Portsmouth Board Sets New School Pay Schedule
Portsmouth city school board approved a new pay code boosting annual salaries for most teachers above $4,000 and raised key principals, coach, and trades coordinator. The panel also set a 1956 operations budget of about $1.76 million and announced a July 11 budget hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth City School Board
Daniel A. Piloseno
Steubenville
Howard W. Baughman
Supt
H. W. McKelvey
Edward H. Fournier
Portsmouth High School
T. W. Smith
East High School
George Heller
O. M. Gwinn
Senate Approves Bipartisan Security Study Panel
The Senate backed a Humphrey bill to create a 12 member commission to study the government's security program. Humphrey said the aim is to remove the Communist in government issue from the 1956 campaign. Aiken agreed it could help though some Republicans may still raise the topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Pay Raises Under Review After City Bond Move
Portsmouth City Council voted to issue 10 200 in capital bonds to fund five new city vehicles using parking meter revenue, with pay raises contingent on departmental surveys and city finances. Mayor Foehr and City Manager Layton warned boosts depend on expenses and income, while county revenue and a looming salary ordinance shape the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Charles P. Taggart
James D. Williams
Robert E. Layton
Williams
Portsmouth General Hospital
Edward T. Beall
Foehr
Layton
J. Harold Frecka
Merle Odile
Edward V. Leach Jr
Storms Leave Five Dead and Major Damage Across Regions
The Associated Press reports violent storms across the mid region left five dead and over a score injured. A Nebraska twister near Scottsbluff destroyed 25 homes at Hillerege. two more deaths occurred from lightning in Texas and New Mexico. Crop damage rose with four inches of rain in Pennsylvania and floods threatened the Nebraska area as rivers swelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mid-Continent
Daniel Williamson
Camden
Greenwood Township
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
V. J. Daniels
Jim Karubos
Canadian
Tex
Kenneth E. Guyer Sr
Panhandle
Carlsbad
N.M
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Continental Divide
Reserve plan revamped by HASC clears 29 to 1
Washington The House Armed Services Committee passed President Eisenhower's revamped military reserve program by a 29 to 1 vote and sent the measure back to the full House for consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
House
Delays Hit Idaho Polio Vaccination Plan Over Vaccine Doubts
Idaho health officials abandoned hopes of mass inoculations after losing confidence in the Salk vaccine. Health Director L J Peterson cited polio deaths and hospitalizations since April, blaming the vaccine and its production pipeline while not faulting Cutter Laboratories. Ninety seven Idaho polio cases this year include vaccinated and exposed individuals. The state invited Jonas Salk to Idaho but he declined to visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
L. J. Peterson
Newsmen
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Salk
Jonas Salk
Peterson
Department
RAF claims first jet record for Ottawa to London flight
The Royal Air Force set a new jet record by flying 3 330 miles from Ottawa to London in 6 hours 48 minutes aboard a twin engine Canberra bomber. Officials noted the average speed reached 496.8 mph as the aircraft landed at West Malling Airport near London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Royal Air Force
Ottawa
West Malling
Air Ministry
Fire destroys new Pitt health building under construction
A fire early today swept 10 stories of Pitt Schools of Health Professions Building near Presbyterian Hospital. Explosions from flammable liquids rattled the structure as 225 Presbyterian Hospital patients were evacuated to nearby facilities including women's and eye ear hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pitt Schools of Health & Professions
Presbyterian Hospital
Presbyterian 14
Women’s and
Eye & Ear
Dulles Blames Soviet Pilots for Shootdown Incident
Secretary of State Dulles called Soviet pilots trigger happy after the patrol plane was shot down off Alaska. He noted the crash occurred far from Soviet territory and discussed reparations, with Russia offering to pay half the damages and the U.S. seeking full cost.
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Washington
Dulles
Alaska
Soviet Union
Esenhower
Maine
Russia
Navy
Kodiak
Nearst Air Force
United States Army
Matsu
United States
Bangor
Eissenhower
New England
James C. Hagerty
U.S
Planes Search For Missing Marines Near Tokyo
A tiny life raft was spotted about 120 miles south of Tokyo as U S Marine fliers missing since Sunday were hunted by ships from three nations. An Air Force spokesman said signals from one raft persisted at 10 30 p m. The search spanned about 20 000 miles of foggy western Pacific with nine ships and over 50 planes involved. Mrs David Winton Bell arrived from Minneapolis with her 5 year old son, the wife of one missing lieutenant.
