Weather Summary from Midwest and Gulf Regions
Weather notes show highs and lows across major cities from Bismarck to Miami with precipitation amounts, followed by Iowa forecast of clouds and warmth and occasional flurries. The report includes barometer reading, wind at Municipal airport, sunrise and sunset times, and year-to-date comparisons. It lists local civil suits and judgments, plus funeral services and burial details for several towns including Calmar Vinton Hopkinton Iowa City.
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Bismarck
Minnapolis
Chicago
New York
Denver
Orleans
Dalath
Omaha
L. Angeles
Phoenix
Miami
Seattle
Iowa
French Order Reforms Made In Algeria
In Algiers the French government ordered reforms to raise Arab living standards and ease unrest. Premier Mollet’s cabinet empowered Resident Lacoste to dole out tillled land to jobless farm hands and increase native Algerians employed with state aid, plus loans to farmers and cooperatives. Military actions continued in Algeria and Tunisia with reported rebel and civilian casualties and internal feuding among rebel factions.
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Algiers
Algeria
Guy Mollet
Paris
France
Various Traffic Violations and Damages in Local Court
The record lists multiple individuals fined for traffic offenses including leaving scene of accident, speeding, improper turns, and failure to signal. Addresses span Marion City and nearby NE SE NW areas with fines ranging from five to fifty dollars plus costs. Also noted are civil actions for automobile damages and medical merchandise charges with specified payment amounts.
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William Ludwig
Prairie Drive
Robert Miller
Mason City
Paul Huber
Marion
Richard Warboy
E Avenue
Floyd Clark
Springville
Adelaide Sective
Tenth Street
Kenneth Hanzlik
L Street
Melvin Wilson
Old Marion Road
Mike Chiafos
Twenty-seventh Street
Orville Vavra
Thirtieth Street
Donald Larson
Central City
Harold Paul
Charles Cox
Joseph Green
Fadwin Sumner
Ollie Tobin
Eighth Street
Frank C. Brown
Leo F. Yardley
E Avenue NE
Mercy Hospital
Donald A
Elsie Dighton
Sixth Street
Miller and
Flannery
Eugene A
Elaine Hoppe
Ely Road
Searles Dairy
Dorothy Mayfield
Ninth Street
H. O. Jirsa
Raymond
Death Notice of Earl L. Schuyler 72 Van Nuys resident
Deaths notice for Earl L. Schuyler 72 of Van Nuys California formerly Cedar Rapids resident until 1950 Retired Rock Island train man member Crescent Masonic lodge No 25 and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Survived by wife Ethel Mary son Duane and granddaughter Jane Schuyler of Van Nuys Services held in Van Nuys Wednesday.
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Earl L. Schuyler
van Nuys
Calif
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Schuyler
Crescent Masonic Lodge
Brotherhood of Railway
Ethel Mary
Duane
Jane Schuyler
Adolph Kopecky Dies at 73 in Shueyville Farm Home
Adolph Kopecky of Shueyville died suddenly at about 5:15 p.m. at his farm. The Johnson County coroner cited heart attack as the cause. Survived by wife Mary Novotny four children nine grandchildren three great grandchildren a brother George and other relatives. Body at Brosh funeral chapel with services pending.
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Adolph Kopecky
Shueyville
Johnson County
Kopecky
Mary Novotny
Oldrich Netolicky
Cedar Rapids
Everett Seaton
Glen Ellyn
William
Louis
Hollister
Wesley
George
Brosh Funeral
Spending and Income Estimates Raised for Fiscal Year
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey raised government spending and receipt estimates by one billion dollars each for the current year ending June 30. He opposed any tax cut this year and spoke at a closed Senate Finance Committee meeting. The panel unanimously approved a bill extending existing corporate income and certain excise taxes for another year. Chairman Byrd noted no reasons were given for the increased estimates and that a roughly 200 million dollar surplus is still forecast for fiscal 1956 ending June 3.
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Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Humphrey
Senate Finance Committee
House
Byrd
D-Va
Record Public Employs Hit Peak at 72 Million
The census bureau reported public employment at a record level nearly seven and a half million. In October the survey showed a 200000 rise from the prior year. Government pay rolls rose 7.7 percent to 2265000 for the month with education employing about 30 percent, federal defense 15 percent, and health services 10 percent.
