U S Tariff Cuts Include Wide Range Of Goods
The United States joined 21 other nations at Geneva to cut tariffs totaling over 215 billion dollars annually. U S direct concessions on exports valued at 400 million dollars in 1964 accompanied by 77 million in 1954 imports cuts. First phase takes effect June 30 with further reductions over three years.
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Spencer Davis
Washington
United States
Geneva
State Department
U.S
Japan
Britain
Germany
Canada
Local Steel Union Seeks New Contract
Local 2116 United Steelworkers informs Detroit Steel Corp Portsmouth Division it seeks wage and insurance terms in a reopening of the contract set to expire July 30. Local 2118 follows USWA pattern with insurance clause pending. Main demands include guaranteed annual wage and overtime increases. Second Bay Of Big Three talks delayed with no reason given.
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Local 2116
United Steelworkers of America
Detroit Steel Corp
Portsmouth
DSC
USWA
Big Steel
Focal
Tne
New York
United States
Bethlehem
Republic Stes
Roosevelt
Inside The Times Comics Death Notices Editorial Page Markets
A compact survey of brief items across features in The Times including comic strip notes death notices editorial highlights market news radio and television round about Portsmouth social affairs sports theaters and related notes.
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Portsmouth
Tito Says Russia Visit Wont Affect Friendship With U.S.
U.S. officials see a large missing portion in Khrushchev's attack on Stalin, possibly 10 000 to 15 000 words, with details on foreign policy and other topics omitted from the State Department text. The missing section could reveal Khrushchev's own views for Soviet ears, not foreign readers.
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Tito
Russia
U.S
John M. Hightower
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
State Department
Stalin
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Higenhower
Soviet
Communist Party Congress
Red
Iran
Turkey
Atlantic Alliance
Germany
Khrushenev
Tito Says McCarthy Cut Aid Move Unimportant
Yugoslav leader Tito dismissed Sen. McCarthy’s move in the U S Senate to cut aid to Yugoslavia as unimportant. He shielded Yugoslavia-US ties, saying friendship would continue, amid Khrushchev and Bulganin at Moscow reception. Tito emphasized independent policy and cooperation with all nations.
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McCarthy
Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Tito
Russia
Yugoslavia
United States
Kremlin
Sen. MacCarthy
Senate
U. S
Washington
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Bulganin
St. George's Hall
Com“Inform
Stalin
International custody battle ends with grandmother winning
Fourth District Court of Appeals upheld a 1955 Common Pleas decision giving Rose Marie Cropper to her paternal grandmother Mrs Amanda Cropper in Portsmouth after custody disputes involving her Tunisian mother Mrs Laurent. Laurent, born June 13 1945 in Tunisia, sought custody claiming sole parental right after Ted Cropper Jr died in 1952. The case traces to a 1947 arrival in the area and Rose Marie’s citizenship status as a French subject.
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Fourth District Court of Appeals
Rose Marie
Rose Marie Cropper
Portsmouth
Amanda Cropper
Gil
Pagebert Ave
Atrigg
Con
Grate
Grate Proviidence
Catania Laurent
Tunis
Tunisia
Common Pleas
A1 Reengingi
Lau
Laurent
Bonds Issue Vote Asked In New Northwest District
Northwest Local School District board calls for a September 11 special election on a proposed 410000 bond for a new high school and improvements at Rarden High School. The plan includes site purchase and furnishings, with bonds retired over 20 years at about 4.58 mills. Ballot and supplies ordered. district formed last month from five former districts.
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Northwest
County Slection Board
Rarden
County
Edward R. McCawron
Eader
Barden
Brush Creek
Union
Morgan
Rush
Jennings B. Cole
Selection Board
Wheelersburg
Washington
Adin Joy Dies Former U.N Truce Negotiator at 61
Adin Charles Turner Joy, who led the United Nations truce team for 11 months of armistice talks with the Communists in Korea, died in a San Diego naval hospital at age 61. His widow said leukemia affected him for four years. Joy commanded Naval forces in the Korean War and in 1951 was named senior delegate to the armistice conference.
