Racial Issue Discussed at Episcopal Church Assembly
Honolulu session opens as Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill urges church to address moral questions amid segregation debate. Delegates from the United States and abroad hear calls for thoughtful action on race, nuclear warfare and church responsibilities.
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Honolulu
Protestant Episcopal Church
Houston
Henry Knox Sherill
National Council
United States
Japan
Philippines
Brazil
Mexico
Okinawa
Liberia
Wheat Production Near Record But US Down Slightly
The Agriculture Department said world wheat production this year may reach near record levels despite past surplus. Northern Hemisphere output likely higher than last year with Canada up sharply and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Asia also expected to post larger crops.
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Agriculture Department
United States
Carada
Soviet Russia
Ukraine
Northern
Caucasus
Soviet
Urals
Asia
Butte to End Daylight Saving Time This Monday
Butte will switch from daylight saving time back to Mountain Standard Time at midnight Monday. Residents should set clocks back one hour before bed. The Anaconda Company will adjust operations to standard time at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
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Anaconda Company
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Butte
State Democratic Leaders to Meet in Helena
State Chairman Jack Toole of Shelby says a Helena meeting on September 24 25 will bring together the Montana Democratic State Central Committee the Democratic Legislative Advisory Board and the Executive Board of the Montana Democratic Women's Club to solidify party leadership.
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Helena
Democratic Party
Montana
Jack Toole
Democratic State Central Committee
Democratic Legislative Advisory Board
Democratic Women’s Club
Cease Fire Breaks as Gaza Clash Kills Four Israelis
Cairo dispatch reports a midnight exchange of fire near Tabet El Assra in the Gaza Strip after Israel and Egypt accepted a U N plea for a cease fire. Four Israelis were killed with Egyptian casualties reported as none. Tanks were seen on both sides as fighting flared along the Gaza frontier.
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Egypt
Tabet el Assra
Israel
U. N
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E. L. M. Burns
Palestine
U. N. Armistice Commission
Foreign Office
Sheik Moran
Jerusalem
Butte Woman Seriously Hurt in Georgetown Boat Collision
Esther Susan Wiles, 50, of Butte, suffered head and chest injuries when her motorboat was struck broadside by another boat during a Labor Day fishing trip on Georgetown Lake. She was admitted to Community Memorial Hospital and transported 42 miles to Butte for treatment as deputies and a highway patrolman cleared the route.
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Lake
Butte
Esther Susan Wiles
Ernest Wiles
Wall
Community Memorial Hospital
Wiles
Deer Lodge County
Montana
Israeli Fighter Halts U S Plane Landing at Lydda
A U S Air Force transport with 12 service members was ordered to land by Israeli fighters near Lydda after a machine gun burst. After interrogation by U S and Israeli officials, the crew was allowed to proceed toward Cairo for an unscheduled freight run.
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Israel
Lydda
U. S
Cairo
Ankara
Beirut
Gene Murray Patton
Harlingen
Tex
Foreign Office
Patton
Haifa
San Jose Quake Shakes 100-Mmile Region
A powerful earthquake rattled a 100 mile zone around San Jose causing wall cracks and window damage. Seismologists traced the center near Hollister with intensity around 5.5 to 6 on the Richter scale, saying the San Andreas Fault produced the movement.
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W. C. Marion
University of California
Hollister
Here
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Santa Clara University
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Charles F. Richter
Berkeley
Santa Clara
Richter
Marion
San Andreas
Rose Ross
Butte Pulls Warm Labor Day With Quiet Celebrations
Butte faces a hot and sunny Labor Day with no official observance. Highs near 88 degrees promise picnics and visits as families travel and students return to public and parochial schools after a long heat spell dominated by days above 80 since late August.
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Highway Patrol
Los Angeles Heat Deaths Rise to 27 in Heat Wave
The Los Angeles area records 27 prostration deaths linked to an extended heat wave as temperatures hit 101 degrees. The coroner's office bases the figure on death certificates and autopsy reports amid rising natural-cause deaths and heat as a contributing factor.
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Weather Bureau
First Steamboat Made Only 3 Miles an Hour
First steamboat demonstrated by John Fitch on the Delaware River in 1785 moved at 3 miles per hour using 12 mechanical cars. For speed in selling articles or hiring, call a WANT AD at 5451. Ford Deluxe 8 81X passenger coupe, perfect condition, loaded, $2500008.
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Delaware River
Ike May Invite Pay Raise Test On Democratic Attitude
Sen. Carlson said he will push a House-passed bill to raise cabinet salaries from 22500 to 25000 a year when Congress reconvenes. The measure would boost pay for cabinet members and other officials, amid Democratic criticism of officials including Summerfield Hughes and Brownell. Carlson noted policy committee objections and predicted a split approach separating executive departments from independent agencies.
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Eisenhower
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R-Kan
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Miss Truman and DiMaggio Lead Venice Film Festival Barn Dance
At the 16th annual Venice Film Festival a party called The Kentuckian drew about 1,300 guests in paper hats for a mass square dance and social revelry. Margaret Truman and Joe DiMaggio led dances while Hedy Lamarr, Linda Christian, Gloria Swanson, Dawn Addams, Rene Clair and Vittorio Massimo attended. The event, held at the Lido Casino, featured a German GI band, Betty Coon and Her Kentucky Coon Hunters, and guests Doris Lilly and Trygve Lie’s daughter Guri Lie.
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Joe DiMaggio
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United Nations
Lido Casino
Luna Park
Germany
Betty Coon
Kentucky Coon Hunters
Betty
Louisville
Air Force
Chuck Coon
Princeton
Jess Grimes
Sparta
Bob Packet
Pikeville
Gene Tucker
Thomasville
Eisenhower Urges Hiring Older Workers in Labor Day Message
President Eisenhower speaks against age discrimination in a Labor Day address urging elimination of biases against workers over 45. He highlights benefits of tolerance and notes record economic gains while Census figures project 63 million Americans aged 45 plus by 1975, about half the adult population.
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America
Eisenhower
Labor
James P. Mitchell
U. S. Information Agency
Voice of America
Mitchell
American Labor Union Movement
Census Bureau
Montana Weather Fair and Warm Next Two Days
Montana east and west expect fair skies Monday and Tuesday with warm highs. East highs 85 to 95 Monday, cooler Tuesday. West highs 85 to 92 Monday. Table notes maximums cover 12 hours and minimums 18 hours ending 5 30 p.m. Sunday.
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Montana
Employment Hits Record High
Washington reports August employment at a record high for the third straight month with 64.5 million workers employed and unemployment at 2.2 million. President Eisenhower urges rejection of age-based hiring discrimination as Labor Day weekend notes the holiday traffic and weather across the nation.
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Eisenhower
Mitchell
California
Eisenhowser
Toll of Labor Day traffic reaches 374 deaths
An Associated Press survey reports 286 killed in auto crashes 40 drowned and 48 in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 374 deaths by midnight Sunday EST. California CHP noted 27 deaths in 42 hours, up from 10 a year ago.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Council
California Highway Patrol
Ned H. Dearborn
Presoo
Indiana
Fulton
Hurricane Flora Passes Atlantic Far From Land
The hurricane Flora moved through the Atlantic with winds up to 90 mph and 18 mph forward speed, located 1 175 miles east northeast of San Juan at 5 pm EST. It is expected to strengthen slightly and bend toward the U S coast but no land threat is evident yet. Edith Flora’s sister followed a similar path but stayed about 1000 miles offshore. A second tropical storm Gladys formed off the Mexican coast near Tam pico and was predicted to bring 50 60 mph winds to the mainland Monday morning with three to four foot tides from Corpus Christi southward.
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