Sioux City Boy in Critical Condition After Savage Beating
A 13 year old Sioux City boy, Jeffrey Vennard, remains in critical condition after a savage beating near Highway 141. He was found semi conscious in a five foot ditch with scalp and facial wounds. Police seek motive and suspects amid reports of hitchhiking with a lone man before the assault.
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Sioux City
Jeffrey Vennard
William Vennard
Highway 141
Here
Jeffrey
A. E. Dik
City
Burris
Vennard
Supreme Court orders review of contempt convictions
The Supreme Court Monday set aside three contempt of Congress convictions Abram Flaxer Lloyd Barenblatt and Harry Sacher and remanded to the U S Court of Appeals for reconsideration after the Watkins decision The court urged Congress to be specific about questions jurisdiction and purposes and held John T Watkins did not receive a fair chance to know if his refusal to answer was pertinent to the inquiry.
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U. S. Court of Appeas
Watkins
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers of America
Lloyd Barenblatt
University of Michigan
Vasser College
Harry Sacher
New York
Supreme Wr
Congressional
Congress
High Court
John T. Watkins
Rock Island
Knotts Loses Wallet as Team Loses Softball Game
Delbert Knotts of Cincinnati reports his station wagon was stolen during a softball contest in Evansport Ohio. The thief took Knotts wallet with 400 dollars. 112 belonged to Knotts and the rest to his oil firm boss. Knotts discovered the theft after the game and before changing. His team also lost.
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Ewport
Delbert Knotts
Cincinnati
Knotts
Knott
Weather Outlook Mostly Fair With Warmer Temperatures
Mostly fair Monday night with warmer temperatures in the west and lows 52 to 69. Tuesday will be partly cloudy and warmer with scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms west and in the extreme north. Outlook calls for mostly fair and cooler conditions Wednesday.
GOP governors resist Ike naming 1960 nominee
At the 49th annual conference in Williamsburg governors pressed that President Eisenhower should not designate a 1960 Republican candidate. Maryland’s McKeldin ruled out such action though California’s Knight offered a welcome if in the party’s interest. Illinois’ Stratton and others doubted any approved successor would emerge in three years of political maneuvering.
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Conference of
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Goodwin J. Knight
California
Knight
Theodore R. McKeldin
Maryland
McKeldin
Alfred M. Gruenther
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Command
Gruenther
American Red Cross
Nixon
Walliam G. Stratton
Illinois
Nevada man charged in Mason City shooting case
William Mann of Nevada was charged Monday with assault with intent to commit murder in the shooting of Joseph Reiss with a 22 caliber rifle early Saturday. Reiss, hospitalized with a serious abdomen wound, was visiting Mrs Mann before the incident. Mann Pleaded innocent and is free on bond. Deputy Stark said Reiss found Mann with his wife at dawn.
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William Mann
Joseph Reiss
Mason City
Reiss
Mann
John Stark
Tragic Farm Accident Claims 19 Month Old Elaine Solomon
Services held Monday for Elaine Solomon 19 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Solomon. The child fatally injured last Saturday when a milk truck driven by her uncle Ralph Schuety ran over her on the family farm northeast of Fayette. Schuety said he drove into the yard without seeing the child.
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Elaine Solomon
Dughter
Edward Solomon
Here
Ralph Schuety
Schuetty
Gid
Alse
Suly
Two Car Crash Injures Four Near Stanhope
A head on two car crash at the junction of Highways 175 and 60 south of here Sunday injured four people, three critically. McKinley Evans 62 Sioux City principal, his wife 50, and Are Johnson 56 of Stanhope were in critical condition at Webster City hospital with Mrs Johnson's husband 67 less seriously hurt. The sheriff said the Evans car turned from Highway 175 onto 60. The Evanses were returning from Ohio after visiting a daughter.
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Webster City
McKinley Evans
Sioux City
Aucunt Johnson
Johnson
Hamston County
E. P. Lear
Evans
Highway 175
Evanses
Ohio
The Safe Theft at Grandfather Farm Reported
Police reported a safe theft near Red Oak involving two youths, Tom Ballard 21 and Dennis 15, who found the stolen item on their grandfather's farm while hunting. The incident was discovered Sunday after the relic vanished from a nearby site.
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RED Oak F
Senate Group To Decide On Civil Rights
Senate Judiciary Committee heads face a closed-door meeting to decide how to proceed on civil rights legislation after the House passed measure was pushed onto the Senate calendar. Senator Eastland criticizes the shortcut while supporters seek a committee report. The move bypasses the committee amid Southern opposition.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
House
Senate Committee
Eisenhower
Koonlind
Calfornia
Len Russell
Youth conference to open at Grinnell campus
The triennial assembly of the Westminster Fellowship a Presbyterian youth group opens at the Grinnell College campus Wednesday. Attendees include Presbyterian youths and leaders from 43 states and several foreign countries with Dr James Smart of Toronto as featured speaker. About fifteen Iowa youths are expected.
