Subway Strikes Continue as TA Trains Replacements
New York transit officials move to train 500 new motormen as subway service improves to 65 percent while strikers seek gubernatorial intervention. Motormen’s Benevolent Association plans another meeting as union tensions push toward a Workers’ election to unify subway craft unions.
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York
Transit Authority
Manhattan
Motormen's Benevolent Association
Robert F. Wagher
Atelegram
Avgerell Harriman
Harriman
MBA
Mike Quill
Transport Workers Union
Subwaymen
TWA
Charles Patterson
Western Iran Quake Toll Reported At 1287 Dead
A post and telegraph official reported 1,287 killed in a severe earthquake in Western Iran yesterday. About 500 victims were in a single village named Seraab, with rescue teams rushing food, medicine and tents to the mountainous area.
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Tehran
Iran
Post and Telegraph
Seraab
Caspian Sea
Etela’at
Farsang
Sehneh
Selneh
Shah Pass
It's Getting Warmer Weather Update
The warming trend continues as a patch of warm air moves in from the lakes region. Fair skies give way to a mild night with a low around 25 to 30 degrees and a high in the upper 30s tomorrow. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Weather Bureau
Lakes
Beck Jury In 7 Hour Deadlock Over Beck Theft Trial
Seven men and five women could not reach a verdict after seven hours of deliberation on whether Dave Beck stole $1900 from the Teamsters union he led. The jury, hearing the case in Seattle, faced defense claims of acquittal amid past Senate racketeering hearings and state allegations of self serving acts. The judge ordered continued deliberations after a late night recess.
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Seattle
Dave Beck
Teamsters Union
Beck
Senate
Charles S. Burdell
Dep
Charles Z. Smith
George Revelle
Chicago Boy Raises Funds for Christmas Kitten
Chicago police deliver a gray kitten to Kathleen Brown after Brian Soncrant, a Chicago boy of modest means, sent a note and five dollars to Police Commissioner Timothy O Connors office asking for a kitten that purrs with a red ribbon. Capt. Leroy Steffens and Patrolman Bes Palets presented the gift at Kath leens North Side home. Kathy named candidates Nosey and Misty before choosing Brian. The officer who led the effort returned the five dollars after securing the cat from the anti cruelty society.
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Chicago
Brian Soncrant
Kathy
Toto) Brown
Stread
Chicago Police
Brian
Birmingham
Mich
Timothy O’connor
Police
North Side
Leroy Steffens
James Bes Palets
Misty
O’connor
Steff
Ment
Kathleen Brown
Bes Palets
Anti- Cruelty Society
O'Connor
Eisenhower arrives in Paris for NATO summit pledge
President Eisenhower lands at Orly for NATO talks and warns the West must stand united against the Soviet space-age threat to freedom. He calls for a true partnership in spiritual, military and economic strength amid his stroke recovery.
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Associated Press
Paris
Rene Coty
Eisenhower
NATO
John M. Hightower
NATO Alliance
Soviet
Russia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West
U.S
Europe
Coty
IBM computer at Oakland center burns in strange blaze
An IBM electronic brain at the Oakland Naval Supply Center caught fire and burned, destroying one unit of the computer. Rear Adm. C. G. Dekay said the fire's cause was not determined and the damage totaled about $205,900.
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Oakland
Calif
Oakland Naval Supply Center
C. G. Dekay
Mob bosses use interpreter to invoke Fifth at Apalachin hearing
A parade of mob delegates refused to answer questions about the Apalachin gathering, with Roy Carlisi taking the Fifth 77 times. Anthony Magaddino then used an interpreter to claim language barriers as he declined to respond, while James LaDuca and Dominick D’Agostino also invoked rights as probe hearings continued.
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Albany
Roy Carliss
Buffalo
Apalachin
Carlisi
Joseph Barbara
Albert Anastasia
James LaDuca
LaDuca
Lewiston
Niagara Falls
Anthony Magaddino
Dominick D'Agostino
Magaddino
William Horan
Arnold Bauman
General Says Fund Lack Held Up Missile Work
Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris told the Senate Preparedness subcommittee that funds blocked Army efforts to develop a 1,500 mile missile and limited high thrust rocket engine work. He cited rejection of satellite launch offers, delays in Jupiter missile progress, and a second successful re entry test with nose cone recovery involving sharks.
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Washington
John B. Medaris
United States
Russia
Medaris
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Army
Lyndon Johnson
Medar
Backlis
Medacis
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Idone
Eisenhower
Senate probes UAW activity amid Kohler strike reports
Sen Mundt says the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee is examining reports of improper UAW activities as part of its wider inquiry into violence during the four year Kohler Co Wisconsin strike. AFL CIO accuses the panel of bias while Mundt Curtis and Goldwater defend the probe. UAW secretary treasurer Emil Mazey had leveled charges.
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Washington
Sen
Mundt
R-Sd
Senate
United Auto
UAW
Kohler Co
Wisconsin
Walter Reuther
Curtis
R-Neb
Lesolution
Afl-Cio
Sen. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
Emil Mazey
Toronto papers raise prices to ten cents
The Toronto Telegram and the Globe and Mail will raise newsstand prices to 10 cents starting Monday. The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily, had already followed with the same increase earlier this week.
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Toronto
Canada
INS
Toronto Telegram
Globe End Mail
Toronto Star
Today’s Chuckle on Tracing Roots and Last Night
A humor item notes many can trace ancestors three centuries back yet struggle to track their children’s whereabouts the previous evening. The quip lampoons family history versus modern parental concern with a light tone.
Air Force to Build Missiles Base in Northern Maine
The Air Force plans a 12 million base at Presque Isle Maine to house the Snark missile. Training for the first Snark squadron starts at Patrick AFB Florida with 105 airmen from Hawthorne California. Groundwork precedes a later giant ICBM base in Wyoming.
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Air Force
Maine
Presque Isle
Partick Air Force Base
Florida
Northrop Aircraft
Hawthorne
Calif
Patrick
Presque Ise
Cheyenne
Wyo
Cape Canaveral
Fla
South Atlantic
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Athens
Turkey
Tass
Outer
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Tokyo
Young Romeo
Orly
France
Felix Gaillard
Party of
Gaillard
Charles Dumas
Albert Pacini
Auto Workers Union
Workers Union
Moosehead
Lake
Houlton
Bangor
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