French Vote Confusion Masks Party Struggles in 1956
Paris reports a split French electorate facing a crowded field of candidates. Analysts expect three main blocs the Communists the Republican Front and the Independent Gaullist coalition to win 120 130 and 260 280 seats respectively in the 623 member assembly. With no clear majority a fusion government appears likely.
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Eee
Republican Front
Pierre Mendes- France
de Gaullists
New Assembly
Edgar Faure
Radical Socialists
Catholic Popular Republican Movement
Faure
Uneasy World Hopes For Peace In 1956
The New Year brings cautious optimism for peace as leaders including Bulganin and Dulles exchange views on Geneva and future talks. President Eisenhower plans a quiet observance at Key West with Mrs. Eisenhower. Celebrations span the globe, with family gatherings and renewed faith shaping the mood.
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Grandfather Frost
Eisenhower
Key West
Fla
Naval Base
John W. Doud
Denver
Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Geneva
Bulganin
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Father and three children injured as train hits car
A father William Lorenz 37 and his three children were hospitalized Saturday after noon when their car was struck by a Chicago and North Western passenger train at a Wilson avenue crossing near Rockford road. The family traveled in a station wagon with a small trailer. witnesses said the car stalled on the tracks and was hit on the right front. Lorenz children Matthew 2 Tracy 3 and Mark 6 were taken to Mercy hospital with injuries ranging from fractured leg to a broken arm and minor scrapes. Police and safety officials criticized the crossing and pledged renewed pressure for signal protection with no reply from railroad officials yet.
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Cedar Rapids News
Wilson Avenue
Rockford Road
Mercy Hospital
William Lorenz
Matthew Lorenz
Tracy Lorenz
William Kudina
North Western
E. A. Prochaska
Public Safety Department
Prochaska
WCTU Offers Cocktail Recipe
Chicago AP reports the Women's Christian Temperance Union suggests a New Year cocktail. The recipe divides lemonade syrup into thirds with colorings of green blue and red, finished with pineapple, cherry and mint garnish.
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Chicago
The
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Plummer Becomes First Candidate for Iowa Governor
Lawrence E. Plummer 46 former 1954 Democratic AG candidate announced he will seek the party’s nomination for governor. He has served as Northwood mayor and county attorney, with a navy service record. Herring has not ruled out a bid but did not comment on Plummer’s announcement.
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Northwood
Lawrence E. Plummer
Plummer
Herring
Central City Man Injured Felling Tree
Avon C. Shakespeare, 64, of Central City was injured Saturday when a tree he was pulling over with a tractor struck him. Branches hit his right shoulder and back, fracturing ribs and causing contusions. He is listed in fairly good condition at St. Luke's hospital in Cedar Rapids.
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Avon C. Shakespeare
Central City
Shakespeare’s
St. Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Railroad Track Proved No Safer
Lake City Tennessee AP reports 68 year old Simpson K. Hill a Baptist chef was killed by a diesel locomotive while walking along a railroad track from his home to town. He avoided the highway due to fear of being hit by an automobile.
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Lake City
Tenn
Simpson K. Hill
Egypt Recognizes Sudan as Independent Nation
Cairo reports Egypt formally recognizes Sudan as an independent nation. The vast, sparsely populated territory stretches from the southern Egyptian border toward the equator and has about nine million inhabitants. Britain and Egypt had jointly ruled Sudan since January 19, 1899.
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Cairo
Egypt
Sudan
Equator
Britain
Safety Belt Saves His Wife's Life
A Louisville man installed a safety belt in his wife's car and coined the slogan The wife you save may be your own after she escaped an assault. A man grabbed the car door at a red light and tried to drag her out, but the belt kept her sealed in as the light changed and he fled.
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Louisville
Fire devastates Selma warehouses injuring firefighters
An early Saturday blaze in Selma's warehouse district destroyed three large buildings. One firefighter was killed and two others were injured as walls collapsed, with damage unofficially estimated at $500,000.
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Selma
Ala
Gunman Robs Salem Bank for $1000
An unmasked bandit entered the State Central Savings Bank of Salem Iowa at 4 p.m. Saturday, demanded money, and fled with about $1000. He claimed a confederate waited outside. roadblocks were set by the Iowa state patrol and Henry county sheriff. Bank manager W. W. Simkin and bookkeeper Imogene Barnett were present. no injuries reported.
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Salem
State Central Savings Bank of
Henry County
W. W. Simkin
Simkin
Imogene Barnett
Iowa Highway Patrol
Norwegian Officials Deny Jet Sale Reports in Middle East
Oslo officials rejected foreign reports claiming 36 Norwegian jet fighters were sold in the Middle East. The statements said the reports were published abroad and unfounded.
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Oslo
INS
Middle East
Boy Killed By Train On Bridge
A 16 year old Sigourney farm boy Laverne Pfeaster was killed Saturday when knocked from an 80 foot rail bridge by a late running Challenger Hiawatha near Linn Junction Cedar Rapids. He ran toward an oncoming train with a 12 year old companion who escaped. The boy's body was found mangled and 40 feet from the trestle after the Milwaukee Union Pacific train delayed about 15 minutes. Surviving details note his father died in 1950 and the incident occurred on the Cedar River bridge while he and a companion played along the tracks.
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Cedar Rapids
Sigourney
Hiawatha
Linn Junction
John Pfeaster
Cedar River
Harlan Hickle
Hickle
Preaster
Sheriff's Office
Low Traffic Toll Holds Steady as New Year Approaches
The Associated Press notes a slower New Year traffic toll, with 74 deaths by 8 p.m. CST and a total of 94 from all causes. Officials call the decline gratifying but warn against optimism during the holiday period as Iowa eyes a toll near record totals and law enforcement remains on high alert.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Iowa
State
Cedar Rapids records 1955 as largest building year
The Cedar Rapids building department reports 1955 with 3 124 permits and 15 822 047 dollars in construction, the city’s largest annual building total. Housing led investment at 38 171 837 with 838 new one family dwellings and 14 multi family units, while non housing accounted for 7 495 044.
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Cedar Rapids
James F. Lilly
Downing Box Company
Blairs Ferry Road
Town and Country
First Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
His Car Was Not His Car
Levi Johnson, 22, flagged down two men to push his stalled auto and was jailed for auto theft. Detectives Miller and Sheehy questioned him after he could not show ID and he admitted stealing the car.
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Chicago
Levi Johnson
Robert Miller
Richard Sheehy
Johnson
Stampede at Niigata Shrine Kills 112 and Injures 109
At the Yashiko Shrine in Niigata province 112 worshippers died and 109 were wounded as a crowd of about 40 000 surged for Mochi cakes tossed by priests. Police rushed in to control panicked worshippers after midnight stampede, recalling a Tokyo crowd tragedy two years earlier.
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Niigata
Japan
Yashiko Shrine
Niigata Province
Tokyo
Ita Oe
Springfield couple obtains marriage license in weekend processing
Darlene M. Walker of Springfield and Russell K. Driver of Chatham secured a marriage license on Saturday, marking a legal step toward their upcoming ceremony in Illinois.
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Springfield, II
Darlene M. Walker
Springfield
Russell K. Driver
Chatham
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WCTU
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Atty
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Clyde Herring
Des Moines
Leo A. Hoegh
Worth County
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Linn Jct
Laverne Pfeaster
Francis Grover
South Amana
Robert Brosh
Brosh
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Marion
Naomi Doebel
Gazette
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
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