Starkweather execution stayed to June 4 in Nebraska
Charles Starkweather 20, condemned for 11 killings, saw his planned electric chair date halted as U.S. Judge Richard Robinson stayed the execution to allow a District Court appeal. The stay came after failed habeas corpus efforts, with details of appeals routed through Gardner and Van Pelt. Caril Fugate remains in York, unaware of the delay.
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Lincoln
Charles Starkweather
U.S. Dist
Richard Robinson
Omaha
Starkweather
Toppeal
Hattie Bowley
Reformatory
Carils
Bow
Guy
Archibald K. Gardner
U.S. 8Th Circuit
Court of Appeals
Huron
S.D
Fale Gardner
Robinson
U.S
United States District Court
Nebraska’ State Penitentiary
Harrisburg Governor bets on public support for tax plan
Gov. Lawrence, in a news conference, says he will seek a grass roots campaign to back his $1.7 billion two year tax budgets. He remains open to compromise with Republican leaders if public opinion does not rise. The 69 year old chief executive speaks authoritatively about embattled proposals and politics.
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Herb Linnen
Harrisburg
Lawrence
Cal
Dixonville Fire Destroys Bedroom. Damage Estimated at $500
A fire in Dixonville, sparked by children playing with matches, gutted a bedroom in a two acre frame house near Clifford Banks. Clymer volunteers arrived at 1 35 pm, using booster-tank water to control the blaze and prevent total destruction. Damage, including bedroom furniture and clothing, is around $500. Red Cross and Salvation Army appeals have been issued for emergency aid.
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Dixonville
Clifford Banks
Clymer
Bruce Phillips
Fortunes Of War Fickle Carrier Guadalcanal Scrapped
The escort carrier Guadalcanal, famed for capturing a German submarine in World War II, was towed upstream to be scrapped. Navy records list it as the only American vessel to capture an enemy sub at sea. the submarine is preserved as a Chicago museum attraction. Elks announce a 7:00 p.m. meeting Saturday at the club to attend a $20 event at Hathaway Funeral Home.
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Bayonne
Guadalcanal
Navy
Amerin Veegel
Chicago
US Living Costs Hit New Peak
The Labor Department reports April living costs rose to a record high, aided by higher state and local taxes. Transportation, medical care, recreation and personal care costs increased while food fell slightly. Factory workers’ spendable earnings also rose to a record, with weekly take home pay up for those with dependents and overtime. About 160,000 workers will gain raises under the new figures, including small increases for Westinghouse and Caterpillar Tractor employees.
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Washington
Labor Department
Labor’s Department
Westinghouse “Electric Co
Caterpillar Tractor Co
West-inghouse
Court Plans Coin Machine Appeal Talks
Pittsburgh AP report states the State Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Superior Court and Fayette County decisions that multiple coin spinball machines are illegal gambling devices. The case traces to seizures in 1957 and a 1958 Fayette County ruling, with the issue now set for the court’s fall session in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
State Supreme Court
Superior Court
Fayette County
Supreme Court
William Hirt
Uniontown
Connellsville
Brownsville
Eustace Bane
Quake Shocks Wellington Darkens City, Damages Reported
A 15 second earthquake struck Wellington causing damage across the city and plunging about a third of residents into darkness. Windows shattered chimneys toppled and objects were knocked from shelves in scattered impact across the capital.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Indiana High Nets Fourth County League Win
Indiana High won their fourth Tri-County League game yesterday. This item appears among other sports features on pages 18 and 19. Peter Edson's column on page 6 argues big business claims savings, yet questions their own.
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Little Indians
Indiana High
Peter Edson
Weather Forecast Readable Fragment
Variable cloudiness with warmth and humidity and scattered showers and thundershowers. Tonight and Saturday expect a warm humid spell. Low tonight around 8 to 10 degrees and high Saturday near 74 to 82 degrees.
