Alterations found in House expense account bills
Washington AP reports that Knight newspapers found expense account bills of several current and former House members altered or amended to mask purposes. Receipts for hotel rooms and bar charges were changed while records were public, then sealed off as secrecy grew. Representative Omar Burleson and Chairman Oren Harris commented on loose practices and disapproval of bar charges charged to government funds.
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Washington
Dovzens
House
Knight Newspapers
Don Oberdorfer
Walter Pincus
Fund Record Room
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Honolulu
Oren Harris
Harris
Rep
Omar Burleson
Tex
Burleson
Highway Lighting Planned In Cass County
The Highway Commission directed its planning division to prepare standards for a limited rural intersection lighting program. Carl Schach said lighting would reduce accidents at sharp turns where headlight lighting is insufficient. Planned interchanges include routes 71 and 92 in Cass County among many others across Iowa.
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AMES
The
Highway Commission
Carl Schach
Schach
Commission
Wright County
Hancock County
Mills County
Dickinson County
Linn County
Johnson County
Cass County
Plymouth County
Pocahontas County
Mahaska County
Lucas County
Worth County
Muscatine County
Henry County
Des Moines County
Weather Outlook Northwest Partly Cloudy With Showers
Partly cloudy northwest with scattered showers and thunderstorms elsewhere. Most numerous and intense activity south portion Wednesday night. Cooler west and central with lows 50s to mid 50s, near 54 to 58 coastal. Thursday partly cloudy and cooler with highs 68 to 73 northwest and 73 to 78 southeast. Friday near normal temps.
Antirevolution Talk Echoes in Post Rhee Korea
In Seoul the new South Korean government confronts antirevolution rumors as a probe into the March 15 presidential election widens. Rhee’s Liberal party and allied groups are linked to counterrevolutionary talk, with arrests across former cabinet members, bank leaders, police chiefs, and military officers.
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Seoul
South Korea
Huh Chang
Rhee
Liberal Party
Lee Bum Suk
Blue Shirt
National Independence League
Young Guardians of the Republic
Korean Reconstruction Bank
Bank of Korea
Song Yochan
Army
Koréa
Bloodmobile visit aims to boost U U donor total
Cass county faces a shortfall with only 74 donors signed for the Red Cross bloodmobile at the Elk club, 11 30 am to 5 40 pm Thursday, seeking 210 donors and about 180 pints. Donors urged to pre book. list of volunteers includes numerous local residents and professionals.
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Cass County
Red Cross
The
Elk Club
Howard Espeland
Atlantic
Espeland
Funeral Services Friday For M. R. Bendorf
Matthew R. Bendorf 59 of 1612 Oak street dies at work from a heart attack. Funeral Friday 10 a.m. at Roland funeral home with interment 2:30 p.m. at Herman Nebraska cemetery. Survived by wife Exeher and three sons Robert John William. siblings and half siblings. He was a Safeway meat manager in Atlantic and member of multiple local organizations.
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Matthew R. Bendorf
Oak Street
Roland Funeral Home
Herman, Nebr
Bendorf
Safeway
Chris L
Andrea Sorensen Bendorf
Blair
Nebr
Business
Blair Noval
Exeher Triplett
Council Bluffs
Atlantic
Spy ships locate Soviet activity near British isles rocket range
Reporters describe U-2 sightings and a map showing Soviet ships off Britain's Hebrides rocket range. Lighthouse keepers at Lewis heard Russian radio chatter from trawlers claiming to fish. Trawlers allegedly tracked missiles tested from the Isle of South Ulster.
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Britain
Hebrides Islands
Bate of Lewis
Isle of
South Ulst
Horse in Basement Rescue by Chicago Society
Tommy the horse lives in a basement under his stable in Chicago after falling or walking down stairs. The Anti Cruelty Society, led by J. J. Shaffer, will cut through concrete to rescue him by ramp or winch. The owner Julius Pekovsky reports the animal is well fed and content, awaiting action.
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Chicago
Tommy
Anti Cruelty Society
J. J. Shaffer
Shaffer
Julius Pekovsky
Pekovsky
Schaffer
William H. Irving 83 Spanish American War Vet Dies
William H. Irving 83 Atlantic resident and Spanish American War veteran died at Atlantic Memorial hospital after a five day illness. Born April 16 1877 in New York City he enlisted April 27 1898 serving in Cuba under General Fitzhugh Lee. Surviving are daughter in law Mrs Neva Taylor and granddaughter Ingrid Irving of Portage Wisconsin. Funeral Saturday at 3 PM at Roland funeral home with Masonic and military services.
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William H. Irving
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Flo
King
Mr. Irving
New York City
Cuba
Fitzhugh Lee
Julia Walpole
Forest City
Fairbury
Nebr
Atlantic
King Apartments
First Presbyterian Church
Pymosa Lodge
Af&am
Neva Taylor
Ingrid Irving
Portage
Wis
Irving
Longtime Green Bay manager Earl Britton retires after 41 years
Earl Britton, longtime Green Bay Lumber Company manager and Atlantic yard head since 1919, retires after 41 years in that role and 46 years in the lumber business. He becomes Cass County court bailiff, succeeding W A McKee, and plans a quiet retirement as he moves his desk to the courthouse second floor.