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Tokyo
U.S
Air Force
Pacific
Minneapolis
David Winton Bell
Charles H. Bell
General Mills, Inc
Navy
Bell
Bus Drivers Vote Tonight On Settlement
Atlantic Greyhound drivers across nine cities join Charleston voters in a 7:30 p.m. ballot to end the 83 day nationwide strike. Ballots counted at Charleston Wednesday. if approved schedules may resume by Thursday or Friday for the Fourth of July travel rush.
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Atlantic Greyhound Bus
Charleston
AFL
Portsmouth
Atlantic Greyhound
Columbus
Cincinnati
Roanoke
Winston-Salem
Charlotte Ashville
Raleigh
N.C
Columbia
S. C
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Fla
District of Columbia
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Florida
Greyhound
Halt In Heavy Trucking Operations Spreads
The stoppage of heavy trucking in southern New England spread to New York state, Cleveland, and Atlanta with about 15,000 drivers involved in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, plus over 5,000 elsewhere. The strike began two weeks ago when the AFL Teamsters Union struck seven New England firms for higher pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
New York State
Cleveland
Midwest
Atlanta
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
AFL Teamsters Union
Widow of Supreme Court Justice Matthias Dies at 85
Mrs Mary C Matthias 85 wife of the late Justice Edward Schiloh Matthias died at home early today in Columbus Ohio Her son Judge John M Matthias succeeded his father on the Supreme Court bench
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Mary C. Matthias
Supreme Court
Edward Schiloh Matthias
John M. Matthias
Committees Meet Tonight For Final Holiday Preparation
Portsmouth Civic Forum members meet for the annual Kid's Day party at 6 p.m. at Karl Wasserman's camp to finalize plans for a July 4 program with sports events, King and Queen awards, and a fireworks finale.
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Civic Forum
Ken Amick
George
Bill) Bahner
Ralph Kline
Karl Wasserman
Homer Goodwin
Harry Martin
Hillcrest
W. E
Peg) Ellsesser
John Sowards
Portsmouth
U.S. Route 23
Forum
Portsmouth Area
Bill Bahner
Kline
Bahner
Municipal Stadium
Hillcrest Children’s
Eisenhower highway plan faces challenge by federal commission
The Commission on Intergovernmental Relations criticized Eisenhower's highway financing plan and urged the administration to assume full civil defense control. It proposed removing some taxes from federal to state and local hands, plus increased in lieu payments and a pay-as-you-build highway program. It stressed decentralization and urged states to modernize tax and fiscal policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
Eisenhower
Congress
Meyer Kestnbaum
Chicago
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing Concern
Commission
Union O K s Walkout As Last Resort
Pittsburgh CIO United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald met with negotiating teams to resume talks with six major steel producers before a Thursday midnight strike deadline. The wage policy committee authorized a nationwide strike if demands for a substantial raise are not met and negotiations with U S Steel Bethlehem Republic Youngstown Sheet & Tube Jones & Laughlin and Inland Steel were set to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Steel
McDonald
Ford
General Motors
John A. Stephens
Pittsburgh
CIO United ‘Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Republic
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Jones & Laughlin
Inland Steel
Steelworkers' Contract With Detroit Steel Extends to July 30
July 30 marks the extension date for the CIO United Steelworkers contract with Detroit Steel Corp Portsmouth Division. Company and union reps have held talks on a meeting to discuss the union’s wage proposals. The 12 month earlier local contract also ran to July 30 before expiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Steel
Cio-United Steelworkers
Detroit Steel Corp
Portsmouth
U.S. Steel Corp
U S Drops Lattimore Case
The government moves to drop its long pursuit of Owen Lattimore on perjury charges after courts threw out key counts and left five remaining counts untenable. Lattimore, Johns Hopkins lecturer, faced accusations of lying about being a follower of the Communist line. Judge Youngdahl ruled counts vague. the DC Court of Appeals upheld, leaving no path to proceed.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Atty
Brownell
U.S. District and Appeals
Lattimore
Senate Internal Security
Johns Hopkins
Luther W. Youngdahl
Youngdahl
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
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Senate O.k.’S Security Study
Humphrey Bill
Council Studies
Mr. Layton
Harry E. Foehr
RAF
Pitt
Inside the Times
Hunt
Ike
U.S. Command of Civil Defense
Union O.K
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