Beat Down Changes in Judge Plan
DES MOINES Iowa senate defeats two initial moves to alter a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at keeping the judiciary out of politics The first would bar appointments by race color or creed The second would bar a sitting judge from taking another government post for two years after leaving the bench Bost loses 36 to 14.
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Iowa
State Senate
David O. Schaff
Clinton
W. C. Stuart
Chariton
D. C. Nolan
Iowa City
Kill Bid for Secrecy in Legislature
Des Moines lawmakers clash over secrecy rules as the rules committee reverses a prior vote. The panel defeats a bid to allow secret ballots by standing committees and preserves the 1959 rule requiring two thirds for sifting committee reports. Eight Republicans and four Democrats joined to block secrecy. four Republicans supported it. Edgington was absent.
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Des Moines
House
Rules Committee
William E. Carrington
R-Persia
Elmer H. Vermeer
Pella
Richard L. Stephens
Ainsworth
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
Eugene Halling
Orient
Floyd P. Edgington
Rsheffield
Body of Iowa Boy Found. Robber Held in Des Moines Area
Des Moines police report the body of 16 year old Joe E. Dickson Jr of Des Moines was found four miles southeast of Waukee on a gravel road. Earl Edward Thompson 26 Wichita Falls Texas claimed he abducted the youth Tuesday night after encountering him at a Des Moines parking area. Thompson says Dickson attacked him, and he either shot or struck the boy, then blacked out. Dickson had been missing since Tuesday evening. Thompson, arrested after two service station holdups, alleges he found a car to steal and was confronted by the youth who asked what he was doing in the elder Dickson’s car.
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Joe E. Dickson, Jr
Waukee
Earl Edward Thompson
Wichita Falls
Texas
Thompson
Dickson
Capitol Lanes
Hijacked liner's landing delayed at Recife
The Santa Maria with 620 captives sailed into Recife on Wednesday but landing was delayed for hours as Rebel Leader Henrique Galvao demanded new guarantees from Brazil. Galvao anchored inside the harbor three miles offshore and refused to budge, while President Quadros offered political asylum. Public demonstrations in Recife split between supporters of Salazar and Galvao. Justice Minister Pedroso Horta boarded the ship to confer with Galvao.
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Brazil
UPI
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Henrique Galvao
Janio Quadros
Salazar
Galvao
Pedroso Horta
U. S. Fires Minuteman Missile on First Test Flight
In a milestone blast at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday the Minuteman intercontinental missile completed a three stage burn and landed on target in the South Atlantic. Gen. Thomas White hailed it as a major step toward nuclear missile supremacy. Different contractors built each stage with Boeing assembling and testing. The program aims for combat readiness by mid 1962 and a buildup to deploy hundreds of missiles.
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South Atlantic
Air Force
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Hercules
Boeing Aircraft Co
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Russia
Iowa Senate debate on constitutional court reform
Grand Jury Gives Jail Clean Bill. The Linn county jail received a routine clean bill after a grand jury tour. Sheriff James Smith was praised for facility operation amid a letter from Walter Gormly of Mt. Vernon criticizing conditions, meals, lighting, and visiting arrangements.
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Linn County
James Smith
Walter Gormly
Mt. Vernon
Gormly
Smith
Gazette
Ham the chimp signals ready for manned space flight
AP report details Ham the chimp’s 155 mile high, 420 mile southeast Atlantic flight aboard a Redstone rocket. He arrived safely, signaling progress toward manned space missions while noting Soviet advantages and the need for further tests before humans orbit Earth.
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Ham
Donner
Cape Canaveral
Mighty
Redstone
Atlantic
U.S. Navy
Breakers of Boycott Quit New Orleans
Segregationists maintain white boycott at McDonogh 19 elementary force a white family to leave New Orleans. John Thompson 33 and his six children relocate after his transfer to another city. Two Thompson children had attended the school briefly as the first white students since integration began. Walgreens confirms Thompson request but does not disclose new location.
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New Orleans
UPI
McDonogh 19
John Thompson
Gregory
Michael
McDonogh
Walgreen's Drug Stores
Thompson
Seven Die in Nursing Home Fire Trapping on Top Floor
Washington UPI reports seven elderly women died when a stairway fire trapped them on the top floor of a nursing home. Twenty four patients on the lower floors were rescued.
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Washington
UPI
Child Born Aboard Captive Liner Santa Maria Odyssey
A child was born aboard the captive liner Santa Maria during its 11 day Odyssey, a Portuguese government spokesman said Wednesday.
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Lisbon
UPI
Santa Maria
New signals replace flagmen on Cedar Rapids crossings
Automatic crossing signals began operating along Fourth Street in downtown Cedar Rapids on Tuesday marking the end of the era of railroad flagmen. The Rock Island line activated the last flashing light and bell devices between First and Twelfth Avenues.
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Cedar Rapids
Rock Island Railroad
First
Twelfth Avenues
Union Station
First Street
Midtown
Rock Island
W. T. Okerlund
Albert Konowalski
Speed Cops’ Tactics Spark Old-Tashioned Debate
A nostalgic readership complains that traffic police should police openly rather than hide at road edges. The column argues for bold enforcement in crowded streets and questions undercover approaches.
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