Industry Presents Its Side in Steel Strike Fight
Washington reports the Steelworkers Union offers two options to the nation: another inflationary steel price rise or no steel at all. Industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper labeled the union's claims as hogwash and pressed inflation fears as the central issue. The inquiry board heard industry arguments after the union spoke, aiming to brief President Roosevelt on the strike's facts and potential settlements.
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Washington
R. Conrad Cooper
White House
Cooper
Whch
President Eisenhower Turns 69 In Abilene
Abilene high school pupils sang Happy Birthday to their famous alumnus as President Eisenhower left his hometown for Washington on his 69th birthday. He cut ground for a presidential library, then flew from Schilling Air Force Base to the capital amid a crowd of students and a surprise from two sisters presenting cake.
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Abilene
Kan
Eisenhower
Washington
Schilling Air Force Base
Salina
Schilling
Abilene High School
Suzanne
Debbie
Abilene Hotel
Eisenhower Library
Van Doren Cooperates With Marshal in Subpoena Fight
United States Marshal Thomas J. Lunney said he will serve a subpoena on Charles Van Doren to testify on fixed TV quiz shows. Van Doren’s attorney Carl J. Rubino said arrangements for service were being made as Van Doren returns to New York amid a public furor over his whereabouts. The House Subcommittee led by Rep. Oren Harris has charged Van Doren ducked the subpoena previously.
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New York
U. S
Charles van Doren
Thomas J. Lunney
Carl J. Rubino
Charlie
Lunney
Charco
van Doren
New England
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Rubino
Columbia Univer
Fifteen Year Old Delights Governors at Southern Parley
Janice Smiley, 15, charmed Southern governors at a parley in Asheville North Carolina. She joined official tours and a reception at Governor Boggs home, befriended his daughter, and rode along with the official party to Mt Mitchell before returning home.
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Janice Smiley
Asheville
N. C
Janice
Delaware
Caleb Boggs
Lee Edwards
Governors’ Hotel
Alabama
John Patterson
Gov. Boggs
Mt. Mitchell
Lynn Crislip
Southern Governors Call For Protest On Road Aid Cuts
Governors from Tennessee and other Southern states pressed the federal Bureau of Public Roads to rescind road budget cuts that would reduce allocations approved by Congress. The Southern Governors Conference, meeting in Asheville for its 25th anniversary, also elected Virginia's J Lindsay Almond Jr. as chairman of the Highway Committee and heard Faubus report on industrial development.
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Asheville
Southern Governors’ Conference
Western Governors
Buford Ellington
Tennessee
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Virginia
Con
National Governors’ Conference
Bureau of Public Roads
Congress
Ellington
Faubus
Orval Faubus
Industrial Development Committee
South
J. Howard Edmondson
Oklahoma
Ernest Hollings
South Carolina
Edmundson
Gov
Price Daniel
Texas
United States
Alliances To Vanish Says Khrushchev Calls For NATO SEATO CENTO Abolition
Premier Khrushchev warned that NATO SEATO and CENTO would vanish and dismissed Western calls for anti Communist actions. He spoke in Novosibirsk on his way home from Peiping and blasted bourgeois press for urging stronger alliances as a path to direct or indirect aggression.
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Moscow
Nikita’Khrushchev
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
Novosibirsk
Peiping
NATO
SEATO
CENTO
ENTOS
Paratrooper Is Given 3 5 Year Term In Slaying
Raleigh AP reports 30 year old paratrooper Harry Hugh Pope received a 3 to 5 year sentence for the death of 19 year old Mary Lee Duncan a Raleigh waitress. Pope was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after trial under a murder charge. His attorneys filed an appeal to the State Supreme Court. Bond was set at TM,000. Pope, a Jackson Michigan native stationed at Fort Bragg, faced first degree murder before the court reduced the charge and the jury found involuntary manslaughter which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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Raleigh (Ap
Burgwyn
Harry Hugh Pope
Pretty Mary Lee Duncan
Raleigh
Pope
State Supreme Court
Jackson
Mich
Ft. Bragg
Strikers Families Face Hardship Amid Steel Walkout
Morrisville residents describe dire finances as 6,100 U.S. Steel Fairless Works workers strike drags on. Mortgage payments fall behind, meals shrink to stews, groceries shrink, and families worry they cannot catch up even after the conflict ends. Wives urge patience while hoping for a favorable settlement.
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Morrisville
Rock Bottom
Helen Galambos
U.S. Steel Corp. Fairless Works
General Metts Dies After Attack at 82
Brig. Gen. John Van B. Metts, 82, longtime North Carolina adjutant general, died after a heart attack. He served 31 years in state service and directed draft boards in World War I. Funeral at Christ Church Raleigh with graveside rites in Wilmington. He was born December 17, 1876 in Wilmington.
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Raleigh
John van B. Metts
North Carolina
Thomas W. Bickett
Metts
Spotswood Hunt
Christ Church
Wilmington
Oakdale Cemetery
Hunt
Cape Fear
National Guard
Mexico
2Nd North Carolina
Permit Needed For Spike Heels
Mobile officials propose a city permit for women wearing spike heels to avoid liability after falls on streets and sidewalks. The ordinance bans heels under an inch in diameter and would grant free permits for all spike heel wearers to relieve the city of responsibility in accidents.
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Commissioners
Asheville Bank Robbery Captive Suspect Identified As Waters
A 28 year old Asheville man Carl Waters was captured 17 minutes after the First Union National Bank robbery. The note demanding cash and a pistol were used in the 10 18 a m holdup. The loot under 1000 dollars was recovered and Waters was later identified by the FBI.
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Asheville
First Union National Bank and Trust Co
FBI
Carl Waters
Charles D. Parker
Myra Wolfe
Parker
Wolfe
Gordon Manufacturing Co
Woodfin
Waters
Sheriff's Department
Buncombe Couty
Brush Fire Threatens Foothill Communities North of Los Angeles
A fast moving brush fire near Los Angeles expanded to about 1 200 acres and neared La Canada and Pasadena foothills. Homes burned including Guy F Atkinson's residence valued around 50 000, while actors Dennis Morgan and his wife evacuated to a Red Cross center. About 200 to 300 residents were evacuated but many returned by dawn as the threat eased.
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Los Angeles
Arroyo Seco
Jet Laboratory
Rose Bowl
Pasadena
la Canada
Guy F. Atkinson
Atkinson
Dennis Morgan
Red Cross
Flintridge Preparatory School
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N.C
Durham Bank & Trust Co
Rees Oben
Watts Hill Jr
Durham
Ard C. Heyn
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Angeles Crest Highway
Scenic Angeles National Forest
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