Compromise Reapportion Bill Is Drawn
DES MOINES Iowa house weighs reconsideration of reapportionment as a senate committee introduces a compromise bill. Senate redistricting chair Duane Dewel outlines a plan to realign senate seats and boost house representation for the 11 most populous counties. Polk would gain six additional seats in the House bringing its total to eight. Black Hawk Linn Scott and Woodbury now have two each and would receive one more.
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Duane Dewel
Algona
Senate
House
Polk
Blackj Hawk
Linn
Scott
Woodbury
Pottawattamie
Johnson
Clinton
Wapello
Cerro Gordo
Dubuque
Black Hawk
Linn County
Iowa House
John Mowry
Marshalltown
Melvin Wilson
Rockwell City
Henry H. Stevens
Jefferson
Mowry-Wilson
Howard C. Reppert, Jr
D-Des Moines
Mowry
Reppert
Iowa Senate Passes Tax Bill Amid Looming Veto Clash
DES MOINES a tax measure to keep Iowa tax rates steady passed the Senate 28 to 21 amid Gov Herschel Loveless warning Republicans to veto any bill extending the temporary 2½ percent sales tax beyond June 30 The plan would fund school aid state credits and capital programs while pursuing a broader reapportionment change raising House and Senate membership and altering term lengths
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
Herschel C. Loveless
J. Kendall Lynes
Rplainfield
Thomas J. Dailey
Burlington
Lynes
Lgislature
Loveless
McLeod Responds to New York Times Criticism
Geneva AP report notes Scotty McLeod defending his U S ambassadorship nomination to Ireland amid a New York Times editorial attack. The Times blasts his State Department record and slams McCarthyism accusations while McLeod cites rising foreign service applicant numbers and loyalty to his four year record.
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McLeod
New York Times
Geneva
Scotty McLeod
U.S. Foreign Service
U. S
Ireland
Times
State Department
Police Split Seven Mysteries From One Case in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids police expanded an already puzzling case after evidence dumped in the millrace under the avenue bridge failed to yield results. Detectives recovered a bicycle reported stolen in March, a remodel railing, two pistols, an electric iron, and a heavy duty chisel amid ongoing efforts to solve the cascade of connected crimes.
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Cedar Rapids
Avenue Bridge
John Kuba
Kuba
Telegraph derides Scotty McLeod as US ambassador to Dublin
London’s Daily Telegraph branded Scotty McLeod’s appointment as ambassador to Dublin as flat footed diplomacy. It questioned the choice after Canadian Ambassador E. Norman’s death and linked McLeod to McCarthyism amid released testimony accusing Norman of communism.
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London
INS
Scotty McLeod
U.S
Dublin
London Daily Telegraph
Telegraph
McLeod
Egypt
E. Herbert Norman
Norman
Coffee Price Cuts Announced By Major Roasters and Chain
New York based coffee firms and a leading food retailer cut wholesale prices after a drop in green coffee costs. Chase and Sanborn ground coffee drops four cents to 89 cents per pound. A and P bagged coffees fall two to four cents. Red Circle 89 cents Bokar 93 cents Eight O clock 83 cents. General Foods trims wholesale prices two to four cents for Maxwel House Yuban and regular Senka. Bliss falls two cents.
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New York
Chase and Sanborn
A. and
P. Cuit
Red Circle
Bokar
General Foods
Maxwel House
Bliss
Controversy Over Envoy Norman Death Strains Ties
U S Canadian relations fray as Senator Eastland and allies accuse the State Department of releasing charges against Canadian ambassador Herbert Norman. Norman killed himself in Cairo after the controversy intensified over published allegations of Communist ties. Ottawa demands safeguards before sharing security data, while Eisenhower and Herter urge warming relations.
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Gazette
Norman
Eastland
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Herbert Norman
Egypt
Jenner
R-Ind
G.O.P
State Department
Department
Popeerine
U. S
Canada
Eisenhower
Christian Herter
A. D. P. Heeney
Eisenwhet
Louis St. Laurent
FBI
Boy Five Survives Hour Inside Freezer Rescue
In Garden Grove California a five year old boy climbed into a locked chest freezer and slept through an hour at zero temperature. His mother found him with frostbite on hands and feet. Dr. Walter Ratlon said the freezing slowed his metabolism and conserved oxygen allowing a near fatal outcome to be averted.
