Senate Floats Delay on Postal Rate Hike
Two GOP senators signaled the Senate will likely defer action on the House passed postal rate bill until next year as adjournment nears. The measure would raise first class letters to four cents and airmail to seven cents to boost revenue, with other increases for second and third class mail. The House approved the package 256 to 129, amid debate over the first class rate and a push for pay rises for postal workers.
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Washington
Senate
Leaner
Knowland
Calif
Sen. Carlson
Ran
Senate Post Office Committee
Eisenhower
House
Prost
Idaho
Murray
9-Tenn
House Post Office Committee
Rhodes
D-Pa
Rights conflict in Congress over civil rights bill and possible special session
In Washington the civil rights fight in Congress intensified as House Republicans revived talk of a November special session to resolve the stalemate. Rep Keating pressed for hearings on the Senate bill with a jury trial amendment, while Speaker Rayburn delayed action. Democrats and Republicans traded moves on conference terms, with adjournment pressure and threats of a presidential call. Keating warned the issue must be settled by year end 1957.
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Washington
Congress
House
Rep
Keating
Senate
Rayburn
Texas
Rules Committee
GOP
Smith
Dva
Fee
Senate House
Eisenhower
House Gop
Martin
Massachusetts
Parish project to turn dump into school playground
The Police Jury agreed to fill a 5,000 yard hole using 18 dump trucks and a dragline to create a public playground for a new junior high on North 19th street. City School Board will supply dirt and pay drivers, goal is 20 days of work on Saturdays.
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North 19Th Street
van D. Odom
Monroe
A. F. Akin
Shreveport
Calhoun
Arkansas and
Louisiana Gas Company
Green Oaks
A. C. McHenry
Library Board
Ouachita Parish
Shady Grove
Woodlawn
Legal Journal
Sterlington
Transport strike in Lodz crushed by troops and police
Polish authorities used troops and riot squads to end a three day transport strike in Lodz. Hundreds of officers moved into streetcar depots while leaders demanded a written pay rise, with arrests reported and negotiations continuing amid wider sympathy strikes.
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Lodz
Poland
Striansport
Piotrkowska
Warsaw
Southern Bell asks emergency rate hike in Louisiana
Southern Bell Tele phone Company petitioned the Louisiana Public Service Commission for an immediate emergency increase to fund facility construction and meet rising service demands. The request aims to add about 7 million dollars in annual gross revenue, with hearings to fix just and reasonable rates for statewide service.
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New Orleans
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Southern Bell
Louisiana
H. G. Bartee
Bartee
Bell System
United States
Public Service Commission
Commission
State Supreme Court
Pver
North Eighteenth Street to Be Major Monroe Thoroughfare
The North Eighteenth Street corridor in Monroe undergoes major grading to replace two 90 degree jogs with a smoother curve. The project forms a paved link from Forsythe to DeSiard, reducing reliance on gravel segments and easing traffic from 3000 vehicles daily. Mayor Jack Howard stresses it will become a principal artery once finished.
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Goose Neck
Highteenth Street
Illinois Central Railroad
Louisville Avenue
DeSiard Street
Forsythe
DeSiard
Monroe
Eighteenth
Breard
Illinois Central ‘Railroad
W. L. “Jack” Howard
Hot And Humid With Afternoon Thunderstorms Forecast
A humid day is ahead with thundershowers possible in the afternoon. Morning temps near 85 rising to a high around 96 by afternoon, after a night low of 75. Light showers occurred yesterday along the coast in some areas of the state.
Looters In Cameron Will Be Punished
Cameron Louisiana sheriff C B Carter and district attorney Edward L Shaheen vowed to prosecute looters of hurricane Audrey survivors possessions to the full extent of the law. Carter called looting contemptible and noted some looters floated boats seeking valuables like lumber and butane tanks from victims.
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Cameron
C. B. Carter
Dist
Edward L. Shaheen
Carter
Dio Case Probers Produce Voting Records
Senate probes into a New York City Teamsters election name witnesses who cast votes despite non membership. Testimony includes a Dio aide’s brother in law and a Brooklyn carpenter, with others invoking the Fifth Amendment as investigators press for ties to racketeering.
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Washington
Johnny Dio
New York City
Teamsters Union
Dio
Senate
Joe Meglino
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Meglino
Sters
Basil Koschel
Armando Simontacci
Brooklyn
Kosche
Joseph Curcio
Dio’s
Simontacci
Curcio
Anthony Barbera
Teamsters
Barbera
Death Row Shocks Youthful Killer Exits For Angola
Joseph Sheffield, 28, awaiting execution for fatally wounding Deputy John L. Waller in 1953, left Franklin Parish jail for the Angola death house with Sheriff Hiram B. Waller and Deputy Ellis Tarver. He walked to the courthouse elevator in a somber mood, declined camera faces, and faced a 36 hour window before Friday's scheduled execution.
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Winnsboro
Joseph Sheffield
Angola
Franklin Parish
Hiram B. Waller
Ellis Tarver
Sheffield
Crossett
Ark
Emma Wilson
J. H. Wilson
Travis
Sheriff's Department
John L. Waller
Homer Hodges
Court House
Tarver
Waller
Sheriff Waller
Pete Waller
Clinton Six Faces New Trials Over Jury Tampering Claims
Six Clinton area residents convicted July 23 of criminal contempt in Clinton High School desegregation case seek new trials. They allege juror missteps and possible tampering including jurors reading newspapers and a courthouse handbook. Kasper's earlier case and appeal to the Supreme Court are noted.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Clinton, Tenn
John Kasper
Kasper
Clinton
U. S. District Court
Robert L. Taylor
Clinton High School
Tennessee
T‘e Court
J. Benjamin Simmons
Washington, D.C
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals At
Chicago
Taylor
William Brakebill
Lawrence Brantley
Alonzo Bullock
Clyde Cook
Mary Nell Currier
W. H. Till
Supreme Court
U S Accuses Khrushchev of Crude Election Moves
The State Department charged Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev with crude attempts to influence West German elections as he wrapped up a East Germany visit. Press officer Lincoln White said Khrushchev's remarks appeared distasteful to all sides, while Khrushchev criticized Chancellor Adenauer in a Berlin speech before returning to Moscow.
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Washington
State Department
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
West Germany
Lincoln White
Khrushchev
East Germany
White
Moscow
Berlin
Komal Adenauer
Adenauer
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Syria
Shukri Kuwaty
Communist Party Central Committee
Bell
Fred House
Fred
Dio Case
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Death House
U. S
Khrush
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