Freeman Mundt Counter In Estes Cotton Hearing
Agriculture Secretary Freeman told a Senate subcommittee that improprieties in Billie Sol Estes cotton allotments were not sent to the Justice Department because the action was civil, not criminal. Mundt pressed for written memos and director directives as reforms to prevent future schemes.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Billie Sol Estes
Justice Department
Freeman
Senate
Texas
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
Agriculture Department
Estes
Subcommittee
Mundt
Four Britons Freed From Commie Prison in Laos
Four Britons two missionary doctors and two embassy officials were flown to Vientiane in good health after more than a month in Pathet Lao custody. They reported kind treatment and were welcomed by a large crowd. The release came after a five day march from near Chavane and follows the pending 14 nation Laos accord promising prisoner releases within 30 days of signing.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPI
Pathet Lao
Tha Teng
Chavane
Colin Prentice
Anthony Bryceson
Mervin Brown
Maj
Clarke Leap
U. S. Army
Geneva
Electrocuted While Fixing TV at Fort Rucker
Gilbert R. Hitchcock 26 of Renton Washington was killed Thursday night when a television antenna he was erecting touched a high voltage line. He was helping a friend at a nearby trailer park and died after 45 minutes of attempts to revive him.
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Fort Rucker
Ala
Gilbert R. Hitchcock
Renton
Wash
Hitchcock
Maxine Agnesani
Tenn. Negro Carman Seeks State Office
George Brown Sr. a Negro carman for the Illinois Central Railroad announced his candidacy for the state House of Representatives in the August Republican primary. Brown, 45, is the first Negro to seek a legislative seat in Shelby County Memphis.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
George Brown
Ilinois Central Railroad
House of Representatives
Brown
Shelby
Memphis
Stock Market Ends Higher After July Steel Cutbacks Report
New York markets edged higher in late trading after a report that July steel production would be sharply reduced. Early steel gains faded to fractions, but firms like Procter & Gamble, Acorn, and Du Pont posted solid advances while General Electric and Union Carbide pulled back from earlier highs, and Youngstown rose about four points.
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New York
UPD
Youngstown
General Electric
General Foods
Union Carbide
Proctor & Gamble
Acon
du Pont
Korea-U S Friendship Campaign Planned for Week
Seoul officials announced a Korea United States friendship campaign to run from July 4. Chairman Chung Hee Park ordered efforts to ease tensions between the Republic of Korea and the United States after student protests and incidents involving American servicemen and locals.
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Seoul
UPI
United States
Chung Hee Park
Republic of Korea
From S.D. Governor To BB Commissioner Now U.S. Senator
AFL Commissioner Joseph Foss, a former South Dakota governor, said he would accept a draft to run for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Francis Case. Foss spoke in Buffalo at the All-America game. South Dakota Atty. Gen. A. C. Miller urged the GOP to endorse him for the November slate.
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Buffalo
N.Y
UPI
American Football League
Joseph Foss
South Dakota
Foss
Francis Case
GOP Blames Stockpile Group for Unjust Data
UPT report states Republican members of the Senate Stockpile Investigating Committee accuse Democrats of defaming Eisenhower era officials to gain political advantage. Sen. Prescott Bush says Dr Arthur Flemming was given no chance to defend himself as hearings on late 1950s lead and zinc purchases resume.
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Prescott Bush
Rconn
Arthur B. Flemming
Office of Defense Mobilization
Flemming
Bush
Stuart Symington
Dmo
Connecticut
Goldberg Praises Settlement Between Steelworkers and Aluminum Firms
Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg praised a two year contract between the United Steelworkers of America and five major aluminum companies reached in New York. The deal includes no wage rise but extends vacations pensions and supplemental employment benefits and is hailed as a constructive non inflationary settlement.
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Washington
UPI
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Steel Workers of America
New York
Panies
Goldberg
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Goodyear
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