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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
11
Would be Santas consider Salk polio shots as gifts. County Dimes Drive Chairman Fd Covert recommended giving a Christmas card with a doctor’s telephone number and a note to call for an appointment, with the giver paying for the shot.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa’s 1956 economy topped 1955, with gains in building activity, bank deposits, employment, and wages. Sioux City underperforming while farm equipment demand rose. auto dealers and real estate faced financing limits under hard money policies. Housing prospects improve with FHA loan rate adjustments and potential GI loan cap changes.
A nostalgic verse about Santa Claus, secrecy, and holiday gifts. The piece notes the bell, dolls, and stockings, with a playful reflection on children awaiting packages and the mystery of Santa arriving by chimney and reindeer. It contrasts the curiosity of youth with the adult effort to keep wonder intact.
Budapest radio aired Christmas carols for the first time in a decade while public squares featured festive trees. The official news agency said Hungarian Airlines would resume international mail and passenger flights. A dispatch noted uranium miners from the Pees region were moved to coal mines damaged by the strike.
United Press Iowa editors named their top stories for 1956 led by the defeat of Gov. Leo A. Hoegh by Herschel Loveless. Other items include a Sigourney car train crash death toll, drought fires, Eisenhower and Stevenson farm visits, Carole Morris crowned Miss Universe, two Des Moines fatal fires, the Louis Cook case, and the Independence police slaying case with guilty plea and sentencing notes.
In a shopping district melee hundreds hid as a gunman Leroy Keith and accomplices opened fire on a taxi driver David Suro 49 who rammed a patrol car. Suro and Keith were wounded. Keith is wanted in Ohio for two killings. James Morris 22 was arrested. a female accomplice fled.
The report notes a farmer and his wife near Lawton spotting copperhead snakes. A local observer tallied about 150 copperheads killed in a sequence, with lengths ranging from 14 to 19 inches, as authorities investigated the scene.
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