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James Smart
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Canada
Pioneer Presbyterian
Lightning splits barn in Sherburne killing cattle
Farm owner Andrew Brung said a Sunday lightning strike split his barn in two. One half fell across a road, the other half burned killing 39 head of cattle. The storm also destroyed another barn and knocked out power for about 30 minutes in the upstate New York community.
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Sherburne
Noy
Andrew Brung
New York
Court Martial Begins Tuesday For Rocket Expert
Army rocket expert Col John C Nickerson Jr faces a woman general court martial starting Tuesday in Huntsville Alabama. He is charged with espionage perjury and disobedience of orders over distributing secret information. If convicted on all counts he could face 46 years in prison a dishonorable discharge and a $16000 fine. Nickerson 41 a West Point graduate World War II hero and two time recipient of the Silver Star faces potential punishment for alleged actions during the IRBM program and related missile development disputes.
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Georgi Zarubin
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Texas
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Ala
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John C. Nickerson Jr
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West Point
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Billy Mitchell
Mitchell
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
White House Announces National Radio Broadcast From Governors Meet
The White House said major networks ABC CBS Mutual and NBC will record President Eisenhower’s address Monday night at the Governors Conference in Williamsport Val for broadcast starting at 9:30 p.m. Local telecasts will carry the talk.
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Probe death of four soldiers in Fort Sill incident
An Army inquiry into a mortar shell accident at Fort Sill Oklahoma investigates the deaths of four soldiers in Company B 2d Infantry Battalion during a training exercise. Initial reports said a single shell burst among about 750 men, with witnesses noting multiple shells and injuries including several seriously hurt.
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Okla
Woman Suffers Broken Pelvis In Car Crash
Mrs Leon Hunt 73 of Des Moines was treated for a fractured pelvis after a three car crash at the junction of highways 6 and 92 north of Lewis at 10 am The accident involved Betty Jean Falk 27 Charles J Grotzke 57 and Rose Grotzke Chicago with Hunt later taken to Chariton by ambulance Her vehicle a 1953 Buick sustained front end damage while Grotzkes Pontiac rear and Falks vehicle rear impact caused further damage Police noted Hunt's car collided with the rear of the Grotzke auto and pushed it into Falks car
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Des Moines
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Lewis
Chariton
Betty Jean Falk
Rt. 2
Charles J. Grotzke
Chicago
Rose Grotzke
Atlantic Hospital
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Atta
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Hunt
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Buick
Chrysler
Galen Bill Chester
Cumberland
Gerd Lee Frenke
Chester Farm
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Chester
Chester Mace
Farm
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Justice of the Peace Court
Asco Mercury
Joseph Fo Gillie
Sioux City
Chevrolet
W. Frank Rogge
Rt Lt
Goant
Sad Gillham
Travian West
Rosse
Ullham Auto
Rogge
Asn Justice of the Peace Court
Sith
California Family Weekend Visit At Tauroid Ro Anderson Home
Mr and Mrs James McDavitt and their two children of Coton California spent the weekend at the Tauroid Ro Anderson home Mrs McDavitt is the former Mabel kick of Atlantic.
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California
James McDavitt
Coton
Calif
McDavitt
Mabel Kick
Atlantic
Daylight atomic blast at Nevada test site rattles area
An airburst on a 700 foot balloon at Frenchman Flat produced a 20 kiloton plus detonation felt 14 miles away. Observers 40 miles distant reported bright flash, mushroom cloud, and window damage as doors and interior walls cracked at the control point building. The AEC said the top cloud reached above 40 000 feet and moved northeast.
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Nevada
United States
Angel's Peak
Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
Frenchman Flat Dry Lake
AEC
Frenchman Flat
St. George
Utah
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Control Point
Believe Airliner Crash Caused by Ground Block
Pacific Western Airlines reports preliminary findings blaming a ground control block left on the tail assembly for a deadly crash near Port Hardy British Columbia. Captain Gerald W. Allen, 37, of Vancouver, attempted a return after takeoff on the Vancouver bound flight. 14 of 18 aboard were killed.
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B. C
Pacific Western Airlines
Vancouver
Gerald W. Allen
Iowa Private Colleges To Receive Ford Foundation Grants
Des Moines reports final checks for privately supported Iowa colleges under the Ford Foundation faculty aid program. Total final payments amount to 2 133 500 dollars with the foundation granting Iowa colleges 4 188 500 dollars. Initial payments were made last July. Doe and Grinnell colleges will also receive accomplishment grants.
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Iowa
Ford Foundation
Foundation
Doe
Grinnell Colleges
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