Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Kill and Injure Across Regions
Storms from the mid continent to the East leave five dead and over twenty injured. In Nebraska a twister destroyed 25 Hillcreve homes near Scottsbluff, killing Mrs. W. J. Daniels and Jim Karubos and injuring several relatives. Lightning kills Mrs. Henry Julian in Canadian Texas and Kenneth E. Guyer Sr. near Panhandle. Damage includes $100,000 to $560,000 in losses and 80 mph winds in Carlsbad New Mexico. Four inches of rain swell rivers forcing evacuations near North Platte. A Little League player, Daniel Williamson, ages 13, was struck by lightning in Camden New Jersey while under a tree. two other youths affected. The storm system rippled across Wyoming and Pennsylvania with hail and crop damage noted in Greenwood Township Pennsylvania. Skies clear from Mississippi Valley to Atlantic after widespread storms.
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Associated Press
Mid-Continent
Hillcreve
Scottsbluff
Neb
Texas
New Mexico
Greenwood Township
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
W. J. Daniels
Jim Karubos
Daniels
Nick Karubos
Wyoming
North Platte
Henry Julian
Canadian
Tex
Kenneth E. Guyer Sr
Panhandle
Carlsbad
N.M
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic
Continental Divide
Daniel Williamson
Camden
N. J
Tragic Choking Incident Ends in Fatal Shootings
In Fort Lauderdale Florida a 21 year old Black man identified as Toxie B Williams choked a white woman during a night attack. Police surrounded the home and four officers fired 19 shots as Williams lunged through the yard. He died at the scene.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Neorgo
Toxie B. Williams
George Hockette
T. J. Marx
Hockette
Jack McFadden
Harry Mawhenney
Williams
Mrs. Marx
Ports Authority Shakeup Opens New Era in Georgia
Georgia amid a leadership purge with W R Bowdoin replaced as ports chair by Robert Frankenfield of Savannah. Gov Marvin Griffin cited internal wrangling as the cause and announced moving state headquarters to Savannah and plans for a Savannah grain elevator. Mayberry also resigned. D Leon Williams will move to Savannah to run the agency with an Atlanta office kept open. Sam Gardner may join as an administrative appointment.
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Atlanta
Marvin Griffin
W. R. Bowdoin
Georgia Ports Authority
Bowdoin
Herman Talmadge
Ciiman
Authority
Robert Frankenfield
Savannah
Frankenfield
Griffin
Ports Authority
Mayberry
D. Leon Williams
Sam Gardner
Woman’s Main Husband Pick Is His Ability to Make Dough
A Gallup Poll shows a woman’s top concern in marriage is a husband’s earning power. If not marrying rich, she can boost income by renting a spare room or apartment, advertised in Times-Enterprise Want Ads with six day rates and cancellation privileges. Phone 12 AD-TAKER.
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Gallup
Times-Enterprise
Senate OK Seen on Debt Limit Plans
Senators Byrd and Millikin forecast Senate approval of a six billion dollar temporary debt limit expansion after the House passed it 226 to 56. The plan would set the ceiling at 281 billion until July 1, 1956, then drop to 275 billion.</s>
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Millikin
R-Cole
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Cooper
D.tenn
Ways and Means
Rep
Jenning
Ohio
Steelworkers push for wage settlement as talks resume
In Pittsburgh CIO United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald met with negotiating teams before renewed talks with six major producers. The union seeks a substantial wage increase before a Thursday strike deadline and warned of a nationwide strike if demands are unmet. U.S. Steel offered about 19 cents an hour, with the union calling the offer entirely inadequate.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
McDonald
U.S. Steel Corp
Borig Steel
U.S. Steel
New York Post
U. 5S
Steel
Navy Hunts Pilots Who Bailed Out
Two U S Marines missing at sea near Tokyo after their 23D Sky Knight ran out of fuel. An Air Force plane spotted a tiny life raft about 120 miles south of Tokyo as three nations joined a 20 000 mile search effort. A wife arrived from Minneapolis with her five year old son. navy and air force spokesmen reported feeble radio signals from the raft while fog hampered rescue attempts.
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Minneapolis
David Winton Bell
Charles H. Bell
General Mills, Inc
Navy
Bell
Tokyo
Dulles Blames Russian Pilots for Patrol Plane Shootdown
Secretary of State Dulles accused trigger happy Russian pilots of shooting down a U S Navy patrol plane off Alaska and questioned if the incident reflects Soviet policy. He and President Eisenhower discussed the affair on a Maine to Washington flight and the cost dispute over damages and reparations continues. The Navy plane valued at over 143 million dollars crashed 25 miles from Soviet territory in international waters.
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St. Lawrence Island
Siberia
Alaska
Eisenhower
Russia
Washington
Dulles
Soviet Union
Maine
Navy
Kodiak
U. S. Army
Matsu
United States
Bangor
New England
National Airport
James C. Hagerty
U.S
Hagerly
Bering Strait
Bonanzagram puzzle offers $120 prize this week
Readers urged to solve Bonanzagram number 4 in this issue of the Times Enterprise. Fill the missing letter over the underscore with correct punctuation. deadline 10 p m Thursday. If there are multiple winners the prize is shared. if none, funds roll to next week for a potential $150 total.