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Earl Britton
Green Bay
M. FE
Earl) Britton
Atlantic
Green Bay Lumber Company
Mr. Britton
W. A
Bill) McKee
Cass County
Kalona
Adams
Hardin
Green Bay Company
Second
Chestnut Street
Britton
B. R. Wasson
Wasson
Atlantic Yard
Lie
Earl
Court House
Elks Sponsor Holly Poore In Southwest Iowa Pageant
Holly Poore daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Poore of 292 East Eighteenth street is sponsored by Atlantic BPO Elks lodge 445 for the Miss Southwest Iowa contest at Clarinda theater June 9. The winner advances to Miss Iowa in Clear Lake and then may reach Miss America. Poore, 18, an Atlantic High School graduate, is an honor student active in many clubs and activities and has been a YWCA committee member and Rainbow Girl officer.
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Holly Poore
Charles Poore
East
Eighteenth Street
Atlantic Bpo Elks Lodge
Iowa
Clarinda
Jim Weitzel
Clear Lake
Clarinda Lions Club
Atlantic City
Poore
Atlantic High School
Needle In High School
Quill, and Scroll
National Honor Society
Thespians
Y-Teen Cabinet
Holly
Atlantic Rainbow Girls
First Presbyterian Church
West Texas twisters cause baseball-sized hail and flooding
At least nine tornadoes were sighted near Monahans and Winkler County winds hit 95 mph and shattered windows. Hailstones up to five inches fell in Wink, halting telephones and creating debris. Bonham saw 3.25 inches of rain in 90 minutes with floodwaters shoulder high in parts and widespread property damage.
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Dallas
Tex
West Texas
Bonham
Texas
Jim Morris
Monahans
Wink
Earl Hill
Winkler County
Hill
Memorial Day Holiday Toll Tops 367 Traffic Deaths
Chicago AP reports 367 people died in traffic accidents during the three day Memorial Day holiday, short of the 371 record set in 1958 and below a 375 pre holiday forecast by the National Safety Council. Total deaths reached 579 across traffic boating drowning and other accidents, beating the 504 Memorial weekend record from 1947. Walter T. Rattenberg, a longtime Atlantic municipal water department foreman, retired after 30 years of service yesterday.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Walter T. Rattenberg
Atlantic Municipal Water Department
Department
Space Agency Denies Spy Flight Angle
In Beverly Hills a $100-a-plate dinner for Gov. Edmund G. Brown drew three Democratic hopefuls Kennedy Johnson and Symington praising Brown and California’s June 7 primary. NASA official Dryden testified U2 weather flights totaled 264000 miles since 1936 and were for research not spying, with instrumented planes on Pan American and TWA jets. The Senate inquiry probes the summit controversy and the U2 incident in Russia.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
California
Edmund G. Brown
John F Kennedy
Masachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Brown
Washington
Space Agency
United States
Europe
Turkey
Japan
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dryden
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NASA
Senate Group
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Mamie Eisenhower Hospitalized For Asthmatic Bronchitis
Mrs Mamie Eisenhower was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital for acute asthmatic bronchitis. Doctors report she is comfortable, improving, and without a high fever. The first lady, age 63, will stay under treatment for a few days.
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Washington
Mamie Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
White House
James C. Hagerty
Fort Madison selects new basketball coach and PE instructor
Rich ard J. Waeht, 24, who has coached at Marshalltown St. Marys High School the last three years, is chosen to succeed Richard McKillip as basketball and baseball coach and physical education instructor at Fort Madison High School.
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Fort Madison
Richard J. Waeht
Marshalltown St. Mary's High School
Richard McKillip
Fort Madison High School
Fugitives Nabbed in Illinois After Iowa Escape
Two fugitives from Mount Pleasant Iowa mental institution were captured in Galesburg Illinois. Robert Thomas 30 Albia Iowa seized from a stolen car at North Henderson Ml and John Piper 19 arrested at a Galesburg service station after escaping Tuesday from the Iowa facility.
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Galesburg
Ill
Mount Plesant
Iowa
Robert Thomas
Albia
North Henderson
John Piper
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Bob Bredensteiner
Jeannie Brodersen
Paul Vedane
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Wayne E. Petersen
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Charles Pigsley
Gail Poch
Edward Ackerman
Lucille Allman
Clyde Bailey
Dewey Kuiken
Merritt Wittman
Charles Hunt
James Humphrey
Don Inhofe
M. R. Bendorf
U-2
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W. H. Irving
H. W. Nelson
Locust Street
Mary Ellen Nelson
Nevada
Stan Nelson
Steven
Trenton
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