Town Forecast and Local Notices Then and Now
Partly cloudy and cooler Sunday with highs 26 to 32, winds northwest to southeast. December precipitation 0.16 inches, year to date 38.22 inches. marriages listed from Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. several funeral services scheduled and obituaries noted across Iowa communities.
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Andrew Feige Athineton
Les Moines
New Orleans
Raoenver
Inneapolis
Et Angeles
New York
Seattle
Csssesnsees
Csseeeess
Sateurday
Wisconsin Governor Kohler Backs Rebuke of McCarthy in Spain
Wisconsin Governor Walter J. Kohler, visiting Spain, aligned with Eisenhower and the Senate in rebuking Senator McCarthy. He supported fighting communism but opposed McCarthy's approach and said he would have joined those who condemned him in Washington if present. Kohler plans to return home December 23 after visits to Valencia and Andalusia via Madrid.
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Barcelona
Spain
Walter J. Kohler
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
U.S. Senate
McCarthy
France
Washington
Senate
Kohler
Republican Party
Valencia
Andalucia
Madrid
Marion Boy Shot While Hunting In Fair Condition
Tommy Hanna 13 of Marion was accidentally shot in the stomach Saturday while crossing a creek with Gene Wells 13. He was listed in fair condition at St. Luke's hospital after surgery. Parents are Mr and Mrs Burdette Hanna route 3 Marion.
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Tommy Hanna
Marion
St. Luke's Hospital
Gene Wells
Tommy
Burdette Hanna
Route 3
Dockmen Reject Anti Strike Pact
NEW YORK AP Officials for the International Longshoremen’s Association were stunned as rank and file pier workers voted down an anti strike pact. By a wide margin the longshoremen rejected the two year strike free port and 17 cent hourly wage welfare increase. Capt William W Bradley said the wage committee would meet with the shipping association on Monday to reopen negotiations.
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New York
International Longshoremen's Association
William W. Bradley
ILA
Shipping Association
Eisenhower backs Williams probe renewal in IRS case
The Post Dispatch reports the IRS inquiry was renewed after a White House conference with President Eisenhower and Sen. Williams of Delaware. The Omaha grand jury is probing IRS operations, with James Finnegan likely to testify. Finnegan faces a two year sentence for misconduct.
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Williams
Post-Dispatch
St. Louis
Tax-Collecting Bureau
Omaha
Internal Revenue Service
C. Elmer Brown
Philadelphia
St. Louis Internal Revenue Office
Washington
Justice Department
Sen. Williams
White House
Nixon
Sen. Mundt
R-S.d
Eisenhower
Finnegan
Woman Convicted In Blinding Of Stepdaughter
In Greensboro North Carolina on a Saturday a jury convicted Mae Atkins 31 of maliciously and deliberately blinding her 12 year old stepdaughter Judy Atkins after she allegedly gouged the girl's right eye. The court imposed a sentence of five to eight years with appeal planned.
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Greensboro
N. C
Mae Atkins
Superior Court
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Judy Atkins
Judy
Boy Survives 25 Minutes Under Ice on Soldier Creek
A six year old Fort Dodge boy survived nearly a 25 minute ice dunk on Soldier Creek after falling through while playing with siblings. Firemen credited his floating with an air space keeping him alive until rescuers pulled him to shore. He was reported in fair condition at Mercy hospital and family members helped summon aid.
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Fort Dodge
Soldier Creek
Joe Husar
Wilbur Wilson
Mercy Hospital
David Husar
Dick Blaha
Sandra Blaha
Joe
Robert Blunt
Carl Sandburg as Comedian on TV
New York AP reports poet and historian Carl Sandburg age 76 emerged as a TV comedian on NBC Tonight. He traded ad lib lines with Steve Allen causing the control room to panic. Sandburg read Lincoln works and sang a ballad and co hosted introducing actor Charles Coburn with witty remark.
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New York
Carl Sandburg
NBC
Sandburg
Steve Allen
Abraham Lincoln
Allen
Charles Coburn
Deaths Elizabeth Wachter former Cedar Rapids resident
Elizabeth Wachter 75 died Saturday at her home in Marshalltown born May 1 1879 in Cedar Rapids she married J H Wachter Sept 7 1904 he died in 1950 survivors include daughter Mrs M H Kauffman of Harlan two brothers Verne and Arthur Stoner of Cedar Rapids and a granddaughter services Monday at 1 p m at Avey funeral home Marshalltown graveside rites at 3 p m Monday Linwood cemetery Cedar Rapids
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Elizabeth Wachter
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
J. H. Wachter
Wachter
M. H. Kauffman
Harlan
Verne
Arthur Stoner
Avey Funeral Home
Linwood Cemetery
Cedar Rapids Community notices and club meetings brief
Cedar Rapids community groups schedule meetings and events through the week. The Community House board meets at noon, a Cedar Rapids board of adjustment convenes at 3 pm, and various clubs host films, luncheons, dances, and talks at local hotels and venues including the Montrose, Roosevelt, and CSPS hall.
