Atlas Missile Bases Hit in Nationwide Machinists Strike
The International Association of Machinists walked out at Convair facilities from California to Florida over wages and benefits. About 800 IAM members joined strikes at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg while other bases faced pickets. Convair offered a 11-cent hourly increase plus 3-cent cost of living raise. machinists seek 14-cent rise over two years.
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San Diego
Calif
California
Florida
Convair
International Assn. of Machinists
Atlas
United States
Vandenberg Air Force Base
SAM
Cape Canaveral
Fla
N.M
Air Force Base
E. Marvin Sconyers
IAM
Atlas Base
Pomona
Diefenbaker Warns Against Soviet Smile and Snarl Tactics
Canadian Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker told DePauw University graduates that the Soviet Union uses carrot and stick tactics to unsettle the West. He urged the audience to deprive Moscow of the hope of destabilizing Western nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
Ind
Canada
John G. Diefenbaker
Diefenbaker
DePauw University
Nikita Khrushchev
Velasco Ibarra Wins Ecuador Presidency as Independent
Former President Jose M. Velasco Ibarra runs as an independent and defeats three opponents to secure Ecuador’s presidency in the early hours. The result signals a return to leadership after a crowded field.
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Quito
Ecuador
Jose M. Velasco Ibarra
Law Not War Goal Says Judge Allen at Wilmington College
Judge Florence E. Allen urged replacing war with law at Wilmington College commencement. She called for an impartial world court with enforcement power, citing broken treaties and the League of Nations. Degrees were awarded cum laude to four graduates as music and prayers marked the ceremony.
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Allen
Florence E. Allen
United States Court of Appeals
Wilmington College
League of Nations
Boy Wrecks Family Car After Bus Crash Swerve
Evansville Indiana AP reports two year old Richard Bevens boasted he could drive and then wrecked the family car, smashing it into a house after bouncing off a telephone pole. His parents found him a block away. they had left the keys in the car.
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Evansville
Ind
Richard Bevens
Richard
Everett Bevens
Chinese pressure on Cuban Chinese to influence regime
Cuban Chinese communities face alleged extortion tactics from Peiping linked to Cuba's revolution. A Chinese source in Havana described a letter from the Overseas Chinese Returnees Association asking for property and kinship details to facilitate pressure on relatives in China and abroad.
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Havana
China
Cuba
Peiping
United States
Assn
U.S
Mao Tzetung
Normandy D-Day Anniversary Observed in Bayeux
In Bayeux France on the 16th anniversary of D Day ceremonies mark the liberation of Europe. French Veterans Minister Raymond Triboulet and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville laid wreaths on a floodlit liberation monument as British troops liberated Bayeux on June 7.
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Bayeux
France
Normandy
Europe
Raymond Triboulet
Maurice Couve de Murville
Ike Reunites With West Point Classmates
President Eisenhower returns to West Point for the 1915 class alumni observance after a Notre Dame trip. He joins the march of his class, reviews the cadet corps, and speaks at a luncheon before flying to Washington Tuesday morning.
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West Point
N.Y
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Washington
California Primary Bristling with Controversy Amid Campaign Push
The California presidential primary becomes heated as Brown and McLain challenge Nixon on the Democratic ballot while Rockefeller campaigns in North Dakota and Minnesota Sparring over party loyalties Nixon praised by Rockefeller CNBC allies Kennedy and Symington court delegates in Minnesota versus Humphrey’s exit Goldwater warns Johnson-Kennedy ticket would be toughest for Republicans as New York and South Dakota join Tuesday voting
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Associated At 2
California
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Minnesota
Richard M. Nixon
Edmund G. Brown
George H. McLain
Nikita Khrushchev
Brown
Adlai E. Stevenson
Nixon
Rockefeller
North Dakota
John Davis
Senate
Bismarck
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Minneapolis
Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Lunded
Eau Claire
Wis
Humphrey
Symington
Farmers Union
Albert Lea
Minn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Goldwater
Presser Jury To Be Handed Case Today
In Cleveland the trial of William Presser Ohio Teamsters president enters final argument stage. He faces obstruction of justice charges over allegedly mutlitating and concealing records subpoenaed by the Senate Anti Rackets Committee. A six by six jury could hear the case before quitting time this afternoon.
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Cleveland
William Presser
Ohio
Teamsters
Senate
Presser
Joint Council 41
Teamsters Union
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
George H. Bender
Bender
U.S
Senate Committee
Judge Grants Husband Divorce for Attack Not Wife
London AP reports Judge Samuel Edgedale denied grounds for Mrs. Leonard Stevenson but granted her husband a divorce. He cited her attack with a wooden spoon, broom, saucepan, knife and fork and adultery with a longshoreman as grounds. He also noted the husband’s close-fisted finances.
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London
Samuel Edgedale
Leonard Stevenson
Stevenson
Pro-America Party Wins Bolivian Poll
Victor Paz Estenssoro won the Bolivian presidential election as head of the pro American Nationalist Revolutionary Movement. He led a landslide over three rivals, with strong support from Indian and peasant voters and miners. Running mate was Juan Lechin.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
MNR
Walter Guevara Arze
AMNR
Mario Gutierrez
Bolivian Socialist Falange
FSB
Hugo Gonzalez Moscosco
Trotskyite
Communist Revolutionary Workers Party
Paz Estenssoro
Juan Lechin
Drowning Deaths Lead Ohio Weekend Accident Toll
Five boys died in Ohio over the Memorial Day weekend from drownings and other accidents. Traffic fatalities totaled four in the 54 hour period, with a spotless Sunday on highways. Drownings included youths aged 16, 16, 15, 12 and 12 in pools, a Cleveland lake incident, and a Coshocton County stream.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Burns
Ing
Mansfield
Springfield
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Coshocton County
Socialist move aims to derail Kishi visit and Ike arrival
In Tokyo the Socialist bloc and Sohyo call for mass resignations and protests to pressure Prime Minister Kishi to dissolve Parliament before the U.S.-Japan security treaty takes effect on June 19 when President Eisenhower arrives. Planned events include demonstrations at the U.S. Embassy June 10 and nationwide rallies June 11.
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Tokyo
Socialist Bloc
Nobusuke Kishi
Eisenhower
Japan
Kishi
National Labor Federation
Sohyo
People’s Council
U.S
White House
James C. Hagerty
Defense Near End in Sniper Killing Case
In Painesville Ohio Floyd E Hargrove faces trial for the murder of Charles R Clark husband of Lois Clark the woman Hargrove allegedly loves The state says a truck driver fired a sniper shot to seize Clark and his wife Clark died Christmas Eve in Mentor The defense argues a freak accident and accidental firing by a target shooter.
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Painesville
Ohio
Floyd E. Hargrove
Charles R. Clark
Clark
Lois
Louis A. Turi Jr
Hargrove
Mentor
Floyd Hargrove
Ohio Business Climate Seen Improving Through 1960
Ohio economists say the business climate is good and likely to improve in the second half of 1960 despite higher unemployment. They cite gains in capital expenditures, expanding Ohio economy, and rising payrolls in April, with cautious notes on weather impacts and steel production.
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Ohio
Columbus
Roder M. Collison
Collison
Ohio State University
Bureau of Business Research
James C. Yocum
John E. Ervin
Department of Industrial and Economic Development
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Yocum
Cleveland
Fred O. Kiel
Federal Reserve Bank
Ervin
BUC
Kiel
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Gorman School
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Graydon W. Yaple
Donald E. Hopkins
Overda Lipp Page
Raymond Page
John W. Morris
First Presbyterian Church
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Gounod
Ike
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