President Eisenhower Begins Full Medical Checkup at Walter Reed
President Eisenhower traveled to Walter Reed hospital with Mrs. Eisenhower to start a full scale medical examination. White House secretary James Hagerty said testing would take about two and a half hours with results expected Tuesday or Wednesday. The check aims to assess his health after the heart attack and help inform a potential re election decision.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
James C. Hagerty
White House
Partial Lincoln birthday observance closed for Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids observes Abraham Lincoln birthday as a partial holiday on Monday. City hall county courthouse banks and liquor stores will close while federal offices stay open except the federal court clerk's office which will be closed Monday morning due to illness. it will reopen at 1 pm with a deputy from Dubuque and resume normal hours Tuesday through Friday. Post office Chamber of Commerce and Cedar Rapids retail stores keep usual hours.
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Cedar Rapids
Abraham Lincoln
Dubuque
Revane
Friay
Post Office
Chamber of Commerce
Pastor Takes Flock Ice Fishing in Muskegon
In Muskegon Michigan the Rev Glenn Groth of Bethlehem Lutheran plans an ice fishing outing for more than 60 parishioners as a living religious experience. Breakfast will be provided at 6 45 am and Groth will preach on Come unto Me and I will make you fishers of men before the group travels to Muskegon lake to fish through the ice for perch. A student pastor will lead the service at the church for those staying home.
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Muskegon
Mich
Glenn Groth
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Groth
Muskegon Lake
Burgess and Maclean End Silence With Moscow Message
Former British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean told a Moscow news conference they went to the Soviet Union to help achieve greater mutual understanding between East and West. They disappeared May 12, 1951, after British intelligence tracked them. They said their aim was to preserve peace by fostering Soviet West understanding and that a small group opposed that goal.
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Moscow
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
Maclean
Foreign Office
Burgess
Washington
Moscow Radio
National
Soviet Union
West
Two Crashes Kill 10 Flyers
Ten airmen were killed when two Kansas based B-47 jet bombers crashed within minutes of each other in Kansas and South Dakota. Capt Floyd Shirk of Rapid City was among the dead, his plane from Forbes AFB Topeka crashed near Ellsworth AFB. Four airmen died in the Smoky Hill AFB Salina flight at Westmoreland. None of the ten victims were from Iowa.
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Topeka
Kansas
South Dakota
Floyd Shirk
Rapid City
S. D
Forbes Air Force Base
Ellsworth Afb
Smoky Hill Afb
Salina
Kan
Westmoreland
Iowa
Scientist Knifes Colleagues At Secret Lab
Dr. Robert J. Dwyer a 49 year old senior scientist at Beckman Instruments Arga division shot four colleagues with a knife then attempted suicide. He lies in Los Angeles General Hospital with 14 chest wounds. four counts of assault filed. Victims include Carle C. Brawner D Dwight Taylor Herbert Quan and Sidney Johnson. none critically hurt.
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South Pasadena
INS
Robert J. Dwyer
Los Angeles General Hospital
Arga
Beckman Instruments Company
Dwyer
Harvard
Carle C. Brawner
Brawner
D. Dwight Taylor
Herbert Quan
Sidney Johnson
Eyeglass Havoc Ends in Divorce
Los Angeles AP report Chronicling Frank Riccobono a 34 year old tailor who won a divorce on cruelty grounds after Patricia Riccobono 32 repeatedly snatched and smashed his eyeglasses during fits of anger explaining he could not see eye to eye with her. Judge A Curtis Smith granted the divorce citing cruelty.
