Weather and civic notices from Bluffs area Friday
Friday temperatures vary across locations with a high around 50 and a low near 24. Precipitation is reported as none to trace for December, with wind at 5 knots at noon. Several legal cases and civil suits filed include Home Town Dairies versus Mr and Mrs Fetter and multiple judgments for local merchants. Municipal services for obituaries list services in Manchester Williamsburg West Liberty Wyoming and surrounding towns.
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Joses
Railway Clerks Honor Older Members At Banquet
Fifty three Rock Island Railway Clerks lodge 954 members will be honored for 25 and 35 years of service at a 6 30 p m Sunday banquet in the Montrose hotel. H V Arendt of Kansas City will present the awards with guests from Chicago St Louis and Kansas City.
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Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Lodge 954
Montrose Hotel
Rock Island Railroad
H. V. Arendt
Kansas City
Rock Island Bbc
Charles E. Walser
Mr. Petersen
Rock Island
Thomas M. Sullivan
Cedar Rapids
Solar Boat Labeled Just Pile of Parts
Cairo AP A American archaeologist says the so called solar boat of Cheops is not a boat but a disassembled pile of boat parts. Bernard V Bothmer with Jefferson Calffrey and two Egyptian specialists examined the chamber after slabs were removed. He notes no hull and most parts may not belong to a boat and attributes the disorder to careless tomb preparation by priests.
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Cairo
Cheops
Bernard V. Bothmer
Jefferson Calffrey
Bothmer
Onassis Sued Over Alleged Oil Ship Contract Claim
Spyridon Catapodis of Paris files a 1.6 million dollar libel suit against Aristoteles Onassis. The Greek ship owner is accused of making statements denying he signed an oil ship contract in disappearing ink. The suit stems from a French court action alleging he helped influence a Saudi oil deal.
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Washington
INS
Aristoteles Socrates Onasisis
Spyridon Catapodis
Paris
Catapodis
Onassis
Seven Get Death In Egyptian Plot
A three man military court sentenced Hassan El Hodeiby the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and six other members to death for plotting to assassinate Premier Nasser and topple the government. The round up followed Nasser escaping an assassination in Alexandria on Oct 26 and the subsequent political shakeup. Mahmoud Abdel Latif an Alexandria tinsmith who fired the shots was among the condemned.
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Cairo
Hassan el Hodeiby
Gamal Abdel Nassser
Brotherhood
Nasser
Alexandria
Mohamed Naguib
Egypt
Mahmoud Abdel Latif
Nine former Klansmen given suspended sentences in kidnap case
In Wilmington North Carolina nine former Ku Klux Klan members received suspended 18 month terms for kidnapping and flogging a brother and sister from Lake View South Carolina into Robeson County North Carolina on November 16 1951. Four faced fines while all were placed on good behavior for two years. Three were acquitted. The judge urged that violence not be taken into hands as the men were not real criminals.
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Wilmington
N.C
Ku Klux Klan
Don Gilliam
Lindberg
Christine
Ernest Rogers
Lake View
S.C
Robeson County
Gilliam
Great Awakening Seen As Unprecedented Opportunity
Boston AP reports the National Council of Churches General Assembly, representing 30 Protestant and Orthodox denominations with 35 million members, urged a possible great spiritual awakening to foster peace, justice, and faith. It warned of fear and doubt yet urged unity, ending segregation, defending freedoms, and promoting peace.
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Boston
General Assembly
National Council of Churches
India trains 1600 doctors yearly amid vast population
India, home to over 370 million people, produces about 1,600 medical doctors each year. The figure highlights a gap between population size and doctor supply.
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India
Stockholders in Cedar Rapids Theater sue for accounting
Courthouse filing by Julian H. King Jr against K and L Theater Corporation Ray Lumsden and Margaret L. King alleges two bank accounts opened when the theater was sold and seeks court order to liquidate and provide an accounting The suit names all current stockholders as defendants and requests funds access for liquidation.
