Train collision at Spring City kills 10 children
Gov. Frank Clement orders three investigations into a freight train versus school bus wreck that killed ten children and injured about thirty at a Spring City crossing. Bus driver Raymond Moore and train engineer Paul Gilles charged with serious offenses. Victims rushed to hospitals in Chattanooga Rockwood Crossville and Dayton.
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Tenn
Frank Clement
Raymond Moore
Clement
Ideal Valley
Knoxville
Leonard Pack
Sybil Hardaway
Cumberland Mountain Foothills
Chattanooga
Rockwood
Crossville
Dayton
Paul Gilles
Southern Railway
Gilles
Grammar School
Grandview
Hardaway
French Jets and Tanks Strike Moroccan Rebellion
French air and armor moved against Berber rebels in Morocco and Algeria on a multi-front offensive. The operation targeted villages near Khouribga and Oued Zem while French leaders in Aix-les-Bains discussed a path to limited autonomy within North Africa.
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Oued Zem
Constantine
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Aix-Les-Bains
France
North Africa
Faure
Raymond Duval
United States
Air Force
Tunisia
New York Times Critic Olin Downes Dies At 69
New York music critic Olin Downes of the New York Times died Monday after a three week illness. He was 69.
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New York
Olin Downes
The
New York Times
Bids for Two High Schools Overrun Budget by Million
Cedar Rapids school officials await final architectural analysis from Leo Daly Co of Omaha after last Thursday's bid opening showed costs could reach 7.2 million. With a bond issue about 5.95 million short, officials consider trimming auditorium and other items to bring costs nearer six and a half million. The review should finish by Thursday or Friday, after which actions to cover the overrun will be decided.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Supt. of
Clyde Parker
Parker
Leo Daly Company
Omaha
Rail Wreck Kills 30 in Ciudadela Station
A speeding passenger train crashed into a standing train at Ciudadela station nine miles from Buenos Aires. Thirty people died and nearly one hundred were injured, all victims in the rear coach of the struck train. Officials blame a rail worker for routing the speeding train onto an occupied track.
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Ciudadela
30000 Strike Hits International Harvester Plants
About 40 000 CIO United Auto Workers walked out against 18 International Harvester Company plants in six states. Negotiations toward a settlement were ongoing.
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International Harvester
Chicago
CIO
United Auto
International Harvester Company
Navy Plans Four More Atom Submarines
The Navy announced plans to build four additional atom powered submarines. Two will be built by General Dynamics at Groton Connecticut and one at Mare Island California. The Nautilus is in operation and the Sea Wolf has been launched.
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Washington
Navy
iGeneral Dynamics
Groton
Wife Leads Housewives Against Auto Strike Tactics
Esther Quigley, a Chicago housewife, urged 400 strikers back to work and pressed union leaders to resume negotiations with Harrison Sheet Steel. She organized housewives, faced threats, and received police protection while vowing to hold out until Monday for a negotiated settlement.
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Esther Quigley
United Auto Workers
Harrison J Sheet-Steel Company
Quigley
Andrew
UAW
Funion
Sayers Charged With Carnival Assaults and Morals Charge
Paul Sayers, 24, of Esther ville carnival worker, faces a morals charge for alleged assault of a 15 year old Waterloo girl in Cedar Rapids cars and an assault with intent to commit great bodily harm after a beating of a 14 year old boy at Hawkeye Downs. Trosky reports the incident occurred in the penny arcade tent last Wednesday. Sayers denied and sought hearings, with bonds set at 15000 and 1500 respectively.
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Cedar Rapids
Paul Sayers
Estherville
Sayers
Waterloo
Hal Trosky
Highway 30
Hawkeye Downs
Trosky
Charles Benesh
Greece and Soviet Union sign 17 month trade pact
Greece and the Soviet Union signed a trade and payments agreement in Athens on Tuesday. The pact runs 17 months and provides for an exchange of 10 million dollars worth of goods from each country. Greece will export mainly tobacco and import motor fuel and gasoline coal and fuel oil on a barter basis.
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Athens
Greece
Soviet Union
Price Index Rises Again in July
Government reports living costs rose for a second straight month with the July CPI up three tenths of 1 percent led by higher food prices and services. The index reached 1114.7 percent of the 1947–49 average, the largest gain since May 1954, with potential penny hourly raises for about 650,000 GM and Ford workers under wage contracts.
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Washington
General Motors
Ford Motor Companies
Solitary confinement and church attendance for teen driver
Circuit Judge Edward T. Kane sentenced Bernard Smith a 16 year old to 15 days in solitary confinement in the county jail for negligent homicide in the traffic deaths of two companions. He also ordered weekly church attendance for two years, a driving ban, and $150 in court costs. The youth must write a Monday letter detailing the prior day’s sermon to ensure compliance.
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Port Huron
Mich
Edward T. Kane
Kane
Bernard Smith
Smith
Chur
Square D Plans Open House at New C R Plant
Square D invites Cedar Rapids residents to tour its new 112000 square foot plant on Sixth Street Road NW. F W Magin says visitors will see early production as 150 employees work with plans to hire over 400 within a year.
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C.R. Plant
Cedar Rapids
F. W. Ma
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Sixth Street Road
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Magin
Square D
Nine Die as Boxcar Crashes Into Charleston Homes
A C119 flying boxcar crashed during takeoff from Charleston air base at 2 05 a m killing nine people and injuring 11 others. Five crew members died in the wreck and four civilians sleeping in three houses were killed. survivors were not seriously hurt. The plane hit three houses and the aircraft was demolished except for the tail section.
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S.C
Charleston Air Base
Air Force
Hoegh backs Moyer over Iowa Bureau friction
Governor Leo Hoegh voiced support for Public Safety Commissioner Clinton Moyer amid ongoing personnel tensions in the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation. He declined to urge a specific action, stressed delegation of authority, and said Moyer should set policy and run the department.
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Des Moines
Leo Hoegh
Clinton Moyer
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Moyer
Bureau
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Public Safety Department
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Eisenhower to call special session for flood relief funds
President Eisenhower said he would seek authority to spend as needed for flood relief and may convene a special session of Congress if required. He spoke with governors at Bradley Field after aerial surveys of the eastern flood areas and urged nationwide Red Cross donations as federal aid was estimated at 75 million dollars.
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Eisenhower
Hartford
Conn
Robert Meyner
N. J
Dennis Roberts
R. J
Averell Harriman
N. Y
Abraham Ribicoff
Val Peterson
E. Roland Harriman
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Windsor Locks
Here
Denver
Eissenhower
Kansas-Missouri
American Red Cross
Civil Defense
Massachusetts
New York
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Harriman
Peterson
Red Cross
Predict Showers For Part of Iowa
Partly cloudy skies and warmer than normal readings mark the Iowa forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday with highs near 81 to 84 and overnight lows in the upper fifties to sixty. Scattered showers are expected statewide Wednesday, with up to a half inch possible in the northwest. Cedar Rapids area rainfall minimal. Council Bluffs reached 92 Monday. Fort Dodge dipped to 56 overnight. Cedar Rapids at 2:30 Tuesday read 83 after a 59 overnight low.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Council Bluffs
Fort Dodge
Hi and Lois and Mark Trail Spotlight on Comics Page
The Gazette features Hi and Lois new faces in its comics page with daily gags. Mark Trail begins a new episode and is described as a top ranking adventure strip nationwide.
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Mark Trail
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