Auto Union Gets GM Annual Wage Plan Contract
The CIO United Auto Workers reached a three year pact with General Motors in a predawn settlement after 37 hours of bargaining. The deal mirrors Ford and includes a guaranteed wage plan with 60 to 65 percent of take home pay for laid off workers for up to 26 weeks, plus a 150 million dollar trust and union shop provisions. Walter Reuther called the agreement significant and far reaching as more than 375,000 GM wage earners gain improved pay pensions vacations and holidays.
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Harry W. Anderson
GM Plants Idle As UAW Strikes Over Local Issues
More than 50 000 General Motors workers were idled as CIO United Auto Workers extended strikes at 29 500 in Flint and Detroit plants plus 10 600 in Chicago area 7 100 in Kansas City 5 000 in Anderson Kokomo and Munice 5 000 in St Louis and two North Tarrytown plants. Local issues delayed a company union contract.
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Civie
Cool to warm week with lake level notes
The forecast calls for fair and cool conditions in southern Illinois with gradual warming. Temperatures range from the mid 50s at night to upper 70s by tomorrow, with yesterday’s highs near 69 and a noon low around 55 to 57. Crab Orchard Lake sits about two inches above the spillway and Little Grassy Lake about an inch high today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
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Hoover Commission Calls Real Estate Mismanagement in Govt Holdings
The Hoover Commission urges Congress and the President to curb mismanagement of federal real estate. It notes 472 million acres owned and vast building space, lacking up to date inventories and modern management. It recommends empowering the General Services Administration and enforcing agency compliance.
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Herbert Hoover
Eisenhower
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Wet Weather To End Soon Across Midwest Farms
The Weather Bureau predicts the rainy spell starting June 4 will stop soon. Farmers across Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota face soggy fields delaying cultivation as weeds thrive. Only a trace fell at Chicago while eight days prior brought nearly three inches, about two and a half times normal.
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Minnesota
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Big 6 Steel Firms Study Wage Demands
In Pittsburgh on June 13 the CIO United Steelworkers plan to present demands for a substantial wage increase to 90 basic steel and ore mining firms. Six of the largest producers paused talks to study the union proposals, with no resumption dates set. USW President David J. McDonald led negotiations at the talks involving U S Steel Bethlehem Republic Jones & Laughlin Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube.
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CIO United
Brakeman Rescues Boy From Freight Train Tracks
In Reading Pennsylvania on June 13 a diesel brakeman Aloysious A Russell knocked a two year old boy clear of a 40 car freight train as the child wandered along the tracks. The boy and Russell fell clear and ten cars passed over the spot with only minor injuries reported.
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Guaranteed wage demand set for Chrysler by UAW chief
Detroit June 13 AP President Walter P. Reuther said the union will push a guaranteed annual wage as its top demand in negotiations with Chrysler Corp. He would not say if the demand would apply to the other auto makers American Motors Studebaker Packard and Kaiser. The UAW Chrysler contract expires August 31 with talks due to start 60 days earlier.
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Renfrows Welcome Seventh Child Twins in St Louis
Mr and Mrs Earl Renfrow of St Louis have seven children in five years including two sets of twins and a triplet. The latest twins a boy and a girl were born Sunday at St Marys Hospital Mrs Renfrow is 31 and her husband 30
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Earl Renfrow
St. Mary's Hospital
Elizabethtown Parents of 4 Die in River Crash
Hardin County authorities continued to search the Ohio River today for Mrs. Burr Johnston, a Rosiclare housewife believed drowned with her husband Harold Johnston when their car plunged from the Elizabethtown ferry road Saturday night. Harold's body was recovered by a Golconda diver about 5 a m Sunday. Mrs. Johnston remained missing at noon. Johnston, highway commissioner for Hardin County, also ran a TV and appliance repair shop in Rosiclare.
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West German Chief In U S Washington Visit
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in Washington for talks with President Eisenhower and other leaders. He said West Germans seek a close loyal partnership with free nations as the path to reunification, and was greeted by Undersecretary Hoover Jr. and German and NATO envoys. He will dine with Eisenhower on Tuesday.
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Heinz Krekeler
Herbert Blankenhorn
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Chiang Kai-shek Hosts Dirksen Guests for Dinner
President Chiang Kai-shek hosts Senators Dirkson and Clements at a dinner in Taipei Formosa. Dirkson and Clements study military and economic aid programs in the Orient and plan to depart Tuesday morning for Hong Kong.
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Everett M. Dirkson Bill
Earle C. Clements
D-Ky
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Hong Kong
Modesty Drives Gain Among Catholics Oppose Strapless Gowns
Bartelso Illinois June 13 AP Catholic groups push modest fashion via mail campaigns to churches schools and manufacturers. Rev Bernard Kunkel notes growing demand for modest bridal and formal wear while Chicago area Catholic students report declines in strapless gowns at junior proms.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
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Francis X. Lawler
USA
Le Mans Disaster Attracts Mass Funeral For 79
The Le Mans 24 hour race ends after a fatal crash that killed 79 people and injured many more. Pierre Levegh died in the wreck that sent flaming debris into the crowd as Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb won in a Jaguar. A mass funeral is planned in the cathedral for victims including 15 women and 2 children. Roy Hunton, a U.S. soldier, was among the injured.
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Pierre Levegh
Mercedes-Benz
Roy Hunton
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Orleans
Levegh
Mike Hawthorn
Ivor Bueb
Britain
Entries for Little Stinker Contest Narrowed to 44
The article states 44 entries so far with postmark deadline by 6 p m Wednesday and submission to Southern Illinoisan by 9 a m Friday. In person deliveries must be in the contest box by 6 p m Wednesday at any Southern Illinoisan office.
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Southern Illinoisan
Renewal Seen In Filibuster in Illinois Legislature
Springfield June 13 AP The Illinois Legislature returns to work with day and night sessions to break a continuing filibuster that has blocked House action on key measures including sales tax reform court reform and school aid. Senate passes bills quickly while the House stalls likely ending June 30. Leaders push new maneuvers as Morris and Ziegler threaten indefinite filibuster with no compromise on changes for a Chicago lakefront convention hall and fair funding.
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Clash Between Catholics and Peronists Grips Buenos Aires
Rioting in Buenos Aires left Catholics and Peron followers clashing in Plaza de Mayo as police raided the Episcopal Palace arresting 430 men who had sought refuge there. The cathedral and palace were barricaded. many priests remained, while Judge Gentile coordinated prisoner intake.
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