Cedar Rapids population estimate hits 83 075
City Assessor Jim Scolaro announced Cedar Rapids counts 83 075 residents based on field workers tallying occupants at homes apartments and rooming houses. The figure trails earlier guesses but shows a five year rise of 10 779 about 15 percent since 1950 with east and west side tallies 49 943 and 33 132 respectively. Scolaro expects further growth by the next census and notes potential annexation plans could push the total toward 100 000.
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Cedar Rapids
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Postal System Self-Sustaining Basis Proposed by Chamber
The U S Chamber of Commerce policy committee urged postal rates be raised to fund a self supporting system. They call for revenue equal to expenditures and ongoing efficiency gains. President Eisenhower planned remarks at the convention, butWhite House word said he would not appear. The proposal comes as Congress weighs acting on postal rate increases to reduce a large annual deficit.
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee
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House Post Office Committee
House
Policeman's Wife Sues Martha Raye Over Affection Alienation
Barbara Ann O'Shea of Westport claims in a suit that actress Martha Raye captivated her husband, a Westport policeman, and accepted money and costly gifts while serving as Raye's bodyguard in December 1955. The complaint lists Raye's Westport home and seeks $50,000 in damages.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Martha Raye
Barbara Ann O'Shea
Westport
Roboe
O’shea
Miss Raye
Lee
Miss
Westport First
Six Dorssers wed in one village ceremony at Blenheim
In Blenheim Ontario six Dorsser siblings married in a single ceremony at St Marys church. The event drew the village of 2800, with two brass bands and a hours long reception. Fathers and families described it as the biggest local event in memory.
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Associated Press
Dorssers
St. Mary's Church
Blenheim
Ontario
Cornelius Dorssers
Joan Menheere
Andre Dorssers
Anne Heuvelmena
Dora Dorssers
Bill Vandenberg
Christina Dorssers
Jack van Haren
Wilhelmina Dorssers
Gerad Williamson
Grada Dorssers
Ben Luiking
Norma Nikrant
Ont
Dorsiers
St. Mary’s
Leo
Grada
Wilhelmina
Christina
Dora
Andre
Cornelius
Papa Dorssers
Father Willibrord
Television Tabloid schedule feature in The Gazette
The Cedar Rapids Gazette distributes Television Tabloid every Sunday in Section I. It lists weekly schedules and program notes for summer months, noting scrambling due to time changes and offering free copies without needing to buy extra guides.
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Cedar Rapids
Health Camp Fund Officially Opened
The Cedar Rapids Camp Good Health fund opened with a budget of 8045.00 for 1956 and a still to be raised balance of 7067.62. Manager A T Pleune and sponsors toured the camp and plan improvements for the June start of an eight week session to care for 70 to 80 hungry children not strong enough for other camps.
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Cedar Rapids
Jane Boyd
King’s Daughters
Order of Eastern Star
A. J. Euken
W. G. Mees
Ostates Vovces
Gazette
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Spenace
A. T. Pleune
Pleune
Linn County
Fiere
Wet dreary day forecast across Iowa with rain and cold
Wet, shivering weather lingered as Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa saw cool temperatures near freezing. Rain totals ranged up to nearly two inches in the northeast with snow in the northwest and twisters in the southwest and Midwest as warm moist air met cold air.
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Brooklyn
Walford
Cascade
Logan
Lamont
Corydon
Alton
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Midwest
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Government moves to modernize budgeting and accounting
The White House said the Budget Bureau will expand by about 30 staff and create a Staff Office of Accounting to implement an accrual based budgeting method. President Eisenhower and Brundage expect savings to run into the millions annually, with broader Hoover Commission recommendations already partially adopted.
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Percy Rappaport
Brundage
Clarence Francis
Citizens Committee For the
Hoover
Hoover Commission
Francis
Ee Ee
Poland Moves to Restore Honors for Home Army Survivors
VIENNA RP Poland’s Communist government announced steps to right past wrongs by restoring pensions and honors to survivors of the Home Army the wartime resistance that fought the Nazis in 1944 while Soviet troops halted outside Warsaw Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz told Parliament that Home Army members faced discrimination after the 1945 Communist takeover and persecution.
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Poland
Warsaw
Radio Warsaw
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Home Army
Mis ID Mistake Chains Grief After Drowned Boy
In Peoria Illinois a nine year old boy believed drowned by YMCA pool arrives home alive, while another nine year old, George W Ulmer, is confirmed drowned. A mis ID and mistaken hospital notification led to grieving parents misidentifying the body, with errors traced to a caller and deputy coroner. The confusion spills into the family as the true victim's death is confirmed later.
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Peoria
Ill
John Lemons
Thomas
Lemons
George W. Ulmer
Thomasemons
St. Francis Hospital
Wedding Put Off as Police Probe Bombing in Dayton
Dayton Ohio report states the wedding of Donald Dixon and Sara Pfarrer was postponed after a bomb exploded in the Englewood home injuring Dixon and harming 17 others. Police chief Carl W. Coburn leads the investigation and suspects no prison grievance relation.
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Dayton
Ohio
Donald Dixon
Sara Pfarrer
Dixon
Englewood
George Cooney
Chicago
Donald Stewart
Washington, D. C
Francis Stefanak
Elmhurst
John C. Dixon
West Milton
Carl W. Coburn
Admitted Bombing Airliner Confession Read in Court
Denver jurors heard John Graham admit via oral and written statements that he planted a homemade dynamite device in his mother's suitcase to crash United Air Lines Flight 629. He described driving with his mother wife and son to the airport and watching the plane depart before the blast near Longmont Colorado killing 44 aboard.
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John Gilbert Graham
FBI
James R. Wagoner
Bert M. Keating
Graham
United Air Lines
Daisie E. King
Alaska
Longmont
Colo
Motorist Charged With Two Offenses After Crash
A Cedar Rapids youth Harley J. Kephart Jr. 24 was charged with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident after his car hit the rear of Elizabeth Beatty 2060 Glass Road NE about 845 p m. Beatty said he gave only his first name and then grabbed the keys and drove off in his car. Police located Kephart on Shaver Road NE near G Avenue.
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Cedar Rapids
Harley J. Kephart, Jr
Kephart
Elizabeth F. Beatty
Glass Road
Baveliue
Twelfth Street
Zeee
Shaver Road
Actor Edward Arnold Laid To Rest In North Hollywood
Hundreds of fans and friends attended funeral services for Edward Arnold at a mortuary near North Hollywood. Arnold died Thursday at age 66.
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Hollywood
Edward Arnold
North Hollywood
Arnold
Tramp Asks For Words With George At Inn Joke
An English inn named the George and Dragon turns into a punchline when a tramp asks for food and then for a word with George after being denied. The door is slammed, then he returns with a humorous request.
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George and Dragon
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