Democrats Push Seven Point Plan in Congress
Democratic leaders outline a seven point legislative program to bolster social security expansion public housing farm price supports highway construction school aid a minimum wage rise and public power projects. They expect six weeks of work to pass remaining measures before mid July while facing civil rights reform risks and possible amendments that could derail school aid in the Senate.
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Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
Democrats
Sam Rayburn
D.-Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Two Terre Hauteans Among 49 GE Engineers Graduates
Two former Terre Hauteans, W. Donald Nelson and Donald A. McCune, are among 49 GE engineers who recently completed the companys advanced and creative engineering programs. The graduates, selected from GE s top young engineers, will take permanent assignments after graduation.
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Terre
Management Club Outing Sets Big Seasonal Roast
Terre Haute Management Club announces its biggest outing of the season a father son wiener roast Thursday night at 6 at the Lockport plant of Commercial Solvents Corporation. Members bring a son guest and a wiener fork. Activities include baseball horse shoe pitching movies a plant tour and a large picnic supper.
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Terre Haute
Lockport
Kiwanis Speaker Homer G Klene to Speak in Terre Haute
Members of the Terre Haute Kiwanis Club will hear Homer G Klene program director of the Midwest Division of the National Association of Manufacturers. Klene travels from Chicago for the Kiwanis luncheon at the Terre Haute House Thursday.
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Terre Haute Kiwanis Club
Homer G. Klene
Midwest
National Association of Manufacturers
Klene
Chicago
Kiwanis
Terre Haute House
Father’s Day Birth In Boston With Police Escort
Philip K Chaplain of North Andover became a father on Father’s Day while en route to Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. A patrolman drove with Chaplain acting as attending physician due to time constraints. Mother and daughter were reported well. It also marked the Chaplain’s fifth wedding anniversary.
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Boston
Philip K
North Andover
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital
Johnson Named Bloomington District Superintendent
Dr. Francis T. Johnson, pastor of Grace Methodist Church Indianapolis since 1950, was appointed Bloomington district superintendent by Bishop Richard C. Raines at the Indiana Methodist Conference. Raines announced 99 pastoral changes as the conference pursues a $1,250,000 drive for new churches and a home for the aged at Franklin, with a record budget of $818,000 for 1956-57.
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Bloomington
Ind
Francis T. Johnson
Grace Methodist Church
Indianapolis
Richard C. Raines
Indiana Methodist Conference
Raines
Johnson
William T. Jones
Indiana Conference
Franklin
Boy toy telegraph triggers Los Angeles bomb scare
In Los Angeles a baggage room scare prompted alarmed attendants to call special agent Gene Mallaly, who summoned a police demolition expert. The expert opened a package revealing a battery operated child’s toy telegraph set with a key jammed into a buzz buzz position, causing the false alarm.
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Los Angeles
Union Railroad Station
Gene Mallaly
Police Department
New Yorkers Embrace Home Linen Rental Boom
About 375000 New Yorkers, averages five per household, rent linens weekly or biweekly instead of owning. Prices run 20 cents per sheet 10 cents per pillow case 8 cents per towel with firms like Consolidated Laundries Corp noting middle class buyers and summer vacation demand driving growth.
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Consolidated Laundries Corp
Ocean Beach
Lake
Curtis and Leigh Welcome Baby Daughter in Santa Monica
Actor Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh welcomed their first child, a baby girl weighing six pounds, born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. Both mother and baby are reported in good health, and Curtis called it the perfect Father's Day gift.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
St. John’s Hospital
Curtis
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