Ship Repair Unionists Take Strike Ballot
Some 15,000 ship repair workers from San Francisco to Seattle vote on striking July 1 if no contract is agreed. The Pacific Coast District Metal Trades Council says two questions cover accepting an extended contract or striking at its end in June. Ratell announced vote details as negotiations began in Portland on May 25.
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Seattle
Thomas A. Ratell
Pacific Coast District
Metal Trades Council
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Portland
Bell Toll Booth Offers Long Distance Rides In Frederick
Frederick Maryland reports the Telephone Company opened a new outdoor toll booth at a busy junction to let motorists place long distance calls. Manager Walter Lanius offered a free call to a waiting driver who refused. A second passerby, Mrs. Walter K Myers, accepted and phoned her Miami-based aunt, a relative of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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Washington
Mercersburg
David Fairchild
Miami
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Myers
Soviets may replace bombers with long range jets
Lt. Gen. C. P. Weyland told the Aviation Writers Association that the Soviet Union could swap its B29 style propeller bombers for jets capable of striking any part of the United States. He also warned of a likely conversion of light bombers into a jet fleet and noted a growing atomic weapons stockpile with new hydrogen devices under development.
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C. P. Weyland
U. S. Tactical Air Force
Langley, Air Force Base
Russia
Weyland
Far East Air Forces
Aviation Writers Association
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