New Price Formula Nears Unveiling
Washington reports finishing touches on a proposed new price formula tying ceilings to manufacturing cost increases since the Korean War. Price Director Michael V. DiSalle invites thirty top industrialists to discuss terms, with protests expected from some manufacturers. The draft regulation aims to aid cooperative firms and force rollbacks for excessive price hikes while labor groups resist.
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Washington
Price
Michael V. DiSalle
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Houston Warehouse
A Houston warehouse housing government work burned in a mid morning blaze causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Firefighters battled the flames as the gutted building collapsed onto a railroad track. Nine new diesel engine trucks valued at 30000 each were among burned equipment, with 75 to 100 firefighters on scene.
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Houston
Jim Stewart and Stevenson Company
Donald Stevenson
Stevenson
Man Confesses Desert Slaying Involving Marriage Claim
McKenney tells police he shot Thelma Vowell during a drunken drive in the desert near Holtville California, then buried her body under a railroad underpass. He says he later tried to end his own life and wandered the country before returning to Phoenix. He previously served prison time in Michigan for assault.
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McKenney
Desert
Holtville
Calif
Yuma
Kansas City
Phoenix
Michigan
Michigan State
Random Ramblings On Towels And Easter Delusions
A quirky essay fragment rails at hotel towel snitchers and towels, notes a manager’s tip about brownish green towels and soap savings, and meanders through childhood memories and a joke on Easter dating. The speaker jokes about algebra, radio uns, and a family juggling books and TV while pondering the date of Easter.
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New York
Three Farm Bureau Locals To Meet
The Chandler Farm Bureau will meet tonight at 7 p.m. with a pot luck supper followed by a discussion of the Water Users Phelps Dodge loan and water deal and a sound color film chaired by Stanley Knox. Gilbert and Scottsdale locals meet tomorrow and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with speaker R. J. McMullin, Water Users manager, at the LDS chapel and the grade school cafeteria respectively.
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Chandler Farm Bureau
Gilbert
Scottsdale
Chandler
Phelps Dodge Loan
Stanley Knox
Latter-day Saints Chapel
R. J. McMullin
Mothersill's Remedy for Travel Nausea Aids Nerves
A vintage relief ad touts Mothersill's Remedy as a safe fast acting aid to relieve and prevent travel nausea by boat train bus car or plane. It claims effective use for half a century and offers children's capsules via druggists or direct purchase from 430 Lafayette St New York NY.
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Mothersill
Lafayette St
New York
N.Y
Spain sends ships and police to quell Barcelona riot
Barcelona embraces calm after four warships and a trainload of police arrived to restore order after three killed and about 100 arrested in Spain’s worst violence since the civil war. Franco government warned of stern action. Interior Minister Perez Gonzalez announced decisive measures. Ship Mendez Munéz and destroyers Escano Gravina joined the harbor deployment.
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Barcelona
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Blas Perez Gonzales
Mendez Munez
Escano
Gravina
Cocktail death reveals ailing man's despair
A 60 year old cancer patient John Wisniewski of Cactus drank a wine and carbolic acid mixture he believed would ease his pain. He wrote to The Phoenix Gazette before Christmas hoping not to be here a year from now. He died at County Hospital with sheriff deputies probing if it was suicide. He left a sister, Mrs. Jean Schnur, in Cleveland.
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The
Phoenix Gazette
John Wisniewski
Cactus
Wisniewski
Clarence Haskin
Gazette
Jean Schnur
Cleveland
Ohio
Officials describe routine courtesy visit amid unrest claims
The government blamed Communists for the outbreak while neutral sources attributed high living costs as the trigger. Spanish Chamber of Commerce data show prices rising about sevenfold since 1945, with wages up only 3 percent, fueling participation.
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Spanish Chamber of Commerce
Millions Reported Starving In China
The Nationalist China Union Press reports 20 million people starving on the Red China mainland due to land reform. It accuses the Communists of forcing rationing and of selling food to India in exchange for arms amid the famine.
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Taipei
Formosa
China Union
Red China
India
Long Distance Phone Strike Threatened
In San Francisco on March 13, workers of the Western Pacific long distance system warned of a strike against Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. The walkout follows wage talks collapse after the union rejected a 10 percent increase as their third offer since December 19. Union President Leslie Monahan says members will prepare and strike at their convenience once preparations are complete.
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San Francisco
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Leslie Monahan
Seattle
Monahan
Texan fugitive Norman Davenport surrenders to Wichita Falls detective
Norman Davenport, one of two Texas jailbreaker fugitives accused of kidnapping, turned himself in at detective Bill Capehart's home and was taken to the Wichita Falls police station. His brother Chester had already been jailed. Norman and Chester face federal kidnapping charges and an Oklahoma armed robbery count after forcing Coy Scroggins to drive them across the state line.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Norman Davenport
Texas
Chester
Norman
Bill Capehart
Capehart
Oklahoma
Pryor
Okla
Charles E. Wilson
Wichita
Coy Lee Scroggins
Northeastern State Teachers College
Nogales Couple Mourns Son Killed in Korea
Nogales parents learn their son Sgt. Luis E Bartning Jr 19 has been killed in Korea with a Defense Department telegram. He was listed as next of kin in the 80th serviceman telegram. No further details were available. A second Nogales family Mr and Mrs Kirby L Vidrine report their son 1st Lt John L Vidrine was wounded and hospitalized in Osaka Japan.
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Korea
Luis E. Bartning, Jr
Defense Department
Luis E. Bartning
Nogales
Kirby L. Vidrine
1548
West Northern Avenue
John L. Vidrine
Osaka
Japan
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