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...paper's price, said Roberts, came at a time when the Star - like every U.S. paper - was raising its daily price to meet such increased costs as a near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote...
...accused slayer of Charles Van Pelt '54 goes on trial for murder today in Cloudersport, Pa. Alfred Salade, the indicted, shot the 19 year old to death and wounded one of his companions. Van Pelt, on vacation at the time, was taking a Labor Day hike and camping trip...
...closing came as a shock to Royal Blue's miners, but not to most Southern coal operators. They had expected that some mines would be shut by the $1.90-a-day hike in pay and the 10?-a-ton boost in pension fund payments (now 30?) promised to John L. Lewis' miners. Blue Diamond, which operates nine other mines in the South, closed Royal Blue because the new boosts would throw it into...
...boom's new upsurge probably meant another hike in the cost of living. Though food prices had declined slightly (down eight-tenths of 1% in mid-September), other costs were rising. As federal rent controls expired last week, ceilings were dropped on 2,000,000 housing units (ceilings on the other 4,000,000 under federal controls were kept by local action). Landlords of many freed units wasted no time in jacking up rents. Though the boosts were limited in most places to about 10%, tenants feared that the landlords were just biding their time -waiting the day when...
...hour. Last week, to nobody's great surprise, the auto workers moved to keep things that way, guard against big wage cuts if the cost of living should fall. The union asked G.M. to include 21? of the boost in the permanent basic wage rate. Other requests: hike the annual improvement factor from 4? to 5? an hour, raise pensions from the present level of $125 a month. Since G.M. is not required to reopen its contract until 1955, the company was in no hurry to give an answer...