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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1957
Page
10
An Air Force captain stationed at Alamogordo New Mexico tests aircraft ejection gear. He explains automatic parachute release that uses barometer timing, with bailouts from extreme altitudes to safety.
A New York manufacturer will begin production of a crash pillow invented by pioneer aviator Assen Jordanoff. The device is a deflated rubberized nylon bag stored on the rear of suits and inflates all cushions in the plane within three seconds at the press of a button to reduce injuries in survival crashes and forced landings.
D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, is released to a sister's custody in Pennsylvania under a condition never to return to Indiana. He aims to start anew in Minneapolis as he discusses reorganization of the Klan and reflects on his past power and pardon saga.
In Venice on January 21 14 defendants including Piera Piccioni face what Italian papers call the trial of the century. The case centers on the Montesi death and alleged sex orgies with witnesses Alicia Valli Adriana Bisacela and Anna Maria Caglio.
Eugene Donat head of the electronic data processing method staff at Collings Radio Company will discuss Electronic Data Processing in the Office before the National Office Management Association Cedar Rapids chapter at the Sheraton Montrose Tuesday after a 6:30 dinner and 4 social hour. Reservations with William Rogers before town Tuesday. Donat earned a degree in labor and industrial management at the University of Iowa and is pursuing a Ph.D. He has over five years with Collins and previously worked at Iowa State Teachers College and Bath Packing Company. His article on electronic data processing won the National Association of Cost Accountants award as outstanding article of the year. Ann Harding stars in The Fountain on Channel 9 Theater Sunday at 9:30 p.m.
Hong Kong dispatch notes Tong Shih tsao, a poor yet card rich loyal Communist member, faces a stack of identity and service cards. He describes mandatory carrying of an identity card, military service card, workers union card, Provincial People's Congress card, and various permits to inspect warehouses, attend classes, borrow books, dine, ride government bicycles, and obtain rations for tire Nour pork sugar cloth and edible oil.
In a South Carolina rural area residents held a Giant Rat Snake contest to curb the rising snake population. The prize was a half pint of old fashioned snake bite medicine for the winner.
Milwaukee AP reports a psychologist in a suburban school system warned a mother of a first grader about a possible serious personality problem. The warning came after the child used only black and red crayons at school and then explained that all other colors were broken.
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