Eisenhower Sets Five Day Speaking Tour Across Midwest
President Eisenhower begins a five day tour starting in Minneapolis with a speech to the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He will address domestic and international issues, visit Mount Rushmore, Garrison Dam, and attend Dartmouth College events before dedicating Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Korea
Upper Middle West
New Hampshire
New York
Columbine
Minneapolis
Republican National Cou.re
Og A
Minoi
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Rapid City
8. D
Mount Rushmore
Garrison Dam
Minot
Bismarck
N. D
Mt. Rushmore
South Dakota State Game Lodge
Custer State Park
Head Sues City Council Over Costly Bumpy Trips
George Head filed a bill with New Britain City Council for 94 dollars claiming four trips over a rough stretch damaged his car and cost about 24 dollars per trip. He says he had to rebuild his automobile.
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New Britain, Conn
George Head
Hedco Offers Ten Year Full Vacation Plan for Workers
Hedco Manufacturing and Local 1031 AFL Electrical Workers announced a new contract offering a full year's paid vacation every ten years of service. About five or six employees may be eligible by year end 1955. Hedco, maker of phonographs and radios, employs around 160 people with average weekly wages from $55 to $60 for women and higher for men.
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Chicago
Hedco Manufacturing Co
Hedco
AFL
Paul M. Davidson
Michael F. Darling
Tailless Calf Born in Arcadia Farm
Farmer Thomas Zambini reports a tailless calf from a Holstein cow whose tail was broken. The cow had two normal calves before this unusual birth, and Zambini notes the creature will face many flies without a tail.
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Arcadia, R. I
Thomas Zambini
Zambini
General Motors backs extension of excess profits tax
General Motors would be recorded in favor of extending the excess profits tax as part of the Eisenhower administration program. GM paid roughly 20 percent of all excess profits taxes in 1952, more than $300 million. The move contrasts with the Chamber of Commerce NAM opposition and amid White House hopes for business support.
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Lyle
Wilson
United Press
Washington
General Motors
Eisenhower
Treasury
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
House Ways and Means Committee
Chamber
Association
Harlow H. Curtice
Kansas City
Iee
Curtice
Secretary of Treasury
Tice
U. S
NAM
White House
CIO
50th Anniversary of State Extension Service Observed
RALEIGH The 50th anniversary of the North Carolina State College Agricultural Extension Service was observed during Farm and Home Week. Phillip Aylesworth of the U S Department of Agriculture spoke at Reynolds Coliseum replacing J Earl Coke. David S Weaver urged efficiency to raise per capita farm income from 39th. Over 1,000 women attended homemaking rural arts and crafts classes and more than 150 farmers joined agronomy demonstrations.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State College Agricultural Extension Service
Farm and Home
Phillip Aylesworth
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Reynolds Coliseum
Aylesworth
J. Earl Coke
David S. Weaver
North Carolina
Weaver
Escaped convict pardoned after self surrender tale
A 31 year old tenant farmer Reavins Clinton Olive, who escaped in 1942 after a brief prison term, surrendered due to a guilty conscience. Governor Clement granted him a full pardon upon petitions from Des Arc Ark residents. Olive plans to return to Des Arc and live upright, with church attendance and draft registration.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frank Clement
Reavins
Clinton Olive
Olive
Des Arc
Ark
State Pardon and Paroles Board
Clement
Iron City
Wife Pillows Dying Husband for Murder Charge
In Asheville North Carolina a 28 year old woman, Mrs Earlie Reese, was charged with murder after admitting she struck her 57 year old husband Judson Jones Reese with a paring knife during a quarrel. She said she then left for her mother's house after placing a jacket under his head.
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Asheville
N. C
Earlie Reese
Judson Jones Reese
Reese Yard
Reese
Advertising executive seeks stenographers in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis an advertising executive named Jim Dilley faced hiring woes for stenographers. He ran a newspaper want ad offering unusual break benefits including coffee coke and beer breaks and a “how to earn a living without working” plan. The ad drew over 100 applicants in one day.
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Bait Por Stenogs
Indianapolis
Jim Dilley
Postman Delivers Letter Aimed at Weeks Family on Cotton St
In Shreveport Louisiana a postal worker found an undelivered note addressed to the Weeks family on Cotton Street. The message asked for delivery despite the family’s reported hardship. The letter led the clerk to an artist then an apartment-house owner with a man named Weeks renting, and the mail was eventually delivered.
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Shreveport
E. F. Smith
Weeks
Cotton St
Smith
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