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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 13, 1958

Page

2

Auto Union Proposes Profit Sharing Plan for 1958

DETROIT AP The United Auto Workers asked for a profit sharing plan in 1958 wage contracts and postponed demands for a shorter work week. The plan would start after profits top 16 percent pre tax with half above 10 percent kept by manufacturers, a quarter to hourly workers and salaried staff, and a quarter to consumers as rebates. The union also pressed for wage increases tied to productivity and extended unemployment benefits and job protections.

Dwight Pitkin Detroit United Auto Workers Perate UAW UJAW International Executive Board IIL

Iowa Interstate Route Signs May Cost Five Million

DES MOINES UP W H Burke director of state industries estimates it will cost about five million dollars to provide signs for Iowa's new interstate system. He notes the system will have about 200 interchanges and the federal government will pay 90 percent of the original cost, with no upkeep.

Des Moines W. H. Burke State Industries Iowa Partunity Ag Technology Burke Anamasa American Correctional Association

Peak Peacetime Budget Signals Ike Plan Details

Washington report outlines a 500 million defense budget proposal and a request to authorize a transfer up to two billion between defense appropriations. The remarks stress lasting bonds and use of transfer authority, with comments about aluminum signs and high costs. A national publication mentions Burke’s estimate and a discussion on interstate sign expenses.

Congress Department For Defense

Four Adrift Fifty Six Hours in a Launch

Four Puerto Rican seamen were rescued after 56 hours adrift in a launch off Mozambique. Their engine failed soon after departure for a medical station, leaving them without fuel water or cover. They used tarpaulin as a makeshift sail and crawled toward land, finally reaching shore exhausted after 11 hours of struggle. a search plane landed on the beach to take them aboard. They were about 200 miles from their starting point.

Lourenco Marques Mozambique Mozamambique Fuiay Tey Starling Point

1957 Realty Sales Set New Record Across Board

Realty board members reported 1957 total property transfers with a record 18,695,854 in volume. Average price per sale rose to 134,681, and the multiple listing service expanded with 1,155 total sales, despite retirements and relocations, as officers and committees outlined continued growth and ethics oversight.

Real Extate Board Sheraton-Montrose Aving Hohn Biekel Onl

Nuclear crackup rumors attack policy shifts and plans

A jumble of reports claims no explosion occurred while noting a crash relevance to domestic programs. The piece mentions the Times and Washington dispatches, defense funding, federal and local cooperation, and proposed rate changes tied to a crash scenario. It also cites Reddit.

New York Pamiadso Mondin Angton Dispatch Odo Hanspeter

Sarnoff urges unified arms outlay and anti-missile push

Washington AP. Industrialist David Sarnoff urged a more unified military command and a rapid buildup of bulk missiles and defense spending. He backed Rockefeller recommendations to raise defense outlays by three billion dollars next year, six billion in 1960, and nine million in 1961, and supported a centralized armed forces while denying fears of a dictatorship. He proposed an independent anti-missile project reporting to the secretary of defense and emphasized national unity amid global tensions.

Washington (Ap David Sarnoff Sarmart Radio Corporation of Amecies Senate Edwin L. Weiss Sao Mah Rockefeler Sarnoff Weist Sarnafe Sartoff Ronima Senate-House Pearl Harbor Secretary of Defense

Eisenhower Budget Sees Small Surplus After Tax Boost Plans

President Eisenhower sent Congress a peacetime budget just under 1 billion dollars focusing on defense against Soviet space threats. He forecast a fiscal 1940 surplus despite a projected 200 million deficit if postal rate increases fail, and urged tax measures to balance the year.

Fd Creagh Washington Eisenhower Man‘day Congress Russia Basiis Leven Sear

$25 000 Coin Heist Shocks Miami Collectors

A $25 000 collection of Roman era coins was stolen in Miami after a gray suited thief toed a hotel staffer and fled with luggage. William Donner said coins dated to the Roman Empire were missing from a Biscayne Terrace Hotel event. Detectives traced the getaway to a cab and an associated auto transfer at a station. The loot, while not spent, could be sold to collectors or melted for metal.

Miami Perry Danner

Sergeant Busted Given 8 Months

Yokosuka Japan AP reports Marine Sergeant Robert Barbuti 23 was busted to private and sentenced to eight months in prison for cruelty to prisoners in a navy brig. He also loses 60 dollars monthly for eight months. He said his main concern was his family including his wife and 8 month old baby.

Yokosuka Japan Robert Barbuti Schencetuly Barbuti

Paper schoolteachers prompt wives to question husbands

In a fragmented old newspaper snippet, a line voices that teachers influence wives to wonder about their husbands. The garbled text suggests dialogue on gender roles, with unclear attribution and stray phrases.

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