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Community House
Mrs Simms Rites Set In Cedar Rapids
Services for Mrs. Charles E. Simms of 503 Twelfth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids who died Saturday at home will be held at 1 30 p m Monday in the Beatty Bearle chapel with Rev Ralph B Colton of Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian church officiating Burial will follow in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
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Riverside
Thomas ‘Carl Duder
Richard Duder
St. Mary's Church
Mt. Olivet
Walker
Madge Krapf
Cone Center Presbyterian Church
Oak Shade
Marion
Sorenson- Murdoch Funeral Home
Belle Plaine
Wilma Huron
Peffers Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mt. Vernon
Gertrude Cowan
Presbyterian Church
Garden Chapel
Charles E. Simms
Twelfth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Ralph B. Colton
Sinclair Memorial Presbyterian Church
Linwood Cemetery
Service for A Ray Goldsbery Scheduled in Turner Chapel
Services for A Ray Goldsbery formerly of Springville who died Thursday will be held at 1 30 p m Monday in Turner chapel with Rev Jackson Burns of St Pauls Methodist Church and Springville Masonic lodge 139 officiating Burial will follow at Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the mortuary to sign a guest book and pay respects.
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A. Ray Goldsberry
First Avenue SE
Springville
Turner Chapel
Jackson Burns
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Services for Miss Marjorie Augustine
Miss Marjorie Augustine of 1434 Third avenue SE died Friday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Barta Hesser chapel conducted by the Rev Jack Oliver of First Christian church. Burial is in Forest cemetery at Oskaloosa. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Marjorie Augustine
Third Avenue SE
Jack Oliver
First. Christian Church
Forest Cemetery
Oskaloosa
Briton Who Taught Madeira Islanders to Drink Beer Dies
Maj Charles Miles, the British teacher behind Madeira islanders beer drinking and founder of the island’s first brewery twenty five years ago, died in Funchal Madeira at age 77.
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Funchal
Madeira
Charles Miles
Miles
Chou En Lai meets Hammarskjold amid U N talks and tradeoffs
A Chinese diplomat may invite Hammarskjold to Peiping offering a conditional conference while raising Beijing's U N entry ban and the 1951 embargo. The expert expects Chou to insist on concessions and perhaps trade the release of airmen for Chinese grievances.
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Hammarskijold
Hammarskjold
Chou
Mao Tse-tung
Far East
Peiping
Assembly
China
U.N
Red
U S 6th Fleet to Hold Joint Maneuvers With Spain
Adm. Carney ordered the U S 6th Fleet to conduct joint maneuvers with the Spanish fleet to improve communications and tactical coordination. He returned from Spain noting their sincere defense cooperation but that Spanish naval forces need modernization and can aid Western defense. Spain would perform important maritime tasks if trouble arises along Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts.
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Washington
Adm
Robert B. Carney
U.S
Mediterranean
Carney
Spain
Atlantic
Pullman Accepts Pay Recommendations From Fact-Finding Board
The Pullman Company accepts a presidential fact-finding board's proposals to settle a dispute with railway conductors. The package includes a $10.25 a month pay raise retroactive to December 16 1953 a $26.62 cost of living allowance and three weeks' vacation after 15 years of service. The union must decide to accept or reject the terms.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
A. Guy Wise
Order of Railway Conductors
Fred J. Boeckelman
Pullman
Snow and rain wreak havoc in northern Italy
Snow and rain storms sweep northern Italy causing avalanches and floods. Venice floods St Mark's Square as winds drive sea water inland. Dolomite passes near Cortina d Ampezzo and Trentino blocked by heavy snow. Roads clogged around Varese and Milan-Varese corridor as Lake Maggiore rises.
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Milan
Italy
Italian Alps
Adriatic
Venice
S.T Mark’s
Dolomite Alps
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Trentin
Varese
Milan-Varese
Lake Maggiore
Soviet Warning Note On Fighter Coverage For Recon Flights
Soviet notes to the United States warned that providing fighter cover for reconnaissance flights near Soviet territory would risk American lives. The note, handed to the U.S. ambassador and broadcast by Moscow, followed the Nov 7 RB29 crash near Hokkaido where 11 crewmen bailed out. one died and ten were injured.
