Detroit Steel Union Agree On Pay Raise
Detroit Steel Portsmouth Division workers received a pay increase of pre cents per hour effective June 12 with the new scale included in the June 30 paycheck. The across the board raise is expected to lift payroll about $650,000 annually to roughly $16.65 million. Contract with Local 2116, United Steelworkers of America, CIO remains in force through July 30, 1954.
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Detroit Steel Corp
Portsmouth
DSC
United Steelworkers of America
CIO
Big Steel
E. Baughman
Mr. Baughman
Alfred Dye
USWA
Duncan Baxter
William Staiger
Kiewit Awards 12 Contracts For Projects
Peter Kiewit contractor awarded twelve contracts today totaling 1 412 614 dollars. Ferro Concrete Co of Cincinnati listed for underground foundations and grading work on a process building. Other contracts include cooling tower work, freight elevators, vent systems, pumps, and shop equipment with bidders from Kansas City Columbus Pittsburgh Philadelphia Chicago Long Island and Charleston.
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Peter Kiewit
Ferro Concrete Co
Cincinnati
API
Kansas City
Stal Elevator and ‘ Sons’ Co
Portsmouth
Struction Co
Marley
Capel, Mig’ Co
Corulumbus
Limbach Co
Pittsburgh
Supp & Meter Co
Ventureil
Products Co
Simplex Valve
Philadelphia
Charleston
Inside The Times Comic Death Notices Editorial Page
Portsmouth report summarizes features on comics death notices editorial pages radio and television round about including social affairs and sports with brief items and notices across sections.
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Portsmouth
West Germans Honor Martyrs of Freedom in Berlin
West Germany mourns for freedom martyrs as Adenauer vows past totalitarian rule is finished. He calls Germans unbroken, united with the free world, while crowds at City Hall listen in hushed silence amid burning obelisks and police. East Berliners face hunger and martial law as protests spread across Leipzig and Dresden.
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Berlin
East Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
West Berlin
Germany
Adenaur
Leipzig
Dresden
Demnitz
Eisenach
Otto Grotewohl
House Votes Tax Relief For Its Members
The House approved a plan to let members deduct up to $3,000 in Washington expenses as business costs, potentially rising to $3,000 under McCormack's proposal. Senate opposition, led by Sen. Williams, could block the change, which critics say mainly benefits the wealthier lawmakers with large outside incomes. The measure targets lodging, meals, transport, and communication costs incurred while in Washington.
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Senate
Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Rep. Mctormack
House
McCormack
Sen. Williams
Williams
Local Man Recounts His Encounters With Thug Bias
By TOM ROBERTS a Rasemount Road man recalls Adrian A. Bias 47 Huntington the confessed singer who admits dumping his Page wife body in Otway ravine 93 and 17 year old Everett Corley recalls his brush with death as Bias wanders the search for Mrs Lucille Bias Supreme. Conley played involuntary role in Bias est jetiminal escapade earning him nickname The One Armed Bandit. Driving Cab on Olive Hill morning February 21 1929 Bias his brother and two men stopped Conley to take them to Morehead after escaping from Moundsville Peeple in West Virginia.
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Tom Roberts
Adrian A. Bias
Huntington
Otway
Everett Corley
Lucille Bias
Conley
Tory
Bias
Banat
Olive Hill
Ir. Conley
Morehead
Moundsville Peeple
West Virginia
City Parking Meter Laws Under Fire
Portsmouth City Council may be forced to amend the parking meter ordinance after Municipal Judge Gladys E. Davis ruled the meters illegal. The decision came in the case of L. W. Hedges who challenged a $1 ticket for overparking on Gallia Street.
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Portsmouth
Municipal
Gladys E. Davis
Sne
L. W. Hedges
Highland Ave
Jackson Weinmann
Gallia St. My
Hedges
Davis
Davig
Veity
Dairies to switch to half gallon milk delivery service
Three local dairies plan half gallon paper or dual container milk deliveries starting midweek with prices dropping by one cent for standard and 44 cents for vitamin D homogenized options. Borden's and Ideal Milk Co will use paper containers, Select Dairy adopts a two square container design.
