House campaign gift records destroyed questioned
Sen. Bridges urged the House to determine if key campaign contribution statements have been destroyed. The documents include the 1952 Republican National Committee treasurer reports and 1949–1952 Democratic national treasurer filings. The Justice Department seeks them for investigations and said records may no longer exist.
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Bridges
House
Senate
GOP
Ralph R. Roberts
Republican National Committee
Justice Department
St. Louis
Roberts
Wayne C. Grover
Missile Test Field Extended
The United States and Britain agreed to extend the Atlantic test range to 5,000 miles enabling fuller trials of Snark and Navaho missiles. The range now reaches Ascension Island in the Atlantic midway between South America and Africa, previously 1,200 miles, with Snark flights to about 2,000 miles.
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Washington
Air Force
U.S
Atlantic
United States
Great Britain
Florida
Ascension Island
Ascension
South America
Africa
Patrick Air Force Base
Britain
Showdown Looms Over Veterans Pension Bill
Washington leaders unveiled a half cost plan. The House faced a heated vote on a pension bill worth billions. Rep. Edmondson backed a $90 a month option, with Legion and VFW support, versus the $105 version from the Veterans Committee.
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Washington
House
Rep
Edmondson
D-Okla
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
House Veterans Committee
Olin E. Teague
Dtex
Rayburn
D-Tex
Legion-Vfw
Teague
Graduates Celebrate With Nonalcoholic Grad Party
Horace Greeley High School seniors cancelled a liquor plan for their all night graduation event at Pine Ridge Golf Club. About seventy graduates accepted a nonalcoholic rock and roll party after commencement with parents backing a bargain. Police reported a quiet scene as the plan shifted away from beer or whisky amid community concerns voiced by Rev. Kenneth E. Nye.
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Chappaqua
N.Y
Horace Greeley High School
Kenneth E. Nye
First Congregational Church
Pine Ridge Golf Club
Jaycee Convention Opens in Kansas City
The National Junior Chamber of Commerce gathers 9,000 delegates in Kansas City for the annual convention with Billy Graham delivering the keynote awards luncheon. More than 300 U.S. cities set to receive awards.
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Kansas City
Jaycees
Father Killed in Gun Battle With Police
In Richland Kansas a 50 year old man Fred Heberling, owner of a case, was killed after a gun battle with deputies who had gone to arrest him following a divorce restraining order. He was described as distraught over the divorce action and protecting his wife.
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Richland
Kan
Fred Heberling
Missouri Synod Adopts Common Confession with ALC
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod approved a common confession with the American Lutheran Church amid friction from the Wisconsin Synod. After years of talks the pact was deemed no longer a functioning basis for unity as mergers shift Lutheran alliances in 1960. Two resolutions urged transparency and wider invitation to other synods while preserving a spirit of repentance.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
American Luthern Church
ALC
Synod
Lutheran Church-Wisconsin Synod
American Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
United Evangelical Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod
Wisconsin Synod
Wisconsin Church
Lutheran Synodical Conference
Synodical Conference
Martin Franzmann
St. Louis
Plot to Murder Batista Uncovered by Mexican Police
Mexican police say 20 Cuban exiles revealed a wide plot to assassinate President Fulgencio Batista with a target date in late July. The conspiracy involved groups across Argentina to the Dominican Republic with activity in Miami Tampa New York and several Cuban cities. Fidel Castro was named as a top arrest.
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Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Havana
Miami
Tampa
Fla
New York
Costa Rica
Panama
Guatemala
Davenport Boy, 9, Drowns in Mississippi River
A nine year old boy, Bobby John Johnson, son of Mr and Mrs James Johnson of Davenport, drowned Monday afternoon after being swept into the Mississippi River near Linwood. He and two companions were playing near a wing dam when the swift current dragged him away. the body was not immediately recovered.
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Davenport
Bobby Johnson
James Johnson
Mississippi River
Linwood
John Riley
Bobby
Johnson
Coover elected president of electrical engineers group
Melvin S. Coover associate dean of engineering at Iowa State College Ames Iowa was elected president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by a mail vote of 49000 members and will take office August 1. In Kingsley the Lumber Co plant burned for over an hour causing traffic disruption on Highway 140 and minor damage to the News-Times building with an estimated $75000 in damage. Forest Stanfeld said firm records were saved. In Chicago George Johnson former crops and soils editor for Successful Farming in Des Moines received the Asia top award for farm and garden writing in the nation.
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San Francisco
Melvin S. Coover
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Coover
Kingsley
Kingsley Lumber Co
Highway 140
News-Times
Forest Stanfield
Chicago
George Johnson
Successful Farming Magazine
Des Moines
Tragic Inmate Suicide Reported in Des Moines Jail
William J. Kness, 37, of Carroll, hanged himself with a belt in a Des Moines city jail cell Monday night while detained on suspicion of attempting to pass false checks. Police stated the death is being investigated as a jail suicide.
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Des Moines
William J. Kness
Carroll
Charles City Man Dies in Two-Car Route 14 Crash
R J Roalf 70 a retired Bristow farmer died Sunday night after a two car collision on highway 14 six miles south of Charles City His granddaughter Sherry Roalf age 5 was injured and taken to a local hospital Roalf wife and another grandchild escaped injury Robert Miller of Hawkeye driver of the other car was unharmed
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Charles City
R. J. Roalf
Highway 14
Here
Roalf
Sherry Roalf
Robert Miller
Hawkeye
Iowa halts big grasshopper spray plan in budgets cut
A planned $20,000 roadside spray program in southern Iowa to combat grasshoppers was cut to a limited scope after Iowa Legislative Interim Committee refused to provide $13,000. Deputy Secretary Loyd Van Patten confirmed the reduced funding and scope.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Loyd van Patten
Iowa Legislative Interim Committee
Jury Unable to Determine How Bridegroom Fell From Plane
Cleve land County coroner's jury cannot decide how Oren A. Pruitt fell 6 500 feet to his death from a Piedmont airliner on June 13. Attorneys for his widow plan suit against the airline for negligence citing unposted warning signs by the door.
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Shelby
N. C
Cleveland County
Oren A. Pruitt
Piedmont
Pruitt
Charlotte
Asheville
Here
Joseph Forest
Forest
Fisher to Go Home After Indigestion Illness
Hollywood singer Eddie Fisher expected to leave hospital today after a two day stay for what doctors labeled a digestive upset. He was hospitalized following symptoms thought to be indigestion and did not suffer serious complications.
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Hollywood
Eddie Fisher
Students slain as Guatemala police quell protest
Guatemala City police armed with submachine guns and pistols fired on a march of university students protesting the state of alarm and civil liberties curtailment. Three students were killed and 19 wounded as officers clashed with demonstrators near the government palace.
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Guatemala
Carlos Castillo Armas
Haul TV to Repair Shop Nearly Through Overnight
In Georgetown Kentucky Joe Price answered a late night call to open his TV repair shop. Two men carried a large television a mile on foot after abandoning a car for no license. They phoned Price to avoid lugging the set back to the car.
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Georgetown
Joe Price
Price
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