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The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia • Page 21

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Petersburg, Virginia
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Offer Rejected By Bus Drivers Gott lute 7th After Pay Hikt It CHARLESTON, W. WV-The of 725 Atlantic Greyhound biu drivers in a 10-state area went into its seventh week today after rejection of a new wage offer from the company. The company said it offered drivers an increase of 8 to 12 per cent "to become effective on the resumption of service," and an additional raise jumping the total percentage to 10.6 to 15.9 per cent, effective next Jan. 1. Atlantic Greyhound also offered "to include in the contract a provision to arbitrate all discipline or discharge cases involving a loss of time or The company gave the drivers a in which to accept the.

new offer but it had been rejected the day before it was made public yesterday. Striking drivers, who off their jobs at midnight April 6, are members of Division 1493, AFL Motor Coach Employee Union. Indiana has coal reserves total- ling 17,600,000,000 tons. Driver Hunted SIM CUMCB City, Tfce tMrd car truck crashed into before turninf was operated by Madeline Wheeler, ot Brooklyn. Property damage eonslder- able but there was BO personal injury- Several persons were injured In accidents on Route 1 just north of Colonial Heights late yesterday but no details were available.

Florence Gravitte, 13, of Cajrson, and Shirley Glass, of Route 1, Church Road, were admitted to Pe- tertburg General Hospital, their condition was not believed to be serious. Mrs. Flossie Frost, of Colonial Heights, and Emerson Bryant, of 'Route 1, Chester, received dispensary treatment. In another mishap here, James Charles Wynne, 6. colored, of 309 Gill received abrasions of the forehead when hit by an auto while playing on Gill St.

late yesterday afternoon. He was given dispen sary treatment. FRANK EL "ft SOIf Auto Fire til Umiom Tnwt BMf RE 3-3321 CliArrOX OLDSMOBtLE, EVC. 247 BT. Market 8t RE 3-3773 New Uted Can About 1 acre in every 10 in the United States has coal under it.

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PHONE: REgwrt J-W11 LMM It rmUaUt tf Msrijr JNMI T. ftpr.MMif May 14. with sew cam reported, for the time pushed total for this "disease fkich started about April 1--ahead of the number in the comparable pan of last year. However, the alendar year total for this year i still behind the 1954 There had been 722 cases this 'disease year" reported through ast Saturday, compared with 718 a year ago for the similar period. For the calendar year the 1955 total Is 1.78«, compared with 2.271 in he similar period a year ago.

Still approved for use in the mass Inoculation program is the relatively small portion still unused from the 7,890.000 cubic centimeters produced by two laboraxries: Parke, Davis Co. of De- 'Ntvtr mtod mamfe! If wtttfltd if yw Mn NAVY CAPTAIN KILLED IN JET PLANE CRASH JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Navy today listed as dead Capt. Albert S. Major, commanding officer of Saufley Field near Pensacola, and Lt.

Edward L. Kennedy, also of Saufley, whose two-place jet a Into a swampy area near here Tuesday. Previously they had been listed as missing because parts of two bodies found in the burned wreck age had not been positively Iden tified. The fliers crashed shortly after takeoff from Jacksonville Naval Air Station on a flight to Saufley. Surviving Major, a native of Clifton Forge, are his widow and two children at Saufley.

Ken nedy was the son of Edward Kennedy, RFD 1, Laurel, Md. Markets (Compiled by the ol Abbott, Proctor 4 itock brokers 15 W. Tabb St.) SOLITE WEBLITE AND CONCRETE PIPES Steam Cured Modi In Ont Of Tht Country's Most Modern Plants I Prompt Deliverey Service CONCRETE BLOCK AND PIPE CORP. FORMERLY PETERSBURG CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO. A.

W. NICKELSON, PUDDLEDOCK FARM DIAL RE 3-7831 lew Polio Cases (Continued From Page (hie) here was no change in its figure 77 for the number of polio cases mong inoculated children, It said does have a new suspect case nder investigation in Nebraska 'hat makes seven or more suspec ases under study. The others are California, Idaho, Kansas, Penn ylvanla, Kentucky and Illinois. There have been five deaths mong vaccinated persons. A' health s'ervlce spokesman es imated that inoculations with the alk vaccine "are now-pushing th ix million mark." The 77 confirmed cases sinct use the vaccine started about Apr! 4 compare with a provisional tota 682 cases of all kinds of polio ncludlng confirmed and uncon irmed cases, reported by stat ealth authorities since April 10 'he total covers all age groups The upward jump for the week American Tel.

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Then federal Inspectors moved on to Wyeth. Marietta. Pa. They have now gone to PUman- Moore Zlonviile, Ind. Next on the list Is Sharp Dohme, Philadelphia, which hat not yet shipped any vaccine.

Ifa? II MM A health service fovemnient scientists have seeking improved methods for studying arid analyzing protocols-the scientific reports from, manufacturers on which government bases ts decisions whether to clear batches of vaccine for use. "They have now developed those and they are going to review them." this official said. "They are going at refined methods." There was no explanation as to why there has been no clearance on "more than 4V 4 million cubic centimeters whose makers' protocol! are known to have been in the hands of the since May 4. No new batches have cleared centimeter is The were ordered some children who inoculated came down The number of cases now stands at 77 out ef more than five million inoculated. Five of these have been fatal.

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