Labor Secretary Mitchell announces regional wage hour changes
Sterling B. Williams is named regional director of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions for five southeastern states based in Birmingham. James H. Ogle becomes deputy regional director. Homer E. Krog moves to Kansas City to lead the middle western wage hour directorship. The moves trigger further promotions in the Wage Hour Division in Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi and South Carolina.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Sterling B. Williams
Labor Department
Southeastern
James P. Mitchell
Mr. Williams
Homer E. Krog
Kansas City
Walter W. King
Austin
Texas
University of Texas
Navy
Naval Reerve
Ann Roden
Ogle
State of
Birmingham Field Office
Howard College
Army
Military Police Corps
Marguerite Pratt
Williams
Homer &. Krog
Krog
Florida
Georoa
Mississippi
South Carolna
John C McFerrin
Atlanta
William O. Futch, Jr
New Orleans
Henry W. Ford
Jacksonville
Francis M. Quigley
Detroit
Ford
Letter writer urges boycott while lampooning Mississippi
A Flint Michigan reader questions racial injustice and threatens to mail a back issue of the Petal Paper in a veiled protest against lynching. He jokes about sending a dollar to purchase rope for mob violence, while urging editor courage amid Mississippi tensions in March 1957. The letter reflects regional tensions and civil rights critique.
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P. D
Mississippi
Petal
Ol' Miss
Flint
V. J. Ratza
Telephone stockholders highest ever
Frederick R. Kappel of American Telephone and Telegraph states the Bell System has 1,500,000 stock owners, about 88 shares per holder, with 1956 average outstanding shares at 57,432,000. He notes 1956 earnings at 6.8 percent and a 1957 plan to invest 2.5 billion dollars, the largest construction program yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Frederick R. Kappel
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Bell Telephone Companies
U. S
Kappel
Mr. Kappel
Welfare Commodity Distribution Up During February
Distribution of commodities across the state rose in February. Surplus beans totaled 42 417 pounds, cheese 579 825 pounds, milk 1 092 942 pounds, flour 1 533 240 pounds, meal 1 080 345 pounds, and rice 379 564 pounds valued at 1 002 376 6 dollars amid uncertain status of share croppers.
Ten Little Indians Set For MSC Production
Mississippi Southern College announces the Agatha Christie mystery melodrama Ten Little Indians to be staged in the Little Theatre March 26 to 30. Cast includes Lloyd August Parker Biloxi junior and Pattie Bailey Brookhaven junior as Mr and Mrs Rogers with Floyd Likins Biloxi senior as the boat man. additional cast members list includes Carol Evans J Dudley Watson John J Cooley Charles Van Deven der Arthur Jones Gloria Norris D'Lawrence Laster and Roland Oesterreich.
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Mississippi Southern College Theatre Department
Agatha Christie
Little Theatre
Msc
Lloyd August Parker
Biloxi
Pattie Bailey
Brookhaven
Carol Evans
McComb
J. Dudley Watson
Hattiesburg
John J. Cooley
Waynesboro
Charles van Devender
Mobile
Arthur Jones
Gloria Norris
Holcomb
D'Lawrence Laster
Gulfport
Roland Oesterreich
Chicago
Cotton farmers and Soil Bank aid uncertain for summer
The article notes that many tenant and acreage cotton farmers under the Soil Bank program face an uncertain need for assistance in the coming summer, despite receiving support during the winter months.
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Soil Bank
Danish Air Force Seizes Greenland Base Narssarsuak
Danish Air Force units have taken over the US Air Force base in Narssarsuak in Southern Greenland. The transfer marks a shift in control at the facility and alters regional military posture.
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Narssarsuak
Greenland
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Labor
Mitchell
Holmes
Rosewood
W. Pine St
Flint 5
Mich
Mr. Ratza
P.D.E
Central Battery Company
Ben Kling
Florist
Dial
Hardy St. Hattiesburg
McMullan
Broadway
Chailn
Broadway Drive
Patel
Pascagoula
Mise
HUB Printing Co
Cor. Agnes and Buschman Dial
First Federal Savings & Loan Association
E. Front St
BEN Shemper & Sons
Bowie
6Th Street
Matiesburg
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