Stock Index as Industry Mirror for the Nation
A AP report by Sam Dawson explains how the Dow Jones industrial average reflects shifts in U S industry. It notes only two of the 1897 initial 12 survivors remain and traces entries and removals as industries rise and fade, with firms like General Electric, American Tobacco, Du Pont, Jersey Standard, Texaco, and General Motors among those cited.
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New York
U. S
American Tobacco
S. Leather and North America
Tennessee Coal & Tron
Aivision
U. S. Steel
Chicago Gas
Copies
Gas Light & Coke
Ste
Avrage
American Cotton
Ameran Sugar
Laclede Gas
National Ad
U.S. Rubber
du Pont
Jersey Standard
Allied Joining
Thvn Carbide
Texaco
California Standard
Hudson Motors
Studebaker’ Am
General Motors
Chrysler
Princess Margaret and Antony Jones plan sea honeymoon
London AP confirms Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong Jones will honeymoon at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia after their May 6 wedding. A destination remains undecided with no venue plans disclosed by Major John Griffin and Buckingham Palace.
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London
Princess Margaret
Antony Armstrong“Jones
Britannia
Bingham Palace
Palace
Armpit
John Griffin
Margaret
Sprevs
Birth Commonwealth
Venice
Britain
West Indies
Blind, Deaf Boy Aims to Earn Eagle Rank
Richard Joy an 18 year old blind and deaf Scout from Van Nuys California hopes to earn Eagle Scout this summer. He lost hearing to meningitis before age three and became sight impaired soon after. At the California School for the Blind he learned to listen by finger tapping and to speak in distinct tones. Scoutmaster George Budgen recalls Richard learning the required knots the first night by following Budgen's demonstrations.
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Birkeley
Calif
Hichard Joy
Richard
Ichard Joy
van Nuys
California School For the Blind
George Budgen Reall
Uarzen
Budgen
Rift Shakes Up Ruling Coalition In Civil Rights Vote
Washington AP report on a rift in the Republican Southern Democrat coalition over civil rights legislation. After a key vote on a referee provision, Southern Democrats and Republicans clashed, with 295 supporting and 124 opposing. Split: 172 Democrats and 123 Republicans for, 100 Southern Democrats and 24 Republicans against. Privately bitter Southerners warned of a breakup, calling it a broken alliance. Government tax case mentions York movie income taxes and a life story film.
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Washington
House
York
Famed Sgt York Seeks Benefits in Tax Dispute
Famed World War I hero Sgt Alvin York, 72, bedfast in Pall Mall Tennessee, seeks social security benefits after the government claims he owes 85,442 dollars in income taxes. York earned the Medal of Honor for defeating a German machine gun battalion, killing 25.
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Pall Mall
Tenn
Alvin York
York
Custom Built Homes Placed in Receivership
Atty Gen John Anderson announced Custom Built Homes Co was placed in receivership by Johnson County District Court to collect a 22000 tax judgment. Judge Earle O'Connor appointed James R Isleith receiver with authority to seize assets and run premises. The action alleges fraudulent transfer of assets to Craftmark Industries of Missouri in 1959.
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Topera
John Anderson
Custom Built Homes Co
Johnson County District Court
Anderson
Earle O'Connor
James R. Isleith
Mission Hills
Custom Built Homes
Kansas
Craftmark Industries of
Missouri
Whites Shunning Negro Students In Classrooms
An Associated Press report says in Little Rock, eight Negro students in integrated schools face shunning by white classmates. Everett Tucker Jr. cites remains of intolerance, while noting some progress since 1937. Separate incidents erupt at an integrated Air Force radar station near Atougic, including fights and a cross burnings.
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Little Rock
Everett Tucker Jr
John Miller
Arkansas
Tucker
Integrated Air Force
Atougziric
Nul
NCO Club
S. A. Tidwell Jr
West Mesa
Parade led by Catholic University student protests lunch counter segregation
Joseph Hernon a 23 year old graduate student at Catholic University led about 20 Negro and white students in a parade in support of civil rights. The march aimed to win congressional support for a strong civil rights bill addressing segregation in the South lunch counters.
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Joseph Hernon
Catholic University
Congress
Kansas draft calls for May set at 90 men
Draft director Joe Nickell of Kansas announced a May call of 90 men, following 84 in January, 70 in February, 76 in March and April, with a December quota of 110.
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Topeka
Joe Nickell
State Selective Service
Kansas
Son of Heiress to Marry Today
Lance Reventlow and Jill St John marry in a hotel suite ceremony in San Francisco. Barbara Hutton, the bride’s mother, led the advance party and the California Supreme Court Justice Marshall McComb will officiate at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill.
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San Francisco
Lance Reventlow
Hollywood
Jill St. John
Barbara Hutton
Mexico City
Lance
Court Haugwitz-Reventlow
Hutton
California Supreme Court
Marshall McComb
Mark Hopkins Hotel
Nob Hill
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Decatur
Inl
Springfield
Stevens Creek
Sgt. York
Dean Berlin
Fogle
Crushed Stone AG. Limestone
THE
Associated Press
Underwood
S. Walnut
Anchor Savings and Loan Association
Lee A. Casida
Kansas City, Kansas
North American Hotel Bldg
Ottawa
South
Jill
Ciorced
Robert Barnes
S. Main
Self Service
Kans
Reddy
Sterrowat
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