Record May Jobs Jump To 68.2 Million Nationwide
May added about 1.4 million jobs to a total of 68.203 million, a May record. Unemployment fell to 3.719 million, rate to 5.4 percent, with farm employment at 5.428 million and nonfarm at 62.8 million. Experts view the gains as reflecting renewed business confidence and teen labor force influx ahead of summer hiring.
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Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Seymour L. Wolfbein
Wolfbein
State Will Conduct Own Road Study
The Highway Commission votes to use its planning department for an east west traffic study to save money and produce a report. A June 4 origin destination survey directed by James Burch will run through June and wrap in six months. The panel approved nearly seven million dollars in bids on 29 projects and revised urban maintenance funding. The group also ferried funds to aid the Ocracoke Atlantic toll ferry and criticized current interstate planning favoring military and industrial corridors over development.
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Raleigh
The
Highway Commission
Merrill Evans
Sanford
James Burch
Lee County
Mainenance
U. S
General Secondary Road Fund
Ocracoke - Atlantic
James MacLamroe
Greensboro
North Carolina
Fort Bragg
MacLamroc
1336 Removed From Political Purge Lists
Seoul South Korea AP reports the Korean military junta announced names of 1396 politicians and former officials cleared by screening and removed from a purge list of 4369. The remaining 3033 were barred from political activity until 1968.
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Seoul
South Korea
Pame
Trio Is Kidnaped By Reds
A Viet Cong raid on a leper colony 150 miles northeast of Saigon kidnapped three American missionaries. The camp at Ban Me Thuot area was attacked as nine others, including four nurses and Mitchell’s family, were unharmed. The Alliance and Vietnamese army coordinate hopes for safe release.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ban Me Thuot
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Thomas G. Mangham
Alliance
A. E. Mitchell
Ely
Ore
Daniel Gerber
Pennsylvania
E. A. Vietty
Houston
Tex
Iamp
Mitchell
Mangham
Viet Nam
FourYearOld Falls Into Abandoned Shaft Dies In Alberta
Kenny Kowalchuk, 4, fell into an abandoned mine shaft near Ghost Pine Creek Alberta and was found 34 hours later. Rescue workers say he suffocated with broken bones and earth covering his head as officials raised the body from 54 feet below. The mother was in the crowd at the pithead when the recovery bucket was lowered.
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Ghost Pine Creek
Alta
Kenny Kowalchuk
Three Hills
Kenny
Buying surge lifts stocks as market rebounds after May holiday
The New York Stock Exchange saw heavy buying from individuals and institutions pushing the market higher, with the AP average up 6.70 and the Dow up 4.29 at noon. Major boosts included American Telephone IBM and U S Steel, amid two to one buy dominance and foreign investor activity. A congressional subcommittee will probe the earlier crash and inventory policies, starting hearings in June.
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Darden Chambliss
AP Business News
NEW York
Wheeling
Associated Press
Dow Jones
New York Stock Exchange
American Telephone
International
U.S. Steel
Boeing
Union Carbide
Henry Reuss
D-Wis
Milwaukee
Freight Train Collides With Express At Voghera
A fast freight train ran a red light and crashed into a Riviera bound passenger express near Voghera Italy killing at least 61 and injuring about 70. The station master said the freight passed the light 800 yards from the station as flags and lanterns were waved.
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Sergio Marsotto Voghera
Italy
Milan
Samuel Vezzosi
Eisenhower Says He Prefers Jail To Kennedy Farm Plan
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly told Rep. Catherine May that he would choose jail over laws in the Kennedy farm program proposals. May quoted Eisenhower discussing penalties schools of jail terms for noncompliant farmers and noted his stance on government farm aid. John, AG general counsel, said no criminal penalties exist in current law or the Kennedy bill, only civil penalties, while a dairy provision once threatened criminal penalties. Secretary Orville Freeman later concurred with the shift away from jail terms.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Catherine May
R-Wash
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
John
Agriculture Department
Red China Targets Youth Marriages in Public Health Push
Beijing reports a campaign via the China Youth News urging delayed marriages to curb population growth. Doctors cite ideal marriage ages of 23 to 27 for women and 25 to 29 for men, while laws set minimum ages at 18 and 20. Personal letters describe health decline from early childbearing, including a 25 year old with five children and a 22 year old facing a fourth pregnancy.
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John Roderick Tokyo
China
China Youth News
Yeh Kung-Shao
Dean
Department of Public Health
Peking Medical College
Liu Fa
Benny Goodman to Perform Gershwin In Leningrad
AP reports Benny Goodman and Byron Janis will play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in Leningrad on June 20. The tour marks a high point for Janis in Moscow and follows Khrushchev’s approval of the jazz visit.
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Preston
Grover Moscow
Benny Goodman
George Gershwin
Leningrad
Goodman
Byron Janis
New York
Moscow
Gershwin
Russia
Ninth District Race Called Battleground
Statesville NC area reports Bert L Bennett chairing a Democratic meeting on the Ninth District contest between incumbent Hugh Q Alexander and Republican James T Broyhill. Bennett described the district as a real battleground. Claude Armfield and Mrs Virginia Foglia named to the Democratic State Campaign Committee.
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Statesville
N.C
Bert L. Bennett
Democratic Executive Committee
Ninth Congressional District
Hugh Q. Alexander
James T. Broyhill
Bennett
Claude Armfield
Lenoir
Virginia Foglia
Albemarle
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Voice of America
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