Social Security tax rate rises again in new year
AP reports that Social Security tax rates rise on January 1 with higher caps for workers and expanded employer shares. The 1960 maximum from a worker climbs to 144 dollars from 120, while the annual take from each employee and employer totals 240 this year and will reach 216 each from 1969, as the system’s funding aims to cover rising pension payments.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
New York
Uncle Sam
Congress
U.S. Treasury
Long Good Relations For Iran US Relations Deepen
President Eisenhower will visit Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi signaling a century of Iran United States diplomacy. Iranians honor Howard Baskerville with a monument at Tabriz marking his death in the constitutional movement. American presence in Iran grows through WWII Gulf Command aid, development work, and private business, reflecting shifting influence from Britain to the United States.
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Tom Masterson
Tehran
Iran
Eizenhower
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
United States
Tabriz
Howard Baskerville
Baskerville
America
Persian Gulf
Soviet Union
Prisoner Wins Poetry Contest With Whitman Lines
Kansas State Prison inmate Floyd E. Ireland signed his own name to Whitman lines and won a prison poetry contest. Three judges awarded him first prize of two cartons of cigarettes before a Times letter prompted review. Ireland later faced solitary confinement for smoking the cigarettes while the parole board considered his forgery sentence but denied parole. Life expectancy note on giant tortoise adds a distant fact.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas
John Greenleaf Whittler
Floyd E. Ireland
New York Times
The
Times
Andrew Ryklan
Ireland
State Parole Board
Iran Gains From US Backing In Oil Revival
Tranians criticize the United States for this saying you're too democratic. American aid helped restart Iran's vast petroleum fields after Mossadegh nationalized British properties in the early 1950s. An American engineered consortium operated under a settlement guaranteeing Iran half the earnings, a share now about 240 million dollars annually as production rises benefiting a population of 20 million with low living standards.
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United States
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Abadan
Swiss Break Up Black Magic Cult
Swiss police raiders dismantled a cult led by Paul Baumann at the Friedberg estate south of Bern. Fifty to sixty people were found in various hypnotic states, with an electrified oath book and coercive transfers of cash and possessions to Baumann. Several disciples were sent to mental homes for treatment.
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Michael Goldsmith
Bern
Switzerland
Paul Baumann
Ernest Spoerri
Friedberg
Mountain of Peace
Linden
Baumann
Beaver County Bus Hike Sought From PUC
Harrisburg AP reports a Beaver County bus company asked the Public Utility Commission to approve fare increases between 24 and 7 cents, with changes to take effect January 9. The request targets regional routes and aims to adjust revenue owing to rising operating costs.
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Harrisburg
Beaver County
Public Utility Commission
Six Drown In Swift Ala River Tragedy Fatal boat capsized
A father and four children, plus a neighbor boy, drowned in the Flint River near Ambridge when their motor boat swamped. Mrs. Jim Pearson survived after her 13 year old son Jerry cried for her to hold on as rescuers reached shore. TheOhio River Motor Coach Co. sought fare boosts to raise 25,600 dollars annually for higher operating costs and wages.
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Bainbridge, Ga
The
Ohio River Motor Coach Co
Ambridge
Swift
Flint
Jim Pearson
Jerry
Uw. Cou
Pearson
Nixon Seen Far Ahead At Present
Washington AP Vice President Richard M Nixon appears far ahead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination but much can change before the convention. GOP national chairman Sen Thruston B Morton of Kentucky spoke on CBS Face the Nation and said Nelson Rockefeller has made a good impression on party committeemen though he questioned Rockefeller's delegate haul. Morton called a Nixon Rockefeller ticket “a mighty good ticket.”
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Morton
Guv
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Nixon
Rockefeller
Drowning Hero Curtis Spruiell Saves Children at Shore
Curtis Spruiell a 30 year old mechanic drowned while trying to assist his children Mildred 9 Diane 8 Faye 6 and Jimmy 3 as spectators on the shore watched his wife holding Mary Elaine 1 and Jerry’s father in horror Read The Gazette Classified Ads.
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Curtis Spruiell
Mildred
Diane
Faye
Jimmy
Spruiell
Mary Elaine
Jerry
Cost of Living In Pa Rises To New High
AP reports Pennsylvania’s cost-of-living index hit a record 128.1 as of October, with sales tax up to 4 percent planned for August and medical costs climbing 4.2 percent in a ten month span through Oct 15. The index, based on 1947 prices, reflects broader price increases and the state commerce department notes.
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