Northeast Flood Toll and Relief Moves Scale Up
The vast Northeast flood damage expands as states report casualties and missing persons. Connecticut faces heavy losses with 60 dead and 73 missing. national figures rise, and Gov. Ribicoff warns recovery will take months to years with widespread unemployment and factory idling.
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Eisenhower
Denver
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Virginia
Carnes Oe
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Diane
Ribicoff
Woonsocket
R. L
Worcester
Mass
Putnam
Conn
Wirsted
Price Index Rise To Boost Workers Pay
The July living cost index rose three tenths of 1 percent, enabling a penny per hour wage hike for about 650,000 auto workers at General Motors and Ford. Additional contracts covering 200,000 more auto and related industry workers tie pay to the index, though full eligibility for the raise is not confirmed. Take home pay reached a July peak at $69.54 for a three dependent worker, and $62.55 for a single worker, with the index at 114.7 percent of the 1947-49 average. The rise is the largest since May 1954, following recent months of little or no change.
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Washington
General Motors
Ford Motor Companies
Labor Department
Statistics Bureau
Train Rams School Bus Killing 10 in Tennessee
A freight train rammed a yellow grammar school bus at a downtown crossing near Spring City Tennessee killing 10 children age 6 to 12 and injuring 30 others. The bus driver Raymond Moore 39 and the engineer faced charges with hearings set for August 30. Gov. Frank Clement ordered an investigation as reports conflicted on warning lights at the crossing.
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Raymond Moore
Back Valley
Spring City
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Moore
Walter Boles
Gene Crisp
State Highway Patrol
Cecil Strader
Strader
Chickens Sell for 11 a Pound at Missouri State Fair
Four chickens sold for 11 dollars per pound at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. Aurora farm boy Jackie Wells earned 143 dollars for the dressed birds after they won first prize in a poultry contest, and a feed company bought them.
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Sedalia
Jackie Wells
Aurora
Weather Outlook For Southern Illinois District
Fair for tonight and tomorrow with little temperature change. Expect low tonight in the upper 60s and Wednesday high in the upper 30s. Wednesday night low in the upper 60s. Yesterday’s low 74 at 7 am, 71 at 6 pm. high 91 today, noon. Sunrise 5:21 am, sunset 6:45 pm. Crab Orchard Lake 5 inches below spillway, Little Grassy Lake 6 inches below spillway today.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
French Hurl More Troops At Tribesmen
Casablanca August 23 AP reports armored French columns with fighter plane support struck Moroccan Berber tribesmen in the Kasba Talda area east of Oued Zem. Reinforcements from Rabat and Keknes joined the operation as casualties mounted with crowds gathering to honor French dead.
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Rabat
Keknes
Kasba Talda
Oued Zem
Morocco
Casablanca
Hearing Set For Banghart In Habeas Corpus Case
Basil Banghart, 55, member of Roger Touhy gang, to appear before Judge to decide if he should be freed from Stateville. Chief Justice Austin continues the writ hearing as Banghart’s lawyers argue wrongful imprisonment for his 1933 kidnapping role of Jake Factor.
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Basil
the Owl
Flying Boxcar Crashes Near Charleston Air Base
A C119 Flying Boxcar crashed during a night flight near the Charleston Air Force base, exploding in a Negro residential area. Reports say 11 dead, including civilians. The craft from the 456th troop carrier wing struck Liberty Park homes, fire hindered rescue efforts, and Maj. Gen. McCarthy visited to aid civilian relief.
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Charleston
D. C
Charleston Air Force Base
Liberty Park
456Th
18Th Air Force
North Charleston
Chesster E. McCarthy
Donaldson Afb
Greenville
S. C
Honeymooner 78 Drowns As Homemade Cruiser Capsizes
Erie Pa August 23 The Little Lady a 16 foot honeymoon cruiser capsized in Lake Erie during a storm. The skipper Herbert Hecker 78 drowned his wife Louise Lussier Hecker 70 was rescued after three hours in a life belt. Mrs Hecker in fair condition. Hecker a retired Cleveland civil engineer built the boat in 1952 traveled 4000 miles for fun. Coast Guard recovered Hecker's body.
