Arsonism Trigger Fire Series Across Chicago Neighborhood
Chicago police and fire officials launched a search for arsonists after six apartment fires and a spectacular church blaze at St. Pauls Episcopal. The church fire destroyed a $100000 pipe organ and valuable art, raising replacement costs to about one million dollars.
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Christ
McLean
Mt Vernon Tops Red Cross Appeal Leaders Named
Mt Vernon led the Linn county Red Cross fund drive with a total of 42 533 dollars toward a 70 545 regular service goal plus 6 970 disaster budget. Chairman Larry E Vavra urged volunteers to finish quickly as Cedar Rapids auditors plan Monday night review. Hortense Hunt chaired Mt Vernon and other top groups included Frank L Wilkie for dairies Irma M Dovey for schools and Louise Safely for industrial.
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Larry E. Vavra
Vavra
Cedar Rapids
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Dairies
Frank L. Wilkie
Irma M. Dovey
Cedar Rapids Schools to Close Early Monday at 3 PM
Cedar Rapids public schools will dismiss at 3 p.m. Monday to allow a 3:15 p.m. faculty meeting at McKinley school. Elementary and high school pupils go home early and buses will run 20 to 30 minutes ahead of the normal schedule, says Assistant Superintendent Richard Barnhart.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard Barnhart
McKinley School
Barnhart
Week's Schedule of Demo Precinct Caucuses Issued
Linn county Democratic caucus schedule issued by Chairman F James Bradley lists 39 precincts meeting at 8 p m Thursday at the Linn county courthouse. The remaining 11 meet individually at various homes and city locations Monday through Friday with designated chairmen and hosts.
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Clinton
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Palo
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Grant
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Main
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Otter Creek
Kermit Naylor
Alburnett
Mrs. Naylor
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Springville City Hall
Stewart Marshall
Viola
Carl Straub
Lisbon
Mount Vernon
Red Cross Rooms
Irene Joliot Curie Dies From Radioactive Radiation
Paris report says Irene Joliot Curie died at 58 from leukemia caused by exposure to radioactive rays in her work on artificial radioactivity. She followed in the footsteps of her Nobel Prize winning father and fellow radium researchers.
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Paris
Irene Joliot-Curie
Joliot Curie dies at hospital named for Curies
Mme. Joliot Curie widow of physicist Frederick Joliot Curie died in the hospital named for Pierre and Marie Curie. Hospital officials initially did not disclose the cause of death. Her husband and two grown children were at her side.
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Marie Curie
Hottest Skit Wins For Kappa Alpha At OCU
The Kappa Alpha fraternity won the prize for the hottest act at Oklahoma City University Kesh ena Kapers Friday night with a skit titled King Cotton. A field hand lit a cigar causing a flare when a stack of stage cotton caught fire but the blaze was quickly extinguished. The incident ruined the performance yet drew the audience into laughter.
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Oklahoma City
Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Oklahoma City University
Sam Baker Held After Davenport Tavern Fight Death
Davenport police detained 32 year old Sam Baker after an early morning fight at Thomsen's tavern left 44 year old Lester Thomsen dead. Baker said he struck Thomsen during an argument. Thomsen reportedly struck Baker's friend Eugene Burlingame with a glass Friday night amid rising tensions.
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Sam Baker
Lester
Bud” Thomsen
Population Hits 166 740 000 by 1955 End
At the close of 1955 the United States population stood at 166 740 000, reflecting steady postwar growth. The figure marks a continuation of demographic expansion through the mid 1950s.
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Lutheran Choirs Unite for Palm Sunday Performance
Combined choirs of St. Stephen's Our Savior's and St. Mark's Lutheran churches present The Seven Last Words of Christ on Palm Sunday at 8 PM in St. Mark's. Theodore Dubois work returns for a second year with soloists Merrie Edmund Otis Boyd H W Dorf Larry Nuss Eugene Bickford Terrence Carlson. Director H Dale Findley leads. Virginia Proescholdt is the accompanist.
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Terrence Carlson
H. Dale Findley
St. Mark’s
Virginia Proescholdt
Miller to keynote Iowa Guidance Association meeting
Fred A. Miller education director of the Midwest division for the National Association of Manufacturers will be the featured speaker at the Iowa Guidance Association annual spring meeting in Ames on April 6.
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Fred A. Miller
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National Association of Manufacturers
Iowa Guidance Association
Doctor Warns Of Danger in Welfare Plans
Washington AP report quotes Dr. Malcom E. Phelps of the American Academy of General Practice warning that social security has become a financially unsound cradle to grave welfare program. He urges a thorough review of 21 years of social security and new health welfare proposals, warning of higher taxes as the only funding source.
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Malcom E. Phelps
American Academy of General Practice
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el Reno
Okla
Congress
Geese Flight Expected Over Weekend Along Iowa Border
About 300000 geese now in northwestern Missouri are expected to fly northward along Iowa's western border this weekend. State Conservation Commission pilot Frank Heidelbauer observed the birds while flying over Missouri on Friday.
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Missouri
Iowa
Frank Heidelbauer
State Conservation Commission
Randall to Washington for Week in Capital program
John D. Randall Jr a University of Iowa Republican pela returns to Washington for the Week in Washington program aimed at exposing students to federal government work. He joins Nat T Baird a De Witt Democrat as a paired pair from Iowa with funding support from state party organizations and the Iowa Citizenship Clearinghouse.
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Cedar Rapids
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U. S
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Davenport
Iowa Citizenship Clearinghouse
Iowa
Iowa College
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University of Iowa
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Senate
House
Youths Visit Agency Linked to Careers They Envision
A report notes youths visit the department most closely tied to their future careers in Fort Madison. On Saturday one individual pled guilty to breaking and entering the International Workers Union office, marking a legal development connected to their career interest.
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International Oe Workers Union
James E. Chandler Sentenced to Ten Years in Des Moines
Des Moines resident James Eugene Chandler, 28, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The hearing noted the conviction details and judge's ruling.
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James Eugene Chandler
Des Moines
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