Douglas Unions face two year pay deal rejection
Douglas Aircraft Co and North American Aviation Inc offered a two year contract with a 3 percent raise in year two and 2 to 11 cent hourly increases. UAW Local 887 rejected the proposal as inadequate while UAW 148 members plan a meeting at Memorial Stadium to discuss status of talks. Negotiations resumed after a weeklong break. union demands include more time to study the offer.
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Douglas Aircraft Co
North American Aviation, Inc
United Ate Workers of America
Jack Huest
Locall 87
Dougl
UAW 148
Long Beach Douglas
Memorial Stadium
Douglas
UAW
Ted
Long Beach
Tulsa
Fhe International Assn
Santa Monica
el Segunda
TAM
Southwest Tornadoes Kill 11 and Damage Heavy
Tornadoes across the Southwest killed at least 11 people and damaged thousands of acres as floods and rising waters swamped rural areas. Authorities tallied losses at millions, with Arkansas and Texas counties hardest hit. Several schools faced flood peril, while teachers in Lacoste and others acted to save children as twisters toppled girders and flooded communities faced evacuation.
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United Prest
Garland
Avis
Miler County
Arkansas
Dale Smith
National Guard
Sas
Trary
San Antonio
Tex
Eafe
WM BARKED AS JUDGE OF WELCOMERS
WM glanced over the Miss Welcome Contest results and sighed. He explains that their No Contest conditions were rejected, forcing all black books to be checked at the door as part of the process.
Unemployment benefits edge down as aid rolls fall
Washington reports 3.932 million unemployed on state benefit rolls, down 760 from the prior week. New claims fell to 423,000 in the week ending April 26 as job losses ease amid a recovering economy.
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Washington
Labor Department
Runaways Balked at Washing Dishes
Hunger drove two boys aged 10 and 11 from a Whittier Hills camping site. They wandered to Turnbull Canyon seeking food, citing a Scout troop as their group. Mrs. Nancy Ann Riley fed them before deputies found them as the missing Norwalk youths.
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Bill Duncan
Norwalk
Whittier Hills
Turnbull Canyon
Robert Allen Crawford
Jimmy
Volunteer Ave
Nancy Ann Riley
Stronger Wings for All B47s
The Air Force will beef up about 1,400 B47 bombers after a high altitude to low level attack test showed structural weakness. Work will take several months but won’t harm deterrent capability. In Oklahoma a sheriff’s station case, two boys left home after their mother’s quarrel and were found cold in weeds with minimal clothing. They were released to juvenile division and later home to a large taco supper.
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Washington
Air Force
Norwalk
Lucy
Tulsa
Okla
Jas
Marietta
Sheriff’s
Earl Larsen
Bombers Built by Boeing and Lockheed Under Review
The BAT is a Boeing Airplane Co. design, but both Boeing and Lockheed have built some bombers and new operation modification centers.
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Bere Reas
Boeing Airplane Co
Ate
Lockheed
Washington dinner parties bring strangers together
Drew Pearson notes that Washington dinner parties can pair strangers at the table. In St Louis a 6 year old girl has been missing for two days, sparking fear and renewed search efforts described on Page A-7.
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Washington
Drew Pearson
St. Louis
Dulles Calls Soviet Veto Frightening and Tragic
Secretary of State Dulles, in a United Nations speech, denounced the Soviet veto of President Eisenhower’s Arctic inspection plan as frightening and tragic. He warned the Soviet Union’s rejection of international inspection keeps the world on the edge of an abyss and risks massive surprise attack.
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Pon
De'o
United Na
Security Council
Soviet Union
Union
Dulles
Ory
Unies
Refugee Sister Found Alive Near Black Lake
Sophie Sauer a 23 year old Polish refugee in Miami says her twin sister Alexandra once thought dead is living in Black Lake in this country. Sophie plans to search for her now.
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Sophie Sauer
Miami
Fla
Alexandra
Black Lake
Sophie
U S to Fire Live Missiles From Johnston Island
The government announced it will fire short range missiles armed with nuclear warheads from Johnston Island in the Pacific as part of a test series. Defense Secretary McElroy and AEC Chairman Strauss described the missiles as defensive in nature. Johnston Island lies 540 miles southwest of Hawaii. the next inhabited island is 900 miles away.
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Washington
Johnston Island
Pacific
Defense
Neil H. ‘McElroy
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis Strauss
Miss Welcome winner from Long Beach crowned at Municipal Auditorium
Jacqueline Rose Marie Carter, 20, a Long Beach State College junior, wins Miss Welcome after impressing judges with calm microphone presence and poised answers. She is an English-speech major, student body treasurer, and will host the Miss Universe Pageant. five runners up named.
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Cesact Phosy
John Neagle
Jacki Rose Marie Carter
Long Beach
Jacqueline Rose Marie Carter
Jacki
Patricia Louise Arider
Jan Britt
Sally Margaret Cannon
Patti Caraco
Joanna Schweighofer
College
Chamber of Commerce
Edgewood Farms
Banning
Polytechnic High School
Long Beach City College
Jackie
New Miss England Selected
A 22 year old model Wendy Peters from West Byfleet won the Miss England title, the second in four days, amid controversy and protests about costumes and padding. Judge Eric D. Morley cited discretion and waspy costumes as factors in the decision. Wendy said she wore a Waspy to prevent costume ripping.
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London
Wendy Peters
West Byfleet
June
Cooper
Sheffield
America
Wendy
Miss Peters
Eric D. Morley
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Atmigny
Lacoste
Pine Bluff
Ark
Bartholomew Bayou
Allen
Jimmy Crawford
Judicial Office
Sumerfield
Post Office Department
Post Office Judicial Office
Summerfield
Charles Ablard
Enid
Ablard Haseen
Assis Department
Acashington
Neil H. McElray
Pentagon
McElroy
Hoover
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hollywood
National Planning Assn
H. Christian Sonns
NPA Board
House Banking Committee
Joan Marchesani
U.S
State College Coed
By Bob Beckman
Burton Walker
England
Lucifer Lightfoot
Beans Reardon
Heaven
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pittsburgh
Dodgers
Ak Victory
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