Britain Faces Rail Strike Amid Steel Closures And Lockout
The June railway walkout shuts six Welsh steel plants affecting about 2,700 workers. Peacemakers from the TUC fail to resolve the stalemate with ASLEF over wage differentials while the cabinet weighs wartime impact on exports and unemployment. James Campbell of the NUR sees little near-term hope for a solution.
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Edwin Shanke
London
Britain
Unnion
Eden
Labor Party
Trades Union Congress
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
TUC
ASLEF
National Union of Railwaymen
James Campbell
NUR
Pearson urges practical co operation over co existence
Canada's foreign affairs secretary Les ter B. Pearson told a Chicago Rotary convention that mutual destruction makes talk of co existence futile and urged turning co existence into real cooperation similar to the U S and Canada. The event opened with a Rotary panorama featuring delegates from Canada Mexico Ecuador and the United States.
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Chicago
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Rotary International
Pearson
United States
Chicago Stadium
Rotary
Mexico
Ecuador
U. S
Republicans Oppose Tax Plan Move to Keep Opposition
Harrisburg reports the Republican executive committee endorses continued opposition to Gov Leader's classified income tax. Miles Horst, state chairman, says the committee unanimously agrees the governor failed to prove the tax revenue is necessary and urges continued resistance.
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Harrisburg
Republican Executive Committee
Miles Horst
Snyder Jailed AWOL Three Are Released
Oren A Snyder 32 of Somerset was jailed for absence without leave from Company C after arrest by Jennerstown police on a warrant from officer William A Purbaugh. A Rockwood pair aged 16 and 26 were freed on bond after May 24 chicken stealing charges, they pleaded not guilty. George W Brown 51 of Jerome was released on parole after a larceny sentence earlier this year.
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Oren A. Snyder
Somerset
Somerset County
Company C
Snyder
Jennerstown
James Griffith
William A. Purbaugh
Rockwood R.D
George W. Brown
Jerome
Brown
Tito and Bulganin urge world peace in joint declaration
Tito and Bulganin issued a joint declaration from Belgrade calling for a peaceful solution to major issues. They urged creating an atmosphere conducive to negotiations, including a democratic settlement of the German question and recognizing the People's Republic of China’s rights regarding Formosa.
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Belgrad
Yugoslavia
Tito
Bulganin
People’s Republic of China
Formosa
Russia
Red China
People's Republic of China
Taiwan
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Wolfson Details Battle For Montgomery Ward Control
Louis Wolfson testified before a Senate banking sub committee that he would have captured 51 percent of Montgomery Ward stock if he had secured advance commitments from key stockholders. He admitted aiding Devoe and Raynolds to borrow 1.7 million dollars to buy Ward shares and making interest-free loans to friends, while denying any obligation to vote for him.
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Washington
INS
Louis Wolfson
Montgomery Ward and Co
Wolfson
Senate Banking
Ward
Sewell Avery
Chicago
Avery
John A. Barr
Stern
Devoe and
Raynolds
Wolfson Financial
Herbert H. Lehman
D NY
Devoe
Flue Fire in Listie Causes No Damage
Listie volunteers respond to a late Thursday flare up at the William Beeman home. About twenty firefighters under Chief Joe Magnetta battled an overheated stove that started the blaze, with no damage reported.
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Listie
William Beeman
Joe Magnetta
Senate approves 3.5 billion foreign aid bill in 59 18 vote
The Senate passed the full 3.5 billion foreign aid program requested by President Eisenhower for the coming fiscal year in a 59 to 18 vote. Amendments to cut funds failed, with the measure now going to the House.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Hisenhower
Barrett
Wye
Byrd
D Va
Curtis
R-Neb
Daniel
D Tex
Dworshak
Idaho
Eastland
D-Miss
Ellender
D-La
Goldwater
R-Ariz
Hruska
Asia
Dallas Bar Collapse Survivor Relives Narrow Escape
Mary Henry an 86 year old Dallas resident recalls being behind a bar when a building collapsed trapping others. She escaped with minor injuries as a fireman freed her amid bricks and concrete, describing screams and a harrowing scene as emergency crews pulled survivors to safety.
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Mary Henry
Dallas
Miss Henry
Mary Hejiy
Tex
INS
Ford And UAW Move Closer In Auto Pay Plan Talks
Detroit reports Ford accepted in principle the UAW demand for year round pay during layoffs. Ford offered a 55 million three year job security fund to support workers after unemployment benefits. Unnamed sources say the move echoes Ford's partnership idea and Reuther’s stance. Talks continue with GM while strikes loom for both companies.
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Ford Motor Co
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United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Ford
General Motors
Detroit News
Walter P Reuther
Ford Co
British Team Climbs 3rd Highest Mt Kanchenjunga
A British mountaineering team led by Dr Charles Evans reached within five vertical feet of Kanchenjunga’s summit on May 25 but halted to avoid offending local Nepalese who revere the peak. The expedition, aiming to scout a route for next year, established five camps and planned seven.
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London
INS
Kanchenjunga
Himalayas
Charles Cvans
Everest
Reuters
Darjeeling India
North India
Kanchengjunga
Evans
Jaycees Plan Flag In Homes Campaign In Somerset
The Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce under Dr Dean W Mickey will kick off a flag outreach before Flag Day on June 14 and conclude by July 4, aiming to place flags in at least 80 percent of homes. Committee members include Grant Miller Richard Hauger Ray Trimpey and Charles Miller. Distribution centers are Trimpey’s barber shop Miller’s barber shop and the Somerset Sport Shop.