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Washington
INS
Census Bureau
Bureau
Yugoslavia Approves 1956 Budget of 700 Million Dollars
Belgrade AP report says Yugoslavia Parliament reconvened to pass a 700 million dollar budget for 1956 with more than 70 percent allocated to military expenditures. The measure was approved unanimously by the assembly.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Earthquake Shakes Tumbes Area Near Peru Ecuador Border
A 20second quake hit the Tumbes region near the Ecuador border on Thursday with no reported casualties or damage.
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Tumbes
Peru
Ecuadorean
Cedar Rapids men plead guilty in drunken driving cases
Howard E. Pyle and Homer Kennedy pled guilty to third offense and drunken driving charges. Pyle 28 of 1007 Tenth Street NW will be sentenced at 10 a.m. April 7 after pleading innocent at first arraignment. Kennedy 52 of Center Point asked for more time to enter a plea and had bond set at 1000 with prior convictions listed.
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Cedar Rapids
Center Point
Howard E. Pyle
Tenth Street NW
Pyle
Harry Cloud
Homer Kennedy
C. C. Wagner
Kennedy
Highway 150
Angell Pleads Innocent to Morals Charge in Linn County
Scott L. Angell, 20, of Marion, appeared in Linn county district court to plead innocent to indecent exposure. The charge followed his arrest Thursday night in Cedar Rapids after he approached a woman at a bus stop.
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Scott Lindsay Angell
Marion
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Support suit over unpaid child support filed locally
Audrey Prenosil formerly Aud rey Woods files in district court Saturday against Richard J Woods seeking judgment for unpaid support and an order for future payments. A 1953 divorce decree ordered 10 dollars weekly child support. Defendant resides in Anderson South Carolina.
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District Court
Audrey Prenosil
Audrey Woods
Richard J. Woods
Anderson, S.C
District Court Dismissals Narrow Two Cases Saturday
Two cases were dismissed in district court on plaintiffs motions. One involved false uttering of a check filed March 9 against George Kerwin. The other was a suit for reformation of a deed by Iowa Securities Company against William D. and Mable E. Corley.
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George Kerwin
Iowa Securities Company
William D
Mable E. Corley
Isolation Perils Russian Church Report by Protestant Delegation
New York based Protestant leaders returning from Moscow warned the Russian church risks dying out in a scientifically oriented atheistic society. The delegation said the church is self isolated, focused on saving souls, with little social or intellectual engagement or formal religious education beyond home study.
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New York
Moscow
Eugene Carson Blake
Rites Being Set for Ida Mae Phillips
Ida Mae Phillips 90 longtime Earlville resident died this morning in Manchester hospital. Born May 1 1865 she was married to Bloomer B Phillips who preceded her in death. She is survived by daughter Goldie Cummings and two grandsons. Funeral arrangements are pending at Clifton Funeral Home.
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Calmar
Mary Barr
St. Aloysius Church
Ossian
Vinton
Joseph E. Fink
Fry-Holland Funeral
Evergreen Cemetery
Hopkinton
Arlo Blanchard
Goettsch Funeral Home
Earlville
Ida Mae Phillips
I Clifton
Iowa City
Mearlin W. Gosnell
Cathout Funeral Home
Memory Gardens
Manchester
Bloomer B. Phillips
Goldie Cummings
Clifton
Head of Firemen Hints Rail Strike Threat
H. E. Gilbert president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men told President Eisenhower that railroad owners seek contract changes threatening a nationwide strike. He cites more than 140 railroads trying to cancel provisions and transferring work from firemen on almost all locomotives, risking 60,000 jobs.
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Washington
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Eisenhower
H. E. Gilbert
City Briefs and Local Notes Miscellany
Brief corrections and notices from city pages include Emery Waltz denying the stated home address after a tavern fight injuries, Easter lilies deliveries, and a flower show. Other items cover surgery for Mrs. C A Fox, a bicycle on sidewalk fine, a citizen convalescence, staff additions at Roosevelt Beauty Salon, and a union director election. Also listed are poetry contest honors for John E Meis, Cub Scout pack inductions and awards for Packs 26 and 33.
