President Uses Taft Hartley Law To Halt Plant Strike
President Eisenhower won a Taft Hartley injunction stopping about 4,500 CIO atomic plant workers from striking at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Paducah Kentucky. Judge Taylor issued the temporary order pending a hearing next Wednesday. The move aims to secure uranium235 production amid wage disputes with Carbine and Carbon Chemical Corp.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Eisenhower
Taft-Hartley
Paducah
U.S
Robert L. Taylor
Knoxville
CIO Gas, Coke and Chemicals Union
Justice Department
CIO
CIO Union
Carpide and
Carbon Chemical Corp
Senate Cites Two Harvard Teachers for Contempt
The Senate voted to cite two Harvard University professors for contempt and sent the cases to the Justice Department for prosecution. Contempt actions against Corliss Lamont, Albert Shadowitz, and Abraham Unger were blocked due to objections. Lamont denied Communist ties amid McCarthy hearings last year.
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Abraham Unger
New York
McCarthy
Lamont
Wisconsin and Minnesota Weather Forecast Update
Fair and not so cool tonight in Wisconsin with warmer conditions Friday. Minnesota expects fair to partly cloudy skies with a few sprinkles near the Canadian border tonight and scattered showers Friday afternoon or night. Temperatures range from lows in the 40s to highs in the 70s and low 80s across the region.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Lake Michigan
Minnesota
Electricians, Painters Strike Amid Local Labor Dispute
About 1,000 AFL electricians walked off a top secret Y-12 project in a jurisdictional dispute with millwrights. Another 679 electricians and roughly 77 painters stopped work at the K-33 separation center addition.
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Ers
AFL
Y-12
UN hands Allied bulge to ROK in Korea transfer
The United Nations Command announced it would hand over 2 000 square miles of captured North Korean territory to the Republic of Korea. The move ends a long dispute and follows a Seoul UN commission resolution urging withdrawal of UN forces from the area. The bulge, south of the line near the 38th parallel, has farms and tungsten mines and a population around 130 000.
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Korea
United Nations Command
Republic of Korea
Syng- Man Rhee
U.N
John E. Hull
Rhee
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Hull
U.N. Command
U.n.commission For the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
South Korea
Bulge
U.S. 8Th Army
Eisenhower
Washington
Struce Line
Vegas
Washington Star reports McCarthy tax bill debate
The Washington Evening Star reports internal revenue agents found Senator McCarthy owes about $25 000 in additional income taxes and interest for 1966 through 1952. The IRS plans to present evidence to McCarthy for explanation and notes no fraudulent intent is claimed.
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Washington
Washington Evening Star
Internal Revenue
Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
McCarthy
Internal Revenue Service
The
Revenue Service
Wisconsin
Senator McCarthy
Hoover Plans To Shun Campaigning
Former President Herbert Hoover resumed a 14 hour workday and said he would avoid active political campaigning unless necessary. Arriving in New York after attending his Iowa birthplace West Branch 80th birthday event he indicated his role in the November elections would be limited to perhaps delivering speeches. He blamed Democratic misuse of power at West Branch prompting speculation on his 1954 campaign involvement.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
West Branch
Iowa
Air Force Plans Atlantic Warning Stations Texas Towers
The Air Force seeks 25 million dollars to build ocean warning stations 100 miles off the East Coast. Known as Texas Towers, the structures will be radar and weather reporting hubs linked to a shore network from Maine to Florida. Crews will shelter aboard and helicopters will land at docking facilities.
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Washington
Air Force Force
America
Air Force
Texas
Maine
Florida
United
Texas Towers
House
Accused Killer Hides at Farm Eludes Officers
Baraboo Wisconsin sheriff says James Lee Roper, an accused first degree murderer, hid in a farm house basement eight miles north of town then fled after a burst of gunfire and a long search by more than 300 officers and volunteers. A local family supplied him food and reported his presence.
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Baraboo
Wis
Sauk County
James W. Gavin
James Lee Roper
Roper
Minneapolis
Gilbert Williams
Gavin
Here
Henry Hansen
Hansen Homes
Une
Hansens
Phy Ed Building Bids Top Estimate
Bids on the proposed health and physical education building at Oshkosh State College opened Wednesday in Madison. Low bids totaled 745 739 dollars covering general construction and major systems, with an estimated 100 000 dollars more needed for furnishings and site work. Regents plan an August 17 meeting in La Crosse to decide how to proceed and possible delays to the project.
