Big Steel Firms Sign New 30 Month Pact
Washington report says United Steelworkers Union and 11 major steel companies signed a 30 month contract ending eight months of talks. Kaiser Steel’s Edgar Kaiser's role highlighted. Some small firms balking, five firms rejecting the package with settlements below the 24.2 percent figure.
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Washington
United Steelworkers Union
R. Conrad Cooper
Union
David J. McDonald
Secretary of
Labor
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Richard M. Nixon
Edgar F. Kaiser
Kaiser Steel
Kaiser
UPI
Eisenhower
Moultrop Steel Products Co
Coons Pacific Co
Pittsburgh Pacific Co
Boland and Cornelius
Skubie Brothers Co
Fire kills fifty cattle in Wisconsin barn blaze
A frame barn and milk house on the Alvin Driessen farm in Little Chute Wisconsin were destroyed by fire. Fifty cattle were killed and firemen saved 30 head.
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Little Chute
Wis
UPI
Alvin Driessen
Weather Update for Kenosha and Local Readings
Cloudy but warmer conditions return to Kenosha today with similar forecasts. Tonight, expect occasional clouds and a bit higher. Low 15 to 20. high Thursday in the low 30s. Sewage plant records show high 20 and low 6 yesterday. midnight low 9. Noon readings: Southport Park 27, American Motors 32, downtown 30. Sunrise 7 18, sunset 4 36.
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Kenosha
Southport Park
American Motors
Congress Reopens Amid Election Years Ambition
Congress reconvenes in a presidential election year with focus on politics and upcoming investigations across foreign affairs defense television outer space drug prices and boxing. President Eisenhower to deliver State of the Union and party leaders eye economy and civil rights bills amid shifting majorities and looming adjournment.
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Congress
Eisenhower
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National Presbyterian
Outer Space
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Insurance Urged For Space Men
Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario proposed federal paid life insurance of 100000 for each of the seven Mercury astronauts, including Air Force Capt. Donald Slayton of Sparta Wisconsin. He said Hartford insurers showed willingness to issue policies despite space travel hazards and data gaps for rates.
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Washington
Emilio Q. Daddario
D-Conn
Air Force
Donald Slayton
Sparta
Wis
Daddario
Hartford
Beauty Queen Grieved After Mother's Death
Natchez Mississippi Mrs Magdalyn Mead 46 mother of Lynda Lee Mead Miss America 1960 died suddenly at her home. Her daughter was weather bound en route from Chicago to New Orleans and may attempt to fly into Natchez via New Orleans.
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Natchez, Miss
Magdalyn Mead
Lynda Lee Mead
Chicago
New Orleans
Natchez
Italian President Gronchi postpones Moscow visit
Italian President Giovanni Gronchi has postponed his Moscow trip until February due to illness, announced by the Italian ambassador in Moscow. In India a coal mine near Nagpur at Damua flooded, killing 16 miners, reports said.
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Russia
Moscow
New Delhi
India
UPHC
Damua
Nagpur
Unloaded Rifle Drives Off Bancroft Bank Bandit
Bancroft Wisconsin bank manager Jesse L. Judd confronted a would-be robber at Bancroft State Bank with an unloaded rifle after the bandit fired into the floor near a customer. The gunman fled in a 1955 or 1956 Oldsmobile. road blocks set by multiple counties found no trace. The suspect, about 30, six feet tall with sideburns and mustache, wore a plaid jacket or shirt.
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Bancroft State Bank
Jesse L. Judd
Judd
Jenny Hansen
Plainfield
Alice Polley
Theodore Tymuss
Westfield
Wood
Portage
Adams
Waushara
Wisconsin Rapids
Stevens Point
Portage County
Bancroft Bank
Dickerson Testifies on Mob Payoffs Tied to Driscoll
Former state Republican chairman John J. Dickerson testified that slain gambler Willie Moretti said he paid a clerk in the governor's office 12,000 dollars a month for protection with 10,000 dollars earmarked for former New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll.