Soviet Scientists Invited to Moscow Conference Readies Trip
Dr. John Marshall, University of Chicago physicist and atomic pioneer, is among 20 American scientists invited to a Moscow high energy physics conference from May 14 to 20. The U S contingent may read papers and share American achievements during a two week, all expenses tour of Soviet installations. The trip requires AEC approval to depart the United States.
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Chicago
INS
America
Soviet Union
John Marshall
University of Chicago
Marshall
Moscow
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
AEC
Enrico Fermi
Key Hanford
Wash
State Dept Issues Passports for American Atomic Scientists
The State Department said on Friday it has issued passports to a few American atomic scientists to attend a Moscow meeting of Russian nuclear physicists in May. It noted that other applications have been received and are being processed.
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INS
Marshall
Washington
State Department
Moscow
Car Misses Curve Kills Iowan Driver in Iowa Crash
Donald V. Gale 27 of Akron was killed when his car left Iowa 12, plunged 12 feet down an embankment 814 miles north of Sioux City. Passenger James Kelly 23 suffered a broken jaw, cuts and shock and was hospitalized. Patrolman Lyle Pell said the car struck an abutment at the embankment bottom.
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Sioux City
Donald V. Gale
Akron
Here
Iowa
James Kelly
Gale
Lyle Pell
Cyclist Recovers After 17 Stitches From Center Point Road Crash
Gailyn W. Martin 35 of 2334 Forty-ninth Street NE suffered a gash over the right eye when struck by a car driven by David R. Agnew 24 of 102 Blairs Ferry Road NE. Martin was taken to St Luke's Hospital and required 17 stitches. the crash occurred in the 900 block of Center Point Road NE. Police say the case is under investigation with a charge pending.
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Gailyn W. Martin
Forty-ninth Street
David R. Agnew
Blairs Ferry Road
Martin
St. Luke’s Hospital
Center Point Road
Hill Urges Prompt Action on Farm Bill by Congress
Iowa Farm Bureau President E Howard Hill urged Senate and House conference leaders to complete the farm bill before April 1 for maximum farmer cooperation. He warned delaying until after Easter could hinder the farm program and asked for a report within 48 hours, citing prior study and possible improvements.
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DES Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
E. Howard Hill
Senate-House
Hill
Driver Charged After Crash Injures Three
A Cedar Rapids couple and their 19 month old son were injured in a two car collision in the 1800 block of Sixteenth Avenue SW Friday night. Hubert D. Hamilton 25 of 1601 Second Avenue SE remained in St Luke's hospital with contusions and head injuries. His wife 23 and son Gregory 19 months were treated for cuts and bruises. Matthias C. Boddicker 21 of Watkins posted a 105 dollar bond on a reckless driving charge after police say he could not return to his lane after passing a semi trailer. He was unhurt.
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Cedar Rapids
Sixteenth Avenue
Hubert D. Hamilton
Second Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Gregory
Mathias C. Boddicker
Watkins
Boddicker
Two National Guard Officers Promoted and Appointed
The Iowa adjutant general's office announced two new second lieutenants for the 224th engineer aviation battalion in Cedar Rapids. Rev. Thomas F. Currier becomes unit chaplain in an original appointment, while Robert P. Jones of Cedar Rapids is promoted from sergeant first class to lieutenant.
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National Guard
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Adjutant General
Des Moines
Thomas F. Currier
Immaculate Conception Church
Father Currier
Guard
Robert P. Jones
Hand Grenade Thrown At Cedar Rapids Car Window
A hand grenade was found in a Cedar Rapids car after a window shattered at 2:30 a.m. A passerby reported the device. police defused it and found no injuries. The suspect fled the scene after the crash.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Fritz
First Street
Fritz
Man Called X Thriller Starring Barry Sullivan Airs Saturday
Barry Sullivan stars in another international spy thriller on Channel 9 this Saturday at 9 30 p m The program promises suspense and intrigue as agents track a dangerous operative across borders.
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Barry Sullivan
Channel 9
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