Leave Pair On Peak on Kin s Plea
Final rescue bid for French Alpinist Jean Vincedon and Belfirian companion Francois Henry ends with their parents urging no further danger. Eight would be rescuers airlifted to safety as hopes fade on Mt Blane two miles high. A 13 day effort cost over half a million dollars amid dangerous, ongoing weather and storms.
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Chamonix
France
Iwal
Mt. Blane
Wrest Europe
Jean Vincedon
Vincedon
Ike
Cedar Rapids Attorney M J Donnelly Dies Suddenly
Cedar Rapids attorney and Catholic layman M J Donnelly died after a heart attack at Mercy hospital. He was 74 and funeral services are set at Immaculate Conception church with burial at Mt Calvary. He practiced law since Creighton 1907 and served as general counsel for the United States Brewers Foundation.
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Urdar Raulda
M. J. Donnelly
Cedar Rapids
Immaculate Conception Church
William HH
Schutte
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Donnelly
Mercy Hospital
Joe and Cilifs Cafe
First Avenue NE
James N. Faulkes
Donnelly, Lynch, Lynch and Dallas
Creighton ‘University
Omaha
Creighton
United States Brewers Foundation
Chicago
United States Supreme
American
Iowa
Linn
Immaculate Conception
Madras
India
Order of Malia
Syiniwo
Francis Careve
Dinal Spellman
New York
St Patrick's Cathedral
Holy Poor
Knights
Columbus
Br. Donnelly
South Shore Country Club
Kansas Governor Hall Resigns to Join Supreme Court
Governor Frea Hall resigns and is immediately named to the Kansas Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Chief Justice William A. Smith. Lt Governor John McCuish acts as governor until January 14 when George Docking takes office. Hall’s appointment marks an unprecedented political shift in Kansas.
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Topeka
Ins
Frea@ Hall
Kansas Supreme Court
William A. Smith
Kansas
John McCuish
George Docking
McCuish
Hall
Smith
C.G.P
G.O.P
Newsprint Price Boosted by Firm Announcement
Abilibi Power and Paper Company Limited of Toronto announced a $4 per ton price rise for newsprint to $134 effective March 1, signaling a possible industry-wide increase. The move, likely to trigger further raises, faces caution from the American Newspaper Publishers Association as U.S. papers’ seven million tons annual consumption would add about 28 million dollars to costs.
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New York
Abilibi Power and Paper Company, Ltd
Toronto
Pubishers Association
U. S
Worst Auto Toll in 1956 40,000 Die
The Associated Press reports 1956 had at least a five percent rise in auto deaths over 1955, totaling more than 40,000 for the year. States tightened safety measures, increasing patrols, license suspensions, and harsher enforcement, with roadblocks and radar use expanding in many regions. Tennessee cut fatalities 16 percent with strict enforcement, while California faced a record toll prompting calls for speed limits and stronger penalties.
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Associated Press
Tennessee
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
National Guard
Sher H
Goodwin Knight
California
Girl Flee West for Hungarian Rebels Sympathy
An East German girl fled to West Berlin to join 15 classmates expelled from a Soviet zone school for sympathizing with Hungarian rebels. The youths chose to continue their studies in West Germany rather than graduate in East Germany.
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Berlin
West Berlin
West Germany
Tokyo Quake Shakes Downtown as Aftershocks Hit
A Thursday earthquake split Tokyo, causing downtown tremors and widespread huddling as residents sought safety and officials warned of potential aftershocks.
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Tokyo
TOYO
Fire kills two children in Cedar Baths home
Funeral services were held Thursday for Merrily and Terry Clark, children who died in a house fire last Saturday night. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clark, did not attend the service while both remained patients at Mercy Hospital with burns. Fire Chief Jesse Hunter said the investigation is nearing completion and indicates the tragedy may have started accidentally by a girl fire setting incident.
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Cedar Baths News
Merrily
Terry Clark
Lee Clark
Marion Road
Mercy Hospital
U.S. Offers 5 Million Dollar Canal Salvage Loan
The United States will provide up to 5 million dollars to help cover salvage costs in the Suez Canal. The loan responds to a UN appeal for an advance to cover initial clearance expenses. Final salvage cost is estimated at 40 million dollars.