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Hackensack
N. J
UPI
John J. Dickerson
Willie Moretti
New Jersey
Alfred E. Driscoll
High School Militia Expanded in Cuba
Fidel Castro's government orders immediate organization of a high school military program to supplement university student brigades already conducting field exercises in the Sierra Maestra mountains in eastern Cuba.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
Sierra Maestra
Cuba
Bank Call Issued by Washington Comptroller
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks as of close of business Thursday December 31.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency Today
Wisconsin lawmakers near end of stalemate in 1959 session
Fresh start in Madison after a two week recess aims to break the stalemate over state finances. GOP backs a May recess to allow a citizens tax committee to finish work while Democrats oppose Gov. Nelson’s plan to raise income taxes to balance a 23 million dollar deficit.
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Madison
Wisconsin
GOP
Citizens’ Tax Committee
Gaylord Nelson
Senate
Nelson
Tax Department
Assembly
Wisconsin Senate Opens With Football Talk
In Madison the Wisconsin Senate heard light football chatter as Sen James Brennan Milwaukees Democrat and brother of Notre Dame coach Terry Brennan started a Rose Bowl report joke. Other senators like Trinke Busby and Lorge stayed quiet after the Rose Bowl rout where Wisconsin lost 44 to 8 to Washington.
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Madison
Wisconsin Senate
James Brennan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Badgers
Washington
New concert halls reshape New York City in coming seasons
The assembly hall of Hunter College will become the main orchestral venue next season. Carnegie Hall is slated for demolition for a building project. The new Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center is not expected to open until fall 1961.
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Roger M. Blough
U. S. Steel
New York
Assembly Hall
Hunter College
New York City
Carnegie Hall
Philharmonic Hall
Lincoln Center
Yankee-Style Snow Storm Marches Deep Into Dixie
A sweeping winter storm spread from New Mexico through Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky and into the eastern seaboard, causing school and highway closures power outages and at least three deaths with several missing. Up to eight inches fell in the Panhandle Amarillo and eastern Oklahoma, while U S 66 faced 59 miles of closures.
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Bristol
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Great Lakes
Plains
Rockies
Mercury
Dallas- Fort Worth
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Oklahoma
U.S. 66
America
el Reno
Clinton
Ohlo
Defendants in West Covina murder case show contrasting composure
The jury watches as Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff are accused of killing Barbara Jean Finch to enable marriage and protect property. Finch remains calm while Tregoff weeps at the crime scene in West Covina where Mrs Finch was beaten and shot July 18. Prosecutors describe a plan involving a maid, a weapon laden car trip from Las Vegas, and a search for a divorce agreement.
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Los Angeles
Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
West Covina
Barbara Jean Finch
Tregoff
Finch
Finches
Mrs. Finch
Marie Ann Lidholm
Miss Lidholm
Miss Tregoff
De Gaulle Plans U S Visit Start April Twenty Two
The White House announced Charles de Gaulle will make a state visit to the United States beginning April 22. He will start in Canada before arriving in Washington to stay through April 25, with the earlier dates postponed due to the East West summit delay.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Charles de Gaulle
United States
de Gaulle
Canada
National Airlines DC6B crashes in North Carolina
A National Airlines DC6B night coach on a New York to Miami run crashed near Bolivia North Carolina just before dawn. Seventeen bodies were recovered. authorities expect no survivors. The four engine airliner carried 29 passengers and five crew. One survivor was not from Wisconsin, among the passengers was retired Vice Admiral Edward Orrick McDonnell.
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N. C
National Airlines
New York
Miami
Woodlands
H. G. Ratcliff
Earth
Wilmington
Wisconsin
Flip of Fate's Coin Led 29 to Their Death
United Press International reports a crash tragedy where 29 of 105 people booked on a New York to Miami jet died after the aircraft was taken out of service for a cracked wind shield. The remaining 76 passengers were reassigned to two propeller planes. one arrived safely, the other suffered the fatal outcome.
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New York
Miami
Fate
Florida Sunshine
World War II carrier crew crash near Bolivia farm
A WWII aircraft carrier commander lost control in rainy Pacific flight. Passengers were mostly Eastern vacationers bound for Florida. The craft crashed on Richard Randolph’s farm near Bolivia, 14 minutes after a radio report. Life vests and debris litter the field as rescuers arrive and search amid light rain.
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Florida
Mae West
Richard Randolph
Letzie
Randolph
McArthur
Bolivia
New Hanover
Wilmington
Police seek burglars who stole records from Miami shop
Miami police sought two thieves who ripped off a music store, taking about $10,000 in longplaying records. The burglars chose classical titles over rock and roll, signaling a selective theft.
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Miami
UPI
Police Today
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