Ford charting expansion and proposes prosperity insurance
Henry Ford II announces a 625 million dollar three year expansion plan for Ford Motor Company and favors a new kind of prosperity insurance for workers. He discusses a guaranteed annual wage concept as CIO/UAW talks continue and stresses building for the future alongside ongoing wage negotiations.
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New York
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Company
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaer Publishers
Ing
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Television Listings for Cedar Rapids and Surrounding Areas
A dense schedule fragment lists TV stations KCRG WMT KWWL WHBF WOI WOC WKBT WHO and others with assorted program blocks including sports, movies, westerns, cartoons, nature segments, and auctions. Names like Christy, Dizzy Dean, Horace Heidt, and Roy Rogers appear amid time slots and channel numbers.
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Kcrg-Tv
Cedar Rapids
Wmt-Tv
Kwwl-Tv
Waterloo
Whbf-Tvv
Rock Island
Factory Manager Seeks Labor Reform For Growth
The manager urged balanced labor policy to boost optimism and momentum while warning against rigid entrenchment. He criticized union leaders resisting modernization and feared stagnation under obsolete trades and a mature economy.
Army to Draft 10,000 in June in Korea War Call
The defense department announced the Army will draft 10,000 men in June, matching May and raising April’s quota by 2,000. The June inductions raise total draftees since the Korean War to 1,908,430.
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Army
Washington
Defense Department
Three Men Die In Plane Crash Near Wilmington
A Beechcraft Bonanza owned by Atlantic Aviation Service Inc. crashed soon after departure from DuPont Airport, killing three men on the outskirts of Wilmington near a large housing development. The small four seater aircraft came down not long after takeoff.
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Wilmington, del
Wilmington
Atlantic Aviation Service, Inc
DuPont
Here
Lewden Man Named To ER Church Synod
The Rev. Ernest Press of Burlington was named Wednesday to the newly created post of fulltime president of the Iowa Synod Evangelical and Reformed church. Other officers elected included the Rev. H. H. Wintermeyer Latimer vice president the Rev. H. Barten Wheatland secretary and W. H. Witte Lowden treasurer.
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Klemme
Ernest Press
Burlington
Iowa Synod, Evangelical and Reformed Church
H. H. Wintermeyer
Latimer
H. Barten
Wheatland
W. H. Witte
Lowden
Maryland Ban on Horror Comics for Riders Youths
Maryland Gov McKeldin signed a bill banning sale of horror comics to anyone under 18. Penalties include fines from 25 to 200 dollars and up to ten days' imprisonment. The law targets distributors and vendors of such material to minors.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Perpetual Savings and Loan Incorporation in Cedar Rapids
Notice announces the reincorporation of Perpetual Savings and Loan Association of Cedar Rapids Iowa under Chapter 524 1954 Code. It lists a fifty million dollar capital stock 50000000 divided into $100 shares and a seven member board with initial officers and directors named. The company operates as a domestic building and loan association with ongoing rights obligations from the former entity.
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Perpetual Savings and Loan Association
Cedar Raids
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
S. W. Wilder
H. H. Bennett
Sutherland Dows
Duane Arnold
A. T. Pleune
Harry A. Palmer
William W. Crissman
Association
W Wilder
British Rail Strike Threatens Eden Campaign
London AP Union leaders called a nationwide rail strike starting at midnight Sunday, mobilizing 60 600 engineers and firemen in a pay dispute. The action risks hurting Prime Minister Eden's campaign plans as voters link rail service to the approaching May 26 elections.
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London
Eden
Britain
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
London Subway
National Union of Railwaymen
Transfer of Ag Security Official Doubted By Officials
A five member committee will urge Chief Security Officer J Glen Cassity to stay within the chain of command rather than be transferred. Cassity faced criticism over his handling of the Wolf Ladejinsky security case, which sparked calls from some for his reassignment. Benson refused Ladejinsky security clearance to Tokyo then Ladejinsky was cleared by the FDA and serves in a sensitive post in Viet Nam. The Agriculture Department panel will report within a week to Benson.
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Washington
LLP
Agriculture Department
Department
J. Glen Cassity
Cassity
State Department
Foreign Operations Administration
Wolf Ladejinsky
Senate Civil Service Committee
Agriculture
Benson
Ladejinsky
Tokyo
FDA
Viet Nam
AMA Opposes Draft to Care for Military Dependents
The American Medical Association urged the House Armed Services Committee to end the doctors and dentists draft when the current law expires June 30. Dr. Walter B. Martin cited discriminatory limits of service age and called for peacetime reform while noting growing dependents care needs and prior wartime support for the draft. He proposed a civilian panel to boost military service attractiveness and said no action has been taken despite AMA offers since 1952.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Walter B. Martin
Norfolk
AMA
House Armed Services Committee
Martin
Pentagon
Officials discuss border security cases interviews plan
Chief McHenry Schafer and other officials expect a committee to urge more border line security cases to receive personal interviews with assistant secretaries. Employees could explain troubles informally in meetings and top officials would be better equipped to decide the cases, a source said.
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McHenry Schafer
Ralph S. Roberts
True D. Morse
Benson
Eight Eastern Iowans Return from Far East
SEATTLE RP The Gen M M Patrick was due here Thursday from the Far East with 1436 passengers including Iowa servicemen Pfc William B Brown Cedar Rapids Pfc Jerold O Dock Cedar Rapids Pfc Richard W Egan Oelwein Pfc Kenneth J Elliott Dyersville Cpl Roger L Kuhse Postville Pfc Gerald J Meade Oxford Cpl Robert J Wilhelm Strawberry Point and A2 Eugene Copenhaver Rowley.
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Seattle
M. M. Patrick
Far East
Iowa
William B. Brown
Jerold O. Dock
Cedar Rapids
Richard W. Egan
Oelwein
Kenneth J. Elliott
Dyersville
Roger L. Kuhse
Postville
Gerald J. Meade
Oxford
Robert J. Wilhelm
Strawberry Point
Eugene Copenhaver
Rowley
Half Dollar Spill Shuts Highway Near St Peter
A semi-trailer carrying 250 000 dollars in new half dollars spilled coins along a half mile of highway 169 near St Peter Minnesota after floorboard failure. Motorists stopped to scoop coins. two days later most were returned with only one recovered by the diver. Brink's guards said the event was unusual and no confirmed theft occurred.
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ST. Peter, Minn
Brink
Marvin Ince
Denver Mint
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Brink’s
Mankato
Auto Train Crash Kills Father of 12 in Illinois
Webster Allen, 46, father of 12, was killed when his car collided with a freight train in Mt. Pulaski Illinois. His children range in age from 3 to 25.
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MT. Pulaski, Ill
Webster Allen
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