Ohio strikes cloud industrial progress across state
The Associated Press reports a sweeping wave of labor actions in Ohio as nearly 2,500 workers idle and 10,500 more face threatened walkouts across industries. Key stoppages include Owens Corning Fiberglas Newark and Marion Pollak Steel, with unions at East Ohio Gas and Timken Roller Bearing threatening strikes.
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Ohio
Owens- Corning Fiberglas Corp
Newark
Paul Welsh
Glass Bottle Blower Assn
Marion
Pollak Steel Co
United Steelworkers Union
E. J. Baxter
Natural Gas Workers Union
East Ohio Gas Co
John Nagle
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Columbus
Wooster
Mount Vernon
United Steelworkers
Cincinnati
Reinforced Concrete Workers Union
Dayton
Monsanto Chemical Co
Mound Laboratory
Joyce-Cridland Co
Green Camp
Goodrich Rubber Co
Springfield
United Auto
Bauer Brothers Paper and Pulp Machinery
Cleveland
International Assn. of
Jack & Heintz Co
Meat Industry Strike Looms Across Nation
Nearly 200000 meat industry workers threaten a walkout next month over wage freezes and profit sharing similar to the steel dispute. AFL-CIO leaders back a united front, with a San Francisco rally planned for September 18 to support steel strikers amid company wage and manpower proposals.
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Forest Park
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Afl-Cio
International Union of Electrical Workers
Big Business
Afl-Cio Executive Council
San Francisco
House approves bill creating national medal of science
The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to establish a national medal of science awarded by the President to outstanding scientists.
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Washington
House
Senate
Athens Game Office Slated For Probe
Ohio wildlife chief Hayden Olds ordered an investigation into activities of the Athens district office. Earl Wallace of Xenia conducts the probe, focusing on the Trimble Game Management Area near Glouster that serves 17 southeastern Ohio counties.
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Columbus
Ohio
Airmen Race to Catch Falling Discoverer VI Nosecone
Air Force pilots prepared to launch from Hawaii to recover a capsule from the Discoverer VI satellite as it descends by parachute toward the Pacific. The mission aims to solve re entry and retrieval challenges after Discoverer V. The radio in the capsule failed, leaving recovery teams with limited signals.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Pacific
Hawaii
Air Force
Cuy
Earth
Legion backs fairgrounds site for Logan armory
Logan’s American Legion Post No. 78 passes a resolution urging the fair board to reconsider its refusal to enlarge the fairgrounds site from 2.2 to five acres for a proposed National Guard Armory. Adjutant J. B. Waldron reports the move argues the armory would serve civilian organizations and Logan’s growing needs.
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Logan
American Legion Post No
Fair Board
National Guard
J. B. Waldron
Fairgrounds
Top Plowmen Vie In Test At Ohio Field Day
About 5000 people gathered south of West Alexandria for Ohio Conservation Field Day and Plowing Contest at Nevin Grice farm on State Route 508. Veterans Poos of Eaton and Rose of Wheelersburg defended titles as Contour and Level Land events featured 1958 and 1957 champions.
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Eaton
Ohio
West
Alexandria
Nevin Grice
John Donahey
Raymond Poos
Wilbur Rose
Wheelersburg
Poos
John McCarty
Peebles
Paul Miller
Lowell
Richard Cleaves
Continental
Robert Cook
Urbana
Howard Will
Vermillion
James Guckian
Camden
Red Rebels Move Toward Laos
Government reports say Communist rebel units are advancing through six northern and southern Laos provinces toward the South Viet Nam border. Officials fear a full scale offensive as the rebels use a two week lull to reinforce and resupply isolated groups with no skirmishes reported yet in the six provinces.
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Vientaine, Laos
Laos
Viet Nam
African Women Demand Home Brew Rights
In Durban and Escourt South Africa African women defy government beer restrictions. About 40 to 50 women jailed after attacking a municipal beer hall manager as they press for the right to make and sell their own potent home brew in Natal province.
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Durban
South Africa
Natal
Escourt
Pietermaritzburg
Flood Survivor Drowns In Taipei River
Chen Kuan-jou, who fled a destroyed home in central Formosa, drowned after swimming in the Tan sui River in Taipei ten days after floods.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chen Kuan-jou
Tansui
Gang of 15 storms Nahant police station to free prisoner
A group of 15 men armed with clubs and pipes attacked Nahant police to free Donald Stinson. Patrolman Badger fired a warning shot and two officers detained several assailants. Four captured at a roadblock and three at Lynn hospital with bruises from the scuffle.