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Adin. Joy
U.N
San Diego
Calif
Adin
Charles Turner Joy
United Nations
Korea
Joy
Naval Hospital
Martha Ann
Winaval
Bliss Talks with Adams on Ike Ohio Visit Plans
Washington Ohio GOP chairman Ray C. Bliss was set to meet with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams to discuss President Eisenhower possibly visiting Ohio during the 1956 campaign. Bliss planned to conclude a two day series of talks with Republican leaders in the state before returning to Columbus tonight.
Leaders Battle To Restore Foreign Aid Cuts
Washington top lawmakers pressed to restore more than half of the foreign aid slash in Eisenhower’s program. Speaker Rayburn and Rep. Martin urged support while Richards backed a 1.109 billion cut, amid calls to curtail aid to Yugoslavia and other neutralist states. Eisenhower warned it would be tragic if Congress fails to back the plan.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Texas
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Massachusetts
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Richards
D-80
Congress
House
U.S
Yugoslavia
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Soviet Sends a Letter to Eisenhower From Bulganin
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin wrote a new letter to President Eisenhower. Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin arranged delivery at the State Department in mid afternoon. An embassy source said Zarubin planned to present the note personally and stay for possible further instructions. The exchange follows prior letters on disarmament and a 1959 friendship proposal. Zarubin canceled a Moscow return to handle the matter.
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Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Georgi N. Zarubin
State Department
Zarubin
Dulles
Bulganin
Bulgania
Russia
United States
Moscow
Army Plans For Screening Of Reservists
The Army announced a wholesale discharge of 475000 ready reservists and transfer of 500000 to the standby reserve in a 12 month screening starting July 1. Those left in ready reserve must be fit, qualified, and available for immediate active duty in war or national emergency. Priority for transfer to standby goes to Korea veterans. those in organized units may remain in ready reserve.
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C. Yates McDantiel
Washington
Army
Unis
Congress
National Guard
Korea
Key Unions May Face Crackdown in AFL-CIO Rift
Washington report outlines looming action against two major AFL CIO affiliates. Teamsters, largest union with about 1.7 million members, faces probes over ties to the ousted International Longshoremen’s Association. Building trades groups vow to block mergers until jurisdictional battles with former CIO unions are settled, despite Meany urging reversal.
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Norman Walker
Washington W
Afl-Cio
Labor Federation
Teamsters Union
1 Union Building Trades Group
Team 1Sters
International Longshoremen’s Assn
AFL
George Meany
Teamsters
ILA
Dave Beck
Beck
Building Trades
AFL and Cio
CIO
Meany
Building Trades’ Executive Board
Editor Upheld in Opinion By Appeals Court
Gallipolis Ohio ruling reverses Gallia County Juvenile Court contempt verdict against Vic Sherow managing editor of The Gallipolis Tribune. Court clarifies Juvenile Court Act on publication of records noting only probation records are confidential. Five boys aged 15 and 16 were sentenced to the Boys Industrial School after prior probation violations.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
4Th Appeals District
Appeals Court
Probation Department
Juvenile Court
Gallia County
Howell
Lo Tribune
Sheron
Three Gunmen Snatch $211000 In Diamonds in Greenwich Village
Three identically costumed gunmen snatched two gem brokerage firm employees off a Greenwich Village street in New York on Wednesday and escaped with $211,000 worth of cut and uncut diamonds. Albert C. Schmitt, 22, and Eugene Epsky, 27, reported that each suspect wore dark sagging caps, white gloves, peaked hats and denim work clothes resembling subway motormen.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Albert C. Schmitt
Eugene Epsky
Soviet Clerics Tour Ohio Countryside
A Soviet religious delegation invited by the National Council of Churches toured Mansfield Wooster and Seville in Ohio. They visited the Mansfield YMCA YWCA building toured Wooster College campus and attended a conference on Christian education and in Seville met at churches and were hosted by the Presbyterian Church. The Latvian Lutheran church leader praised American churches and thanked the National Council of Churches for refugee support while expressing hope for continued Christian work domestically and abroad.
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Tom Whitney
Toledo
Ohio
National Council of Churches
Mansfield
Wooster
Seville
Ymca-Ywca
Wooster College
Presbyterian Church
Cleveland
Phil
Delphia
Gustav Turs
United States
Soviet Union
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