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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1954
Page
2
By Kenneth A. Ungerman. The piece analyzes how Russian influence activities in Iceland raise concerns for U.S. strategic interests, highlighting potential security implications and the need for vigilant policy and defense coordination with allied nations.
Washington warns that Iceland faces growing Soviet sway as 95 percent of its income relies on fish exports. Russia offered to buy 20,000 tons of fillets and 10,000 tons of herring while pledging to supply Iceland with petroleum, cement, cereals, steel, and pipe. U S defense guarantees and tariff policy options loom as Iceland could sever ties if neutrality tilts.
The House Appropriations Committee blasted the Foreign Operations Administration and cut 812,213,554 from Eisenhower’s foreign aid request for the fiscal year. It cited fiscal irresponsibility and waste in bookkeeping under Harold E. Stassen and approved smaller new and previously appropriated funds, with conditions noted.
Washington reports Secretary Ezra T. Benson pledged to implement the strict new federal wheat production controls approved by farmers. If Congress approves Eisenhower’s sliding scale plan, 75 to 90 percent parity price supports would be applied with effective price supports. Farmers with 15 acres or more in 1955 must accept acreage allotments reducing plantings about 13 percent and forfeit supports on excess production.
Four Illinois labor leaders from AFL locals were indicted on labor racketeering charges for allegedly shaking down a pipeline contractor for 7950 dollars. Names listed include Edwin H. Snyder from Quincy, Edwin J. Pavlat from Wataga, William R. Watkins from Jacksonville, and Guy H. Harmon from Peoria. Bond set at 10000 dollars. the indictments cover alleged 1952 shakedowns connected to a Sinclair Oil pipeline project from Quincy to East Chicago.
Special to The Gazette Riverside Cedar Rapids salesman Marlin Messer escaped injury in a car train crash near here about 7 p.m. Saturday. Messer’s northbound car struck a Rock Island freight engine near the junction of highways 218 and 22, three miles east of here. The car was hurled into a ditch and severely damaged, but Messer climbed back in, started the engine, drove from the ditch, and a wrecker towed the wrecked vehicle away.
Washington government official Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, forecast a record housing year with 1,206,000 new private housing units for the year, up from 1,080,000, following 120,000 starts in June and a 12 percent rise from May. The 1950 record stands at 1,352,200 units.
New York based report cites Monsignor Bela Varga claiming four Hungarian Protestant clergy are compelled to attend the World Council of Churches convention in Evanston Michigan starting August 23. He says they will echo Molotov and Malenkov speeches under secret police scrutiny and fear for their families.
Rep. Alvin M. Bentley announces subcommittee hearings to be held in New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Washington to reveal Communist collaboration among clergy at a convention. Eight Czechoslovak attendees and four Hungarians are expected to attend.
SPANGLER PA AP State Sen John J Haluska administrator of Miners hospital was dismissed from his 600 dollar a month job and the entire medical staff was fired by the hospital board of trustees. The action followed a bitter court battle over plans to turn the nurses home to Harry M Hoxsey for a cancer clinic. The medical staff said it would resign July 15 and a temporary injunction was sought to halt the moves.
In Madison, Isabell Erickson, 33, obtained a divorce from Ardell Erickson, 37, on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment after a judge ruled tickling occurring daily for several hours constituted abuse. The case was heard by Circuit Judge Herman Sachtsen.
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