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K and L Theater Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Julian H. King, Jr
Ray Lumsden
Julian H. King
Margaret L. King
Mr. King
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Goodyear Begins His Sentence at Anamosa
John Goodyear 21 of Cedar Rapids started a sentence not to exceed 10 years at the Anamosa reformatory on a car theft charge. He had just completed a one year Kentucky sentence for storehouse breaking and was brought to Iowa to serve the suspended term after violating parole. He pled guilty to the Cedar Rapids theft on Sept 9 1953.
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John Goodyear
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa Reformatory
Goodyear
Kentucky
Harlan Snyder
Anamosa
Iowa
Linn County
Land Condemnation Meeting Postponed in Cedar Rapids
A jury meeting to condemn property for an east side Cedar Rapids high school was postponed to 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 13 after Sheriff James Smith, who appointed the jury, granted the delay at the request of the Cedar Rapids school board and landowner Arthur Barlow. The land lies north of Cottage Grove avenue SE and abuts the school property east of Forest drive SE.
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Cedar Rapids
James Smith
Cendar Rapids School Board
Arthur Barlow
Smith
Barlow
Cottage Grove Avenue
Forest Drive
Willman Arraigned on Larceny Charge in Linn Junction
Kenneth Willman 21 of Linn Junction was arraigned in Judge Floyd Philbrick's court after Cedar Rapids detectives arrested him Friday on a daytime larceny charge. He posted 1500 bond and faces pleas by 10 a.m. Tuesday for stealing hardware candy a toaster shotgun shells cartridges and cigarets from May Drug Company over the past year. St Luke's hospital won a 247.60 judgment against Paul and Mae Abbott in an account suit. Carl Jorgensen dismissed a suit on a check against Chester L. Shelton.
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Kenneth Willman
Linn Junction
Cedar Rapids
Willman
May Drug Company
Floyd Philbrick
St. Luke’s Hospital
Paul and Mae Abbott
Rayburn Doubts Eisenhower Knows His Job
New Orleans The Item quoted Rep. Sam Rayburn D Texas saying he does not think President Eisenhower knows his job. Rayburn, set to become speaker next month, said an army career did not prepare the President for public leadership. He said he would work with Eisenhower but not with Vice President Nixon, and added God forbid Nixon succeed.
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New Orleans
Rep
Rayburn
Texas
Eisenhower
Nixon
Eisenhower Says He Will Take It Step by Step
President Eisenhower told Senator Hazel Abel that he thinks it best to take the 1956 decision step by step. Abel, Nebraska Republican, quoted the noncommittal remark after urging a re election bid.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hazel Abel
Nebraska
Funeral set for Paul Vratny after Illinois crash
Funeral services for Paul Vratny, 28, Cedar Rapids trucker killed in a head on crash in Illinois, will be Monday at 2 p.m. at Hrabak Funeral Home in Belle Plaine. Burial in Oak Hills. Survivors include his wife and three young children, his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Vratny, a brother Arnold of California, and sisters Libbie Boghnke of Washington and Tillie Boehn of Des Moines. Former Belle Plaine resident, he had lived in Cedar Rapids for years.
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Manchester
Joseph E. Davis
Gill Funeral
Oakland Cemetery
Williamsburg
William Morrin
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
McSwiggin and Uhlmann Funeral Home
West Liberty
Fred Blum
St. Joseph's Church
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Rosary
Snider Funeral Home
Wyoming
Clyde A. Menald
Wallace Funeral Home
Robert Earl Childs
Gill Funeral Home
Oakland
Dysart
Margaret Bell
Zion Lutheran Church
Oneida
Clutter
Overton Funeral Home
Independence
John Knight
St. John's Catholic Church
Hazleton
Swan Funeral Home
Lydia McMichael
Swan Funneral Home
Oakwood
Iowa City
John Donahue
St. Peter’s Church
Cosgrove
Church Cemetery
Hohenschuh
Cathlryn Dore
Oxford
Oathout
Belle Plaine
Paul Vratny
Hrabak
Oak Hill Cemetery
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Illinois
Oak Hills Cemetery
Robert Vratny
Arnold
California
Libbie Boghnke
Washington State
Tillie Boehn
Des Moines
Vratny
High speed aircraft talk by Dr. Lippisch draws crowd
A capacity crowd of about 300 listened to Dr. Alexander Lippisch outline the development of high speed aircraft at Municipal airport. He demonstrated jet operation, wing sweep rationale, and sound barrier milestones with slides. Next talk set for Jan 7 with jet bombers in focus.
