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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 07, 1958

Page

4

Senate Passes Foreign Aid Bill With $3.713 Billion

The Senate approved a $3,712,900,000 foreign aid program after defeating calls to trim the total and to ban further assistance to Communist Poland and others. The measure authorizes continued military and economic aid to free nations and goes to a conference with the House to reconcile differences.

Ernest B. Vaccaro Washington Senate Poland Ingersoll Airard Iowa Democrats Supreme Court Senate House Sen Ellender D-La

Senate approves ceiling on military aid and India pledge

In Tripoli Lebanon and Washington, Ellender's amendment caps military aid at 1.1 billion while the Senate keeps total aid at 2.4009 billion. Bridges pushes to erase India aid pledge. it passes 47 to 35. A bid to ban further aid to Poland and Yugoslavia fails 4 to 22.

Ellender Senate Betrut Lebanon UTPT Eisenhower Tripoli Fiusces U. S Ellender Tost Sen. Bridges New Hampshire Republican Policy Committee India Nehru Sen. Cooper It Ky Bridges Poland Yugoslavia

Luxury Goes to Alligator’s Head at Zoo

After 27 years in a small pen, George the alligator moved from the Philadelphia aquarium to a large new pool with a deep boat-like bath. He dove in and hasn’t left, as keepers joke he may be enjoying luxury or trying to make up for dry years. Zoo staff expect he may hunt for food after a while.

Prina Vetrnia George Philadelphia Aquarium Sarah

Washington Police Face Weight Test Next Week

Washington police motorcycle squad members will undergo a scales weigh-in to decide if overweight officers must enter a de beefing program. Rep Miller described some as 25 to 50 pounds too fat, urging action, while Deputy Chief Covell expected most to pass though a few may be overweight.

Washington National Airport Nixon South America Miller -R-Neb Miller Howard W. Corvet Covell

Insurgents Hold Tripoli as Beirut Tensions Rise

In the first six hours insurgents reportedly lost 10 to 15 killed and 30 to 49 wounded with no government casualty estimate. Fighting spans the boulevard from the Iraq Petroleum Company complex to the pipeline terminus as Lebanese air force jets strafed the old city. Hashib Karami urged urgent consultations with top lieutenants amid the standoff.

Camille Chamoun Tripoli Beirut Iraq Petroleum Company Lebranese Old City

Marion Girl Hurt In Tractor Upset

Marion 13 year old Phyllis Simonsen daughter of Clyde and Clyde Simonsen route 2 Marion was seriously injured in a tractor accident. She was taken to St Laure's hospital then transferred to University Hospitals Iowa City in serious condition with head injuries. The incident occurred about 10 30 a m today when the tractor apparently overturned.

Marion Phyllis Simonsen Clyde Simonsen St. Laure's Hospital W University Hospitals Iowa City

Opportunities Not Past Caldwell Tells Graduates

Cedar Rapids public high schools graduated 744 seniors in the first ceremony at Washington and Jefferson highs. Speaker Robert Caldwell of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce urged leadership, self discipline, and sharing, stressing opportunities remain abundant at home and beyond. He warned that life demands effort, solving problems, and fighting common enemies rather than each other.

Cedar Rapids Caldwell

U.S. Ousts Soviet Diplomat Over Paid Documents

The United States ordered the expulsion of Nikolai I. Kurcochkin, a Soviet third secretary, for paying an American man 405 dollars for military manuals. The American, Charles Theodore Baumet of Arlington, Virginia, registered as a foreign agent and provided about 25 non classified manuals. The embassy was told to remove Kurcochkin, following a past expulsion in 1957.

Webster Charles 5. Rhyne Washington, D.C American Bar Association Loren TG. Hickerson Lowa’ City University of Iowa Alumni Association Rhyne Hickerson Washington U. S State Department Nikolai I. Kurcochkin U.S Nathan Leavin Justice Department Charles Theodore Bawmnet Firlington Tenvin Baumet Karachkin Justice Meinpehlein Ested Ag Kurochkin Daumet Moscow

John Drabelle Dies at Age 71 in Cedar Rapids

John M. Drabelle consulting engineer and former chief engineer for Town Electric Light and Power died at 8:35 am Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a stroke. He was 71. He held patents, authored technical articles, retired in 1952 after 42 years, then consulted for Allis-Chalmers on foreign power station design and installation. He led civic and professional groups, received the Anfon Marsten award in 1950, and was active in multiple engineering and utility associations. Burial at Cedar Memorial after services at St John’s Episcopal Church Monday.

Cedar Rapids John M. Drabelle Town Electric Light and Power Company Drabelle The Light Company Allis-Chalmers Melde Governor's Committee Minn Town Iowa Civilian Defense Public Utilities Gas and Electric Committee Iowa State Commerce Commission Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners Anfon Marsten Towa Engineering, Society For Towa Society Der Des Moines Purdue University Cedar Rapids and Town City Railway Ight Company Midwest Gas Association Towa Public Utilities Association Cedar Rapids Engineers Clu American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Innstitute of Electrical Engineers American Gas Association Edison Electric Institute National Association of Power Engineers Pi Tau Sigma SAI Dratelle Ruth Grover Toledo St. John's Episcopal Church D. A. Loferski Cedar Memorial Turner Chapel

Brave boy asks for tooth extraction without gas

Two boys visit a dentist. One requests a tooth removal and insists no gas because he is in a hurry. The other boy, Raymond, is told to show the tooth.

Raymond

Misunderstanding By Sailor Led to Submarine Crash

In Honolulu an AP report notes that Ensign Mehrling caused a fatal power failure on the submarine Stickleback by misreading a panel control during a command to increase speed. The Stickleback sank after a collision with the destroyer Silverstein. no casualties occurred. A board blamed a technical error, not negligence. A second report from Calcutta states a landslide in India's northeast Lohit region killed 52 people.

Honolulu Cf Electrician Robert B. Mohrling Navy Board of Wiorg Silverstein Mehrling India Calcutta Lohit Shitlong

De Gaulle plans Algeria reforms urgent drive across Paris

Premier de Gaulle's cabinet endorses equal votes for Muslims and French in Algeria, schedules city elections within a month, and sets Oct 5 for a France Algeria referendum. Salan named official representative to bolster executive power while Arab Berber integration is approved alongside mass unity demonstrations planned for June 18.

Stanley Johnson France Algeria de Gaulle Trip Ap~ Atoval Gen. Raou Salan de Gaulie Free France Eee 2 Menomonie Wis UPI Fife National Assembly Wisconsin

Assembly posts vacant amid deaths as vacation enforced

Be Gaulle's demand has left about half a dozen assembly posts empty though vacation rules keep the assembly idle. In Algiers French units faced attacks from Tunisian troops and Algerian nationalist rebels with no casualties reported. At the UN in New York Tunisia and Morocco urged the Asian African bloc to bring the North African issue, including France's relations with Algeria's former protectorates, before the General Assembly this fall.

Be Gaulle Inesistence Algiers Algeria Tunisia New York Morocco General Assembly

Peron Former Girl Friend Weds In Buenos Aires

Neily Rivas once a teenage friend of ousted ex President Juan Peron wed a 21 year old U S embassy employee Carlos J. Hoda righeg at her home in a Buenos Aires suburb. The couple, neighbors in the city’s outskirts, framed the ceremony as a private union.

Buenos Aires Neily Rivas Juan, Peron U.S Nelly Carlos J. Hodarigheg

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