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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1956
Page
2
Snow and much colder air sweep in tonight with near cold wave conditions. Lows around 15 degrees, strong winds shift northerly. Sunday sees diminishing winds and a high near 20 degrees.
Senator Hickenlooper criticizes delays to a new farm bill, urging swift passage by April 15. In other moves, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay filed for Oregon's Senate seat, signaling resignation around June 1, with Eisenhower predicting McKay's victory and endorsing his candidacy.
Vice president Nixon cast the decisive vote to defeat 90 percent price supports for millable wheat, saving the farm price program. The Senate fight centered on an amendment to lift the 90 percent support level and alter acreage ceilings for corn under the soil bank plan. Hickenlooper pushed a revised acreage limit of 51 million acres for commercial corn areas, with opposition from Ellender and Humphrey.
Cascade is shaken by a two car crash that killed Mrs. Charles Baldwin 43 the Cascade postmaster from 1954, and sent two others to hospitals with injuries. The other driver Fred Lehner 65 suffered a skull fracture and was taken to Monticello Hospital in serious condition. Baldwin notable Democrat mother of former state senator Howard Heldwin, with survivors including two Cascade sisters and a Des Moines sister.
Fire officials attribute a residential blaze to faulty wiring discovered during initial checks. One firefighter, Dick Hach, suffered an ankle fracture after falling in the attic while fighting flames. Occupants escaped unharmed. damage runs into thousands with heavy losses on the second and third floors.
In Shreveport Louisiana Johnny Owens four watched a telecast Friday showing a man smashing parked cars with a hammer. Five minutes later his mother found the family car’s headlights and taillights smashed to bits.
A 10 million year old fossil found in an Italian mine challenges Darwin’s idea of a common ancestor for humans and apes. Scientists in New York report 26 skull and jaw fragments from Tuscany as humanoid, suggesting humans may have coexisted with ancient apes and share no direct lineage. The find, stored at the Museum of Natural History, contrasts with the Oreopithecus ape classification and Java Man and Peking Man as earliest ancestors.
Four Iowa high school girls from Newton, aged 17 and 18, faced potential federal charges after admitting their false tale of being kidnapped led to a hours-long FBI inquiry. They had already received 20 days in jail for disturbing the peace, with the District Attorney considering federal action under a statute penalizing false information to a federal agency.
Infuriated mobs clash with British police in Athens and Cyprus as thousands protest the deportation of Archbishop Makarios. Tear gas, arson, and street battles injure many. widespread work stoppages and paralyzing strikes spread across Cyprus. Makarios to exile on Seychelles islands with aides.
Washington's U S court of appeals on Friday upheld the conviction of former union leader Ben Gold for falsifying a non- Communist affidavit with the National Labor Relations Board. The 4-4 vote left a vacancy and Gold's attorney plans to seek Supreme Court review. Gold, ex-head of the International Fur and Leather Workers union, was expelled from CIO in 1949 for allegedly being Communist-controlled.
A nine man Protestant delegation sailed Friday for Russia to hold talks with church leaders behind the Iron Curtain. It marks the first broad contact between American churchmen and Soviet authorities since communists seized power. The trip aims to foster dialogue and explore religious issues amid Cold War tensions.
A three story brick building housing 177 priests and seminarians in Lenox Massachusetts burned early Saturday. Four men were missing while others escaped by stairs or windows. Five men were hospitalized as firefighters battled the blaze at Carnegie’s former Shadow Brook site between Lenox and Stockbridge.
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