Fight over postal funds in Capitol sparks new cut fears
Postmaster General Summerfield urged Congress for 70 to 90 million dollars more for fiscal 1958 beyond Eisenhower's budget to restore the 58 million already cut. A Senate subcommittee voted to restore 32 million of the 58 million trimmed by the House while considering rate increases for newspapers and magazines. The flood of mail noted by Summerfield was described as phenomenal, with approval expected from the full Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Capitol Hill
Summerfield
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate Appropriations
House
Postal
Post Office Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Eagle-Picher To Resume Operations In Oklahoma Plant
Eagle-Picher Mine and Smelting Co plant in Henryetta Oklahoma to reopen on a trial basis. W C Condren manager and Claude Schwartz union president say production will resume indefinitely if the domestic zinc market supports it. Previous shutdown affected Oklahoma Missouri and Kansas mines and operations.
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Okla
Eagle-Picher Mine and Smelting Co
Eagle-Picher
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
W. C. Condren
Earle-Picher
Claude Schwartz
United Steelworkers Union
Seek Arsonist At Park College
Park College in Parkville Missouri faced four fires on campus yesterday making six fires in a week. Firemen remained on duty as students patrolled the grounds. A Monday blaze heavily damaged Alumni Hall. A mattress fire in Copley Hall was quickly extinguished by two students. Firefighters also tackled a weeds fire near Chesnut Hall and a small blaze in an unused quonset hut. Police issued a pickup order for a car after a witness saw a young man’s car near Chesnut Hall. Fire marshal Earl Pelts called the mattress fire clearly arson and found burned matches at the scene.
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Park College
Alumni Hall
Copley Hall
Chesnut Hall
McKay Hall
C. S. Urban
Earl Pelts
Pelts
Wisconsin Students Stage Water Fights
Several hundred University of Wisconsin students, flush with spring weather and exams, staged a campus water fight. Dean Theodore Zillman and police urged restraint. Two student ringleaders were taken to the police station after the protest, then released as the crowd dispersed back to dry clothes and books.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Theodore Zillman
Dr. Rees H. Hughes Honored At Dinner in Pittsburg
About 350 people attended a Recognition Day dinner in Pittsburg Kansas honoring Dr. Rees H. Hughes who will retire July 1 as president of Pittsburg State Teachers College. Clyde M. Reed publisher of the Parsons Sun praised Hughes for 16 years of service to the school.
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Kas
Rees H. Hughes
Pittsburg State Teachers College
Clyde M. Reed
Parsons Sun
Hughes
Prince Charles Undergoes Tonsil and Adenoid Removal
London Buckingham Palace announced Prince Charles had his tonsils and adenoids removed. A palace bulletin called the condition of the young heir to the British throne very satisfactory.
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London
Charles
Buckingham Palace
Palace
Divorce Award Ties Support to Living Index
In OLATHE Kansas Mrs Hayne Ellis Jr. filed for divorce from 47 year old husband, International Paper executive Ellis. Judge Earl E. O Connor ordered $1.3 million of his stock placed in a trust funding monthly payments pegged to the cost of living index with no less than $1,000 monthly, plus $25,000 and a station wagon. The trust dissolves if she remarries. she retains the family home in Mission Hills.
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Olathe
Kas
Hayne Ellis Jr
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington
Ellis
International Paper Co
Earl E. O'Connor
Long-Bell Lumber executive joins International Paper merger
Long-Bell Lumber Co. official Ellis became an officer and substantial stockholder in International Paper Co. through a merger late last year. Mrs. Ellis is the daughter of the late Roy D. Campbell, attorney of Forrest City and Little Rock Arkansas.
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Elis
International Paper Co
Long-Bell
Ellis
Roy D. Campbell
Forrest City
Little Rock
Ark
Train wreck injures driver at rural crossing near Hays
An eastbound Union Pacific passenger train struck a car five miles east of Hays injuring the vehicle’s driver, Emory Young a Fort Hays State College sophomore from Great Bend. He escaped with minor scratches as wreckage lay 25 feet along the tracks.
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Hays
Union Pacific
Here
Emory Young
Fort Hays State College
Great Bend
Churchill to retire from House of Commons
The Daily Herald reports Sir Winston Churchill plans to retire at the end of the current Parliament, which has about three years left. He will be 85 at that time.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Churchill
Hutchinson man killed in Davis Oklahoma truck crash
A Hutchinson man, Claude E. Keller, 36, was killed in Davis Oklahoma last night when his truck lost control and struck a bridge railing. He was thrown under the wheels of the vehicle according to the highway patrol.
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Davis, Okla
Hutchinson
Claude E. Keller
Highway Patrol
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