Furniture Factory to Be Opened Here in July
Parlor Furniture Mfg. plans to move from Cedar Rapids to Austin Iowa starting in July. The firm, bought by five Pella men, will lease Oasis dance hall for production and employ 13 locals with nine trained in furniture making. Vance Valesco will manage, Jack Thomassen as assistant, and the move aims to expand distribution to Twin Cities Wisconsin and the Dakotas.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Austin
Austin Industrial Development Corp
Parlor Furniture Mfg
Oasis Dance Hall
Highway 218-S
Gray Auto Body Co
Pella
Twin Cities
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Vance Valesco
Jack Thomassen
Valesco
Thomassen
Parlor Furniture Inc
Sathre Files for Mower County State Representative Seat
Har vy B Sathre of Adams filed for Mower County state representative seeking his first political office. A farmer and World War II veteran, he opposes incumbent Rep Emil Schaffer. Sathre vows a conservative approach to state finances, calling for reduced spending and lower taxes and stressing the nonpartisan nature of the Legislature.
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Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Harvey B. Sathre
Adams
Mower County
Emil Schaffer
Hormel Company
United Packinghouse Workers
Mower County Farm Bureau
Mower
Strike shuts 12 Austin bars as talks fail
A morning strike by Local 578 closes 12 Austin on sale bars including Mike's and Brown Derby affecting about 85 workers. The union seeks a 25 cent hourly wage rise for bartenders and 15 cents for waitresses, while owners offer 4 and 3 cents respectively amid pending wage reopener talks.
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Austin
Stasia Haverberg
Mike's
Brown Derby
Smith’s
Alcove
Vince’s
Turf
Morey’s
Colonial
Lefty's
Hiawatha
Gaslight
Gus Young's
King’s Wood
Bartender’s International Union
Eagles
Larry Hunter
St. Paul
Hunter
Kermit Haversten
Boy Drowns After Tipping From Dock Into Mississippi
In Riverton Ming, a 3-year-old boy named Terry Arnold Dewing toppled from a dock and drowned in the Mississippi River around 2:30 p.m. He was fishing with his family and was last seen by his mother before vanishing beneath the water.
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Riverton, Ming
Mississippi River
Terry Arnold Dewing
Kirk Dewing
Eisenhower Tokyo trip canceled amid communist unrest
President Eisenhower's goodwill visit to Japan was canceled as Communist mobs threaten the government and the U S Japanese security pact. Prime Minister Kishi vows not to bow to demands to dissolve Parliament while Tokyo grapples with protests and mob violence.
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Gene Kramer
Tokyo
Eisenhower
Japan
Nobusuke Kishi
Kishi
Zengakuren
U. S.japan
United States
Ike
Emmetsburg Youth Confesses Fairmont Killing
A 17 year old from Emmetsburg Iowa admitted slaying 55 year old Roy Brockmann a Fairmont Cash Way gas station attendant The confession traced through a found .22 pistol and a suitcase of guns Dreher was arrested in Hastings Minnesota and brought to Fairmont The case broke after a 7 year old Granada girl found the pistol on a lake beach
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Fairmont
William Musegades
State Crime Bureau
Charles Reutter
Dreher
Hastings
Minn
Martin County
Reuter
Granada, Minn
Julie Lane
Sisseton Lake
Julie
Hayden Lane
Brockmanns
Emmetsburg
Musegades
Reitter
Menacing Victory for Red Bloc in Tokyo Fallout
AP reports a damaging Soviet-Chinese bloc victory as Eisenhower cancels his Tokyo trip. Khrushchev attacks deepen East West tensions and threaten U S Japanese security ties while Kishi faces possible resignation connected to a pending U S Japan security pact.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Tokyo
Isenhower
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Spring Valley Youth Killed at Fort Dodge
Richard Anderson, a Spring Valley youth and Farm program graduate, was killed at 8 a.m. in Fort Dodge Iowa when his car was struck by a train. He was employed by U S Gypsum Co. in Fort Dodge and survived by his parents a brother and two sisters.
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Spring Valley
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Richard Anderson
Elmer Anderson
Anderson
Waseca Agriculture School
U. S. Gypsum Co
Weather Zone 4 Forecast Clears Tonight
Clearing tonight with fog forming after midnight and partial cloudiness. Warmer Friday with a high in the 70s and a low around 50 to 55 degrees.
Eisenhower pledges instant defense for Philippines during Manila visit
President Eisenhower vowed the United States would instantly repel any attack on the Philippines in a final communique with President Carlos P. Garcia. Filipino leaders hailed the pledge as a major gain of his 20 day trip, while officials noted the safer course after canceling the Japan visit.
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Manila
Eisenhower
United States
Philippines
Japan
Carlos P. Garcia
China
U. S
Peiping
Eisenhower Japan visit canceled amid defense treaty pressure
Tokyo reports that President Eisenhower's trip to Japan is canceled as Communist pressure endangers the U.S. Japan defense treaty while the Kishi government maintains its push for final ratification. Manila notes Eisenhower sails for Formosa, expressing regret over the Japanese cancellation but pride in the Philippine welcome. Moscow and Seoul relay schedule changes with Eisenhower due in South Korea Sunday in a revised travel plan.
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White House
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
St. Paul
Formosa
Hagerty
U. S
Seoul
Nobusuke Kishi
Japan
Moscow
Peiping
Kishi
Tokyo
Manila
Red
South Korea
Six Key Provisions in U.S.-Japan Security Pact
Washington outlines six main points of the security treaty with Japan. It covers mutual defense in Japanese territory, basing for U.S. forces with no time limit, joint defense development, peaceful dispute settlement, strengthening free institutions and economic cooperation, and a 10 year plus indefinite duration ending on one year notice.
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Japan
U.S
Far East
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Chamber of Commerce
Ray J. Emmerich
Furni
Ture Inc
Way
Harvey Sathre
Satre
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Mississippi
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Red Bloc
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Pact
REDS
Ft. Dodge
John Scali
Ennce
Japanese Diet
Nobu
Suke Kishi
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