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Deal Milk Co
Borden
Borden and Ideal Milk Co
JG Dickson
Borden's
Enrollment Up 280 in Portsmouth Schools
Based on census figures enrollment in Portsmouth schools will rise 280 with the new term in September. Superintendent Ho W. McKelvey estimates total enrollment at 6,428, up from last September's 6,148, with factors including migration, a proposed trailer park, new homes, and families relocating in summer. New by-grade totals and school listings are provided.
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Portsmouth
Ho W. McKelvey
Jeplant
McKelvey
East Elementary
East High
Garfield
Grant
Harding
Highland
Lincoln
Lindsay
Massie
McKinley
North Moreland
Phs
Roosevelt
Scudder
Washington
Wilson
Ike Sends Brother On Good Will Mission
President Eisenhower sent his youngest brother Dr Milton Eisenhower on a goodwill mission to South America. He, as president of Pennsylvania State College, would join a party from state commerce and treasury departments touring 10 countries including Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
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Washington SM
Eisenhower
Milton Eisenhower
South America
National Airport
Pennsyyvania State College
State, Commerce and Treasury Departments
South American
Venezuela
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Uruguay
Argentina
Paraguay
Brazil
Farm Struggle Seen As Big Test For GOP
Washington report surveys a farm policy clash shaping the election year. Eisenhower administration backs revising price supports on wheat corn cotton tobacco rice and peanuts to curb surpluses and waste. Debate centers on federal aid philosophy and farmer prosperity with implications for Congress decision next year. Captain Karl L. Lange of Akron Ohio earns a Navy promotion among 11 reserve officers.
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Ovid Martin
Don Whitehead
Washington
America
Eisenhower
Congress
Ezra Patt Benson
Eise
Dican
Karl L. Lange
Akron, O
Navy
Dem Strength Indicated On Controls Bill
Washington reports the Senate defeated the administration economic controls bill 47 to 42, showing Democratic unity against GOP plans. The vote split included 43 Democrats with 3 Republicans and an independent, sending the measure back to conference. A GOP bid to create a small business loan agency via SBA faced opposition as a patronage charge.
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Washington
Senate
Fashio
Congress
House
Langer
North Dakota
Williams
Delaware
Young
Sen
Morse
Indore
Small Business ‘Organization
SBA
Smaller
Defense Plants Administration
SDPA
Taft
Ohio
Mayhawk
D-Sc
GOP
Tariviff Commission
Goodyear Atomic signs 71 graduates for new plant
Goodyear Atomic Corp attracts 71 graduates from 40 colleges to train for management posts at its new Portsmouth Area plant in Pike County. Richard A. Born of New Boston and Richard D. Nourot of Gay Street are among the hires. The facility will produce uranium235 by gaseous diffusion with about 4,000 operating employees and offers unlimited opportunities in the atomic era.
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Goodyear Atomic Corp
Hat College
Goodyear Atomic
Richard A. Born
Rhodes Ave
New Boston
Richard D. Nourot
Gay St
Atomic Energy
Goodyear Tire & Rubber’ Co
Adddit
Ional
Goodyear
Portsmouth Area
Pike County
Success Of Clark Talks Still In Doubt
News reports from Tokyo say Gen. Mark Clark met Rhee for a second time as efforts to secure South Korea’s cooperation in a truce continue. A compromise proposal calls for withdrawal of foreign troops, a mutual security pact with the U.S., and a resumption of the war if no peace conference settles the political situation within nine days after a truce signing.
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Robert 8. Tuckman
Seoul
IMA
Washington
Korea
Syngman Hhee
Mark Clark
Clark
Rhee
Tokyo
South Korea
Walter 5. Robertson
Eisenhower
U. S. Army
J. Lawton Collins
Robertson
Dulles
U. N
Hhee
Choi Sut
Munsan
Rhee Warns ROK To Balk From UN Command
President Syngman Rhee told CBS and broadcasters that South Korea would withdraw its army from control by the United Nations Command if a truce is signed on present terms. Gen. Mark Clark said no decision to pull out had been made, and discussed contingencies with Rhee.
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Seoulp
South Korea
U. N
Syngmen Rhee
CBS
Rhee
olurmbin _ Broadcasting System
Far Fest
George Herman
U. N. Command
Mark Clark
Clark
AP Tokyo
Robert Eunsca
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Inside the Times
Taft-Bartley
Robert Taft
White House
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House Labor Committee
Sherman Adams
East Berlin
Thug
U.S
Dairies
Atom
Ike
Brother
Angie
Dem
ROK
Balk
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