McLeaish Denies Drinking Excessively on Job
Former Farmers Home Administration director Robert B. McLeaish told Senate investigators he drank with friends and "quite a few people" on Capitol Hill but denied drinking to excess on duty. He resigned over high blood pressure after testimony alleging heavy drinking in 1954 and 1955.
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Washington
Robert B. McLeaish
Farmers Home Administration
Senate
Capitol Hill
McLeaish
Eisenhower Administration
Montana
White House
Benson
Kathryn Carter
Bozeman
Mont
West Yellowstone
Floyd F. Higbee
FHA
Colorado
Eisenhower
Parched South Iowa Hit by Gully-Washer Rainfall Totals
Heavy storms drenched southern Iowa Tuesday night with 4.90 inches at Maloy Ringgold county and 4.5 inches at Benton causing erosion and crop damage. Cedar Rapids downtown logged 1.41 inches while What Cheer saw 1.5 inches and Des Moines hit 100 degrees for the first June 100 in years.
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Iowa
Maloy
Ringgold County
Benton
Williamsburg
North English
Traer
Sigourney
Webster
Delta
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Mercury
Lamont
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Hamburg
Maloy Benton
Grinnell
Manis Samuel Sugar man Arrested In N J After Crash
Samuel Sugar man, 28, was arrested on a charge of driving without a license after his car crashed into a tree in Mountainside New Jersey Tuesday. Sugar man’s mother had reported the car stolen.
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John Doman
Clifton
N. J
Samuel Low
Coast Guard
New Jersey
Doman
Mountainside
Samuel Sugarman
Rex Conn Named By U S Chamber Agriculture Committee
Cedar Rapids Gazette farm editor Rex Conn was appointed a member of the Agriculture Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The panel studies national agri problems and helps shape Chamber policies. Conn, former president of the American Farm Editors Society, receives praise from U S Chamber president John S. Coleman.
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Cedar Rapids
Rex Conn
Conn
American Farm Editors Society
Zhukov Affirms Yugoslav Soviet War Pact Promise
Soviet Defense Minister Zhukov told Yugoslav President Tito that Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union would fight shoulder to shoulder in any future war. The pledge followed a Kremlin ceremony after Tito’s three week visit, which produced a communique on China Germany Formosa and future contacts. Tito awarded Zhukov Yugoslavia’s Order of Freedom for wartime command and praised the alliance as a step toward peace and socialism.
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Moscow
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Zhukov
Tito
Eisenhower
Kremlin
China
U. N
Germany
Formosa
Red China
iTito
Order of Freedom
Soviet Union
Koca Popovic
Popovic
Merger of Meat Unions Approved
In Cincinnati the CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America voted to merge with the AFL Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America. The union consolidation moves ahead after the Wednesday vote.
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Cincinnati
MNS
CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America
AFL Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America
Huge fund drive eyed to expand Cedar Rapids hospitals
A noon meeting of the Cedar Rapids Solicitations Review committee launched an exploratory step toward a possible campaign exceeding 1.5 million dollars to expand Mercy hospital facilities. Mercy plans an addition worth 2.4 to 3 million with federal, church, and community funding. the goal could reach 750k to 1 million, adding about 90 beds.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital
Sisters of Mercy
Linn County
Mercy
His Two Children On Lost Airliner
George Witter said his two children George 12 and Dorothy Ann 14 were aboard a vanished airliner that crashed at sea. He noted the kids were traveling on a Venezuelan vacation with their maternal aunt and her mother and that they were bright students and musicians who had saved for the trip for two years.
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North Hollywood
Calif
George Witter
Witter
George
Dorothy Ann
Caracas
Venezuela
Fire hits St Edward's grade school flooding
Racine firemen answered an alarm at St Edward's grade school after a lightning bolt split a water pipe. The resulting surge left the school awash and authorities worked to drain and assess damage.
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Racine
St. Edward's Grade School
Montrose Hotel to Undergo Complete Remodeling in Cedar Rapids
Sheraton Corporation buyers and Eppley Hotels officials join Cedar Rapids Hotel Company in announcing a full rehabilitation of the Montrose. Improvements planned include air conditioning, radios and televisions in all rooms, upgraded dining standards, and a coast to coast tele type reservation link with 54 partner hotels. The start will await a needs survey and specific plans.
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Cedar Rapids News
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
Sheraton Corporation of America
Eppley Hotels Company
Edwin C. Evans
Cedar Rapids Hotel Company
A. T. Averill
Elmer E. Boswell
Sheraton
Boswell
Sheraton Corporation
Research Kitchen
Delticians
Charles Gustin
J. R. Reifschneider
Eppley Company
Robert M. Brush
Ted Laughner
Brush
Middlewest
Venezuelan airliner disaster claims 74 aboard
The Venezuelan Super Constellation crashed into the Atlantic near New Jersey after engine trouble. 64 passengers and 10 crew were aboard, including 20 Americans and a four member American family. Debris and bodies were found miles from shore as relief vessels responded. The captain reported engine failure and distress calls before the fatal plunge.
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New York
Asbury Park
N. J
Coast Guard
Idlewild
Ttvo
U. S
Venezuela
South America
Boy Loses Four Of Kin in Crash
A 10 year old boy loses his mother father sister and brother in a Venezuelan airliner crash in New York. Abraham Goldstein a New York grandfather confirms the Handlers from Brooklyn were returning to Caracas after a 12 week U S trip. The father made pots and pans and the boy remained with grandparents.
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NEW York (Ap
Abraham Goldstein
New York
Lawrence Handler
Goldstein
Brooklyn
Caracas
U. S
Cedar Rapids building boom fades as quarry strike halts projects
A Cedar Rapids wage strike at Concrete Materials and Construction Company’s quarry disrupts the city’s $28 million building program. With aggregate scarce, highway 30 widening near Sixteenth Avenue SW stalls, paving stops, and work on two new high schools slows to a crawl as contractors shift to stockpiled rock or reroute to alternative sites.
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Cedar Rapids
Istory
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
Teamsters Union
Paralta
Marion
Pat Union
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Carlson Construction Company of
Decorah
Swede Halvorson
Halvorson
Bellevue
Davenport
E. Webb
del Cedar Rapids
Crawford
Palo Road
R. F. Ball
R. F. Southwest Ball Construction Companies
Ball
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Cogdell Named
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Walter Reed Army Hospital
Hagerty
Son
U.S. Chamber
N.J
Frederick J. Hancox
Wantagh
N. Y
Luis F. Plata
Norfolk
Plata
C.R
Gazette
Builders Materials, Inc
King's Crown Plaster Company
Carlton Smith
Glenbrook Cove
Hennessey Brothers
Central City
K. K. Kinsey
Concrete Materials
Washington High School
Jefferson
Etennene Farm
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