Congress Heads Would Amend Constitution
A bipartisan group of senators sponsors a Kefauver Dirksen amendment to replace disability rules between Eisenhower and Nixon. It would let the vice president act as president if the chief is incapacitated, with recovery and restoration governed by notice and a two thirds congressional vote to sustain any transfer.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nixon
Sens
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Dirksen
Congress
White House
Hower
GOP
Senate
Knowland
California
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Violence At Kohler Told To Senators
Senate rackets committee hearings describe dynamitings shotgun blasts and acid throwings linked to the Kohler Co strike. Non striking workers accused of violence report acid damage to homes and cars while witnesses dispute loyalties and testify about threats and intimidation.
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Kohler
Washington
Senate
Kohler Co
Wisconsin
B&O Calls Back 95 Recently Furloughed Men
Ninety five Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers, furloughed in a general cutback, returned to work today. The callbacks were issued by the division office in Baltimore and are not part of a general recall. Men will be assigned to divisions as needed.
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Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
B&o
Baltimore
M Cormick Found Guilty Of Forgery In Pittsburgh Case
Jack Maitland McCormick, about 30, of Pittsburgh and formerly a Somerset auto salesman, was found guilty by a criminal court jury on two counts of forgery and passing forged checks. The two checks totaling 581.41 bore another man's signature and McCormick claimed power of attorney to write checks up to 2000 using Margo's name. Andrew J. Margo denied knowing him and disputed a letter offered as evidence. Jury verdict followed a short deliberation and sentencing was postponed on motions. Coleman Developers fraud charges in Pittsburgh were adjourned to the next term.
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Jack Maitland McCormick
Pittsburgh
Somerset
The
Commonwealth
McCormick
Andrew J. Margo
McKees Rocks
Margo
Thomas F. Lansberry
Coleman Developers
Clouds Cover Most Of U S Temperatures Vary
The Associated Press reports clouds covered most of the nation with temps from the 20s and 30s in the North to 50s and 60s in the South. Heavy snow fell in northern New Mexico with four inches at Grants and seven at Las Vegas. light snow in western Kansas. Snow flurries dotted northern states from Montana to New York, with showers along the New England coast and in Texas and southern New Mexico and Arizona.
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New Mexico
Grants
Las Vegas
Kansas
Montana
New York
New England
Texas
Arizona
Cross Re elected Head Of Bakers Some Opposition
James G. Cross was re elected president of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union despite a show of passive opposition and AFL CIO pressure. The AFL CIO ousted the union and chartered a rival group while Cross gathered 3 124 votes from 450 delegates and 162 locals with 493 abstentions. Peter H Olsen was elected secretary treasurer and Hoffa pledged support amid a declared mutual aid pact with the Teamsters.
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Harold Harrison Cincinnatif
James G. Cross
Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union
Afl-Cio
Cross
Alex White
Buffalo
N. Y
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Teamsters
John de Concini
American Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union
Confectionery Workers’ Union
Teamsters ‘Lock, Stock and Barrel
House approves 4.1 billion budget for Treasury and Post Office
In Washington on March 4 the House passed a $4,108,000,000 appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office departments and the Tax Court for the new fiscal year. The distribution includes $704,627,000 for the Treasury, $3,402,000,000 for the Post Office, and $1,481,000 for the Tax Court.
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Washington
House
Senate
Voice
Treasury and
Post Office Departments
Tax Court
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Dressmakers Set To Strike In New York Met District
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union schedules a 10 am strike by 105,000 dressmakers across seven states after failed mediation. Wages target 15 percent rise and a 35 hour week for piece workers, while employers offer five percent. Mass rally planned at Madison Square Garden with AFL-CIO leader Meany expected to speak.
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New York
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Felix
New York City
Madison
Car Truck Collision Injures One On Route 53
A Monday crash on Route 53 in Friedens involved Harold R Helvey 61 Stoystown hitting a parked General Telephone truck driven by William Younkin R D 1 Somerset. Helvey suffered facial injuries treated at Somerset Community hospital and released. A separate turnpike accident near Somerset caused $150 damage when Clyde Miller 21 Uniontown skidded and overturned into a snow bank with no injuries.
