Freeman defends Estes handling before Senate subcommittee
Agriculture Secretary Freeman defended his agency's handling of the Billie Sol Estes case during Senate hearings. He acknowledged some errors and said all officials must assume responsibility. Freeman said no current department employee improperly accepted favors from Estes and that the government lost no money in dealings with Estes. He criticized Estes' cotton allotments and his National Cotton Advisory Committee appointment as mistakes, noting Undersecretary Murphy acted in good faith.
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Washington
Freeman
Billie Sol Estes
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate
Estes
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Pecos
Texas
Department of Agriculture
National Cotton Advisory Committee
Ungersecretary of Agriculture
Charles Murphy
Murphy
Department
Mechanicsville Named in Suit by Road Builders
The Iowa Road Building Co. of Fairmont Minnesota filed a $113 407 15 suit in Cedar county Iowa against Mechanicsville seeking a declaratory decree over payment for street improvements. The project faced objections and court rulings from 1961 including a March contract award of 270 323 41 and reversals by the state supreme court delaying work.
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Tipton
Iowa Road Building Co
Fairmont
Minn
Cedar County
Mechanicsville
State Appeal Board
Polk County’ District Court
State Supreme Court
Churchill suffers broken thigh in Monte Carlo fall
Sir Winston Churchill aged 87 fell at the Hotel de Paris and broke the neck of the femur in his left thigh. He was moved to Princess Grace hospital in Monte Carlo and plans were made to fly him to England by RAF jet for treatment.
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Monte Carlo
UPI
Winston Churchill
Anthony Montague Browne
Churchill
Hotel de Paris
Princess Grace Hospital
England
Royal Air Force
Lady Churchill
London
Grace Kelly
Prince Rainier
Brothers in head on crash kill mother in New York
In Dover Plains New York two brothers in a head on collision killed their mother and injured the brothers and a sister. Their father had died in a crash about a mile and a half away on February 6.
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Dover Plains
N. Y
Cola Parker Dies Former Kimberly-Clark Leader and NAM President
Cola Parker age 71 former president of Kimberly-Clark Corp and former president of the National Association of Manufacturers died Wednesday in Menasha Wisconsin.
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Menasha
Wis
Cola Parker
Kimberly-Clarke Corp
National Assn. of Manufacturers
Trainman Knocks Child Off Tracks in Iowa Incident
A one year old Hansell child escaped serious injury when the trainman knocked her from the tracks as a Great Western freight train bound for Oelwein approached. Fireman Attwell leaped into action and saved the child from the passing cars near a brush fire at the Jack Kelly residence. The child suffered only cuts and bruises.
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Hansell
Iowa
Franklin County
Hampton
Great Western
Oelwein
Bob Herndon
Clarion
R. M. Attwell
Jack Kelly
Attwell
Herndon
Fugitive Soblen Arrested in Tel Aviv on Spying Conviction
Dr. Robert Soblen, lifetime U.S. prisoner and Soviet spy fugitive, was arrested in Tel Aviv. He faced a magistrate and was held on an unofficial charge after entering Israel with alleged false papers. U.S. seeks extradition despite no treaty. Soblen, 62, born in Lithuania, fled New York before beginning his life term.
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Associated Press
Tel Aviv
Soblen
Robert Soblen
U. S
Israel
U.S
New York
Paris
Bruce Soble
Hotel Savoy
Gin
Idlewild
U.S. Supreme Court
Russia
Savoy
Beras Sobel
Beras
Bruce
Ari Ankorion
Jerusalem Post
New York Re
AMA Opposes Medicare Plan Leaves Doctors’ Choice
Chicago delegates condemn the King Anderson bill to finance elderly care through social security. They urge doctors to decide individually whether to participate, citing ethics and patient welfare while stressing obedience to law if enacted.
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Chicago
UPI
House of Delegates
American Medical Assn
AMA
King - Anderson
Committee On
Louisiana
Ics
Arthur Lampert
Rapid City
S. D
John Donaldson
Pittsburgh
William Sheridan
Chattanooga
Stocks Rally Buoys Markets With Broad Gains
New York stocks rose for the first solid rally in nine sessions led by gains in growth stocks and the Dow advancing about 16 points. International Business Machines jumped nine dollars to 342, and the S&P 500 rose 1.47 to 54.07 as traders noted brief tape delays and broad participation.
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New York
Standard & Poor
Kennedy urges broader prayer in homes and churches
Senator Kennedy voiced hope that the Supreme Court ruling on school prayer would be accepted by Americans who disagree. He urged more family and church prayer at home and stronger religious practice for children, while noting he had not read new legislative proposals on school religious exercises.
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Washington
Oe Kennedy
Supreme Court
Congress
Kennedy
Iowa football player James Helgens killed in Marshalltown crash
James G Helgens 21 Scotch Grove a sophomore end on the Iowa football team was killed when a state board of control truck collided with a soft drink truck at a residential intersection in Marshalltown. A prisoner driver and the soft drink truck driver were injured. Helgens had started work at the Iowa reformatory June 8 and was expected to contend for a starting end role this fall.
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Marshalltown
UPI
University of Iowa
James G. Helgens
State Board of Control
Helgens
Scotch Grove
Tthe
Anamosa
Reformatory
Larry Tremmel
Sigourney
Delbert Sonnenberg
Iowa
Marshall County
Iowa Soldiers Home
Vernon Helgens
Men’s Reformatory
Ray Purcell
Monticello High
Jerry Burns
Iowa City
Bob Flora
Gilbert Indicted For Fund Theft
New York AP Edward Gilbert, a Wall Street financier who traveled to Brazil, was indicted Thursday on the charge of stealing 1,953,000 dollars from his company’s funds.
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New York
Edward Gilbert
Wall Street
Brazil
Four Lutheran Groups Unite To Form One Church
DETROIT AP four Lutheran denominations merge to form the Lutheran Church in America. 7000 Lutherans attend the ceremony with 1000 delegates and officials. The new body unites units with origins in Germany Sweden Finland and Denmark, serving about 3.19 million members.
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Lutheran Church In
Franklin Clark Fry
New York
P. O. Bersell
Minneapolis
United Church
Lavin Lundeen
America
United Lutheran Church
Germany
Augustana Lutheran Church
Evangeli
Cal Lutheran Church
American Evangelical Lutheran Church
New Union
Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
American Lutheran Church
Immunization Clinic No 2 in Cedar Rapids
The Linn County Medical Society and Visiting Nurses host the second immunization clinic Friday from 9 30 to 11 am at the Visiting Nurses office in the city hall Second avenue side of the Memorial building. Free shots include polio smallpox tetanus diphtheria and whooping cough for Linn County children unable to pay.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Medical Society
City Hall
Second Avenue
Memorial Building
Bus crowd erupts as women’s plea prompts seat offers
A humorous newspaper snippet recalls a woman on a crowded bus wishing for a handsome man to give up his seat. Ten men immediately rise, illustrating chivalry in a brief, witty moment.
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