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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1954
Page
15
Washington dispatch notes White House staff recalling Churchill visits and Ike plans to keep meetings indoors. Also mentions Ike acquiring a rotisserie, Peru's Ricardo Rivera Schreiber visiting, and a casual remark about White House secretaries.
A dense OCR ad page lists multiple trades and contractors. Water well drilling, pump sales, painting, screening, cement and masonry, hauling, landscaping, and general repairs are offered by numerous local firms and individuals. Contact details include phone numbers and street addresses for service requests.
Six inmates armed with crude pistols and knives seized about 25 visitors in the Lansing state prison. Fred Kenaga, a 58 year old guard supervisor, was shot and killed. Two visitors were wounded, others uninjured as guards sealed the administration area and the convicts surrendered after gunfire. Warden Charles Edmondson pledged first degree murder charges against the six attackers.
A 35 year old former case operator linked to a triple robbery and murder near Mordam in Indiana last February was added to the FBI ten most wanted list. David Daniel Keegan, aka Burt Williams, faces federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder and transportation of stolen property and a state murder charge. He is described as extremely dangerous with possible personal crisis tendencies.
Cedar Rapids horses won five ribbons in the Marengo Charity Horse show. Two firsts one second and two thirds were earned. Beau Royal l owned by Edwin C. Evans with C Yoder up won the five gaited stake class. Little Blossom owned by the Davis Dairy Maid Company won the single harness first.
The sun signals a pivotal May to June season as men face fashion choices. The piece notes debates over walking shorts versus standard summer wear and stockings or ankle socks amid a broader backdrop of societal trends.
UPI reports that demand for cars, TVs and other durables has fallen, yet overall consumer buying remains near record. Commerce data show April and May retail sales modestly above Q1 and only 1 percent below last year, helping retailers cut inventories while auto and durable stock rise offset gains. The drop in durable sales is linked to less urgent demand and a desire to avoid new installment debt.
The piece questions continued use of synthetics in hot weather clothing and the pace of fashion change. It ponders casualness becoming mainstream, worries merchants about consumer attitudes, and suggests some may splurge on a new summer wardrobe amid uncertain events.
Washington United States Ray H Jenkins special impartial counsel for the army McCarthy hearings said he would let Sen McCarthy speak for him if he runs for the senate He noted encouragement to run and that probabilities are against it unless he changes his mind Dirksen talked to him about running but denied offering support He added there was some indication Dirksen would speak for him in Tennessee if he became a candidate He said he was a Taft Republican but now an Eisenhower Republican.
Paris dispatch recalls a tough crust of Normandy bread with Normandy butter loved by Americans. The piece highlights postwar life of U.S. troops in Europe, the need to mingle with locals, and a wartime intelligence slip from D-day survivor Colonel Benjamin A. Dickson.
American staff officers questioned a dubious invasion plan that warned of 35,000 expected casualties. Dickson recalls the real toll was about 28,000 and notes the enemy might have sent reinforcements if they trusted the plan, altering potential outcomes.
Laura Z. Hobson reflects on summer, humorously noting heat and humidity as constants while outlining the comical inconveniences of hot days. The piece celebrates summer attractions and the familiar routines of city life as Labor Day nears.
The article envisions summer joys like swimming pictures and chocolate sodas, air conditioned venues, vacation plans, romance and music. It notes 95.6 degrees in the shade and a nationwide craving for real sleeping weather, urging everyone to be gay on the first day of summer.
Ralph Schwartz, a junior veterinary medicine student at Iowa State College, begins summer work as a temporary youth assistant in Allamakee County per county extension director F. C. O Riley. He holds an animal husbandry degree from the University of Wisconsin and previously worked as an extension worker in Lancaster. He will complete veterinary training next year. The article notes that Swedish industrial wages rose 200 percent from 1939 to 1952.
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