News Control Backfires as Press Criticizes Information Limits
Senator Williams of Delaware defends free access to government information against news control. The piece argues tightened controls mislead the public, fuels confusion over Cuba and the Russian threat, and shows a televised Pentagon briefing was unnecessary if full facts had been released earlier.
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Congress
Williams
Delaware
Washington
Cuba
Pentagon
Cedar Rapids Chamber Prepares Annual One Day Membership Drive
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce plans its annual one day membership drive on Wednesday to offset attrition, leveraging a strong product and broad-based appeal. Renowned in 1959 as the outstanding chamber in small cities, it sustains efforts through a large transportation bureau and active civic dinners.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Transportation Bureau
Iowa
Minneapolis
Chamber
Civic Bureau
Communism and Civil Rights Ironies Highlight Global Struggles
The piece notes how Africans studying in Bulgaria and the Soviet Union face discrimination mirroring American segregation insults. It argues anti communists might, by circumstance, align with communist labels as they oppose civil rights. A provocative call to rethink bigotry and hypocrisy across nations.
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Bulgaria
Soviet Union
South
Republic
Nuclear partnership for NATO faces independence test
President Kennedy signals a shift toward giving European NATO allies a larger voice in nuclear decisions. De Gaulle favors independence while Washington weighs long term payment, independent use rights, and pooled weapons under NATO control to preserve allied unity and the Atlantic Alliance.
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Ashington
Kennedy
NATO
U.S
Western Europe
de Gaulle
Britain
France
United States
Europe
Gen.de Gaulle
Cuba
Gen. de Gaulle
Khrushchev
Atlantic Alliance
Invitation to Arizona from Iowa Readers Boosters Club Idea
A Valley of the Sun correspondent urges Iowa pride and invites readers to an All Iowa picnic on Feb 24. She describes an Iowa club in Phoenix and discusses civic sentiment while praising the Gazette and home state scenery. She notes stickers for Iowa cars and contacts with home folks.
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Gazette
Phoenix
California
Boosters Club
Iowa
Valley of the Sun
Florence Haworth Phoenix
Aziz
Viewers praise Camera Three Pope program
Reader commends a television presentation on Alexander Pope produced by Camera Three. They urge more varied and frequent programs to enrich viewers' lives beyond reruns.
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Alexander Pope
Camera Three
Pope
Repeal of Death Penalty Advocated in Iowa House
Letter writer supports Iowa House move to repeal the death penalty calling it progressive and humane after study and fact finding. The writer criticizes D L Freeman’s views on deterrence and biblical morality and urges reform of the current law.
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D. L. Freeman
Iowa House of Representatives
Mr. Freeman
Observing Brotherhood Week Good Will Must Be Earned by Work
An editorial calls for real daily practice of brotherhood beyond one week. It warns that global conflicts and ideological battles threaten peace with nuclear-era dangers. It urges individuals to overcome prejudice and indifference and resist imposing any single creed.
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Freeman
Senate
Khrushchevs
Cuba as Hemisphere Threat Shapes OAS Debate
The piece argues Cuba’s Soviet troop presence endangers the hemisphere and urges a stronger OAS response possibly including a Cuba blockade. It notes President Kennedy’s private warnings, upcoming Costa Rica talks, exile Cuban factions in the United States, and the political risk of Cuba becoming a domestic issue in 1960s US policy.
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Ashington
Cuba
Kennedy
Khrushchev
America
Costa Rica
Washington
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Latin America
Alliance For Progress
Council of the Organization of American States
OAS
United States
Castro
Congress
Kenneth Keating
Eisenhower taps McLain for agricultural advisory panel
In 1953 President Eisenhower names Marvin McLain of Brooklyn Iowa to the agricultural advisory committee aiding farm policy. Iowa Senate votes 38 to 12 to repeal the five cent a pound oleomargarine tax as the House debates a bill allowing colored oleo sales in the state. Dick Clausen of Coe College is elected president of the Cedar Rapids M-1 baseball league succeeding Tait Cummings.
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Eisenhower
Marvin McLain
Brooklyn
Agricultural Advisory
Iowa Senate
Iowa House
Iowa
Dick Clausen
Coe
Cedar Rapids
M-1
Tait Cummins
WMT
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South Africa
Lipsky
Marquis Childs
Mexico
Chile
Brazil
Uruguay
Bolivia
Childs
OPA
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B. B. Hickenlooper
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Thomas Kennedy
Gressive League
Alma Hartz
Public Health Nursing Bureau
George Clark
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