City Council Defers Firefighter Clothing Allowance Again
Two city council members failed to block executive sessions as the council again postponed a $10 monthly clothing allowance request by City Firefighters Local No. 414 to a future executive session. The vote, 4 to 2, followed heated remarks about the session policy and linked raises. The meeting also approved a waste department building project costing $20,921.85 and deferred sale of six acres on West 60th Street to next session.
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Merrill Rhey
Shirlee Lake
Rhey
Gordon MccAleer
McAleer
Gilbert Petzke
Nicholas Wade
Edward Fechner
Miss Lake
MeeAleer
Jerome Gumbinger
Firemen’s Union
Council
Joseph Giebler
Nicolazzo
City Waste Department
West 60Th St
Don’t Give Fire a Place to Start PSA
Public service message warns against gambling with fire and lists simple rules to prevent fires. It emphasizes fire safety at home with rules about smoking, wiring, frayed cords, flammable fluids, clutter, matches, and oil stoves, produced with The Advertising Council.
Speedy Reserve Bill Blocked by House Armed Services
In a 16 to 14 vote the committee sent the new reserve bill back to subcommittee for five days study after members complained of being bypassed. President Eisenhower pressed for a strengthened reserve program while Vinson moves a compromised measure removing some provisions including a teenage trainee corps, as GOP leaders voiced cautious support and some displeasure over process.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
Subcommittee
Brooks
D-La
Vinson
D-Ga
Ike
Congress
Martin
Massachusetts
Wage Boost Promised by Steel Firms in CIO Pact
Pittsburgh and Madison reports indicate Bethlehem Steel and Big Steel affiliates pledged a wage increase to United Steel Workers. Legislative action raises unemployment compensation from 33 to 36 dollars weekly, with Senate approval by voice vote of an Assembly amendment.
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Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Big Steel
CIO
United Steel Workers
Madison
Legislative Council
Senate
Assembly
Nehru Sees Red China in United Nations at Moscow Rally
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told about 100000 supporters at a friendship rally in Moscow that Red China would soon be in the United Nations. The event took place in the large dynamo stadium with a cheering crowd.
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Moscow
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dynamo
China
United Nations
Balzer Files for Lieutenant Governor Nomination
Madison reports state politics as West Allis Democrat Arthur J Balzer announces his candidacy for nomination as lieutenant governor on the Democratic ticket in 1956.
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Madison
Arthur J. Balzer
West Allis
Hobby Denies Responsibility In Salk Vaccine Matter
Secretary of Welfare Hobby said she bears no responsibility for the government actions in the Salk polio vaccine affair. She told a radio audience that the burden rests with Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele and stressed clear lines between her department and the Public Health Service.
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Washington
Hobby
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Public Health Service
Welfare Department
Federal workers travel allowance hike approved
The House passed a bill 320 to 41 raising the per diem for federal workers from 9 to 13 dollars a day with a 25 dollar ceiling in special cases after a 40 minute debate. The measure now moves to the Senate amid protests over added hotel costs.
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Washington
Senate
Harriman Plans Three Week Abroad Trip Next Month
Gov Averell Harriman and his wife announce a three week trip abroad scheduled to begin next month visit destinations abroad and expected to include meetings with foreign officials during the travel period.
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Albany
N. Y
Averell Harriman
New York
Argentina Shakeups Predicted Amid Peron Crisis
A complete shakeup in the Argentine cabinet was predicted as Peron’s regime faced replacement by a compromise government. Diplomatic sources said Gen. Franklin Lucero and army forces could install a junta with Peron as a figurehead while officials report Peron not attending functions and fading from Buenos Aires media.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Montevideo
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Fulgence Charpentier
Toronto Telegram
Navy
Anibal Olivieri
Louis Cornes
Uruguay
Franklin Lucero
Car Sideswipes Truck. Waukesha Man Killed
Robert H. Humphrey, 29, of Waukesha, was killed Monday night when his car sideswiped a truck and rolled into a ditch on Hy. 190, six miles north of Waukesha. He reportedly lost control while trying to avoid a head on collision with the truck. Humphrey was married and father of three.
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Waukesha
Robert H. Humphrey
Here
Waukesha County
Stubborn Rider Secures Private Pullman Car Fare-Paid
Indianapolis businessman Arthur R. Guedel rode the Pennsylvanian Spirit of St Louis from Indianapolis to Washington in a private Pullman car after a delay derailed his connection. He refused transfers to Philadelphia and continued aboard Car 301, Bedroom D, finishing the trip on the same through ticket without extra charge.
