May living costs hit new high as inflation cools slightly
The Labor Department reports May living costs at 123.6 of a 1947-49 base, up 0.1 percent, a 3.3 percent year over year rise. Food costs held steady, while medical care and transportation drove the modest May increase, with wage escalator effects pending June forecasts. After tax take home pay rose about 35 cents weekly due to longer hours.
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Washington
Labor Department
Detroit
Blue Cross
San Francisco
Kansas City
Hersey E. Riley
Hammarskjold Returns to Beirut After Parley With Nasser
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold returns to Beirut after two days of talks with President Nasser without evident agreement on Lebanon. Nasser reiterates rebels receive no aid from the UAR. Hammarskjold will meet Sami Solh and Camille Chamoun before returning to New York. If peace fails Chamoun may seek Western intervention.
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Tom Masterson
Beirut
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Nasser
Lebanon
Hammarskjold
United Arab Republic
Camille Chamoun
VAR
UAR
Sami Solh
Chamoun
New York
United States
Britain
London
U. S
Inside The Times Comics Death Notices Editorial Page
A compact page note from Portsmouth covers social news and upcoming events with brief updates on markets and entertainment listings. It highlights column topics and features from the Times sections.
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Portsmouth
Scioto County Eyes Voting Machines to Cut Costs
The Scioto County election board plans a study of automatic voting equipment to reduce election day payroll and ballot printing costs. A meeting in Chillicothe with Scioto and Ross counties will gather data, as Ross recently installed machines countywide. County commissioners previously rejected funds for Portsmouth wards without a voter referendum.
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Scioto County
County Election Board
Jennings B. Cole
Chillicothe
Scioto
Ross
Ross County
Portsmouth
Cole
Thorny question: what to teach the teachers debate opens
About 1,000 educators and officials gather in Bowling Green for a five day convention on teacher education and provisional standards. A Rockefeller Brothers Fund report notes certification requirements are often too technical, deterring liberal-arts capable candidates. Delegates from 48 states Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico and DC attend seeking agreement on teacher training and certification.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
States
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
District of Columbia
Reds Open To Using Seismograph Network In Test Detect Talks
Washington officials said Russia signaled willingness to use its 70 seismograph stations in an international program to detect secret nuclear tests. Western negotiators focus on technical methods for underground and high altitude detonations while steering clear of political issues.
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Washington
Russia
Geneva
U. S
Red China
United States
State Department
Senate approves restricted expansion of atom data sharing
The Senate advanced a bill to broaden allied access to U S atomic data with two Anderson proposed limits. The measure restricts transfers to Great Britain for non nuclear parts and removes broad data sharing on other military applications. The bill still allows Britain to receive weapon designs and fissionable material, while other allies could obtain data on weapon sizes effects reactor designs and fuels.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
House
Clinton P. Anderson
DNM
Great Britain
12th Street Strip Poured for Arterial Highway
A 12 foot lane of concrete was poured for 1000 feet Monday on 12th Street east of Ofmnere Street, stretching to just west of North Avenue. Today Gallia Street west of Kendall Avenue is being prepared for paving with four lanes on 12th Street, two at 12 feet and two at 10 feet. W E Ringwald & Sons of Chillicothe hold the paving subcontract.
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12Th St
Ofmnere
Boy Dies After Train Hit Near Greenup Home
Gail Tracy Hall seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Tracy Hall was killed near his Greenup Kentucky home by Chesapeake and Ohio Railways passenger train No 3 at 12 16 pm as he and friend Richard Johnson eight played cowboys and indians with fishing poles near the river. Coroner Milton Evans Jr rules accidental death. Funeral services set for Greenup First Baptist Church with burial at Bellefonte Memorial Garden.
