Kennedy outlines drive to lower prices in price fixing probe
Attorney General Robert F Kennedy announced a Justice Department probe into widespread price fixing aimed at lowering costs for bread meat milk drugs and other consumer goods He said investigations span almost every major metro area including New York and New York State with indictments already returned in Florida He cited past electrical equipment cases and warned the conspiracy may affect consumers and governments by driving prices down when broken.
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Approval Seen For Kennedy's Education Bill
Washington Reuters briefing reports administration supporters expect Kennedy's education bill to pass Congress if amendments on parochial schools and sectarian aid are kept out. Ribicoff Morse and Talmadge warned anti-segregation riders could derail the measure, while Morse suggested a separate loan measure for church and private schools.
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Friction Grows Between Polish Church and State
In the final month before Poland's elections, Communist leader Gomulka and Cardinal Wyszynski clashed in speeches. Gomulka claimed bishops’ souls belong to the Vatican, while Wyszynski defended church autonomy and warned against eradicating religious instruction.
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Nuclear test chances and civil rights moves dominate day
Spring brings near equinox as Britain s Ormsby Gore sees real chance of a nuclear test. Lao reports deny Laotian clashes near Vientiane. Swallows return to San Juan Capistrano for 184th year. Rep Carroll Reece dies at 71 after long career. Senator Clark predicts civil rights bill moves in 10 days. Nadine Reynolds wounded after a suicide attempt. Clark Gable’s wife delivers child at Hollywood hospital. Eisenhowers reunite in Palm Springs after separate vacations. Virginia Tech halts springtime pranks after 65 students jam bank stuffing scene.
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Morgantown Officials Seek Highway Section Contracts
Morgantown reports that contracts for the first section of a West Virginia North-South highway will be awarded before year end. Gov. Barron and the state’s delegation met with federal road officials. request to add the route to the Interstate System was denied, though plans to build under other federal funds were discussed. Former Gov. Patteson remained hopeful for Interstate inclusion.
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Congo U N frees six missionaries in Kivu conflict
Six members of American World Grace Testimony families are released to United Nations forces in Kivu to safety from leopard men threats. Alongside them, six Belgians and a Dutch national are flown out as protected residents remain in the area. U N patrols reported all is well as they move to Kasongo to deter attacks while Congolese officials accuse U N personnel of smuggling at Matadi port.
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Kasongo
Albert Delvaux
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Matadi
Cong River
Peace at Last for Jailbound Husband at Sunday School
Albert Torres a 20 year old newlywed was arrested at a Sunday School door with burglar tools after a tip about an attempted break in. He claimed he called police and wanted to spend a quiet night in jail to escape his wife’s nagging a plan his wife supported.
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Philadelphia
UPI
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Torres
Court To Rule On Blue Laws
Washington based report notes the Supreme Court set to issue opinions on more than 30 cases. Topics include the Smith act membership clause, Sunday blue laws in Pennsylvania Maryland and Massachusetts, a railroad workers dues challenge, the Communist party registration, Du Pont versus General Motors, and union hiring halls in maritime and building trades.
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General Motors Corp
Sorority Fares Out With One Final Party
Delta Beta of Marshall College was ousted by court order from its sorority house after neighbors complained of racket. A farewell party drew 350 students, a police presence with squad cars and a paddy wagon, and the event ended without arrests though keys were stolen from the police wagon.
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West Virginia Weather Update With Rain And Snow Forecast
Weather bulletin for West Virginia reports cloudy conditions with rain in the southwest and mixed sleet snow and rain in the northeast and east. Temperatures near 30s in the north and south with highs in the 30s in the east and low 40s west. Normal to four degrees above normals with highs 54 to 59 and lows 29 to 35. Rain mixed with snow and sleet in the northeast on Tuesday and again Thursday or Friday totaling about one inch. Beckley reports 52 high and 37 low. Oak Hill 55 high and 37 low. Greenbrier River normal and clear. Lake level cloudy with four gates open. Gauge at 2.9 ft.
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First Day of Spring Speech Diverts From Fog Woes
Sherwood Glutz quips about spring arrival and stubborn wounds as fog lingers. He asserts renewal hinges on personal effort, saying a man is possible only when he makes himself born.
Quotes From UPI On Religion Celebrity Arts And Education
WARSAW Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski says Christianity will endure Poland and Jesus Christ will lead the coming century. LONDON Elizabeth Taylor on being contacted from a New York nightclub and asking where she is. EAST LANSING Dr Charles Boas recounts becoming a circus clown who loves entertaining children. WASHINGTON Jacqueline Kennedy urges that children be encouraged to appreciate art and respond emotionally to works of art.
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Kay Gable Gives Birth To 8-Pound Prince Son
Hollywood reports Kay Gable delivered an 8-pound son at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. The child is named to carry on the Gable name after Clark Gable, the actor who died of a heart attack last November. The birth marks the only child of the late star and his widow.
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New Coadjutor Bishop Named for Wheeling Diocese
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Wade, a retired bishop who served in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, arrives Wednesday to assume duties as temporary coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling. He succeeds Bishop Thomas J. McDonnell, who died last month in Huntington after a virus illness. Wade, ordained in 1921 and bishop in 1930, led in New Guinea from 1954 until last year. The Wheeling Diocese is led by Archbishop John J. Swint.
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New Factory To Hire All Help Locally Mabscott steel wool plant to hire locally and hire 75 workers
Macinar Inc plans a Mabscott factory for steel wool and pads with 75 local hires. Bank loans totaling 200000 authorized by Small Business Administration and two banks funded the project. Moving machinery to Mabscott next week with full operation in 90 days. local applicants to be considered once plant is active.
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Washington
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Bank of Raleigh
Raleigh County Bank
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Poisoned formula kills fifth baby at Saskatchewan hospital
In Regina Saskatchewan a fifth infant died after thoracic acid solution mixed into formula at Grey Nuns Hospital. Four deaths occurred over Friday and Saturday with 23 of 45 babies formula fed. An inquest was ordered by the provincial attorney general.
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Reginia, Sask
UPI
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J. A. DuPont
Charles Rigby
Saskatchewan
Attorney-General’s Department
Rigby
J. M. Lepoidus
Grey Nuns Hospital
Briton Admits Spying Under Red Terror Threats
Henry F. Houghton testified at the Old Bailey that he stole secret Portland naval documents to escape a terror campaign by Iron Curtain agents linked to a romance with a Polish woman Christina. His fiancée Ethel Gee, also Portland staff, is charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act alongside him. Also named are Gordon Lonsdale and others posing as a U.S. naval attache in a cloak and dagger scheme.
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UPS
Henry F. Houghton
Portland
Britain
NATO
Russia
Iron Curtain
Old Bailey Court
Christina
Warsaw
Ethel Elizabeth Gee
Houghton
Gordon Arnold Lonsdale
Alex Johnson
U.S
Miss
FTC accuses pain relievers of false fast relief claims
The FTC charges American Home Products Anacin Bristol-Myers Bufferin Plough St Joseph aspirin and Sterling Drug Bayer aspirin with ads claiming faster pain relief than all rivals. It says no significant speed difference exists and gives 30 days to answer.
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UPI
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
American Home Products, Corp
Bristol-Myers Co
Plough Inc
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Sterling Drug, Inc
Eichmann Story Genocide Trial Examines a Mass Murderer
Adolf Eichmann faces trial in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity as a top Nazi official in charge of the Jewish department. The six part report profiles his demeanor, admissions, and the chilling scope of genocide, detailing his nonchalant recounting of 5,000,000 deaths and the machinery of the Holocaust in stark newsprint.
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