Pigeon Drops Nails On Janitor
CHICAGO AP The Jones Commercial High School director Clarence Carey told students to stop tossing nails from windows after chief engineer Elmer Betz complained nails were being dropped into the parking lot. A janitor was struck by a falling nail as a pigeon carried one in its beak, then dropped it, solving the mystery and clearing the students.
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Chicago
Jones Commercial High School
Clarence Carey
Carey
Elmer Betz
Actress Marie Wilson Named Beneficiary in Estate
In Los Angeles, actress Marie Wilson was named chief beneficiary in the will of stage electrician George Thompson, whom she drove home after every performance of Ken Murray's Blackouts for over seven years. She also was approved as administrator of the estate, estimated at about 10 thousand dollars. Archaeological work in southern Kurdistan uncovered remains of an early Neolithic village dating to around 8500 B.C.
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Los Angeles
Marie Wilson
Ken Murray
Kurdistan
Rail Merger Date Delayed by ICC Action
The Interstate Commerce Commission moved back the New York Central and Pennsylvania rail merger date from August 1 to August 12. The ICC, which had approved the merger last April, granted a request from Erie Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson railroads to postpone until July 11 the deadline for petitions contesting the merger, delaying the merger’s effective date.
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Washington
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ekrie-Lackawanna
Delaware & Hudson
ICC
Pa Cherry Crop Cot Curtailed By May Freeze
Washington AP The Agriculture Department forecasts Pennsylvanias sour cherry production at 8000 tons this year down from 14000 last year. The sharp cut follows May freezes across the Great Lakes states New York Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin. The combined five state output is forecast at 86800 tons, about half of last years crop.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
May
Great Lakes
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
CIA Leadership Change Aims to Ease Senate Supervision Clash
Senate leaders say Raborn’s CIA resignation was not a covert move to ease the fight over supervision of the agency. Fulbright and Mansfield insist the dispute centers on Senate oversight, not CIA internal changes, as Johnson nominates a successor and the Foreign Relations Committee weighs actions.
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Senate
Harry Kelly Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
William F. Raborn
CIA
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Russell
Raborn
Tolsources
Fulbright
Cias
Kright
Thns Committee
Johnson
Nomi
Dent
Bear Fulbright
Richard M. Helms
Intelligence
Eaven
Sure
Supervie Relations Committee
Viet Nam
Stantiva Intelligence
Michigan State
Univer H
Rabpane
Sen. Richard
Sity
B. Russell
Armed Services Committee
Grocers Elect Allentown Man As President
ATLANTIC CITY New Jersey AP The Pennsylvania Grocers Association chose T J Zurowski of Allentown as president at its annual convention Zurowski is general manager of Lehigh Wholesale Grocery Co Also elected were Russell Firestine first vice president Worth Miller second vice president and Bernard Young third vice president Directors named include William Golden Harvey Potashman and Frank Zazzera
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Atlantic City
N.J
Pennsylvania Grocers’ Association
T. J. Zurowski
Allentown
Zurowski
Lehigh Wholesale Grocery Co
Russell Firestine
West Pittston
Worth Miller
Huntingsoo
Land Bernard Young
New Freedom
William Golden
Wilkes-Barre
Harvey Potashman
Cannonsburg
Frank Zazzera
Scranton
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Charles Bankosky
Charles Bankosky Texaco, Inc
Duncansville, Pa
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