Teamsters Got Premium Pay Allegations Reach Senate
Senate Labor Management Committee heard that a Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph official drew premium pay and benefits as labor peace pay. William J. Poch testified that Theodore Cozza head of Local 211 received $1,022 in phone charges while allegedly running a numbers betting racket from the paper. Cozza was fired as supervisor of drivers last May after threatening an efficiency expert Irving Lees.
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Washington
Senate Labor Management Committee
Teamsters
Pittsburgh
Sun-Telegraph
William J. Poch
Theodore Cozza
Pittsburgh Teamsters Local 211
Cozza
Poch
Irving Lees
Teamsters Union
Congress
Coffee does not sober drunks say Yale expert
Dr. Leon A. Greenberg director of the Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies told the Maine Medical Assn at a Rockland meeting that pouring black coffee into an intoxicated person or making him jog does not sober him. He warned you end up with a wide awake drunk instead of a sleepy one.
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Rockland
Maine
Leon A. Greenberg
Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies
Maine Medical Assn
Labor peace payments to Cozza spark investigation
Witnesses describe Cozza receiving over 100000 from the Sun Telegraph including 75929 in wages and 24297 in truck rent for minimal work. The arrangement, made during a seven week 1951 strike, continued until his firing and was justified as labor peace.
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Cozza
Poch
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Auto Mishaps Cause Damage Across City
A series of Wednesday auto accidents caused extensive damage with totals around 175 dollars in one case 120 dollars in another and 150 dollars in a third. Victims include Charles F Carter 87 and George Jones 38 in a two car crash near Fifth and Mulberry streets Ernest Baker 27 and Norman Eaton 41 involved in a Fifth street Wabash avenue collision. A hit and run damaged William Wilson's parked car on North Thirteenth street with damages estimated at 30 dollars.
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Fifth and
Mulberry Streets
Charles F. Carter
South Twenty-second Street
George Jones
Covington
Carter
Jones
Fifth Street
Wabash Avenue
Ernest Baker
South Fifteenth Street
Norman Eaton
RR 2
Farmersburg
Twenty-fifth Street
Lafayette Avenue
Robert Allen Davis
Carrol Drive
Bartley
Homer Byrd James
South Twenty-first Street
James
Davis
William Wilson
North Thirteenth Street
Comic strip fans drive huge share of readers
More than 70 million people, about 80 percent of America's newspaper readers, are comic strip fans.
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America
Vigo County Council trims emergency fund requests
The Vigo County Council cut a total of 46 500 from emergency appropriations approved for county offices and agencies, leaving 37 438 81 of the original 83 938 81 request. The largest cut blocked a 45 000 boiler purchase for Glenn Home pending state boiler inspector info.
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Vigo County
Glenn
U S Demands Explanation for Plane Incident
The State Department asked the Dominican Republic to explain why a U S Air Force transport was forced to land at Ciudad Trujillo by a Dominican fighter and why the American ambassador shook hands with a secret agent of President Rafael Trujillo.
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Washington
Dominican Republic
U. S
Rafael Trujillo
State Department
Caribbean
Department
Air Force
Ciidad Trujillo
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Joseph F. Farland
Eisenhower
Morgantown
W. Va
Trujillo
Ventura Lima
Vigo County Council Three Day Meeting Attendees
The three day meeting was attended by council members Frank Mann Pierce Turner Max Cooprider John Brentlinger Howard Leach and Stanley Cooper. Also present were Auditor Everett J Acree secretary Lester E Pennington executive secretary of the Vigo County Taxpayers Association and auditor elect Roy Lewzader who begins duties January 1 1960. Deputy Sheriff Ray Hurst officially opened and closed the session.
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Frank Mann
Pierce Turner
Max Cooprider
John Brentlinger
Howard Leach
Stanley Cooper
Everett J. Acree
Lester E. Pennington
Vigo County Taxpayers Association
Roy Lewzader
Ray Hurst
Two Chicago Policemen and Wives Charged in Stamp Theft
Chicago detectives charged Patrolman Peter Pokuta and Patrolman Harry Rohalla with receiving stolen S H green trading stamps tied to four burglaries. Pokuta and Wilson were alleged to have tried trading 65 stamp books for a television set, prompting the inquiry that uncovered 102000 stamps taken after arrests. Virginia Pokuta and Marilyn Rohalla are named as involved spouses.