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Washington
Indianapolis
Arthur R. Guedel
Pennsylvania Railroad
Spirit of St. Louis
Harrisburg
Guedel
Philadelphia
Guede
New York
City appoints first full time personnel director
Robert D. Krause 32 of Norris Tennessee named Kenosha’s first full time director of personnel by the Civil Service Commission. He will begin August 1 1955 at a starting salary of 6000 dollars per year and will oversee employee relations payroll training and research as well as serve as administrative assistant to the city manager in public relations. He previously worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and Tennessee Valley Authority and is a Michigan native with a 1948 Western Michigan College degree.
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Evening News
Kenoshan
Kenosha
Joseph D’angelo
17Th Ave
D’angelo
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Agge
Robert D. Krause
Norris
Tennessee
Krause
Civil Service Commission
City Hall
Custer
John Serpe
The
Tennesseean
Mark E. Keane
Oak Park
Ill
Albert Schultz
Milwaukee City Service Commission
R. H. Custer
Michigan
Western Michigan College
Air Force
University of Michigan
Kalamazoo
Michigan State Civil Service Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Knoxville
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge, Tenn
AEC
Oak Ridge
West and Soviet Near Agreement on Geneva Talks
Western ministers and the Soviet Union moved toward a virtual agreement on top level Geneva talks. Molotov indicated he would study the proposals from New York and respond soon. Eisenhower would preside at Geneva with Faure and Eden next, in a four to six day session at UN headquarters.
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San Francisco
Russia
Geneva
V. M. Molotov
New York
John Foster Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
Eisenhower
Edgar Faure
Anthony Eden
Nikolai Bulganin
Palais Des Nations
Council of Foreign Ministers
Assembly Rejects Traffic Patrol Bill Amid New Vote Hint
Wisconsin Assembly declines to approve a Kohler backed traffic patrol expansion 56 to 43 and may reconsider Wednesday or Thursday. An amendment would add 90 men yearly for two years reaching 250 by 1957. Senate approved 340 patrolmen over three years.
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Madison
Wisconsin Assembly
Kohler
Crowns
Wisconsin Rapids
Assembly
Senate
Nitschke
Beaver Dam
Ludvigsen
R-Hartland
Cochairman
House
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Senate approves six million dollar boys school site plan
The Wisconsin Senate sent to Governor Kohler a bill granting the state building commission authority to select a Kettle Moraine area site for a new six million boys delinquent school. The assembly amendment allowed keeping the Waukesha site. funding splits three million from the general fund and three million from the building reserve. Plans for other state sites were dropped.
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Madison
Senate
Kohler
State Building Commission
Kettle Moraine
Wisconsin
Assembly
Building Commission
Jefferson
Walworth
Waukesha
Sheboygan
Fond du Lac
Washington
Ozaukee
General Fund
State Building Reserve Fund
Green Bay
Eagle
Waukesha County
Chicago Polio Rate Reaches 25 Year High
Chicago records 27 polio cases this year, up from four at the same point last year. Health board president Dr. Herman N. Bundesen notes three cases occurred after Salk vaccine inoculations.
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Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Board of Health
Appleton Man Killed by Truck on Highway 41
Raymond Hosmer, 72, of Appleton was killed Monday night when struck by a truck while walking along Highway 41 near the city. The driver remained at the scene as investigators began work.
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Appleton
Raymond Hosmer
Here
Will Raze Old School Chicago
The 98 year old Brown Public School in Chicago will be torn down after the Board of Education announced the action on Monday. The building once educated notable figures including Tad Lincoln Lillian Russell and Flo Ziegfeld.
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Chicago
Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Tad
Lillian Russell
Flo Ziegfeld
Board of Education
Grand Rapids Law Prohibits Air Raids
Grand Rapids officials upheld civil defense plans after discovering a 1925 city law governing aerial bombing. The ordinance prohibits any aviator from dropping or exploding a bomb over Grand Rapids without prior city commission permission.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
R. Stanton Kilpatrick
Weather in Kenosha Signals Summer Arrival
Spring ends in Kenosha with cooler spell and official summer start at 10 32 p m. The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with lows near 50 and highs near 77 to 80. Noon readings hit 77 to 80 in local areas including the treatment plant and downtown. Yesterday’s high reached 80 with a 62 low this morning.
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Kenosha
American Motors
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