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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1955
Page
10
New York reports businessmen reassess industry after layoff pay plans from GM and Ford. Higher labor costs push automation and efficiency, with overtime to replace hires and calls for broader state unemployment benefits. Auto and manufacturing sectors foresee shifts in negotiations, productivity, and spending patterns.
A shopper in a Fifth Avenue gun shop inspected an automatic, loaded it, and held up the store with accomplices. They escaped with 10 automatics six revolvers two shotguns and ammunition for all, valued at over 1100 dollars. The manager of Stoeger Arms said three men waited outside for opening.
City Board of Health considers a 1 cent per pound tax on pet food to fund enforcement of a new leash ordinance. Dogs and cats fall under the leash rule, which requires animals to be restrained after July 1.
The Defense Department led a nationwide evacuation drill with 15 000 officials including Cabinet members fleeing Washington. Eisenhower remained at Gettysburg while others traveled by car to secret relocation sites as the Joint Chiefs discuss military measures for the emergency.
SPOKANE Washington Grandma Walker known as Mrs Tom Court finished a 150 mile experimental walk from Kennewick with the jackass Uranium. She plans to hitch Uranium to a wagon for pleasure trips to interesting places. She walked the animal a stretch tied it up returned for her car and repeated the process for several days. Grandma Walker over 50 said she is in fine shape and so is the jackass.
Las Vegas will receive federal disaster aid after Mayor C D Baker announced that representatives from two agencies will arrive by the weekend to process aid applications from the citys officials businessmen and homeowners. Damage estimates from Monday nights flash flood were being tallied.
The Associated Press reports editor Andrew M Kirkpatrick of the Baltimore Sunday American since 1953 passed away Monday. He began his Hearst career in Baltimore in 1924, born in Granite Maryland. Col Ralph Heyward Isham, 64, noted manuscript collector, also died Monday in New York. Mrs Harr iette Elizabeth Coverdale, widow of William Hugh Coverdale, head of Canada Steamship Lines at his death in 1949, died Monday in Kingston Ontario.
Lowland dwellers find Sun Valley's mountain air both refreshing and invigorating during the summer months. Years seem to roll away in this Shangri La of the West.
New York reports Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food prices rose two percent this week to 6.51, the highest since April 19, yet remain 100 percent under the year ago level. The index measures the total wholesale cost of one pound of 31 common foods.
One person died and 11 were injured when a westbound Union Pacific train derailed due to a track washout six miles east of Fort Morgan. The deceased was George F. Hobush Jr. of Sandy Utah an electrician on the Los Angeles Challenger Domeliner. Injured included Harold Johnson the Cheyenne train engineer and Willis Green with minor injuries.
A North Platte road fire man identified as McCraw was in serious condition. Injured passengers include Mrs. Clyde Campbell of East Lansing Michigan with possible back injury, Mrs. Milton A. Barlow of Washington DC and her five children with scratches, and 62 year old Constance Attaway of Long Beach California with a bruised back.
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