Guards threaten go slow strike at British prisons
British prison guards consider a go slow campaign aired at a Prison Officers Association meeting to press for a 10 percent pay raise. Average weekly pay cited as $30.24. A second item reports the Soviet capture of a small Japanese fishing boat off Japan for violating territorial waters, the third seizure since May 20.
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Liverpool
England
Tokyo
Japan
The
Maritime Safety Board
Food Shortages Force Russians To Boost Prices
The Soviet Union raised consumer prices for meat and butter to fund farm programs amid shortages. Butter up 25 percent to 1.83 per pound, pork and beef up 30 percent to 88 cents a pound. Authorities blamed imperialist tensions and said the move is temporary, with sugar price cuts offsetting the burden on city households.
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Preston Grover
Moscow
Soviet Union
Floridians Safe After Boat Sinks
Two Hollywood men, P. C. Sawyer and Paul Brenson, were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Pawpaw after the 55 foot Linda M. Sawyer sank about 35 miles southeast of Savannah. The vessel carried oil refining equipment from Charleston to West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Hollywood, Fla
Savannah
P. C. Sawyer
Paul Brenson
Coast Guard
Pawpaw
Linda M. Sawyer
Brenson
West Palm Beach
Fla
JFK Chided For Missing Jazz Festival
Washington UPI report notes President Kennedy was criticized by Mrs Jouett Shouse head of the President's music committee for not attending the opening session of the International Jazz Festival Kennedy was invited as honorary chairman but did not attend while Khrushchev attended Benny Goodman concert Khrushchev and wife attended Goodman's concert in Moscow earlier in the week.
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UPI
Kennedy
White House
Khrushchev
Benny Goodman
Jouett Shouse
America
Constitution Hall
National Symphony Orchestra
Duke Ellington
White House, Mrs. Shouse Told A Reporter At A Post-Concert Reception. Khrushchev
Goodman
Russia
Bomb remark lands New Jersey man in federal charge
Walter D Voelsch Jr of Cranford New Jersey was charged with giving false information about an alleged bomb threat after he allegedly joked about a bomb to airline stewardesses on a flight The incident prompted an FBI inquiry and a plane search The Monroe Auto Equipment Co salesman faces up to one year in jail and a $1000 fine.
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Detroit
Walter D. Voelsch Jr
Cranford
N. J
FBI
Voelsch
Monroe Auto Equipment Co
Monroe
Mich
Train Crew Warned No Signal Before Fatal Collision in Italy
In Voghera Italy two freight train workers Lanfranco Pignani and Soriano Fabbri aged 27 and 22 say they saw no warning lights yet jumped to safety before their locomotive struck a Riveria-bound passenger train killing 62 and wounding 70. The Transport Ministry reported good visibility and working signals though survivors claimed no braking was heard.
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Voghera
Italy
Lanfranco Pigiani
Soriano Fabbri
Mayo Family Honors 13th Graduate in Greenville
In Greenville North Carolina the Mayo family received a standing ovation as their 13th child Sammy Mayo graduated from Ross Hill High School. He plans to enroll at North Carolina State College in the fall while ten Mayo children have graduated from college and four work with NASA.
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Greenville
N.C
W. L. Mayo
Sammy
Mayo
Ross Hill High
North Carolina State College
Emergency Planners Fire Aide Faces Conflict Probe
The Office of Emergency Planning fired consultant John D. Morgan Jr. amid a Senate stockpile probe alleging conflicts of interest and possible $1 billion in losses. Morgan, paid as a consultant in 1957, has refused to testify until after June 15 while authorities review related dealings involving Climax Molybdenum Co. and government contracts.
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Washington
Office of Emergency Planning
Justice Department
Senate
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
George M. Humphrey
Climax Ma Ybdenum Co
Morgan
Climax
R. C. Coburn
Daytona Beach
Fla
Edward A. McDermott
Symington Subcommittee
Bryant To Get Swimming Pool
Tallahassee Florida Governor Farris Bryant is to receive a 20 by 40 foot pool at the rear of the Executive Mansion. The Florida Swimming Pool Association won cabinet approval and will begin work next week with completion in six to seven weeks. The project honors the governor who already has a pool at his Ocala home and enjoys swimming for relaxation.
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Florida
Florida Swimming Pool Association
Executive Mansion
Association
Clearwater
Farris Bryant
Ocala
LeRoy Collins
Crash Kills Sarasota Student Near Ocala Underpass
A University of Florida student Gordon Albert Bontier 19 of Sarasota died when his car lost control on a railroad underpass and was hit broadside by a car driven by George M. Aguilar 38 of Apopka. Aguilar his wife and five children were in the other vehicle with Mrs Aguilar and two children in critical condition and two children in fair condition.
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Sarasota
University of Florida
Gordon Albert Bontier
Ruth Seaman Bontier
Hillview St
B. G. Spires
Bontier
George M. Augilar
Apopka
Aguilar
Summer Expected Rise in Sex Crimes Warns Hoover
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned that vacation season will bring more crime including forcible rape and murders with rape rising about 16 percent above the annual average in the coming weeks.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Eichmann Executed in Israel as Ashes Scattered
Adolf Eichmann was hanged at Ramle prison near Tel Aviv and his body cremated with ashes scattered over the Mediterranean. Israel calls it a shallow victory amid the Holocaust’s immense cruelty, while Eichmann remained defiant to the end.
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Israel
UPI
Adolf Eichmann
Mediterranean
Supreme Court
Ramle
Tel Aviv
Robert Hull
New Ownership Takes Over The Sarasota News
The News announces transfer of newspaper property from Kent S. McKinley and wife to Sarasota News Corporation. Murray C. Hotchkiss becomes president and publisher with son Robert M. Hotchkiss as vice president and assistant publisher. He pledges growth, public service, and a dynamic local paper for readers and advertisers.
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Hotchkiss
Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown
Courier-Times
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Levittown
Burlington County Times
N. J
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Sarasota
Florida
Sarasota News Corporation
Graham weighs return to small college work after Chicago crusade
Evangelist Billy Graham says he longs to teach at a small college and may end his crusades to focus on Christian education. He notes fatigue from years on the road and describes the need for faith alongside intellect. About 20,500 attended the second Chicago crusade night. roughly 200 decisions brought total to about 650. The total Chicago crusade cost is $500,000 with $350,000 raised locally. Graham’s group does not pay him, while rent for McCormick Place runs to $5,000 nightly. Final rally set for June 17 at Soldier Field.
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Billy Graham
Graham
North Carolina
Craham
Walter H. Smyth
Crusade
Lake Front
Smyth
Soldier Field
FBI probes bomber link in Kansas City area crash
FBI agents comb suburban Kansas City area for explosive sources after the Continental Airlines 707 crash killed 45. They interview gun shop owner J B Hodgdon and follow dynamite theft leads. insurance bodies note large life policies on crash victim Thomas Doty and associate Geneva Fraley.
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J. B. Hodgdon
Kansas City
FBI
Civil Aeronautics Board
Senate
Washington
Thomas G. Doty
Merriam
Geneva Fraley
Doty
Probers Find Billie Sol Estes Safety Box in Texas Bank
Federal investigators say a safety deposit box linked to Billie Sol Estes was found in a Texas bank as they seek cash, records, and other boxes. They noted Estes and his counsel declined immediate access and that a court order would be needed to open any box. Authorities plan further searches for additional boxes and financial files.
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Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Estes
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