Putman Hopes To Patch Up WSB Trouble
Washington dispatch reports Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam taking charge of the stalled wage stabilization program to run wage controls if needed. resignations by industry members threaten a new board. options include replacing members or appointing Charles Killingsworth as chairman while Putnam issues decisions, or running the program himself with staff help.
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Washington
Roger Putnam
Eisenhower
Putnam
Boston
Chicago
Truman
Kentucky-Ohio
Defense
Henry Fowler
AFL
George Meany
WSB
Meany
Charles ©. Killingsworth
Shark Kills Swimmer Off California Shore
In Monterey Bay California 15 foot shark fatally attacked 17 year old Berry Wilson 50 feet from shore. His companion 15 year old Brookner W Brady Jr fought the shark with a knife as four other swimmers approached the beast fled. Fishermen blamed storms driving the shark into the bay marking a rare coast incident.
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California
Pacific Grove
Calif
Berry Wilson
Monterey Bay
Wilson
Brookner W. Brady Jr
Weather notes for Southern Illinois forecast updates
Cloudy and turning colder tonight with showers likely east portion. Tuesday partly cloudy and colder. Low tonight 38 to 42, high Tuesday 48 to 54. Yesterday high 56, low 45. Crater information shows Crab Orchard Lake 29 inches below spillway and Little Grassy Lake 315 feet below spillway. Sunrise 7 06 a.m. sunset 4 37 p.m.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Carbondale Daily Free Press Publication Details
Southern Kaisau The Daily Free Press edition published evenings except Sundays and holidays by Southern Illinois Publications Inc 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois entered as second class matter at the post office Carbondale Illinois under the act of March 1878
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Southern Kaisau
Daily Free Press
Southen Illinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Illinois
St John Boy May Speak Again With UMW Aid
Eleven year old Carl Joslin from St John fell from a moving truck on April 28 and suffered brain damage. He has been unconscious for over two months and now seven months later remains unable to speak. The United Mine Workers welfare fund aided the family of five, sending both parents to New York for a delicate brain surgery by Dr. Ivan Cooper at Bellevue General Hospital. The Du Quoin Lions Club collected funds to cover travel costs after learning the family could not afford it. The operation was scheduled for today.
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Carl Joslin
St. John
Carl
St. Louis
United Mine Workers of America
Edward Joslin
Umwa Welfare Fund
Bellevue
du Quoin
Lions Club
Lions
New York
Riots in Casablanca Kill 2 Frenchmen and 20 Moroccans
In Casablanca, two French nationals and at least twenty Moroccans were killed as riots spread across the city. A large mob attacked a stone quarry and a police station, with shooting prompting a heavy security lockdown as nationalist demonstrations grew.
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Casablanca
Morroco
Moroccan General Labor Confederation
CGT
Tunisian Workers Movements
UGT
Tunisia
Tunis
Farhat Hached
Sangamo Electric workers vote to strike at Ordill plant
Machinists at Sangamo Electric Co. Ordill plant vote to strike after December 24 if wage demands are unmet. About 1,400 members of the International Association of Machinists protested in Marion telling negotiators and a federal arbitrator will join the dispute.
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Sangamo Electric Co
Robert C. Lamphier
Springfield
Ordill
Lamphier
International Association of Machinists Union
Marion
Lanphier
Five Air Force Officers Die in Barracks Fire
Rapid City South Dakota December 8 AP Five Air Force officers were killed Sunday when a fire swept through a two story frame barracks at the Rapid City base. Six other officers were burned and one broke an ankle leaping from a second story window.
