Meany Sees U S Racial Advances At UN Given Policy
UPI reports George Meany president of the AFL-CIO told the United Nations General Assembly that lower racial integration in Southern schools is a temporary episode in a larger advance toward ending discrimination. He emphasized an open national policy against race bias and highlighted voluntary and governmental efforts across the United States making progress. Meany spoke to the UN Social and Humanitarian Committee discussing world social conditions.
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Phone Firms Told to Show Need for Rate Increases
In Los Angeles the California Public Utilities Commission ordered four telephone companies Pacific Telephone and Telegraph General Telephone California Water and Telephone Sunjuan-Tunguna Telephone to justify proposed rate hikes. They must show service costs and estimate returns under higher rates and prove urgency. PT&T seeks a yearly general rate increase of 23,871,006 dollars.
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Japan Wins Security Council Seat Over Czechs
United Nations set Japan as a two year Security Council member, 55 votes to 25 for Czechoslovakia with Canada and Panama also chosen for nonpermanent slots. Japan’s Koto Matsudaira called the vote a clear expression of international confidence and pledged to aid world peace. The six Economic and Social Council seats went to Chile, Costa Rica, Sudan, the Netherlands, France and China. Canada and Panama were unopposed for the British Commonwealth and Latin American seats respectively.
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Didn't Steal All of It Says Hodge in Court
Former Illinois state auditor Orville E Hodge, serving 12 to 15 years for theft, told reporters he could not have stolen 20 million dollars alone. He and attorney J Roy Browning pleaded innocent to fraud charges amid a six million dollar civil suit by Elmwood Park bank directors over a 1953 bank closure. Hodge returned to Menard prison after a court appearance. Also reported is the death of Pennsylvania Railroad vice president Frank J McCarthy at Georgetown Hospital after a fire.
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