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Somerset Junior Chamber of Comerce
Jaycee
Dean W. Mickey
Mickey
Grant B. Miller
Richard Hauger
Ray C. Trimpey
Charles Miller
Somerset
Jaycees
Somerset Burgess
Homer W. Hay
American Legis
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Trimpey
Miller's Barber Shop
Somerset Sport Shop
Real Estate Transfer Tax Extended by Governor
Harrisburg reports Gov. Leader signed a law extending Pennsylvania's one percent real estate transfer tax, a measure that expired at midnight before rushing back to force. The session ended with a windfall of 30,000 acres of federal land donated to the state, including forest and recreational lands in Bradford, Bedford, Perry and Tioga counties, potentially replacing areas for the planned Curtis-Wright Aeronautical Corp. center. The tax yields about 28 million dollars every two years and had lapsed for a day amid legislative delays in adopting Senate amendments.
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Harrisburg
General Assembly
Gov. Leader
Pennsylvania
Senate
House
Commonwealth
Washington
Bradford
Bedford
Perry
Tio#a
Curtis-Wright Aeronautical Corp
Curtis-Wright
Pittsburgh
Leader
Wgial-Tv
Lancaster
Highways Safer in May 1955 Across Somerset County
State police statistics show May 1955 on Somerset county highways had fewer accidents and injuries than May 1954. Sgt Schmeyer reports 15 accidents, 26 vehicles involved, 12 injuries, no fatalities, and $8 735 in property damage.
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Somerset
Set
Elmer Schmeyer
Pennsylvania State Police
Sgt. Schmeyer
Bipartisan panel urged to probe federal security programs
A Senate sub committee unanimously proposed a new bipartisan commission to investigate the government's security program from top to bottom. Former Sen Harry Cain praised the move as defending freedom while criticizing the attorney general on subversive lists and advocating a command authority to unify seven loyalty and security programs across federal agencies.
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Washington
Senate
Harry Cain
Washington State
Cain
Senate Civil Service
Subversive Activities Control Board
Congress
Civil Rights Congress
Justice Department
Yugoslavia and Russia Sign Declaration in Belgrade
Tito stands firm on independence as Khrushchev and Bulganin sign a joint declaration with Yugoslavia. Washington officials call it vague with no new commitments, while Formosa wording raises questions about China Taiwan policy. The accord calls for collective security in Europe and a stronger UN role with Communist China in the UN.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Tito
Nikita S. Karushchev
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Gardiyski Dom
Nikolai Bulganin
Washington
State Department
U. S
Formosa
Red China
Peiping
China
U. N
Europe
United Nations
State Trooper Killed in Route 62 Crash
Edward P. Leonard, 25, a state trooper stationed at the Butler Barracks, was killed last night in an off-duty auto crash on Route 62 when his car swerved off the highway and struck a tree. Leonard died at the scene.
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Warren
Edward P. Leonard
Butler Barracks
Route 62
Leonard
Fliers Reunited After Months in Red China Prisons
Dag Hammarskjold announced encouragement over four Americans released by China and pledged continued effort to free 11 more pilots still jailed. In Honolulu families welcomed home Lt Col Edwin Heller Capt Harold Fischer Lt Lyle Cameron and Lt Roland Parks after two years in Manchuria.
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Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
N. Y
Dag Hammarskjold
Red China
Peiping
China
Hammarskjold
Chou En-lai
Roy Elsoyan
Honolulu
U. S
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood
Harold E. Fischer
Swea City
Iowa
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Hong Kong
Hawaii
Air Force
Hickam Air Force Base
Heller
Judith
Fischer
Cameron
Stolland G. Cameron
Robert
Parks
Brother Parks
William G. Parks
Richard
Camerson
North Korea
Manchuria
Rev Dion to Be Chaplain in Moscow as Russia Spot Changes
Worcester churchman Rev Louis F Dion A A of Worcester will be accepted as chaplain to the American colony in Russia, replacing Rev George Loissonette RA who was expelled from the country last March. Michael Doyle, counsel for the Assumptionist Mission to Moscow, said the application likely to be approved.
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Worcester
Mass
Louis F. Dion
A.A
Moscow
Michael Francis Doyle
Doyle
Worcester Telegram and Gazette
Father Dion
Russia
George Loissonette
R A
Philadelphia to Resume Salk Polio Vaccination June 9
Philadelphia health commissioner Dr James P Dixon announced first and second grade pupils in public and parochial schools will receive Salk anti polio injections starting June 9 after a four day program. The vaccines in storage were cleared by the U S Public Health Service allowing the resumption following a nationwide delay.
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Philadelphia
James P. Dixon
Dixon
Harrisburg
U. S. Public Health Service
Airmens Parents Return Purple Heart From Korea War
Ottley R. Coulter and wife Ethel send their son 1st Lt. John R. Coulter's Purple Heart back to Washington claiming the award is an empty honor. They believe he is a Communist prisoner in North Korea, and urge the Medal to honor those still held. The White House and defense department will respond after review.
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Lemont Furnace
Korea
White House
Ottley R. Coulter
Ethel
John R. Coulter
Hisenhoower
Defense Department
Coulter
North Korea
Air Force
Mt Dale Farm Chicken Dinner Announcement
Mt Dale Farm invites you to a chicken dinner on June 5 at 1 30 P M. Adults are $2.00 and children 50c with a special 1 00 for another child. Reservations with Carrie Hostetler Champion Pa R D 1, Rockwood 2098.
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Carrie Hostetler
Champion
R. D
Rockwood
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