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Rapid City
S. D
Air Force
Rapid City Air Force Base
Inaugural Will Cost Million
Joseph C. McGarraghy, a local Republican leader, said the Eisenhower inauguration could be the largest and most costly, around one million dollars. He compared it with the Truman inauguration at about $700,000 and noted local sponsors will cover costs with ticket sales, except for the Capitol platform.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Joseph C. McGarraghy
Truman
McGarraghy
Capitol
Eisenhower Sets Up Top Advisors Conference Aboard Helena
Aboard the USS Helena Eisenhower opened a formal conference with advisers and future administration members within hours of their helicopter transfer from Wake Island. The Korean War dominated the discussion though no policy details were announced by Hagerty. The group will meet again at Pearl Harbor with military leaders for further talks before Jan. 20.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Wake Island
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Helena
Pearl Harbor
John Foster Dulles
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
George M. Humphrey
Cleveland
Treasury
Gen
Lucius Clay
Joseph M. Dodge
Detroit
C. D. Jackson
Emmet Hughes
White House
Charles E. Wilson
Defense
Adm
Arthur ‘Radford
Pacific
Wake
Man with Empire State views crafts photo day dream
Harold E. Wolfe of East St. Louis plans to spend a full day atop the Empire State Building with three cameras to capture morning side light toward Central Park and south to the Battery, back lighting toward the Jersey Shore, and evening shots of the United Nations area. He owns $2,000 in used cameras and develops his own negatives, while his main hobby remains cultivating tree peonies.
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R. W. Gisinger
Southern Illinois
New York City
Harold E. Wolfe
Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Wolfe
Automobile Insurance Agency
Tamaroa
East St. Louis
Empire State Building
New York
Central Park
Battery
Hudson
Jersey Shore
United Nations
East River
Connecticut
Times Square
United States
England
Churchill
Eisenhower
Talking Horse Aids Search For Missing Boy In Canada
A 27 year old talking horse Lady Wonder is asked to aid the search for 9 year old Gary Hayman who disappeared near Providence Rhode Island on Sept 23. The horse indicates the boy is hurt and in a truck heading toward Kansas. The case mirrors a Massachusetts boy found by Lady.
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Talking Horse
Lady Wonder
Richmond
Rhode Island
Gary Hayman
Exeter State School
Providence R. I
Benjamin Hayman
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The
Times-Dispatch
Bill McIlwain
Lady
Mcllwain
Gary
Kansas
Mellwain
Massachusetts
Edmund R. Dewing
Danny Matson
Quincy
Mass
Dewing
Claudia Fonda
Purge Hinted in Czechoslovakia Remote Report
Belgrade radio cited Tanjug reporting a new purge of Czech Communist leaders. Named are Antonin Gregor Ludwig Svoboda Vladimir Kopshiva Eugene Erban Augustin Kliment Zdenek Fierlinger amid hinted purges in Prague and other Soviet satellites.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Belgrade Radio Today
Czechoslovakia
Tanjug
Social Democrats
Reds
Fierlinger
Kliment
Soviet Union
Moravska Ostrava
Belgrade Radio
Moscow
Boston Parade Repeats For 9 Year Old Skippy’s Benefit
In Boston on December 8 a second Colum bus Day parade for Skippy Romano 9-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy drew 1000 marchers six bands and National Guard units in mild winds and cold. Skippy could not attend the original parade due to illness. The community staged the repeat event to aid his treatment.
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Fast
Boston
Skippy Romano
National Guard
Vincent Romano
Skippy
Hostages Freed After Prison Riot At New Mexico State Prison
Rioting inmates released eight guards held since Sunday at the New Mexico State Prison in Santa Fe. Warden Morris Abram and state police negotiated as officers prepared for an assault. Ringleader Robert Eads, from St. Louis, led the group amid a night-long blackout and prison chaos.
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New Mexico State Prison
Fred Johnson
Big Stone
Santa Fe
Johnson
Morris Abram
Los Alamos
Abram
Joe Roach
Robert Eads
St. Louis
Mariano Chavez
Augustine Gonsales
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Natural Bridge Road
Eral Hospital
UMWA
Ivan Cooper
Machinists
Sangamo
H. Laurence Kunz
New Mexico
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Uss
Harold Wolfe
Henry W. Wolfe
Chinatown
Broadway
Hudson River
Santa Fe, N. M
Southern Illinoisan
Herrin Or
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