Eisenhower Opens Five Day Midwest West Tour
President Eisenhower leaves Washington aboard the Columbine for a five day speaking trek through the upper Midwest New Hampshire and New York. He will address events in Minneapolis Mount Rushmore Garrison Dam and Dartmouth College and attend the Sagamore Hill dedication before returning to Washington.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Korea
Upper Middle West
New Hampshire
New York
Columbine
Minneapolis
Owo
Republican National Committee
Minot
N. C
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Rapid City
8. D
Mount Rushmore
Garrison Dam
Bismarck
N. D
Mt. Rushmore
South Dakota State Game Lodge
Custer State Park
Man Seeks 94 Dollar Bill Over Road Trips
New Britain George Head filed a claim with the City Council seeking 94 dollars arguing four trips on a rough road caused wear cost about 24 dollars per trip and required almost rebuilding his car.
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New Britain, Conn
George Head
Hedco Introduces Full Year Vacation For Long-Serving Workers
Hedco Manufacturing and Local 1031 AFL Electrical Workers announce a plan granting a full year's paid vacation every ten years of service. About five or six employees could qualify by end of 1955. Hedco, maker of phonographs and radios, employs 140 people, 85 percent of them women, with average wages from 55 to 60 dollars weekly for women and up to 80 for men.
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Chicago
Hedco Manufacturing Co
Hedco
AFL
Paul M. Davidson
Michael F. Darling
Tailless Calf Born To Rhode Island Farmer
In Arcadia Rhode Island farmer Thomas Zambini reports a Holstein cow with a broken tail gave birth to a tailless calf after two normal calves. He jokes the calf will have trouble keeping flies away.
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Arcadia, R. I
Thomas Zambini
Zambini
50th Anniversary of State Extension Service Observed
Raleigh highlights the North Carolina State College Agricultural Extension Service 50th anniversary during Farm and Home Week. Phillip Aylesworth of the U S Department of Agriculture speaks at Reynolds Coliseum as Extension Director David S Weaver notes gains in production and income. More than 1 000 women attend homemaking rural arts and crafts classes while over 150 farmers join 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
Escaped convict granted full pardon in Tennessee
NASHVILLE Tenn. A 31 year old tenant farmer Reavins Clinton Olive who turned himself in at the state prison last May 20 after escaping in 1942 was granted a full pardon by Gov Frank Clement on grounds of a good record since release and community petitions. Olive had served less than five months of a two to five year sentence for voluntary manslaughter and vowed to attend church weekly and register for the draft He planned to return to his Des Arc Arkansas farm after visiting his Iron City Tennessee home to pick up his wife and children.
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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 Who Was Stabbed to Death
In Asheville North Carolina a 28 year old woman Mrs Earlie Reese admitted to police she struck her 57 year old husband Judson Jones Reese with a paring knife during a family quarrel after he complained about her mother staying for supper He died from a stab wound and was found in the Reese yard. Mrs Reese said she whacked him but did not stab him. She left to 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
Bait for stenogs in Indianapolis draws crowds
Advertising executive Jim Dilley posted a newspaper want ad promising coffee breaks every half hour all day long as well as coke and beer breaks and a plan to earn a ring without working. The stunt drew more than 100 applicants in a single day.
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Stenogs Indianapolis
Jim Dilley
General Motors backs temporary excess profits tax extension
General Motors announced support for extending the excess profits tax to December 31, arguing it helps balance the budget. GM paid an estimated 20 percent of such taxes in 1952, and its stance contrasted with the Chamber of Commerce NAM opposition. White House push relied on business support. some speculated labor deals influenced views, though no evidence supported that claim.
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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
Curtice
Secretary of Treasury
Tice
U. S
NAM
White House
CIO
Cra
Mail Finds a Weeks Family on Cotton Street in Shreveport
A postman discovers a letter addressed to the Weeks family on Cotton Street in Shreveport. The note asks delivery despite wandering, as the family with four children reportedly faced hardship and is hard to locate the residence.
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E. F. Smith
Weeks
Cotton St
Shreveport
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