New Hampshire Primary Tests Kefauver Stevenson Delegates
Nation watches first 1956 Democratic primary as Kefauver and Stevenson compete for eight New Hampshire delegates. Millsfield and Ellsworth report votes with Eisenhower gaining in both towns while write-ins appear for Nixon vice president. Observers expect a split outcome affecting Kefauver and Stevenson prospects.
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New Hampshire
Kefauver
Tenn
Adlai Stevenson
Nixon
Eisenhower
Taft
G.O.P
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Ellsworth
Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Senator Bridges
N.J
Chicago
Jose
Georgia Governor offers to back exiled segregationist student
ATLANTA AP Governor Marvin Griffin said he would personally guarantee the education of Leonard R. Wilson a 20 year old segregation supporter expelled from the University of Alabama for protesting against Autherine Lucy the first Black student Griffin said he is not criticizing university officials and that the state will ensure Wilson can seek schooling elsewhere while expressing support for segregation and implying Alabama would educate him.
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Atlanta
Marvin Griffin
Leonard R. Wilson
University of Alabama
Wilson
Autherine Lucy
Therm
Griffin
Alabama
Grace Kelly Films Banned in Monaco
Monaco authorities reportedly ban future showings of Grace Kelly films while a palace spokesman denies an order. Monte Carlo theater operators expect the prince’s preference against her pictures to influence local screenings.
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Monaco
Monte Carlo
Monaca
Prince Rainier
Palace
Washington
INS
Viceprince
Nixon
Iowa
Eisen
Hower
Retary Wilson
Hixon
Easternj
Cedar Rapids School Board election yields light turnout
Total of 512 votes cast as Cedar Rapids voters chose two men for three-year terms on the board of education. Dr. Carl C. Kesler, 57, longtime board member and current chairman, is a research director at Penick and Ford and was listed among the elected. One cited expense was about 3.22 per vote with 12 hours of polling totaling 121 citizens.
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Cedar Lapide News
Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Carl C. Kesler Sutherland Cook
Tr. Kesler
Penick and
Ford
Jchairman
Jantamatic
Merchants Bank
Everett C. Pratt
Pratt
E. W. Landanist
Lundquist
Registration Open for June Primaries at City Hall
City Clerk Maude Erebs announced that registration is open at city hall to record for the June primaries. The office will be open 8 am to 3 pm daily and 8 am to noon Saturdays up to 10 days before the primary on June 4.
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Maude Erebs
City Hall
Tokyo Rose Told to Leave United States by April 1
Iva Toguri D AQuino known as Tokyo Rose was ordered to depart by April 15 or face deportation. Immigration head Robert J Robinson notified the Los Angeles born woman, living with her Chicago brother since release from Alderson federal prison after a treason sentence.
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Chicago
Iva Toguri D’aquino
Pacific
Tokyo
U.S
Robert J. Robinson
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Los Angeles
D'Aquinoe
Alderson
W. Va
American Clergy Visit Sees Steam in Talks With Moscow
A U S National Council of Churches delegation led by Dr Eugene Carson Heke meets Metropolitan Nikolai in Moscow for talks on churches role in peace. A procedural wrangle over agenda and scope colors opening discussions as Russia backs World Peace Council alignment and an unconditional ban on thermonuclear weapons.
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Moscow
Nikolai
Eugene Carson Heke
Philadelphia
Blake
U. S
National Council of Churches
World Peace Council
Iowa U. Skyhook Balloon Launch Tracks Cosmic Rays
Iowa City scientists launched a football field sized Skyhook balloon with four research packages to study cosmic rays in the stratosphere. The July launch faced a one hour delay due to crowding and wind shifts, ascending to near one mile before an eastward drift. Packages would detach later today to parachute back near Lake Michigan as MIT and University of Minnesota teams aided in the atmospheric experiments.
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Paul Peterson
Winzen Research Company
Minneapolis
Iowa City
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Iowa
Indiana Feed Firm Expands Into Cedar Rapids CR
McMillen Feed Mills of Fort Wayne opens Master Feed and Seed Company in Cedar Rapids to distribute McMillen products to grain and feed dealers across eastern and central Iowa. About 15 workers start, with a 14000 square foot leased freight house at 201 Fifth Avenue SE as a temporary base while plans for a larger plant develop.
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Cedar Rapids
McMillen
Iowa
McMillen Feeds
Central Sowa Company of
Fort Wayne
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Rock Island Railroad
Fifth Avenue SE
MeMen Company
Delay Voted In Scheduled Tax Slashes
The House approved a one year delay to postpone a scheduled tax cut on corporations and selected consumer products. The 388 to 4 vote sends the measure to the Senate, extending corporate tax rates from 52 to 47 percent and maintaining an 52 percent corporate income tax. President Eisenhower requested the extension amid planned reductions.
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House
Senate
Eisenhower
Russ Wiley
Chamber of Comgovernment
Younker Brothrs
Sears, Roebuck
Korean War Tax Measures Extend into Next Year
President Eisenhower urged Congress to renew temporary wartime taxes for another year to prevent budget imbalance. The report cites schedules lowering duties on whisky beer and cigarettes and outlines proposed excise tax changes including new limits on certain goods. The Ways and Means subcommittee urged exemptions for parochial and non profit schools and recommended taxes on various products and items be adjusted.
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Hisenhower
Congress
House Ways and Means
Elderly Woman Found Injured in Unheated Home
An 82 year old Cedar Rapids woman Mrs John Prasil suffered a broken hip and cold exposure after a fall around 1 am Monday. She remained in her unheated home for about a day before a neighbor noticed smoke and alerted her son Harold Prasil who broke in and called a doctor. She was taken to St Luke's hospital in fair condition.
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Hector Haunds
Cedar Rapids
John Prasil
Fourteenth Avenue
Harold Prasil
Stores To Stay Open Longer In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids retail stores will stay open until 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday nights and close all day on Mondays effective April 1. The Retail Merchants bureau of the Chamber of Commerce approved the hours change by a 33 to 30 vote. Richard Scherting of the Killian Company presented the resolution in the Chamber building amid plans for a new shopping center on First Avenue SE at Thirty-sixth Street.
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Younkers
Sears
Chamber
David Elderkin
Better Cedar Rapids Association
Retail Burea
Cedar Rapids
Retail Merchants Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
Richard Scherting
Killian Company
First Avenue SE
Thirty-sixth Street
Scherling
A. J. Newburger
Newman
Dick Miller
Craemer’s
Middlewest
Voter Accuses Official in Coggon School Board Ballot
Thomas Coleman of near Ryan faced charges after an alleged assault on Coggon School Board President Raymond Garner during the Monday school election. He was charged with assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury and resisting an officer after reportedly striking Garner, breaking his nose and injuring teeth. Coleman was arrested, fled, and later recaptured by Linn and Delaware county officers.
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Thomas Coleman
Near Ryan
Coggon
Sheriff's Office
Coleman
Yoling Place
Raymond Garner
Garnerih
Coggan
Marshal Snodgrass
Newis
Manchester
Delaware County
Linn County
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