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Garden Grove
Calif
Theo DeHoog
Walter Ralton
Daniel DeHoog
Theo
Delay on School Fund Bill Voted Delay
Washington report: The house education committee voted 15 to 10 to delay final action on a two billion dollar school construction program until May. Supporters aim to slow action to let the economy drive subside and gain broader support in Congress.
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Washington
House Education Committee
William G Skelly dies at 78 oilman and philanthropist
Tulsa AP reports William G Skelly, 78, oilman and philanthropist, died Thursday from a kidney ailment. He served as chairman of the board of the Skelly Oil Company.
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Tulsa
William G. Skelly
The
Skelly Oil Company
Budget chief admits error in postal funds delay
Budget Director Percival Brundage testified before a House subcommittee that he helped delay post office funding due to misunderstanding the federal bookkeeping system. He said he believed a $20 million revenue increase would benefit the post office, and only approved a $7 million request reluctantly after staff review. The committee pressed him on why he did not act sooner.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Post Office Department
Percival Brundage
House
Post Office
Brundage
Subcommittee
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Congress
Chlorine Gas Sicks 50. 1,000 Evacuate in Ellwood City
A leaking railroad tank car released chlorine near Ellwood City Pennsylvania, sickening about 50 residents and prompting roughly 1,000 to evacuate. Twelve hospitalized, including a family of 11. gas over the Connoquenessing Creek valley for hours before wind carried it away. Hospital and doctors treated victims. the tank car held about 50 pounds of chlorine compound used in bleaching fluid.
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Ellwood City
Frisco
Pittsburgh
Ellwood City Hospital
Ralph Tritt
Beaver Falls
Eisenhower Proposes Air Traffic Board To Modernize Skyways
President Eisenhower urged Congress to create a three member airways modernization board to coordinate civil and military air traffic research. The board would include one representative from defense and one from commerce, led by a president appointed chairman. Senator Monroney warned the plan invites delay and compromise and could lack authority.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Defense and Commerce Departments
Monroney
D-Okla
Interstate ‘Commerce
Eisenhower Proposes 254 Million Cut to Soil Bank Budget
President Eisenhower told Congress he would trim 254 million dollars from the 1.254 billion requested for the soil bank program for the year starting July 1, reducing the request to 1 billion. White House aides cited a detailed program study showing lower needs due to smaller signup, later payments, and reduced operating expenses, with no altered policy for the soil bank.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Hagerty
Albert Cole
Agriculture Department
Benson
Soil Bank
House
Homebuilding for March at Lowest Rate Since 1949
Washington AP March housing starts dropped to 83 000 units seasonally, 28 percent higher than February but 16 percent below March of last year. The seasonally adjusted annual rate stood at 880 000, far under the 1 329 000 set in 1955. NAHB President George Goodyear urged Congress and the administration to ease mortgage credit.
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Washington
Labor Department
George S. Goodyear
National Association of Home Builders
Congress
White House Announces Milton Eisenhower Mexico Visit
The White House said Dr Milton Eisenhower brother of the President will undertake a two week goodwill visit to Mexico in June as the personal representative of the President.
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Washington
INS
White House
Milton Eisenhower
Mexico
Pees
Family Joke About Weekly Paycheck Exchange
A humorous exchange depicts a daughter noting her father’s weekly paycheck to the mother. The mother quips that the transfer comes from dislike of being clubbed, framing humor around domestic finances and tension.
Outlook Roster For Tax Relief Outlook Roster For Tax Relief
Washington AP The push for a tax reduction gains pace as Speaker Rayburn says a tax cut effective Jan 1 is likely after meetings with Ways and Means Democrats. Republican leaders express support if spending is cut. House committees weigh budget cuts to justify the relief.
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Congress
Rayburn
Texas
House
Ways and Means
Martin
Mass
Reed
N.Y
Ways and Means Committee
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