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Moscow
Russia
Japan
Moscow Radio
Hokkaido
Jewish GIs Volunteer For Christmas KP Duty
Four thousand Jewish soldiers will volunteer for kitchen, police, guard and other duties during the Christmas weekend at Fort Dix to allow Christian soldiers to be home. Officials said the move mirrors the favors granted when they observed Hebrew holidays last September.
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FT. DIX
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Frances E. Lewis
Devert Schoonmaker
Lois J. Keyes
Charles H. Brown
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Ronald Hamad
Eleanor Thorson
J. Stuart Coon
Bonnie Coon
Jeo R. Smith
Toddville
Carmen D. Primrose
Atkins
Donald W. Sternad
Fairfax
Barbara K. Meade
Oxford
John R. Collier
Esther M. Thomas
What Cheer
Richard J. Oxley
Joan D. Usher
Amy F. Hunter
Daniel ¥. Hunter
Patricia Allnutt
Charles Allnutt
Jo Ann Glover
James E. Glover
Eleanor Hoffman
Howard Hoffman
Betty Witwer
Dean R. Witwer
Joyce Brant
Richard Brant
Barta
Arnold
Webster
William
Eighteenth Avenue
Parr
Donald
Stramer
Raymond
Watkins
LeHew
Kenneth
Bowen
Wilmer
Tenth Street
Boudewyns
Frank
B Avenue
St. Luke's
Montz
Curtis
Richard
Zika Avenue NW
Hopkins
Charles P
Thirty-third Street
Eighth Avenue SW
Company No. 5
Iowa
Marengo
Harry L. Schulz
St. Patrick’s Church
Calvary Cemetery
the Rosary
Hoover Funeral Home
Toledo
James E.isenhower
Henderson Funeral Home
Turner Cemetery
Tipton
Minnie
Martha Carey
Sheets-Dahn Funeral Home
Masonic Cemetery
Sen. McCarthy
Marion Boy
Dockmen
Barta- Hesser
Jay W. Hesser, Sr
Cedar Rapids’ Funeral Home Beautiful
Jay W. Hesser, Jr
DIAL
Fifth Avenue and
Eighth Street
Ike
Boy
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Coe College Chorus
Coe Auditorium
Arthur Honegger
Mary Patten
John Lennon
Marietta Sedlock
Chicago Area
Northwestern University
Eleanor Taylor
Coe
Wayne
Henry Necke
Ade
Jeaueve
Celdar Rapids Board of Adjustment
City Hall
Smulekofff
Optimist Club
Francis Tucker
Roosevelt Hotel
Agriculture Committee
The
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Twenty-fifth Street
Ageer
Stamp-Coin Club
Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
Cedar Rapids Coin Club
Wendy Oaks
Jaycee Committee
Jaycee Participation
Chamber of Commerce
Welfare Bureau
Public Welfare Bureau
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Montrose Hotel
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Armar Ballroom
AFR
Air Force Reserve
DAV
Second Street
YMCA
Michael Stephens
Cedar Valley ‘Rocks and Minerals Society
Coe College Science Hall
Rotary Club
John X. Jamrrich
Montrose
Soviet Union
Woodmen of the World
CSPS
Dental Society
Cedar Rapids Dental Society
William T. Heron
University of Minnesota Psychology Department
Jaycee
Nick's
Jack Hart
John Eichhorn
Don Fahrenkrog
Jack Foster
John Battin
Lee Horn
Henry Haegg, Jr
Phil Reilly
Don Griffith
John Mangold
Blake St. Clair
Bill McMaster
Hawkeye
Bob Eppel
John Berney
Herman Klemesrud
John Melton
Roy Hewitt
Ralph Hoover
Milt Carlson
Ross Wilson
Fred Bjornson
Harry Whitehead
Joe Sears
Jim Jarras
Jack Collins
Byron Bell
Odd Fellows and Safety
Maine Lodge 643
Odd Fellows
Noble
Kenneth Secor
Ralph Chiverton
Simms Services
Goldsberry Services
Augustine Services
Murdoch Funeral Homes
Center Point
Novak Monument Co
Teahen Funeral Home
First Ave
N.W
ROHN
Funeral Home
Third Ave. S.W
U. N
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Soviet
Betz Monuments
Third Avenue
RIAL
John E. Lapes
Florist
3Rd Avenue
Mt. Vernon Ave
Turner Mortuary
Turner Service
Iowa Memorial Co
Bezdek's Florist
Marion Blvd
Grant Wood
John B. Turner & Sons
2Nd Ave
Southeast
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