Police Pressure at Westinghouse Picket Lines Grows
Police monitored three picket line clashes at Westinghouse plants in Sharon Pennsylvania Bridgeport Connecticut and Union City Indiana as a 73 day strike by 44 000 union members continued. Four Bridgeport arrests followed eggs and fists amid tense demonstrations while Sharon police guarded the plant after workers returned to it. Union City saw violent incidents claimed by the union and Westinghouse officials reported drivers through lines. Judge Rodgers sought state police aid as negotiations stalled over wage terms and a potential one year contract.
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Westinghouse Electric Corp
Sharon
Bridgeport
Conn
Union City
Ind
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
United Electrical Workers
John R. Murray
Company
IUE
Westinghouse
Dentue
Morrow
Pittsburgh
Ooo
Siarbn
Oo OM
Resome
Lima
Ohio
Marion Robewalt
Nerman Rodgers
Mercer County
George M
Soviet Parliament Approves Budget With Defense Cut
London dispatch says the Soviet Supreme Soviet approved the 1956 budget, reducing defense spending about ten percent from 1955. Expenditures total 56834 billion rubles with 702 billion for defense, and 1936 revenue projected at 592 billion. Oil production rose nearly 19 percent, or 11 million tons, from 1954.
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London
Moscow Radio
Supreme Soviet
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
A. Yevseenko
Soviet Union
U.S
Pile-Driving Crew Starts School Foundation Work
The first phase of Portsmouths new 3 223 000 high school construction is underway with a Raymond Concrete Pile Co crew driving 1 169 pile casings at Lafayette road. The work, part of a 1 904 500 contract with Davidson Construction Co, aims for concrete-filled piles by March with major progress likely in April as steel and floors follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Raymond Concrete Pile Co
New York City
Lafayette Road
Ows Ayr
Davidson Construction Co
Manchester
Joint
Portempyth Herald Phoic
Ten people flee Laconia blaze amid near zero cold
Fire caused more than 320000 in damage across Laconia Swanzey Center Wakefield Goffstown and Keene police storehouse. Ten people in four families fled a two story Laconia wooden building when a chimney storeroom fire broke out. Damages ranged 4000 to 7000 with other incidents blamed on heater explosion and overloaded circuits. Two juveniles admitted starting a stove fire at the Keene police target range.
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Laconia
Swanzey Center
Wakefield
Goffstown
Keene
Merle B. Sergent
Joseph R. Helff
Rene N. Poisson
Poisson
Marcel Genes
Airman Returns To West Berlin
A U S Air Force sergeant from Brooklyn who had been held in East Berlin for 24 hours after a car accident returned to West Berlin. Army officials attributed the crash to poor visibility and slick roads, not drunkenness, and Soviet authorities handed him to American officials at Karlshorst last night.
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Berlin
Brooklyn
East Berlin
West Berlin
CS. Army
Karlshorst
Public Health Service Boosts Salk Polio Vaccine Doses
The Public Health Service announced a December release of 1,369,306 doses, bringing total releases since April 12 to 29,961,831 ccs. Wyeth Laboratories supplied 279,900 ccs, Eli Lilly 1,088,406 ccs, with allocations to states territories and armed services under voluntary control and a small portion for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
C.c
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
Wyeth
Eli Lilly & Co
Indianapolis
Health Service
The
Armed Services
National Foundation For
California Begins Giant Cleanup After Floods
Northern California moves to recover from the worst floods in state history as authorities report up to 34 known dead, 19 to 35 missing, and $150 million in damage. Army Navy Air Force and Coast Guard crews aided rescue and salvage, while levees failed on Empire Tract and Quimby Island. Federal agencies plan flood area rehabilitation as National Guardsmen are deployed to prevent looting. rail service resumes normal operations.
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San Francisco
California
Army
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
The
Weather Bureau
Oregon Line
Visalia
San Joaquin
Sacramento
Empire Tract
Quimby Island
Eureka
Val Peterson
U.S. Civil Defense
Goodwin Knight
Yuba City
Marysville
Southern Pacific
Hillroad
Sierra
Portland
Safe Driving Award Given to Portsmouth Motorists
Portsmouth area motorists receive two certificates for passing Safe Driving Day without serious crashes. City Marshal Martin Betz notes one citation from program officials and one from the State Motor Vehicle Department. Only one accident was reported in the city that day, on Route 1 outskirts.
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Portsmouth Area
Martin 0. Betz
State Motor Vehicle Department
President in Florida For Rest and Recovery
President Eisenhower arrived in Key West for about two weeks of rest as doctors prescribe sunshine to aid recovery from his heart attack. The trip aims to help convalescence, with a possible impact on a future re election bid.
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Candia
Powell
Asst. Atty
Arthur E. Bean
Bean
Milk Board
Wyman
Milk Control Board
Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Naval Base
Truman
Columbia University
Florida
White House
John S. Doud
Denver
Washington
John S. Eisenhower
Walter Reed General Hospital
James C. Hagerty
Congress
Hagerty
Tax Consultants Attend New England Federal Tax Institute
About 400 tax consultants from New Hampshire gathered at Portsmouth Junior High School to learn the 1955 federal income tax rules. District Director Charles W. Emlet chaired the event, the first such institute in New England, with speakers Gerald D. Foss and Richard F. Ahern delivering morning talks.
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Charles W. Emlet
Internal Revenue Service
New Hampshire
Gerald ‘Oxy
Income Tax Institute
Portsmouth
Richard F. Abern
Manchester
Charles G. Keebler
David C. Ninde
Durham
Portsmouth Herald Phoso
Charles W. Emiet
New England
Gerald D. Foss
Richard F. Ahern
Ports Route
Duram
John
Bellerose
David A. Tober
Michael Cortese
Kenneth A. Devine
Vision
Emlet
Air Force Sets Up Priority System for War Production
The Air Force ordered a revision of wartime production planning to emphasize dispersal and top priority for aircraft and weapons kept in active production under austere emergency conditions. Second priority covers systems produced under adverse conditions, with a third for items not guaranteed in general war but possible in limited conflicts. The air staff will assign categories and revise lists every six months in May and November.
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Washington
Air Force
Quarles
Cate
Gory
Wells Still Trying To Meet Bond Goal
Wells aims to raise 70004 for a Sandier shoe plant with 31450 collected so far. A public meeting at Wells High School auditorium features Carl Braggs of the Department of Industry and Commerce speaking at 8 pm about the industrial outlook for Wells and York County. A second mortgage bond plan is discussed as finance grows by 3350 over last week with 27 more buyers. Deadline for Wells’ share is January 13.
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Wells
Carl Broggs
Department of Development of Industry and Commerce
Wells High School
Braggs
York County
Richard Bowen
Tony
Portland
Sandier
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Wesley Powell
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Dwinell
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State Mink Control Board
Ally
Louis C. Wyman
Powel
U.S. Senate
Concord
Jacob
Candiz
India
Nehru
Bulgaria
Khrushchev
Bulgarin
SEATO
Baghdad
Kashmir
Goa
Here
Cominform
Alfred M. Gruenther
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Columbine
Milton S. Eisenhower
University Park
Pennsylvania State University
Meadowbrook
Ween
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