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Municipal Airport
Alexander Lippisch
Lipipisch
America
Dr. Lippisch
Marion Man Hurt In Crossing Crash
Glenn B. Morris of Marion route 2 in fair condition at Mercy hospital after an auto crash at Cot age Grove and Forest drive. He suffered head injuries and 18 stitches to facial wounds. The other driver Merle J. Cockburn was not hurt. Morris was charged with disobeying a stop sign.
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Glenn B. Morris
Marion
Mercy Hospital
Morris
Merle
J. Cockburn
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Cottage Grove Avenue
Forest Drive
Cockburn
Senate Panel Denounces McCarthy Mail Check Use
A special Senate committee condemned the 1952 mail check on Sen. McCarthy and urged a Justice Department probe. The panel blamed staff under Paul J. Cotter for initiating the letters, while seeking accountability for all involved and urging action when the Senate reconvenes.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. McCarthy
Justice Department
Sen. Hennings
D-Mo
Cotter
FBI
House Government Operations Committee
Ferguson-George
McCarthy
U.S. Accepts World Court Damage Award Over Dismissed Staff
The United States bowed to a World Court ruling upholding $179,420 in damages to 11 American staffers fired after loyalty inquiries. Sen. Fulbright said the U.S. dissents from paying and from following the U.N. Assembly's rulings, while respecting the court's authority.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
U.N
U.S
Sen. Fulbright
D-Ark
U.N. Assembly
U.N. Administrative Tribunal
Fulbright
International Court of Justice
Brother of Dr Sheppard Admits Lying in Testimony
Dr Stephen Sheppard, key witness for his brother Dr Samuel Sheppard, admitted twice that he lied about seeing changes in Marilyn Sheppard’s pajamas and arms on the murder morning. He testified under cross examination that his prior statements were not entirely true and referenced police photographs as the basis for his revised account.
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Sheppard
Cleveland
INS
Stephen Sheppard
Samuel Sheppard
Parece
Marilyn Sheppard
Thomas Parrino
Patrino
Steve
Marilyn
Parrino
Dr. Steve
Sam
Robert Schottke
Schottke
Lester Hoversten
Hoversten
Pfc John Noggle Dies in Germany From Crash Injuries
A 24-year-old Elkader GI Pfc John Noggle died of injuries from a Nov 29 automobile accident in Germany. Parents Mr and Mrs John Noggle Cedar Rapids received the telegram from the defense department. Survived by four brothers Lloyd Lyle Kenneth Norman and two sisters Doris and Anita. Services planned in Cedar Rapids at a time to be announced.
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Elkader GI
Germany
Defense Department
John Noggle
Third Street
Cedar Rapids
el- Kader
Noggle
Pfc
Lloyd
Lyle
Japan
Kenneth
Norman
Elkader
Doris
Anita Noggle
Remarriage Plan Of Marie Snags In Paris
Paris report on Marie McDonald and Harrison Karl who, freshly divorced in Nevada, arrive to remarry in France. They face French legal preliminaries that could delay a swift Paris ceremony and a quick Spain honeymoon before returning to duty aboard the USS.
