Poignancy in Abilene and Eisenhower Funeral TV
Television coverage of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Abilene rites contrasted with Washington’s formal ceremony. Viewers saw a simple, moving hometown tribute as casket procession and private interment unfolded with unadorned dignity. CBS aired prelude footage of Gen Omar Bradley visiting the Eisenhower museum, framing the event with heartland context.
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Uniform Expense Pay Bill Passes Senate
DES MOINES AP A bill to end state employee expense accounts for $10 breakfasts and $20 dinners passed the senate 32-21, just one vote over the constitutional majority. The measure, now headed to the house, would let the state comptroller with the executive council set uniform per diem standards for travel away from home.
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Lenten Speaker Explains Christ Arousing Disciples
Holy Week services at the Paramount theater feature Rev. John S. Thomas arguing Jesus departed earth to finish His work, reveal the disciples’ true nature, help humanity, and intercede in heaven. Dr. John C. Walker is set as final speaker for Friday noon services.
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Strawberry Point Council awards contract for Klingbeil house raze
The Strawberry Point town council awarded Harold Happel a 300 dollar contract to raze the Klingbeil house for a future museum housing a large doll collection owned by two local sisters. Bids for the 40 by 60 foot museum building will be opened this spring. The council heard a proposal from Roger McIntosh of Central Telephone Co. to buy part of the city parking lot behind city hall for a new phone building, but no action was taken. Ambulance service discussed but not acted on as Feeney Knutson's ends May 1.
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Milwaukee Tracks Open at Washington
Washington reports the main Milwaukee line resumed service at 4 30 a m after a derailment halted traffic Wednesday. Five cars derailed eastbound, three on their sides removed Thursday. Mechanical failure blamed. one car dropped wheels and rode the track before detaching. Most of the 83 car train was cleared. remaining cars carried wood pulp, potash, flake board and lettuce.
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Soviet Bombing Exercises Notified for Northern Pacific
Tokyo reports the Soviet Union warned Japan that its air force will conduct bombing exercises in the northern Pacific for 14 days starting April 10. The Japanese maritime safety agency received the notice.
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Armed Forces 19 Young East Iowa Men Enlist
Nineteen men from NE join services. promotions and delays listed. Names include William Bowers and Timothy Bucklin en route to Lackland. Sonny Fall delayed in Marion. several sent to San Diego, Gulfport, and other bases. Additional promotions in Navy, Army, Air Force. leave statuses for several service members and one discharge noted.
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Iowa Senate approves year-round studded tires for buses and fire trucks
The Iowa senate passed a bill by a 50 to 7 vote allowing year-round use of metal studded tires on school buses and emergency fire department vehicles. The measure, originally limited to school buses, gained house support for extending to fire department vehicles. Current law restricts studded tires to November 1 through April 1.
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Polish Airliner Crash Kills 53 Near Cracow
A Soviet built turboprop airliner crashed in the Tatra foothills near Cracow killing all 53 aboard including two Americans. Richard Andrews 45 of Forest Hills New York worked in KLM passenger handling at JFK and was visiting Poland. Jean Irwin 25 a student at Warsaw Grand Theater had spent 18 months in Poland.
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Seaway Anniversary Marked by Senator Griffin
Washington Senator Robert Griffin urges Congress to honor the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the 2342 mile St Lawrence Seaway. The proposal seeks formal congressional recognition of the portage waterway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.
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