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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1955
Page
2
John Reynolds jokes about printing memo forms to curb his wife’s domestic reminders. He describes common scenes of miscommunication, memory lapses, and mistaken announcements, proposing an Inter-Family Memo system to track family news and events at home.
Preliminary contract discussions start in Pittsburgh between the Aluminum Company of America and the CIO United Steelworkers representing 15 000 members in 10 Alcoa plants nationwide. The union seeks a 15 cent hourly raise matching steel industry gains. Formal talks may begin Tuesday with USW chief negotiator Coware Hague leading.
South Korean Foreign Minister Y T Pyun told a Seoul news conference that any exploratory moves to secure peace by disarmament would be a bloodless conquest for the Communists. He urged the United States to demand that the Soviets release their victims at the upcoming Big Four conference and warned that recognizing the Communist line would undermine peaceful co existence.
A Jewish Labor Committee memorandum asks President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles to raise the fate of two million Jews at the Geneva talks. It urges free communication and visa-free emigration for Soviet Jews and a re opening of Jewish cultural institutions including schools and presses.
Police reported that 64 French Foreign Legionnaires deserted a troop ship in the Suez canal while en route to Morocco from Indo China. It marked the second such desertion, following a previous incident last week when 72 legionnaires left a troop ship from St Valery.
An air force F86D Sabrejet ran out of fuel and made a safe slide to a stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bedford. Major Cabonneau was uninjured. the jet suffered no damage. The craft aimed from Otis AFB to Niagara Falls and barely cleared the mountains before landing near Sidling Hill tunnel exit.
Steven V. David reports that U S tea imports reached nearly 116 million pounds last year, up about 30 million since World War II, with iced tea driving restaurant sales up 250 percent in five years and total American tea consumption at about 10 billion glasses annually. The Tea Council cites price and cultural factors, noting U S adults drink about a pound per year versus over 10 pounds per year in Britain.
A Cedar Rapids couple Franklin and Helen Jordan were injured in a head on collision on highway 30 near Belle Plaine. Franklin Jordan had minor injuries and was released from St Luke's hospital while Helen Jordan suffered a broken pelvis and leg and remains admitted. The other driver Mrs M D Hamilton of Belle Plaine escaped injury after her car veered into the Jordan vehicle following a bug on her glasses.
Washington reports that the House is expected to approve a pay-as-you-drive plan to fund a nationwide road program. The plan raises taxes on gasoline diesel fuel large tires inner tubes and transport equipment with a seven and a half cent per pound retread tire tax and new broad taxes on trucks buses and trailers. hearings will follow a closed-door committee meeting. The plan could add about 12 billion dollars to the federal treasury over 14 years though opposition exists and Senate action differed on highway funding.
Ten Cedar Rapids students and others from Eastern Iowa won superior ratings at the Hawkeye Music Festival held at Coe College. The event qualified them for entry in the Chicagoland Music Festival set for Aug. 20 at Soldier Field. Over 150 contestants competed in Cedar Rapids and several baton twirlers accordionists and a lyric tenor earned top honors.
President and Mrs. Eisenhower hosted about 150 guests for their thirty ninth wedding anniversary at the Gettysburg farm, inviting White House staff seldom seen upstairs. Howell Crim led the tour while workers admired new electric eye guards and春 new shrubs as they toured the home and farm.
Hong Kong Indian News Service reports Peiping s People Daily stating two revolts against the Red regime were crushed in Hunan on March 17 and April 9. The paper notes additional executions and prison terms for over 500 people in the last two months. It also says 400 leading members of a religious sect in Shensi were arrested between November 1954 and January 1955 for counter revolutionary activity.
Help wanted Cedar Rapids area to sell exclusive 66th line of copyrighted art calendars. Also sells advertising specialties with defined territory and executive accounts. Liberal commissions and potential to earn 600 318 more yearly. Immediate interview arranged. write or wire.
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