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Paris
Marie
France
Mariel
Deaths Gus Litts of Cedar Rapids
Gus Litts 922 Twenty-fifth street SE Cedar Rapids resident for 30 years died in Cedar Rapids hospital at 11 20 a m Friday. Born Mt Vernon Sept 19 1875 he was in the theatrical business owning and managing the Strand and Colonial theaters in Cedar Rapids. Surviving wife Kathrine a brother Norton of Cedar Rapids and a sister Mrs J B Hall of Claremont California. Funeral 1 30 p m Monday at Brady mortuary by Rt Rev Msgr James D Kearn burial Linwood cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p m Saturday.
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Gus Litts
Twenty-fifth Street
Cedar Rapids
Mt. Vernon
Strand
Colonial
Katherine
Norton
J. B. Hall
Claremont
Calif
Brady Mortuary
James D. Kearn
Linwood Cemetery
Visitors Recovering From Major Surgery At St Luke's
Frank Spinka of 1834 First Avenue NE is recuperating at St Luke's Hospital after major surgery performed Thursday. Also note Pierson's new flower shop at 1800 Ellis Blvd NW offering Christmas trees wreaths grave mounds and poinsettias. Open Sundays. Also advertising cheap electric motors 1/6 to 1/4 h.p. from $3.00 and Smulekoff's Furniture Annex ad.
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Frank Spinka
First Avenue
St. Luke's Hospital
Pierson
Ellis Blvd
N.W
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Keokuk
B Avenue
Edward Feuss
First Street
Don Wilkinson
Fifth Street
Eugene Huber
Eighth Street
Richard Sundberg
Luddith Zollicoffer
Eighth Avenue
Jerry Lyon
Coe College
Harold Heddinger
H Avenue
Keith Nemmers
Ninth Avenue
Robert Prenosil
Fred Philipp
Schaeffer
Wiley Reed
Second Avenue
Kenneth Bierkamp
A Avenue
Robert Cooper
Richard Bauerrichter
Pearl Gillard
Ninth Street
Leonard Harris
John Cummings
Edith Thurston
Robert Johnson
Dairydale Court
William Burmahl
Springville
John Shea
Soutter
Harry Belieu
Solon
Robert McCullough
C Avenue NW
Harold Eberle
A Avenue NW
Jess Douglas
Loren Faust
Fourth Avenue SE
Patrick Ryan
Seventh Avenue
Earl Stelling
Luzerne
Home Town Dairies, Inc
Harry Fetter
B Avenue NE
L. Aakre
Aakre’s
Herb Wells
W. J. Carney
W. E. Fleming
Cold Stream Avenue NE
Ralph Ditch
Ditch Firestone
Robert L. Farr
Paul Myers
Frank Pettit
Daniels Street
Stark Insurance Agency
George Kirk
Eleventh Street
Chad
Lapes Florist
Ted V. Ruffin
Bonnie Coon
Kaybee Store
Donald Dighton
Ashlock Sinclair Service
Kadlee Brothers
Henry J. Meyer
Keith Conger
Bowling Street
Ernie
Standard Service
T. G. Nielsen
Lee and Smytty
Cedar Rapids Bottling Works i
Harry Scanland
Waconia Oil Company, Inc
iMrs
Henry Fielder
Neal Burt
Edward J. Gorman
Home Town Dairies
Ivan_ Knapp
Frank Borst
Borst Furniture Company
Louis Chipokas
Howard Hanson
Lee Scott
William Meier
Richard G. Shanahan
Guy Curtiss
Cristle Leonard
Glenn McMurrin
Richard
Leona Jones
Cherry Burrell Employes Credit Union
Edmund E
Shirleen Reinartson
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
Mt. Vernon Rd
John B. Turner & Son
Murdoch
Center Point
Walker
Theater Corporation
Carl Jorgensen
Chester L. Shelton
Lke
C.R. Man
The
Iowa Soaring Association
Ir. Lippisch
Bob Considine
Edward Blythin
Marie Snags
Smulekoff
John HE
Lapes
3Rd Avenue
Mt. Vernon Road
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