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Erie
Lake Erie
Harvey Hecker
Herbert Durst
North East
Hecker
Cleveland
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home
Sandusky
Ohio
Florida
Louise Lussier
Munson
Mass
Coast Guard
Governors reprimand two state police captains in tavern dispute
Gov. Stratton ordered letters of reprimand for Captains Walter A. Eichen and John L. Murphy who joined a tavern argument near the State Fairgrounds two weeks before the dismissal of aide Joseph D. Carey. Eichen heads the Southern Illinois District 13 and the men had visited the tavern for an inspection to assess if it should be off limits to on duty state troopers during the fair. Stratton will have State Police Chief Phil M. Brown issue the cautions. no laws were said to be violated.
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Springfield
Stratton
Joseph D. Carey
Walter A. Eichen
John L. Murphy
Carey
Eichen
Illinois District 13
du Quoin
Murphy
T. D. Bibb
State Public Safety Atment
Phil M. Brown
Morey Urges Chicago Site For University Plan
Champaign August 23 Lloyd Morey president of the University of Illinois urged in Champaign Rotary meeting for a permanent Chicago site to replace the two year branch at Navy Pier. He asked faculty and medical groups to set aside local prejudice and ambition and back a unified plan. Morey outlined proposals for expanded facilities at both Urbana and Chicago campuses and pressed support from local leaders.
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Champaign
Lloyd Morey
University of Illinois
Chicago
Navy Pier
Champaign-Urbana
Morey
Richard Carpenter Hearing Continued in Police Killing Case
A preliminary hearing for Richard Carpenter, 26, charged with killing a police officer and wounding another, was continued to September 9.
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Chicago
Richard Carpenter
Red Cross Drives Funds for East Coast Flood Victims
Southern Illinois Red Cross workers join a nationwide effort to raise dollars for East Coast hurricane and flood relief. Five million in allocated funds. 21 000 people fed daily. 107 shelters and 206 workers in place. Donations directed to local chapters in Carbondale Murphysboro Marion areas.
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Southern Illinois
Red Cross
Robert D. Kirchner
Carbondale
Kirchner
Midwest
East Coast
Murphysboro
Tom Cromeenes
W. Walnut St
Robert Crombar
Pine St
Williamson County
Marion
College Class Ring Found By Koreans Returned To Owner
Albany August 23 AP Broderick Spendiff has his Siena College class ring again two years after losing it in Korea. A detail of Koreans found it last fall while cleaning out old installations. Father Kuhn traced Spendiff by the initials and the graduation date 1952 engraved on the ring.
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Albany
N. Y
Broderick Spendiff
Korea
Spendiff
Siena
Benjamin Kuhn
Father Kuhn
Harvester Plants Hit by National UAW Walkout
United Auto Workers picketed 18 International Harvester plants across six states as 40,000 workers walked out over a disputed contract. Negotiations continued to near dawn with walkouts beginning Friday and extending to most plants by midnight.
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Chicago
CIO
United Auto
International Harvester Co
Wildcat
Harvester
William J. Reilly
Leonard Woodcock
UAW International
AEC Chief Hails Geneva Peace Talks and Hope for More
Denver Aug 23 AP Lewis L Strauss chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission said the atoms for peace conference in Geneva enormously aided the cause of peace and that President Eisenhower is hopeful of another meeting. He reported to Eisenhower that the U S led in peaceful atomic development and stressed no nuclear weapons were discussed.
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Geneva
Eisenhower
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Strauss
United States
Russia
AEC
U. S
Switzerland
Eisenhower Seeks Swift Federal Flood Aid and Prevention
President Eisenhower flew to Hartford to survey Northeastern flood damage and pledged full federal effort, promising long term flood prevention measures and disaster relief. Civil Defense Chief Val Peterson outlined a 75 million dollar emergency fund request with allocations to Connecticut and neighboring states.
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Val Peterson
Peterson
Congress
Eisenhower
Washington
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Safety First Last Boston Boy Drowns After Refusing Rest
A 12 year old boy, Everett D. Bell Jr., drowned after slipping from a bank into Fort Point Channel while watching friends from the shore. He had refused to join them on a rest he deemed unsafe.
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Fort Point
Everett D. Bell Jr
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