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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
16
Iowa's 1954 spring pig crop was estimated at 13,519,000 head, up 11 percent from 1953 and the fourth largest in 31 years. U.S. spring pig crop total reached 56,066,000 head, with Iowa leading states showing large gains and early farrowing records.
Daylight Saving time noted for listings with channel numbers and stations KCRI Cedar Rapids WMT Cedar Rapids KWWL Waterloo WHBF WOI WOC Des Moines and Davenport. Evening schedules feature News Sports cartoons and daytime talk and game shows with various hosts and programs including Breakfast Club News Morning Show Kate Smith and Movie features on late nights with Westland Case and Prison titles.
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson called for a resolution to reaffirm U S resolve against Soviet interference in the Western Hemisphere. He charged Moscow is mounting a semi military campaign, citing Soviet infiltration in Guatemala and arms shipments, plus vetoing a UN Security Council move regarding Guatemala.
Dr Karl Taylor Compton chair of the MIT corporation died in New York at 66 after a heart attack He helped lead wartime advances in the atomic bomb and radar He was part of a famous trio of scientist brothers Arthur Compton chancellor of Washington University and Wilson H Compton president of Washington State College
Washington AP conferees reached agreement on an annual farm money bill for the new fiscal year starting July 1, providing well over a billion dollars in cash and loans to fund Agriculture Department programs. The package exceeds Eisenhower’s request by over 100 million, notably due to a 35 million boost for the Rural Electrification Administration and includes increases for watershed projects, soil conservation, crop disease control, and pest campaigns, with about 195 million directed to farmer benefit payments for acreage control and soil building.
Des Moines Iowa ASC reports a drop in corn thefts from government bin sites since volunteers began monitoring. Previously about two thefts per month occurred. no break ins reported since February as guards notify authorities of suspicious activity at more than 1000 bin sites. In other news actor Jack Lemmon and wife Cynthia Stone welcomed a 9 pound son at Cedars of Lebanon hospital.
Davenport, AP Ben Lundvall, 45, of Davenport, was killed in a three-vehicle crash Tuesday when his car rammed under a semi-trailer that jackknifed. Owen Lindemier, 48, also of Davenport, was critically injured and taken to a Davenport hospital with head injuries. Kenneth Olson of El Segundo, California, driver of the semi, was not hurt.
A terse note claims early period of chewing gum use in America as a social habit. It references ancient practice and later commercial emergence with limited specifics. The fragmentary text highlights cultural adoption and shifts in daily life without detailing dates or sources.
Kansas City AP reports former President Harry S. Truman, recovering from a major operation, received a telegram from President Eisenhower Tuesday. The telegram's text was not released.
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