16 Dec 1958
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1958
Page
1
AP Beirut reports the Communist movement shows its boldest push in the region. From Lebanon to Iraq and Syria, Reds aim to seize influence, challenge regimes, and press for federated Egypt Syria unity with free elections.
Iowa Highway Commission voted to reroute Highway 6 from Dexter to Des Moines. The new path goes east from Dexter along current Highway 90, then north on I 35 to rejoin the current Highway 6 at the Clive prison farm interchange, moving the road away from Redfield and Adel for now.
Officials plan to place highway 90 markings along the present Route 6 corridor from Dexter through Redfield and Adel to Des Moines, aligning signs with the established route. This change aims to guide motorists more clearly and unify numbering across the region.
Bertha Doyen 68 operator of a Wellsburg nursing home died after a fall down basement stairs Sunday. Christine Choneich 68 of Persia Ja died Monday when their car hit a bridge on Route 92 near Greenfield. Chief R A Peterson of Spencer turned himself in after running a red light and was fined five dollars in mayor's court.
In a reader byline from JACOBY ON BRIDGE, Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis of Dallas construct a strong defense after East opens a spade contract. The sequence sees trumps, underled aces, and careful club play, ending with declarer down one after a tense late club run.
Two residents of Grand Mound Iowa Lester A Burmeister 35 and Peter Kroeger 56 were killed when their car was crushed between two semi trucks on highway 30 near Shabbona Illinois A Decker Ireton Iowa truck stopped for a train and a second truck driven by Donald Yoder Woolstock Iowa struck the stalled car death toll reported after rescue efforts began.
After a tangle of metal accident two hours were needed to remove bodies while truck drivers escaped injury.
Belgrade AP reports Yugoslav Ambassador Jaksa Petric left a Czech government reception in Prague to protest a Hungarian attack on Tito’s regime. The remarks were attributed to Hungarian Minister Gyorgy Marosan, leader of the visiting delegation. Marosan previously spent years in prison as a Titoist.
London AP report says Sir Anthony Eden, the ailing former prime minister, departed Tuesday for a winter vacation in Mexico.
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