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Times- Enterprise
President Signs Act Hiking Federal Pay
President Eisenhower signed a bill raising pay for 1,073,262 federal employees by 7.15 percent or about $325 a year on average. The measure totals about 1.5 billion dollars in annualized increases across Civil Service and other agencies retroactive to March 1, with lump sum payments of about 110 million forthcoming. The package boosts the national payroll of covered workers to roughly 4.36 billion dollars annually, the first general raise since 1951.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Civil Service
Adenauer Says Civil War Pends
Israelis and Egyptians met under United Nations auspices near Gaza City to ease tension. Maj. Gen. Edson L. M. Burns, UN truce chief, heard plans calling for a demilitarized border zone and troop withdrawals with joint patrols and local command talks.
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Gaza
Palestine
U. N
Gaza Strip
Gaza City
Edson L. M. Burns
Cumula
Burns
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Dulles Sees Soviet German Unification as Peace Factor
Secretary of State Dulles said Soviet failure to discuss German unification at the Big Four summit raises doubt about Moscow’s sincerity toward easing tensions. He urged talks on Germany at the July 18 Geneva summit and outlined U.S. views on the Far East conference and possible talks with Red China.
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Washington
Dulles
Molotov
San Francisco
Russia
Germany
Weather Outlook for Georgia and Northwest Florida
Partly cloudy for Georgia with little temperature change through Wednesday and scattered thundershowers in the south. Northwest Florida sees partly cloudy conditions through Wednesday with scattered thundershowers.
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Georgia
Florida
House Group Okays Revamped Reserve Act
Washington The House Armed Services Committee approved a rewritten reserve bill 29 to 1 with three present votes. It authorizes expanding trained reserves by voluntary teen enlistment and faces an anticipated anti segregation amendment on the floor.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Rep
Short
R-Mo
GOP
Vinson
D-Ga
Powell
D-Ny
Fire Sweeps Pittsburgh School Plant Under Construction
A blaze at the 15 million Pitt Schools of Health and Professions building near Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh swept 10 stories. Six alarms sounded as explosions from flammable fuels rocked the structure. 225 Presbyterian Hospital patients were evacuated to nearby facilities with no injuries reported.
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Pittsburgh
Pitt Schools of Health & Professions
Presbyterian Hospital
Women’s and Eye & Ear Hospitals
Western Psychiatric Institute
Truckers Walkout Spreading Across Regions
The Boston area strike by AFL Teamsters expands to New York state and reaches as far as Cleveland and Atlanta. About 15,000 drivers in New England and 6,000 elsewhere participate, with many southern terminals closed. Medical supplies and essential goods movement remain uninterrupted by mutual agreement.
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Boston
New England
New York State
Cleveland
Midwest
Atlanta
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
AFL Teamsters Union
New York
New Engeland
Albany
Binghamton
Flmira
Utica
Rochester
North Tonawanda
Endicott
Syracuse
Associated Transport, Inc
Atlantic Coast
Cleveand
Military Public Works Funds Set At 2 368 998 000
Washington reports a House bill authorizes a 2 368 998 000 military public works program for the year starting July 1 with 36 861 000 to Army Navy and Air Force projects. Georgia allocations include 11 704 000 for Army 8 843 000 for Navy and 16 314 000 for Air Force led by a 1 392 000 Ft. Benning project.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Air Force
House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Georgia
Ft. Benning
AFT Teamsters Demand 35 Cent Raise and Overtime
The AFT teamsters demand a 35 cent hourly wage increase and continuation of eight hours of weekly overtime as part of labor negotiations.
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AFT
Forty & Eighth Advised to Break With Legion
In Indianapolis the Forty and Eighth group urged severing ties with the American Legion. Their executive committee declared the group renounces association and dissolves the organization, accusing Legion leaders of kingmaking and ignoring members’ wishes. The move seeks support for a formal break at the national convention in October in Miami.
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Indianapolis
Forty & Hight
American Leven
Legion
American Legion
Forty & Eightr
Miami
J Earl Simpson
Tulsa
Okla
Cer
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McFadden
Mawhenney
Wrangle
Bethlehem
Republic
Youngstown Sheet & Vube
Jones & Laurain
Inalia Steel
Aueun
Rstien
OLS. Steel and
Inland
John A. Stephens
Stephens
Adenauer
Geneva
Bering Sea
Red China
China
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Kremlin
Soviet Bloc
Irt
Benning
Camp Gordon
Camp Stewart
Navy—Air Station
Glynco
Marine Supply Center
Ordnance Plant
Macon
Robins
Moody Afb
Valdosta
Dobbins Afb
Marietta
Hunter Afb
Turner Afb
Forty & Eieht
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