chamberlain proposing a GM wage extension poll and possible arbitration on economic issues.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
UAW
Big Three
River Rouge
Charles FE. Chamberlain
R-Mich
Corp
Leonard Woodcock
Washington
Rep
Chamberlain
Woodcock
6Th
Lansing
Flint
Stevenson Arrives in Leningrad for Russian Visit
Stevenson arrives in Leningrad from Helsinki for a four week tour of the Soviet Union. He says he will do little talking and learn about Soviet life to aid world peace and understanding. He hopes to meet Khrushchev and Gromyko and plans to discuss royalties with Soviet officials.
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Stevenson
Russia
Helsinki
Soviet Union
Central Asia
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Sverd
Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
Dep
A. I. Mikoyan
N. A. Mikhailov
N. Lebedev
United States
Ace Stevenson
Wes
Best Verse Of Congress Is Published
A new edition of The Congressional Anthology featuring 117 poems chosen by 145 members of Congress was published Saturday by University Press of Washington. Four poems are by members of Congress, including Brooks Hays and John M. Vorys, with editorial work by the Library of Congress. Profits go to a religious cause.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Congress
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
John M. Vorys
Rudyard Kipling
James Russell Lowell
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Sir Thomas More
William F. Knowland
Calif
Robert Frost
Pacific
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Badger Clark
Jacob K. Jayits
R-Ny
Theodore F. Green
D-Ri
Robert Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra
Shooting at tavern ends in siege and deaths in Idaho
In Sandpoint Idaho an elderly ex miner Emil Olkonen 74 after a quarrel over beer returned with a pistol and opened fire killing Ruby Tanner 66 the bartender Robert Hunter and a customer Bud McMurtrey. Police chief George F. Elliott 30 was wounded as officers fired about 300 shots during a three hour siege.
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Emil Olkonen
Ruby Tanner
Olkonen
George F. Elliott
Elliott
City Club
Robert Hunter
Bud McMurtrey
Work Time Lost Due To Sickness
Washington AP reports illness or injury kept Americans from normal activities for 662.8 million days in the July September quarter of 1957. If this rate continued, the yearly total would average about 16 restricted days per person. About 17 million people had chronic conditions causing ongoing limits as of August 1957. About 126.8 million days were lost from work, an annual rate of 7.9 days per employed person.
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Washington
The
Public Health Service
PHS
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Peggy Hurley
CWA
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Boren Clay Products Co
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Terboro
ML Poy
Standerd Point & Hardware Co
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M. P. Hayes
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Salem Steel Co
Greensboro
L. W. Hall
Carolina Telephones and Telegraph Co
Tarboro
Mose Riser
Guilford Dairy Cooperative Assn
J. Yvan Lindley
Lindley Nurseries, Inc
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co
Red A. Maynard
Tower Hosiery Mills, Inc
Burlington
James M. Peden
Peden Steel Co
Raleigh
Earl N. Phillips
Phillips-Davis
High Point
James W. Poole
J. T. Taylor
Wey Taylor Co
C. M. Vanstory, JR
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