Washington Jazz Jubilee Draws Elite Backers
Washington figures led by Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Nixon back a jazz benefit for Friendship House on March 16. Dick Cary assembles Buck Clayton Willie the Lion Smith Pee Wee Russell Bud Freeman Jo Jones with To shiko and Ernestine Adams as featured artist. Marshall Stearns lectures on jazz at the art gallery.
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Friendship House
Capitol Hill
Richard Bolling
Missouri
Washington Hotel
Marshall Stearns
Hunter College
Art Gallery
Toshiko
Ernestine Adams
Kefauver urges wage limits to curb steel price rise
Senator Estes Kefauver pressed for wage increases tied to average productivity gains in the steel industry and proposed an impartial board to set the figure. He rejected a union leader’s demand that he stay out of the dispute, saying steel pricing affects all people. David J. McDonald criticized Kefauver, while Kefauver argued price control depends on shared productivity.
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Washington
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Steel Workers Union
Kefauver
David J. McDonald
United Steel Workers Union
Pittsburgh
Sen
McDonald
Hoffa Okayed to Target Sears in Nationwide Strike
Teamsters directorate grants James Hoffa authorization to call a strike against Sears Roebuck and Co to organize Sears mail order, warehouse and truck drivers nationwide. A strike typically means picketing to persuade workers and customers, with existing members often staying at work to advocate union enrollment.
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MIAMT
Canadians Take Command of DEW Line in Arctic
Defense Minister Randolph Pearkes told the House of Commons that Royal Canadian Air Force officers now run DEW radar sites in the Canadian Arctic. Fewer than 20 U.S. Air Force personnel remain and will be replaced as Canadian training increases.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadian Arctic
Randolph Pearkes
House of Commons
Air Force
Dew Line
United States
Canada
Van Cliburn sidelined by finger infection
New York AP reports pianist Van Cliburn, who rose to fame after the Soviet Union contest, cannot perform for at least three months due to an infected finger. He underwent surgery to drain an abscess on the middle finger of his right hand. The Hospital for Special Surgery said he is progressing but will delay concert appearances for the period.
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New York
van Cliburn
Cliburn
Bandits Take $11,904 From River Edge Savings Office
Three gunmen abduct River Edge Savings & Loan president W. Sheldon Davis 44, forced him to open the cubicle safe, and stole $11,904. They bound him and his wife Dorothy after fleeing in his car. Davis later escaped and called for help.
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River Edge
W. Sheldon Davis
River Edge Savings & Loan Assn
Gunpont
Davis
Dorothy
Strike Clips Sunday Papers For Columbus
Ohio capital and metro area lack daily papers as Columbus Web Pressmen's Union local 15 strikes over contract terms. Dispatch Citizen and Ohio State Journal further risk, with 375000 daily circulation. Mediation sought. talks to resume next week.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Citizen
Ohio State Journal
Columbus Web Pressmen
Local 15
Dispatch
Citien
Columbus Star
Grandfather and Daughter Die Within Days in Justus
MASSILLON Ohio AP David T Evans Sr aged 100 known as Grandpa died today in Justus ten miles south of Massillon His 70 year old daughter Mrs Margaret M Savage died Friday night of a heart ailment at the house they shared A double funeral is set for 2 pm Monday at the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Justus Evans emigrated from Wales with his family in 1883 and leaves many descendants His wife died in 1916
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Ohio
David T
Evans Sr
Justus
Here
Margaret M. Savage
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Justus Evans
Stark County
Wales
Seeing Stars And Not UFOs
The Air Force says pilots may have seen stars rather than unidentified flying objects during a spate of saucer reports. A Wright Patterson TI Agency briefing notes a transport crew near Washington Dayton reported a bright moving object, with overcast at 8500 feet, and Orion glimpsed through gaps may have created the illusion of speed.
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Washington
Air Force
Air Force Technical Intelligence Agency
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Air Force Transport
Dayton
Pennsylvania
Technical Intelligence Agency
Orion
Educators Gather in Cincinnati to Plan Reading and Math
In Cincinnati public school educators attend the 14th annual Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development conference. About 3,500 teachers and administrators are expected to discuss teaching methods and the differences between American and Russian education. Dr. Jane Franseth notes American schools must prepare students to decide their own destinies. The event runs through Thursday.
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Cincinnati
Johnny
The
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development
Jane Franseth
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Association
National Education Assn
Himalaya Uplift Forces Ocean Water Toward Coasts
The Himalayan mountain range depresses the mid Indian Ocean surface locally by gravity. The mountains’ pull piles up seawater near adjacent shores, altering coastal water levels.
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Mid- Indian Ocean
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