Kohler Gets Promise Aid
Kohler Jr to receive backing from Kohler Workers association as a certified bargaining agent for Kohler Co. employees. An open letter in The Kohlerian praises his gubernatorial bid and recalls his father. Christ Zitel, chair man, says Kohler employees unofficially endorse him. Kohler heads Vollrath Co. in Sheboygan.
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Kohler
Wis
Walter J. Kohler, Jr
Kohler Workers’ Association
Kohler Co
Wally
Kohlerian
Wisconsin
Christ Zitel
Kohler Workers Association
Vollrath Co
Sheboygan
Snakes Spur Heatwave Alarm In Kingwilliamstown
In Kingwilliamstown South Africa extreme heat drives snakes into town. A two foot boomslang was killed in the main street as residents report more reptile sightings and intensified sun exposure.
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Kingwilliamstown
South Africa
Negro Political Awakening Spurs Voting Surge in South Carolina
South Carolina editor McCray traces a rising Black political voice from 1948 to a possible 200,000 Black voters this year. He notes 14,000 members in 86 NAACP branches, seeks at least half of adult Black turnout, and cites gains in Conway and Columbia such as a new high school, police presence, and improved municipal services.
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Charleston
Roosevelt
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
McCray
South Carolina
Conway
S. C
Reform
Columbia
South Carolina Negro Education and School Equality Efforts
The text notes petitions circulating to seek equal educational facilities for Negroes, marking a push toward federal court action. It cites a 1947 survey counting 1,398 white schools valued at $55 million and 2,096 Negro schools valued at $9 million, with local progress framed by Truman Democrats claiming interracial cooperation in the Democratic party.
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South Carolina
Truman Democrats
Democratic
TVA
Long Lines Workers Sign New Contract
A wage agreement signed by AT T long lines division and CIO Communications Workers of America may affect 20000 members in 40 states if ratified. No general wage increase but it shortens the wage progression. The long lines talks were a key wage dispute amid a threatened telephone strike postponed last April. Affected workers include long distance operators plant central office craftsmen outside maintenance and construction workers and clerical staff.
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New York
Long Lines Department
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Division 10
CIO Communications Workers of America
Long Lines
International acoustics conference in Marseille discussed noise prevention
Scientists and architects from eleven countries debated noise prevention at an international acoustics conference held in Marseille France.
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Marseilles
France
Birthdays Today Jean Paul Sartre Celebrated
AP Newsfeatures marks the birthday of Jean Paul Sartre born June 21 1905 in Paris a French philosopher novelist and playwright known for The Flies a play written in defiance of the Nazis that offered hope to occupied France.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Paris
France
Snake in the mail puzzles Azusa post office
In Azusa California a parcel post delivery man Curtis Anderson found a boa constrictor about 14 inches long under a parcel. Snake expert Edward R Dickson said the reptile is native to South and Central America and may have stowed away in air mail. The postal mystery remains how it arrived.
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Azusa
Calif
Parcel Post Department
Curtis Anderson
Edward R. Dickson
Dickson
South
Central America
Senator Calls U.S. Newsprint Use Unsound
Senator Dworshak of Idaho warned that reliance on Canadian newsprint is unsound for American publishers. He urged expanding domestic production as a solution to reduce dependence and strengthen national paper supply.
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U.S
Washington
Dworshak
Idaho
Canada
Bombs Found in Northern Tel Aviv and Newsprint Tariff Talk
Three World War I vintage Turkish bombs and four aerial bombs were found in northern Tel Aviv and detonated by army engineers. In Washington, Dworshak testified before a House monopoly committee on newsprint tariffs, urging fair prices and domestic supply, noting the US now imports 80 to 85 percent of its needs from Canada while once producing most of it domestically.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Dworshak
Idaho Editorial Association
House
United States
Congress
Rep. Celler
D-Ny
Canada
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Rogers
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John McCray
AP Newsfeatures
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