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Friedens
Harold R. Helvey
Stoystown
William Younkin
Somerset
Helvey
Somerset Community Hospital
Aged Woman Killed by Train at Shaffer's Crossroads
Mrs. Katherine Kochera, 85, of Hutchinson, was struck and killed by a Western Maryland freight train today at Shaffer's Crossroads near Uniontown.
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Uniontown
Katherine Kochera
Hutchinson
Western Maryland Railroad
Shaffer's Crossroads
Four Year Old Cowboy Fires TV Tube in Ferndale
In Ferndale Maryland on March 4 a 4 year old boy named Lorer Staples shot a television picture tube with a .38 caliber pistol. The child climbed to reach the gun from a chair as adults argued and police arrived led by officer John T. Erbe. The boy cried after the incident.
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Ferndale, Md
Lorer. Staples
John T. Erbe
Midred Staples
U.S. Rejects Russian Summit Plan Over Preparation Flaws
Secretary of State Dulles denounces Moscow note as unacceptable and ambiguous as inadequate preparation and potential for fraud. He warns against propaganda and calls for realistic proposals to pursue meaningful diplomacy rather than grand but hollow schemes.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
United States
Russia
Dulles
Britain
France
U. S
Subcommittee Declines to Invite Senators in FCC Inquiry
The Harris subcommittee backed away from inviting any senators to testify in the FCC inquiry. Richard A. Mack, who resigned under fire, was granted a week to return to the witness stand after breaking down under questioning. Ted Baker of National Airlines warned the Senate may be accountable if lawmakers interfere with regulators.
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Harris
Federal Communications Commission
House
Richard A. Mack
FCC
Mack
D Ark
Subcommittee On Legislative Oversight
G. T
Ted) Baker
National Airlines
Baker
Senate
Johnstown Mother Indicted Murdered Her Daughter
Ebensburg March 4 A Cambria county grand jury indicted 26 year old Johnstown mother Louela Plows for murder in the knife slaying of her 4 year old daughter Vicki at their home on February 23 after the child refused breakfast.
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Ebensburg
Cambria County
Johnstown
St. Francis College
Loretto
Giles
St. Francis
John Herbert Larrison
Meadville
Flick State Tuberculosis Hospital
Cresson
Murdered Family by 17 Year Old Brother in Hampden
An unemployed warehouse foreman Robert G. Clifford 47 his wife Marie L. Clifford 43 and their son Ronald 14 were found shot to death in their Hampden Massachusetts home. Police sought Robert Clifford 17 described as armed and on the run with a missing red and cream 1954 sedan.
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Hampden
Mass
Robert G. Clifford
Springfield
Marie L
Ronald
Hunt
Robert George Clifford
Richard Cotter
District Attorney's Office
Clifford
Nowse
Robert Clifford
Burton Vanderwerken
Robert
Trader High School
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Furman Raps Slate Making By Leaders
Harrisburg reports Lt Gov Roy E Furman assails the endorsement of Pittsburgh mayor David I Lawrence for governor calling it a palpable hoax He vows to stay in the race as Dem leaders aim to endorse Victor E Moore for lieutenant governor Musmanno withdrew from consideration and Furman predicted he can defeat Lawrence and Leader with strong party support
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Harrisburg
Roy E. Furman
David I. Lawrence
Pittsburgh
Furman
Lawrence
Victor E. Moore
Philadelphia
Moore
U. S
William J. Green Jr
Genevieve Blatt
Musmanno
Supreme Court
Michael A. Musmanno
Aiad
William D. McClelland
Allegheny County
McClelland
Andrews
Edward M. Jones
Mechanicsburg R. D
Jones
George Pennington
Butler
Fishing Boat Freed From Ice in Lake Erie
The Coast Guard cutter Kaw freed the 74 foot fishing vessel James D. from ice floes northeast of Erie harbor. The boat carrying four Canadian fishermen, from Port Dover Ontario, had been trapped since last night on Lake Erie.
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Lake Erie
Coast Guard
Kaw
James D
Port Dover
Ont
Erie
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