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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1957
Page
1
Hollywood AP report says Vanguard project chief warned a postponement may extend to days or weeks. George S. Trimble Jr of Martin Company doubts satellite reach, while a new daylight Friday launch was ordered at Cape Canaveral after weather and a leaky valve delayed the attempt.
President Eisenhower, deemed fine by his doctor, leaves by car for a long weekend at his Gettysburg farm. Major General Howard Snyder and James Hagerty join the president, while Mrs. Eisenhower plans to depart later but is detained by a luncheon for naval officers’ wives.
Otis Schulse aged 54 in Davenport accidentally shot himself Thursday as a gun he was cleaning fell from a shelf and discharged.
London AP reports rescuers removed the last bodies from a two-train pileup near Hayes Folkesstone and Deal. The crash killed 89 and injured 174, with thick fog delaying response as 2,000 commuters faced disruption.
Cedar Rapids officials authorized City Attorney C. W. Garberson Thursday to appeal a Nov. 4 court order in a bid to protect the city’s interests in the annexation suit. The action comes as opponents petition the state supreme court to hear an interlocutory appeal testing points before final judgment.
The property of Charles Greathouse 26 will be sold at a public auction December 12 to repay banks he robbed. The sale at the farm financed through his robberies is one mile west of Richardsville on highway 52. Greathouse received two life terms in Fort Madison for three robberies totaling 5573.50 dollars. Proceeds will replace money taken. He escaped Clayton county jail Tuesday but was recaptured Wednesday and sentenced.
London AP reports the 16,000-ton Soviet icebreaker Lenin launched at Leningrad, designed to break 6-foot ice. It will use minimal atomic fuel, stay at sea months, sleep 1,000, reach 19 knots, draft 30 feet, length 4350 feet, beam 90 feet, with 44 000 horsepower engines powering steam turbines.
S T Osborn, 55, ran out of gas during a midweek blizzard. He abandoned his car and walked 18 miles to his Phillipsburg home in five hours and fifteen minutes. Upon arrival he called state police to apologize for leaving the vehicle on the road.
In Connersville Indiana a female inmate pleaded guilty to forgery claiming innocence while requesting transfer to a prison with a bath facility for women. The grand jury urged jail reforms or a new facility. The judge rejected the guilty plea as improperly made.
TV star Arthur Godfrey paid a record 30 dollars a pound for the grand champion steer at the International Livestock Exposition. The 30 000 dollar bid went to Mrs Pete Secondino of West Terre Haute Indiana who cried as she accepted the prize money and plans to buy a farm with her husband.
Atlantic City AP reports the AFL-CIO Executive Council extended Thursday’s merger deadline without setting a date for terminating the grace period. The extended action affects state and local AFL and CIO bodies and delays final merger terms.
Fourteen engineers and scientists, unable to find work after layoffs at Curtiss-Wright Turbomotor, rented a hotel room in New York to invite potential employers during the ASME meeting at the Statler. They seek interviews as industry recruitment shifts. Only four companies posted recruiters versus about fifty last year.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Safety Department weighs a written renewal exam after tests showed 75 percent failure among new license applicants. Acting Commissioner Russell Brown cites widespread lack of driving knowledge and argues renewals should educate existing drivers as part of higher standards.
An explosion likely from a faulty gas heater leveled four shops on the Birmingham Atlanta highway in Villa Rica Georgia killing at least eleven people and trapping dozens. Firefighters from Atlanta and nearby towns, National Guard squads, and 30 work-camp prisoners aided rescue efforts and body removal.
Business men along Sixth Street SE protested proposed curbside parking shifts from angle to parallel and new meters. Spokesman Doc Hunter estimated 25 to 30 spaces lost in a two to three block area at about 48 thousand dollars in value, with two to three blocks affected and plans moving forward.
Rev Edwin T. Dahlberg of St Louis elected president of the National Council of Churches the first Baptist to head the 30 denomination coalition with about 37 million members. He will serve three years with ten top officers elected including Charles Parlin and Bishop B Julian Smith. He has led American Baptist (Northern) convention and heads Delmar Baptist Church in St Louis affiliated with American and Southern Baptists.
AFL-CIO President George Meany disputes any deal to ease corruption cleanups in unions. He targets Teamsters and other unions, insisting Hoffa must exit as Teamsters president elect for expulsion action. He notes reforms come with hard scrutiny amid ongoing investigations and resignations that reoccur under pay rolls.
In Milwaukee a four year old boy, Gerald Cannon, died when a kerosene lantern exploded after his mother could not pay the electric bill. His two year old brother Robert suffered burns and five other children were present in the poverty struck home.
President Eisenhower pledged administration backing to the AFL-CIO in its drive to purge corruption from organized labor. Secretary of Labor Mitchell delivered the message to the AFL-CIO convention in Atlantic City, praising efforts to reform the union and restore public confidence in labor.
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