Stark Remembers Snow Removal as Men with Shovels
Bob Kenyon profiles Ralph E. Stark on retirement from Cedar Rapids street department after 26 years of service. He recalls the shift from hand labor to mechanization, notes the 1935 36 winter as roughest, early dumping spots now the City Market, and the rise of mechanized sweepers and salt trucks. Stark, born 1886 in Nebraska, reflects on family, city growth, and plans for part time work and hobbies at 814 Eighth Avenue SW.
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Cedar Rapids Loop
Ralph E. Stark
Mr. Stark
City Street Department
Seventh Avenue
H Street
Stark
Cedar Rapids
The
Department
Eighth Avenue
Madison County
Neb
Nebraska
Idaho
Iowa
Ralph
Stara Plummer
Bertram
Linn Grove Church
Mt. Vernon
Donald Scovill
Marshalltown
Gazette
Lawrence Welk
On Guard Against Communism
International News Service reports U S Communists push for 1958 goals under slogans Geneva 1958 and End A Tests They plan letter campaigns to Eisenhower and lawmakers and seek an Eisenhower Khrushchev summit while pressing for halting atomic tests and disarming amid Soviet missile strength The Daily Worker and National Guardian publish New Year messages urging action and top level talks to confront Soviet power
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Geneva
Jack Lotton
Eisenhower
America
Germany
Russia
Daily Worker
Communist Party
Eniwetok
Soviet Union
Britain
National Guardian
Mental Health Group To Hear Dr Cromwell
The Linn County Mental Health Association will meet at the Roosevelt hotel on Wednesday evening. Dr James Cromwell newly appointed state director of mental institutions will speak on Iowa's mental health program. Dinner at 6 30 p m address around 7 45 p m business meeting and officer elections to follow.
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Linn County Mental Health Association
Roosevelt Hotel
James Cromwell
Cromwell Cromwell
Iowa
Mary Healey Crowned Proudest Houseproud Wife in London
In Harlesden London Mrs Mary Healey won twelve dollars in a police court case after her husband was fined for ejecting a visitor who refused to remove his shoes in their six room home. Mary said she spends four hours daily cleaning and polishing and finds joy in the work.
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London
INS
Mary Healey
Harlesden
Mary
Charles Berry
Healey
Berry
Daughter Receives Her Mother's Job
Barbara Jane Bickley aged 20 receives a United Air Lines stewardess position in Los Angeles, following a family history and a 1957 offer from Harold Crary. Her father Melvin P. Bickley and mother look on as Crary, then a UAL vice president, witnesses the moment.
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Denver
Barbara Jane Bickley
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
Melvin P. Bickley
New York
UAL
Bickley
Barbara Jane
Harold Crary
Crary
Teen-Agers Flee California Smog
Five teenagers from southern California ran away citing intolerable smog. They were apprehended near Santa Cruz and explained to sheriff's deputies their departure was to escape the polluted air.
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California
Santa Cruz
Calif
Teapot Dome Oil Scandal Still Mystery in Wyoming Wastelands
Casper AP reports the Teapot Dome mystery persists as geologists debate if wells around the reserve drain navy oil. Officials note production in Salt Creek and the 1920s scandal involved Fall and Sinclair firms, with the Teapot Dome fields now largely depleted and scarred but rich in lore.
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Teapot Dome
Bob Leeright
Casper
Wyo
Wyoming
Navy
Salt Creek
J. R. Schwabrow
Northwest Regional
U. S. Geological Survey
Oil and Gas Division
Schwabrow
Teapot Lome Reserve
Shannon
Salt Creek Field
Naval Reserve
Schabrow
Monmouth Oil Company
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Sinclair Pipeline Company
Secretary of Interior
Albert B. Fall
Mammoth Oil Company
Court of Appeals
Naval Reserve Lands
Wyoming Oilmen
Predictions on Ike era loom in election year satire
Ruth Montgomery surveys lawmakers and party rivalries in a sharp forecast for the 1960 political landscape. The column lampoons Eisenhower era figures from Dulles to Gruenther, Keflauver, Knowland and Truman, mixing scorn with light mockery of trends and ambitions.
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Ruth Montgomery
Ashington
INS
Congress
Ike
Herbert Hoover
Eisenhower
Harold Montgomery Stassen
Pennsylvania
John Foster Dulles
Sputnik
Fred Seaton
White House
Alfred E. Gruenther
Dulles
Russia
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Jack Lotto
International News Service
U.S
Khrushchev
Dr. Cromwell
Fall
Arizona
Harry Sinclair
District of Columbia
U.S. Senate
Washington
Harry S. ‘Truman
G.O.P
Abraham Lincoln
Nixon
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
United States
Sen
William Knowland
Knowland
Mamie Eisenhower
Truman
Margaret
Mgr. T. A. Carlin
Guaranty Building
Armstrong Sportswear
Armstrong Associates
Dan River
Galey & Lord Carefree
Armstrong Quality
Western Corral
Armstrong Boys’ Store
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