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Roper
College
Trnax Field
Madison
Miepenjeun
OSC
Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Colleges
Capitol Building
Pres
Forrest R. Polk
Robert W. Quast
Polk
Eugene R. McPhee
Aireetor
Board For Regents of Wisconsin State Collleges
Board of Regents
la Crosse
Eisenhower declares nation in high or improving economic state
President Eisenhower says the recent business decline has ended and the nation enjoys a high or improving economic welfare. He notes stable dollar, rising wages, and only slight price increases, while acknowledging some industries and cities face dips. He cites signs of improvement and urges Congress to press ahead with economic programs.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Wisconsin Wisconsin Michigan share coolest state title
Wisconsin and Michigan tied as the coldest states with 41 degrees at Park Falls and Grand Marais. Other Wisconsin readings ranged from 43 Lone Rock to 49 Two Rivers, while statewide highs included Madison at 75 and Milwaukee 71 as a cold air mass moved south from Canada.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Michigan
Park Falls
Grand Marais
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Lone Rock
Green
Bay
Superior
Grantsburg
Madison
Wausau
Beloit
Eau Claire
Two Rivers
Canada
Fes
Kentucky
Tennessee
Green Bay
Manitowoc to Launch Seven Million Dollar Ship
Manitowoc Shipbuilding Inc will launch a 606 foot self unloader valued at seven million dollars on September 9 for the American Steamship Co of Buffalo. The Detroit Edison will christen it, a sister to the John J Boland, entering service with Great Lakes navigation in 1935.
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Manitowoc
Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Inc
American Steamship Co
Buffalo
John J. Boland
Great Lakes
Detroit Edison
Walker Cisler
Detroit
Navigation
Nomination Confirmed for Fond du Lac Postmaster
President Eisenhower's nomination of Louis J. Andrew Sr. to be postmaster of Fond du Lac Wisconsin was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday.
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Washington LP
Eisenhower
Louis J. Andrew Sr
Fond du Lac, Wis
Senate
Backs Move To Get Atom Bill Redrafted
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voiced backing for ordering the administration’s atomic bill to be redrafted along original Senate lines. He said any final bill this session should resemble the Senate version, after a conference committee approved a compromise.
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Atom Bill
Washington
Senate
Lyndon
Johnson
Texas
Congress
House
Polio Outbreak Strikes Los Angeles Area
Health officers confront a major infantile paralysis crisis in Los Angeles County affecting about 500 people including the 39 year old daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow. The city records 390 cases this year as state officials convene an emergency conference to coordinate prevention efforts.
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Los Angeles
Maureen O'Sullivan
John Farrow
Beverly Hilll
State Department of Health
Justice Department Takes Over McCarthy FBI Letter Case
The Justice Department assumes control from the Army over the McCarthy FBI letter controversy tied to subversion at Ft Monmouth New Jersey. Officials study an Army report claiming the Army did not give the letter to McCarthy while the FBI remains silent on how he obtained the document public hearings highlighted the dispute over executive secrecy.
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Washington
Justice Department
Army
Joseph R. McCarthy
FBI
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Department
Huthe
McCarthy
Executive Branch
Air Force
J. Edgar Hoover
Atty
Ger
Herbert Brownell Jr
Special
Hoover
Jletter
Noriega Exiled From Peru After Ouster
General Zenon Noriega, accused of forming a revolt after being ousted as premier, was sent into exile aboard a Peruvian warship amid fresh political turmoil in Lima.
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Lima
Peru
Zenon Noriega
Texan pilot’s bridge stunt fails to win girlfriend’s praise
Gene Thompson of Lubbock Texas drew headlines by flying a rented airplane under London Bridge and between Tower Bridge towers to impress Helen Brown from his Texas Tech group. The 25 year old, a former Sinoh Korean War veteran, admitted the feat didn’t change her view, saying two bridges would have sufficed for her.
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London
Tower Bridge
London Bridge
Gallon Iat
Gene Thompson
Lubbock
Texas
Gene
le Havre
France
Thomason
Britain
Texas Tech
Helen Brown
Thompson
Christopher Carper
Thames River
Helen
Atlantic
Senate defeats move to sidetrack anti subversive bill
In Washington the Senate rejected a proposal to set up a commission led by the President to study Communist influence in unions and report back next January. The roll call was 50 to 31 against the move, clearing the way for likely approval of broader anti subversive legislation.
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Washington
Senate
Warren G. Alas Sinson
Con
John Mar- Butler
R-Md
T de Butier
Shower
Strike Paralyzes Cyprus Over Press Censorship
Cypriots from Greek Orthodox to Communist groups joined a 24 hour general strike in Nicosia protesting British press censorship. The walkout supported by locals backed union with Greece after the colonial government banned pro Greek stories in the Cyprus press.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Greek Orthodox Church
Communist Party
Cone ‘Wels
Greece
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