Wages Boost Farming Costs
Washington AP reports rising farm wage rates drive higher production costs across agriculture. overall costs rise about nine percent from last year driven by wages, taxes eight percent, machinery five percent, livestock five percent, with some items like fertilizers and seeds down. Farmers’ selling prices lag about five percent below last year, while nonfarm input prices hit new peaks each year since 1955.
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Agriculture Department
Midwest
Middle Atlantic
Hospital Workers Continue Strike Widening Walkout
In New York six hospitals vote 1784 to 14 to continue a 14 day strike by nonprofessional staff seeking union recognition. A secret 11 point truce program was read to Local 1199 members. A memorandum of agreement with Mayor Wagner sets a grievance procedure with a single arbitrator and binds the decision. About 3,500 workers began striking May 8 at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Beth David Lenox Hill Bronx and Brooklyn Jewish hospitals, with volunteers keeping operations going.
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NEW York
Leon J. Davis
Robert F. Wagner
Mount Sinai
Beth Israel
Beth David
Lenox Hill
Bronx
Brooklyn
Defeat of Oklahoma horse race betting bill
Oklahoma City AP reports the Legislature defeated an attempt to legalize pari mutuel betting 86 to 17. Rep Virgil Tinker, sponsor, argued it would create a 50 million dollar industry, raise state taxes by 2 million yearly and spur tourism, but lawmakers rejected the measure.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
House
Statehood
Virgil Tinker
Osage County
Kansas Officials Oppose Higher Gasoline Tax in Washington
Kansas highway officials visiting Washington urged Congress to reject a 1 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax increase. The Kansas Highway Commission members Jack L. Goodrich and Joseph J. Poizner, with Maurice Martin and Walter Johnson, argued funds should stay in state programs and be used for highway maintenance rather than boosting the federal trust fund.
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Washington
Kansas
Jack L. Goodrich
Parsons
Joseph J. Poizner
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Highway Commission
Maurice Martin
Walter Johnson
Topeka
Highway Department
Federal Bureau of Roads
Eisenhower
Speaker Winfield to keynote Southwestern Hesston College commencement
AP reports Speaker Winfield will headline Southwestern College Hes Tak commencement as Lou W. Henderson, deputy undersecretary of state for administration, is listed among organizers for the Sunday event.
Disaster declaration for St Joseph flood area approved
The Small Business Administration declared Buchanan County a disaster area after Monday night flash floods in St Joseph Missouri. Home and business damage qualifies for SBA emergency loans at 3 percent interest, aiding reconstruction.
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Washington
Small Business Administration
Buchanan County
St. Joseph
Space Capsule Model to be Fired This July
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP a model capsule for the first American space flight is to be fired aboard an Atlas intercontinental missile in July. The 1900 pound instrumented capsule will be launched 1800 miles over the Atlantic for recovery and study. Three Army Redstone missiles will also shoot capsules starting in July as part of Project Mercury experiments. Animals will ride aboard future capsule flights before human spaceflight.
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Cape -Canaveral
Fla
Atlas
Atlantic
County Road Work Approved in Franklin County
Bids approved by the Kansas Highway Commission include two Franklin County sealing projects. Ottawa will see 8.9 miles of sealing on K-33 eastward and 12.1 miles on K-68 westward to the Osage County line. Cook & Cone of Ottawa won both contracts totaling 17,850 dollars, part of the state's 797,700 dollar road program.
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Kansas Highway Commission
Franklin County
Ottawa
Osage County
Cook & Cone
City Warned On River Pollution Timing Of Sewage System
Dwight F. Metzler, chief engineer, warned Kansas City Kansas officials that failure to start a sewage treatment system within six months could trigger federal action. The project costs about 30 million dollars. The Kansas Board of Health and state agency were notified that unless progress is made by January 1, 1960, the city could be cited for water pollution violations by the federal government.
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Dwight F. Metzler
State Agency
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Board of Health
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