Conferees OK Four Percent Pay Rise for Armed Forces
A joint house senate conference committee approved a four percent cost of living pay raise for armed forces and a fourteen percent boost in food and quarters allowances. The measure saves billions versus the house plan and could take effect retroactively May 1 if enacted. A separate plan for a $45 monthly combat bonus was dropped from the compromise.
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Cedar Rapids Indians Face Waterloo in Memorial Park Finale
KCRG previews the Cedar Rapids Indians versus Waterloo White Hawks at Memorial Park with a 7 20 pre game, 8 00 play by play by Bob Brooks. Indians’ last home game before a six game road stretch includes Quincy and Waterloo. Bert Wilson reports the Chicago at Pittsburgh game tomorrow at 12 45 P M. Betty Moore hosts kitchen segment, Jay Jay travels to Mexico, and a Shower Of Silver airs at 7 80 tonight.
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Extortion Racket Targeting Families Of Missing G Is
Washington dispatch reports the defense department is fighting a racket that extorts money from families of missing soldiers in Korea The letters claim to help locate or free prisoners of war and link sources to Hong Kong and Communist China, with at least one verified case in Chicago The department warns kin letters may falsely claim to contact or release the missing relative.
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Radio and TV Schedule Highlights May 9 Listings
The Gazette prints a reader service log of programs for KXEL WHO and WMT on Friday night May 9. Entries include news, music, dance, Farm and agriculture segments, weather, sports, Hollywood features, public affairs, and children’s shows with hosts like Ras Rogers Mario Lanza and Howdy Doody in a varied evening lineup.
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Buckaroo Farm
New Farm Highilenta
Arechia Andrews
Mary Lee Taylor
U.N. Starr
Radio schedule fragment from 1930s era station rundown
An OCR fragment lists FM dial details and program blocks including news at 6:06 and 7:00 signals, a scoreboard mention, a Saturday lineup with Farm Roundup and sports notes, plus miscellaneous callsigns and times. The text is fragmented with garbled names and stray percentages.
Saturday Party Schedule on KWCR Radio
The KWCR guide lists a Saturday lineup with Belenade at 11 25, music at 11 30, radio theater at 11 45 and Sporty Camera at 23 55 followed by News.
WHBF-TV Saturday Morning Lineup And Evening Schedule
Television guide lists WHBF-TV events with shows from 9:00 to 10:05 pm including Hollywood Wizard and Jackie Gleason. Afternoon blocks feature sports and a 12:25 to 12:30 segment followed by baseball and test patterns for the channel.
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Pentagon
Pee Woo Rease
Moreton
Hollywood
Wizard
Irma
Playhouse
Jackie Gleason
Weaver
Perry Como
Orig Carson
Sammy Kaya
Friday Night Television Grid Listing
A schedule listing multiple programs with times from 6:00 to 6:40 and late-night slots including wrestling news weather sports and children’s programming. Mentions hosts guests and film parade kid’s theater and news segments.
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Westharman
Radio Schedule Fragment
A listing of daytime and evening programs including Frio Pinza Friend Irma News In Our Care RB Montgomery News Newa a Big Picture Youth Kazootia Wildlife Tals Week Po Be Ann Mr. Wizard Big Man s Family scheduled across hours on Friday night
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In Our Care
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Ringling troupe on road backs acrobat with nut juggling
A Ringling show features two-footed slackwire stunt men who balance eight caps and saucers on their heads. The story notes a racket seeking money from families of missing soldiers, citing a Chicago family with a son missing in action and extortion letters from Hong Kong and Shanghai. The FBI asks relatives to contact authorities before acting.
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Airman admits paying $100 to avoid recalling family tied to bribery case
Detroit veteran Gordon Cook 28 says he paid a policeman-like intermediary $100 to dodge a July 1951 physical for active duty claiming family stress. He feared delays after birth of a second son and his asthmatic 2-year-old. He says he later was disqualified.
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Air Force Reserve
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Luther R. Bradley
Staunton
Bradley
David
Scott Air Force Base
Wayne University
Melvindale
Des Moines Youth Receives Pardon After Innocence Claim
Gov Beardsley pardons LeRoy Smith 18 of Des Moines freeing him from a nine month jail term for receiving stolen clothing. The conviction rested on a prior accuser Clyde Bass who admitted his accusation was false. County Attorney Herring urged the pardon with judge Needham and Sheriff Henry supporting it.
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William S. Beardsley
LeRoy Smith
Smith
Polk Lownty
Clyde Bass
Bass
Couple Goes to Court Over Midnight Calls
In Dedham Massachusetts Wayne E Stiles of Wellesley and his wife won a restraining order against Stiles sister in law forbidding all night telephone calls. The couple said the calls came at all hours solely to abuse move and disturb them.
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Wayne E. Stiles
Wellesley
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Three Injured in Tama County Highway Crash
Three persons were injured, one critically, in a two car collision four miles south of Tama on Highway 63 Thursday afternoon. Robert Staffanau 23 of Grinnell sustained serious injuries and was taken to Deaconess Hospital Marshalltown. John Dickeson 21 of Chicago, a passenger, also hospitalized in Marshalltown. Further details on injuries were not provided.
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Deaconess Hospital
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Car collision injures Ardith Emmons in Tama County
Tama County Deputy Sheriff F L Flynn said the driver lost control and rolled onto the shoulder before crossing into the oncoming lane. Ardith Emmons of What Cheer was treated for chest injuries at the Tama clinic and released.
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Edgar A Guest a Poet of the People
Poet Edgar A Guest reflects on his youth in a drugstore era when pharmacists filled prescriptions and taught slang terms like Frumenti opt for liquor. He recalls selling remedies and leeches, noting the old time drug store vanished with modern shops and late hours, yet memory endures.
Flying Editor Ralph W. Cram Dies at 82 in Davenport
Ralph W. Cram 82, longtime Davenport Democrat editor publisher known as the flying editor, died after months of illness. He retired in 1940 and gained national aviation renown starting with a 1931 first flight at Cram Field. He began at the Democrat in 1883, later directing airport improvement programs in Iowa and serving on the Iowa Aeronautics Commission.
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Calif scientists claim spray keeps fruit fly from oranges
Berkeley researchers report a new sterilization spray that repels oriental fruit fly from California oranges without harming the fruit. The method also protects avocados in addition to citrus crops.
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Calif
University of California
California
Judge suggests lashes for repeat drunk drivers in Minneapolis
Minneapolis municipal judge Tom Bergin proposed a punishment of five lashes for motorists convicted of drunk driving two or more times. The sentence would replace or accompany 30 days in the city workhouse, aimed at personal accountability after recent fatal accidents including a hit and run.
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Tom Bergin
Bergin
City considers public lashes for traffic offender plan
Judge Bergin outlined a probation plan where a second offense would get a 30 day workhouse term, suspended if the defendant agrees to lashings in public at the city workhouse after a medical check. The defendant signed a lashing request and waiver of responsibility as part of the plan to be reviewed by the traffic council and other city justices.
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Two Eastern Iowans Return from Far East
The navy transport USS Anderson arrived in Seattle with 1,802 armed forces rotation troops from the Far East, including two Eastern Iowans listed aboard.
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Seattle
Anderson
Janissaries Formed from Christian Boys in Ottoman History
Pfc. Claire Harrington of Oelwein and Cpl. Donald A. Have lick of Monona are mentioned alongside a note on the Janissaries. The Janissaries were the standing army of Turkey recruited from Christian children and trained in the Moslem faith between 1300 and 1826.
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Monona
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