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Chicago
Harry E. Rohalla
Peter Pokuta
Virginia
Rohalla
Marilyn
al Wilson
Kyron Phelan
S&h Green
Pokuta
Wilson
Thomas McLaughlin
Merchants Freight Lines Driver Face $52 000 Suit
June Walker of Indianapolis sues Merchants Freight Lines System Inc and driver R P Sexton in Vigo Circuit Court seeking 50000 for personal injuries and 2000 in lost wages from a Oct 7 1957 rear end collision on State Highway 421 near Rossville. The suit names the law firm Kivett Bowen Clancy and Kivett as counsel.
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Merchants Freight Lines System, Inc
North Thirteenth Street
R. P. Sexton
North Thirty-sixth Street
Vigo
June Walker
Indianapolis
Kivett
Sexton
Rossville
Lafayette
Model Agency Director Dies In Chicago Sleep
Patricia Stevens 45 founder and head of the Stevens modeling agency died in her sleep in Chicago after kidney disorder surgery weeks earlier. Her husband Earl Muntz provided details to authorities.
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Chicago
OPD
Patricia Stevens
Miss Stevens
Earl
Madman) Muntz Tola
Accused Mother Takes Stand in Murder Trial
Cincinnati report describes Edythe Klumpp testifying in her murder trial as her 12 year old daughter Jo Ann, the first defense witness, described a late afternoon phone call and the events surrounding the fatal confrontation with Louise Bergen. The courtroom scene included sobs from the defendant and a kiss from Jo Ann.
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Cincinnati
Edythe Klumpp
Jo Ann
Mrs McCoy Granted Right to Appeal in Indiana Case
Mrs Margaret Annabelle Mc Coy, 32, convicted of receiving stolen goods, was granted permission to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court as a pauper. Vigo Circuit Court appointed her trial attorney John A Kesler as special pauper attorney, with 90 days to perfect the appeal. She has been in Vigo County Jail since sentencing. The jury found her guilty of receiving items stolen by her son and a co-defendant in a January burglary of the Woolworth store on Wabash Avenue.
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Margaret Annabelle McCoy
Indiana Women’s Prison
Indiana Supreme Court
Vigo Circuit Court
Herbert R. Criss
John A. Kesler
Kesler
Bethel Pentecostal Church Ownership Trial Continues
In Vigo Superior Court on Thursday the Bethel Pentecostal Church ownership dispute continued with testimony from defendants including minister Stanley Halton and Bishop Oscar H. Sanders. County Recorder Ralph G. Baxter and other church officials were also described as witnesses in the case over Thirteenth Street and Washington Avenue property.
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Bethel Pentecostal
Thirteenth Street
Washington Avenue
Vigo Superior Court
Stanley Halton
North Twenty-third Street
Oscar H. Sanders
Muncie
Andrew Ingram
South Thirteenth and
Ralph G. Baxter
Halton
Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc
Pentecostal Assem
Apostolic Faith dispute over church property raised
A fragment notes the PAW claiming rights to church property while contending it belongs to their congregation. The brief wording suggests a custody dispute or transfer contention within the local faith community.
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Bly
Apostolic Faith
Paw
Hunt divorce granted in Vigo Superior Court No 2
Charles R Hunt formerly of 2200 Franklin Street now in the U S Navy was granted a divorce from Felicia Jean Hunt of 1543 Plum Street on his cross-complaint. Infrared rays used for brooding chicks in the United States and for heating cathedrals in France.
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Charles R. Hunt
Franklin Street
U. S. Navy
Vigo Superior Court No
Felicia Jean Hunt
Plum Street
Hunt
United States
France
Kellogg's All Bran Told to Help Irregularity
An advertisement asserts Kellogg's All Bran corrects irregularity by supplying bulk. It recommends a half cup daily with milk for natural regularity and promises noticeable results in 10 days.
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Borden
Kellogg's
Kellogg’s
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