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Nahant
Mass
Lynn Hospital
Benjamin Lamphier
Donald Stinson
Swampscott
Albert Badger
Joseph Flynn
Stinson
Flynn
Badger
Weather Pattern Lingers Across the United States
The nation’s weather remains in a familiar pattern with pleasant western regions and hot humid conditions in the east. Cool air moves from the Northwest across northern states toward the Dakotas as a warm front spreads elsewhere.
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Dakotas
Weather Forecast Despite Heat Wave Conditions
The forecast calls for very warm and increasingly humid conditions with a high near 95 today. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly fair and humid with isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers. overnight lows expected in the 68 to 73 range.
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Logan
Cool air brushes Nebraska and mild readings elsewhere
A frontal system bringing a cool belt lowers temperatures in western Nebraska into the 50s and 60s after two days of 100 plus heat. The rest of the region remains warm and humid, with pleasant 60s across New England to Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and fair conditions plus scattered thundershowers expected in other areas.
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Kotas
Nebraska
New England
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Atlantic Coast
Power rate cut ordered in Havana metropolitan area
The Cuban government directed the American owned Cuban Electric Co to reduce its rates by 30.4 percent in the Havana metropolitan area. The move came as authorities pressed for lower living costs and to align utility charges with state policy.
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Havana
Cuban Electric Co
Hocking County Blood Deliveries Suspended by Red Cross
Regular weekly blood deliveries to Hocking County are suspended after Columbus center reports depletion of reserves and counties with less than 100 pints donated during the last Bloodmobile visit are affected. County donors gave 67 pints on July 31 and usage has rarely exceeded 500 pints annually.
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Red Cross Regional
Columbus
Mary Thompson
Hocking County
American Red Cross
Columbus Center
Thompson
Farmers study market expansion at Ohio federation meet
Nearly 100 top farmers gathered in Columbus for a two day Ohio Farm Bureau Federation conference to explore extension of marketing operations. Sam Cashman said commodity committees examined contract farming trends in processing and retailing as prices bounce and costs rise, prompting calls for additional income sources.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Sam Cashman
Federation
Cashman
Beulah Park Manager Dies Unexpectedly
Robert J. Dienst 69, president and general manager of Beulah Park horse racing track near Grove City, died Wednesday night at his Columbus home after visiting the track earlier in the day. Cause of death not disclosed. Dienst bought his first horse in 1933 and became principal stockholder in 1987 after helping run the Beulah Park operation since mutuel betting was legalized in the 1930s.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert J. Dienst
Beulah Park
Grove City
Dienst
Ohio
Report On Steel Cheers Both Sides
Washington(AP) The government released a 4000 word background report on the steel strike urging limited bargaining while noting rising profits prices and wages. Secretary James Mitchell said no party should claim victory and the dispute rests with management and labor.
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James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
R. Conrad Cooper
Cooper
Twenty One British Students Die In Spanish Crash
A chartered airliner carrying 21 British students home from a holiday in Spain struck a fog shrouded mountain near Barcelona. The British crew of three and eight other passengers also perished as the twin engine plane hit Man peak 2,400 feet high, about 25 miles northeast of the city.
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Barcelona
Spain
London
Man
Here
27 Acre Roosevelt Memorial Site Approved by Senate Panel
The Senate Rules Committee approved a resolution to reserve a 27 acre site for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. The House has already passed the measure.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senate Rules Committee
House
Shocks Cause No New Damage In West Yellowstone
Three light tremors hit the southwestern Montana quake area with no new damage. Tremors hampered searchers for additional victims of Monday night’s quake and landslides. Survivors reported missing people, numbers potentially rising to twenty, and bodies recovered in mountains and canyons.
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Yellowstone
Mont
Montana
Hebgen Dam
Civil Defense Organization
Sheriff's Office
U.S. Forest Service
Donald Skerritt
Grace Miller
Charles E. Raper
Thomas Stowe
Sandy
Utah
Madison River
Hebgen Lake
Yellowstone National Park
Batista Heads to Portugal Isle in exile
Ex Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista traveled by special plane to Madeira Islands Portugal after Washington blocked chances of U S asylum. Batista has lived in the Dominican Republic since fleeing Cuba on New Year’s Day to escape Fidel Castro’s forces.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Fulgencio Batista
Portugal
Madeira Islands
Caribbean
Cuba
Washington
United States
Batista
Fidel Castro
Prayer Vigil Urged For Khrushchev Visit
Washington AP A retired admiral urged a nationwide day of prayer to mark Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's U S visit on Sept 15. Adm Ben Moreell of Pittsburgh an Episcopalian layman and former Jones and Laughlin Steel board chair urged cities on Khrushchev's itinerary to hold special church services that day.
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Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Ben
Moreell
Pittsburgh
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Khrushchev
Hig
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Robert Griesser
Daniel Postlethwait
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