Six Firms Indicted for Bid Rigging in Water Pipe Deals
Federal grand jury indicted six pipe manufacturers including U S Steel and Kaiser Steel on bid rigging charges under the Sherman Act. Eight executives named as conspirators, with alleged sales allocations reaching about 95 million dollars annually across nine Western states and Hawaii. Indictments cover projects for the Bureau of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, and public agencies in California Arizona and Washington between 1955 and 1962.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.S. Steel Corp
Kaiser Steel Corp
U.S
Hawaii
U.S. Steel
Kaiser Steel
United States Industries Inc
Tubular Products Division
Azusa
Calif
American Pipe & Construction Co
Monterey Park
United Concrete Pipe Corp
Armstrong Finances N H Oil Expansion In Louisiana Texas Area
A. J. Armstrong Co Inc lends 1 060 000 to N H Oil and Gas to expand in its area operations. Funds will add compressor stations and new lines aiding 20 million cubic feet daily to markets in Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and as far as Chicago. Loans arranged by First National Bank of West Monroe with Midland First National also contributing.
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A. J. Armstrong Co., Inc
United States
N & H Oil & Gas Corporation
Harvey L. Hurley
The
Gas Corporation
John Duncan
Armstrong
Hurley
Modland
Tex
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Chicago
Til
J. W. Roberson
First National Bank of
West Monroe
First National
First National Bank of Midland
Midland Bank
Wilbur A. Yeager
Murder charge filed against Army deserter
In Muskogee Oklahoma Army deserter Billy Joe King 28 faces a murder charge related to a slaying at Fort Gordon Georgia during a 1962 bank robbery case King was serving a prison term for the $2700 Webbers Falls State Bank holdup and is slated for court martial after the body of Joseph Poye was found in Georgia The Army had transported King for the unresolved case and he gave varying stories about Poyes fate
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Muskogee
Okla
Billy Joe King
Oklahoma
King
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Webbers Falls State
Joseph Poye
Many
Ft. Gordon
Poye
Johnny Ross
Birmingham
Ala
Georgia
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Surprises Mark Henry Cabot Lodge Career Long and Varied
Concord-based obituary notes Henry Cabot Lodge’s career path from Boston newspaper reporter in 1922 to Harvard graduate in three years. It highlights his Senate victory over James Michael Curley in 1936, wartime service with six battle stars, and later shifts including support for the Marshall Plan and NATO. The piece also covers his early isolationist stance and 1951 endorsement of drafting Eisenhower by the Republican Party.
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Concord
N.H
Henry Cabot Lodge
Boston
U.S. Sen
Senate
Europe
Lodge
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
New Hampshire
Chicago
E Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Tass Pleased With Defeat Of Goldwater
Tass reports the defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater in New Hampshire primaries and Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s loss. The Soviet agency calls Goldwater an idol of “the wild men” and notes Smith carried few votes. Tass cites public condemnation of Goldwater’s adventurist policy in New Hampshire.
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Moscow
Tass Today
Barry Goldwater
Margaret Chase Smith
Goldwater
United States
Tass
Leonid Velichansky
Claremont
N.H
New Hampshire
Rockefeller challenges Lodge to Oregon debate series
New York AP Gov Nelson Rockefeller urged Henry Cabot Lodge to a series of television debates in the Oregon primary. Rockefeller said Lodge cannot remain ambassador to South Vietnam while seeking the Republican nomination and designated May 15 as a key test for Oregon. He praised New England support aiding Lodge and touted his NH primary win as a moderation victory. He named Goldwater as his main opponent, not Lodge.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Oregon
Lodge
New Hampshire
South Viet Nam
California
Rockefeller
New England
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Concord
N.H
Clock Switch Stops Church Clock in Upingham
L. H. Hall, chairman of the parish council, admitted at the annual meeting that a wall switch he activated caused the newly electrified church clock to stop. The clock had cost $1,400 to install and then failed when switched off.
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Uppingham
England
UPI
L. H. Hall
Lodge’s political rise and overseas postings traced
The narrative follows Henry Cabot Lodge from Ike’s 1952 campaign through serving as United Nations ambassador in 1953 and 1960 as a vice presidential hopeful. After Kennedy’s Bay State win, Lodge later accepts the U S ambassador role to South Vietnam at Kennedy’s invitation.
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Eisenower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Lodge
Ike
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Bay State
Senate
Tie
United Nations
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Richard m. Nixon
Kennedy
U.S
South Viet Nam
Primary At A Glance In New Hampshire
In New Hampshire Republican Lodge leads in the primary as an undeclared write in. Goldwater Rockefeller and Nixon follow with Stassen and Smith trailing. Lodge delegates win statewide and in districts. Democrats back Johnson and Kennedy write ins. State sweepstakes approval passed in local option vote.
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Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Minnesota
Harold Stassen
Lodge
New Hampshire
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Stassen
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
John W. King
Kennedy
New Hampshire Voters Approve State Lottery
The New Hampshire Sweepstakes won more than three to one in a local option referendum held with the presidential preference primary. Tickets will be sold at three tracks and in liquor stores across 42 communities starting within six days, with revenue directed to schools.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Rockingham Park
Salem
John W. King
Nixes Knife Carving in Juvenile Court Case
In Chatham England two 15-year-olds were fined 5.60 each after pleading guilty to damaging a sycamore tree by carving "John loves Anne" with a knife. The father dismissed it as trivial but the judge ruled the act constituted vandalism.
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Nixes
Chatham
England
UPI
Ex President Truman and Mrs Johnson Arrive in Athens
Former President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson arrived in Athens to attend King Paul’s funeral. The trip follows controversy over a statue honoring Truman’s aid to Greece in the late 1940s and Greek protests tied to Cyprus.
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Mrs. Johnson
Athens
Greece
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
Paul
Truman
Athens University
Eccleston Involved in BBC2 Window Crash in New Malden
A shop window in New Malden England was shattered when Christopher Eccleston rode a motorcycle into view catching the sign inviting engagement with BBC 2. He escaped unharmed and ambulance crews reported no injuries.
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New Malden
England
UPI
BBC 2
Christopher Eccleston
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