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United Nations, N
Five Bands Plan Welcome For Hawkeyes Arrival
Eastern Iowa high school bands from Springville, Mt Vernon, Marion, Wilson, and McKinley join Cedar Rapids groups to greet Iowa Hawkeyes late Thursday at Municipal airport. Welcome activities include a 3 a.m. concert, a 5:30 p.m. arrival, and a 6:30 to 6:40 p.m. second batch of planes. Mayor Meaghan and the Chamber of Commerce organize a public reception and a $0 dinner for about 50 Iowa party members at the coliseum, with bleachers open to the public starting at 4 p.m.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Municipal
Syuringville
ML. Vernon
Mirenga
Wilson
McKinley
Cunac Rapids
Jim Meaghan
Arra Ag
Iowa Party
Coliseum
Chamber of Commerce
Hawkeye Group
Menaghan
Springville
Judge Voids Florida Bus Segregation Laws
Federal Judge Emmett Choate ruled Florida and Miami segregation on municipal buses unconstitutional. The NAACP suit, filed Oct 12, 1956, named Miami Transit Company and city officials. Choate held the company as private, not state, and declined a full three-judge hearing.
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MIAME
Florida
Miami
Emmett Choate
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Ele
U. S. Supreme Court
Montgomery
Ala
NAACP
Miami Transit Company
The
Ciy
Miami Transit
Duses
Sims
Eisenhower rejects five power disarmament conference
President Eisenhower told Bulganin at a Wednesday night meeting that a five nation summit is not timely and urged disarmament within the UN framework. He urged Russia to withdraw from Hungary and praised UN actions in Suez. Eden and Mollet also rejected the Soviet proposal.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U.N
Bulyanin
Russia
Great Britain
France
India
Mins
Hungary
Bulganin
Bulgania
Western Europe
Noreover
Western
Europe
Eden
Mollet
Eisenhower to Outline Middle East Doctrine Before Congress
President Eisenhower will address a joint session at 11 30 am CST Saturday to present a Middle East doctrine aimed at countering Soviet influence. Dulles signaled strong support, proposing 40 million dollars in two year aid and military economic cooperation with free nations in the region.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Middle East
House
McCormack
Mass
Dulles
Soveet Union
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Father and Daughter Die in House Fire Tragedy
In Balltown a husband Frank Curiel and his daughter Frances died after a two story frame house fire sparked by an oil heater. Five other children suffered burns while the family watched TV as firefighters from Sheriff and Epworth battled the flames.
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Balltown
Frank Curiel
Frances
Dubuque
Curiel
Iubuque Packing Company
Tendr
Steven
John
Richard
James
Sheriff and
Epsworth
Labor Secretary Mitchell to Stay on for Second Term
Labor Secretary Mitchell said President Eisenhower asked him to serve a second term and he will remain in the cabinet as long as the President wants him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor
Mitchell
Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Jin
Lausche Vote Shifts Senate Control to Democrats
Democrats clinched Senate control as Lausche of Ohio voted with his party. Javits from New York did not respond, leaving the GOP short of votes to stop theDemocrats. The House and Senate leadership for both parties were set as Nixon presided a session and Bogart reported feeling fine after throat cancer surgery.
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Washington
Senate
Lausche
Ohio
Congress
Tausche
White House
Iayden
Hasden (Ariz
George
Bridges
N.H.J. Lauseche
Mayden B
Nealy
W. Vuad
Crane
New York
Knowland
Calif
Fluor
Nixon
ENS
Javits
Saltonsian ¢Mass
Dirksen Qil
Johnson
Texas
Mansfield
Mont
Henge
House
Martin Alass
Rep
Hoeven
Hope
Han
Frederick Brown Hart
Ralph Roberts Af Itndians
Bernard Braskamp
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Geiger
C.R
Order of Matta
Walker
Joe Donnelly
Peter Donnnelly
Tilford Academy
Vinton
Alice Flaherty
Joan
Pasadena
Msgr
P. Edward Donnelly
Farley
Nassau Street
Msgr Schulte
Rahisa Kalb
Thomas F. Currier
Robert J. Reiss
National Guard Trans Or
Sheriff's Deputies
Nee
Reds
Chums
U.S
Hawkeyes
Britain
Israel
Suez
Marion
Moavirs
Ee - TR Sports
I State
Dukes
Red Gordon
DHL
Homst Foreign Affairs Committee
Coover
Truman
Gordon
Dirksen Crill
Vinson D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Tie
Sfey
Foreign Relations Committee
Ome Celay
N.Y
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