Specter of past tax and education funding mistakes returns
In a Gazette editorial, Sen. Lawrence Putney laments a 1949 decision to cash a wartime surplus for a WWII veterans bonus. The piece argues for greater higher education funding despite tax fears, noting past missteps and urging careful budgeting to avoid repeating them.
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Lawrence Putney
Gladbrook
Senate Appropriations Committee
Board of Regents
Appropriations
House
Senate Republicans
Sen. Putney
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids Education Board Promotes Six Inside Principals
Six Cedar Rapids elementary principals are named from within the district aligning with high hiring standards. Nationally advertised, 17 of 100 applicants were district teachers and 20 finalists scored high on ETS exams. One disappointment noted is the lack of women applicants, despite strong past and present female leadership.
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E Board of Education
Cedar Rapids
Princeton
If Government Can't Act U S People Should Help Free Cuba
The piece argues US action against Castro is blocked, urging private Americans to aid an invasion of Cuba while the government withers from taking direct defense measures. It frames Castro as a Soviet threat and appeals to citizen action over official policy. It names George Jones and Joe Doakes as example helpers.
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Ashington
Cuba
United States
Fidel Castro
Florida
Hungary
Castro
Havana
Sam
Americas
Washington
Bolivar
Juarez
Caribbean
George
George Jones
Joe Doakes
Cedar Rapids
Alex L. Taylor Olin
Call for Air and Sea Blockade of Cuba to Stop Soviet Armament
A strategy calls for a U S air and sea blockade to prevent Soviet munitions landing in Cuba. The piece cites Monroe Doctrine violations and OAS resolutions, notes Castro’s forces using Communist equipment, and warns Khrushchev that a blockade could target ships and aircraft bound for Cuban ports.
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Ashington
Cuba
United States
Organization of American States
Caracas
Venezuela
Lawrence
America
Castro
Kennedy
Mexico
Wilson
United States Navy
Vera Cruz
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Early Soviet Space Pioneers Said to Die in Test Flights
Intelligence sources allege Maj Yuri Gagarin was not the first Soviet to fly, with unnamed pre orbit test pilots including Alexis Ledovsky and Terenty Shiborin dying in 1957 and 1958. Other pilots, such as Andrei Mitkov, perished after launches, while only three names were officially acknowledged in 1959.
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Ashington
Yuri Gagarin
Kremlin
Columbus
Alexis Ledovsky
Terenty Shiborin
Andrei Mitkov
Moscow
Ogoniok
Alexis Belokonev
Alexis Grachev
Ivan Kachur
Center for the Aged Urged by Cedar Rapids Reader
A Cedar Rapids reader calls for a community aging center to serve the elderly with winter gathering space and entertainment. The letter criticizes excessive ramps for shoppers and parking space losses, urging a centrally located old house to be purchased for a seniors center and inviting local talent to volunteer.
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Greene Square
Island
Cedar Rapids
E. W. Krickard
Bever Ave
Maturity Defended Re French Critique and American Heritage
A reader defends American heritage and institutions against foreign critique. He questions Eur opean scrutiny of U S policy, asks how the French would support Free World goals, and urges a united national policy through crises.
Reader letter attacks Drew Pearson column in The Gazette
Galen Kuhens of Postville criticizes a Friday Gazette column by Drew Pearson. He argues the article is premature about missile programs and seeks to discredit President Eisenhower’s leadership. He questions the column’s usefulness and urges dropping it.
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Drew Pearson
the Gazette
Pearson
Eisenhower
United States
Mr. Pearson
The
Gazette
Galen Kuhens
Postville
Solicitude to IRS clerk in Uncle Mat letter
A humorous quip from Uncle Mat's Monthly Letter has a kind old lady asking an Internal Revenue clerk to “give my money to some nice country.” The line reflects gentle satire on tax and charity in a rural old‑time voice.
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Internal Revenue Clerk
Mat
Iowa Senate Revives Preaudit System Bill and State Personnel
In 1951 the Iowa senate revived and passed a Little Hoover commission recommended bill to create a pre audit system for state government and a personnel division in the comptroller’s office. Also notes meetings, races, and salary changes involving local figures and colleges.
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Iowa Senate
Little Hoover Commission
State Comptroller’s Office
Jim Meaghan
Cedar Rapids Indians
Iowa Drug Travelers
Knotty Pine Inn
Hector“Pepino” Azamar
Cedar Rapids
Hickenlooper
10-20-30 Years Ago The Bever oratorical contest
The Cedar Rapids council of Camp Fire Girls filed articles of incorporation. A fire in Belle Plaine's business district destroyed the O. R. Herring furniture store and damaged surrounding buildings.
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Fire Girls
Belle Plaine
O. R. Herring
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She Cedar Rounds Gazette
U.S
William S. White
By David Lawrence
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri
the People’s Forum
David Mason
Dave Clutter
Ham
Cornell College
Des Moines
Vance Wilson
Howard Orms
Cornell
Harold Eggleston
F. B. Kirby
Abbott Laboratories of
Chicago
Rotary Club
Kenneth Kent
Nashua
Coe College
Bever
George Clark
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