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Greenup
Gail Tracy Hall
Tracy Hall
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Gail
Richard Johnson
Milton Evans Jr
Raceland
Guy Hiles
C. M. Lunsford
Evans
Tracy
Edna McBrayer Hall
Robert Grizzi
Millard Hall
Myrtle McBrayer
Worthington
Riggs-Samons Funeral Home
Greenup First Baptist Church
Warren E. Redding
Bellefonte Memorial Garden
Flatwoods
Halli
De Gaulle Discusses NATO Role With Norstad in Paris
In Paris Premier Charles de Gaulle met Gen Lauris Norstad supreme allied commander in Europe to discuss France role in Western defense. He also met NATO secretary general Paul Henri Spaak on Monday to review allied planning.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Lauris Norstad
Europe
France
NATO
Paul - Henri Spaak
Teamsters Chief Hoffa Cleared In Eavesdrop Case
New York AP James R Hoffa and two associates were acquitted on charges they conspired to wiretap the Detroit Teamsters headquarters in 1953. Jurors deliberated seven hours finding no evidence of a conspiracy to install taps. Hoffa still faces perjury indictments in related proceedings.
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Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Owen Brennan
Detroit Teamsters Local 337
Detroit
UPI
New York
Union
Hoffa
Owen B. Brennan
Bernard Spindel
U.S. Senate
Teamsters Union
Seattle
Vanguard rocket fails another test at Cape Canaveral
The Navy's Vanguard launch vehicle failed to launch after hours of work as rain moisture caused wiring shorts. The attempt ended at 1 34 a m with the rocket grounded, marking a second cancellation in four days after a prior scrub on Thursday night.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Navy
Vanguard
America
Soviet Adds Guards Outside Canadian Embassy in Moscow
The Soviet government placed two extra militiamen outside the Canadian Embassy in Moscow amid reports of possible retaliation for the Ottawa attack. Demonstrations against Soviet embassies have occurred in Copenhagen Bonn Ottawa and New York. Police dispersed a 1500-strong crowd at the West German Embassy after stone and ink throwing and window smashing.
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Moscow
Ottawa
U.S
Copenhagen
Bonn
New York
Imre Nagy
Soviet Warships Through Kattegat Into Atlantic Reported
Swedish observers noted about 14 Soviet warships passed through the Kattegat into the Atlantic on Monday and last weekend, signaling a notable naval movement.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Kattegat
Atlantic
Gadsby Denies SEC Favored Goldfine in Adams Inquiry
SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby told House investigators that the commission did not favor Bernard Goldfine, a Boston industrialist friend of Sherman Adams, after a White House call in 1956. He defended the SEC's probity and rejected trial by innuendo as unworthy. The hearing centers on Goldfine's ties to federal agencies and Adams's alleged favors surrounding East Boston Co. reporting violations settled in 1956 with a $3,000 fine and compliance steps.
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Ties and Exchange Commission
Edward N. Gadsby
SEC
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Boston
White House
Gadsby
House
Commission
Adams
Mr. Goldfine
Congress
Goldfine
Federal Trade Commission
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
FTC
The
East Boston Co
East Boston
Infor
Carpenters, Others Sign Contracts Reopen Portsmouth Building
Builders resume work in the Portsmouth area as Local 437 of the Carpenters Union and the Southern Ohio Contractors Assn sign a two year carpenters pact with 5 cent hourly raises every six months. Other trades sign a one year deal with 5 cents now and later. The halt followed a "no contract, no work" stand, but now all crafts operate under new terms in the Tri State district led by President C. E. Vanderpool.
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Portsmouth
Carpenters and Joiners Union
Southern Ohio Contractors Assn
Association
Carpenters
Tri-State
Huntington
Ashland
Council of Carpenters
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
C. E. Vanderpool
Year Needed For U S Recovery Says Brown
Assistant Labor Secretary Newell Brown told reporters in Ann Arbor that the recession has definitely hit bottom and the nation will take about a year to recover. He spoke during the University of Michigan’s 11th annual Conference on Aging, noting leveling unemployment, more home building, higher freight shipments, and more service jobs as early signs.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Asst
Newell Brown
University of Michigan
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