Aiken Attacks Benson Over REA Bank Proposal
Senator George D. Aiken charged Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with aiming to place farmers under corporate control. He argued Benson’s plan to finance the Rural Electrification Administration programs through a bank system would let cooperatives become banks and eventually be bought by large private utilities, forcing many REA cooperatives to surrender to private ownership.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft “Benson
Aiken
Benson -Eisenhower
Senate
Benson
Rural Electrification Agency
Ultmately
REA
Pittsburgh Dairy Strike Vote Affects Western Pennsylvan ia
Pittsburgh AP reports dairy workers including 3,000 plant employees and driver salesmen in Allegheny Butler Armstrong Indiana Greene Westmoreland Lawrence Beaver Fayette Mercer and Washington counties consider backing a strike to press for new terms with the Greats Pittsburgh Milk Dealers Assn. Negotiators expected to meet after a 1708 to 383 rejection vote and resuming talks next week. Memorial Day Flowers Learn’s Greenhouse Rainbow Lake.
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Pittsburgh
Lemployes
Greatés
Pittsburgh’ Milk Dealers Assn
Ce Ajstrike
Western
Pennsyylvania
Focal
Aiken
Senate
Benson
Charles DeRenzo
Allegheny
Butler
Armstrong
Indiana
Greene
Westmoreland
Lawrence
Beaver
Fayette
Mercer
Washington
Aiken, Benson clash over REA finance plan
Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson praised Aiken and voiced shock at Benson’s proposal to fund REA programs through an independent bank modeled on the Farm Credit Administration rather than Treasury loans. Benson pitched a farm credit system created with government aid to aid farmers in earlier depressions. Aiken noted his vote against overriding an Eisenhower veto that would curb the agriculture secretary’s control over EA loans.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Aiken
Benson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Farm Credit Administration
Treasury
Aikyn
Eisenhower
Thes Secretary of Agriculture
Fire damages Plumville mill at Shearer Woodside Planing Mill
Plumville volunteers fought a late night fire that caused 4500 damage to the Shearer Woodside Planing Mill near Plumville. Conveyor damage noted as the blaze rekindled at 11 20 pm before firefighters relabeled the fire. Fire Chief Mike Knapp reported the first alarm sounded at 8 30 pm.
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Plumville
Shearer Woodside
Mike Knapp
Plead Innocent In Apalachin Case Six Men Released on Bail
Six men who attended the Apalachin gangland meeting pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court to charges of obstructing justice. They were released on bail totaling 132,500 dollars.
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New York
Khrushchev Eyes Nuclear Ban and Crime Crackdown
Soviet Premier Khrushchev says agreement in Geneva on stopping nuclear tests by year end with Soviet American scientific cooperation. Separately, federal prosecutors reveal a sealed indictment against 27, 6 arraigned, 21 seized, in a major organized crime crackdown across New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
Khrushchev
World’ Federation of Scientists
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Khrush‘chev
Only Hope For Peace Herter
Geneva AP Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that the world praises the Western plan for a German peace settlement and laments Soviet rejection. He argued reunification is essential to peace and security in Europe and urged parallel steps toward European security and disarmament. West Germany seeks a Berlin pledge before any summit, and talks resume Monday after a brief recess as Western ministers pursue patience with the Soviet stance.
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J. M. Hightower
Geneva
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Herter
Soviet Union
Gromyko
Europe
Cation
Romyko
Germany
West Germany
NATO
East Germany
Berlin
Heinrich von Bretano
United States
Britain
France
Strike Triggers Ferry Riots in Rio de Janeiro
Commuters stranded by a sudden ferryboat strike burned a ferry terminal and clashed with police as authorities moved to quell the riot in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Four Wheat Programs Face Senate and House Clash
Washington AP Senators confront a grain surplus crisis as both chambers debate at least four divergent wheat programs to take effect next year. Secretary Benson argues for trimming price supports and shifting to market-based farming, while Congress weighs stopgap plans preserving 56 million acres with reduced parity supports and penalties for overplanting. The issue hinges on curbing production without hurting farmers as the nation holds a year’s supply.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ezra Tait Benson
Benson
Everett M.dirksen
GOP
Agriculture Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
D'Ming
Midwest Wheat
Frank Carlson
R-Kan
Cal
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