Delay in Tax Measures in House Taken
Washington officials report House leaders moved to delay passage of the tax extension bill to limit amendments in the Senate. The move aims to blunt a push to adjust corporation and excise taxes favoring small firms, with 36 senators set to back changes. The extension must pass before April 1 to avoid a $3 billion annual tax drop.
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Scholar Fails In Burglary at Chicago Insurance Office
CHICAGO AP Police arrested a 25 year old scholar after a burglary attempt at a Western and Southern Life Insurance Co office. David J. Stevenson claimed six years of study across three universities and no work. He escaped after the break in discovery, with only $50 in stamps taken from a safe. He was held without charge. Stevenson's wife said he left Evanston weeks ago for a New York business trip and had studied at the University of Chicago Northwestern and the University of Kansas City.
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Needed Drug Sped To Spain
A vital drug supply was rushed by plane to a Madrid hospital in response to a New Jersey youth’s short-wave plea. Mytilase is urgently needed to treat myasthenia gravis, with 18 year old Robert Greenquist of River Edge, NJ linked to the transmission from a Madrid operator identified as Francisco Gonzales K2GHV.
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Nehru Victory Predicted as India Heads to Polls
AP dispatch from New Delhi notes India begins marathon general elections with betting on Prime Minister Nehru's Congress party. About 1,550 candidates vie for 494 lower-house seats as 100 million of 193 million eligible voters are expected to cast ballots by March 14. The article highlights Kashmir debates, party divisions, and regional assembly contests in West Bengal and Kerala.
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Electronic Thief Steals Key Link From World’s Largest Radio Telescope
In London an electronics thief emptied a hut six miles from the Manchester operated radio telescope disabling the 10 000 volt instrument. The missing aluminum box containing 30 radio tubes and transformers would render the telescope inoperable. Police hunt amateur radio operators amid fears the thief could have been killed if the device had been active.
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Teens at YMCA model legislature vote against tobacco age cut
In Sacramento, teenage assemblymen rejected lowering the legal age to buy tobacco after 17 year old Winfield Crowther warned that the next step would be a new father handing a cigar to a baby.
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Trud Criticizes U.S. Freedom for Negroes in Amerika Portrayal
Moscow paper Trud argues U.S. freedom for African Americans is propaganda only. It cites a February Knoxville concert disrupted by a white crowd and a dynamite blast, calling the event proof of limited real freedom for 15 million Negroes in the United States.
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Police Ambush Ends Burglary Duo in Forestville Grocery
In Cincinnati area, two safe crackers Nickey Nader and Michael Burke were killed in a nighttime ambush inside a Forestville supermarket. Police had watched the store after Detective Paul Schirmer identified Nader. about $35,000 was in the safe.
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Rail wage board weighs Eisenhower anti inflation plea
A presidential emergency board will consider President Eisenhower’s plea for wage price restraint as it settles a nationwide railroad wage dispute. Hearings ended with tensions over whether higher wages align with productivity gains, while a March 18 deadline and a 30 day review follow.
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Services at Oxford For John J. Delaney
John J. Delaney died at his Davenport home after a life as a farmer in Cedar Rapids and Oxford. Surviving wife four sons Francis and John of Cedar Rapids Richard and Tom of Davenport two daughters Margaret Heck Riverside and Alice Davenport. Services Tuesday at 9 30 a.m. St Marys church Oxford with rosary Monday at 8 p.m. at Hohenschuh funeral home Iowa City.
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Colgate Student Builds Tic Tac Toe Winning Machine
Charles R. Kirkley a pre engineering student at Colgate University reports he has built a machine that plays tic tac toe. The device always wins making the game potentially dull for players.
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Methodist Students Retreat At Camp Wapsie Y
Methodist students from Coe Cornell Iowa University of Iowa Iowa State Iowa Wesleyan Morningside Simpson Drake will gather March 1 3 at Camp Wapsie Y near Central City for their annual midwinter retreat. Rev Carl Michael of Drew University Madison New Jersey will be the featured speaker. About 150 students are expected to attend.
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Neuberger to Speak at Democrat Dinner in Des Moines
Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon will headline a Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines on April 13 with tickets at 25 dollars. Gov. Herschel C. Loveless will introduce him, and Des Moines Democrat Edward R. Fitzgerald will oversee ticket sales.
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Expectant Iowa Mother Escapes Crash Injuries
An expectant mother en route to Iowa Methodist hospital escaped injuries when her husband Forest Claude Scott of West Des Moines hit another car at 5:56 a.m. Saturday near the hospital. The other driver was 35 year old Ivan Lewis Andrus. Mrs. Scott finished the trip in a police squad car.
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Pioneer Florence Pennington Dies at 94
Florence Perry Pennington, 94, last surviving charter member of Albia PEO chapter she helped found in 1884, died Friday night in an Ottumwa nursing home.
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