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Indus Power Consumers Conf and Basic Indus Power Com file brief, FPC, for 53 major cos in Buffalo-Niagara Falls area urging prompt acceptance of NYS Power Auth $600-miliion power project; say indus will soon be unable to pay present power costs; warn of effect on area
Sec Weeks sees 'mild dip, then climb' in '58; calls pessimism unwarranted; revs record growth in '57
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 -- Congress will be asked to provide $100,000,000 this year to modernize the New York Post Office, which postal officials call the "No. 1 bottleneck" in the nation's mail system. The modernization would require five years.
J T Downey, R G Fecteau and H F Redmond mothers leave US for Communist China to visit them; illus; US and China authorization of visit revd
traffic deaths at 141
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]