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Los Angeles
Frank Riccobono
Patricia
Citizens May Take Their Garbage to the City Dump
Cedar Rapids opens the city dump 24 hours for residents to dispose of refuse. Mayor Meaghan reports dump on C street SW accessible 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday with off hours available. Health officials urge edge dumping when closed. Incinerator and landfill operations continue, with private haulers handling most waste. Public anger noted but overall calls modest. CIO union protest halts some routes and a meeting with council is set for 11 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Jim Meaghan
C Street
Iowa City
Prairie Creek Bridge
Lincoln
Meaghan
Sanitation Department
Rapids
Carl Smith
Smith
CIO
White House to Meet Iowans on Farm Relief Efforts
White House aides will meet Iowa lawmakers again to discuss emergency actions to ease farmers cost-price squeeze. NFC head Staley pressed for use of all Benson powers to back hogs and cattle, with talks also involving Gov. Adams, Rep. Talle, and farm officials.
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Washington
White House
National Farmers Organization
Iowa
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
U.S
Henry O. Talle
House
Talle
Iowa House
Staley
NFC
Adams
Agriculture Department
Talte
Ezra Taft Benson
Young Rea. Mo
Iowa Born
NFO
Benson
Vigil Kept on Graham After Try at death by own action
Denver county jail guards watched John Gilbert Graham after he attempted suicide in his cell. He had threatened self harm following a prior bombing plot, and wardens described a new method using nylon socks and a toilet paper core. A sanity hearing is set for March 5 to determine if he will face a murder trial for his mother’s death aboard the United Airlines plane.
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Denver
John Gilbert Graham
Graham
Gordon Dolliver
United Air Lines
Dolliver
Bert Keating
Weather outlook mostly cloudy with light snow flurries
The region remains mostly cloudy with intermittent snow flurries. Tonight will be chilly with a low near 20 degrees and Sunday a high around 30 degrees as temperatures ease back.
Dietz Dies In Two Car Crash Near Hazleton
Cedar Rapids man Lewis Wendell Dietz, 43, was killed in a two car wreck on highway 150 south of Hazleton in Buchanan county. Dietz, separated from his wife and five children of Fairbank, was en route to visit his sister in Oelwein. Ronald I. Baum, 57, of Independence, suffered a fractured neck vertebrae and was listed in fairly good condition. The Brant funeral home handled Dietz's services.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Highway 150
Hazleton
Buchanan County
Lewis Wendell Dietz
Sixth Avenue
Dietz
Fairbank
Ronald I. Baum
Independence
Baum
Oelwein
Frank Davis
Wyla Ohl
Brant Funeral Home
Headless Klan Cited by Unions in New Ku Klux Klan Charge
AFL-CIO executive council cites white citizens councils as the new hoodless Ku Klux Klan in the South, organizing over 500 local units in 44 states with more than 200,000 paid members since the school desegregation ruling. The civil rights report warns of a Nazi-like pattern feeding on hatred and attacking democracy.
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Miami Beach
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Committee
Supreme Court
Expecting Light Snow Tomorrow Across Iowa States
A light snowstorm moved into southwestern Iowa Saturday and spread through the state with freezing drizzle in central areas. The Weather Bureau warned snow may persist Saturday night into Sunday, creating slippery roads in western and northern Iowa with fog reducing visibility in some spots. Temperatures ranged from 10 to 40 degrees, with Cedar Rapids near 19 after a 34-degree Friday. A new storm traveling toward Iowa was forecast to bring snow showers and lower temperatures on Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Highway Patrol
Spencer
Des Moines
Inclination At First To Accept Sam
Washington AP report on a Senate panel tracing a $2,500 campaign gift to Senator Case. Testimony from Sioux Falls Argus Leader manager Kahler described Case as flabbergasted but initially inclined to accept the donation from Nebraska lobbyist John M. Neff. Case later voted against the natural gas bill after learning of the gift and had the money returned or given to charity.
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United Press
Associated Press
John M. Neff
Lexington
Neb
Ivan Evans
Lincoln
Senator Case
R-S.c
Senate
Neff
Case
Washington
South Dakota
R-S.d
E. J. Kahler
Sioux Falls
Plumb
Kahler
Nebraska
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Fred Schwengel
Charles Hoeven
Oren Lee Staley
Gabriel Hauge
James Hagerty
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Stalley
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